New Shoes

After doing a couple of returns at Anthropologie I had a bit of cash leftover and I desperately needed a new pair of black flats. We had a bit of time to kill before the movie so we went to DSW and I tried on every pair of black flats that the store had. I found these cute flats by Blowfish for $39.95.



They are super comfy until after wearing them for a few hours last night I got a wicked blister on the back of my foot. Le Sigh. Why can't new shoes already come broken in so I can just wear them for 12 hours at a time without any problems. I guess today I will be wearing flip flops or some shoe that doesn't rub on the back of my heel.

Happy Sunday

Raech

2009 a year in Review

Poured myself a glass of champagne (leftover from last night) and decided to put together a little review of 2009 in pictures. I thought last year was an amazing year even with the trials and tribulations ( ie..getting laid off unexpectedly). I really enjoyed this past year and look forward to 2010 being just as wonderful. So without further a do please enjoy the highlights of last year!

Brought in the New Year with a New Year Redux with friends at a local wine bar


Went Ice Skating for really the 1st time ( and in California!)


Celebrated Valentines at home with a surprise dinner compliments of Chef Jaque



Loved my puppies


Visited Leslie and Des Moines for the first time ever.



1st girls only birthday trip to Sonoma / San Francisco



Celebrated my 25th birthday again



Celebrated Jack's 25th Birthday!



Maria came out to visit me for a 2nd time in 4 years!


Thoroughly skunked Jack in Monopoly



Had our first craft fair experience


Celebrated Thanksgiving for the first time in our new house!



Welcomed my new nephew into the world ( luckily my flight was cancelled and I was able to be there to say hello to him!




I hope your 2009 was as wonderful as I thought mine was!

Welcoming in 2010!

We decided to do a bit of errands today. I had 4 items to return to Anthropologie and We decided to carouse around and see what else was good.

I ended up returning my 4 items and getting 3 tops plus a giant anthro gift card ( and in giant I mean lots of money). I'm trying to hold off on buying any new stuff until my birthday. Since, I am at home all day long I don't need any new clothes and this way I can get something fun for my birthday! ( only 3.5 months away!! yippeee!!)

I had a pottery barn gift card so I snagged up this little Stag Bar Helper. I think it will look awesome in the bookcase and when I'm bored with the tools hanging I can just remove them and have the Stag head.



After shopping and what not, we decided to come home and have some dessert. I made a kaluha chocolate cake mix with kulaha chocolate frosting and we drank a nip of kuluha. Narm is all I gotta say about that business.



And just incase you were dying to know. I wasn't intentionally holding the bottle of kuluha like a mic. I prefer to use my sticky paper hair remover roller for a mic.

Hope you are spending your first day of 2010 doing something fun and being with the people you care about.

XOXO

Raechel

Happy New Year!

Hello Hello-

I am finally home after a fiasco of a trip to the Midwest. Let me just tell you that having 3.5 days of delays on your trip in the front and the back are annoying!!

But alas, i'm not here to complain because I have a bunch of champagne in my fridge accompanying a bunch of cheese and crackers so with that being said!


HAPPY NEW YEARS! Can't believe its already 2010!! Wowza. What were you doing when it turned 2000?




Cheers-

Raech

i'm alive...

barely. I had the flu pretty bad this past week. It must have been all the cleaning I've been doing. Yeah that's right. I'm allergic to cleaning! Not doing it anymore.....

Its been uber busy over here between being sick and needing to get everything finalized before our trip back to WI. We've had a great month with Jack and Till through Etsy and doing a few little craft fairs. I'm excited for the last week of December. I will have a full week off with Jack to plan/create/expand our business. Its hard to nail him down with him having a full time job and all. So it will be nice to work on some upcoming projects for etsicle that we have.

Right now, my computer is full of printed Holiday cards that need to be signed, mailed and delivered. I'm hoping that I can use my time on the flights to do address Christmas cards. I am always so late with this I need to get my act together next year.

There are so many things that I wanted to do this year that I haven't even gotten around to doing!

1. Watch my favorite holiday movie - Rudolph The Red nosed Reindeer from the 50's



2. Try to make fattigmand. I might do this one back home with my grandma the expert.



3. Go Ice Skating


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4. Watch Elf


5. Make Christmas Crafts


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but I have been doing lots of this-this week.


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1 more day till I board an airplane to a frigid place. The weather is predicting a high of 37 with a low of 12 degrees during the time that I'll be back in Wisconsin. Le Burr is all I got say.

XOXO

Raech

Lazy Days..not!

Today has been one of those days where apparently I had a bug up my ass because I've been deep cleaning my kitchen and bathroom all day. Now we just made homemade marshmallows again and now melting moments cookies and there is cornstarch and flour all over the place. Oi Vay. Why clean?

Looking through my photo's last year to see what I was up to and apparently I was making Krumkake's. A traditional norweigan cookie. So nummy. Maybe I'll be making a batch of these tonight as well....Hee Hee.




Cheers!

Raech

OHHH EMMM GEEE

Just got one of my early Chrimmy presents! Jack is taking me to go see the Nutcracker this Sunday! I absolutely can't wait until Sunday. I've wanted to see this ballet for a really long time because 1.) i'm obsessed with ballet 2.) its like one of the most classic ballets that everyone has seen 3.) I was a sugar plum fairy when I was little ( but have no memory of it besides a purple tutu.



To top it all of Jack drew these insanely cute little ballet people ( the backside says -good for 1 nutcracker ticket). Love it! Hopefully will have some pictures from the show this weekend to show!

XoXo

Raech