wardrobe wednesday - head in the clouds

this shot pretty much sums things up pretty good. my feet may be grounded in the earth, but my head is in an ethereal cloud.

nothing that can't be solved with an evening of watching Coraline with the kiddos, making homemade pizza and then starting a new craft project.


speaking of feet - I'm crushing on just about every pair of shoes Anthro is currently peddling...ahh, a girl can dream right?

some flats even I could love 

 with pretty socks, these are the bees knees

the detailing is amazing

where do I begin??? love, love, love

 I have two pairs of almost these exact shoes from old navy from years ago. suddenly inspired to remake them to match any and all of my spring/summer outfits

my stripes addiction is no secret. please come home with me stripey booties!?

Not that I need more shoes. Our over the door shoe rack breaks daily from being overstressed...

What's your shoe addiction??

XO,

Chelsea

weekend wrap-up and happy monday!

Do you ever have those weekends where you wonder where they went? This one seemed to fly by way too fast. Perhaps it was the fact that I worked 6 days last week, perhaps it was just one of those great weekends where you wish they could last forever.

There's nothing like sharing your home with good friends to make everything feel worth while.

Thursday night arrived with Carl returning home. We had a great evening making dinner with a friend and getting a (sort-of) early start on the weekend!

Friday afternoon and our friend Brian came into town from Austin. Its so wonderful to get to share our home with a friend. Another friend joined us for a great dinner - I love tacos!!

Nothing makes me happier than spending a Saturday morning at the Farmer's Market.

After downing some espresso, we hopped on the bikes and headed downtown for some fresh produce.

Loving the end of winter fruits and veggies.

 

  

nothing like some anatomically correct vegetables...

 

squash butt

 

and oh wow!! fresh bread

 

yum yum

 

with some amazing heirlooms too please

 

and gorgeous flowers

nothing says spring like sweetpeas and cherry blossoms!!

 

  

After the shopping and the ride, the boys were tired

 

but no rest for me...

I was off to my favorite winery to sling some vino

 

  

seriously, its hard to call this work!

disclaimer: she didn't really drink from the Centellino
 

 

all in a hard day's work

Then back home to a house-full. More guests and happy kiddos

the indoor version of bowling for children

Sutter loves him some Alison

 Apparently he's been brushing up on his reading too...

All wrapped up with some Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. All in all, a pretty amazing day.



Brian was mistaken if he thought he'd be getting any rest.

They were all ready for attack number 2 first thing Sunday morning...

 

although I'm not sure if he's attacker or attackee in this one?

off to the park

some swingin'

some baseball

 

some brushes with nature

 

 

i love that little girl

but it was time to go home

 

grab a snack

 

and learn about the Godfather

 

"I made him an offer..."

so sad to see Uncle Brian go -
 

but Sutter gave him a pretty good send-off. Can you guess which one's Sutter and which one's Brian by the capes flying in the wind?

The weekend has already come and gone. And now its Monday again. Next week/end means more guests!! March is going to be nuts.

But for today, I've got Happy Feet.

How was your weekend??

XO,

Chelsea

 

i HEART Thursdays - for the love of fashion

Ok, so I know its Friday and I'm a day late. Lack of home internet has been affecting my posting, but luckily that's all squared away now!


Wearing my heart dress yesterday (now Wednesday) got me craving some other heart-printed fashion. Here's the roundup of some crush- and crave-worthy heart printed duds (and accessories)!

an impending Caribbean cruise has me thinking about bikini season already. Yikes!!

 

source: Urban Outfitters

not sure I could pull it off, but this sweetheart sailor suit from modcloth is adorable!!

could I be any more in love with this heart romper from Anthro????

I've been wanting these tights forever. I should just do it already. 

 the heart coat at modcloth is so sweet and simple. the heart adornment makes it!

And to top it off, some classic, lolita-esque red heart sunglasses

last but very not least, check out this amazing heart shoe collection belonging to Shoe Daydreams 

I need them all!!

What's getting your heart beating today??

XO,

Chelsea

weekend wrap-up + wardrobe wednesday

Yes, I am actually doing Wednesday's post on Thursday. A crazy weekend and busy week have pushed me all the way into Thursday without posting! Not to mention the lack of internet at home which causes me to do all my posting (shhh) on breaks at work. I'm happy to report though that we are all hooked up to the interwebs and now I can actually do some posting at home! And I'm hoping to enlist my honey's help over the weekend with some photography skills. He's pretty good and has a sweet camera!

Our last weekend was pretty crazy! Lots of progress on setting up the house - its even to a point where it might be worthy of getting some photos over this weekend!!

The two littles weren't feeling so hot, so we had to skip out on a birthday party.

Sutter loves this old fashioned key. I told him it was the key to my heart.

Harper loves makeup and headbands. I'm in serious trouble

We tried to make it up to them with some playtime at IKEA. If that didn't work, the ice cream at the end definitely did!

We spent all day Saturday at IKEA - super fun to get all the odds and ends we were needing, but there's something about spending all day doing that that just sucks a little bit of your soul!! It was pretty fun though to have Carl in tow to pronounce all the names of the items. And he got a bit of the homeland to bring home. We bought a ton of packages of Swedish meatballs and sauce. Plus I surprised him with 6 jars of Sill. We also picked up a GIANT projector screen on the way to IKEA so our movie theater experience is just about complete :)

We were rewarded for our hard day's work with a fun night out at Carr Winery. Its an awesome local winery who's tasting room is in a quonset hut. Its pretty awesome. Barrels of wine aging to perfection, shuffleboard, backgammon, great sounding music, good friends and good wine. They had an "Open That Bottle" evening where they were offering library wines for the price of the current stuff. With my industry discount it made for some pretty affordable juice, so we ended up going home with a half case. Oops. Well, we needed something to fill our new wine rack!!

Check out Carr, its pretty awesome. 

Carl is double-fisted with the drinks there. I guess he's probably holding my glass...

no idea why Chantal keeps trying to hide behind her wine glass...

 the quonset hut creating some serious love mood ;)

we got some great video of a guy dancing the funky chicken, but I'm still working on figuring out how to get that here! anybody know how?

a robot with a heart. and a glass. guy after my own heart!

Sunday was full of more organizing - mainly by Carl! I snuck out for breakfast with the girls and perused downtown SB. Kass - I popped into Anthro and managed not to buy everything in sight! It was hard!

Sunday night was the best though because we had the crew over for some delicious lasagna and great wine. Finished the night off with some peach cobbler and a little Motorcycle Diaries. Great day!!

Now for some Wardrobe...

Its been sort of a wet week here. I thought I'd brighten the mood with my new tights from Anthro - on sale for $7. Hard to say no to that!

 

 

This heart dress is my favorite. Its a go-to that never fails to make me feel happy when I wear it!

I'm looking forward to our guest this weekend and lots of happy home nesting!!

What is everyone else looking forward to?

XO,

Chelsea