Monthly Archives: December 2009 Arkansas was wonderful. For the first four or five days it was above 50 degrees out! I washed my car! It was delicious. It did get cold during the second half of my visit, but by then I was warmed by the love of my wonderful family (AWWWWWWW!). It was a lovely visit, and my nieces […]  Presents are wrapped, bags are packed, car is loaded. I am heading off to the warmer climes of Arkansas. Can I just say that I am deeply, madly, and completely in love with The Container Store Christmas wrap and ribbons? But let me just say, I would NEVER pay full price for it. I can’t […]  The Salvation Army nearest my house is so weird (it’s the one on Devon almost to Western, for those of you from Chicago). It’s SUPER hit-or-miss, no in between. This quality is what contributed to my total obsession this summer, when I was out of school, and would hit that store once a day and, […]  I’m busy threading my fancy new Pretty. Quirky. tags in preparation for traveling down to Arkansas to price all of the STUFF that I left in the storage space. Because of course I couldn’t just use plain old white tags. I bought a Silhouette cutting machine a few weeks ago just for this project — I’m […]  I was trying to desperately whip some semblance of the Christmas spirit into my apartment yesterday because some friends were coming over to have a holiday photo taken — and I wanted SOMETHING that called to mind the holiday spirit in the photo! — and I ended up threading a bunch of my ornaments onto […] |
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