var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10401461-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} this is me. i love sunshine. coffee. surprises. open windows in the rain. Jesus. my hubs. dark chocolate. red wine. funny people. giving. music. puppies. cupcakes. art. photography. pretty things. love. love. and more love. you’ll find some of that here. mail on the interwebs tlslater@gmail.comTumblr (3.0; @sparklyofmyveryown)http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv6w0EJ5f1qaqkvpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Could John Mayer be any funnier? No. And I loved his dance on Ellen <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7t3VgJJ-_g" target="_blank">(check it out around the 23 second mark).</a> I giggled loudly. And what about those lil red pants? teehee</p> <p><a href="http://jhnmyr.tumblr.com/post/289266513/lets-sweeten-the-deal-for-the-person-with-the" target="_blank">jhnmyr</a>:Let’s sweeten the deal for the person with the <a href="http://jhnmyr.tumblr.com/post/270035379/the-second-annual-interfaith-holiday-baking-competition" target="_blank">winning cake</a>. I’ll throw in the now-infamous Christmas sweater I wore on Ellen. It’s got my DNA all over it, perfect for home cloning!!!</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289325473http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289325473Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:13:16 -0500<p>LLOYD: Hey my brother? Can I borrow a copy of your “Hey Soul Classics”?<br/>J-MAN: No my brother, you have to go buy your own.</p> <p>-Say Anything</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289263413http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289263413Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:11:06 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuuua4WQon1qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>today…</p> <p>feeling oh-so-slightly-victorian</p> <p>top- Rugged Wearhouse $5 (it’s a super rich navy color, but the pic is crappy)</p> <p>black jeans- thrifted</p> <p>ole faithful boots- Charlotte Russe</p> <p>necklace- vintage cameo pendant (gift from my mom)</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289052642http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289052642Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:20:00 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuurgd4Qlt1qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My Christmas present arrived last night!  Whoo hoo!  I still have to get used to this whole bike riding thing. I’ve never been a biker. Even though I got fitted for it, I feel like the bike is huge!</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289048980http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289048980Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:15:00 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuuoypDB6v1qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>the majority of my sis-in-law’s Christmas gifts…. I made the bracelet, earrings, and necklace (not as a set, they just happen to kind-of match.)  I hope she lurves them!</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289034236http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289034236Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuuqikX91v1qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Smile friday-   Gettin’ in the Christmas spirits edition. </p> <p><a href="http://little-wife.tumblr.com/post/277698556/joy-in-small-things-like-this-amazingly" target="_blank">littlewife’s</a>.</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289013673http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/289013673Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:36:00 -0500<p>On my cousin’s facebook:</p> <p><b>Cousin</b>: Would I be redneck if I invited everyone to my house this summer for a pool party even though I don’t have a pool? I will just push together about 10 kiddie pools with the buckets of beer in the grass to constitute the swim up bar.</p> <p>(insert various other comments and tom foolery)</p> <p><b>Hubs</b> response: I’m in… I’ll back up my truck and put the tailgate down so we’ll have a diving board.</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/288924380http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/288924380Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:53:00 -0500<img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kutb6tKvpN1qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>love this lil number from Anthropologie’s December outfits.  It’d be perfect for work, sans the open toe shoes- my tootsies would be too cold!</p> <p>click thru for more outfits</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287825675http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287825675Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:52:00 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kusuo9WOg61qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>oh my <a href="http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/search/math+friend" target="_blank">math friend</a> never ceases to amuse me. I mean, these are only a few of the math related books on her shelf. Everytime we are at a used book store, we always find her flipping through the math books.</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287618815http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287618815Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/287494271/tumblr_kurnblonxI1qzr2p2&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>fan-flippin-tastic album</p> <p><a href="http://aliceintumblerland.tumblr.com/post/286573029/city-and-colour-death-of-me" target="_blank">aliceintumblerland</a>: City and Colour- Death of Me</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287494271http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287494271Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:40:50 -0500“I walk the streets with a song in my head<br/> We ebb and we flow so,<br/> Got my toes on my pup at the foot of my bed<br/> My heart always seems to know,<br/> So take the glitz back I want the soul instead<br/> Cause I found some kind of fairytale”<br/><br/> - <em>Vanessa Carlton “Nolita Fairytale”</em>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287489505http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/287489505Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:34:38 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kurfdjfQh31qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>gpoyw: mom and dad’s Christmas card edition</p> <p>me, hubs, mom, dad, brother, sis-in-law   Love them!</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286401312http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286401312Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:27:00 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/V6_xJVyE_jk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V6_xJVyE_jk&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>This is one of those songs where it makes you feel what they feel. Def my fav song on that album.</p> <p><a href="http://heymissy.tumblr.com/post/285146208/missashleyjheidler-caseyculture-sara" target="_blank">heymissy</a>:<a href="http://missashleyjheidler.tumblr.com/post/285108554/caseyculture-sara-bareilles-gravity-one-of-my" target="_blank">missashleyjheidler</a>:<a href="http://caseyculture.tumblr.com/post/285025906/sara-bareilles-gravity-one-of-my-all-time" target="_blank">caseyculture</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Sara Bareilles- Gravity</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286283032http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286283032Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:09:05 -0500<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kur1x7f3fy1qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>today…</p> <p>sweater- Rugged Wearhouse</p> <p>longsleeve tee- JC Penney</p> <p>skirt- Anthropologie (birthday splurge!)</p> <p>boots- ebay</p> <p>belt- thrifty thrift</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286176551http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286176551Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:08:09 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuq8bfD8k71qzo65bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://time-stands-still.tumblr.com/post/285601175" target="_blank">time-stands-still</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Ret: Say you’re going to marry me. Say it, say it.<br/>Scarlet: Yes.</p> </blockquote>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286140553http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/286140553Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:25:54 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kupeiz2ecg1qzzwako1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>PSA:  This Martha Stewart craft kit is for the birds! The kit does not match the photo on the kit, the paper is 3 different unpictured colors, the directions would have served me better if they were written in German, and it flat out just didn’t work.</p> <p>I was supposed to make 6 paper roses and could only muster up enough energy and stop cursing long enough to make 3…that and every time I made one, the previous one would fall apart.  I’m a crafty person, and if a crafty person can’t do this, then I think Martha should rethink her kit making abilities! Just saying. (I love you Martha, but I gotta be honest.)</p> <p>What it’s supposed to look like on the left, and what mine looked like on the right. And they only look that good bc they are smushed together in a coffee cup and photo is blurry :)</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284853709http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284853709Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:13:00 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/87wGHfAi17Q&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/87wGHfAi17Q&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>i love this to pieces!  Every year growing up, me, brother, mom and dad would sit and watch this whole Claymation Christmas and sing along.</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284815873http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284815873Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:32:00 -0500<p><b>Song</b>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hbt9-QjdF4" target="_blank">Step into Christmas</a> and O Holy Night</p> <p><b>Movie</b>: A Garfield Christmas</p> <p><b>Candy</b>: forget the candy, gimme the cookies! any kind will do :)</p> <p><b>Commercial</b>: The old ones that are on our VHS tapes.</p> <p><b>Santa</b>: Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa</p> <p><b>Saying</b>: It’s Chrima time!</p> <p><b>Tradition</b>: Giving our gifts in front of the fire place, playing games, and listening to Christmas music at my parents house. New tradition of making <a href="http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/194400974/its-recently-become-a-tradition-at-my-parents" target="_blank">hot buttered rum</a> added last year :)</p> <p>via jen and see hers: <a href="http://simplyjen.tumblr.com/post/284775682/my-favorite-christmas" target="_blank">simplyjen</a></p> <p>*Reblog or comment yours!</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284812271http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284812271Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:28:00 -0500<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kup8qicdFI1qzzwako1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>this is soooo lovely. You can find more <a href="http://store.bambako.com/category/spring-sample-sale" target="_blank">here</a>.  I bought a piece a while back, and they are very well made.  Perfect Christmas gift, and they have a sale going on now!</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284797583http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284797583Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:10:00 -0500<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kup5ylOuMw1qzzwako1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Best stuff ever!</p>http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284790091http://sparklyofmyveryown.tumblr.com/post/284790091Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500