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greetings!! sorry for the sparse posts as of late. january was a breather for me, but feb 1 people woke up and decided they wanted to throw PARTIES! it’s been nonstop, which is awesome, just doesn’t leave all that much time to pop in here. ok, so what is UP with these frigid temps still? i am dying for spring to get here and take off its proverbial coat. i have been doing lots of cheerful, springy invitations and they do brighten the days…like this sweet baptism invite.
also brightening up things around here… my white sofa! now, i know some of you will think i’m totally crazy (if you don’t already for other reasons) for buying a white sofa with two little ones. i know. i get it. but it is SO easy on the eyes, i can’t stand it. we keep a coverlet over it probably 95% of the time to keep sticky little fingers and dirty little feet from making contact, but when it shines in all its glory… it’s wonderful. i’m getting to the point where i don’t care as much about keeping it pristine (i mean, i can wash every piece of it if i need to – i just have other things i’d rather be doing) so i think the coverlet might be seen less and less.
p.s. all of the pillows are caitlin wilson textiles – a fellow stay at home working mama to two – and there was a great feature on her yesterday on the everygirl!
thanks so much to everyone who shopped the tag sale!! i’ve had a great time packing up all of the orders and shipping out the little parcels this week. hope you all love your goodies!!
damnit. i was just wondering where my flirty kate spade ring went and then i saw something shiny in the air return vent (along with some other questionable items). rush: 2, mama & dada: 0.
we went to the children’s museum sort of last minute last thursday. i realized the night before we didn’t have a playdate or other activity scheduled, and it was going to be freezing cold again, and i could not bear another day all cooped up. so off to the children’s museum we went! rush always camps out at the train tables (they are really something) and rinne flits from activity to activity, so i follow her around the whole time while keeping an eye on rush. she was all over the place that day, but mostly interested in the grocery section – they have a produce market, a scale, a pantry looking thing and lots of tiny grocery carts. there was another mom following her little girl around the same section, who looked to be about the same age as rinne, maybe a little older. she was wearing light colored jeans, furry boots, an urban outfitters-looking hoodie and had her super blonde (er….white?) hair tucked into a big knit cap. i passed her a few times and thought, do i know her? she looks kinda familiar. then i noticed her husband was walking around with them too, and he was covered in tattoos from head to toe. and then it all came together – THAT IS PINK. AND COREY HART. AND BABY WILLOW. right as these synapses went off in my brain, rinne was steering her grocery cart directly to willow’s side. rinne happened to choose a cart that was filled to the brim with “groceries,” to the point that they were spilling off the side. right then, pink looked at rinne and her cart and said, “oh wow – now she’s got some groceries! willow, don’t you want to put some in your cart like her?” i was standing there dumbfounded thinking: PINK JUST MADE REFERENCE TO MY DAUGHTER. {when i told rbb this story, he thinks i should have responded with: ”oh yeah. she’s ready to GET THIS PARTY STARTED.” omg.} i said something lame like “oh yes, she has been busy shopping…” the two girls kept circling each other with their carts and we all stood there watching the kids. rinne eventually abandoned hers and started to crawl around. willow brought her a bottle of syrup that she may have accidentally left behind, and sweetly handed it to her. i told willow thank you for rinne and remarked what a good sharer she was to pink and corey. he asked me how old she was, i said almost a year and a half, how old is yours, he said almost 2, in a couple of months. a few more crawls and interactions and then rinne decided she had had enough of that, and our playdate ended. i will say, they seemed like totally normal parents – no security, no nannies, just a mom and a dad hanging out with their kid at the children’s museum. she played a show in atlanta the next night, which is why she was here.
of course i don’t have a photo of the real deal, i mean HOW uncool would that have been. of all of the famous people to not piss off, pink is top ten. but just to give you an idea of the scene, here is rinne moments before she started hobnobbing.
the only other famous person i’ve kind of “bumped into” like that has been eve the rapper. remember her? she had those cat paw tattoos on her décolleté? i tried on dresses in a boutique in laguna beach in the dressing room next to her back in probably 2004. eve the rapper and pink…what does that say about me?
lastly, NOT that people on ‘the bachelor’ are famous (even though some of them think they are), it was called to my attention last week that lesley from sean’s season went to UGA, and was in my same sorority. this is quite the coincidence because rbb and i do not miss an episode of the bach (he’ll hate that i blew his cover, but it is some seriously entertaining television people). this whole season, i called lesley “my girl.” ”i love my girl’s outfit” or “oh, my girl’s going home, that’s a shame” and so forth. kind of funny she knows about the “hidden treasure” courtyard at the athens, georgia XO house too.
but here’s the real news – i am now nearly 11 years out of college. i think lesley is 25ish, so let’s say there are 8 years between us. no one i know knew this connection, and i am friends with plenty of girls that were in younger pledge classes than me. for some reason, that makes me feel SO OLD. like i was in college a million years ago and have no idea what the kids are up to these days. GAH. between that and the fact that i am unnaturally excited to replant our front yard’s groundcover in a few weeks, i feel about a hundred. i think the only thing i can hope for is that someone at the playground mistakes me for those kids’ nanny.
gotta run – did i tell you i’m opening up a sister shop on etsy full of crocheted items?
(j/k) 
xoxo
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LOVE that envelope liner and pillow textiles!
thanks melissa!! lots of color makes for great things, imo
Way to play it cool in front of Pink. Love that you ran into her at the Children’s Museum, because I heard she was also at the Clairmont Lounge while in town. What if you ran into her at both?
now THAT would have been awesome.