on a decorating hunt

I'm a girl on a mission.  I'm wanting to change what's on my dining room table and I have this vision in my head that I think will be perfect.  The only problem is I'm having trouble locating the two main pieces.  Dear bloggy friends I'm desperately hoping you'll be able to help because this girl has googled high and low, been to every craft store, home depot, lowes you name it and cannot find what I'm looking for. 

I'm hunting for two cheap roman styled urns that look like they're made out of ceramic, but not.  It doesn't matter what color they're in and they need to be about a foot or so tall.  I found a picture of the style I'm after to give you a visual, it's just a little more than I want to spend.  Does anyone have any ideas on where I might be able to find something like this; preferably online? 

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Thanks sweet bloggy friends for the help!

the allergies, they've got me good

1. First things first, where did September go?  This month has just flown by.

2. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  I'm apologizing to everyone around me in advance for my snarkiness today.

3. My snarky mood is not being helped by allergies and a pug that won't stop yapping.

4. What'd you think of season premiere week?

5. I have to be honest the two I was looking forward to the most: Brothers & Sisters and The Office kind of disappointed me.  The whole year passing by, no Rob Lowe and where's Rebecca?  And with The Office maybe I just had my hopes set too high for a really funny premiere.  Just wasn't digging it y'all.

6. I do have to add that I LOVED Raising Hope and Running Wilde.  We're excited they come on again tonight.

7. My windows are open and I couldn't love it more!

8. I'm thinking that's not helping my allergies at all though.

9. Thanks for the feedback and reasurrance on the stained concrete.  I think we'll make that a priority on the next house.

10.  I'm off to pop some more zyrtec.  Have a good day y'all! 

concrete dreaming

Some girls fantasies about diamonds and jet setting the world.  I dream of new floors.  Well and let's get real here I'm not going to turn down a diamond bracelet or trip to Paris. Ha!

But seriously, I'm really done with the carpet thing.  I'm tired of the vacuuming and then a few years ago I got a carpet cleaner that has helped (despite the hard work), but I'm just done with it in the main areas of a house.  I've mentioned prior that we're getting our house ready to put on the market and shopping around as well.  I've totally fallen for some houses that have the stained concrete!  Y'all it's bananas!  At first I thought it would be too industrial, but it's proved me wrong and is rather warm and inviting.  I love the look, how easy it is to clean and not to mention the low dollar signs.  Plus it's green, which I'm thinking may help make up for my rather large water bottle consumption.

And just look at the colors...so gorgeous!  I really like the idea of it with white cabinets.

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Hubs is a little more hesitant, I think he envisions having to put pug and any future kids in a protective helmet when playing around the house.  Does anyone have stained concrete in your homes?  Curious to here you're thoughts.  Oh, I should add that I know this would be a little impractical to put in a home up north with the winters, but down here I think we'd spend half our summer just laying on it to cool off.

What improvements would you like to make to your home?

cha cha

I first heard about the trendsetter cha cha yarn on this wonderful blog and was smitten with the first mention of ruffle.  I knew I had to add it to my projects list.  Well quite a few months later I finally ordered some, from here, and was pumped to make a scarf.  There are so many cute colors.  I'm wishing I had ordered a grey too.  I found some youtube videos here and here that were really helpful and I got to knitting.  It's super easy to work with.  It did take me a little bit to get the hang of because I'm a lefty and flipping the video in my mind is always a tad tricky, but once I got going it was the easiest and fastest thing I've ever knit.  

And tada a cute ruffle scarf.  

leaping lizards

I'm convinced that Texas is being taken over by tiny little lizards.

Y'all they are everywhere down here.

Am I going to have to start blaming global warming for this lizard population hanging out around my house?

Which by the way they look like the Gieco lizard and I'm afraid one's going to start talking in a British accent and sell me insurance at any moment.

The other day I opened the door to retrieve a UPS package and one came flying in the house.

I screamed.  Then panicked because boy was not home.  This sort of thing usually falls to him.

So I got the next best thing.  Pug.  Although, bless his heart, he is rather useless I do have to give him credit because when it comes to bugs he's a pro at holding them while I run a get something to smash them.  It's the funniest thing!   I go get pug he spots the lizard on the wall and I shoo the lizard down the wall to pug.  Pug corners it.  I grab a shoe and smash it.   We make a good team.

I know I killed it.  I feel terrible.  Boy came home and when I told him he was like "you killed it".  I was like "I panicked it was so scary" and then he's like "you can just pick them up by the tail".  And I'm like "you must not know me very well".

So, I killed my first lizard and it was gross.  This others hanging out around my window better not mess with me and my pug.

attack of the baby gate

I got into a fight with one of the baby gates yesterday. 

I lost.  And it wasn't pretty.

If you're confused.  No do we not have a baby; we just have three baby gates for one crazy pug.

So, for 5 years I thought I had mastered the art of high jumping over said baby gates, but I guess I was wrong.  I was coming back into the family room and I think my toe must not have cleared it and I go flying across the room landing flat on my face.

It was a moment I was very glad their were no witnesses.   Unless, you call pug a witness.  He was too generous to slowly get up from his nap on the top of the couch to come see what all the racket was about that woke him.  Then he realized the baby gate was done and took off.  Freedom.

So, I laid there for about 20 minutes in agonizing pain convinced I had broken every bone in my left leg.   I think I'm good just a lovely rug burn the size of Alaska and an entire leg/hip/foot that hurts like no tomorrow.

I was going to take a picture for you all, but then I realized it's lunch so I'll spare you.

Watch out for those baby gates!

miscellaneous bin: tv talk

Well friends it's a week to celebrate...the return of season premieres!  And because I'm desperate for some blogging material I felt today I'd lay out my thoughts on this week.  I know y'all are just at the edge of your seats on this one.

1. I am VERY excited for the following to return: "Brothers & Sisters", "How I Met Your Mother", "Modern Family", "The Middle", "The Office", "Community" and "Dexter".

2. If I'm going to be honest I think that list is realistically a lot longer.

3. I think I'm going to try out these new shows: "Better with You", "Running Wilde", "My Generation" and already loving "Nate".

4. Shows I'm going to pass on: "Hawaii 5-0" & "Undercovers"

5. I'm going to go out on a gander and say that one of the first shows to get cut is "No Ordinary Family".  Kind of reminds me of the real life Incredibles.

6. I just watched the season finale this weekend of "Grey's Anatomy".  What a finale....so their best episode!

7. I'm convinced on Thursday my TiVo will explode.  It's got it's work cut out for itself that day.

8. I wish I had watched "Parenthood" from the beginning.  I'm going to add that to Netflix.

9. Who's super sad for Michael Scott's latest season?  I think the show needs to just end if he goes. 

10. I should stop.  I'm beginning to think I need to start turning off the tv every now and then.

What are you looking forward to this week?