its friday and i like things/ 3

wearing- 

a lot of red. maybe it's the leaves changing? it's been unseasonably warm here, so eliza and louisa and i have been leaving the house in jackets in the morning and coming home with a few layers removed.


beauty stuff-

a lot of lipstick. favorites right now: urban decay matte revolution lipstick (i have this shade), which stays forever and isn't uncomfortably drying. steady hand in application is key. kat von d everlasting liquid lipstick is also fun. i have a few colors and i'm eyeing this one.


did i already mention lash stiletto mascara? don't remember but i love it. i like long lashes (who doesn't?!) but do not like clumping or spideryness. this one produces long skinny lashes.


every once in a while because we buy through an internet rebate thing, i'll get a sephora gift card instead of cashing out. i'm thinking my next sephora purchases will be a new color of stila liquid eyeliner or a new bobbi brown blush- i've heard they last really well.


cooking-

scrambled eggs with basil and truffle oil for breakfast. one day we did it with feta as well, delicious.


baking pumpkin banana applesauce muffins. very very healthy and they taste like it. but eliza loves them. the child will eat anything.


oh! and we made some pickles (FINALLY, greg would say.) making pickles seems so daunting and susie homemaker but it is not scary. ill throw up my how-to (i hesitate to even call it a recipe) at some point if anyone is interested. this week we did some sweet and spicy slices for sandwhiches and snacking, some regular garlic dill cukes, carrots and onions. i think we finished them on wednesday and they are half gone.



reading-

finished liane moriarty's what alice forgot. i liked it! made me want to bring it in the car to read while i waited for eliza to come out from school, which is high praise. any time i'm so into a book that i need to bring it with me in case i get a few minutes... that's such a wonderful feeling. this was another one of those books that made me real grateful for my husband and babies. so that's a positive. easy and enjoyable read.


still reading loving to know by esther meeks. so much underlining happening. a snippet:


"it has been ingrained in us that we should keep our emotions, our selves, out of the information, as you would strive to keep contaminants out of a water supply. small wonder that people are bored, when personal commitment and passion are subjective items we must check at the door, small wonder that we are bored, when we presume that information is ever only dispassionately derived or held to be true. dispassionately gleaned information, dispassionately conveyed and dispassionately apprehended, spells boredom. it suggests that knowledge has little to do with what is meaningful in life."


BOOM.


watching- 

my girls sleep. just kidding but not really. i feel like i'm attached to the video monitor at all times.


still mega into survivor. although some seasons just don't do it for me. season 13 i loved, season 14, not my favorite. can't put my finger on it.

new nursing show- aka what i watch during the one feeding i have where eliza is not awake and i can sit and nurse in front of the laptop. fixer upper on netflix. cute couple makes inexpensive real estate in texas (i guess there's just so much land out there they're giving it away?) look cute. he thinks she's smart and amazing and it's always fun to see husbands behave that way. seems so genuine. i mean, the show seems to take for granted that absolutely everyone wants a white kitchen and that all furniture should show signs of distress, but its sweet. and its a design show that doesn't make everyone's house look like it should be a doctor's office waiting room. I'M LOOKING AT YOU PROPERTY BROTHERS.


making- 


my commitment to continue making things regularly has continued! finished up another quilt top, just have to find an appropriate backing fabric. and i took a strange mumu robe from the thrift store that i had loved the pattern of but never found the right way to wear it... and made it into a dress. will surely be included in the next OOTW picture. i love how it came out, sort of 70's in print, 20's in silhouette.


eliza and i have been gathering rocks on our walks, as per usual, painting them inside, and then adding them to a special rock box. she plays with them on the kitchen floor while i make dinner most days. it's like a set of blocks she made herself. she makes "calaces" castle/palaces. ha. before you tell me i'm a creative parent i should tell you that it weighs approximately one thousand pounds, this box, and is sort of terrifying to watch the two year old play with it in close proximity to the two month old. so whether this was a dumb idea or a good idea should play out in the next few weeks.