So you remember last week I scored the lovely Orimono lampshade from Anthro on super sale? Well Antz brought home a lamp for my crafting desk. He sprayed a few coats of white spray paint and…
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Happy May Day!!
So after throwing my hands up trying to upload photos to make our Shutterfly photobook we ran a bunch of errands. Stop one was CVS to print out some pictures for Liz’s bebe book. They don’t sell Sunday papers so we went to a local grocery store and I scored my coupons!! Nearly everything on my Target list now has a coupon so I am super happy. Next we grabbed pizza from our favorite place in Silverlake. We stopped by an Open House at a new store called Atwater Village Farm. They were giving out yummy samples and I signed up for events. We had to hurry over downtown since everything closes early on Sunday and at first I was worried all the fabric district was closed but we found a ton places that were still open. At first I was discouraged because I wanted to buy less than a yard since I won’t need that much material for the wings but every place said I had to buy a minimum of 1 yard and most of the fabric was $4.99 per yard. I wanted at least 12 different colors like the photos
These are some more of my Favorite Things
Whew, I finally got through most of the Royal wedding coverage. I was thinking of how ugly the enclosure we bought to contain Livzilla whilst I do chores, take a quick shower and even happily play in when I’m blogging, like she is doing right now. So I was looking for a remedy from this gray eyesore when I stumbled upon this
Spring has Sprung!
Los Angeles has finally gotten the memo that it’s springtime. Most of March was cold and rainy but this week Mr Sunshine popped his head out and the skies are bright and blue. Our garden has even turned gorgeous *in spite of our total lack of care*
This lovely weather isn’t going to last long, we have a bunch of stuff to do and places to go!
the awesome park in San Gabriel
beach day
hiking
FIDM Motion Picture Costume Exhibit
Peekaboo in Eagle Rock
Sign Liv up for swimming lessons
Buy this guy and go for a family bike ride on the Strand
Get busy on our raised organic veggie garden *lemon cucumber…sounds delish!*
host the next dog party *in loving memory of Maxwell*
check out Reform School *see if they have any sewing classes*
and playdates galore
Did I mention that Liv is on a solid food hunger strike? She has decided that puffs will be her only food of choice in between her demand for boob. She actually slaps the spoon out of my hand. Maybe it’s payback for getting her a cage…errr, I mean gated enclosure.
My favorite hobby
Did you guess correctly?? Shopping, of course!!
Yesterday I didn’t get to all the places on my list but I did make it to Anthropologie in Pasadena. I am beginning to not like that one, they never, ever have what I’m looking for in stock. The Beverly Hills store would have had what I wanted, we’ll go on Sunday.
Tin Roof Switchplates
Yesterday I started off buying 12 tickets at Arclight so all my friends can sit together for Sucker Punch. Since I was up early I decided to run some errands. I had to return the shower curtain liner at Bed, Bath & Beyond since the one we bought was too narrow. I picked up a new toilet seat and I found this bird hook for the bathroom door.
Design Star
Well, maybe not but my dearest thinks I could design for the stars. Last night we didn’t even get started until after 9pm because Antz has been working late all week *I’ll explain later* so the poor thing has had no rest all week. I painted the trim but I was so tired I didn’t do that great of a job. Antz patched up the gray paint and installed the toilet *imagine the sky looking celestial with sun beaming down over our toilet* I never was so happy to have a lousy toilet! I went to bed with a smile on my face but Antz stayed up until 3am installing the vanity and building the storage cabinet. When I first saw the room put together, I was overall pleased but the new sink looked tiny but now that I’ve lived with it for a few hours, it makes the room look bigger. The knobs are my favorite part of the room.
Antz just made this lovely Before & After
SUPER Lizzie!!
Who knew I had brains, beauty and brawn??
Yesterday I had the most blissful hour at Gilli’s and now I’m hooked so I’ll be getting treatments every Monday. I missed my lovely Gilli, she’s always comforting and destresses me. She gave me some gnarley news…she knows someone who works in kids casting so she’sgoing to hook me up with her to get Liv into the Biz!!! Super fantastic, I need to make some heatshots for her *this is me turning into a stage Mom, stop me before I enter her into a pageant*
Toddlers & Tiaras: David Perez by TheDlisted
So after a quick lunch at my Mommy in laws house, Liv and I hung out until Antz came home, then it was back to work. Sadly the morning laundry fiasco was worst than we thought, the water made the entire left side of the tile adhesive *butter* soft, so we just painted the wall where the sink and the toilet are going and we had to wait until the morning for the floor to dry. I hate waiting…we still have no toilet, folks!!!
I think pray we’ll be done by Friday which is perfect because Evelyn & Dion will bebesit for us while we meet our friends to see Sucker Punch. I haven’t been to the movies since Black Swan in January. Before I go, I wanna let everyone know we have been super busy with this renovation but next week Liv’s weekly pics will be posted…Ooopsies!
I also want to profess my adoration for these MEGA CUTE boots.
I’ve been looking at the Lucchese website for these colors but no luck. The prices vary between $900 and $3000 *yep, that was my jaw that just dropped* no wonder the woman in this magazine called them her “investment”.
Poor Antzy came home from a busy day of work to paint.
He did an excellent job but I think I’ll have to paint a second coat tomorrow morning. He’s going to finish the trim tomorrow evening so we’ll finally have a toilet again, Huzzah!!
Today is your Birthday!!!
I know, you may think I was relaxing, maybe getting pampered with a mani/pedi sipping lemon water or maybe out shopping for a nifty *you heard right, I’m bringing back 50’s slang* shiny, new sewing machine. Well I in fact spent my 34th hunched over on my knees “buttering” our floor tile. The fates thought it would be awesome to have the coldest, wettest and windiest storm in the history of Los Angeles. My birthday also welcomes the first day of spring but I am wishing we don’t have an entire rainy spring season.
Boo Double Laminate Whammy!!
Poor husband, trapped in another one of my schemes!
Busy Weekend
While we were saying our goodnights, Carlos and Steph took me aside and asked me if I was shy...ummm hello?!! No way I say not understanding why they asked but they told me they would like me to officiate their wedding. FUCK, FUCKITY!!! I was screaming and crying. I felt so honored to be such an integral part of their day. I’m thinking of a million things I need to do now. Get ordained online, write my ceremony *I can’t wait to ask if anyone objects to this wedding part*. Most importantly, I have 6 months to lose some poundage because I’ll be pissed if I bring my double chins to their wedding photos! I had this dress in mind as a guest love the flower applique
but now I need something more errr, official I suppose. Ignoring Antz recommendation for me to wear a robe and Aimee told me to dress like the Pope. Hardy har, har! I will most likely coordinate with the wedding party colors *which I need to find out* yet I need to be conservative, I’m a good Catholic girl! *wink*
So we picked up our angel and got home at 2am *which was really 3 due to daylight savings time*. We still managed to wake up around 10am and drag our asses over to the Rose Bowl flea market. I was hoping to find vintage brooches, nerdy eyeglasses, cute shabby chic accessories and old-timey letters.
We only stayed for an hour and a half. We went to Anthropologie in Beverly Hills after but I’m sorry to say I am much to tired to post about it tonight *well, it’s after midnight* We had was a FABulous time and I bought some lovely things but I need my beauty rest so I’ll upload the pics in the morning.
Nights!!
When Life gives you lemons….
You get lemon in your eye!!! The on-going barf-room saga continues…Sigh, here’s the bitter, Malcolm phoned in the estimate…okay I guess he’s drinking Tigerblood. This guy wants ten G’s to make water come from a fuckin’ pipe! *SIGH* Bloody fuckin’ extortion, *yep, I throwing F bombs everyone’s way today* the cruddy part is he is reasonable, and he’s honest, Boo! This includes complete copper piping, new water heater, replacing the tub, demo-ing the showerwall, so he can work on the pipes while we simultaneously retile the wall and he has to add clean out and shut off valves, boring junk.
Instead of racking up new credit card debt, I’ll be patient and we’ll save for a year. *mumble, grumble, bitch, bitch* So the major work is now on hiatus until next March. And now for the sweet, we will rock out a mini loo makeover.
We will tile the floor, paint, new sink/vanity *we are getting the dark espresso vanity* new Anthro knobbies
This morning Liv had her 9 month pediatrician appt. She has lost 2 oz. but Dr. Wang said that is normal with breastfed babies, they tend to be on the skinny side *talk about jealous!!*
Dr Wang did green light us for chicken, turkey, lean beef, yogurt, cottage cheese and string cheese. I went to Whole Foods after the appt. and spent 20 minutes reading the sodium content on the thousands of different yogurts Whole sells. I ended up with Fage *that’s Fa-hey* plain no-fat Greek yogurt. I couldn’t bring myself to buying cottage cheese for Liv *major YUCK!!* I looked at the organic meats but I think I’ll do better at the farmers market but I did buy these guys.
Tomorrow is Aimee date day. We are going to Nordstrom to pick up my boots and Target, duh! Lord, give me strength to not spend $89 on this duvet set I have been lusting after for months now…















































































