The view lately

We have had a lot of these this week:

It has been quite chilly... at least for Texas, my friends in Germany might have a different idea of "chilly"!

This has been the other view around here lately:

Since we've been spending our evenings inside, hunkered down due to the recent sickness and chilliness, we have been going back through all the old seasons of LOST to get caught up and ready for the 6th and final season that starts tonight!! Randall figured out how to hook up our computer to our TV so we can watch our favorite reruns from hulu.com on the bigger screen. We are going to go watch the season premiere with our friends the Densons who are also big fans- I'm excited! Any other LOST fans out there excited for tonight!?

Doctor's office magazines

So, I've spent the better part of the last two days asleep on my couch. I have a bad sore-throat and feel achey all over. I finally went to the care now last night because it didn't seem to be going away. After a couple hours there I was told that I just had a bad cold that could last 7-10 days and there was no medicine to cure it just some to help with the pain of my sore throat and help me sleep... great. At least they had some good magazines to read while I was waiting to see the doc. Here's a couple interiors I liked out of the Feb issues of Country Home and House Beautiful.

This last photo looks like a fun table-setting for a sweet Valentine's Party. I like the idea of using those industrial looking garden chairs along side the fancy chandelier and candlesticks.

Wild Berry Zinger

This morning I woke up with a scratchy throat.

I hope I'm not getting what Randall had last week.

Anyway I'm now enjoying a nice cup of tea - with a little honey... for the throat right?

Right.

And see those darling little owls in the background?

They are salt and pepper shakers

From one of my favorite etsy stores, High Street Market

If you don't know what etsy is you must go there now

They sell anything handmade or vintage that you could imagine

It's fantastic

But beware, you could loose hours of your day searching for goodies!

New nightstand and a clean room.

Exciting Friday Night...

I know, I know..... it's Friday night and I'm blogging! Randall & I just had a quiet night-in tonight. We are so busy usually that it's nice just to stay home and relax sometimes! So this is what we did:

I baked sugar cookies. Mmmm

Baking is therapeutic.

I bake while singing along to good music (specifically the "Glee Cast" station on Pandora).

I am making heart shaped sugar cookies.

The plan is to bake them and then freeze them so when Valentine's Day comes around all I have to do is thaw and decorate them- the fun part!

My favorite recipe is one from my Aunt Claire - they are the best Sugar Cookies! I think the magic ingredients are the sour cream and nutmeg. I might just have to bake a couple and test them out tonight!

And.....Randall slept. He's been sick all week and is still not fully recovered. He did manage to watch an episode of his favorite show Project Runway first :)