San Francisco Outing

Noni and I took the BART to the Ferry Station - what a beautifully refurbished building!

Bell Tower

Palm Trees and the Bay Bridge

Bus ;)
(Noni told me that the city features buses from all around the world!)

Rainy Day in the city

Inside the Ferry Station, they have an 'open air' market

*Kingdom of Herbs* - made me think of you, Missy! :)

What I've been up to lately . . .

Well, I finally got my camera back, and I had fresh batteries too. . . These are some pics of the house, in a new coat of color, some parts still have yet to be finished, but, you get the picture ;)
*(Some of these pics are a little bit blurry)

~Living room~

(I still need to hang my wrought iron candle sconce back above the fireplace);)

~Bedroom~

~Master Bath~

(for the 'Befores' go here)

Pink Clouds & Socks

The sky was cotton candy pink tonight. Bubblegum, ballet shoes, a string of pearls, bridal pink - soft and inviting, like a down comforter.

Sorry, floating in la la land here.

While folding my laundry this evening, a stowaway brown sock, fitting a foot belonging to my husband fell out. Sigh. A lone ranger it was, no other sock to make it a pair. Kinda like him and I when we're apart.

No boohoo-hooing here. The man has safely arrived in Pennsylvania after a 30+ hour drive and the days are flying by like sparrows in the sky.

Jewels

My mother and I recently had a chance to go to a jewelry showcase. It was a line that I had never heard of before, Silpada. Usually, around here its just 'James Avery this' and 'James Avery that'. I really do like J.A. jewelry, but seeing a new set of things made me a new believer in Silpada. I love how elegant the pieces are. The prices are about the same as J.A., but you are getting your money's worth.

Here's what came in my mailbox yesterday - it was a birthday gift from my mother :)

Trying to get back to the place you helped me to find

Hi.

Its funny how I can't remember what life was like before marriage. And mind you, I was not a miserable single.
I didn't expect to get married right after college, it just sort of . . .happened. No, it was not a mistake either. Haven surprised me out of the blue. Or maybe I was just a daft gal. At any rate, single life shriveled quickly right after we graduated.

Anyway, I don't want to ramble on being alone - I might as well go sulk in some puddles while I am at it ;)

I am watching 'Shall We Dance' right now. Anybody seen it? I dunno if I like the premise so far.

So, I am working on several little projects while my DH is away. No peeking ;) Hint: it involves color (what else is new?)


Okay, there are all thoughts random. I am off to walk-take-off-on-a-dead-run my hyperactive dog.

Goodnight :)

Master Bath pics

Okay, finally time to post a couple of pics of the master bath (even though it is still not quite finished yet). I have some last things to do for the tub area ;)
I realize that the brown actually looks a little yellowish in this picture . . . ummm . . . it is darker, I promise-you-chocolate-brownie-coffee-brown.

Paint

We like color - we just added two more colors to our house palette. . . a coffee brown and fern green are now adorning our master bathroom. I have great visions of creating a lovely escape in there. Cattails and ferns, vanilla, and some sheer curtains . . . Ooo la la . . .

GREAT ESCAPE ;)

My hubby is off to get a Harvest wheat frozen pizza - (MMMmmm good)


Oh yeah - and some brownie mix for chocolate cravings. ;)

Happy Sabbath evening and Memorial Day Weekend :)

Glow pink, turn tan

I went in a spaceship tonight. I flew for 7 minutes, orbiting around a UV solar sun. Blasting breezes blew down on me as I held the handles and adjusted the beady goggles over my eyes.

I wore sunscreen, protection level 15. Just enough to make me glow pink and turn tan. This is the kind of color that hurts sometimes.

The price of beauty is a rip-off.

Home Improvements

Well, remember this post?

We decided to paint the stairway wall Marmalade - very bright, cheerful

Color

I have a bug in my bonnet to paint this portion of our house - the staircase wall, which is bland and boringly white. I would eventually love to fill it with a line of pictures, but I haven't even gotten some from our wedding framed, so that could be a while. In the meantime, painting the wall some bright and cheerful color is very inspiring.

I found the greatest site in the world - COLR.ORG, where you can type in colors that you are looking for, and they will generate schemes and actual paint colors that you can buy :)

. . . To be continued. . .