break out the pen and paper...write a letter!

In a day where email is instant and "snail mail" is just that, letter writing and card sending seems to be a thing of the past. In honor of those who still send cards and handwritten notes and cards, or just love to receive these themselves, I have collected some of my favorite cards and stationary. I'm in a silly mood today so they all have a bit of a twist. Enjoy :)ableandgame on ETSY

WryAndGinger on ETSY

sycamorestreetpress on ETSY

bebeandalice on ETSY

upup on ETSY

the fuzzy wuzzies with a soundtrack

Have you ever had an experience so surreal, it takes all words from you and leaves you with nothing but a feeling.? Warm and like butterflies, but completely outside any vocabulary..in any language.

It sounds completely silly, but Friday night was exactly that. Hubs and I went to see a band I grew up with, Something Corporate, at The Grove in Anaheim. I've been to the venue dozens of times, I've gone to probably 500 concerts in my 24 years (and no, that is not an exaggeration. I was at one point going to up to 5 a week, and could even fit in multiple a day if I timed it right..my record is 3 in one day).

So why was this particular show SO much different?

A guy yelled up to Andrew (the singer/pianist) in a break between songs that "it felt like high school all over again." It did, and I know everyone in the audience felt that too. I was reliving feelings of simpler times; of happy and sad; memories of the mysterious panic attack I had on the freeway one night while "Down" was playing; flashbacks to the car accident that could have paralized me as my iPod decided to play "Cavanaugh Park" twice in a row; feeling like the world is so big, but so, so tiny at the same time; my mom; my friends; first loves and first breakups. All this hit all at once and it was overwhelming..


There is something magic about music. It can change a mood, change the tone of a room, make or break your day. Besides loving the music itself, I love seeing music performed live. There's something so interesting to me in seeing who else likes a band enough, they'll spend money (sometimes quite a bit) to see the band live. Seeing people who otherwise would never meet, or wouldn't get along, wouldn't be caught dead hanging out with, whatever...are brought together by a common interest. Geeks, bros, artsy, athletic, moms and dads, little brothers and sisters. Every race, every religion, everyone.


I will always answer the question "would you rather be blind or deaf" the same: I would much rather give up the light of day, to never see art, MY art, than to have music taken from me.

Oh yeah...SOAPS ON A BLOG :)

My Cool Citrus Basil Soap is featured on http://redheadhomestead.blogspot.com/ Woop Woop!!

Stressful, stressful week

The week started off simply. Nothing unusual. Nothing odd about anything. Then.....

DUN-DUN-DUNNNNN :)


I got a crazy call from hubs on Tues afternoon that he had a terrible pain behind his eye, he passed out, and woke up 2 hours later on the floor. So I rush home, laughed at him because he did his hair while dressing for the hospital (he said he looked shitty haha), then sat with him at the hospital for about 4 hours. They could not find a thing. He's okay now but its just like WTF made him pass out and stay out for so long?!

Then yesterday I had fun sitting in the Courthouse to contest my traffic ticket. I get to go back on May 14th. Joy :\


Is it sad I'm actually HAPPY to be back at work?! Lol!

I got quite a few batches of soap made yesterday after court. My friend is having a baby very soon so I mixed up a castile soap, no scent and no color, and a chamomile castile as well. I'll work on some liquid for her later she can use as baby shampoo. I also made a cocoa-goat milk soap that looks yummy, and tried a coconut milk soap that will need to be fixed when I get home. So far the soap thing has been going fantastic so I gotta turn myself into a machine and pump out some more scents!

The best supervisor ever

I love to show kitty off :)
He's supervising my jeweling and checkin out the goods

Spring and snails

I'm a winter girl. Not thigh deep snow, frozen icicles from your nose kind of winter. Southern California winter...

I was planting my garden the other day and realized as the hummingbirds were zipping around above, that its spring! K, I'm slow sometimes :) This year, I am actually happy my Socal winter is over. Its the first time I have a space to have a garden and I am so excited to see what I can grow!

The bunnies ate the first attempt: knawed down my tomatoes, my habaneros and my bell peppers. Oddly enough, they avoided my cilantro. I have replanted everything and my first batch of cilantro is still going strong. I even planted giant pumpkins. I doubt I'll grow a 500lb blue ribbon winner but a 40 or 50lb one would suffice!

I am trying to grow my veggies as organically as possible -- using natural repellants for the bugs and the bunnies. A lightbulb clicked with a little article hubby mentioned: You can eat garden snails. Wait, what? Apparently the common garden snail is actually a variety brought to the US by a chef planning to breed them for consumption. A failed business plan and a lot of baby snails later, the snails cover the US and can be found in pretty much any yard. Bad for my garden, but possibly good for our tummies. After crawling around and collecting approx. 30 snails, they're living comfortably in my garage, munching on lettuce and cornmeal to clean their systems so we can much on them! In about a week, I'll cook them up in some lemon and butter and serve them to hubby and my best friend who is staying with us for a while. This will either be delicious, or disasterous. I'll keep you updated :)

wooop woooop!!

My chalcedony and leaf lariat made it to the front page! ::happy dance::

You have to excuse me but I haven't been on the FP before so I'm very excited :)