Smile for Friday: We've all been there

Happy Weekend!

Smile for the week: We all have days like these

Sometimes Tuesdays can be Mondays.... 

Smile for the week: Yummy

Olympics and Nutella... together at last!

Smile for The Week: Give Thanks

An important and lovely thing to remember

Thing That's Making Us Smile This Week: Star Wars Craftiness

Seriously... I want all of these

Smile for the Week: Fireworks!

We'll be on vacation from tomorrow through Sunday.  Have a safe and happy Fourth of July, everyone!

Thing That's Making Us Smile This Week: Buffy Embroidery

If there's one thing I love it's Buff the Vampire Slayer.  If there are two things I love it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Embroidery.  Thank you, internet!

Smile for the Week: Models Falling down

Stumbled across this earlier this week and immediately had to share it on twitter.  Even if you saw it then, I guarantee it's worth a second viewing.  Or even third, fourth and fifth.  It just never. gets. old.

Smile for the Day: Just 3 and 1/2 days to go

You can do it!

Thing That's Making Us Smile This Week: Sass

Here's hoping everyone remembered to wear their Sassy Pants today!

What's Making Us Smile This Week: Me Want Food

Seriously... how is it only 10:46am?

What's making Us Smile This Week: Bad Joke Alert

What can we say?  We're suckers for a silly pun.  Enjoy your Tuesday!

Thing That is Making Us Smile This Week: the PRO in procrastination

We're having a busy week with lots of quick turnarounds being requested.  Oh, how we sometimes wish we could join this club.   Maybe later.  :)

What's Making Us Smile This Week: Cats... they're just like us

Oh how we love Pinterest.  From recipes to add 50 pounds to your butt, to exercises to take them all off again, from crafts to fashion - it's simply our favorite source for inspiration... and of course the occasional smile.  Are you on Pinterest?  Let us know and we'll be sure to follow your pins!

Thing That's Making Us Smile This Week: Downton Abbey Paper Dolls

We are suckers for cool graphics, and British drama, and this is the perfect marriage between the two!  Like the rest of the country, we're in love with Downton Abbey and when we saw these adorable paper dolls we just had to share them.  We're in love with Maggie Smith's "various expressions" and Sybil's female empowerment accessories.  Hope they bring a smile to your day as well!

Thing That is Making Us Smile This Week: Ron Swason, embroidered

Any fan of Parks and Recreation knows that Ron Swanson is the man. That being duly acknowledged: Is this not the greatest thing ever?

Thing That is Making Us Smile This Week: Baby Hippos!!

There are no words...

Thing That's Making Us Smile: God Bless You, Tina Fey

Who doesn't love Tina Fey?  She's smart, she's funny and she's (seemingly) as delightfully flawed as the rest of us.   This week we happened upon this prayer she wrote for her daughter and just had to share it:

“First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it’s the Damage that draws the creepy soccer coach’s eye, not the Beauty. 

When the Crystal Meth is offered, may she remember the parents who cut her grapes in half And stick with Beer.Guide her, protect her when crossing the street, stepping onto boats, swimming in the ocean, swimming in pools, walking near pools, standing on the subway platform, crossing 86th Street, stepping off of boats, using mall restrooms, getting on and off escalators, driving on country roads while arguing, leaning on large windows, walking in parking lots, riding Ferris wheels, roller-coasters, log flumes, or anything called “Hell Drop,” “Tower of Torture,” or “The Death Spiral Rock ‘N Zero G Roll featuring Aerosmith,” and standing on any kind of balcony ever, anywhere, at any age.

Lead her away from Acting but not all the way to Finance. Something where she can make her own hours but still feel intellectually fulfilled and get outside sometimes And not have to wear high heels. What would that be, Lord? Architecture? Midwifery? Golf course design? I’m asking You, because if I knew, I’d be doing it, Youdammit.

May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.

Grant her a Rough Patch from twelve to seventeen.Let her draw horses and be interested in Barbies for much too long, For childhood is short – a Tiger Flower blooming Magenta for one day – And adulthood is long and dry-humping in cars will wait.

O Lord, break the Internet forever, that she may be spared the misspelled invective of her peers And the online marketing campaign for Rape Hostel V: Girls Just Wanna Get Stabbed. And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends, For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.

And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord, that I may see her, lying on a blanket on the floor at 4:50 A.M., all-at-once exhausted, bored, and in love with the little creature whose poop is leaking up its back. “My mother did this for me once,”she will realize as she cleans feces off her baby’s neck. “My mother did this for me.” And the delayed gratitude will wash over her as it does each generation and she will make a Mental Note to call me. And she will forget. But I’ll know, because I peeped it with Your God eyes.

Amen.”

Thing that's making us smile this week: I want a vampire friend!

While on vacation this past week I stumbled across the most hysterical book: Dick and Jane and Vampires by Laura Marchesani.  As a parent of a 4 year old avid reader, I always have an eye out for more Dick and Jane books, but I never expected to find this parody prominently displayed in the book store I was perusing through.  Of course,, I had to immediately buy 2 copies, but think I may end up ordering a few more for Christmas presents.  "See Dick Play. See Jane Play. See Dick and Jane Play with a vampire!" How does that not make you smile?

Thing that's making us smile this week: Fruit Shark

So there may be no more addictive site for the crafty cats among us than pinterest.  I'm sure There are other, non-crafty people who enjoy using this amazing site too, but for those looking for color, design, or food, inspiration  pinterest is truly a treasure trove of ideas and awesomeness.  While scanning through boards this week, what should I come across but the most amazingly wonderful of all fruit baskets of ALL TIME.  Please, of please, let me have a reason to make this fruit shark soon!