BABY BLESSING!!!!

Hi all! It's been quite a while since I have blogged any part of my life and NEVER have I gotten to blog about the little life growing inside of me!!! That's right! We are having a BABY BOY in June! Oh my gosh, could I GET any more excited? Well, maybe when I look at all the options for fun accesorizing of my wee lad. Here are some of the likings for today....

Hand Printed baby leggings from thiefandbanditkids on Etsy

I-feel Rocker - Grey - Chicco - Babies "R" Us

and Mister Fox from Apseed on etsy

These are just a few of the sort of things that are constantly on my mind.

I swear, "mommy brain" only happens because you are thinking of SO many

things youcan't keep ANYthing straight in your head.

And of course you can't leave out the daily sumpin sumpin for mom!

Today it is these I am thinking most about.......

TOMS - Black Women's Glitters

Welp, that's it for now. I'm sure I will find a million more things to share and ramble on about in the near future.

babies and comfy sparkles, Tiphani

Planting my life away

So, I am trying to get on top of things before I'm just lost in the season. So yesterday, I ordered some beautiful new plants. It seemed like one of the biggest choices of my life and I spent like a good 2-3 hours figuring out the right sizes, colors, and shapes to go with spot in my yard, the height of my window, and the style- a la cottage or english garden- that I wanted. AND, most importantly, something that would bloom all season long! I hope I got it! Tell me what you guys think...and I will post some more pics when they come in and after I have planted them.

Painted Daisy

"la Belle" Bellflower

Stella D'Oro Daylily

White Alba Prunella

So excited! I think they should be super cutsie!

Sunshine and potting soil xoxo, Tiphani

GLLLLEEEEEEEKED OUT!

SOOOOOOOO, it's been a while again. I swear that this laziness in posting will end. Speaking of end, I CAN NOT believe it is going to be 2011 in 22 days! Whoa!

So, I am basically obsessed with Glee, and for good reason-it's amazing-music, dancing, acting, teenage drama, and best of all Emma Pillsbury and her great sense of fashion! (oh, and might I add Kurt and Rachel are pretty fly as well) ;) So, the reason I wandered onto my neglected blog (sorry blog) was to share one of her best, most quick to make me envious pieces of clothing-exhibit A

ISN'T IT ADORABLE!!!!!

Well, it's Kate Spade and I can't afford it but maybe someday I will find its likeness on the racks of a more affordable boutique but until then I will refer to this pic and that episode-"special education" if you are wondering-with a box of kleenex to wipe up the drool. I hope you all find as much joy and beauty in this as I do ;) GLEE and Coats of Cheer, Tiphani

It's a sunshine day!

So, finally, the moon has gone down and the sun has legitimately came up! Along with the sun it brought flowers, and green grass, and the smell of freshness and most importantly.....ULTIMATE FRISBEE! Only pretty much my favorite thing (besides traveling) to do in this world! I really love that game and I played for the first time this "summer season" yesterday. And I loved it but my body is totally rebelling against me today. I am a total mess of crampy muscles. I hurt but it is totally worth it to be out in the sun!

On another note....my sister is getting married in 19 days! OMG! I can't believe it. I am so excited to 1-get out of town for a while 2-see all the cool things she has created and come up with and 3-for her to start the best part of her life as being a wife. Oh, but really the number one thing is just to see her and have a blast making hopefully great memories!

One more thought for today.....I really wish that I understood more about this whole health care bill. I am trying to read up on it and study it but everything I read looks like spanish to me. Oh well, I know enough to know I don't like it!

Well, just a lil update for ya! Hope everyone has a wonderful day and really makes the most of the great weather! xoxo

My black beauty

You want to know something super annoying? So, for the last like 5 years I have been looking for a recliner. Not just ANY recliner but one that was STYLISH first and foremost. Not one of the big, squishy, been passed down through 4 generations, faded, pink, everyone in san juan county has one, couldn't find any cheaper so I bought this one, its big and comfortable and therefore I like it, I could sleep for days in it, bring me my beer kinda recliners, but a you can't tell I'm a recliner yet I'm still, sexy, comfortable, and small kind of recliners. Now, I also did not want it simply to recline but I also wanted it to be VERY comfy, ROCKING AND SWIVELING. Now, you might say that that is a lot to ask from a lil ol chair but I was determined to find it......And I DID! One day, upon walking into TEMA in albuquerque for a quick "browse" around at everything I could not afford, I found it. There it sat, simple, beautiful, quiet. But, I asked myself, did it rock? DID IT ROCK?!-well, it sure as heck did and not only did it rock but it also SWIVELED!!!! Dream come true!!! It was meant to be mine! It was natuzzi leather ANNNNNND, it came in 3 different colors! I made up my mind then and there that I didn't even care how much it was. It was going to be mine no matter what! That is, until I LOOKED at the price. $1,700.00. For a chair. Notice now it had quickly become a chair not an animate object to take home and love and care for. No, little did I know, money DOES buy you love and I did not have enough to afford my lover. So, with my head hung low, I left the store heart broken and determined to find my lover again someday. This time, at a more affordable price.

Fast forward to about 3 years later and what do I stumble upon.....my natuzzi friend! This time at American home in Farmington! Yay, I couldn't believe it! I had almost been able to block her out of my mind when lo and behold, there she sat. So since it was lil ol Farmington and THREE years later I figured that she HAD to be less expensive......Boy was I wrong! Same sad story-excitement followed by depression. I was beginning to think that our relationship was doomed. But, non-the-less I continued to visit her off and on again for another year or so until one day, I was shopping around the discontinued furniture section at American and THERE SHE WAS! For significantly cheaper! This time I was not going to lose her again. She would be mine, oh yes she would be. So, over the course of the next couple of months I scrimped and saved so that I would soon be able to bring her home with me. Back and forth, much deliberation between colors, cash exchanged, and she was mine! My black leather beauty.

Fast forward another year-ish later....Still in love with my wonderful recliner. Still with the plastic on the footrest so as to preserve her condition for as long as possible. Still admiring her slender grace and beauty. .....I'm walking out of the house after a yummy lunch with the husband and I grab up a sales ad for Ashley furniture. Now, keep in mind that Ashley and I have had an ongoing feud ever since she made the crappy product known as my couch so I'm surprised that I was even wanting to thumb through the pages but I figured "what the heck, I need some ideas for couch designs" (only the designs, not the brand) since I am now in the market for a new leather couch. Scanning, scanning, "that's nice, I like that color, ohhh, look at the piece of coral on that table" and what do my wandering eyes do appear?!?! A black beauty impostor!!!!!! Page 9, bottom right hand corner, a filthy cheap, filthy generic, IMPOSTOR! I am so angry there are not even words. I had waited nearly 1/5 of my life for this chair and someone like Ashley's can go and make some cheap duplicate of it and all of San Juan County would soon be able to acquire its likeness! Oh heck no you di' int! This simply brings a tear to my eye on this dreary day in February not because I will love mine less but because others will never be able to appreciate her pure, elegant, unadulterated splendor for what it truly is. People will now only be viewing her as another one of the masses when she is anything but. But don't worry Black beauty, you will always be the real OG. xoxo

p.s..The first chair is like mine, the real thing, except the cousin to the black beauty, the white beauty and the last is the big FAT impostor!

Michael J Faux

Yes, I caved. I've been in search of my next obession and found it in a lil store I like to call Tarzshea, although some people know it as Target...... Yes ladies and gentleman, a leather bomber jacket! And though I would like to take cred for this new (old in reality) hot trend, I cannot. I owe it all to the lovely celebutantes. So here is a few pics of the "trend" I am so blindly falling into.........

and here is mine although, hopefully, it looks a lil more hip when I wear it!

Ok, some predictions for the next popular trends:
*big comeback of original doc martens
*black lipstick
*a lot of the grunge scene mixed with 20's elegance