my tiny circus.

i received these tiny vintage circus figures for my birthday last week. i love them more than i can say and i

cannot wait to get moved so that i can find the perfect place to display them. in the mean time i suppose i'll

just have keep playing with them :)

{thank you traci, xo}

today...

... was my last day as a twenty eight year old.

i realized that i'd grown rather attached to being twenty eight.

i haven't quite decided how i feel about being twenty nine, yet.

we spent most of the day cleaning house and doing laundry in prep for a

showing that they scheduled first thing tomorrow morning. rude!

but tonight, we saved the day with a sarah's favorite food date. we have the best ideas!

first, my favorite veggie tacos in the whole wide world, from por qué no.

and get this, they told me i was lucky i made it in this week because it's the last week

that they'll be making these tacos!! phew! that was a close one.

after dinner we had dessert at ruby jewel.

i don't even like ice cream folks, but these guys make magic and put it in a fresh waffle cone.

the girl who scooped mine, must've been able to sense that my birthday was near because i ordered

a double scoop, and she handed me this 7 scooper and said "sometimes you just gotta go for it!" 

i love her.

  

it was a good day.

bits of our weekend.

   

hello kitty waffles for birthday morning breakfast. 
cake with smelly's face, charlie's face & milo's face. 

finding creative uses for balloons. 

getting a mostest favorite new sweater with a little early birthday money.

being 6 so far.

i'd say we're off to a pretty good start.

nana called first thing to sing happy birthday,

she opened a few gifts from the three of us,

got all dolled up with her new make-up kit,

and we're about to have hello kitty waffles (her mostest favorite) for breakfast.

a perfect morning for the best 6 year old smelly cat in the world.

choices.

i've got a birthday sweater to knit for my favorite almost 6 year old squirrel...

... and i need to choose a color.

they look so pretty together, perhaps something stripy?

thoughts??

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you may recognize these from one of my recent posts about treasures that make me consider robbing a bank so i can buy them all. i am smitten by the way she uses line and color to create the most captivating patterns and figures. she inspired me to give watercolors a try. nancy mungcal is the creative genius behind this enchanting artwork. and i learned straight away that she is as genuinely kind and thoughtful as she is brilliantly creative. she sent me a gift unlike anything i have ever received. an original painting, a birthday gift, made just for me. it couldn't possibly suit me better. she has yarn for hair!!! i am in love with this painting and cannot wait to find the perfect frame to house it in and the perfect space on my wall to display it. a thousand thank you's nancy, you made my birthday brighter.

babies!!

all i can think about is babies.

i would like one of these please...

... it's a hand-knit baby!!! really i must have one.

my not-so-little little brother {he'd outgrown me by the time he was 10} and his wife welcomed a new baby girl to their family today. this makes me auntie to four now. two nieces and two nephews.

meet rowynn.

six pounds, fifteen ounces. nineteen inches long. ten fingers, ten toes. perfectly delicious and she looks so much like my brother did as a baby.

i can't wait to meet her. i want to go now. i wish i could.

i could use a good long cuddle with a tiny baby.

my babies are miniature adults.

so independent. and smart.

and fashionable...

and sweet...

and beautiful...

and wonderfully weird...

they're so grown up. it happened fast. everyone tells you it will, they're not kidding around. it does.

what i wouldn't give to hold baby d & e in my arms again.

quick, someone get me a baby.

music monday presents...

... a GIVEAWAY!!!

{are you excited? i really hope so because i am!!}

you may remember, a while back i posted about a duo called cults. {you can play one of their songs in the player on the sidebar} well, about 5 weeks ago they announced that they'd be selling a limited 400 copies of their 7" single pressed on bright yellow vinyl.

bright. yellow. vinyl. {just in case you didn't catch that before}

just look how delicious the cover is.

i had to have one, and i had a feeling they would sell out fast. they did. but i got mine. holla.

i'd read that they wouldn't ship til around the 20th of april, so there was a lot of waiting involved... waiting is hard for a gal who never got so good at being patient.

still working on that one.

i checked the letter box each day, even though i knew it wouldn't be there. but then... last tuesday, i checked the box and there it was. i came undone. smiles were leaping right off my face as i feverishly tore apart the envelope as if a 5 million dollar check was inside.

i got it open and it was even more beautiful in person than i hoped it would be. and the vinyl was yellow. so yellow. this led to more acrobatic smiles.

i put it right on the turntable and it sounded like perfection. even more smiles. my face started to hurt. we played it over and over and over. and smiled and sang and danced all over the house.
it was good.

then... 

{this is the part where i get to the giveaway}

... wednesday, i checked the letter box just out of habit i suppose and what to my absolute surprise, there was another one!!! i thought it was a mistake, a happy accident if you will... they'd shipped it to me twice, lucky me. but in fact what had happened was somebody else wanted me to have this record just as much as i wanted me to have it. they bought it for me the very same night i bought it for myself, and had it shipped to my house hoping it would arrive in time for my birthday, which it did. isn't that a kick in the pants?

so... now i have two. and keeping them both, though oddly tempting, would be greedy and weird.

{this is where you come in}

leave a comment on this post and you'll be automatically entered to win this...

... and a few other treasures for extra charisma.

if you'd like to up your chances at winning, you can also blog about the giveaway and leave a link to your post in a comment -and/or- tell me your 3 favorite songs/bands/musicians {you choose} of the moment -and/or- be a follower of this blog.

4 ways to enter in all. you have until sunday, may 9th at midnight and i'll announce the winner on monday. 

{i'm so excited!!}

bare with me...

...i'm a few posts behind, so i'm gonna mash 'em all together.

the original plan was to follow this post with a series of posts about all the sweetness i've been experiencing lately, but i got distracted by all the sweetness and then it was my birthday... so this will have to do.

i recently received a very charming looking bag of homemade chai tea as a gift. it smelled so incredible i wanted to eat it and wear it and sprinkle it all over the house so that everything would smell that good. i resisted all of the above and brewed a cup instead, and the taste was every bit as delicious as the aroma. look how beautiful it is...

homemade gifts are the sweetest kind.

it's been raining and raining and raining here for days and days and days. it's the nw, it's why everything is so pretty, you get used to it, and you go to the park anyway, and it's FUN!

you can use your jacket to keep your bum dry while sliding.

and take surprisingly awesome photos with your cell phone.

playing outside is oh so sweet.

the night before my birthday, i fell asleep to the sound of things clanking and crashing in the kitchen... i just assumed the boys were making a midnight snack. but when i woke up the next morning, this was on the table...

isn't it the most miraculous birthday cake you've ever ever seen?!! it's the very same camille rose garcia owl i have tattooed on my shoulder {except mine is not crying, but this is true to the original artwork}

what sweet boys. and the frosting... soooooo sweet.

i recently posted about a giveaway that tille over at shewaitsforwhispers was doing and i was one of the lucky winners!! this was unexplainably exciting to me, and then i received this bundle of treats and i was all squealy and smiley and bouncing off the walls.

this terribly fun package arrived at my house on my birthday, how sweet is that?!

more birthday loot. i like owls, can ya tell??

and get a load of this! my momma ordered me my very own pair of these...

they'll be here in a few weeks and i am on pins and needles.

it was a very sweet week. 

{there's actually more, but i'm saving it for later}

Let's get fresh...

... {wink}

tonight i was treated to a screening of the film FRESH at the hollywood theater here in portland. it was wonderful. informative. inspiring. important. made me wish i had a farm of my own. 

the film is about the importance, do-ability and economic sustainability of making our food system work better for humans, animals and the planet. it focuses on solutions and possibilities, highlights farmers, innovators and thinkers across the country who are bringing positive change to the table {a little pun for ya}. it was empowering. i could be doing more, and it matters. every little bit makes a difference.

the film will be showing tomorrow evening at the hollywood theater, 7:15 and 9:30 pm, tickets are $8 and if you can go, GO! the director of the film, Ana Sofia Joanes, is attending the screenings here which is very exciting. she stuck around and answered questions after the show tonight, and i imagine she'll do the same tomorrow.

if you're not in portland {click here} to view possible screenings near you.

visit www.freshthemovie.com for loads of great information.

contemplating...

... being another year older

... a fresh start

... adding to my owl collection

... robbing a bank...

(just kidding, but seriously how am i going to get my hands on all of these wonderful treasures?)

*click on images for source*