Whew! This has been a really fabulous whirlwind weekend for me, so I’m a few days behind on my posts. We had our first afternoon party and sale at Chicken Lays An Egg on Saturday and then I babysat all day today. I cannot WAIT to put up the pictures from the party, we had two of our photographer friends snapping pictures all day and they did suuuuuch an incredible job. Thanks Amy and Rachel, you guys did an amazing job!!

This post however is about how my wonderful friend Jeni really kick-started my love of blogging again. Jeni is an old friend of mine from high school and when we reconnected a few years ago, we really clicked. She is one of the strongest and smartest people I know. She’s so full of life and ready to do whatever fun requires, it makes me feel very lucky to be her friend. Jeni sent me this amazing package last week and it really made my week. She wrote me several really touching cards about how she reads the blog regularly and gave me some great tips on how to keep it fresh. It was especially cool because one of the cards she gave me was this awesome Charley Harper card; he was a very cool modern artist who specialized in wildlife portraits and coincidentally lived in Cincinnati! Here’s a little sampling of his stuff:

Anyway, her letter and everything really lifted me up and put me back in my groove. I actually immediately put on three of the things she sent me; a perfect mustard sweater, bracelet, and the ribbon she used to tie up some of my presents. Here’s how I started my day. Not bad, but nothing too special.

On my way out the door I saw her package, so when I opened it at the store this is what I threw together:

WHAT: white ribbon, from jeni

mustard sweater, from jeni

little bows skirt, chicken lays an egg

brown balls bracelet, from jeni

leather belt, chicken lays an egg

square lace shoes, chicken lays an egg

WHERE: work at chicken, changing the window display

WHEN: wednesday, march 7

Thanks for reading, there will be more very soon!