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friday i'm in love...the late edition....

January 28, 2023 Arlene Giddings

I am actually writing this
on Saturday
but it was still stuff I loved on Friday
so…..
semantics. Heh.

The sun is shining
and the house is warm and clean.
The dryer won’t be here until Feb 8th
so I have been using dryer rack
and it’s been working ok…
just hard to get used to.

And right now I am burning
a candle called “fresh cut grass”
while I have a Christmas scent in the burner
so the house seems slightly conflicted & confused
but smells good. Heh.

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE:

♥ I love how the late-day light comes in this window…
I spent some time here yesterday doodling and planning
and feeling pretty happy.

♥ I wanna build a greenhouse. This just reinforces
the fact that I need to BUY TOOLS.

♥ This. Oh my breaking heart. This.

♥ 12000 pressed leaves. Magical.

♥ In 2020, I read a book called
"Buy Yourself the Effing Lilies” and
loved it so hard. Tara Schuster has a new book
coming out and I happened to get in the opportunity
she shared to be a glow-getter for the new book coming
"Glow in the Effing Dark” (Release date: Feb 28)
This not only got me an advance copy but also
a part of a network of other people who are incredibly
excited and fan-girling about this book and the author…heehee.
I was pretty frigging excited to be a part of this and can’t wait to read it!!

♥ my January IPSY bag. These always make me happy.

I hope this weekend finds you as
happy and relaxed as this guy is
when he is being cuddled….
just don’t drool like he does
if you can help it.
:)

In cultivate 2023, friday i'm in love Tags ipsy, friday on a saturday, dryer, tara schuster, glow in the fucking dark, glowgetters
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friday i'm in love.....(but not with fiona....stupid hurricane head)

September 23, 2022 Arlene Giddings

well….the hatches are battened
and there is chicken fricot on the stove,
fresh biscuits and cinnamon sugar donuts
from water street bakery,
frozen water bottles
ready to do double duty
as a cold back up if needed for food,
phones are charged,
all the animals are safe in the house,
even the roamer Finnegan the cat
though he is not happy about it.

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE…

♥ I know I said this before…but JELLO CUPS
♥ I finally watched Spiderman - No Way Home!!!! :)
♥ my new snoopy mug and lucky charms hot chocolate

♥ chicken fricot, french biscuits, cinnamon sugar donuts
♥ today was IPSY DELIVERY DAY!!!

♥ i need to do this more.
♥ beautiful words

Stay safe….see you on the flip side of fiona ♥♥♥

In friday i'm in love Tags fiona, hurricanes, ipsy, snoopy
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sundaze

February 27, 2022 Arlene Giddings

It was a pretty good week
in the big orange house…mostly.

For some reason,
it was a pretty headache-y week…
but some good things
happened in spite of that.

My IPSY order came!

I didn’t take any photos this time
but this was from the website…
I totally love the lip gloss!

 
 

Got a pedicure!
New sparkly toes
all ready for summer
and flip flops
and beach sand!

#whatiwore

 
 

IN THE BIG ORANGE HOUSE::

WATCHING: finished The Act; Million Little Things; finished Inventing Anna - SOOO good!
We Need To Talk About Cosby - finished…SOOOO disturbing.

READING: Anxious People - Fredrik Backman

LISTENING TO: Broken - Jonah Kagen

EATING: bananas dipped in betty crocker chocolate icing

GRATEFUL: the headache went away, chicken fricot, cinnamon-y crescent rolls,
pretty red tulips in a glass vase, pedicure, lunch with the girls, a work lunch
earlier in the week, sparkly light eye shadow.

In #whatiwore2022, RESOLVE 2022 Tags ipsy, all the good things, #whatiwore, grateful
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happy mail... ♥

January 22, 2022 Arlene Giddings

Winter is hard.
Extended pandemics
and restrictions and
bad news all the time
is hard.
Working from hard can be hard,
being single can be hard
(I can’t lie…neither of those
two things are always hard,
mostly they are enjoyable
but I need them for my justification
of spending money
on things
I definitely don’t need…) heh.

Sometimes
you just need a treat,
a surprise,
something to look forward to.

So I tried the Ipsy glam bag subscription
for a little treat for me…
it came this week
and seriously,
it was so fun.

So fun, I might do it again!!

the cutest little
hapy face bag!!

You fill out a survey of what things
you are interested in,
what your usual skin care routine is,
eye color, etc
and they send these little sample sizes…
and the cutest eye shadow package
(even if I don’t wear eye shadow much
I certainly appreciate cute packaging).

I haven’t tried everything
yet but I did try these…
the ginzing gel moisturizer (I don’t buy a lot of make up but I am slightly addicted to moisturizers) and the lemon lip sleeping mask was delicious…

The cost for this was 20.98…I think that was a pretty small price to pay for what I got…and…it was fun. Which is kinda priceless.

So now I am thinking that Emma & I might
split on the largest bag, which comes with
full size options…and see how that goes for a month.

And then maybe
in a different month,
I’ll shut this one off
and try something else…
like an art supply subscription!
or maybe toys of some kind…
OR CANDY.

Hope you are having a sunny & sweet Saturday! ♥

(captain’s log::day four of temporary restrictions complete)

In RESOLVE 2022 Tags ipsy, finnegan, make up, glam bag, happy mail, beauty and the balm, trying something new
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