She'd be california, if california was a girl

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I want to do something with my hair for the summer. And so I can refrain from the urge to cut it short again. I love it for 2 weeks, than hate it for the 2 next years, while it slowly grows. I'm thinking about adding some color to it. What color do you guys like? Suggest away!

So I grabbed the camera and this is me right now, well ok like 5 minutes ago. As you can see I have this boring kinda reddish, brown strange color going on.

This darker color!

3 blond highlights here
with a medium brown base

This is my natural color
with really blond highlights.

Does anyone out there in blog land have either of these? We walked into a local thrift store and B saw one of these playhouses and totally loved it. Only that particular one was ridiculously priced, badly faded, and worn out. So we want to get him one for outside play and to store some of his outside toys in. The first one has a plastic floor system and the 2nd one does not. opinions?



Check this out. B spotted this and ran over to it. After another lady, in the store followed us around for an hour, including all the way to the checkout counter, we scored this carry along case with one side filled with trains for $1.91. Fabulous find, fabulous price and best part, Blake has not stopped playing with it since we bought it. Gotta love that. He is starting to get into Thomas the train now, so we are going to try to buy him a few more pieces to fill the other side. Does anyone know where to buy the trains cars for this set at? They have magnets on both ends to connect them together. I found them online, but I would rather let B pick out the ones he wants or likes.



After looking at a few recent photo's of myself, I have come to realize, that I also need a completely new closet. Yep, my clothes are beyond hideous and dare I say comfortable. Stacy and Clinton would hate that description. Too comfortable, and a few sizes too small, which is definitely not a good thing for my self-confidence or body image. Think Plain Jane! Think I'm kidding, here's the proof. I really hate this pic of me.





Yikes right! If you really want to know how you look in a particular outfit or just in general, take a pic and stick it up on the computer and its all clear. The screen wont sugar coat ya. Don't y'all even say I look good, because you know that would be a little white lie. Need more proof...that girl (above) and this girl (below), yeah two different girls in two different worlds. Rascal flatts song She'd be California, if California was a girl comes to me, except above it would be more like She'd Alabama if, Alabama was a girl. (disclaimer: I dont have anything against Alabama, I just dont know fo anything fabulous in that state.)








I really want to get back to being me. So here are the first additions to my new style. These fabulous tops followed me home today. Love them.

I got this new phone case by Betsy Johnson too. I really love her free style and creative outlook in her work, clothes, and life. My new phone was really taking a beating already, and with a touch screen thats not a good thing.





Of course, I had to get one of these too. They are everywhere, here in the south and there's not a better place to start to reinvent a new self style, than with the trendist item around. I still added a bit of me with the yellow. Its not the popular choice of brown, black, red and pink.







In my search to find this paper today, without success, these other 3 sheets also followed me home. In not a huge Basic Grey fan, but I liked these so we shall see what comes of it. I'm hoping it use it right away.













At last, here is little B in his croc look-a-likes. He loves these shoes. I often find him wearing these shoes, just like this. No pants, just his diaper, shirt and shoes. I think its CUTE though, and it gives me that little last piece of baby to hold on too.