Hooray Produce!

I feel so lucky to have the nearby "Fresh Quarter" produce market. The last 2 times I've gone, I've gotten amazing peaches!  I'm so excited that summer produce is coming into season.

Also, tomatoes are getting better and better! Yessss.  I love me a good tomato!

PS: Some little tomatoes are growing in the balcony garden!  Yippeee!!  =]

Love Birds

I've been making some paper love birds lately to get my brains warmed up for love bird cake topper ideas:

It's way harder than I thought it would be!  The fun and funky images in my mind just won't come out of my hands!  Oh well, these guys are still pretty cute.

Fancy Pants!

Katie visited for a week, and one night Chris brought home some bubbly to celebrate... well, nothing!  We're big believers in celebrating everyday life. =]

We decided to go fancy and use the Waterford crystal flutes we received as a very generous wedding present:

Fancy pants!

I heart advertisements painted on brick

Here's just one example in Asheville.

Lucky

I know this is so self-centered, but I think this guy was hanging out on our apartment stairwell steps just to raise my blood-pressure. We called him Lucky, because god only knows how he survived for so long when everyday or every few hours he decided to chill on a different step, blending in as his predecessors ensured he would, waiting to be stepped on.  I consider this a major adaptation-backfire.  Walking up and down the apartment stairs became a game of "Where's Lucky?! Is he still alive?  Should we feed him some bugs?  How is he eating in here?  Where the hell is he?  He was on this step when we left. I think we should spray paint him orange.  Do you think the neighbors know to look out for him!? There he is.  Damn it, Lucky!"    Exhausting.

Lucky disappeared one day and he hasn't been seen since.  Maybe he realized this was Asheville and not Nashville, or maybe he finally got that call from his baby mama wanting him back. We'll probably never know.

Reading the Hunger Games!

And some of the movie is being filmed in Asheville! :o

I hate deodorant!

But, it's a necessary evil.  I've been on the search for a natural deodorant that actually works.  

I've tried several products, including a big round rock of salt.  The natural stuff just doesn't work!

Or so I thought.

My fabulous sister-in-law told me about a deodorant she likes, and I just bought it. So far, so awesome!  

It's powdery fresh, and best of all it washes right off in the shower. Thanks, Tatiana!