May 13, 2010

Rewind! Well I had my first 365 photo blog fail. Perhaps it was because I was up until 11:40 working on finishing off the garage before everyone arrived. Oh well. Pictures of the completed project soon!

For now a rewind to 2003! Ginger's first day home - look how tiny she is!!

I'm not exactly sure if it's truly 2003, since I'm pretty sure that I got Ginger in 2002, but whatever we're going with it....I don't have any other pictures from a May 13th! Plus she's an adorable puppy!

May 12, 2010

Dark & Lovely! Well the blonde highlights were getting to be just too much. This is definitely darker than my natural color...it should be interesting to see light roots coming in rather than dark roots!

Don't worry, we'll be back to blondie Martta in no time. Just want to add it in as highlights rather than a full color lift.

May 11, 2010

Today off to my fav spot to baking supplies in Austin - The All in One Bakeshop - to prep for Caroline's cake. Heather's not having a big party, so I didn't want to make a lot of cake, but the design clearly calls for three layers. So they are going to have to be tiny layers. I picked up 4" rounds for the top. Going to be so cute! I've put my cell phone in for proportion.

May 10, 2010

I sketched out the plans for Caroline's 3rd birthday cake. She has been wishy-washy on the matter, flip flopping back and forth between a Minnie Mouse cake and a princess cake. Heather told me she was leaning toward the princess cake. Last weekend when riding out to see wildflowers in Llano, I asked her what kind of princess cake we were going to have....she gave me the Caroline stink eye and said, "I want a Minnie Cake" and then turned away from me.

O.K.

A Minnie cake then.....

This designed cobbled together from a few pieces I found out on the internet - let's see how well i do!

May 9, 2010

Happy Mother's Day! I got to spend the day with one of my favorite mothers - Heather. Here are a few snaps of Heather with her munchkins - Jack & Caroline.

May 8, 2010

Summer annuals planted! I realized that May is starting to get away from me, what with Caroline's birthday next weekend and Austin hitting 100 for the first time this season. I had to get plants in the ground this weekend! Luckily Saturday turned out to be mostly overcast with much cooler temperatures.

I'm working a purple and while palette this year with a pop of bright pink salvia. Most of my Victoria salvia and my pink salvia bit it over the extra cold winter. In this bed only one out of a dozen plants made it....see if you can spot the extra large flower blowing this whole thing out of proportion.
I fared a bit better on this side of the house - only the pink salvia died. Most of the Victoria salvia made it, albeit a bit straggly.

May 7, 2010

Sunset at Driftwood Winery. In what is becoming a quarterly ritual, Thomas and Eryn asked Cheryl and I to the quarterly wine pick up at the Driftwood winery and dinner at Trattoria Lisiana. Yum and Yum.

Here we are working on our arm poses. It's a little funny if you really look at it, but when you first glance, it makes the arm look skinny :)