A Victory
When I was 13 and already full of teen angst I was made the “environmental editorialist” of my school newspaper. A totally made up position, of course, and one I can only imagine was made in an attempt to funnel the early angry hippie in me toward a creative outlet. The very first article I [...]
Alien Invasion
I love, love, love to bake. And more than baking? I love, love, love, LOVE to decorate cakes and cupcakes. For each one of my (local) friends’ bdays (or really celebration of any kind) I try to come up with the PERFECT cake and decoration for that person. This weekend I made Aliens for my [...]
I MADE This You Guys!
Hola Amigos! I totally just made this! Two of them actually! I am so stoked about it I had to share it with you! I saw these at Anthropologie for waaaaaaay more dollars than I have to spend on bedside tables (like, seriously, you guys? We are talking a LOT of dollars), and decided to [...]
We’ll Miss You, Indie
This week the world lost, and doggie heaven gained, the best dog that was ever created*. Indigo Sky and my big sis met up when she was 20 and I was 16 and it was instant love. The two of them have lived in bliss together for the past 14 years, and I was fortunate [...]
Words of Wisdom…?
Heellllooooo? Is anyone still out there?If you’ve been reading ol’ Dopes here for any amount of time you may have noticed something: I kinda bailed. Here’s the thing. The REAL thing. This blog used to be all about my experiences as seen through my “silly goggles”. Then about a year and a half ago something [...]
Best Dinner EVER
You guys, like, seriously I made the best freaking dinner of all time last night. Like, it was SO good that I wish I had taken a picture of it and then somehow turned that picture into a scratch and taste sticker that I could carry around with me ALL THE TIME. You wanna know [...]
Dopey the Contractor
This past weekend I tried to prove what an amazing tomboy bada$$ I am by making a closet where there isn’t one in my new house. You see, my new house (yes, a HOUSE, not a ten square foot studio apartment!) has this great back room that I am dying to turn into my workspace. [...]
World of Difference Blog
If ya’ll haven’t checked out the World of Difference blog in a while, it might just be worth a gander I have been puttin’ my little heart and soul into it over there Just click that screen grab up there to take a look.
More About the House
When the BF first asked me to co-habitate I said “in THERE?!?!” referencing his not-quite-frat-house-but-certainly-a-far-cry-from-my-adorable-apartment-house, of course. To this I was assured that I had free reign to do what I must to make the place livable…without making it uber-girlie that is Hence, the home improvement projects I have been posting on here lately.
I MOVED!
I left my beautiful apartment. This is what it looks like empty (super small!). The memory will live on here, though Eascht I am one sleepy bean from all that moving!!! More to come…