A Fabulous Discovery!

Those of you who know me well know that I love to make handmade gifts. Well, I just found this site that is a compilation of a whole bunch of artists selling their handmade goods like art, jewlery, figurines, etc.

A really cool aspect of the site is all the cool ways to search for that perfect gift. You can search items by color - just click on one of many dots in every color of the rainbow and out will pop a couple pics of things for sale that color! It's nifty! Or you can go into the Time Machine and see the item most recently posted.

You have to create an account to buy anything but it's great cuz then you can tag your favorite sellers for future reference from the THOUSANDS of sellers on the site. I already have a good list going.

I couldn't resist and bought two things already - a really elegant ring and some graphic art for Halloween! Here's the link. Happy Shopping!

More Decor

This is what's on top of the entertainment center. That's a Wendy Froud Faery on the page of the open book which looks similar to my witch-faery costume this year. *cackle*

Nostalgia

Wore this same dress when I was her age...

Zanessa!

Can I just say that these two are sooooooo cute together! I could tell when I watched the first High School Musical that there must be some sort of spark between them and then when I saw High School Musical 2 I KNEW IT!!! Just the way he looked at her with fire in his eyes - WOW! Call it intuition, but I knew they must have a thing for each other in real life. So I wenting hunting the net for stuff about her and stuff about him and found a youtube video of all these pictures of them together in Hawaii that are just the most adorable things you've ever seen! That next week People magazine came out with them as a couple on the cover... way ahead of ya'll there....

And here you can view a music video of Vanessa's song "Say Ok" with her and Zac in it. Sooooooo cute! Not to mention her music, this song in particular, is catchy! I bought her debut album V and I love it! I got it going on with the teeny-boppers.

And here's another lovey-dovey video of them. Vanessa is definitely "the music in Zac". Zanessa Forever!!!!

p.s. I created this blog shortly after HSM2 aired and before the leak of Vanessa's nude pictures.Please know my love for Zanessa in NO WAY hinders my dissaproval of Vanessa's total lack of brainpower or premeditated career boost. I haven't read a whole lot about those pics so I'm not sure what's up there except that it makes me very sad and hugely dissapointed in her. I'm trying to keep that stuff seperate from the cuteness that is Zanessa. I'm trying desperately, like Disney, to pretend it didn't happen and live in my little fantasy world of believing there are real-life Hollywood couples out there who aren't tainted yet by the wicked ways of that life. I'm broken hearted - reality check, this girl's a slut. Or maybe she was just stupid then and this is now and if she could go back and change things she would -it could happen. I believe in repentance. If it weren't for the apple-pie sweetie Zac Efron to balance things out I wouldn't have posted this at all. His charisma alone could redeem the lowliest gutter rat.

-B

All Hallow's Eve

I will be posting pics of my Halloween decor a couple times a week until Halloween. Enjoy!

Trick or Treat

So we got a kitten. Kaiya has been kitten-obsessed since she was about 3 months old. Andy so badly wanted Kaiya to experience raising a kitten since Cleo was already a big cat when Kaiya was born. I listed off names that would be cute and creative for an orange cat and my kids picked "Trick or Treat". I was trying to stay within our Star Wars pet name theme. When we adopted our other black dog her name was already "Camie" and just as soon as I was planning on changing her name to "Padme" I found out that in some deleted scenes from A New Hope, Luke actually goes to meet his friends at the Toshie station (read this with a whiney voice) and one of those friends is a girl named "Camie". Great! That works! So I thought of naming the kitten"Chewie" but we all agreed very quickly we couldn't name the cat that since the new kid across the street has "Chewie" as his nickname. It's cool....it's common around our house to find Trooper, Chewie and Vader playing outside.

Anyway, upon further creative thinking of orange Star Wars names I came up with "3PO" and "Rogue 2" (think orange space jumpers). Too bad the kids didn't like "Rogue 2" cuz Andy and I really dig that one. We secretly call her that when the kids aren't looking.

But "Trick or Treat" is cool as far as names go too and it is very fitting to this litle kitten because once minute she gives you a sweet treat by purring loudly in your arms and the next minute she's pulling her tricks and taking a flying, all-claws splayed leap at your leg.

-Britten

Pigtails

I can finally put Ari's hair into these cute pigtails. I love it!

First Day of School '07

First Day of School '06

Kaiya's first day of school in the second grade (last year....I'm a little behind) In her cute little Naartjie outfit.

My babies!

Look how small they were!