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Snail Mail Monday

Posted on March 14, 2011

I have a lot of incoming to share today. Wow. You can click on the smaller pictures to make them larger.

Cool mail art done on a magazine subscription card – such a great idea!

The groundhog is really cute, haha.

Hardees bag! Some of these are so creative.

Fantastic package from Kristy. Look at all these notecards & goodies!! I love the Charlotte’s Web card.

Envelopes made from some really pretty vintage paper.

And this amazingness is from Amanda Atkins. I love her art. The picture is amazing.. and the paper doll.. & she included the sweetest note (that I’m not going to share, sorry!). The print is called “Rebecca & the Racoon”. Here is her shop. She is so talented, I can’t wait to find a place for this in my new home.

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Photo Dump

Posted on March 13, 2011

Just a few I haven’t posted.

These three were on the way up to PA.

Somewhere right at the border along 83.

This one is in Dallastown, PA.

And this was our snow storm (Savage, MD).

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Middle Name Pride Day

Posted on March 11, 2011

Holly Knitlightly is celebrating holidays every day this year and today is Middle Name Pride Day.

My middle name is Amanda. I have no idea where it came from, but I’ve always loved it. It means “worthy of love”. When I was really little I liked it more than my first name and tried to go by it, but it never stuck. Sometimes I would pretend Amanda was my “evil twin”. Or else, she was the good one and Lauren was the evil twin. Later, there were many more Amandas in my classes than Laurens (though, now Lauren seems to be way more popular & they all seem to be my age. Where were they then?).

When I was 11, my sister was born and her name is Amanda. (We had different moms so I guess this is enough criteria for this horrible theft!) So she basically stole my name and ran off with it, never to allow me the fun of my middle name again! 😉 This is what an evil Amanda name thief looks likes:

Gosh, it’s not even fair. There are songs about my middle name – Amanda by Waylon Jennings and Amanda by Boston. Mandy by Barry Manilow. I always loved the Waylon Jennings song. And what does Lauren get? hmm?

I’ve been trying desperately to get a nickname for oh, my entire life (haha – well, I used to have them for my last name, Tatar, but never for my first) and I’ve heard that people have gone by Lo, Laur or Ren for Lauren before, though I’ve never really been called any of those (at least not seriously – tried Ren/Rennie for a bit and it never really stuck though I love it). Sam thinks that I should go by Lo Mein – Lo for Lauren and Mein for Amanda.

So, what’s your middle name? Do you like it?

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Weekend Links

Posted on March 11, 2011

1.)
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Dear Blank Please Blank & website Dear Blank letterpress print collection by shopsaplingpress.

2.) Woman sells first spot in iPad line for $900

3.) Campfire Chic’s birthday blog party. It was yesterday but you still have until tonight at 10pm Pacific to enter any giveaways & of course anytime to catch up.

4.) Whole bridge collapse in Japan from the earthquakes I’m sure you already have heard about.

5.)

Vintage Red Samsonite Carry On Messenger Bag

6.)

Geometry Set Jotter – Ruler by presentandcorrect

7.)

I Am An Island print by corduroy.

Weekend to do list:

– pack!
– get rid of stuff on freecycle/goodwill (bookcases, old tv, old tv stand, wood in basement, etc.)
– take some fun pictures! i haven’t taken anything for fun in awhile.
– read – I’m trying to make sure I don’t fall behind in reading during this move!
– keep up with 30 days of lists! (weekends are the time that it’s easiest to fall behind for me)
– find new PO box closer to new place
– fill out change of address forms

Can I just say I have six boxes of books packed already and it barely finished the first book shelf? The smallest one.. The last move was 16 boxes of books. 1. I’m sure we have more now and 2. I’m trying to use smaller boxes. This is why we’re buying a dolly for this move, no not one, but two of them – one for each of us.

Last count was about two years ago, and we had 1000-ish books, counting children’s books. I’m counting again during this move (just count what’s in the box and put the number on the box! Really easy.) so I’ll let you know what we have again.

Also, don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend.

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30 Days of Lists: 4-9

Posted on March 9, 2011

List 4: Today’s Playlist

Now Playing

Young Pilgrims – The Shins
Why Worry – All American Rejects
When I’m Gone – 3 Doors Down
Close Call – Rilo Kiley
Penny on the Floor – The Clarks
Sorry – Buckcherry

List 5: Weekend Goals

Listen to music
Lists
Husband time
Go outside
See houses
Sister’s gift

List 6: Least Favorite Words (and phrases)

Potential
Moist
Pissed off
Sexual derogatory words
“Can’t see the forest for the trees”
Hubby
Fart
Diet
Preggers
Obese
“Good morning, Sunshine”
“Whatever floats your boat”

List 7: Blog Goals

Fix design problems
Add spot for regular features
More meaningful content
100 followers
TBA project
Open Etsy

List 8: What’s In My Bag

make-up
comb
wallet
chopsticks
washi tape
keys
phone/headphones
moleskine
pens
rosary
cozies
sunglasses

Here’s a better (centered) picture & yes, I need to have a coffee & beer cozy in my purse. You never know when you need to have a coffee or a beer. gosh. or chopsticks.

I know you all want to know the specific makeup junk..

– Burt’s Bees honey & grapeseed oil hand creme (which clumps so so bad, grr)
– tide pen
– hand sanitizer
– Gap scent in “so pink”
– eye drops for my alcohol addiction
– deodorant (haha! – and now everyone knows I use Degree. But I normally use shower fresh & this is pure satin.)
– mark. “just pinched” cheek tint
– cherry chapstick
– 2 Revlon lipsticks – 413 pearl & 6 pink blush, both really nice colors & the pink blush is the prettiest pigmented pink lipstick ever
– mark. “mist opportunity” in kiwi grapefruit
– E.L.F. mirror
– E.L.F. lip gloss
– E.L.F. eyeliner
– Cover Girl Trublend powder in the lightest shade (the old kind they don’t make anymore, grr, and it’s the only cover-up that i’ve ever found that is light enough for me. i bought a bunch on ebay haha!)

Oh, and I forgot the mark. scanda-lash eyeliner that was in there too, but not in the picture.

List 9: Favorite Websites

Etsy
Postcrossing
Swap-bot
Facebook
Goodreads
Amazon
Grooveshark
Sendsomething.net
Twitter
Flickr

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Teeny Little Super Guy

Posted on March 8, 2011

I’ve had this song in my head for over a week now! Do you remember this from Sesame Street? (Am I older than most of you? I’m 28.) (there’s a video – can you seem them in your reader?)

P.s. we got the house! we signed the lease tonight. they’re going to let us move in april 1st now (but only paying for after the 8th) so woo!

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New house

Posted on March 7, 2011

If I got MIA for the next oh, seven weeks, this is probably why!

Assuming everything goes well, we’ll be signing the lease to rent this place. We’ll be moving in April 8th-ish, but we’re overlapping rent so we have 3 weeks to pack and 3 weeks to move. Pretty cool, since we normally have a week total! It’s about 20 minutes from here, so not a far away move or anything.

The house has four bedrooms and two full baths. It’s a split level and upstairs is the living room, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms and a bath. Downstairs is a den/2nd living area, laundry room, bath and master bedroom. The yard has a split rail fence but the landlord is going to put in mesh just for us to make it dog proof.

And the best part?? Beach access! It’s along the Severn River, which is a part of the Chesapeake Bay and the community has five beaches and we will have access cards for all of them. We drove by the one closest to us, it’s about a five minute walk and it’s nice. I’m looking forward to a future of jellyfish stings! Yes!

Here are the pictures I snagged from the ad & emails with the landlord. lol I think the kitchen is really cute (minus the curtains).

So, cross your fingers, but they told us that they liked us the best and we’ve been talking to them all morning passing information and they sent us a copy of the lease with information already catered to us written in it. Short of saying “it’s yours”, I think it’s ours if nothing goes weird, lol.

This is the downstairs living area. It has a gas stove thing. 🙂

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Giveaway Winner

Posted on March 4, 2011

Yay!! Stinky Puppy helped out by choosing the winner!

And Stinky Husband helped out by holding up the paper. I mean come on, stinky puppies don’t have opposable thumbs!

And the winner is..

Tsuki from Little Gray Fox! Send me an email with your address to orange@.

I love short & sweet too! 🙂 It’s really cool reading all the preferences. It seems like most like short & sweet.

Thank you everyone for entering! There were 90-ish entries. So crazy! I have a lot of new blogs to go visit, haha.

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30 Days of Lists: looking forward to

Posted on March 3, 2011

I’m sharing this one because I love the way this picture turn out.

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Last day for giveaway + lists

Posted on March 2, 2011

Aww, thank you for all of the kind comments yesterday. 🙂

two things.

1. Giveaway ends today! If you haven’t yet entered, it’s your last chance. Hopefully I will have a winner here in the next couple of days.

2. Here’s my second 30 Days of Lists. I guess I won’t torture you guys and post them every single day, haha. Or, ooo, maybe I will. YES TORTURE. err.

things I’m good at

collecting pens
trying new things
spotting good books
talking too much
not burning things
being indecisive
getting sunburned
doing the cotton-eyed joe dance
playing pool
making people laugh
being creative
bargain shopping
taking pictures
wiggling my nose like a bunny