Missoni for Target

At this point it's probably old news... no, it is old news. Missoni (an Italian fashion designer known for their funky knits/prints) collaborated with Target to create a line that's affordable to likes of you and I who are not Rachel Zoe.

The line featured everything from clothing to bicycles and on it's debut day sold of of Target stores and their online site in mere hours.  By some miracle I was able to snag some items online during moments where the Target website let me through.

I snagged the below sweater which just arrived at my house last night along with an XS bikini bottom, S bikini top and a silk scarf. I am still missing the other sizes in the bikini since I ordered each piece in two sizes and a silk scarf.

The sweater is pretty lightweight since up close it's a crochet kind of knit. It's absolutely my style being that it's black. The only thing that I find off is the sleeves seem a tad on the long side but nothing I cannot live with. I mean seriously it's MISSONI that I could not otherwise afford without thinking I'd miss the month's mortgage payment.

This scarf I am still waiting for...

 

This one I have and love, it's looks way more vibrant in person than in the picture. 

Oh ... hello there...

Wow, this has been the longest I have gone between blog posts! I have no idea where the time has gone, well maybe I do.

I've been quite busy with...

• Work - yup, it's still kicking my ass
• Being a first time Matron of Honor to my sis-in-law (which comes with many responsibilities)
• Friends having babies
• Work - that again

We've already closed the pool for the year (so sad) and I am gearing up for fall and winter albeit unwillingly.

I threw my sis-in-law's bridal shower back in August (almost a whole month ago!) and here's a few snaps of my crafting...

A favorite treat of hers, Special K bars, cut into heart shapes for favors

Striped paper straws with flags and cute wedding sayings

Body wash and poofs as favors... get it? because it's a bridal shower...

Happy Mother's Day

To all the mothers out there, but most of all to my mom. 

 

Thank you for teaching me so much (especially how to balance my checkbook). And stop blaming yourself for my shopping habit... it's my own fault too. 

I love you.

What was I thinking when I decided to switch to decaf?

I love coffee. I love coffee as much as I love my husband or is it that I love my husband as much as I love my coffee? Coffee did come before the husband...

Anyways, there was always a debate in our house over if I needed the caffeine or really (as I always said) loved the taste of coffee. I could drink [caffeinated] coffee before going to bed and sleep like a baby. So we decided to put it to the test and it turns out, I just like the taste of coffee.

Since we have a Keurig coffee machine and I was buying the caffeinated K-cups I had to go decaf. My favorite K-cup is Coffee People Donut Shop and they make a decaf. This where the fun stops, for some reason Amazon didn't have it (I know! Amazon has everything!). I had seen a ton of it around the holidays at Bed Bath and Beyond but when I went no dice. Then I scoured the internet and found it online at Walmart for a great price. Fast forward to today, when I realized I have less than 8 K-cups left I couldn't find them anywhere for a decent price, that is until I went to Keurig.com

In other K-cup related news... Dunkin Donuts will be selling their coffee in K-cup form this summer!

Baby, It's (Still) Cold Outside

We had one gorgeous 70 degree day back on March 18 and since then it's been nothing been snow and cold. That groundhog is pure evil because he is obviously a liar because I still have to pull on my Ugg boots in the wee hours of the mornings to go to work.

I figured I'd combat the it's-still-too-cold blues by thinking and buying for spring and summer (that is IF they ever come). Some of my purchases this past week...

Both from Ideeli...

EIGHTY SIX Boho Tube Dress $45

VINTAGE HAVANA Pucker Tie Waist Dress $25

I (officially) Hate Winter

This has been the winter from H-E-L-L. We have gotten quite a lot of snow and it just keeps piling on top of itself, the small accumulations have been easy but it seems it snows every other week or so. I've had to reschedule a doctor's appointment twice on the account of inclement weather. Here's a summary of the significant weather.

Our first snow storm hit right after Christmas, leaving us with about a foot of snow and my working from home at least one day.

We got another big storm late in January, again working from home. This time the snow was heavy and we (really Nick) had to shake the snow off our big tree in the front and our evergreens in the back.

Today (or rather since yesterday evening) we got an ice storm / freezing rain - whatever you want to call it. Our big tree is weighted down as are the evergreens but this time with a nice layer of ice. Here's a close-up of the big tree encapsulated in ice.

Along without our mailbox. Good luck opening it USPS.

Fabulous Find

Found two of this amazing lamp (the other one is on the floor because I only have one night stand right now) at Marshalls back in December for $29 a piece! They were on clearance and they work, the reason for the mark down? The missing finial to keep the shade on. (Just noticed that I should take the tags off, the plastic and straighten out the lampshade a bit).

Now I know why the lamps were on clearance cause lamp finials that match, are turning into a bit of a pain to locate. I think I found a pair on the internet, now just have to suck it up and buy them.

Here's a picture of how it looks next to the bed. I would've taken a better picture of the room but it's a bit messing since some of the room has become Nick's "staging area" for the attic work he's been doing.

Hard Disk Not Exist

In English that means the hard drive is not detected and therefore D-E-A-D. Dead on New Year's Day.

The useless laptop is sitting in my desk waiting for the box from HP so I can send it in for repair and an attempt to recover the data from the hard drive. The laptop was last backed up in May which isn't good enough but better than nothing. (so HP, if you read this blog and somehow I don't think you do, I am good if you can hook me up with my data for the last 7 months - thanks.)

By mid January I should be up and running again...

Nick's Pride and Joy

It seems like Nick has been working on the electric and insulation for an eternity. There is still the basement outlets and the lights to the EIK, dining room and foyer.

The hub for all the electricity is the breaker panel. He has done a meticulous job organizing the box and I even know which breaker to flip if needed.