This morning the minis and I were having quite a big time doing science projects. Before you get all eye roll-y and think I'm trying to be a show off Mama, let me clarify. I am leaving for a 4 day girls' trip to Vail on Wednesday (seriously, my friends spoil me rotten) and the minis leave for Granny Camp on July 7 for a month. So needless to say, I am filling just a few days with activities.
After we filled latex balloons with baking soda and vinegar, tied them shut and watched them expand and explode...fun times...Jack had another idea. He really wanted to open and start a crystal growing kit that I had been saving for a day just like today. I agreed after making sure we had all the paraphernalia required. Damn right those kits never come with all the things you need and you don't know that until after you've promised to do it.
We spread all the stuff out on the table and the boys decided to grow amethyst crystals, because "they are mostly Clemson purple". Um, well duh.
Except, 8 year old Jack can't really say "Am-e-thyst". It's a tongue twister even for an adult who's had nothing to drink but 2 lattes and a TAB.
So when he started referring to the experiment as making "meth crystals" I was not surprised. I was however laughing hysterically on the inside. I didn't want to laugh and make a big deal about it, because it was early in the day and even the Nancy Reagan in me didn't feel like having a Just Say NO! to drugs conversation. I bit a hole in my cheek trying not to laugh. He was so earnest.
So I let him run with it.
He proceeded to ask me a million questions about the "meth crystals" he was growing. Was the "meth" expensive? Why did we have to cook the "meth" on the stove? (there was a step that involved boiling water and adding some chemical in a saucepan) Would "meth" crystals blow up if we let them cook too long? Can you find "meth" in the ground?
Needless to say, I can't wait until he goes to the country club up North with my parents next month and someone asks him about his summer...
And he tells them his Mama in Georgia taught him how to "cook meth" and keeps it on the windowsill next to the little green plants.
June 27, 2011
Amethyst Addict or Child Services
June 20, 2011
The Planner
If you have been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I am a planner. I love to be organized, because if it is written down I don't have to remember it! So I was thrilled when I was approached by Tiny Prints to check out the new collection of planners and notepads by Erin Condren! It arrived and the cover alone had me swooning, heavy lamination...my all time favorite. Forgive the strategic placement of my Le Pen over the front of the planner, I had to cover my last name. Oh, yes, the planner is that awesome and you can personalize it with your name, monogram etc. I love the nautical colors, this one is called Taffy Stripe and comes in other color combos too.
Inside the planner is this hilarious quotation from Ferris Bueller's Day Off! I love it! The font and the colors are TDF. The stock of the paper is thick and just shiny enough. You can write on the pages with ballpoint of course, but also with pencil or Sharpie. Heaven knows I dove right in a filled mine up. July is FULL of Granny Camp, the minis leave July 7!
Further back in the planner are Monthly pages. The planner starts in the month that you order it, (unless you request otherwise). Behind those monthly pages are blank pages, lined paged and pockets slots. Also included are several sheets of shipping labels, appointment stickers, etc. In the very back there is a place to adhere pads of personalized paper. I received 2 pads of matching Jenn paper that sticks right in the back. The planner is spiral, but these pads in the back can be replaced throughout the year as needed.
June 13, 2011
Clemson Love!
The canvas!
This comes as a canvas and a magnet!
I stopped by Glory Haus today to pick up these lovelies! Take note of the family in the frame...recognize us? hee hee I love the Victory Haus line and was so happy to be photographed as the family in the Clemson frame. The minis and I sported shirts from Tigertown Graphics and Heaven knows we LOVE our Tigers! The canvas is my favorite, the artist at Glory Haus took all of our suggestions about what it really takes to be a Clemson Tiger and incorporated all of them into the canvas. There is also a tiny version of the How To art as a magnet! Clearly, that had to make it's way to my fridge! June 12, 2011
Cooler
Dear Coach,
I love you. With all of my heart. I am happy to get up at crack thirty on the weekends to make you an enormous cooler of food to take recruiting.
When you leave that cooler at home, I still love you. With all of my heart.
But, I want to kick you in the junk.
Love and kisses,
Clemsongirl
June 10, 2011
Atlanta History Center
Inside, the minis loved the Bobby Jones golf exhibit and I was drooling over the Gone With the Wind manuscript and letters from Margaret Mitchell. They were a hoot to read, she was an opinionated Catholic! We made a quick stop into the Coca-Cola Cafe before checking out the other exhibits. The minis couldn't believe the Olympic Games area with the floor being made of the basketball court from the 1996 games in Atlanta. They asked when we could come back, and Jack wonders if they decorate the Smith house for Christmas!
June 7, 2011
Prettiest Girl in School
In October of my 6th grade year, we moved to Suburban Chicago. Junior High (as it's called in the North) was already in full swing and I was the new girl. GACK.
Never one to disappoint in the clothing category, I arrived on my first day decked out in what can only be described as well, preppy. Grass green wool skirt, grass green cableknit sweater and a white popped collar underneath. Sam and Libby bow-toed flats completed what I thought was a darling outfit.
Except EVERY OTHER GIRL IN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL was wearing pegged jeans and colored Converse sneakers. Oops. Outfit: FAIL. (This was also the day that I had no idea how to do my locker combination and I had to beg a boy in the hallway to do it for me. That boy turned out to be my high school boyfriend, but I digress.)
That first day I met my friend who I have always referred to as "The Prettiest Girl in School". If you went to Haines, or STC HS, you know her initials as KP. Just saying. She was, and is beautiful.
We grew up, went to college and got married. She to a college athlete and me to a college Coach. We both had 2 boys, the same ages. We both became Realtors.
And then.
This week The Prettiest Girl in School announced that she is pregnant with baby #3.
A GIRL! *insert green with envy font*
A baby girl who is certain to grow up to be the Class of 2029's Prettiest Girl in School.
June 6, 2011
Punch
At the beginning of last week, I got stung by a wasp or some other such nastified insect. ON MY FOREHEAD. It hurt and I assure you that I cried. I cried more when I saw my forehead in the mirror as it swelled up to a huge goose egg. Ridiculous.
Fast forward for the next 5 days, me icing and taking Benadryl. Each day the swelling went down, but it was still not cute.
Saturday, I finally extracted the stinger. The relief was amazing. Today, it's almost completely flat, yet still pink and angry looking.
I met Coach at the door (I always do) when he got home tonight with a kiss.
The first words out of his mouth:
"You still look like you got punched in the face."
Delightful honey. Now I'd like to punch HIM in the face.
June 5, 2011
Religious Experience
You know what God created in the first 7 days.
But all good Southern sorority girls know what happened on the 8th day...
You're welcome.
June 2, 2011
Surprise Party Planning
I was hired a few weeks ago to plan a surprise party for a client's fiance. The event was last night, at a Lebanese restaurant in Decatur, GA called Mezza. This was my gift to the guest of honor, which was framed art. I had to infuse my love of polka dots and orange with the theme!
Hard to tell from a picture, but the tables in the lounge are super low and the benches and rattan seats were very cool.
Close up of the flowers, I used a scallop punch and Tempus Sans font (seemed middle eastern to me!) for her "monogram". Not a traditional monogram, but made them more personal.
The bar was very cool, with stained glass cut outs on the front!
More pictures of the lounge, called the Dar. 
The menu card. Of course I had to make it orange!
Ummmm... hooka?All in all it was a success! I think the client was happy and the guest of honor friended me on Facebook, so that's a good sign...
