Chick-fil-a!

Daniel and I had free chick-fil-a breakfast sandwiches this morning. The Chick-fil-a in Tustin is having their free Friday breakfasts thru the end of February. Yum!!

full rainbow

This weekend on the way to Eric's 30th birthday in Las Vegas, Daniel and I saw a full halo rainbow. At first it was only visible through my sunglasses, but a couple of hours into the drive, the full rainbow came out to the naked eye. I made Daniel pull over so that he could see it. At first, he only saw part of the rainbow so he didn't want to pull over, but then he looked out the passenger side window and saw the bottom of the halo as an inverted rainbow. We pulled over and enjoyed the scene for a moment.

lush

Daniel got some lush products this Christmas from the white elephant gift exchange at his office. We've been using the Seanik Solid Shampoo by LUSHsince and it's been great. The lush products seem to be pretty green with less than average synthetic products. I love the way this solid shampoo smells AND it's a greener product because there's no packaging. When we finish all of our other bottles of shampoo, this solid shampoo is the way we're going. We even bought a new soap holder today for our bar of shampoo.

Also in his gift was Ocean Salt Cleanser by LUSH which is a face scrub that makes your skin tight and smell clean and fresh. The soap, Sandstone Soap by LUSH was ok. It dissolved pretty quickly, but did it's job. It had a lemony scent. I couldn't get used to the Buffy Body Butter by LUSH, but it does scrub and moisturize. The body butter also dissolved quickly.

inspiration

My friend, Edena, gave me this business card holder for inspiration as I study for the oral exam (the last exam) I have to take to become a licensed architect. I keep it on my desk for inspiration. The exam is in March and this blog will keep me on track as a study log. I find that I am more productive when what I am doing is completely exposed to friends and myself.

christmas day

Daniel and I slept in this morning and then went for a walk around the nature preserve (the colored portion).
We are going to go see my grandma and watch Beowulf later tonight.

I am so excited about this blog. I am just warming up for the new year!

Merry Christmas!

Earlier today at my brother-in-law's parents home for Christmas Eve dinner. My favorite is always the Taiwanese sticky rice with shitake mushrooms. I learned that the secret to the even soy sauce goodness throughout is to steam it twice!

Track Santa today at:
www.noradsanta.org

jane clutch

After my wedding, I hemmed one of my bridesmaid's dresses so that she could wear it again as a tea length dress. Each of my bridesmaids picked out something unique to their dress and Jane wanted a giant bow in the back of her dress. I used the trimmings from her dress and some upholstry fabric samples that I had to make this matching bow clutch for her.