{adoring sweet paul}

Have you met Sweet Paul...aka Paul Lowe?? oh, you're gonna love him! Sweet Paul is a food and prop stylist living in New York...

his Holiday online magazine is just out...and it's swoon worthy...and it's free!!

(click the photo to go to sweet paul's magazine)


crafting....love this light...keeping my eye out for a vintage bakers whisk!!


recipes....Sweet Paul also shares his creative genius on his blog....

(click the photo to go to Sweet Paul's blog)

I'm hooked! Love every bit of it!!

Big day coming up!

I've been quite the blogpost slacker lately haven't I?

Well, I have to tell you that's one of the things I love about blogging....

I think it's a 'no pressure~just have fun' kind of thing and I hope you do to.

In my 'blogmind'*

*blogmind: a word completely made up by me, meaning the part of your brain that blogs all day long...you know, when you're riding in the car or in the shower, or washing dishes...you find yourself writing blog post after blog post, only to completely forget them minutes later, cause,

well, you thought of a new one!!

LOL...tell me this happens to you too, please!!

yes, in my blogmind lately it seems I've either had

way too much to say or, nothing at all to say.

So I usually end up deciding to spare you of both!

Okay...now onto the 'big day coming up'....

Here's a hint:

cotton.

Cotton is the traditional 2 year wedding anniversary gift. But it's not my 2 year wedding anniversary. It is however my 2 year blog anniversary on November 24th...

so they'll be a giveaway coming up soon! But, it won't be a bag of cotton balls, I promise!!

It's beginning to look a little like Christmas...

In the studio!
yes, I've been painting Christmas signs...but look closer... no, closer....

It's mistletoe!
Fresh mistletoe, picked fresh last week by my son...the arborist!
I had no idea that mistletoe grew around here...

and no idea where it grew exactly.
Turns out mistletoe grows 'on' trees!
The tree is it's 'host'...it feeds off it.

It arrives there from birds dropping the sticky berries on it's branches. I was amazed to learn this!

Now, on November 1st....there's fresh mistletoe around the house!!

...if it is too early for Christmas decor well it's certainly not too early for smooching right?

A big thankyou to all for leaving me great advice on my Saturday post...we've decided the best thing to do is go with 'no driving'. I am approaching it like....we are starting over, at square one, with the learning to drive thing. I really think kids are allowed to drive too young, especially with all the hand held gadgets they try to juggle. I was very touched by everyone's comments and they were very helpful in figuring out what to do...thankyou all from the bottom of my heart:)