Summertimes' a endin'

Its been a long long while but most of you know what I've been up to... VISITING YOU! and for those who don't camp ended and I went on vacation to one of my most favorite places on earth... Washington!

Some other places to top the list in no particular order...
Beach Plum (how i miss it!)
my bed
the kitchen
william senoma
with the fam
driving range
in a car on a road trip at night
any grassy yard with a good book
lying around with blankets with friends watching trashy tv
and a few more.

After I got back on friday, the weekend was spent lying around in my bed! (i didn't realize how much i missed sleeping in a real bed as opposed to a couch for two weeks! but the time i spent with good friends long made up for the achy back!) Applying to jobs in seattle, day dreaming about the apartment that I am determined to get to sooner or later somewhere in or near seattle with lovely abbyleonard as a roommate. Reading a book that i had started but didn't take with me on the trip, catching up on recorded tv, laundry, and napping! Monday was spent dodging phone calls from my boss (wasn't ready to deal with yet), shopping for professionalish clothes (and bumming really hard about not being able to wear yoga pants to work any more), lunch with mama callimanis, and craft store shopping.
After blog stalking to try and learn how to make fabric flower bobby pins, and realizing that i needed fabric that we didn't have, and a few somewhat failed, somewhat successful attempts to make ribbon flower bobby pins I came across a martha stewart article for making tissue paper flowers, i got excited/inspired/ and i may have gone a little over board. I searched our gift wrapping/ storage/ miscellaneous craft closet all i came up with was 10ish sheets of white tissue paper, and to make one flower you need about 12. So i improvised and made my original one smaller and its still my favorite, unless you count the pale pink one, or the navy blue one, or the aqua one... never mind they're all my favorite! Anyway back to the story of monday... went to the craft store, bought tissue paper with with 25 colors in it (thats how i made the navy, and the fire colored one, and the purple and silver one... never mind just look at the picture.)


Then came tuesday where I answered my phone and went to work for a few hours, planned out working a little bit for the rest of the week, decided that easing myself into work would be a lot easier on everyone around me, rather than just jumping back in! Then went to lunch with a co-worker and shopped the william senoma SALE! where i got candied ginger which i got really excited about fall deserts like ginger apple pie, and ginger snaps! and blood orange bitters which is A-MAZING in fresh made whiskey sours! and best of all... both were under $3 and were originally priced at more than 10! Tuesday night is filled with blog stalking of fellow kappa dorm roommates who are traveling traveling traveling (and by the way i'm super jealous of her solo walk through spain) and the other is home owner! CRAZY! but I'm also super jealous of her- she owns something, constantly has projects, and something that needs to be done. But also I would be scared shitless. So proud of them both!!

And to end this post of rambling-ness a few pictures.

abbys dinner of fries covered in gravy my first night in! how i missed that girl!
lake sammish. I love this place.picture wall at S.A.M inspired by andy warhol

see if you can find me!
and last of all since the kitchen was officially completed this week with window shades and moldings before and after pics!

and now... shiny new kitchen!!!