Green Cleaning

I've made a commitment to replacing my current cleaning products (as I run out) with green, earth-friendly products.



The packaging alone makes it worth it.

Day Dreaming

Thanks, everyone, for all of your amazing comments on my last post. Keep them coming - reading everyone's dreams and risks and words of encouragement is inspiring. It makes me so thankful for this blog community I've become a part of.


Right now my big dream is seeing the world - all of it - with Jeremy and our family. Whether it's the family (and friends) we already have or the family we create.

But I have a few little day dreams too... things like:
• Deciding on a Friday night to pack up the car and go camping for the weekend
• Kayaking
• Hiking up Pike's Peak
• Wall papering the guest bedroom
• Growing my own vegetables
• Screen printing
• A new outfit from the clothes I already own
• Getting snowed in again
• Rock climbing on a real mountain

You've shared your big dreams. What are your little (more achievable) day dreams?

photo credit: Wisconsin Historical Society

Dreaming Big

I feel like Jeremy and I are in this somewhat awkward phase where we're just young enough to dream big but starting to feel like we're old enough that time is running out. Together we feel brave enough to take on the world... but we also feel grounded right where we are.

Life has been throwing us questions and finding the right answers are damn near impossible. I'm just trying to sort through it all and find a little bit of clarity.

What is your shoot for the moon dream? What's the biggest risk you've ever taken on?

Window Shopping - Toast

Liz introduced me to TOAST.





I want to curl up in every single bed featured in their catalog.

Our Water is Electrified

Jeremy recently told me that he feels like our water is stinging his hand when he does the dishes. And then he noticed a buzzy feeling in his fingertips one day. I thought he might be having a stroke or something but it turns out our water is electrified.


Jeremy brought home some tools from work (he's an electrical/software engineer) and tested it out.


It turns out we have close to 60V of electricity in our water!

It was a blast making all of my friends shock themselves last night and debating the side effects of drinking electrified water.

Mad Women

Our office always has a Halloween dress-up day. This year the theme was Mad Men.


We had fun dressing up but this could be any Monday for us - Joan inspires us every Sunday night to look fabulous the next day.


The art department sisters.

We also celebrated with a pot-luck lunch and martinis in the afternoon. Though, I missed the martinis - I had to run off to a photoshoot because I'm a real-life Mad Woman.

Pretty Things Peepshow Tour

My brother, Donny Vomit, is going on tour with a burlesque act - Pretty Things Peepshow.



He asked me to design a new logo for merchandise and create a label for his self-made mustache wax. His only requirement was that his logo include his signature handle-bar mustache.


I thought including a signature on his signature would be a nice and personable way to get his name in there.

I also threw in some tags for him to use to organize his merchandise by size. Overall, it was fun to work on a little side project for him. If he stops through your area definitely catch his act and tell him hello for me!

A hard day: Soup, Round 2

I had a really hard day yesterday. It was the perfect storm of little things adding up to a big teary meltdown.

I knew a couple of things would cheer me up including (but not limited to):
• Sweating it out. Nothing to work out some stress like a hard run.
• Sweats. When I'm sad I just want out of my clothes and in my favorite pair of sweat pants.
• A bath. When Jeremy caught wind of my hard day he asked me what I needed. When I told him a bubble bath I came home to just that. And wine. And music. And 85% dark chocolate. And candles. And a new Pottery Barn catalog. My mind was blown.
• Soup. I knew some home-made soup would hit the spot.


I pretty much used the same recipe as last time but added potatoes and kale to the mix. I paired the soup with some cheesy bread to make the perfect comfort-food dinner.

Today is a new day and I have some fun design stuff to show you guys later. Stay tuned.

Five Guilty Pleasures

The fabulous and stylish, Uno Cosa tagged me to reveal five of my guilty pleasures. I absolutely adore her so I had to oblige.

However, I should note that it's hard for me to feel guilty about ANY pleasures. I am incredibly self-indulgent and love instant gratification. You might call it a personality flaw but I live by a "do what you want" philosophy and it's gotten me this far. On to the list!

1. Fur, Leather and Other Dead Things



I actually probably feel the most guilty about this one. I know it's cruel and morbid - but I think it's really beautiful.

2. Coffee and Wine

Two of the biggest reasons why I'm not ready to have a baby yet.

3. But I'm Baby Crazy


I secretly love pretending like my nephews are my own and it melts my heart when I see Jeremy holding them.

4. Road Trips


We have the best time on the road together.

5. Mary-Kate Olsen

She loves fur too. I visit this blog daily. Enough said.

Bonus. Jeremy's Guilty Pleasure: Hospitals

After we dealt with the trauma of Jeremy getting appendicitis on our honeymoon Jeremy revealed that he actually liked being in the hospital. I think his favorite was the little jello cups. My guilty pleasure - watching him high on morphine.

What are your guilty pleasures? I want to open this up for discussion in the comments.

Dance Party

This morning called for an impromptu dance party in our pajamas.



Go to Spinner.com and check out the Awesome New Republic album to see what we've been shaking it to.