to the poor unsuspecting people on Table 8

Dear Table 5,
I'm sorry your food took for-ev-er to make it to your table last night. That was embarrassing. But I'm glad you still enjoyed it.

Dear little girl on Table 7,
I thought you were awesome until you decided your brother's food looked better than yours. The kitchen hates me now. Thanks.

Dear woman in the weird shirt on Table 9,
It's not my fault you misread the menu and thought your pacific red snapper was coming covered in capers instead of a sun dried tomato and caper butter. So don't yell at me. Now the kitchen really hates me.

Dear Table 12,
I'm sorry I didn't realize you existed for the first however many minutes you were seated and you went through 2 baskets of bread before I sheepishly arrived. I still feel terrible. I swear that's never happened before. But don't try to milk your free drinks into free dessert. Oh wait you did that. So I bought your dessert with my own money because I didn't want the kitchen pissed at me again, AND THEN you didn't even finish the whole thing. It's my turn to be mad at you.

Dear Jack on Table 1,
Your vodka looked like melted ice to me. Please don't growl at me again.

Dear tipsy ladies on Table 21,
I totally thought you were my table. I guess the sections changed.
P.S. Lady sitting at position 4- you don't need any more alcohol. Your sentences aren't making sense.

Dear Big Bird and Johnnie,
News flash: nobody enjoys being around you.

To all customers, for the last time, no, we do not have ranch dressing. Yes, you will survive.

Dear potential Tuesday night customers,
Please be in good moods. My sanity depends on it. Because after last night, I don't know if I can handle another person from the planet of weirdness. Thank you.

she was quite friendly

Today I went on a walk through my grandma's fields and while dodging cow pies I had to laugh. That's not what I used to do when I was little. Actually, I did the exact opposite. My parents would tell me that if I stepped in the cow pies and wiggled my toes that it would make me grow.

What a mean trick to play.

polaroid this

my friend Sophie making camel riding glamorous on our trip to Morocco last April. I named my camel Hakeim.

put this one on repeat

what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

ralph waldo emerson

down to the pier

After a glorious day of shopping in San Francisco with my friend Mandy, we headed down to the Pier and ran inside an old photo booth. I'm not wild about the results, except for the last one, where she finally showed some initiative and came up with her own face.

true that Ernest

if you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway


This weekend I'm driving over to Santa Rosa to party with all my friends from Paris. I couldn't be much more excited. Wait. Maybe I would be more excited if I was actually going back to Paris. Again. Hmm... that just might trump things.

No, no, I was right. Definitely couldn't be any more excited about any other group of people.

Latest Card Creations

I just recently went to the movies with my friend Dylan and his little sister, Sommer, whose birthday party I went to a few years back although I'm not that close with her. I had made her a card using some of my favorite paper (yes, I have a hard time parting with paper) and I was pretty pleased with it. The thing with me and cards is, I spend so much time on them making sure they look okay and match the personality of the person who is going to receive them, so that after spending an hour or so creating them, I always wonder what happens to them after I give them away. Well Sommer told me she was doing some cleaning in her room and came across the card I gave her. She told me she usually throws cards away but she kept mine because it was one of the coolest cards she's ever gotten. Aaah best feeling ever!!! My time was not wasted!


I don't think I've ever agonized over such a simple card before. I made it for my favorite customers that come into the restaurant I work at, they've been coming in since I started 6 years ago, and I just recently discovered that Mr. Sparks is in the final stages of cancer. So I made them a card and mailed it off. But first I wanted to make sure it was perfect for them.




This was for my friend Pablo, I decided he needed to receive an awesome random card in the mail. We had just been talking about how many O's there were in his name, so I made that the theme. The inside is a message that's randomly scattered, and I numbered them so that it wouldn't take forever to read.


This was a quick make, I realized that day that I STILL hadn't made a birthday card for my old friend Heidi, and her birthday was that day, so I at least wanted to get it postmarked on the right day!



I made this one for Linda at work, she recently had surgery. I was very excited while I was making this because I remembered that I own spray adhesive now, so I didn't have to worry about glue lines behind the vellum flower I drew!

Hydrangea Love

Something about hydrangeas instantly makes me happy. They're just one big fluff ball of goodness.

little Paige

has the prettiest curls

domesticated

Today I summoned all of my domestic skills and made cupcakes from scratch. I was pretty nervous seeing as how last time I made a cake from scratch it wasn't all that great. Hey, I didn't know you weren't supposed to tightly pack the flour into the measuring cups. That stuff stuck to the roof of our mouths, you couldn't get through it without a few glasses of milk.

This time I am pleased to say they turned out delicious! I think my family was afraid though, when I got home from work tonight they were still untouched. It's pretty bad when cupcakes sit untouched for 6 hours, that's when you know your last try failed miserably.

They were Maple Buttercream cupcakes and they were super good!!! A cavity waiting to happen though...

flea market finds

So this last weekend I went to the flea market here in Sacramento and the weekend before I went to the Alameda Flea Market. I love flea markets and all the treasures you can find!


I'm so glad I peered under the dust cover of this book. It's so beautiful. And only a dollar!


The inside of my sweet orange book.


This sweet lamp is going in my future office. Whenever I actually have one. I've already got it all planned out. For now, I have nowhere to put it.


I lusted after these old letterpress letters (at least I think that's what they are! When a girl walked up next to me and asked me what they were that's what I told her, I definitely sounded like I new what I was talking about) last time I was at the Alameda flea market so this time it was the booth I looked for first. Next time though I think I'm going to pick even better letters, maybe I'll get the whole alphabet! I'm in love with them.


I got all these awesome jars which now house old black and white photos, some jewelry, and my coasters! As for the scoop, it's for ice cream. My parents have one that's similar, and I love it. So now I have one of my own, only prettier. I told them that I can finally move out, now that I have my ice cream scoop I have all I need to survive!

Those are just a few of my finds! Sometimes I really wish I had my own place so I could buy everything I want.

go ahead and gawk at the beauty around you

look at how absolutely breathtaking the sky was the other night. You know those moments, when you see something like this, and you just stand there, gawking at it's beauty? Things like this make me so happy to be alive and they remind me of how little my problems are compared to the grand scheme of things. I know this picture doesn't begin to capture the overwhelming beauty of the sky that evening, but it does give just a glimmer.