tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20967866535536352192024-03-04T22:21:44.110-08:00The Body ElectricThe Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-74858958537978571992013-11-21T19:43:00.000-08:002013-11-21T19:43:09.132-08:00Bunny Love<div style="text-align: center;">
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Soooo, I'm not really sure what to say, other than that I FREAKING LOVE rabbits and this dress I picked up second hand. (Though I spent more than I usual spend at thrift or consignment stores, $15 still isn't too bad considering what it is and the quality of it. Sheer perfection.)</div>
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That's it, nothing earth shattering, just a quick peek at one of the bunnies in my life. It's name is Wicket...or Jawa, hard to say. When we got our two little bundles of fluff we could tell them apart, but now, they are indiscernible and the poor Buns are always in a huff at us for mixing their names up. They are a little uppity and proper for rabbits that aren't in the habit of wearing waistcoats and cravats. But then, some people like to put on airs...even bunny people. </div>
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Side note, did you know that in the wild, rabbits tend to stay in packs according to family (though I don't see how that's possible at the rate they multiply) but apparently they prefer to stay with their siblings, I'm so glad we got two. I originally planned on one, then realized in a moment of sheer genius, if there's only one, then how will anyone else ever get to hold one because I'll have my mitts full. So, out of sheet selflessness, I got two so others could have something to hold whilst I was snuggling the bebe I bought for....The Kidlet. Ha! Only later did I find out about the staying together as a family thing. Whew. So many disasters averted. </div>
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The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-17349355073181025562013-11-08T00:59:00.000-08:002013-11-22T11:12:36.135-08:00Ruby Rose Dreams Come True<div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you slog your way back through my blog you will find <a href="http://singthebody.blogspot.com/2011/02/ruby-rose.html">THIS </a>post. It is about a lovely little shop that I found when we first moved to the Central Coast and I was completely smitten by it's charm. 3 years later finds me STILL smitten, that hasn't changed...but what has changed is that this month I am celebrating my one year anniversary as part of the little family that works together to make <a href="http://rubyrose805.blogspot.com/">Ruby Rose</a> what it is. Personally I don't feel qualified to say I make Ruby Rose what it is but my "Boss Mom" seems to think I am and one should never argue with "Boss Mom".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm still a busy stay at home mom, that is my first priority and I love it. I am so blessed to not only be able to have such an opportunity in my home but then to be given the chance to take part in helping out at Ruby Rose AROUND my family's needs. I've had wonderful bosses (and some not so wonderful) but I've never had a boss quite like Stephanie Hendry, the Mastermind behind Ruby Rose. She is too good to me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It all started when she was looking for someone to help with various creative aspects of the store, displays, clothing, social media, etc. and a mutual friend said, "What about K?" (I'd become quite the regular snooper at her shop.) Stephanie said, "Let's give it a month and see how we fit". It is a year later and I am still enamored every time I walk in that door. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I just completed my first blog post for Ruby Rose (she has some other lovelies running it on the regular) if you'd like to check it out <a href="http://rubyrose805.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-central-coast-wedding-standard.html">HERE</a>. It's my little story about how I ended up with an opportunity to be ever so slightly involved in this video and Ezine below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also help run the shop's Instagram account so feel free to follow that if you'd like (@rubyrose805) to see all the goodies the shop brings in every week. If you don't live in the area, don't worry! Wipe your tears and look <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/rubyrose805">HERE</a> for our Etsy store! I know it sounds like shameless self-promotion but it's really more the fact that I STILL fangirl over the place. It never gets old or stale or burdensome. Every week I go in and I still gasp at the things collected, the trinkets found, the books discovered. It's a dream. And I'm so thankful for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PS. I just realized that the chai tea I drank this evening was caffeinated.... I'm in trouble. (O_O) Uh oh.</span></div>
The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-86119775470362041382013-11-04T23:24:00.001-08:002013-11-08T00:18:56.842-08:00Good, gathered, and given gifts. <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I continue my assignment to be aware and thus grateful for the many gifts in life that we take for granted, I come to Day 4's challenge of being mindful of gifts that are gathered, given, and good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a lovely reminder to give thanks and praise for the the beautiful providence of our Creator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the time that has passed since I was a regular blogger we found ourselves moved from our little one bedroom, second story apartment into a four bedroom house with 2 roommates. Is it a challenge to be a family with other people living with us? Yes. But there are the blessings that accompany the challenges...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a yard!!!! A glorious, sandy-soiled (which takes a lot of work to supplement and make into growable dirt) crab-grassed covered (which makes it really tough to weed and cultivate and compartmentalize) back yard with room for The Kidlet to run, along with 3 chickens and 2 rabbits and a plethora of plants I've acquired here and there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Honestly, being able to now afford a house with a yard would be enough of a trade off for sharing our home with two college-aged friends but there has been other perks too...those being, the two college aged friends living with us. In the year we have lived in this home, we've actually had a total of 5 different people living with us at different times. They didn't all live with us at the same time, though, at one point, there were 3, 18-20 year old boys living with us at the same time...which was pretty much like having a house full of teenagers and it was smelly...and hilarious...and stinky...but fun...and exasperating but ultimately a blessing in the good and the hard stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, the two friends living with us now are dear to my heart, though, boys being boys, there are moments my face figuratively implodes with just how boyish boys are. But there has also been incredibly edifying conversations, prayers, dinners, beach days, camping trips, hiking, road trips, etc. We have our differences but we also have our uniting factor...our Father, our Savior, our Helper. To be able to serve one another is an honor. I'm not always grateful for it. Sometimes it's challenging and uncomfortable and exasperating. But the fact remains, serving others is a privilege. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here I am...finally getting around to the actual purpose of this post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because of our yard, I can grow things. Because of where we live (i.e.: not in a place of 100 degree summers) I have found that I can actually GROW THINGS!!! Not, "plant things and watch them die"....GROW THINGS, GOOD THINGS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And some of these good things I have gathered and I will be giving them away so they can grow elsewhere. Pictured here is Nasturtium and Plantain. Nasturtium is one of my favorite flowers and can be eaten (though I tried it and was not a fan of the spicy sweetness) if you're in a bind and need some food. Plantain is one of those darling little weeds you see around and don't give much thought to...unless you know of the invaluable treasure it is. Folk lore tells of it's cure for snake bites....INCLUDING COBRA AND RATTLESNAKE!!! It is helpful for asthma and stings and dog bites and cuts and is also an internal insecticide making the skin odorless and tasteless to insects. How beautiful is that??? Precious little plant. I love it so! As a child I had a little book about plants that Cicely Mary Barker did and <a href="http://ebid.s3.amazonaws.com/upload_big/9/0/7/1344964679-11596-392.jpg">THIS</a> darling chap was on the cover. He's been a favorite of mine ever since. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, life is hard. Love is beautiful. And while I am in the middle of hardness I am still so thankful for good gifts...like the little helper, Plantain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Below is a disclaimer sparked by a large portion of this blog where I wrote about some personal struggles dealing with feelings of isolation and desertion in a lot of friendships...I deleted it, it was too personal and I wasn't comfortable with being that vulnerable the more that I thought about what I'd written. That being said, the below post now has no context...except that it is still true and so I'm going to leave it. So I guess this was my predisclaimer disclaimer. Ha!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(DISCLAIMER: The Mr. is the best and dearest friend I could ever ask for, his faithfulness in love and friendship is the most beautiful work of God's love that I have ever encountered. And my dear, best friend, Allie, she is a beautiful gem. A sparkling, bright thing that cheers me in my sorrow, that encourages me in Christ, that reminds me of the promise and hope that is to come...I am so grateful for her. She is a gift that keeps on giving...I just wish she didn't live so far away!!!!!!) </span></div>
The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-39441023873408841732013-11-02T16:15:00.001-07:002013-11-02T17:01:35.062-07:00Almost Two Years Absent...<div style="text-align: center;">
I can't believe it's been that long. On one hand I feel like I need to write something significant and explain my absence...on the other hand, I don't now if there are many people that care, aside from the few loved ones that followed me in the past and encouraged me to take it up again. I have no idea where this is going, which is part of the reason I haven't bothered with all this nonsense and reindeer games for so long. </div>
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So here's the deal, <a href="http://wildflowersphotos.com/">Joy Prouty</a> mentioned doing the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=751335684883288&set=a.327603413923186.100792.208315275852001&type=1&theater">30 Day Challenge of 1000 Gifts for the month of November</a> and I figured, maybe now's the time to dust off the ol' blog and give it a go. </div>
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Yesterday was about taking time to notice the gift of things eaten.</div>
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The Kidlet was working on a drawing of a snowy owl nest on the Arctic Tundra and I grabbed some of our chicken eggs to help show him the difference of perspective. ("See, this way, it's an oval, this way it's a circle. If one is in front of the other then it is BLOCKING part of it, so the circle around the edge of the other one is cut off") At which point I realized how much I LOVE our eggs, our lovely little chickens, and the care that goes into producing beautiful, nurtured food. </div>
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Welp, todays challenge is "the gift of things worn". </div>
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(Mind you, most of the challenges are asking for 3's. 3 things eaten. 3 things worn...but I don't do well with quotas, they take me back to days worked in a cubicle and I get really sweaty and filled with panic. So, I'm making it a singular challenge for me, not because I can't find 3 things, I find more, actually, but I'm not going to worry about documenting each thing for social media.)</div>
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But back to the "challenge". Gifts worn was going to be an outfit post but then I started working in the kitchen, peeling roots for a nice autumnal soup and I started getting giddy about the colors. Purple/blood beets, goldenrod butternut squash, creamy celery root, orangy carrots, and I started thinking, "Oooo, I have socks the color of these beets! I have a dress that reminds me of a combo of butternut squash and carrots, etc."</div>
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So here you have it. I am grateful for things worn, things like COLOR!!! Isn't it a blessing? The world could have been created in black and white and we never would have known the difference. BUT, instead our kind Father made it filled with purple/blood beets that stain my hands and show how chewed up my hands are, goldenrod and orange and green celery stalks and inspired us to make cranberry-colored thigh-high socks and mustard-yellow velvet heels.</div>
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(For the record, if we are going to talk about clothes....Long socks are one of my very favoritest pieces of clothing. As a dress-loving-tights-hating-girl they are a treasure to me in the winter months.)</div>
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The word is so full of color, I am grateful we can eat it, we can wear it, we can see it...</div>
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PS. The kidlet took these pictures. I'm really rather shocked at the results. I set the ISO and f-stop and such and had to keep reminding him, "don't forget to hold the button down halfway first to focus"....AND the focal point is screwy on our camera too. For some reason it won't budge, it is stuck on middle/bottom (when set horizontally). All that PLUS tired little 5 year old arms and yet he STILL got these shots. My baby boy is definitely not a baby anymore. Freaks me out a bit. </div>
The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-28067187005351132212012-02-17T22:05:00.001-08:002012-02-17T23:21:56.341-08:00Sugar and spice and everything nice...<div style="text-align: center;">
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For my friends baby shower tomorrow I decided to make blueberry</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">In other news, The Mr. who usually TAKES me out shopping for a gift (usually with a set amount of money for birthdays or what have you) decided he really wanted to pick something out himself for my Valentine's gift. He said he likes me in yellow (I had no idea) and went to Urban Outfitters and thought most of what they have right now wasn't really me (he's right, it's been slim pickin's for my personal style as of late) but then he saw this!!!!! He had it all wrapped up (as seen in previous post about Valentine's Day) lovely as can be. He even got the right size!!! Man oh man, he's good!</span></span></div>
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Soooo, not to be hinty or anything, I really don't expect anyone to follow this or actually buy me presents </div>
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(what I really like best for my b'day is a dance party, consisting of 60's french pop and anything else I can happy feet to) this year is one of those years where everyone has a lot going on (including myself) and it's quite likely that nothing will happen for my b'day other than just hanging out with family...</div>
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Seriously, I don't need presents, I'm a pretty blessed bunny and I don't have any needs that aren't being met...</div>
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I ever so much would love to get my hands on a <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=world+globe+lamp&_sacat=0&_odkw=world+globe+nightlight&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313">World Globe Lamp</a>! Feel free to ogle ebay as much as you like and procure me such loveliness! (and as many of such loveliness as may possibly move you!)</div>
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I pretty much adore ANYTHING from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/theblackapple">The Black Apple</a> but <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/62378230/heart-and-key-print-8x10">THIS</a> painting in particular</div>
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makes my heart go pitter pat!!! I also love the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/62573392/terrarium-print-8x10">Terrarium painting</a> and the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/62602086/oddfellows-orphanage-2009-portraits">Oddsfellow's Orphanage</a> postcards (I already have the book!) And the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/63685238/kitchen-party-recipe-cards-by-the-black">Recipe Cards</a> are pretty skippy too!!! Ooo, and the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/62573296/hey-little-sailor-print">Nessie Painting</a> (judge all you want, I see Nessie's existence as a viable and real possibility! ;-)) <3<3<3</div>
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Pretty Much ANYTHING by <a href="http://www.vivetta.it/VIVETTA/COLLECTION_SS_2012.html">Vivetta</a>!!! Always such loveliness, always impossible to get my grubby little mitts on...but a girl can wish can't she??? </div>
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Pretty much anything by <a href="http://www.nadinoo.com/">Nadinoo</a> as well. Eyeball candy for DAAAYS!</div>
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any of these lovelies from <a href="http://www.asos.com/Women/Dresses/Cat/pgecategory.aspx?cid=8799">Asos</a>!!! I do like my little girl dresses! Is it whimsical? Then I probably like it!!!</div>
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<a href="http://theoccasionaltraveller.bigcartel.com/product/anywhere-a-travel-guide">Anywhere - A Travel Guide</a></div>
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I desperately want to make these part of my belongings...I tried to purchase them this last month as a Valentine's Date/Gift for The Mr. and myself but they were all sold out. I scoured the interwebsicle for it and couldn't find it anywhere, I went to save a pic and link it and found THEY ARE FOR SALE ONCE MORE!!! Take this as a hint from the birthday fairies that these are meant for ME! ;-)</div>
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<a href="http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/index.jsp">Anthropologie</a> gift card.</div>
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Silly, is it? Impersonal you say? NEVER, SAYS I!!! I cannot tell you how much fun and mileage I get out of gift cards! (Forever 21, Urban Outfitters, Target, etc. are also lovely) To be able to go into Anthropologie and find a trinket in the clearance area is ALWAYS fun!!! I can make that gift card last FOR MOOOONTHS! I bide my time till I find something truly worth it, then I acquire said treasure completely free of guilt because not I but YOU got that special thing for ME! <3 Never underestimate the power of gift cards to the right places!</div>
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<a href="http://lulamag.com/">Lula Magazine</a> Subscription, or just a single Lula Magazine....so hard to get one's hands on!!! I own a solitary copy (Issue #8, coincidentally enough) due to a friend's kindness in acquiring one for me several years ago, it STILL brings me delight every time I open it!</div>
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So there you have it! I'm sure I'll think of other things later...for instance, practical things that excite me in spite of their practicality...ie: lemon zester (let's be honest, it may be for cooking but "ZESTER" just sounds like food magic!) pickling crock, Le Crueset cookware, tart tins, etc. Things like that make me all twitterpated with glee!!!</div>
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TO BED WITH ME!!! I'm off to sail in that wooden shoe with Winken, Blinken and Nod! </div>
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Lovies and letterpresses, (OOOO, I'd also like a letterpress!!!)</div>
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Soooooooooooo, some people are Grinch's about Christmas and some are Grinch's about Valentine's Day...</div>
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As most major holidays roll around I find myself giddy with delight, ready to vomit glitter and poop lace all over everyone and everything. </div>
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Fourth of July: AMERICA HISTORY AND FIREWORKS!?!?!!? SHINY THINGS??? CELEBRATING OUR LOVE OF FREEDOM???</div>
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BIRTHDAYS: A REASON TO PARTY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND CANDLES ON A CAKE!?!?!? SHINY THINGS!!! CELEBRATING OUR LOVE OF A SOMEONE???</div>
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CHRISTMAS: JESUS' BIRTHDAY AND PRESENTS FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND GLOWING CHRISTMAS TREES?!?!?!? SHINY THINGS!!!!!! CELEBRATING OUR LOVE OF JESUS AND FRIENDS AND FAMILY????</div>
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EASTER: JESUS RESURRECTION AND DYEING BRIGHTLY COLORED EGGS!?!?!!?? BRIGHT COLORS AND SHINY CUPS OF FOOD COLORING!?!?!?! CELEBRATING OUR LOVE OF JESUS AND HIS SACRIFICE</div>
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Valentine's Day is no different for me, if I have a reason to remind people that I love them and make them glittered bits of paper and gluten-free, sugar cane-free, soy-free, corn-free delicacies!?!?! SHINY THINGS, TASTY THINGS, AND LOVELY LOVING LOVE!?!?! I LOVE LOVE and LOVE LOVING THINGS! Stars and garters, IT'S THE BEST! Hipsters may loving hating things and being miserable, cynics may scoff, even those that are in loving relationships may poo-poo Valentine's Day under the reasoning, "You should be loving EVERYDAY of the year, not just V-Day", and I heartily agree.....BUT</div>
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We should appreciate our best friend everyday but that doesn't mean I'm not going to show up to their birthday party! We should be excited about our freedom everyday, but that doesn't meant I'm not going to enjoy putting up a flag, going to a parade with my lovey-doves and lighting a sparkler with The Kidlet. Traditions are wonderful things that bring joy and connection. Hallmark, and other business may try to capitalize on such things and make some money off of it (which IS annoying and sad at times...on the flip side, at least people have jobs because of it) but WHY OH WHY should we let the things we dislike ruin the things we LOVE!!! </div>
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That being said, I entertained myself THOROUGHLY making glittered animal pun cards, winged hearts, and potato stamp cards (with The Kidlet) and dropped them off to friends and mailed to family as a surprise "Hey, you're the tops and I am so fond of you!" Yes yes, I SHOULD call or text everyone on a regular basis and I'd like to think I am pretty good at doing that with at least my mum and dad, sisters and closest friends...but WHY can't I enjoy one day a year that allows a full grown woman to scamper around, covered in glitter and decked out head-to-toe in red and pink!??! </div>
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So there is my rant of the month. I LOVE LOVE and I hope you do too! I hope your week was lovely and should you be disappointed about what you didn't get from whomever I am so sorry. I used to be in that boat too but I got fed up with being glum and jumped ship!!! I'm now careening about in a leaky little skiff where I craft to my heart's content, and I row in my glitter-waves covered in lace and instead of thinking, "what am I going to get?!?!?!" I think, "WHAT WOULD ____ LOOOOVE!?!?!" I totally forgot about presents when The Mr. handed me a box this last week and was totally taken aback by the lovely yellow lace that greeted me! It was the cherry on top of a lovely day with lovely friends. I know it stinks to be disappointed, I'm not trying to be preachy, it's just something that has helped me so much with contentedness (something I am always needing work on) but seriously, try to forget about what you might get and just enjoy the giving...sounds overly-simply and sermony but (like all GOOD sermons) it's just the truth and it's truth that sets us free.</div>
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FINALLY!!! After all the years of hemming and hawing about starting an Etsy shop...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Thestrawberrywindow?ref=pr_shop_more">THE STRAWBERRY WINDOW</a></span> </div>
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There are several more style listed in the shop so please feel free to peruse! For the record, after all the extras of boxes for shipping, time spent posting, time spent shipping and handling, etc. We have come to realize that the current price isn't accurate (it takes a couple hours to cut, embroider and assemble each piece, plus cost of supplies, plus cost of packaging, plus time spent in line shipping, etc.) I so wished to keep it under $20 but we are now aware of how improbable that is. So, for our shop opening we wanted to offer the price we opened with for a couple days, should there be some folks planning on purchasing. But, make a note, as of Friday the prices are going to change. Thank you for your support, your help, you encouragement and your consideration.<br />
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So, the shop will open Monday. God willing. I could have gotten so much stuff done for the shop what with being bed ridden but my head was pounding and I didn't want to touch anything that any other human being might ever come into contact with. I felt like a leper. Soooo...Monday at noon <a href="http://www.facebook.com/thestrawberrywindow">The Strawberry Window</a> will open on Etsy. Thank you for your support, your well wishing and for hanging in there.<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />
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In other news, here are some other pictures from a while back that <a href="http://josiefarrior.blogspot.com/">Miss Josie Farrior</a> took of my lovely friends T. and <a href="http://themockingbirdmusicbox.blogspot.com/">Miss LB</a>. and myself. We went back to the one of the places she took us to for our family photos. (Also something I need to post more of) and we dressed up in slips, curtains, sheets, dresses, pipe cleaners, snail shells, Spanish moss, feathers and more... It was a perfectly lovely day and I wish we could dress like dryads all the time. Also, I'd like a real Narnia Wardrobe please...since we are wishing and my birthday is coming up. Make it so! ;-)<br />
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Sooo, it is 4am as I write this...and it's official, I have the flu or some nasty bug, my lymph nodes are the size of grapefruits (possible exaggeration) and I am fairly certain there is a hot coal of fire situated somewhere near one of my tonsils.<br /><br />I am going to try my darndest to get the shop opened by noon but (ugh, this is so embarrassing) that's in 8 hours and I MUST sleep. The shame is uncomfortable as much as this bug is, but I am afraid the shop will be postponed until Saturday. :-( </div>The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-25904301513350868922012-01-26T12:37:00.000-08:002012-01-26T12:37:41.721-08:00THE STRAWBERRY WINDOW GIVEAWAY WINNER IS.....<div style="text-align: center;">
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CONGRATS, Miss Amanda! Thank you for your support! Love you, little chicky, and wish we were in the same town so we could sing and craft together!<br />
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Sooo, I'm afraid I am going to have to do what I really didn't want to do, and that is delay the shop opening by a day. I am soooo sorry for the inconvenience, this mostly applies to my mother, sister, and mother-in-law as I think they are the ones that actually follow this blog religiously. ;-)) If you are not family and you are disappointed by this news 1. I am so sorry. 2. I am deeply appreciative that you care!!! :-)<br />
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I hope that this news isn't too disappointing and yet bums you out a little bit (juuuuust a teensy, tiny bit) because then that means people besides the mom's and sister are reading this! (For the record, my dear family, your encouragement and support are precious and priceless to me! Precious in the true sense, not the condescending sense.)<br />
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So, it's really truly happening. After years of talking about it, thinking about it, swearing it was going to happen....it is actually happening!!!<br />
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The Etsy shop, The Strawberry Window, will be opening January 26th!!! To celebrate the opening I'm giving away this moth headband!!! I'll announce the winner on the 26th so PLEASE enter and spread the word around! If you don't win this one at least there will be others available to purchase beginning that day! (Also, feel free to hint around to whomever you like just in time for Valentines Day!)<br />
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To enter the giveaway, please post about the giveaway on your blog, your facebook, tumblr, what have you. I am NOT going to stipulate that you begin following my blog (though admittedly, it would be nice) but you might consider it as there will be another giveaway for one of the other items that will be sold in the shop sometime in the next month. Once you have posted on whatever outlet you have, please post the link here in the comments with your name. (You do NOT have to include your email address, as long as I can get a hold of you when it's all over, I rethought that and figured you might not want your personal email showing on a public forum)<br />
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Just to clarify one more time as there has been some confusion, share THIS link about the giveaway on your outlet of choice, FB, blogspot, wordpress, tumblr, instagram, etc. Once you have posted it, put the link to YOUR post back here in the comments OR to The Strawberry Window facebook page <a href="http://facebook.com/thestrawberrywindow">HERE</a>. This will officially enter you for the moth headband.<br />
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xoxo</div>The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-85364487604250686612012-01-08T23:55:00.000-08:002012-01-12T16:08:00.345-08:00Our Cover of The Zuton's "Confusion" (aptly named)<div style="text-align: center;">
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1. We are not under the impression that we are as awesome as our mum's say...though it is awfully sweet that they think such things about us.</div>
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3. I am also completely seriously about the scientific leaps in cloning potentially making the possibility of Clone Me marrying you, Andy, should Lauren accept Ryan Goslings proposals of marriage....I choose to use an "S" and say "proposals" as a plural as I'm sure there will be many once RG learns of who Miss L.B. is...</div>
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PS. The Strawberry Window loves you...even if you aren't Andy Samberg...but especially if you ARE Andy Samberg (Ryan Gosling, this also applies to you but don't feel out Lee Pace or Joseph Gordon Levitt...we don't want any of you too feel left out or wounded by our favoritism...also we love you Zooey D. but then again, who (that isn't stupid crazy) doesn't?)</div>
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So many posts in one week. Shocking, I know. I feel like my wardrobe choices have been all over the map lately, even manic...but I cant help it since I've been vibing a lot of different things lately. Baby doll dress and thigh high socks will always be my tried and true staple but after seeing Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows last night, it changed things up a bit. I couldn't help but try on a skirt I'd acquired at <a href="http://rubyrose805.blogspot.com/">Ruby Rose</a> several months ago without cinching it with a belt at the waist (it's a little large and requires a lot of folding over) and making it a completely different look..That of a Gypsy!!! I want to be <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/movie-stills/gallery/3086/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows-stills#photo50">HER</a>, seriously, can I be <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/movie-stills/gallery/3086/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows-stills#photo41">HER</a> please!!!! </div>
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Soooo, I've been listening to Beats Antique, Cocorosie, Gogol Bordello and other random gypsy violin players all day.....here is what it all has inspired...</div>
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I had a lovely embroidered vest that was quite the ticket but I felt it made the outfit more of a costume. Too bad. :-/ </div>
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... now I just need a horse and the fighting skills (I already have the throwing knives)<br />
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(Thrifted J. Crew top - $1.50, Thrifted skirt, it was about 4 times too big AND down to my ankles, just sewed a straight line up the back and hemmed it - $1!!! Thrifted nordstrom tie - $1!)</div>
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(Thrifted vintage plaid garment bag - said $6 but the guy gave it to me for $5!!! Thrifted vintage carpet bag purse - $3! Yard sale vintage hat box luggage - $2.50!!!)</div>
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(Sadly, I do not have the key for this beauty, but I can buckle it and unbuckle it, thank heavens it wasn't locked!!!)</div>
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This post is a culmination of several things. Last night, before I went to sleep I made a list of everything I had to do today, and a list of things I wanted to post. One of those things was "thrifted items". It's been a really long time since I've done a thrift post and the main reason is....... the new town we live in has TERRIBLE thrifting. In our home town someone actually made a zine just listing and reviewing all the thrift stores available to us. Here on the central coast of California we have 4 or 5 total. It's pretty slim pickings as well as really over-priced. BUT, I've made do by getting some thrifting in whenever I go back to visit family. I made quite the haul on the last visit and whilst I am only showing a few pieces in this particular post, (a lot of it is stuff I've collected over the last few years, but the tie, belt and plaid garment bag are my recent finds) I hope to post more soon (mustard and moss green vintage Pendalton blanket??? YES PLEASE!)<br /><br />The other reasons behind this post is that I wore a variation of this outfit on New Years Day and received several taunting remarks about going "back to school". ;-P THEN I wake up this morning and find a new blog by <a href="http://www.amintasfashionblog.com/">Aminta</a> and she just so happens to be doing a <a href="http://www.amintasfashionblog.com/2011/12/tommy-hilfiger-giveaway.html">Tommy Hilfiger Giveaway</a>. All I had to do was add her on FB and post a comment on her blog with my email address but she offered us the idea of dressing up in our "best prep school look". Sooooo, I find myself with this post...it was kind of the kick in the pants I needed to actually post some of the thrifted items. Hope you enjoy it and check out her blog! Wish me luck and same to you if you enter!!! :-D<br /><br />Lovies and lucky stars, </div>
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Happy New Year, Dear One's!!!<br />
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I hope that everything's been dashing and dapper and lovely and enchanting for all of you!<br />
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Things here have been busy, back home to visit family a lot for Christmas and birthdays (The Kidlet is now FOUR!?!?! When did that happen???) But we are now home, safe and sound, and exploring and rifling about the nature that is so close to us.<br />
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My dearyloo, Miss. L, took us up to this lovely spot last week. (The weather is kind of ridiculous, it's about 75 degrees today...I'm torn between the loveliness of it and the fear of not enough rain for everybody's crops and just plain liking a bit o' winter from time to time) And we grabbed some lovely pics! We are still planning on launching the Etsy shop (The Strawberry Window) this month though the date is still not set. We will also be announcing a giveaway! I promise I will let you know when the time comes!!!<br />
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Have yourselves a lovely little new year and I hope you find yourselves richly blessed in all things, not just our typical idea of what "richness" is. <br />
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As a means of procrastinating we decided to learn this ditty...forgive us, we only had about 15 minutes to work on it. (Yup, 15 minutes to learn it and Ms. L figured out that harmony in that amount of time. She is too legit to quit!!!)</div>
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Merry Christmas and all that jazz!</div>
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The Etsy Shop name has been chosen...we are not going to be starting up till January but it's really going to happen so keep your eyes and ears open for us!</div>
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Meet the other half of The Strawberry Window, Ms. Lauren B. Very soon we will have trinkets and treasures up for your perusal and ogling! </div>
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In the mean time, enjoy this little ditty from us to you!</div>
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!</div>
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Lovies and La dee da's,</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">THIS year, I found myself at December 5th and thought, oh well, better a little late than never at all. Besides, The Kidlet was ok with opening up 5 on one day. ;-)<br /><br />The present are filled with odds and ends...a tiny nativity scene, a spinning top for The Kidlet, pens for The Mr. (one of his favorite things) a yo-yo, pencils, tiny finger flashlights (The Kidlet ADORES flashlights.) and so on Nothing to crazy, lots of things I found in the dollar bin at Michael's Crafts, packs of pocket sized coloring books with erasers and pencils and sharpeners. I was able to divvy them up into little packages so I didn't have to spend $25 on it. I think I spent about $12, all said and done. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It has turned into quite the learning experience too. We've had to tie in the calendar, learning days of the week and counting. (I've turned into a home school mom!!! Ahahah, my mother turned EVERYTHING into an opportunity to learn, something that was helpful and at times maddening whilst growing up. ;-))</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Other than the advent calendar I've been working like a busy little bee, crafting away to my hearts content with one of the friends I've made since moving here to SLO. We've had loads of fun and have found we actually get a lot more done working together than alone. We've kept each other on task and have started to consider an Etsy Shop together...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know, I know, this is something I've talked about for YEEEEEEEARS now, but we have actually gone so far as to start writing down our plan for the shop, what 3 products to start with, shop name, prices, supplies to buy, and a work space (she's moving into a new place and is setting up TWO glorious desks in her room so provide sufficient space for us...something I'm sure The Mr. will appreciate as currently our work space has our bedroom floor.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So we shall see...mid January is the tentative plan for opening so far and we will be sure to have a giveaway!!!! I will let you know when we decide for sure! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-K</span></div>The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-15613106810947636212011-12-02T10:27:00.000-08:002011-12-02T11:13:27.503-08:00A year, come and gone....<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442795975/" title="DSC_0251 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6442795975_b4eca0fc95_b.jpg" width="687" height="1024" alt="DSC_0251" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442659845/" title="DSC_0262 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6442659845_c371d6a299_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="DSC_0262" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442747089/" title="DSC_0266 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6442747089_541d1bb662_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="DSC_0266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442757299/" title="DSC_0265 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6442757299_6c4c340b72_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="DSC_0265" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442775319/" title="DSC_0257 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6442775319_b5ff84a2ce_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="DSC_0257" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442763801/" title="DSC_0255 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6442763801_d9a13c5da9_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="DSC_0255" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442692705/" title="DSC_0288 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6442692705_b94d7e3605_z.jpg" width="429" height="640" alt="DSC_0288" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442713077/" title="DSC_0283 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6442713077_be76e2ed91_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="DSC_0283" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442718227/" title="DSC_0284 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6442718227_1fcc6bb685_z.jpg" width="483" height="640" alt="DSC_0284" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442649923/" title="DSC_0254 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6442649923_cfe533cf3f_z.jpg" width="429" height="640" alt="DSC_0254" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442671119/" title="DSC_0272 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6442671119_46a92b6f9c_z.jpg" width="429" height="640" alt="DSC_0272" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52956600@N04/6442807911/" title="DSC_0248 by The Body Electric, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6442807911_41e7c1f36e_z.jpg" width="640" height="429" alt="DSC_0248" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So we've lived in this glorious place for a year now, I can't believe it!!! Life hasn't changed much over the last year, as far as routine. Yoga, cooking, biking (well, not much lately as someone stole my glorious darling and The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Kidlet</span> has outgrown the bike seat anyway) beaching, farmer's markets, crafts, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">thrifting</span>, etc.<br /><br />What has changed..... </div><div style="text-align: center;">The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Kidlet</span> is huge, his birthday is in a week and a half. We've made tons of precious and lovely friends, we've found a church we like, and it finally feels like home here. Our old home still feels like home too, but now they are interchangeable. In either place I am comfortable, social, busy as can be, loving the people I am with......and missing the people in the other place. It's saddening but at the same time I guess I should count myself blessed to have so many things in my life that I love.<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Sooooo</span>, the apple season is almost over and I have learned how to can my own apple sauce, make apple chips and a gluten-free, sugar cane-free apple pie. In a last ditch attempt to stock up before the season is over, we scampered out to our favorite "U-pick" orchard and loaded up. If you've never been to <a href="http://www.slocreekfarms.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Slo</span> Creek Apple Farms</a> and you are in the area, you should head out there immediately. They don't have a lot of varieties left (make a note for next year!!!) but they are the sweetest people and you will have a lovely time. Their fresh pressed apple juice is heavenly!!!<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hope that you are finding the blessings in your life and overwhelmed with gratitude.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's a wonderful</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">lovies</span>, </div><div style="text-align: center;">-K</div>The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096786653553635219.post-38925293983705525272011-08-22T10:17:00.000-07:002011-08-22T10:31:42.218-07:00HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARLING, DEAREST, MR. BRADBURY!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />I know it's been a long time since I've posted, it's been a long, eventful, tough though blessed, couple of months. The new baby had some health problems, and I had to go stay with my sis for a while to help her with him. He had surgery, he's doing much better and hopefully is on the mend with no further complications, though there is a 40% chance (where do they get these numbers??) that he will continue to have some issues throughout his life. But we will continue to pray and trust and live and love.....
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<br />Many other things have happened but too much and not necessarily interesting enough to post blog pictures about...but finally I come out of my hobbity-hole because there is something we need to discuss.
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<br />RAY BRADBURY!
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<br />It's his birthday, I adore him, I wish I could meet him and hug him and kiss his cheeks and cry on his shoulders and thank him for all the loveliness that he has filled my life with over the years. Sentimental, YES, nerdy, ABSOLUTELY! But seriously, I wish I could go to comic-con (yeah, that's right, I just said it!!!) if for no other reason JUST TO MEET HIM AND THANK HIM!
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<br />If you haven't read any of his stuff I suggest you go do so, immediately. He tales of love and sorrow and terror and magic and rockets and martians and murderous skeletons and wonderful ice cream suits and electrical grandmothers and fortune-telling tattoos...and alien mushrooms and dangerous nurseries and criminal pedestrians and shoes that make you fast as a cheetah and heart-beats and tears and blood and sighs and time machines and butterfly wings and that horrible thing chasing you on the stairs............
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<br />I love him. I really, really do.
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<br />Dandelion Wine was the first book of his I ever read and it's been a passionate love affair ever since.
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<br />Get your mitts on one of his works...the man is 91 years old today and STILL putting out at least one book every year!
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<br />You will not be sorry.
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<br />Lovies and lovies and lovies and lovies,
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<br />ps. you may notice that several of the books are duplicates...because I'm a nerd and I try to pick up extra copies just to lend to people and not have to worry about getting them back. Seriously. I love him.</div>The Body Electrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16945209330647855946noreply@blogger.com3