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as i am sure you all are well aware of my best friend summers little baby girl willow. she will be turning six months old in may! would you not agree that she is like the poster child for gerber? there is not one photo i take where she isnt adorable. we even managed a brief appearance of summers new puppy si! 

if you are in love with willow little headband shown in the first photo we are now starting to sell them on etsy! you can check it out here.

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 isnt this rose just the prettiest thing? it bloomed over the weekend and i loved it so much i had to take it in the house to enjoy it as much as i can. i kid you not this rose smells as sweet as candy! i cannot get enough of it. the only problem with these roses is for some reason the actual flowers dont last very long. this rose just bloomed over the weekend and is already starting to die out. im not sure what the problem is but its been doing it ever since we got here on the farm. i know that these rose bushes are extremely old and one bush is very rare...some kind of cross breed that apparently they dont make anymore. so maybe that is just the problem. who knows.. 

anyways, happy hump day y'all! i have a love/hate relationship with wednesdays. although i am sure we are have that unfortunate feeling about it, it truly is bitter sweet. but my friends, lets make wednesdays more enjoyable shall we? i here by declare hump day to be, wednesdays coffee, a kick of inspiration that can jumpstart our lagging work week and inspire us back into creativity. for my first addition to wednesdays coffee i discovered this lovely video and found it very interesting. its amazing how sometimes the unthinkable can become a work of art. 

yesterday when i got home i found cricket waiting by the front door with his paws crossed all fancy like. one moment i am thinking about how cute he is looking all weirdly proper and the next i find him drinking out of the toilet. he is such a weird cat. 

last sunday chad and i visited our favorite thai restaurant named basil for an early lunch date. basil is on the top charts as one of our favorite places to eat and we pretty much order the same thing every time.  chad typically orders a thai iced tea, which he tries his hardest not to suck down before our food comes. (its a struggle let me tell you) as we were sitting there sunday, i was thinking to myself how it would be fun to try and make this drink at home so i asked our waitress where they purchase their tea from. apparently they purchase it from an asian foods distributor and while i continued pestering our poor waitress about how i want to try and make some at home and hoowwww would i be able to get some of this tea on my hands... she happily offered for me to purchase a bag of it from them and you better believe i did. 

this is my second attempt at making it. the first try i didnt let the tea steep long enough and i added half and half for the cream. round two was much more successful so here is how to make it:

you will need:

water

1 tsp.vanilla 

sweeten condensed milk

1 cup thai tea leaves (these are the same ones i received from the restaurant here or you can purchase them from your favorite local thai restaurant) 

1. boil 8 cups of water (i boiled my water in a tea pot, it was easier to control when straining) 2. once water has come to a boil, remove from burner and add one cup of thai tea leaves and one teaspoon of vanilla. make sure to blend with a spoon so all leaves are soaking. then let steep for 10 minutes if not longer 3. using a strainer pour tea into jar and let tea cool in the fridge for a while 4. when tea is cooled fill a glass full of ice and add the tea only filling the glass 3/4 full, then fill the rest with desired amount of condensed milk 5. stir with a straw and enjoy!

im pretty satisfied with how it all turned out and i am definitely going to be making more of this bad boy. i think my next drink i want to try and make at home is horchata, what are your thoughts? have you made it before?

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im gonna be honest, my hair has been through a lot in its life. we have seen it be a many, many of shades (blond, red, black, brown, highlights). you see i am one of those girls that enjoy change as often as i can whenever i can. i started bleaching my hair when i was around 14 doing a few highlights every now and again, but i guess you could say it became somewhat of an addiction. for awhile i was doing straight up bleach to get that platinum blond look. in all honesty though, my hair didn't feel all that fabulous, split ends, frizzy, and very course. i then decided it was time to cut it to be healthy again and stop the bleaching for a bit. the thing is...i am itching for a change again. my last hair appointment, i did an all over brown and let it fade into whatever it wanted. now i am going for a strawberry blond, its already faded so terribly its going to take nothing to get it to my next color. what about you girls out there? are you as addicted to changing your hair as much as i am?

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i dont know about you, but i can do without mondays.