Things I love {4.30.2011}

Thought I'd start a new feature {things I love!} Please excuse the randomness :)

1. The smell of bacon frying, especially on a lazy weekend morning.

2. Lowe's 1-year guarantee on all plants. I have returned my fair share of pitiful, brown, totally dead plants only to bring home nice new greenery to adorn our home. The plants probably cower in fear when they see me walk into Lowe's.

3. The Editor pants at Express* This one gets an asterisk because I'm currently a perfect size 7. But wouldn't you know they only have these pants in even sizes?? Grrrr! The 6 is just a little snug in the bootay, but the 8 gaps at the waist. What's a girl to do?! Must. cut back. the chocolate.

4. Grocery shopping at the nice HEB. Not the ghetto one by our house with not-so-great produce selection and strange characters hanging out in the parking lot. I'm talking the huge, super-nice HEB with awesome produce, fresh tortillas, fancy meat and cheese counters, and wine area! And judging by how full the parking lot always is, I know I'm not alone on this one.

5. Agapanthus. No I did not just sneeze. Agapanthus is a flower we recently planted in our yard, and the blue-purple flowers are spectacular! (and no, we didn't get these at Lowe's lol!)

Weekend Warriors

3 days
7 trips to the plant store
undisclosed amount of money spent
1 dirty car
1 borrowed pickup truck
3 awesome helpers
51 ugly or dead plants dug up
82 new plants planted
1 farmer's tan sunburn
1 splinter in the hand
.....

but it was all worth it once I finally sat down on the patio,
adult beverage in hand,
and could not see one dead plant :)

Helloooooo, summer!

And BTW, I'm thinking about starting my own landscaping business. I lost 3 lbs over the weekend!

No, this is not a pile of laundry...

This is what I worked on this weekend. I'll give you a hint: it's a graduation present :)

I also underwent some retail therapy at the mall and played around with a new lens I bought for my camera. Not awesome-o, but here's a pic I took (forgive me, I'm new at this manual stuff!!)

Easy breezy beautiful...

... or how about adorably cute?? The Mia Dolce website has a new cover girl! Those pigtails just make me giggle :)

Photograph by the talented and uber-sweet Jane Foster. Quilt is the Pop Garden Rag Quilt.

TGIF - have a good weekend!