“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens…”
I have seen The Sound of Music dozens of times. It’s a classic. It’s one of those movies that never goes out of style. And for the last few weeks I have had this song in my head. Julie Andrews singing this song in her bedroom surrounded by the Von Trapp children is such an amazing scene you can’t help but love it.
I love musicals, and I’m working hard to try and instill that same love into Maddie. We are both always singing about something, and if we’re not singing, we’re humming. Growing up I can remember going into a store and my mom would start humming or singing and I used to think it was really embarrassing, but now, I totally find myself doing it too. At the tender age of 7 Maddie is still happy for me to sing to her in public, but another few years and I’m sure she’ll feel the same way I felt about my mom 20+ years ago.
And then one day she will go to the store with her child and she will start singing without even thinking about it.
It’s inevitable.
So I thought I would do a post about a few of my favorite things while I sing about Julie Andrews’.
I am often considered a bit of a mystery as I am like two different people all rolled into one sweet (somedays!) package! I have an extremely girly side, with pink hair, girly mugs, and kitchy little notebooks on every counter, and then I have the woodshop side, bandana wrapped around my head, hands covered in wood glue and stain, and sawdust in every conceivable crevice.
I will go through a favorite shop tools post when I get a chance to get some shop time and take some pictures of my favs, but in the meantime, I am going to do a post about my favorite things outside of the shop!
Mugs… *sigh* mugs, glorious mugs…all the mugs…all the time…
I know I’m not alone in my obsession with adorable mugs. I know several of my friends have the same problem. It doesn’t seem to matter which store I am in, I can find a mug to buy. I have mugs for each season and rotate the ones on display every few months. I have bought several for Rex over the years but tragically, they never make it out to the display. I occasionally feel guilty about displaying only the cutest mugs, but lets face it, isn’t that what girls do? Or is that just me?
I like to sprinkle different decor around the house for each season and holiday. I have boxes and boxes of decorating items that I haul around with us through every move, and the stash grows considerable every year. Thankfully this next move should be our last! Spring is my favorite decorating season. As soon as the Christmas decorations get tucked away for the year I start bringing out the pastels and flowers. There’s something about a bouquet of pink peonies that just makes me smile just a little bit brighter.
I’d like to say that my collection is solely coffee and tea mugs but I’d be lying to you. My travel mug collection is also WAY out of hand. I saw a brilliant idea on Pinterest of using a hanging shoe holder to corral your travel mugs and let me tell you, it works so well! You know, other than the fact that it’s always overflowing and most of the “shoe” spots have multiple mugs in them. Seriously, I could probably talk about mugs for days.
But I won’t.
A notebook for everything…
I have so many notebooks, seriously, at any given point, you can look around the living space in my house and see at least 3. If they would stop making such cute ones, I would stop buying them, but until then, our house will be overrun with notebooks. Most of them only have writing on one or two pages, a few have been around for years and have a little more use but more often than not, they are simply here for decoration (and to jot the occasional grocery list on). The only problem with having so many is that I know I’ve written something important down somewhere, on a random page, in a random book….
And one day I will find it.
They call me Pinkie-Pie…
Now, in case nobody was paying attention, I LOVE PINK. I repeat, I LOVE PINK. Back in my previous life as a vet tech my stethoscope was pink, my gumboots were pink, if I could have found pink overalls, I would have worn them. Sometime in the last few months, I decided I was brave enough to try to pull off pink hair. And that is one of my favorite decisions in the last 6 months. I adore my pink hair, and I will really struggle to go back to normal hair someday. My mother-in-law doesn’t understand why I would ever dye my hair, she loves my natural color, but I am one of those people who just craves change. This bubblegum-cotton candy-strawberry ice cream pink thing that’s going on at the moment is the most amazing color. I am madly in love with my hair. I have the worlds most patient and accommodating hairdresser and she never disappoints. Even now, it’s 8 days since my last color and it’s starting to fade (as pastel colors always do) and she is helping me come up with a maintenance plan. I’m hoping we can get enough experimenting under our belts that I can do a post on how I keep my pink pink.
I could go on and on and on about so many incredible things that make my life easier, the amazing people that make my life more fun, but I wanted to just do a fun, lighthearted post about the 3 little things that never fail to make me smile!
Xo K.