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and the CD goes to...

yay liz!

send me an email [jenniferATjcasahandmadeDOTcom] with your mailing address and i'll pop the CD in the mail for you this week.

and thanks to everyone for entering last week's giveaway!  xoxo

workspace breakfast

what you see:

• steelcut oatmeal* w/a squirt of agave + diced nectarine
• coffee, thank you
• pile of coasters that need finishing for the shop + as little surprise gifts to friends here + there
• pearl + the beard cd (there's still time to enter the giveaway)

what you don't see:

• my little pony on the tv in the next room to the delight of girlys in pjs, slippers, sleeping masks + robes (it's quite a look)
• flailing hands as i try to nab the rassafrassa fruit fly in here
• someone sitting in the living room having some "thinking time"
• bills all over the kitchen counter, a tried and true (albeit annoying) method that forces me to deal with them before lunchtime

a good saturday morning to you!  xoxo

* i do NOT like oatmeal.  i do not like it, sam i am.  (except in cookies.  but not the ones with raisins.)  HOWEVER, at my last physical my cholesterol level was bordering on not-good-at-all, and my doctor brought up oatmeal.  (ok, she also brought up more exercise and breaking up with butter, but let's not talk about that right now.)  a friend recommended these steelcut oats and let me tell you, they have changed my mind about oatmeal.  baby steps.

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update:  someone has finished her thinking time and is back to life.
oh, and i got the fruit fly.

welcome home

a few years ago, the girls + i worked on a special message to greet the hub when he came home from a work trip.  i had my iPhone with me and shot a little movie so that we'd be able to remember that afternoon, as well as the time, love and effort that went into their project.  turns out it had been a good thing i filmed it, because he got home after dark and if memory serves, it may have rained, too.

i have kept this little video on my iPhone for almost 2 years, and it gets me every time.  the clicking of the chalk, the ringing of the bicycle bell, the whirr of the training wheels on the drive, and that husky voice.  love.

note to self : movies are good.  make more movies.  xoxo