had to

this picture Toast sent in an email today is the epitome of summer.

midterms week is over!

well...I don't know if anyone reads this blog, but if you do, I apologize for the lack of postings! I really hate following a blog and then all of a sudden they just stop blogging! I don't even have a good reason for the hiatus. I'm back at school for the summer and all the studying was a little overwhelming. This weekend I'm heading back to Indy to help with my brother's graduation party. Mom: stop freaking out!

Anyways, I was looking for a couple of cute stores to stop into when I go home and I found a link to a flickr stream of the Girly Chic Boutique in Broadripple.
I think I've been here before...but there are so many cute shops like this in broadripple, so I may be getting it mixed up with the others. Every little picture is a piece of eye-candy! Gorgeous!

Green your...sofa?

With Earth Day last week, everyone was talking about how to become more "green." Well...here's my contribution! I LOVE this grass couch. The only downside would be trimming it! Readymade had an online article about how to grow your own, but unfortunately it looks like it is no longer available on their website. I'm sure it's similar to a Chia Pet :)

*Image from CasaSugar

Rain and lightning!

It's raining and gross outside so I'm blog-hopping tonight on my night off of work. I have been thinking about re-upholstering some Goodwill chairs to use in the apartment I'll be living in this fall. The video below from ReadyMade just sealed the deal and now I've got plans to hit up some Goodwill's in the area!

My "Ikea Name"

I love Ikea almost as much as I love Anthropologie...I NEED to go to the store in Cincinnati as soon as tax season is over! Speaking of tax season, I must apologize for my lack of posting recently. It's harcore tax season right now. We've got two weeks until everything must be finished and it's getting a little crazy at the office! Anyways...like I said, I am obsessed with Ikea and I came across this Ikea Name Generator. You enter your name and out pops a fake Sweedish sounding furniture name. I love it! The one above is the one I made. I'm crossing my fingers that I can convince someone to go with me before I head to school for the summer!

carrying on

aaah, time is flying by so fast! it doesn't even feel like the week is over...sadly, my 6-day work weeks start tomorrow and don't end until your taxes are due. it's only a month so I think I can handle it.

I have been teetering on whether to buy this print for what seems like forever. but I love it and all the different colors it comes in!

this print is from cutpastprint over at etsy

room service

I need a desk for my apartment next year and I don't want to buy a cheap piece of junk last minute So...I've been hunting around for some inspiration so I can make my own. I was looking through Metropolitan Home Magazine and I came across an ad for Room Service. It is a brick-and-mortar store with a really cool website. I love the furniture they showed in the magazine so I checked out their office furniture area. I found the cool desks above and I am going to go Goodwill-hunting this summer and see if I can make something similar!

yummmm

I am obsessed with Trader Joe's Organic Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup. It sounds like it could be weird, but it is amazing. It's also pretty cheap compared to some other boxed soups I've seen at the grocery store. I went to stock up this weekend because it looked like they were running low...haha Life will be rough when I'm back at school and there isn't a Trader Joe's near by! p.s. I know the picture quality is horrible, but I wanted to try out my Blackberry's camera feature and there weren't many good pictures of the soup online :)

Volume!

In the winter my hair gets so flat and static-y. I saw the commercial for Tresemme's 24 Hour Body products and I'm kind of really excited to try them tomorrow morning when I'm getting ready for work! I meant to get the mouse and accidentally got the hairspray so I had to go back to Target today and get the mouse too. (I took the littlest sister with me and she was distracting me because she had to go to the bathroom "REALLY REALLY BAD" haha)
*image from WWDBeauty

Crackberry!

Ahhhh, I finally got my pink Blackberry Curve! My other phone's battery died EVERY time someone called. They all were used to hearing, "Hey, say it fast, my phone's gonna die..." haha but anyways, I came straight home from work, skipped the gym, and opened my phone. 4 hours later and I'm still playing with it. Now I can check my email and look at blogs during my lunch break at work instead of driving all the way home for lunch. My dad is also getting a Blackberry from his work. If you knew him and how horrible he is at technology, you would laugh. It took me a while to figure out how to dial. He's gonna freak when he can't just press the number button...hahaha ohh well. Time for bed. Tax season is in full force.
*photo by Preppy Haze

I could go broke at Anthro...

I could go broke at Anthro... on Polyvore.com

Sunday, I HAD to visit the Anthropologie store. It had been too long, and they had so many new, pretty things. I put all my favorite things into the picture above. My little sister went with me and she was in heaven. She loved looking at everything! I walked around the store with 3 plates, a coffee mug, and a purse I wanted to buy, then slowly put it all back. I NEED to save up for the big Ikea trip this summer! It was so hard to put everything back, but after a few more hours of overtime at work, I may have to head back there!

Apartment Therapy has 10 great DIY tricks they've collected while doing their famous housetours. I've been looking for some pillow inspiration and this definitely caught my eye!

aaah, finally!

it's the weekend and that makes me SO happy. i'm planning on making some things to stock my shop with and working out. that's pretty much it.

so, I was bored, and just finished watching Disney movies with my sisters...I was blog surfing and came across {My MiNuTia}. She has a tutorial for editing photos with Photoshop Elements 5 which I happen to have! I tried it out on one of my fourth of july pictures. I think it worked out pretty well. we definitely look a lot tanner!

p.s. LOVE the i.u. coordination going on for 4th of july :)

forgot my coffee

I had a dentist appointment today and definitely forgot my coffee. It's never a good day when that happens...On the topic of coffee, I just have to say that I think it's pretty cool that my dad roasts his own coffee. I've gotten so used to it that I can actually tell a difference when he runs out and we have to have "boring store bought coffee." He gives it away for Christmas but wants to sell it SO bad!
*photo from Retrospectacle

hey, welcome to your first busy season

tax busy season is here. and I LOVE it. there's nothing better than having the day fly by and never being bored!
*photo by thedailyhamster