papasans = love

3 Tips for Efficiently Stocking the Fridge

Yeah, I really am kind of obsessive compulsive about things like this... And I hadn't even really thought of this until now, but guess what I will be doing tonight? ... :)

kitchen *essentials*

An elephant tea pot, this I need.

Elephant salt and pepper shakers to match the tea pot, what more can I say?

Despite all of the kitchen love that I harbour there is one thing I have never owned and that is an apron. I am absolutely in love with the style and the colours of this apron. It's just fucking cute!

If you know me very well at all then you know that I like birds. I like birds a lot and I collect anything bird related. I love birds, I love red and I love these plates.

I have recently become obsessed with procuring a set of cobalt wine glasses thanks to an episode of Friends. I am in love with the colour, why have plain old wine glasses when you can have something fun that everyone will be jealous of?

Things I want.

Moving day anxieties..

As time passes and August 29th nears I am finding the excitedment of the move building enormously but also the anxiety. It's not that I am worried or sad about leaving my current apartment, but I am worried about leaving my currently huge apartment for something about half the size. The condo I am moving into is somewhere between 500 and 700 square feet, where as my current basement suite is 1000 square feet.. Honestly I have been obsessing over apartment decor blogs all weekend.

Obsessing as I have, I actually drew out a rough floor plan with an idea of where things can go, but I still have 3 book shelves, an end table, and a place for my sewing machine to fit in somewhere.. I have already sacrificed a kitchen table and a desk for bar stools at my kitchen counter.

If anyone reads this and wants to send some helpful decor blogs my way, it would be greatly appreciated!

Moleskine circa May- August 2008

I found my old journal from two years ago whilst packing. I can't believe I was so heart broken and so totally in love, and yet I hated him so much.

I'd forgotten that night when he threw his cell phone across the room and broke it in anger, and I didn't even know why he was mad at me. He used to scare me, I didn't even know who he was at the end of it all.

I hate this relationship. I've hated it for awhile. It's painful to even show him affection, I'm not even sure I like him as a person anymore... I was really hoping things would work out this summer, like they used to... It seems to me that relationships are only good when they are new and foreign, so what is the point?

And I can't believe that I ever hated myself so much. I couldn't even confess to my journal any redeeming qualities I thought I might have.

I've grown up and as a person so much since then, it's mind blowing to think about. I am definitely not the same person now that I was and I am so thankful that I have my journals to show me this.

Super random just because..

The count down is really on, I am moving in approximately two weeks. And in my packing I have found that I apparently have a cubbard that is literally full of cookie cutters. Is there a support group for these types of things? I also have two sets of spring form cake pans. That is two sets of three, who really needs six spring form cake pans? It's not like I make wedding cakes freelance in my spare time or anything. I should really bake more considering.

So clearly I need more stuff: