les messieurs

*

i am a pinteraddict (real word). last night i decided to pop on & quickly check for organization tips. a real need to find ways to organize papers led to a possibly less real need to find ways to make the ordinary more fabulous. 

eleventy billion hours later & i was digging out the fancy paper tape that my darlingest tinker bought for me in seattle this summer. i hadn't the time to sit down & craft, but i had, had, had to give this a go.

how utterly fabulous is this ordinary binder clip now?! (please ignore the rumpled up end of the tape. this was quickly done.)

i am thinking that a certain elfling will be going to bed early tonight, so his mama can spend some quality time with messieurs tape & clips!

~peace.

we built this city...

*

our first outing in washington was, of course, to the famous pike place. we did not brave the absurdly long queue at the original starbucks, but i can now say that i have at least been there.

when next we ventured into town we took the underground tour of seattle. i definitely recommend this. warning: no strollers. i snapped many photos, but it was quite dim below ground.

where it was not dim:

downtown seattle has some pretty buildings.

this photo i took upon arriving home. we detoured through hollywood, so i could play tourist with my camera. this building is the highland towers apartments, smack in the middle of hollywood. little bit of belfrytrivia: in our pre-parents days we nearly lived there. just before signing, we opted for a cute little duplex elsewhere instead.

~peace.

les fleurs

*

we had a wonderful time seeing new places, & old loved ones. between manlyman, thehobbit, & myself we took about eleventy billion photos. in looking back through my photos i see that i was drawn (loved ones aside) to flowers & buildings. here is a sampling of les fleurs:

1-6 were taken in seattle & snohomish, washington. (yes, i know one of those is a salmonberry, not a flower. shhh.)

7-12 were taken in eugene, oregon. (i was happy to see that my mother's pink roses were being cared for.)

13 was taken somewhere in central california.

i miss the people & places already, but it is wonderful to be back at home.

~peace.