pixiegenné

:: spring ::

hello! we just got back from a road-trip down to d.c., which was great. in general, traveling with the kids is great right now. i feel like i want to cram as much traveling as we can afford into the next few years because it's only a matter of time before adolescence hits and john and i become big fat losers they don't want to be seen with in public.

the natural history museum was my favorite. some of the displays were so beautiful.


what else is going on? i'm in major spruce-up-the-house mode. i was thinking today of how many ideas and inspiration i get from my blog friends. like this paint color for my bedroom, which i totally stole from aprill. or this idea for a birthday present, which i totally stole from leslie (big hit, by the way. and yes, charlie tapes lots of arbitrary crap onto his walls)

or this fabric i just used to re-vamp my basement desk space, which i didn't totally steal from anyone but i thought it was funny that amy and i bought some at the same time. great minds and all that.

so...life is good.
and i just saw a sign for a rummage sale this saturday. i think i might have to hit that. it's been a while.
hopefully i'll be back here soon w/some thrifting to brag about.
see you then.
xoxo

shout-outs

first shout-out goes to my eight-year-old son charlie on his birthday.

he's just so frickin' cute and sweet and snuggly and goofy and awesome.

he's having a mellow birthday. we're off to have dinner w/some friends soon. i made him a candy mountain cake, per his request.

you know, candy mountain? with the joy? and the joyness?
(idea brazenly stolen from heidi)

second shout-out is for the locals. my friends nicole and bess have written a very funny play (based on nicole's very funny zine which is being made into a very funny book) which bess is currently performing here in portland. if you haven't seen it yet, hop to it. it won't be here forever. bess is pretty amazing and i laughed some big laughs when i saw it last week.

that's all i got today. hope you're having an excellent april fool's day and you didn't fall for the sink spray gag like i did even though i had been warned by jen (who also got hosed this morning) and my very nice son who warned me and then i forgot 15 minutes later.
dumbass says what?