Phone Photo Friday
08/07/2009
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August Garden Flowers
08/06/2009My favorite flower in our whole garden—acidanthera—just started blooming! God is such an amazing artist.
Our “assorted” zinna have been going strong for almost 2 months now. Do you realize He designed all these crazy, colorful, stunning varieties of flowers for us to enjoy and to point back to His glory? He didn’t have to make any of these.
Jason planted this crepe myrtle last summer and it died back completely over the winter. It’s been busy growing like crazy since spring and now has these breathtaking fushia flower clusters.
I’m so thankful for this guy, who takes care of our beautiful garden and plants flowers just because he knows how much I like them. I am a very happy wife!
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Perfect Jeans
08/05/2009I have to admit, I’m pretty pleased right now. I found exactly what I was looking for—a pair of crisp, dark-wash, work-appropriate jeans—at Old Navy on clearance for $7.50. (I don’t even look at the regular-priced jeans anymore.) The jeans were almost perfect. They were about 1/2″ too long and the waistband was too loose. Don’t you hate that about ON jeans? The hips fit fine but when I sat down the waistband flung wide open in the back. After reading this so-so tutorial on bringing in the waistline on loose-fitting jeans, I decided to try sewing darts in the back.
(Sorry, there was a smudge on my lens … in ALL of these pictures.)
After that went pretty smoothly, I thought I’d also tackle hemming the bottoms to the perfect heel-length.
The darts don’t lay perfectly flat since the denim is so think. I think a shirt will cover it most of the time, though.
I wonder if I should have made them a little shorter since I usually end up wearing flats. I guess this is my motivation to wear heels more often.
No more “window to the crack” in the back.
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Drive-By Shooting (MCM Architecture)
08/04/2009
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Love Painting #2
08/04/2009The second “love painting” is finally done and hanging above the new mcm credenza in our bedroom. (Did you see Love Painting #1?) Hubby and I quite pleased with it and we’re already talking about doing more paintings like this.
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Biker Gang
08/03/2009I went for a bike ride with this cute guy. I’d follow him anywhere.
We met up with these goobers. These photos are a perfect example of framily (friends+family). Some are family. Some are friends. Can you tell the difference? Me neither. I love ’em all:
Biking with dogs is funny:
Dressing exhausted dogs up in clothes is even funnier!
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