I had been counting down the days until the launch of the Liberty of London collection at Target (I even had a dream about it last week, which is somewhat bizarre but not unusual for me), but became even more excited when the latest issue of Country Living arrived in my mailbox with an editorial depicting many items from the new collection.


So I made a special trip to Target this weekend to see it all... and wow, it's vast - they've got clothes for women and children, accessories, housewares, bedding, you name it. I may have even missed some of it because they're remodeling my local Target, and I don't know where half the stuff is right now.   I thought the little girl's clothes were the cutest of all, but unfortunately I left empty handed.  I just didn't need any of it.  Have you seen it?  What did you think?

I was about to create a little photo mosaic over at Big Huge Labs this morning, when I saw that they now offer a color palette generator.  You just upload a photo, and it spits out color codes for many of the colors in the photo.  You can even download the swatches in Adobe Swatch Exchange format for Photoshop. Dig it!

Hello friends, please come visit me over at Feeling Stitchy today, where I'm sharing an interview with Laura Amiss, the super sweet and wonderfully creative woman behind these stitched canvases!

In my son's first grade class, each child gets to be "star student" for one week during the school year.  Part of being the star student means that you get to bring home Ted, the class teddy bear, and write about your weekend with him.  So Friday after school, my son got off the bus with a paper shopper tote carrying Ted.  The bag was a little rumpled and ripping in some places, and while it would've been fine to return Ted to school the following Monday in the same bag, I took it upon myself to construct a new bag for him.

I used some of the Denyse Schmidt cheater print that I'd had stashed away in my cabinet since last year and just freeformed a pattern to approximate the size of the bag Ted was accustomed to.  I think it turned out pretty cute.... and I got a nice little thank you note from the class yesterday!

I went to see Alice in Wonderland this weekend, and while it was a bit dark (except for the White Queen, whom I loved - and of course Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter), it inspired me to host a garden tea party as soon as possible!  So I thought while I collect mismatched china,  fancy floral hats, and tea sandwich recipes, I'd make a point of sharing them with you as I find them - and the timing is perfect, as flea market season begins soon!

I haven't decided yet whether or not it's strange that I had a dream last night about aprons...
specifically, in my dream, I moved into a new house, and when I opened one of the kitchen cabinets, I realized it was just perfect for storing my aprons.  I had an entire cabinet devoted to apron storage.  Yes, my dreams are quite thrilling, I know.... but perhaps this particular dream came to mind because I had Dottie Angel on the brain.....

I realize that not once have I ever received an email imploring me to describe my daily breakfast.
And yet, as I was preparing the morning meal today,  I had the idea to take a photo for you.
Each and every morning, I eat the following:  low fat organic vanilla yogurt with a sprinkling of wheat germ, a handful of uncooked (but slow cooking) oatmeal, and a good helping of dried fruit and nuts (I particularly like the blend shown above, made by Archer Farms, which contains golden raisins, raisins, pepitas, sweetened cranberries, raw hazelnuts, almonds, and pistachios),  or fresh berries when in season.    Oh, and two cups - no more, no less - of extra strong coffee with vanilla soymilk. 
It's how I start my day - How do you like to start yours?

I completely forgot about the pictures I took in St. Louis a few weeks ago... this one was taken at the Gateway Arch.  My daughter is a competitive gymnast, so weekends occasionally find us on little road trips.  We don't usually have enough time to do much sightseeing, but we had a few extra hours this particular day, so we were able to power walk ourselves over to the Arch for a few family photo opp's.

The reason I'm posting this photo is that I was digging through my photo library to find something simple to showcase the new Kitschy Digitals Kit Danielle Thompson has put together.  Along with a hundred or so fabric covered buttons, the kit comes with 8 bonus frames (like the one shown above), which are perfect for people like me who do everything at the last minute - I just added a couple extra buttons to mine because they were so cute and I couldn't help myself! The entire kit is available for $3.99 right here.

Continuing with my theme of Spring Fever....
This photo editorial shot by Corrie Bond for the March issue of Marie Claire Australia (first spotted on Luna and Chloe) makes my heart flutter and my knees go weak. The amazing saturated color... all of those shades of purple... and good god, those trees!  I want to live in these pictures and eat purple ice cream and wear a tiara.  And since the dog in the photo on the top right looks just like my Lola it almost makes me think I could walk her right into those pages and stand in line for some purple cotton candy!  Is it Spring yet??

I've been working on embroidering a baby gift this week,  and I was reminded of how much I love this particular font for embroidery.  I thought you might like to use it, too!


Just print the image onto plain paper, (I've reversed it so you can transfer it easily), and trace the letters you'd like to use with a heat transfer pencil or Sulky Pen (my personal favorite). Cut out the letters, and arrange them face down on your project Use a hot, dry iron to transfer the name onto your project.