8 photos from my iphone

8 photos from my iphone, thus 8 photos by me.

Kate Spade summer prints now available

This weekend was Kate Spade friends and family, which was notification via email that you could get 25% off your purchase between April 8 and 9.  Naturally, I wanted to take advantage of this little

deal-e-o so I perused the pages of the Kate Spade web page to see what there was to have. My list is actually quite long and I would love to have anything and everything that they produce. 

But as we all know, there is wanting and there buying.  

One thing I was happy to see listed this weekend was the new set of Kate Spade Summer Prints. That was something I could handle. And with 25% off, sure why not. 

You remember these dandies from the Spring Set? 

January Print

February Print

March Print

New set of prints

I'm looking forward to adding them to the collection of Spring prints that I got for my birthday (also shown here). 

photos: via KateSpade.com

Road Trip al la April Fools.

On Friday (friday, friday, friday, ohhhh) we took a little road trip down to Oxford, Mississippi. Yet another Yankee sin has been saved from our poor newly Southern souls.  We have lived in Memphis almost FIVE years and we have now seen Ol' Miss. Like many things I've heard about in Memphis, I didn't understand the hype.  And like I said, my poor "Yankee" soul has been saved. It was beautiful.  Beautiful campus, everything so well manicured, everything UNLOCKED (which I forgot happens because we live in Memphis where you bolt things behind you). In Short, a very splendid day. 

I did not take many photos because (GASP) I was enjoying myself, and enjoying the company of my delightful hubbster, Geoffrey. 

I did managed to get just a few photos, but only because we ran into somebody famous.  And by famous I mean William Faulkner famous. I know right, really special.  So I thought it only appropriate that we have our photo taken together. He had a bit of a staring problem and he would not put his pipe out. Tsk, so rude! 

And can you believe it...as famous as this guy is... 

all he really wanted to talk about was my purse!

Apparently it was intriguing to him since it looks like a typewriter. 

Happy April (Fool's Day).  Spring has sprung!
It will be time to buy your chocolate crosses and prepare for the Easter Bunny's visit soon!

Channeling the master.

Hello.  Yes this is me, Hilary. 

I have on new earrings that my mother brought last weekend, 

they were our "matchy-matchys" of the trip. 

Guess who I'm channeling.....

Lord only knows where her fancy white blouse came from...I know it's not hers! But none the less do love a good yellow sweater and coin earrings. Oh and yes, have I mentioned we are both from Kansas ?

Additional failure

In a post yesterday I mentioned that I have the ability to walk away from super hot, highly desired (by me) items and then go back for them and they're not there.  This plague has once again stricken my unsavvy  soul.  

I seriously didn't think I used to do this. Lately I have passed up a few items thinking, "oh you really don't need that...." then walk away, drive home thinking about how much I really did like it, get out of the car at home, then realize that was stupid. Yup, that's basically how it goes. And then I pout about it to myself for a few days. That's where I currently stand. 

This particular time, it is a giant glass jug that I saw at TJ Maxx just last week and now they are gone. There were 5 of them.  Now....zero. I'm crushed.  They were perfectly shaped and very much reminded me of these pictures below. 

Young House Love

As pictured in Little Green Notebook

The cute kids at Young House Love have had theirs for quite a while and I remember thinking, "Self, when you see one of those you need to pick it up, that's a super cute piece that you can use in a lot of different places." Well, I blew it. In the photo above from Little Green Notebook, there are two pictured on either side of the fireplace.  Which is totally a place I could have used one/them too. 

Once again,  this photo sums things up. 

the end.

photo of me screaming: Annie Tichenor 

oh, yeah, sure.

Story of my life.  I look from a distance at something, admire it, make plans to purchase it, and then when the day comes to make the purchase...it's gone. Here is example number 32981 (yes it has happened to me that many times).

Via Google Images, because Pier 1 doesn't carry it anymore!

The original inspiration photo via Domino

And if this doesn't make me sad enough, you can join me in my sadness 

by seeing more of these beautiful mirrors over at this blog. 

The end.

Well folks, the end has come to the medical study I have faithfully participated in for months. I started the paperwork for this early last summer, started the blood work in August, started eating the food in late August, have given probably (what I would consider) gallons of blood and have conquered my fear of hospitals. Oh and I lost 45 pounds. 

me on the last day-I look like a tourist at Graceland

Very blurry, I was literally speed walking in for my last day.

I actually had two days of full blood work to complete in the same week.  

They ran two different tests, both of which were done the same way.  

I entered my room to a tray full of this fun business....

This used to freak me out and make me have the shakes, 

I'm good now...no shakes here. 

The second day of blood work I had to drink this icky stuff.  

Looks good right? Not so much.  It does say for RX uses only,
that should be a good indication that it is similar to
that nasty pink medicine you had to drink as a child. 

Now, I know you ALL wish you were there with me so here's a little bit of a preview of what happens...

Ewww. That's right, unoxidized blood is nearly black.  Isn't that crazy? 

When I took science classes in high school I was
to busy passing out to have learned this. 

So...this was wildly amusing to me now, some 10-12 years later. 

Here are photos from along the way.

 Week 2-food pick up

November-ish

 December-ish 

the end

the end

the end - 45 pounds lighter

November-2010

In the same dress March 2011

It's hard to tell a difference from these pictures,
but it fit completely different. 

There is a  25 pound difference between these two dates. 

Now that I'm finished, well, errr, ummm, I am on my own. (YIKES) I am trying very hard to practice these valuable lessons I've learned during the past six months, exercise a little bit more and naturally, not eat like a hot mess. 

what's going on around the house...

Last Friday morning, I decided that it was time to jumble the furniture around.  Should I have been focused on my recital, YES.  Should I have been saving my energy for the recital, YES. Did I do any of that, NO. 

Instead, the couches changed positions, 4 chairs went to the basement, two chairs came to join the fun from the dining room and all this while Handsome our darling cat sat and watched his favorite perches go away. (He's still pouting, 4 days later.)

A sigh...but in a good way

I think I could make an endless list about what I like in this room.  I've been studying upholstery for months in magazines and blogs.  I've enjoyed seeing how designers mix and match patterns that some wouldn't even touch.  I'd say that KAT has got this little task conquered. 

Now, to name a few of my favorite things:

1. the console table...Jonathan Adler is a genius.

2. mirror above the console table

3. gold lamp

4. leopard mod chair

5. the use of animal print in this room

6. the more traditional chair to the left of the console

7. the placement of the pillow in the traditional chair, it's vertical who would have thought? 

8. the orange tray on the console table

9. the arrangement UNDER the console table. I must admit that I don't usually think to decorate the wall under my console table.

10. I curtains that are in the dormer.  Lovely floral print as a backdrop to the leopard chair. 

I'll stop with 10, that's a good number, but seriously I could go on. 

Check out more from this fabulous designer here.

Recital

As promised...here are a few snapshots from the recital I gave Friday night. The recital was in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Religion from Memphis Theological Seminary. My thesis project was on sacred music. 

All photos by Minda Anthony, a friend and classmate of mine at Memphis Theological Seminary.