Happy Halloween!

Happy

Halloween!

from SAM & LULU!!

and my feet

and this yummy fall drink.

maple bourbon cider. recipe.

and my hopefully not quite not on the nose Halloween-day shirt.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

the final haul of tomatoes

After the heat being on in the house for a week and a few nights close to or at freezing I decided on Thursday it was time to clean out the front bed. An hour later, into the dark and four big bowls of goodies later I ended up with all of this. This morning I sorted through all of it and tried to get the dirt off it as best as I could. We have a lot of tomatoes and peppers to eat and quite a few that will get green over the next few weeks! My mom told sometimes you can have homegrown tomatoes at Christmas, wouldn't that be cool?

I think I'll be making these sunovendried tomatoes soon. yum!

Some things I learned from tomato-ing this year:
Trim the plants back as they grow, even though there might be a smaller yeild that yield will probably be tastier and grow quicker.
We're not really fans of beefsteak tomatoes. Variety.
Be ready to stake peppers and tomatoes as the grow.
Use bigger tomato cages.

I loved watching elise's backyard garden this year. Lots of inspiration, none of tomatoes were ever this red!

Previous hauls this summer:

our day in one year

One year from today (the date, not the day) I will be marrying my best friend, my love. I am so, so geeked!

We'll be tying the knot here, the Bay City Country Club:

With Bryan & Mae to document the day.

Sometimes our day is the only thing I want to think, talk about, look for inspiration for and plan. I'll probably be sharing some of our planning process and lots of APW links.

Our next step is to talk food, invitations and flowers.

Get geeked along with me, won't you?! ;) 365 days

things

elise's excited stamp

stamp shop.

It's been a weird month money wise. A baby shower and a wedding that had me spending more than usual on fun, fun gifts. Family in town  had me up late into the night on two separate occasions and craving grease in the morning and all through the day. Adjusting to being responsible with my cash and not spending wily-nily, although there's been some of that going on.


Which is really, what I'm here to tell you about! All of the lovely things are making their way to me!

the shine project : let the world see you shine tee

 david's tea: the fall collection

elise JOY: stamp shop "today is"

elise JOY: stamp shop "get excited"

Sometimes a girl wants to spend a little money. #consumerism.

fall

Here we are half way through September, and I'm ready to consider it Fall. I've celebrated by breaking out the long sleeves, wearing a few sweaters, enjoying a pumpkin spice latte, a salted caramel mocha, and a pumpkin chai.

Fall brings open windows, crisp air flowing through house, football, Matt making chili, a squash & stout extravaganza, tea drinking in the evenings, halloween!

Fall...I love you. Next year we're going to celebrate our love among your colors. How cool is that?!

ps. I'm so resisting the urge to rush out and buy a few new notebooks.

rape / slutwalk / legitmate

this image is from just over a year ago, but it's as timely now as ever.

 

(source)   original?  via

   

i've been angry at the akin news since i woke up to it Monday morning (thanks NPR alarm). i've been wondering if it's more about his lack of knowledge of biology and the human body "the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down" or the use of the term "legitimate rape" that has everyone angry including myself.

here are some articles/posts that i've seen over the past week:

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/08/19/im-pro-choice-but-i-could-never-have-an-abortion
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/todd-akin-rape_b_1812930.html
http://www.theonion.com/articles/pregnant-woman-relieved-to-learn-her-rape-was-ille,29258/




RAINN

happiness, love

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.— Hafez  (via blua) via cosmic ache

This reminded me of this song...



Happy Saturday! We're enjoying quite the lazy one, but we'll be off soon to get bbq & watch little pigs race. Still lowkey, but out of the house.