WARNING: Gratuitous pictures of Wren to follow!

Yesterday while daddy was at work Wren and I decided to enjoy a "ladies night" (converted from baby time it is more like 3pm normal time). On the agenda was a trip to my new absolute favorite destination, Duchess!



It just recently opened, and I had never heard about it until Angelica blogged about the goodies her girlfriends brought by last week. EVERYTHING here looks like it came straight from the set of Marie Antoinette, (which is my favorite-est movie of all time) and is almost too pretty to eat. But eat we did!

And it was heavenly...


Afterwards we hit up HomeSense, and while I walked out empty-handed Wren snagged an adorable dress for Spring.

Now we are awaiting Sean's arrival as he left earlier to pick up some interesting items for WhiteBerry (what would we do without him, I ask you?!), then we are off to sort through some wallpaper samples and paint colors for the *possible* painting of the living/dining rooms at Expressions.

But until then we are playing!

"if a tree falls in the forest...."

Wren is SUCH an animal lover, it is so amazing how you can see little snippets of their personality at such a young age. She is gentle with the dogs and just loves hugging on them all. the. time!

And if you want even MORE pictures of Wren, and a little painting action as well, head over to see Frugal Contessa and part two of her cabinet transformation!

Whew! It may be taking a lot longer than anticipated, but I am hard at work over here updating the links along the header bar up there ^^^^

I am now happy and proud to say the DIY section has been fully updated to the end of 2009!!! And at the request of several lovely readers I have been diligent in adding pictures to each link so you can sort through it a little easier.

The next frontier? Frequently Asked Questions. Boy, will that be great to check off my list of jobs! Then onto updating the renos section because lord knows the two links to Wren's Room and our Master aren't even current these days...

Ciao bellas!

Happy Valentine's Day

Do you have a Valentine? I hope so! Everyone deserves a Valentine at least one day a year. I can't help but being thankful for having 4 of them 365 days a year.



Even though it would be nice to go out on a fancy date to a nice restaurant, our "date" will be in the kitchen at 10am. You see, Sean works at noon (usually until 10 or 11pm) so we will have a romantic party of 5, comprised of three humans and two dogs, a little earlier than most.

We will be toasting to "us" over Shirley Temples (orange juice+ginger ale+grenadine=heaven!).



Savouring pink meringue cookies.



And ripe ruby-red strawberries.

Not to mention opening a card or two (thanks mom & dad!).

From our family to yours, have a wonderful Valentine's Day.