Yes, I have returned for the time being. Our little guy will be arriving on February 21st so I dont for a moment think that this return is permanent, but here I am. We havent had a reliable computer ...
When Minted contacted me to review Valentines Day cards, I declined as I still havent sent out the lovely Christmas cards they supplied me with (hi, I am the queen of late cards), but I recalled my s...
It seems it was fate that minted.com contacted me to do a review of their new holiday cards collection. They must have known that I was thinking about holiday cards... and how Im a procrastinator and...
I am coming out of preggo hibernation to say hi and share our baby news. We are having a boy! What?! What do I do with a boy?? I dont have any brothers or close guy cousins so boy things are a foreig...
Well friends, you may be thinking I have been abducted or that I have some bizarre form of amnesia where I forget I have a blog every once and a while. But no- I know my blog life is just sitting her...
This last weekend our little family headed to Clear Lake with my parents and my sisters family. I will have photos and stories at some point, but for now, I am here to share my Lake County loot. On S...
On Friday the babe and I set out with my 37 weeks pregnant sister-in-law to hit up some thrift stores in her city. Okay, money wasnt really falling from the sky, but remember last week when I talked ...
Our scary shed.My amazing man made tempura!Spotted on the way out of the park. Awesome.A peek at todays activity. She loved it.I hope you had a wonderful almost summer weekend. Praise the Lord, it wa...
My to do list for this weekend is as follows:1.) Finish cleaning out and organizing the shed!2.) Convince hubby to prep one of our many pieces of furniture that need to be painted....aaaaand that is ...
While my sister was here a couple weeks ago, we hit up a couple of thrift stores and I came away with all of these treasures. Hubby sarcastically calls them treasures because sometimes they arent thi...
1.) Spend all of your free time on Pinterest.2.) Spy a photo of delectable chocolate covered banana bites. Repin it.3.) Decide that you dont need to actually go to the tutorial because youve got brai...
Today my hair went from this:To this:Ah! Welcome back, pixie. My head is officially ready for summer.
Happy Monday! I hope you had a glorious June weekend. I am excited about this week because I am getting my hair chopped back into a pixie cut tomorrow. (It has grown out past my shoulders and I cant ...
scalloped shorts!lace cut-offs!Its Friday! What are your plans for this weekend? Some of the kids hubby and I worked with in jr. high graduated from high school this week (ah! we are old!) and are ha...
I am in loooove with Anthropologies most recent catalogue. The outfits are to die for. These are my three favorites. How amazing is that ombre maxi skirt? And I am tempted to save my pennies to buy t...
I cannot believe its June already. Ridiculous. Its especially ridiculous that it is raining around my parts this week. It feels more like February than June. I just want to bust out the sandals and s...
-------------------------The other place I have been hiding in my blog absence is Pinterest. It is my favorite bookmarking tool ever. I know most of you have heard of it already but for those of you ...
Cake ball leftovers!First time at the beach.Love cloud from hubby.One way to celebrate the royal wedding.Snuggle buddy made out of hubbys old favorite shirt. Based on this DIY.She loves him.Nap break...
Here it is, in all its crafted and vintage glory. My goal was to have Adelaides nursery "finished" (is decorating ever finished?) by Ohdeedohs Smaller Cooler contest and I did. I still plan t...
AWKWARD: -Lil’ A constantly getting into the cabinet in the bathroom that houses all of my feminine products. She spreads them everywhere and often interrupts my shower by flinging the shower curtain...
There are two reasons you should visit Erin Loechner at Design For Mankind right now:1.) Shes awesome and has a great eye for design.2.) She, along with Merida Home, is giving away an IPAD 2! Uh-huh....
It reads:Adelaide Meriwether is turning 1. As we want the party to reflect her interests,we decided to ask her what she would like the theme to be. She chose her two favorite things:#1 was inappropri...
a Monday thought for you.Hi there! Remember me? Yeeeeah. Its been almost a month since Ive posted- a busy bee month. I was in full-on prep mode for Lil As 1st birthday party till April 30th, then I w...
Lately I have been crafting and decorating and thrifting and getting ready for As 1st birthday party. I seriously cannot believe she is turning 1. Insane. I have been loving actually accomplishing th...
Im not a big orange lover- the fruit or the color. But these outfits are changing my mind. Who knew orange could be so chic? And who knew I would ever be wishing for an orange maxi skirt?1- via Apart...
AWKWARD:-Right now I am wearing yellow sweatpants and a college sweatshirt with fresh out of a bun crazy kinked hair while eating Chinese food with chopsticks and typing. It is H-O-T. Ha! -Being so e...
If you have been around Crooked Shmooked since the beginning then you know that this blog was started as an attempt to follow what was supposed to be a quick remodel. It turned into over a year of th...
Happy Monday, ladies and gents! I disappeared off the face of the blogosphere for a bit there because my dear wittle baby sister and niece were in town for a week. Shes not really that wittle. Shes 3...
Before Christmas I bought some chevron and striped linen Anthropologie curtains for the master bedroom and have been stumped by how to decorate around them ever since. I started to fear that I had ru...
AWKWARD:-My hair. My bangs need to be trimmed and I am attempting to grow my hair out but it is an odd length right now and lives up in a bun.-Having bean burritos for dinner. And the resulting stoma...
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