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Poolside

Yvonne's package finally arrived on Friday, and to celebrate I took everything to my friend Naz's house this weekend for our girl's day by the pool:

It was such a fun package, I love the magazines, and it was so great to practice my Dutch. I may not be so good at speaking it anymore, but I can read it and understand almost everything. And she made an adorable pincushion, which coincidentely matches my website, and I love love love the little pouch in my favorite-linen! The bird embroidery is so sweet. Thanks Yvonne! I hope this is the first of many swaps!

Also poolside, a self-portrait:

Feet! I love going barefoot. My shoes always come off when I get home.

The other cause for celebration by the pool? I got the job! I am now the official Technical Writer at my company. I started today, although I will be going back and forth for a little while to train my replacement when they find one. I'm so excited, this is such an amazing oppurtunity for me. My brain is tired tonight, though, from all the information I have to absorb. I only have two more days with the consultant that has been doing the technical writing and then she will be gone and I will be all on my own. Gulp!

I'm it!

UPDATE: I got it together enough to upload wedding photos. They're not captioned and they're not in any kind of order, but they're still fun to look at.

Okay, so while I have a lot of pictures to share and tales to tell, I haven't had a lot of time, so it will all just have to wait. In the meantime, Yvonne tagged me like a month ago. I'm a little behind, obviously. I think I'm the last person to do this, so I won't tag anyone else. If you haven't done it, pretend I tagged you and do it yourself :o)

5 CD's in your player
Damien Rice O
Lou Barlow Emoh
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Ben Harper Burn to Shine
Big Audio Dynamite The Globe

5 Movies You've Seen Recently
Sense and Sensibility
Batman Begins
War of the Worlds
Romancing the Stone
I haven't been to the movies much this summer, there is nothing good playing. What I did see was thouroughly disappointing.

5 Nice Things That Happened To You Lately
I had an interview for a new position in my company. I think it went really well. Fingers crossed!

I got to spend a long weekend will ALL of my family and it was so lovely!

The reason I was with my whole family is that my sister got married, and that's a happy thing.

I did a swap with Yvonne, and even though my package STILL is not here, I am enjoying the anticipation.

I got sock monkey pajamas at Target.

5 MP3's on Your Playlist
It's on shuffle right now, so here are the 5 songs it just played:
Sunday Morning Coming Down   Johnny Cash
Ain't That Peculear  Marvin Gaye
Common People   William Shatner & Joe Jackson
Spider   They Might be Giants
I'm Not the Man   10,000 Maniacs

Don't miss the guest blogger over at Sijbrich. I'm thinking my sister may not appreciate the lack of security here at hey lucy. I added links to family members over there on the right.

quick update

I'll post more tomorrow, but I had to point out that my sister had a guest blogger post to her blog. I don't know how he got the password. That's what you get when you go on a 10 day honeymoon to Maui.

Self Portrait Tuesday

I'm late, but it's still Tuesday:

This is me and my new BFF, my beautiful niece Mimi. Mimi is the nickname she gave herself. She likes the camera, as you can see by the hand reaching to grab it.

I have a ton of pictures to share from the wedding, and lots of stories to share. I do believe I will be posting very often this week.

Gone Fishing

Now I'm on vacation! I did a few things before I left:

The guest book is finished, which is a good thing, because I'm on vacation in Boise for my sister's wedding. Instead of having lines on each page, I made little cards that people can take and write a message or draw a picture or whatever they would like, and then they get tucked into slits that I cut on each page.

My snail mail swap has been sent to Canada:

The post man seemed to be offended by the doodle I made of a snail on the package, and covered it up with the customs form. It was a cute little drawing, too!

I recieved a very fun box of goodies from the snail mail swap from Lu:

So much fun stuff! A lovely handmade book of summer recipes, a little tote-I love the lining fabric! And some crochet flowers, a kit to make a necklace, and some pretty beads! Thank you so much Lu! A proper thank you will be send eventually.

And a package is also on it's way to Yvonne:

So that's all for now. Soon I will have a ton of pictures of my beautiful nieces and nephew.

To Do List Redux

This is a quick post with a bunch of pictures, so hopefully style will make up for the lack of substance. I was able to get a bit done on my to-do list, despite having company this weekend.

Meet the naked monkey:

I went with the traditional sock monkey socks. She is going to have a fabulous outfit, eventually. And then she will get to go live with one of my nieces, who will have to give her a name. I'll let you know when that happens.

I also am nearly finished with the guest book, but needed a last minute consultation with the recipient. The pages and cover board are all cut, I just have to finish off the cover with fabric and pretty things and sew it all together. This is what I think I'll be using:

Silk shantung, which is not as shiny as it appears in the picture, vintage linen eyelet and brown grosgrain ribbon. Not too frilly, but pretty and wedding-like. I think it will suit her.

I was originally going for an ironic shot when I snapped the picture below, but then Bear made a funny face, and he sort of looks like the vicious dog on the "Beware of Dog" sign:

He's taking the sign seriously it seems.