the dream life

Daily bookmarks

• The Happiness Project: Do you hoard your new underwear?

  by spending out, I mean to stop hoarding, to trust in abundance.

  tags: happiness

Daily bookmarks

• Celebrities, companies bank on her intuition - CNN.com

  She refuses to think of herself as special. We all have the power of intuition, she says, some of us just know how to use it better.

  (but what's wrong with wheatgrass and talking to dead people?)

  tags: intuition

• Commentary: Don't sanitize Helms' racist past - CNN.com

  tags: no_tag

Daily bookmarks

• What You Should & Shouldn't Buy Organic

  tags: food, organic, naturalliving

• Unusual Kentucky

  tags: local, blogs

• Unusual Kentucky: Bybee Pottery

  tags: local, pottery

• Chocolate-chip cookies inspire singer's tour - CNN.com

  Hopefully they come to have a good time because I don't think that I represent a bad time

  tags: music

Bon voyage and little mugs

Last night, my brother and sister-in-law and nieces threw a bon voyage party for my mom, who is on her way to England (the homeland of her soul.) Ava presented my mom with a really cool sign  

and we all sat around and ate delicious pie and drank coffee.

Tracy and I received our coffee (yes, we just sat around in a giant soft chair while Ava and Chloe brought us things) in the most fabulous mugs. The mugs were a gift from Chloe's sister-in-law, and I just fell in love with their charms.

 

After doing some quick research, I believe them to be the children's mugs from Bybee Pottery.

I would imagine there are few people who grew up in the exact region where I grew up who don't own at least one piece of Bybee.

We went there on school trips and Sunday drives. It's just one of those Kentucky places that you honor. 

I'm not spending much money these days, but I feel I must acquire a set of these mugs, not only for those small coffee moments, but also for when the girls come over for dinner or snacks.

Daily bookmarks

• News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | TOP STORIES | Local woman sells soul on eBay

  You can get anything on eBay.

  tags: no_tag

• Sale of 1 house will help 30 villages - CNN.com

  tags: inspiration

• Most requested recipes from April tea party « Flavors of Kentucky

  tags: recipes

Polyvore

I found a new toy. It's going to help me waste hours and hours!

Daily bookmarks

• Lexington lives its independence - Tom Eblen - Kentucky.com

  Joe, Denise and Ed are friends of ours and this is just the coolest party filled with the coolest people. And I mean cool in a good way.

  tags: lexington

• Voodoo Doughnut - The Magic is in the Hole!!!

  tags: travel, donuts, portland

Happy Fourth of July

This morning I thought we might get rained out of Fourth of July festivities, which was actually okay with me since there's no end to the things I want to do around the house, but I was glad when the rain let up in time for us to walk downtown and watch the parade.

 

It was the first Fourth of July in a long time that was not boiling hot, and because of that, the overcast skies didn't bother me a bit.

We made it back home just in time to walk Woody around the block then head out to my parents' house with cupcakes in hand.  

The girls swam, even in the rain, and we all agreed that it was a fine Independence Day. There was even a rainbow.

It's not over. The fireworks are going off as I type this, but we just couldn't make it to see them this year. We're watching tv shows about food instead while the little pug dreams of bagpipes. 

Daily bookmarks

• Growing Barrels Of Potatoes

  tags: gardening

Daily bookmarks

• Exhibit aims to shatter US stereotypes of Islam - Yahoo! News

  tags: art, women