{images and instructions found via A Golden Afternoon  and The Style Files}

I’m a little late coming around to the chalk party – but love the endless possibilities!  Personalize a mug, pot or anything else you can get your hands on…

{images and recipes clockwise from left via Alexandra’s Kitchen, Two Peas & Their Pod and Our Best Bites}

Whip up something special in the kitchen.  I’m partial to  desserts of the chocolate salted caramel or nutella type and anything italian…

{images clockwise from left via iVillage, Paper Culture and Paper Source}

Print or frame a favorite image, sew a felt heart, make a card.

xoxo. 

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Paint Chip Valentines

Necklace

Notebook

Pouch

Dress

Shoes

I can think of so many ways to use this great tool – to match a palette for a room, to build a mood board for an outfit, to plan a color theme for a party…oh the possibilities!!

I’ll be spending many a color-loving minutes on this lovely find…

Happy Monday!

Recycled Paper Pencils via From Soul

Hello lovelies!  I’ve quite enjoyed taking a little bloggy break, but wanted to pop into today to share a few things I’m just loving for spring.

Heart Postcard via Set Editions

This is my favorite time of year…flowers blooming, grass greening and the best weather a girl who lives in Texas could hope for.  I just wish these darn wildfires and allergies would blow on away to leave us to enjoy our spring in peace!!

Spring Tulips via Photogenic Gallery

Hello lovelies!  I’m blogging at Hello, Splendor today about what no girl should be without in her closet!  Stop over to say hello…

image via apartment therapy

I love making lists.  That much you know.  And you know it wouldn’t be a new year if I didn’t make at least a small list of somedays I aspire to accomplish in the coming year.

nutella cupcakes

*Find and perfect my signature meal.  From appetizer to dessert, I want to become really, really good at making one great meal from start to finish.  I may have already found my dessert which I shared on Eat.Live.Shop here.

*Sew.  Paint.  Photograph.  Get crafty.  Lots.

*Do one thing at a time. This will be a hard habit for me to break…but after my holiday time off, my mind is so blissfully happy being able to concentrate and focus.  It makes for more productive, more engaged, more creative thinking and is so against how our world is wired these days.  But I’m going to try.

my office

*Finish our home.  We’re in.  Boxes unpacked, furniture in place.  But that lived in homey-home feel is still a work in progress.

*Consume less.  Do more.  I am a lover of things.  You can tell that with one glance at my blog, my office, my closet…I adore stuff.  But this year, I’m going to take a break from stuff.  Not a break-up mind you, just a break.  Less stuff means less to clean, less to store, less to worry about.  Which leaves me more time for doing more.  Cooking. Crafting.  Getting my butt in better shape.  Don’t worry – I’ll still share my loves with you here so I can still adore stuff, but from a short distance.

So my friends, I am excited and happy to be starting another wonderful year!  I am ending 2010 grateful for so many things – family, friends, health + happiness, all the goodness that is life.  And I’m grateful for you too my dear readers!  Thanks for sticking it out with me.

To help me do a bit more in 2011, I’m going to be scaling back on my postings here.  I’m not going away, just going to be here a bit less regularly.  For now.  We’ll see how it goes.  If you miss me, you can always see what I’m looking at over at Pinterest or my latest photos on Flickr. Or drop me an email at thesomedayblog{at}gmail.com.

Happy 2011!

And while I soak it all in – I’m going to be a bit short on the posts this week – so I can enjoy every. single. minute. of life.

xoxo.

There’s nothing I love more than crafting gifts for my friends and family…this year though, I’ve barely found the time to complete my shopping list, let alone craft for hours.  Instead, I’m turning to Etsy for some handmade goodness to share with those I love.

Custom Pendant Necklace via Lucky Me Beads

Mermaid Napkins via Katherine J Lee

Make a Point Pencil Set via Paper Pastries

Bookmarks via Briones + Co

Slippers via Bure Bure

Hand Embroidery via The Merrieweather Council

101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die Book; Flip Video Camera; Cuisinart Electric Knife; Mustache Flask; iPad Cover + Keyboard; Swiss Army Axe Dyson Tower Fan;  Cast Iron Skillet.