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i actually finished this sweater a while ago, i just uploaded the pictures so i could get my ravelry profile up to date. all sorts of knits!
unglaubliche caitlin
"i'm not a invisible. i'm sort of just hidden. like a chameleon, but without the taste for insects." - elizabeth crane, when the messenger is hot
"why was fabulousness important? the world was a scary, sad place and adornment was one of the only ways she knew to make herself and the people around her forget their troubles." - francesca lia block, necklace of kisses
10.1.12
seedum
poinsettias
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it's that time in the flowershop! I worked a weekend with ch and it was so nice. i miss floral work, even though i love my job!
19.12.11
Boston!
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Lisa and i spent a day in boston and it was really nice. this was the view from our hotel and i thought it was very bostonian. I was glad we had done all the touristy stuff when we were there with mom, and we didn't feel like we had to do paul revere anything. we walked a lot through boston commons and had fancy breakfast in Beacon Hill. we ate dinner at an awesome afghan restaurant in cambridge and went to the JFK library. it was fun!
thanksgiving
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We were Mass. at allie's house for thanksgving, a very thanksgiving-y state. didn't allie do a nice job with the table? note the gold chargers and grandma's fiestaware gravy boat. clockwise from center: cranberries with orange and walnuts, 24 hour salad, roasted brussels sprouts with hazelnuts and pomegranates, gingered carrots with rosemary, stuffing, aunt deann's cheesy corn cassarole, and berks county potato filling. not pictured: salted carmel pie, chocolate merangue pie, and pumpkin pie of course!
New Haircut
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Tsetso said i needed a new haircut, so i had him give me one before i saw the family for thanksgiving. The front is mostly the same, but the back is really shaped and nice again. it was so shaggy.
Song to a seagull purse
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Look what allie gave me for christmas! Isn't it awesome? it's made from joni mitchell's song to a seagull album. the cover is on this side and the record itself is on the the other. it's SOOOO COOL.
Rico, fetch!
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I know that my facebook friends have seen lots of rico videos, but does my blog even know we have a dog now? here's Rico, doing a very short fetch with a very small tennis ball.
Harbor master multiplayer
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We spent a lot of thanksgiving playing iPhone games. allie's fiance john is by far the best. but what was I supposed to do with so many boats on my screen?
20.11.11
cupcake toppers
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i don't think i my sister checks out my blog so i can post these here. they're cupcake toppers for her engagement party! they are going to have cute engagement photos of them in the middle! take that from the crafty maid of honor!
what our book stacks say about us
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apparently we are going to turkey, trying to learn turkish, and now have a dog. and are not really committed to being a bridesmaid?
METRA!
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lisa and i were out in wicker park friday night which is so impossible to get to. but she suggested the metra and it was so convenient! i was so pleased. plus the metra is awesome and i miss it, since i don't work downtown anymore.
rico and i
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I don't think blog readers realize we have a cute dog now! here's me and rico, looking fuzzy and brown
tiling
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i wanna learn how to tile! but i want to make sure i don't permanently fuck up our bathroom or kitchen first. so i'm doing flowerpots for now. it's fun!
painted leaves
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hi blog! sorry i disappeared. it was so overwhelming being so far behind. i'll just start up again now and see how it goes. do you really wanna see pictures from the past 3 months? i mean leave me comments if you really feel like you're missing something and i'll post stuff. but i think it's better to just jump in where we are, right?
8.8.11
grandpa's garden
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he's been downgraded. grandma can't keep up with the garden anymore so grandpa has taken it over. he takes it Very. Seriously.
the farm
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it's so big! my grandparents have a whole iowa co-op's worth of stuff down there.
grandma's clematis
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i think i've successfully killed mine. ch and i were just talking about clematis.
white fences
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i was going to say it's exactly the same as it's always been. but there's a tree and some bins missing.
still. so little changes there.
smurfs on the farm
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i have so many traveling photos to upload. these are from the farm for the 4th of july. cousins.
27.7.11
Baggage handler
Why is our flight departing half an hour late? Because everyone checked a million suitcases and all the babies have strollers. The entire conveyor belt is strollers.
Blue line Cumberland
waiting for the blue line on the way to the airport. Coming from work had me going places I've never been before.
24.7.11
time to play match the arrangement again!
and my slightly brighter version:
then there was the guy who's girlfriend didn't like flowers. he saw this on our website:
and i told him i only had a different variety of purple orchids, but i'd make something with a similar anti-"flower" feel.
i was getting bored with our standard flowers, so i asked the wholesaler to send me some interesting things, and i got eremerus as tall as i am:
and finally, here are the arrangements for the party on the 99th floor. i made 17 of them, and our contact said they looked just like the picture charles sent her!
oh, and there is one more flower photo, but not from the flowershop- there are all these beautiful wildflowers (weeds?) growing on my walk to work. they are so nice, and it's a glimpse of what the midwest is like without chicago and farmland and suburbs. without all that PA is forest and that's how i grew up and what i like. but if this is what prairie is like, well the that is quite nice too.
23.7.11
strawberry pineapple smoothie and sprouted lentils with blueberries
strawberry pineapple smoothie and sprouted lentils with blueberries, a photo by unglaubliche caitlin on Flickr.
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blueberries + sprouted lentils even better than apples!
blueberry strawberry smoothie and sprouted lentils with apples
blueberry strawberry smoothie and sprouted lentils with apples, a photo by unglaubliche caitlin on Flickr.
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sprouted lentils make a great breakfast. i love them, except they are a pain to wait for.
dehydrating bacon-wrapped asparagus
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the raw food bacon recipe is one of the best things we discovered on raw foods week. it's right up there with the chocolate mousse and the cashew balls with lime and coconut,
brazil nut bowl with sprouts
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my pumpkin seeds didn't sprout so i had to buy alfalfa ones instead.
chocolate mousse with strawberries
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sooooooooo much better than the sum of its parts. a magical dessert.