Material Girl

Other cool sites with cool stuff to buy:

Veer
For anyone who wants something with cool writing on it...

http://Butch and Harold/
fun decals for your walls

Plum Party
Stuff for a party or just decorating

Pearl River
Asian-inspired items

Ballard Designs
Home furnishings - pretty good clearance section ("Estate Sale") - who usually buys this stuff full price anyways...

Pylones
For when you need to buy something for your friend who likes weird things...like a cheese grater shaped like the Eiffel Tower or butterfly-shaped paper clips or a bike lock that looks like a snake

Umbra
Not the soccer shorts...all kinds of home decor, jewelry, and games

Peacekeeper Cause-metics
All profits go to good causes

Short skirt and a long jacket...

Here is my new favorite website - GREAT Deals!!
Haute Look
You have to sign up for an account and some items sell-out pretty fast. They have a select number of designers on sale at a particular time. Womens, Mens, kids, accessories, etc.

Other good ones:
Top Shop

Chick Downtown
kinda expensive

Shop Bop
Also kinda expensive - but lots of designer stuff

Bag Borrow Steal
Buy (new or gently used) or rent those bags and accessories you want.
Some really good deals to be found here.

Etsy
Everything is better when it is homemade. Here you can find ANYTHING!!

Shop Intitution

Fred Flare
super cute clothes - and affordable

Dont tell my heart...

Today was our first potluck dinner. We plan on having them on the third sunday of every month for a low key and stress-free gathering. This month's them was "red and pink make you stink" because I am not a huge fan of Valentine's Day. The decorating ended up valentine-sie though. Sticking with the them, my contribution was 40 clove garlic chicken. The garlic cooks up so that you can spread it like butter (yum!). For favors, LudaDan and I made icecream cone cupcakes (yummier!). Anyhoo - I think it was a success and I was glad to see everyone.

Next month's theme is Pots of Gold. I am always looking for reasons to use my crockpot so I am making this:
http://slow-cooker-recipes.blogspot.com/2008/04/creamy-potato-leek-soup.html

Take a look, it's in a book - Reading Rainbow

Well - after officially becoming addicted to the Twilight Saga...I have decided that I need to stop re-reading them...seriously. You have a problem when you read the same book 3 times in 3 months - intertwined with reading the other books in the series twice...The first step is admitting you have a problem.

I also read three Phillipa Gregory books in that time - and now I am looking for some more historical fiction.

I started the Midford Sisters last night - a book of edited letter written between 6 sisters over 80ish years. Looking forward to it but really like to read books in a series - then you get tied to the characters and it lengthens the reading time...it usually only takes a me a couple days to read a book. Mainly, because I get too caught up in the story and refuse to sleep until I literally pass out with the book in hand. Luda-Dan hates that because then I an useless the next day...

Be our guest

here's my family at Thanksgiving - too bad Travis wasn't there with us. At least he should be home from Iraq soon!

I got it from my mama - Part 2

"The world is ready for change 'cause Obama is here" - Ludacris

As most of you know - I have become OBSESSED with politics. Before we went to bed last night, my husband (LudaDan) mentioned that he is worried that if McCain gets elected, I will commit suicide.

Honestly, I think that everyone should be worried about McCain getting elected. And not just McCain but also Palin. I am all for strong women but she has got the wrong priorities and alot of spin...you really can't believe pretty much anything that they say. They all spin spin spin...

Look it up for yourself - you know I have read every word:
factcheck.org

Really - Palin hasn't decreased spending - Alaksan govt is spending MORE. She has increased taxes on individuals. She didn't say no to the Bridge to Nowhere until after others had decided it was a bad idea....in fact, when she was running for govenor, she supported funding for the bridge.

I got it from my mama

pictures of me


pictures of Amelia

I'm back to let you know I can really shake it down

http://graduatewomeninpsychology.blogspot.com/2008/04/juggling-that-we-do.html

A posting by me on my other blog for an organization recently started by a group of great women in the psyc department at emory: Graduate Women in Psychology