Green Felted Spider

I had a custom order last week for a green spider. smart customer. everything is better in green :)

Confessions of a beautiful blogger

My lovely friend Allison at the blogivers shared the Beautiful Blogger Award with me. According to the rules I'm supposed to list seven things about myself and then pass the award on. Here are seven things you probably didn't know about me...unless your name is Zach.

-For the longest time I thought Field of Dreams was about aliens...if you build it they will come.

-Allison admitted to a spring break belly button piercing...which I can unfortunately trump with an eyebrow piercing in high school and nose piercing in college. (the eyebrow piercing was gone long before my nose was pierced.)

-I have never had a cup of coffee or a coffee-containing beverage.

-I think socks make your feet look stupid. (this opinion may not be new to all my readers)

-Every night when going to bed, Zach and I play a little game where we have to be looking at each other before we can turn the bedside lamp off.

- My toenails are always painted, even in the winter. I never paint my fingernails.

-I'm half Sicilian but don't like olives or red wine.

That's enough about me. Now I'm passing the award on to these beautiful bloggers:

Bethany at The Laughing Songbird
Jenn at Married to a BMW
Katie at Grains of Rice
Denise at Adventures at la Casa de Mayen

Monogram Pillow Tutorial

Visit The Laughing Songbird to view my tutorial for a button monogram pillow!

Published

I'm officially published! My first research article, A Focus on Asthma and Individual Health Plans: A Survey of Texas Schools, came out this month in the Journal of Asthma and Allergy Educators. Be warned, you may fall asleep reading it.

Laughing Songbird Interview

My good friend Bethany recently interviewed me for her blog, The Laughing Songbird. Stop by to read my interview and enjoy some entertaining stories of Bethany's life in the English countryside while you're there. She will also be posting a tutorial of mine in the next few days so stay tuned!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's is a good day for stuffed french toast...

and handmade cards.

My card to Zach (left) was drawn in Illustrator. The letters in the bowl make up our names, the numbers in the measuring cup our anniversary date. When I first designed this, the letters were green, but as it got closer to Vday I thought, hey that would make a cute valentine, so I created a version in shades of red. Zach's wonderful card to me is hand drawn. (Juicebox is a nickname of mine).

Zach's amazing gift to me was a Fenton Art Glass hobnail apothecary jar. It matches my two other pieces and I love it! I also got some pretty white carnations and green mums.

Zach concentrating hard as he attempts to master all 100 obstacles in his new Perplexus puzzle game.

We finished up the day with a lovely dinner at Ciola's Italian-American Restaurant. Zach had the veal rollatini (veal rolled with provolone, spinach and prosciutto in a marsala, mushroom and artichoke heart reduction) and I had the ravioli al tartufo (mixed mushroom raviolis tossed in a truffle cream sauce). We split a cannoli for dessert. Also our $25 coupon that we bought for $1 from Restaurants.com kept a high class meal under $45.

Way Good Day Feature

My XOXO drawstring bags were featured on Way Good Day!