big dreams for waco

i saw this proposal on the trib website and it is crazy! What if Waco looked like this in 2015? Impressive.

Yes We Can!

woohoo!

*photo courtesy of www.aaronsacco.com

ornamental things

so harts~n~crafts got some new necklaces that are from ornamentalthings.com...(an Austin based jewelry artist who we came across at ACL) they are all so pretty! I have been trying to keep my hands off of them to let others get the chance to buy them and take their pick, but i am not sure i can wait any longer!


so cute!the one i am leaning toward looks alot like this one but it has a leaf and a little flower with a pearl in it.

i originally fell in love with this one:what do you think?

i am just in the shopping spirit because i have been badgered about christmas from my mom and mom-in-law. As I look for other people, i naturally find stuff i like!

leave us alone, Ike!

A woman just came into the store and told me she was just browsing and that she and her husband had evacuated from Houston because of Hurricane Ike. They are staying at the hotel behind the shop. I got to talk to her and find out that they had sought refuge in Fredericksburg just last week because of Gustav. She seemed a bit shaken up

She had no intention of buying anything, just killing time and then she found a special little plaque. It said "STORMS always lose out to the SUN." She told me that she would put that up in their hotel room. I thought that was so sweet.

*EDIT* she came back and bought two more for people she met at the hotel!

i have a fear of going to the bank.

Have I ever told you that I have a fear of the bank? Somehow every time I go, I do something wrong. Lately this fear has been amplified at Wells Fargo because my account says Holly Jones and my ID says Holly Duke. Geez. Sometimes Britt offers up the idea that I should be a bank teller for some extra cash. How can I work there if I can't even make a successful trip through the drive-thru?

One day I will grow up. One day.

p.s. I have tried to post pictures from our trip to Atlanta but my internet connection is lacking.

break time

I, along with my Hello Kitty sewing machine, made a lap quilt! I just wanted to see if I could do it and am pretty happy with the turnout. I used Amy Butler's Midwest Modern fabric. I just love the colors! Now that Britt and I have completed all of these projects I think it's time for a little break.

Off to Atlanta we go! Be back next week!

50 simple things kids can do...

As many of you know, my minor at Baylor was Environmental Studies. My first semester at Baylor I took the intro class and fell in love. Later, I realized that I was actually falling in love for the second time in my life. I could now remember my environmental efforts as an elementary school student that included going door to door to collect change for "pennies for the planet" and me begging my parents to cut the six pack rings!

I have recently blamed Nickelodeon for this strange interest(and maybe my family of Democrats, but they take no credit). You may remember the "Big Help." each year I would call in and pledge to Ren or Stimpy how many hours I would spend helping the planet that summer. From here I started my own "recycling club" with my friends. Needless to say, that didn't work out. How come no other 4th grader cared that that glass container that his applesauce was in will never decompose?

So this past weekend I went to Abilene to stay with my parents for a few days. They have been remodeling and cleaning so I had a box waiting for me of stuff my mom couldn't toss out. And in that box I found the true culprit for my love of the Earth:

Over the last week Britt and I have both read through this. It was published in 1990 ( i was 6) and it blew us away. The content of this book is the same of articles being published today in shiny magazines about "Going Green."

At first I was surprised about this and now I am disheartened. Why did it take 20 years to make the things in this book "hip"?