Dear Thailand....

I am soooo excited to finally meet you. You have been one in my dreams practically my whole adult life. Please be nice to us and make sure that none of the rioting or grenade throwing reaches these beautiful places pictured. Oh and the 3 girls in the picture, (courtesy of Shauna Morse) like to have a lot of fun so do all you can to help them out.
Thanks,
Darci

Does Anyone Remember this Song? I think you have to have been born before 1978 to know it.

Greatest Jr High slow dancing song. I can picture myself standing against the wall or hiding in the bathroom even as I write this. Anyways... sweet music video, who knew the guys looked like this??

I wish they would make ....

An application on the iPhone for blogging. Does anyone know of one that's compatible with blogger?
I want to upload pics!

It's a BOY! I was thinking I would be buying headbands and dresses but I like these things just as much!

Blurry Photos of my Living Room.

These pictures stink and they are all of the same thing... one side of my living room. You can't see my favorite part, the texture of the wallpaper below. I think you can see it in my "pie face" pictures though.

Pie Face

Probably the last thing that you want to hear when you are pregnant is that your face is really getting full... which is the first thing my client said to me when she saw me today. Here I was taking pride in the fact that I thought all I was getting was a little belly an something else that I really don't mind filling out if you know what I mean and nothing else. Made me pretty much go from feeling like this...


To THIS

Here is a repeat picture for a brand new reason. Okay you asked for it so here it is. Don't get mad if they make you fat! ORANGE CREAM CUPCAKES

UPDATE 4/4/10!!!! I forgot to put the zest of one orange into the cupcake recipe!

CAKE
Use a white cake mix (OR YOUR OWN WHITE CAKE RECIPE)and follow directions except.....

Sub water with OJ (or for extra Orangey Cupcakes take OJ concentrate and make
your OJ super strong)
Then add 1 tsp of Orange Extract (Best flavor is that McCormic Brand that all
grocery stores carry)

CUPCAKES ARE READY TO BE COOKED NOW

FROSTING
Blend one cube of butter and a block of cream cheese
Slowly add 5 cups of powdered sugar
Slowly add heavy whipping cream for a smoother texture but not runny at all
(I think I usually do 1/2 cup or a little more, I just eyeball it. Keep
it pretty thick though so that it will stay where you put it when you ice)
Last step.. add like 1-1.5 tsp of orange extract

LET THE CUPCAKES COMPLETELY COOL THEN PIPE ON THE FROSTING FROM A GIANT ZIPLOCK WITH A TINY CORNER CUT OFF. YUMMY!

Salad Table

This is our next project. I already bought the seeds for our lettuce and some veggies. Our dogs would totally pee on our garden if it was on the ground so this is a better option for us. Here is a link for directions on how to construct a simple version of it.

Latest Obsession.... Fruit Trees

When we moved in here, there were already 2 trees here. An Orange and Satsuma Mandarin. Orange tree makes about 10 oranges/year and is super ghetto. On the other hand our mardarin tree is awesome. It's in our front yard and people poach them all of the time. Dan caught a lady red handed and her (picture Napoleon Dynamite's Grandma) response was "You guys have the best Mandarin's in the neighborhood, I've tried them all", Dan couldn't even respond to this. Anyone wanting to plant a citrus tree, this is the one I recommend. The fruit is not too attached to the skin so its SUPER easy to peel and no seeds.
Limequat Tree- Dan just bought me one. It's obviously a cross breed between a lime and a kumquat. I just used one when I was cooking chicken. It was pretty good and really juicy. Easier to squeeze than a lime so that was good.
Now I just need my Avocado, Lemon and Grapefruit trees and I will be set! Oh maybe Apricot too!

Satsuma Mandarin

Limequat

SOON TO COME......

House before and afters! You have been waiting for almost 2 years for these!!

Animal Cops

Lately I've been sick a lot and I watch animal planet all day long. But why do I watch Animal Cops or those ASPCA commericals? I cry everytime. The first picture is of a dog that lives in a back yard that needs to be weeded, she's starving and dirty... just kidding that's Lucy, she's ours haha. Lucy looks sooooo malnourished but I promise she eats 3 cups of food a day, she's just half coyote or something.

I'm baaaaaaaccccckkkkkk!

I love the iphone. It can make anyone feel like they are a really cool photographer. Please note..... I KNOW I AM NOT a really cool photographer. This is our roadtrip to Arizona over Pres Day Weekend.

Saddest News Ever!!! No More Domino Magazine!

I just read that the March issue of Domino Mag is the last one ever! My heart is Broken. I waited 3.5 weeks out of the month for this magazine to arrive. As soon as I read it (usually about 3-4 days) I waited for the next eagerly.

Luigi Murenu

Amazing! I went to class for Kerastase this week and Italian Hair Designer, Luigi Murenu showed us his famous "Hair Bow". He's an amazing artist who dresses the hair of the runways such as Viktor and Rolf and Alexander McQueen. His hair design is also fetured frequently in W mag. I was James Peter's model for the style that starts out in very very tight ponytail, it seems to be Luigi's signature. My eyes were instantly lifted and... it hurt! Beauty is pain baby, beauty is pain!

Fun with Photos

I told my friend who showed me this website that I wouldn't tell anyone about it but I HAVE to post the pictures... You can probably figure it out if you really want to.

I am craving....

ORANGE CREAM CHEESE CUPCAKES! Today I decided to eat no carbs and of course this is also the day that I got an email from a friend asking for my Orange Cream Cupcake recipe. Ugh!

You know that I LOVE animals... but I want to KILL coyotes.

When I see them in my driveway I try to run them over. That's a little dramatic, but I do drive my car really fast at them to chase them away. (I probably would cry and feel bad if I ran one over.) They've taken almost all of my cats growing up. They are evil. I miss this little ball in the morning. As psycho as she was, I miss my Kitty Baby!

Leanimal TEASER

Oh the ruffles! That's right, my favorite PR designer has an etsy site, but the bad news is... these are all items that are sold already. I don't think she is allowed to sell anything while the show is running. I am kind of bummed because I know her prices will skyrocket after the show :(

I can't stop posting about wallpaper... Here is a great substitution for the coolest and most expensive wallpaper in the world.

Okay so I really am a little bit too obsessed with the "Woods" wallpaper by Cole and Son. I want it, need it, dream about it, but there is no way I am going to spend a G on one room's walls.


So.... once again I am going back to Graham and Brown. This is there Enchanted wallpaper that comes in all different colors from golds to black. It's a little bit morbid but I like it.

Going Green... in the Laundry Room

I got inspired by a picture in Domino for Kate Spade's kitchen and wasn't brave enough to do something that loud in a place that everyone would see all of the time so I did it in the laundry room. So far... it's my favorite room in the house!

Textured Walls....YES!

So I have obviously been obsessed with wallpaper lately trying to figure out which to use in the front room. I ordered 9 patterns from Target online (out of the 600 that they have, yep.) Most of them are Graham and Brown so I decided to look at some more online. Not only are they cheaper from Graham and Brown directly, but they have way better designs to choose from including these texture and paint designs which are genius! I honestly think I will just leave them white.