Suprises.

Roses are the best surprise... well, except for surprise pregnancies, surprise money in your pocket, and maybe a surprise vacation.

Thank you BISSEL for saving my sanity.

So I have my mom's OLD steam cleaner. It works, it's cool, kinda bulky but whatever.

My mom let me borrow her new one though...

And if I wasn't already married to Mark, I'd probably marry this cleaner. Now, only if it operated all by itself. A girl can only dream ;)

Uhhh...

Have so much love in my heart but no ideas in my head right now. My brain seems to have shut off this week, REALLY.

I'll be back next week. Promise.

But here's a little something, I do love this poem:

"This is just to say" by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

Could spend lots of time surfing this site.

UncommonGoods

Cute, right? Only 35 to 40 bucks.

And there are so so so many other awesome and interesting gift ideas.

Makes me want to give a gift...to myself :)

Heart vase

Baby-Gami, awww

Customizable Couple Pillow

Stress Relief

Absolutely love this candle (Bath and Body Works Stress Relief Candle). No joke. Actually, I love anything, lotion, soap, bath salt in this scent.

Anyways, this candle REALLY works. It's not one of those candles that smells great but doesn't smell that way when burning. It smells better when it's burning, it fills up my whole apartment, relieves my stuffy head and makes me SMILE!

Magic carpet.

I bought this rug at a clothing swap. It's the first real decorative purchase I've made for my home, ever, really. Crazy, right? Everything we have was either a gift for our wedding, a hand me down or a gift for some other occasion. Mark and I are apparently good at attracting what we want into our lives :)

Anyway, I brought it home at night, my girls were asleep. So I unrolled it in the living room and just looked at it for a while. I love it.

Ada loved it too. First words out of her mouth when I showed her: "A magic Carpet!!!!"

I fell even more in love with it.

Anyways, I put it in the bedroom, the girls have lived on it, slept on it, played on it and loved it too. Now we are getting ready to move. I want to unroll it when we get to the new house and be excited so I cleaned it really well, cut off all of the loose threads, rolled it up and put it away. Can't wait to see it again.

That's a lot of loose threads though, right? Crazy. I should've been keeping up on it but of course I didn't. Who cares, I made up for it.

Rag dolls.

So adorable. By Floret.

And this... free rag doll pattern.