pink & blue love

: pink (preview) 

in bloom - 8x10 fine ar... shannonpix $28.00

LOVE thewheatfield $15.00

lanterns - 8x8 fine art... shannonpix $28.00

bicyclette old school: ... isavirtue $6.50

: blue (preview)

SALE Blue Berry Alaska-... diemdesign $22.00

lyla. a pair of speckl... rootsandfeathe... $24.00

Handmade Leather Journa... peaseblossomst... $32.00

Home Sweet Home - blue ... rosiemusic $20.00

Summer Colours Week : yellow

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

My own special bit of blue, thanks to Leigh-Ann. (thank you, thank you, thank you)

I LOVE IT. I'll have the code on Tuesday to share, you could link me from your blog. :)

Ahem... do i have your attention? Did I lose you to my wonderful etsy treasuries? Come back! 

This my dears is post one hundred and NINETY! Ten posts to go before 200! 

A giveaway may be in works.

colour week!

Andrea of Hula Seventy  clicked off colour week for me, I didn't know it was before I read her post, with some beautiful yellow images. I was thinking about how I will need to actually hook my camera up to play along, I'm awful at that, but then I flipped past the etsy homepage, after buying some Squid Destash and they had quite the collection of RED items. (How's that for a run on sentence?) I thought it would be fun to play with etsy a bit jump started by the colour of the day from Poppy Talk.

So I made a little treasury! I can't figure out how to share it like Kyla does (she has great Friday Finds /treasuries {she also originally featured the I love ranunculus print}) but here's the link: Yellow #SummerColoursWeek

and for my would have been Summer Colours YELLOW submission, look to the post below.

 circle prints.

and now for some homemade pizza!

three things.

one. Welcome to readers! Hopefully some are stopping by from LA's latest and last post of Reader Appreciation. If you haven't checked out all the blogs who submitted, do so. There were nearly 200 people. 

And now she's designing widgets all day! I can't wait to see the different designs. She's a pretty good widget designer. :)

two.

{last edit : don't mind the video it was actually the least obnoxious i could find. seriously}
Do you watch The Good Wife? You may recognize this song from the season finale. <3 nbsp="" p="">

three. Yesterday, after an amazing breakfast, Matt and I headed down to the River Roar. And drank some, ahem, delicious, Bud Lights and watched some very windy races. One had to be restarted three times. It does get kind of scary, but everyone was okay.

 

a prefect? Sunday Breakfast

Pear and Goat Cheese Pannekoeken

via Matt's new favorite blog The Food in My Beard found via eat, drink, AND run's Creamy Avocado Orzo Salad [semi-original recipe, inspired by this pasta salad from The Food In My Beard]

which also looks delicious

with Strawberry Basil Lemonade

 

yummmmm!

Hooray for Hooray!

That's original, eh? 

I love Alli's blog because it's beautiful. And because she shares cool Michigan themed things.

Kid Icarus | via Jaime on Send More Mail on Hooray

Michigan tees designed by Amanda Jane

 on Hooray

She also does a fun His/Hers series with Brooke (from Pure & Noble)

hers & his

day beers on Matt's first afternoon off.

blogging sense

Most blogs aren't very good when they start, so I'm okay with that. -No Meat Athlete

Don't mind me, I'm going to jump around a bit here...

I've seen the word curated mentioned a lot recently. It's made me realize that I really need to rethink how I'm following blogs and what I'm starring, sharing and saving. I currently have 325 [on 4/17] (512 6/17, 392 6/24)  starred items. It's too much.

I'm trying to distinguish what has been starred for my personal bookmarking (a whole other beast) and what's been starred to share here. I went back to the beginning of my stars and cleaned it up to 204 since the last time I posted a "link love" post. [written on 4/17]

Erin Sunday had a good reminder post about following blogs with substance. I'm working on this.

Apparently that Sunday in April I got my starred items down to 64, so I've starred A LOT in the past two months. I've got a lot of work to do. Way too many hours (three?) of workclicking I got it down from 392 to 185!

I want to be a better blogger, but right now I think focusing on regular blogging and finding my original voice might be the most important think. After I feel like I've established that I'd like to revisit these links from Amy.

Katrina of Pugly Pixel had some great advicea love letter to new bloggers.

In the process of cleaning up my starred posts I followed five new blogs/tumblrs. I never put these right in to a folder though to make sure I definitely want to follow them. 

I started nine new blog posts, instead of piling all my links int one, and updated several other posts I've started.

Of course now, I'm struggling with whether I want to keep clicking or if I need a break. Of course I want to the get the 185 down more! I suppose 178 will have to do for now. It's time to check at least a couple of thing in my real world to do list.

Cats have ankles don't they?

1.   The last thing I ate was Raisin Bran, breakfast of champions. Oh, is that Wheaties? Well I feel like a champion anyway.

2.  The next thing I'd like to eat is Lauren's  Baked Ziti and Summer Veggies but I think I'll be having salmon with quinoa and a few mixed greens. leftovers ftw.

 

3.  The best things catch me by surprise and then I'm thankfully reminded how beautiful the world is.

4.  Something that makes me supremely and utterly happy is when my kitties run around the house like maniacs, they just were and it makes me giggle, even though I'm always worried they'll break they're ankles on the stairs. Cats have ankles don't they?

5.  Sports are a staple in our house. Matt wakes up everyone with Sports Center, I'm currently watchinglistening to Wimbledon while blogging and actually missing football season. Hopefully we catch a few baseball games this summer.

6.  "I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the times spent alone" Time to Pretend MGMT.

7.  Right now I am aggrivated with my neighbor and the annoying sounds of his edger scrapping sidewalk. Dude, chill out no one needs to care that much about their yard.

 

now you.