My living room is purple

We painted our living room what we thought was gray.

It looks decidedly purple.

Color is tricky (read: RIDICULOUS).

A week with Jeanette =

1. Cooking classes


2. Gourmet desserts baked daily

3. West End shows


4. Curry - a few times


5. Shopping on Oxford Street (not complete without french pastries!)


6. Tailor made business wear. Seriously - who just whips up a dress like this?

Thanks Mum!

nicki gets to have all the fun

today i had to go to the dentist to get my first ever cavities filled.

there were no fun relatives and no horses involved.

so unfair.

Who says you can't surf in Texas?

We went to the beach this weekend with our surfer friends to see their kids compete in a surf competition (Ten Over is their clothing line) . Then we had a go...

Here's TJ:

Here's me:

Am I too old for this?

When I was 5 and my cousin Cindy was 6, we got matching ruffle skirts.

I really loved my ruffle skirt.

This week when I was shopping, I found a ruffle skirt and just couldn't resist...

...but tell the truth -- am I too old to wear a ruffle skirt?

TJ: 1 Raccoons: well....probably more, but still

We haven't been doing very well in our attempts to rid the attic of whatever it is that likes to thump around up there. Its an ongoing problem.

But tonight we had a little victory.

We heard a thump under the house (= something got zapped by TJ's contraption) and TJ ran out to see a racoon hanging about....so he chucked a shoe at it and it dashed under the porch again. We thought it was fighting something under the porch - amazing amounts of growling and thrashing were going on. Then TJ stuck his face under there (yeh, I know) and saw it tangled up in our electric fence. Two minutes later it was free and long gone.

Hopefully its smart enough to remember that little experience and stay far, far away.

Finally

This little beauty took far longer to make than I care to admit. It may also have far more mistakes in it than I care to admit. But its finished! And its on its way to the cutest little Ava ever. Hopefully she'll be nice enough to model it for us once it arrives.