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Girly Spice

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My hairdresser is wonderful.

I loved this sideways french braid that she (MB) showed me a while back.

Then today, I got to try this braid, that someone else found on the internet and tweeted. Look at all the social media work for a hairstyle!

I know some of you aren’t in love with my two tone hair – and I admit it even bugs me anywhere that isn’t Park City (SLC)…

but I think it looks great with this waterfall braid style!

Her husband has been calling me Sporty Spice – I’ve been out rock climbing and playing volleyball with them, and he is more used to me in heels and dresses.

I try to balance both, so there’s the girly stuff, stay tuned for the adventure blogs!

Newest Idea

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Some of you don’t love when I just repost links, but buzzfeed has assembled a list of the 35 most ridiculous Sky Mall Items

here.

It is funny to me since I own one of these items – no it’s not the wine glass necklace, although I think that’s genius.

I think I should buy all 35 and put them around the house. Maybe it’d get me on the Today Show…

How about you? One on there you would totally buy? Already have?

Young House Love

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Have you seen this blog? Have you read and reread this entire blog? I can’t do anything to our house because I’m too busy reading about theirs! And their wedding, and their baby…

Snippy introduced us all here in the comments, but in case you weren’t checking them out, I wanted to share with you the magic of this blog. You see, our house is old. I think I’ve mentioned that. But it has good bones. Drafty bones, but good bones. It was the first house I looked at and saw tons of potential. And we looked at so many houses. Ask Snippy. In Austin, things were different at the time and our price range, well, we virtually didn’t have one. Remember – banks were giving you all the money you wanted. Thankfully, we didn’t go that route. We put our stuff in storage and moved around for three amazing years. But we still looked at houses. New and old, big and small, ocean front and ski town. All that looking told me was that I wanted a house the made people happy to be in. Not uncomfortable, not anxious.

It took me until now to learn that almost has nothing to do with the house, and everything to do with what you do to the house. And that it doesn’t have to cost much at all. With each new shade of paint of decorative pillow, I’m making the house me (okay, us). And it can be fun. I apologize for complaining and relating a trip to Lowe’s to a root canal. This house is a blessing and not only can we take care of it, we can help it put it’s best foot forward. The plans will be fun. The ‘as is’ is temporary, and neither a budget nor a nail gun can stand in our way. We can do it!

Review This

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If you read this website and aren’t a chicken, answer my question in the comments:

How often do you look to the internet for reviews?

Whether it’s for restaurants, hairdressers, movies, skis or I don’t even know what else, how often do you read opinions?

MK doesn’t really makes decisions without this type of review. It’s how we got our new bed (post about that tomorrow). MK reads yelp like some people read the headlines. And he takes it all with ZERO grains of salt. Let me clarify my beef:

Back in the old days, sure, normal people might take the time to write up a thing. Probably only if they really really liked or hated it. Now, seriously, everyone has the internet. My GRANDPARENTS have the internet. Anyone can get on these sites and review stuff. MK trusts these strangers. I’m the polar opposite. If you are someone that has time to do a ton of reviews of random sites for random stuff, I totally wonder about you. I don’t trust you, I want you to get off the internet. Especially if you spell something wrong. I’ve also heard too many stories about restaurants posting good reviews of themselves. And if I don’t know you and your avatar is a lil pic of you and your twenty cats, I don’t care what you think about the salon/food/gym.

MK sits on the internet on his phone IN THE STORE. I’m cool with that if he finds something cheaper elsewhere. But not when he’s all “KK395lady said this will be the best couch we’ve ever owned”. Riiiight.

Sidenote: Don’t be mad at me if you yourself painstakingly take the time to write well thought out, non irate, well intended reviews. I know you’re out there, I just think sometimes these days you’re harder to find.

Creative Lovelies

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My good friend JC (who got married this weekend, and is now JB!!!) had me over last week to teach me how to make soaps. She’s been running a small business for a while, doing beautiful custom designs (my favorites are the soaps with a loofah INSIDE and the rubber duckie ‘on the water’). I was amazed by her hobby and curious to learn the process.

It was, of course, way over my head. The mixology of color, scent, and shape is an art! There were neat iridescent soaps, clear, and opaque soaps. There were soaps for every occasion, every gift basket, every room in the house.

Here’s a picture of the soaps that we she made:

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It’s a camera phone picture, so it’s a little blurry, but we she made shimmery gold flowers, and a bunch of different bar designs. In the back was a half loofah/half soap idea she’s considering. The heart was my experiment – TB gets points for showing me the wonders of Press and Seal.

My main concern was that I don’t use soap that often, I’m a body wash girl. But we got some to take home and try, and the glycerin that she uses is smooth and soft. I was totally surprised. Guess what everyone is getting for Christmas…

Since I’m not just telling you how unskilled I am, and I am suggesting you try some soap…

here’s the Creative Lovelies website.

She also has an etsy store link that will be up and running after the honeymoon! :)

Bookmark and go back to often!

Call Me A Niner

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Rainn Wilson’s new site – Soul Pancake…I plan on borrowing from heavily

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Five things I’d actually be willing to chop off my pinkie-toe for.

  1. So it didn’t hurt when I skied.
  2. To save money on pedicures (from TB).
  3. To go back in time 10 years and do it all over again.
  4. A free Chanel purse (so superficial!)
  5. More time with loved ones.
from Soul Pancake dot com

from Soul Pancake dot com

Click this link to read the responses on the website.

Add your own here too please!

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Cupcakes & Design

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Here at SomeGoSoftly you will find some of the most discerning readers on the internet – people that care about news and facts and creativity. HA! But you know I love you all dearly – especially lately – it is so busy here! Thanks!

So I want to do you all a favor and let you know about anther place you might like to check out.  I recently reconnected via Facebook with one of the super nicest girls I knew in High School. She’s started herself a website.

Run over there and say hi. Cupcakes & Design already has SomeGoSoftly beat – she knew how to design her own page. If you’re nice to her, she might even help me tinker around over here!

She blogs about design, multimedia, the web, and yummy food. A great combination, since I’m always eating while I’m sitting in front of the laptop! :)

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