Happy {Memorial Day} Weekend.

Wowza, am I ready for this three day weekend! I’m fried from work this week and if I have to absorb any more information things are going to start leaking out my ears. I need some R&R in a big way!

What are your plans for Memorial Day weekend?
Staying home or out and about?

This Weekend:
• clean out flower bed
• buy top soil and perennials
• celebrate my mom’s 52nd at Red Prime Steak
• make Jello mold and have photo shoot (for work project)
• eliminate laundry pile
• install new kitchen faucet(?)
• begin planning stages for new DC site (eek!)
• Memorial Day cookout

Happy Memorial Day!
Happy Weekend!

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Happy Weekend.

Hello, Mr. Sunshine. It’s so good to see you after three weeks of rain and my yard flooding! There’s a little more to com this weekend, but I have big plans to take advantage of any dry time that does decides to show up.

This Weekend:
• spend an obscene amount of money at Lowe’s (garage shelving, touch-up paint, etc.)
• hunt down some reasonably-priced patio furniture
• dig up flower bed near front door
• bake a coconut cake for my mom’s birthday
• watch the Preakness Stakes and maybe whip up a batch of these

Reminder:
You have until Monday, May 18th at noon CST to enter the Linda & Harriett contest!

Happy Weekend!

:: photo via ffffound

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Happy {Mother’s Day} Weekend.

I consider myself one of the lucky ones because my mom truly is my best friend. A few weeks ago I sent her a invitation to join me for a Mother’s Day luncheon Sunday. I think I’ve narrowed the menu down to strawberry poppyseed salad, roast chicken and sage pesto paninis and blackberry mousse. I think I’ll also have a big vase of flowers sitting on the kitchen table for her when she arrives at my house!

For those of you who are last minute here are a few links to check out:
• DIY Mother’s Day door hanger from Twig & Thistle
• downloadable card from Spagat
• downloadable Happy Mother’s Day banner from Poppytalk
• card for the dads to give via Ambrosia Girl

This Weekend:
• shop for ingredients and make Sunday’s luncheon
• schedule fence and gutter installations
• schedule Peanut’s annual vet appointment
• LAUNDRY!!!
• cookout at C+H’s
• price storm doors

Do have big plans to either spoil or be spoiled this weekend for Mother’s Day? Or maybe both?

Happy Weekend!
Happy Mother’s Day!

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Happy Weekend.

It’s been nothing but a lot of rain this week, with more to come throughout the weekend. I normally have no problem with downpours, but two things are ticking me off. Thing #1. My gutters need replaced. Which is due to happen as soon as these storms let up for a few days. But at the moment 75% of my house is gutter-less, making 75% of my lawn swamp-like at best. And Thing #2. I haven’t had a chance to do any spring landscaping. Including the normal weeding/fertilizing thing. Which means my yard is starting to resemble something straight out of the rain forest.

This Weekend:
• have a few friends over Saturday for a Derby party
• try out new pub with C Saturday night
• organize recipes in newly purchased binders
• find something to put inside this large recycled glass vase
• plan Mother’s Day luncheon menu

Note: Just a reminder to enter the YellowGoat giveaway to win a pair of lovely Vinea and Folium earrings! You have until Monday at noon CST.

Happy Weekend!

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Happy Weekend.

This week went awesomely fast and the weekend is supposed to be beautiful. Well, at least until Sunday evening when some storms are supposed to roll in. Make time to enjoy the warmth that’s passing through the country this weekend! So far mine is looking amazingly low-key and unplanned. And I’m loving it.

This Weekend:
• plan out landscaping for my front yard
• wash car
• visit the Festival of the Arts
• sketch and draw

Happy Weekend!

:: photo via Abby Powell Thompson

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Happy Weekend.

Another one of those weeks where the days feel like they’re moving oh so slowly, yet the week itself flies. Sneaky little guys, those ones are. I hope you have lovely plans that include at least a little time for relaxing!

This Weekend:
• snap some pictures of my finally finished china cabinet to post next week(!)
• celebrate Orthodox Easter Sunday
• plan landscaping while enjoying predicted rain
• gather clothing, accessories, etc. and plan Swap Party
• hang out with C
• catch up on 30 Rock and The Office

Happy Weekend!

:: photo via podobycko on deviantART

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Happy {Easter} Weekend.

Hello weekend! It’s so nice to see you again.

This Weekend:
• dye eggs with my mom
• work on painting my china cabinet
• celebrate Easter at my mom + stepdad’s
• bake this for Easter dessert
• finish reading Eclipse
• visit with L

Happy Weekend!
Happy Easter!

** Don’t forget to enter the contest to win some of The Left Handed Calligrapher‘s amazing work! (You have until Monday at noon CST.) Stop by her blog – A Flick of the Pen – for additional inspiration!

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Happy Weekend.

Yay for Friday! Booo for bipolar weather! It’s swung from 30s to 70s and back again not once, but twice this week. Make up your mind, Mother Nature – can a girl switch out her winter wardrobe for spring or not?

This Weekend:
• work on the never-ending project that is my china cabinet
• go to the Thunder game with my mom
• finish reading New Moon
• LAUNDRY! like three weeks worth
• spring cleaning in the kitchen
• watch the lat weekend of March Madness

Happy Weekend!

:: photo via ffffound (Love, love, LOVE this tattoo and really, really, REALLY wishing I didn’t already have one shoulder occupied with another…)

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Happy Weekend.

Ugh. That’s really all I can say. If you noticed my absence these past few days I’m sorry. Trust that I would much rather have been working and functioning like a normal-ish human being that being cloistered in my bed. Not my house, mind you, but my actual physical bed for the past two days. I went to the doctor this morning finally and got a nice dose of antibiotics to knock whatever this is out of my system. All systems will be back to normal Monday.

Notes:
• Don’t forget to enter the contest to win a set of Courtney Khail’s stationary! You have until Monday at 12 pm CST to enter and win a beautiful set of her hand-painted awesomeness!
• Vanilla Week will resume Monday which means two extra days of vanilla-y goodness! (I’m glad it wasn’t Spinach Week or something equally healthy)

This Weekend:
• enjoy the unexpected snow that’s due to blanket the metro this evening and through the night
• miss K’s 30th birthday party (booo!)
• lay on the couch a lot
• watch tons of March Madness
• sleep for long periods of time
• in general: get better

Happy Weekend!

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Happy {Spring} Weekend.

The weather has been beautiful (sorry NYC!) which makes the weekend’s arrival that much better. All week I’ve been absolutely loving zipping around town in my new car with the windows down and stereo blasting. Yeah, it’s been that kind of fantastic.

This Weekend:
• changing car insurance information with my agent
• paying bills (BOO!)
• making Straw and Hay Pasta
• painting my china cabinet glossy black
• driving to Tulsa to see K, D + O!

Happy Weekend!

:: photo via housemartin

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