What Home Means to Me

Today it's my turn to participate in 'Pin it Forward' and post what home means to me. But first, a big thanks to Victoria over at sfgirlbybay for organizing all this. Also for letting us in on the wonder that is Pinterest. I have had my eyes opened to a whole new world of inspiration and eye candy these past weeks. It is such a great tool for cataloging ideas and photos found on the www and so much prettier than file folders on your desktop. Thanks to poppytalk for pinning it forward to me on Friday and I'll pass the torch to slipcover your life who will be posting tomorrow. Check the schedule to see who else is involved. For the rest of my 'What Home Means to Me' Pinboard, and others go HERE. Enjoy!

To me, Home is...

A Place To Come Back To

cori kindred

A Place To Kick Off Your Shoes

haeshu

A Place To Be In Love

cneefs

A Place To Learn

andrea singarella

A Place For Commitment

marchorowitz via shanna murray

A Place To Fill With Music

tyler.elizabeth

A Place To See Yourself Clearly

zitaaa

A Place To Let Loose

michelle smith-lewis

April Showers...

I'm staying at my sister's house since Jeremy is gone and while eating in her dining room tonight I was reminded of a little party I threw in that very spot back in April. It was her baby shower and I never shared the pictures of my hard work and the fun we had. Here they are...

I sewed vintage doilies onto ribbon for a little garland she now uses in the nursery

a girly tea party

with treats

a quiz

with a prize for the winner

(one of my necklaces was inside that box)

gifts

and party favors: tea bag pouches and felt flower pins

20 Questions

1. Show us the inside of something cute

2. What's the last home cooking you had?

The Mr.'s French Toast

3. What do you miss?

stacey my love

4. What makes you laugh often?

5. What's your favorite word?

6. What are you trying to quit?

7. What's your favorite commercial right now?

For so many reasons, this one:

8. Whose style do you dig?

9. Link to a great blog you've discovered lately...

This guy's photog is splendid-

10. What's the last craft you made?

11. A photo of the last happy mail you got

these pretty earrings

12. Something you've got lately

this poster-

13. What are you looking forward to?

SUMMERTIME!!!

14. Post a recent snapshot of yourself.

15. Recent favorite movie?

16. Something you're working on right now?

This blog post

:)

17. If a movie were made about you, who would play you?

In a dream world (which is where we'd be

anyway if there was a movie about me):

18. What gives you goosebumps?

19. Share a new obsession

20. What's the meaning of your life?

LOVE

My claim to (Reality TV) fame...

Back in my modeling days I would often see this tall skinny guy with cool style and a star tattooed on his neck. He was working as a stylist at a studio I frequently worked for and one day I met him. I was doing a Lucy shoot and he came over and asked if I would model a few things for his portfolio as he soon would be auditioning for a little show called Project Runway. Fast forward to present: that very same star-tatooed man won last week's challenge on episode 6. Meet Seth Aaron:

And here's a photo from my shoot with him. If Heidi Klum has seen a photo of me can I say I met her too?

For more about Project Runway, Seth, and even me go HERE

In Love

Did a little Valentine's photo shoot this morning.

Can't wait to show you on Feb. 14th...

Blue Monday

Went thrift shopping with my Mom and at Red, White and Blue and I found the above blue treasures. We also went to the doctor where G got three shots and then on to the DMV. If that's not a blue Monday, I don't know what is.

ps- apologies, apologies... I pressed "save" the other day instead of "publish" so this post is just showing up on Thursday... oops! :)

2010

Central OR treated us right over the holidays. We got a respectable number of snowflakes and a healthy dose of relaxation/family time. I have been wanting to post pictures of our adventures there but that task has joined all my other new years resolutions somewhere far far away from my current reality. I really intend to post them before it becomes too ridiculously late to even think about it (that's last year after all) but I wanted to get something up here on my little blog right now. I left our vacation feeling nothing but hope for the new year. I made LOTS of plans for the things I intended to accomplish (sometimes I forget I'm not super-human, ever happen to you?) Then I got home and Gemma forgot how to sleep (actually that happened on vacay but I had hoped she just needed her own bed) and I felt like a zombie all week and didn't make a lick of progress toward my intended new year habits. So I decided to come up with a new list. Just the fun things I want to do this year. I won't throw the old list out but I will promise myself to value the new one too. Here it is...

1. Take my 7 year old niece to the rollerskating rink I always went to as a kid and bring my camera. And maybe wear tutus.

source

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2. Frequent this photo booth. And this one.

3. Try 10 new restaurants

4. Form a photography club... this one inspires me

5. Float the Deschutes River and play on the rope swing

6. Participate in Renegade Craft Fair

7. Make a photo everyday (BTW, Jeremy Claus made my dreams come true by gifting me with this baby for Christmas:)

8. Learn to crochet

9. Finish my photo wall (will show you when finished)

10. Go to Powells Books more

11. Play my guitar well enough to do it in front of somebody else (somebody, not somebodies)and maybe well enough to justify getting a new one next Christmas. Do I have to change my name to "The artist formerly known as Carrie" to get away with a purple one?

12. Show Gemma the ocean

13. Keep a journal... and blog.