hello, Monday.

Hit the Road Jack by MAKOTO from Achim Lippoth on Vimeo.

Sometimes you need to see a small child playing the ukulele (right?) on a Monday morning.  (Do you think this is real?)

today, i'm thinking:

*You know those pictures of yourself that just seem so foreign?  This is one of those.  That's me?  2006: just after I had Cole and decided to cut my hair short (again).  A friend just emailed it over..

*I'm suddenly really excited about gardening.  I went to a little class on Thursday and then came home and spent hours on Sunset.  (What to plant; how to plant; when to plant all for where I specifically live.  It's a brilliant resource!)  Our Saturday was buying and preparing our garden plot and today, I researched our veggie and fruit plans.  (I have notes.)  It's thrilling.

*I just ate half of one of those small, seedless watermelons and still need more Sunday snack.  p.s.  I want to grow some.  See above.

*Oh, just created a formspring account.  (←).  I really like questions/answers and figured this is my fun, friendly piece of internet.  Let's try.

which fabric for our lamp shade: yellow circles or ring my bell?

*These are all the pieces of Cole's four-year-old room.  Some en route and some just waiting to fit in.  It's all coming together.

*Do you do long Sunday walks?  I still smell musty from ours.  

*I cannot stop listening to Brett Dennen. 

*What do you eat when you're craving chocolate?

*My Karen Barbe pillow cover and nice little note came yesterday.  Now, I love her.  

Hope you had a great weekend too!

inspired: raindrops

seen: raindrop wall stickers, $20

violet: turns out, raindrops aren't so dreary at all.

Proof-  I just spent my last 30 minutes before bed on this interactive raindrop music maker.  It is so happy.

[via Violet blog]

cheerful

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inspired:

you are my sunshine

seen: Elizabeth Mitchell's You Are My Sunshine

Elizabeth Mitchell (sold at Land of Nod): This is one of my very favorite baby gifts I got 9 months ago, the week Finn was born.  We dance to it, we crank up the volume when I'm cooking dinner, the kids fall asleep to it at night and I still don't tire of it.  This indie pop singer does children's folk ("tunes pulled from the songbooks of the Carter Family, Leadbelly and Woody Gunthrie")  in a hip kind of way.

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