Sticker Love

I have referenced my love for stickers numerous times but it bears repeating.  I love stickers!  I am like a five-year-old girl when it comes to stickers.  I want them all!  I'm sure that like most small children I enjoyed stickers but I didn't get really into them until middle school.  I do however recall that as a little girl my mom bought me the Aristocats sticker book.  Do you remember those?  They sold them at the grocery store and they were usually related to a movie.  Then the stickers with scenes from the movie were sold in packs and you tried to eventually get all of the scenes.  Anyways, I was so into the Aristocats (which is an amazing and under-appreciated Disney film and you should go see it immediately if you haven't) that I bought (or more accurately my mother bought for me as I had no income at that time) pack after pack of stickers.  Even then I was missing a few but my dear mother sent away for the missing ones so my book could be complete.  I think they messed up though and I am still missing one.  I have the book so I will have to check.  

This is what the book is like.  It is really cool!  Do they still make these? 

Closet Love

I hope your week is off to a great start.  This post is going to be brief but I promise I will make up for it later this week when I'm not quite so busy.  I had a lovely, productive weekend.  What about you?  Friday I finally finished Operation Pocket Square: 

the finished product

Welcome Back Love

Hi friends!  I've missed you.  Big apologies for my long absence.  As I indicated here I was attending a work conference and I don't really like blogging on my ipad which was all I had with me.  Please join me as we travel back in time.  We have so much to catch up on!  I briefly mentioned this past weekend in my last post but I wanted to share some projects I worked on as it was a very projecty weekend.  My dear friend Rachel recently had a baby and I wanted to make (bake?) a diaper cake for her.  I found very simple instructions here on pinterest (where else?).  I really wasn't sure how many dipes I'd need so I bought the biggest box I could find of size one, 128 tiny diapers.  It ended up being more than enough which is good to know for future reference.  Here's the finished product:

I put pieces of cardboard underneath the lower two layers for stability.

Pocket Square Love

In preparation for our upcoming Kentucky Derby trip (24 days!!!!) I am working on a project for my friend Dan, one of the people I take the trip with.  You may recall that last month I posted about some darling vintage fabric I found while looking for fabric to make Dan a pocket square.  I like the fabric very much but unfortunately the colors don't match Dan's outfit.  We decided to try recreating the pattern on plain white fabric in the pastel hues we were looking for.  You follow?  For a refresher here is the original fabric I ordered: 

Sooo charming!

Thank You Love

SPOILER ALERT IF YOUR INITIALS ARE SECD.  I've recently posted here and here about the new shoes my darling Sam surprised me with.  Growing up, the rule in my house was, any gift you receive from someone who is not there in person needs to be acknowledged with a thank you note.  This means that people who come to my birthday party and bring gifts don't require an additional thank you in the mail since I can thank them in person (although it's always nice to do so) but any gift that arrives in the mail needs to be acknowledged with a TY note. 

Errand Love

How was your weekend?  Mine was lovely.  I took Friday off work and spent the entire day running errands.  It was glorious.  I made it to every single place I wanted to go and found everything I needed.  Here is my list in order: 

Project Love + Odds and Ends

Happy Friday friends!  I hope everyone is having a lovely day!  As I mentioned here, last weekend we celebrated Jeremy's birthday.  After dinner, we were enjoying a cocktail at the very charming Bayside Tavern in Fish Creek.  I noticed that the cocktail napkins had a lovely illustration of a sailboat.