"hey! I wanna do that ..."

Do you ever think of ideas you can do around your house but never quite get around to it? For three years now, I have wanted to paint my brass dining room chandelier white or something. My husband thinks that if we took it down from the ceiling we would never get it back up since the ceiling is probably plaster and we would make a hole in it. I thought I would just stand on a ladder to give it a few coats. But I never did. I love looking up at interesting fixtures and I would love to do it in my home, but procrastination rears its complacent head. Oh well, maybe one day I will do something like this...
or this
or this
or this
or this. Maybe. One day.

Mickey Ferguson Brings Sexy Back to Weather on the 6's

this should make you smile...

Ever since I have lived in Alabama, my favorite local news is FOX6 out of Birmingham. The weather man Mickey Ferguson makes me laugh and Janice Rogers seems like someone I would love to have lunch with. These two are not stuffy at all and make me smile whenever I watch them. Hope this puts a giggle in your day!

Inspirations from Anthropologie

Anthropologie has the most creative displays compared to any other store I have been in. The following pictures show off some of the talent of their staff.

I love the look of old bikes and I love yarn! A match made in heaven!

This cracks me up! The paper plates with toast and the coffee filter lights!
(I have no idea why I can't make this picture smaller!)

I always want to try making a mason jar light. This grouping looks impressive to me. I wish I could take down my dining room chandelier and replace it with a scaled down version of this.

clever book art.

love it!

I want to paint a stump!

flat hair...no fair...

This is my beautiful daughter Jenny. Notice her lovely curls? I love her hair and wish it was mine. She hates curly hair and wishes it was straight!
This is my beautiful daughter Christina (Consider The Coffee). See her lovely waves? I want them too. Unfortunately, my hair is thin and straight with a little wave at the back of my neck. My husband's hair is short, but when we met in the late 70s he sported some end of hippie era waves. No, I take after my mom and dad, dad who was balding in his 40s and my mom who had transparent hair in her 60s. Well, I am not bald or transparent yet, so hopefully I will go a different route than my forefathers.
I have spent my whole life trying to make my hair look fuller. In the 80s I would have my sister in law Margie give me "RAVE" perms. Remember them? Basically a mild body wave until I suggested to Margie to use the smallest perm rods to give just a little more curl. She wasn't sure about the tiny rods, but I said I wasn't worried since it was such a mild perm (or so I thought). Little did I know that it was the previously used large rods that gave me the slight wave. When I rinsed my hair in the sink upstairs and briskly rubbed my towel through my tresses, I was greeted in the mirror by a tight curly fro! I took so long upstairs because I was re wetting my hair and trying to brush the curls out (you see how naive I was about curly anything) only to have a frizzier and bigger fro. Panic began to engulf me as Margie knocked on the door wondering if everything was ok. I answered, "well, I don't have thin or flat looking hair anymore..." Upon opening the door, shock filled my sister in laws face as she gazed at my huge do. "Wet your hair again, I have a pick we can use, maybe that will make it look better" It didn't. And I did all this while my husband was away at a mens retreat from church. I wanted to surprise him and that I did. He was very kind in telling me it did not look that bad, but I knew it did. That was confirmed by the fact that the only person who really liked it was my father-in-law. My mother in law has been sporting a tightly set , teased, molded and shellacked pouf since the 60s. I looked so sad and so pitiful, that my sweet next door neighbor paid for me to go to a salon and have them straighten it for me. Again, I was naive and thought that was a good idea. The end result was a weirdly frizzy straightened look that just appeared dry and damaged and wouldn't bend at all.
Of course it took a long time for that fiasco to grow out.
So...I don't want a perm or anything scary or 80s as that. I just want a little wave. That's all. I guess I will have to learn the art of adding the right touch of wave with a curling iron. NEVER PERM GIRLS. YOU WILL BE SORRY!

the dreaded virus has hit...no Florida for us :(

The stomach virus has been going around town lately and has hit our house. Today.
My husband had debated on whether he could miss work to drive to our grandsons third birthday party all week and when he finally made up his mind to go, he got hit with the virus. And Jenny and Rachel aren't feeling very good either, so we had to do the saddest thing and cancel our trip. We have never yet missed any of Kavi's birthdays (well he has only had two before this one), but we can't easily make a 9 hour drive that takes us 10 hours while feeling ill. And we don't want to pass the dreaded sickness on to our precious family down there. So I am NOT a happy camper right now, no sirree I am not :(

outside there is snow, but southward I shall go

Well, a few hours ago, large snowflakes began to fall, followed by noisy little sleet pellets, then the big flakes again, then the sleet. I guess this is what is known as "wintry mix", a term I never even heard before this winter! I normally get euphoric at the thought of snow, but the fact is that my husband coldn't work for almost a week last month because of it and with no snow plows or salt trucks in this region, the whole town shut down. Can you say "cabin fever"?
Tomorrow, we are to leave for Florida in honor of sweet Kavi's third birthday party, so I was glad to hear that they expect the roads to be clear in the morning due to temperatures rising above freezing. We can't miss this special time, and with Stina, Suj and Kavi leaving for India at the end of the month, we look forward to this visit since it will be March before they return home.

ANGELA, DID YOU FINALLY GET SOME SNOW WITH THIS STORM?? I hope you did!!