Tuesday, September 29, 2009

keep on falling

what can i say? i'm just digging  fall  this year, so i will just keep on posting about it. you like?


i bought these two pumpkins today at a local farm.



this one is being left as is and will be my kitchen table center piece for awhile. in a celebrity pumpkin contest this one would win.












i gave this one an upgrade by cutting out all the stars.




from that pumpkin i toasted the seeds with some salt and oil. highly addictive.

the next few come from the farmer's market.



these lil f'ers are so dang cute!




this may just look like a super adorable gourd, but its so much more. once it dries up, i will cut a hole in it and the birds will eat the insides. after they've eaten all the inside they can move right in to their new gourd home. i.love.it. its sitting pretty next to the mum my dad just got us.

top tres tuesday || apples



we picked apples this weekend, ohhhh yes we did. 19 1/2 pounds of apples.i just couldn't help myself, they all looked like the perfect apple.







 

hopefully you would like to know what my top three ways are to use all these apples.



1. donate apples so your friends can slave away making a pie. devour it.




2.  make apple sauce. chunky style.




3. make a trusty idiot proof apple bread. triple the recipe to share.

1 1/2 c flour
1 tspn cinnamon
1/2 tspn baking soda
1/2 tspn salt
1/4 tspn nutmeg
1 egg
1 c sugar
1 1/2 c peeld, diced apples

mix dry ingredients in bowl. mix all other ingredients in bowl, add dry mixture. bake at 350 for 55 minutes in greased loaf pan.


Saturday, September 26, 2009

welcome onboard

i've been thinking that maybe you would like to come with me on a flight? get to see the laughter, the tears and maybe someone getting arrested? sounds like a ball right? ok here it is then....


welcome onboard flight #110 september 26th.



driving in on the blue route, wearing my sweet uniform.




park the car, ride the bus, go through security and enter into the crew room.




time to get on da bird.




this where me and my friend laura will be working. the back galley.
i have literally spent hours and hours of my life here.
its almost sentimental, eh maybe not.

 


laura is getting to work. 




i am such a efficient worker that i am doing laura's work after i finished mine.




i have my one village coffee with me. i share with laura. duh.




we board half the plane in philly, take off and pick up the rest of the darlings in baltimore.




so we are in bwi, awaiting our pax. the cops come on board. {YES!} they have
a sketch! who still uses a sketch!?!? they take this women off for questioning.
sorry to dissappoint but she does not get arrested and they let her go on her vaca.
i have NO idea what it was about.




we are boarded and i am moving crap around. because i can.




we take off. start setting up the cart to sling beverages.




breakfast time!
*greek yogurt and mango granola




i do this a lot on the plane.....strettcchh. my flight attendant friends gawk at my
flexabilty. they don't think it looks natural. whateve.
btw, my hair is NOT touching the ground because
that would be nnnnnnasty!!!




we all land safely in punta cana, domincan republic.  finally.




laura talks to the pax.




here is the airport. people love to take pictures of it.
'OH MY GOSH. its a grass roooooof!'
ugh.




we pose for you.




the domincan cleaners come on board. hi guys.
i always feel like they are talking about me, but i can never be sure.




the pilots hang out, jeremy and paul. borrrring.





laura shows you what the overhead bin looks like with her stuffed inside.
aw thanks laura.



its humid outside so the airconditioning fogs the place up.
people freak.out. over this stuff.
i tell them its sleeping gas.



i'm ready to be home when some guy in a torn up camo shirt and jean shorts
asks me "hey are you american!?"




i get bored during the flight because we ran out of cups and can't do our second beverage service.
the flight is 3hour 40minute....really long when you are bored.
i may or may not have drawn this during that time.




laura and i, still bored, show you our angry we don't care flight attendant faces.
jk, we just have bad modeling faces.

we land in bwi...again. go through security and get back on the plane to fly home.
only a few people are going on to philly.




i am hungry and don't have anymore of my healthy food packed.
i am happy to see my good long lost friend,  pizza combos.




eat half the bag and feel like poop. darn you pizza combos!!!

we land in philly. catch the bus and get in our cars. this kinda day takes about 12hours.
but i am away from my house for about 15hours.

hope you liked going to punta cana.
peace out.





Tuesday, September 22, 2009

top tres tuesday || recycled

welcome welcome welcome to my very first {TOP TRES TUESDAY}


i thought it might be a good idea to start something that would make me post at least once a week. to be honest, its not a completely original idea but i think it'll work. if you are wandering, i picked tuesday because i am usually off and spending my day hanging around the house with this charmer...






for my first tuesday, i picked three {recycled} items i am pining for. i will most likely attempt my hand at that a some point.

numero uno





  this {recycled} wine bottle chandlier comes from  pottery barn. if i just collect the wine bottles and figure out how to run the lights through the center, my dad would probably be able to make all the metal parts at his shop. seriously they are charging $399 for this bad boy!

numero dos



this idea comes from martha stewart's whole living. she {recycles} men's button down shirts into napkins. its very simple, but i love the look of variety you can get.


numero tres





i love trixiedelicious. i found her on etsy. i just love the old school dishes that she has {recycled} with snarky words and sayings.

Monday, September 21, 2009

check out my bling

a year ago B and i went to the pa renewable energy festival (btw, he was a speaker there this year. what what!) while looking at all the vendors, i saw these two girls peddling their handmade jewelry. they had the most amazing wire wrapped jewelry. i loved the natural stones and how the wire was wrapped with no symmetry.  so why not add one more craft to my life?



these are some cheap tools, beads and different size wires that have come from joanne's and michael's (my best friends)





i started with a ring. i watched a few how to videos i found on the world wide web, ever heard of it?



its a bit small on these sausage links, but better luck next time. 

 

why not add some earrings? turquise is my all time fave ever. ever. (sorry for the messy hair)




seriously so easy i may never buy jewelry again.  just playin.