Our House Coming Soon!

My new Oktoberfest hat arrives in the mail tomorrow! I am so excited it's green velvet and pure magic.

Moooovin'

The Good News is that we are very close to moving into our first house :) David and I have been breathing in the rubber dust of the 10 Freeway for three and a half years, and now we are out of here. If all goes according to plan, we'll be moving in early October, so we've been sorting and packing our life into piles and boxes and trash bins every weekend in anticipation. Elwood is delighted by the new obstacle course of boxes and packing material that have overtaken his world. Who else do you know who is dorky enough to have full boxes labeled things like, "early" and "late journals" ? Probably just me.

What?

2 am at the Tattle Tale on a Thursday night, what a collection of friends that was so happy to be reunited! Today was pretty brutal, this Tiny is not used to week night shenanigans, but it was well, well, well worth it.

Music Exchange

Amanda is in town, so we get to have dinner with her tonight - a nice treat! We have a music exchange to do, we each made a mix for the other and made our own packaging for the CD. Mine comes in this old paper fold out of a photograph that I affixed a paper pocket to the inside cover and wrote all the tracks by hand below. It ties shut with a yellow ribbon and has the mix title pasted on the outside with matching paper left over from making the pocket. I hope she doesn't already have these songs...



If anyone else is interested in doing a similar trade I would love to!

This weekend I flew to Phoenix to visit with my friend Moriah and go to her baby shower. It was a great time, and I finally got to give her the elephants I sewed way back when I found out she was pregnant. Now she's 8 months, and the baby will be here so so soon!




Look at Ava-Long-Arms here, she kept me company on the couch quite a bit :) Wonderful to visit with good friends and celebrate such a happy occasion.

Some Fun FINALLY

So, David & I have been working on trying to buy a house, and it's sucked our funtime away for a month now, and I finally broke free this weekend and had real leisure! Agata & Tiny & I went to the Fowler Museum at UCLA to see the tea exhibit, and it was just what I needed, thinking about tea & meditation and slowing life down a little, admiring ancient tea pots and reading poems about the ritual of drinking it.
After, we enjoyed deserts at a nearby cafe in Westwood and had girl time, which I also really needed. I hadn't seen either of them for so long and it was great to catch up.