• who am i
  • Contact
  • New Products
  • 50-in-50
  • geek girl blog
  • weddings
  • Time Machine
  • Blog-love
Menu

the big orange house
Summerside, PE
902-439-4562

Your Custom Text Here

  • who am i
  • Contact
  • New Products
  • 50-in-50
  • geek girl blog
  • weddings
  • Time Machine
  • Blog-love

friday i'm in love (it's been a long time...)

August 26, 2016 Arlene Giddings

i am late posting about last weekend
but it was such a great weekend
i feel it definitely qualifies for
friday i'm in love status...
even a week late.

friday we took our girl to the big city
apartment hunting which was, of course,
scary and sad and stressful while also
exciting and happy and fun...
which is how this whole
our-girl-is-moving-away-going-to-school
adventure has been so far.  ♥

saturday was a wedding in a beautiful area of PEI...
sweet young couple...lots of laughs and tender moments
and handstands....
yes...handstands...handstands on TOP of other people....
which i can honestly say i have not had at a wedding before
but am glad that i had the opportunity to add them to the list.  :)

i was a little bummed though to be
at the other end of the island
knowing that at my end of the island
friends were going to be meeting up at green shore
to watch the tragically hip
give their final concert in kingston
and CBC was streaming it...for free...& summerside
was showing it on the big screens...
and i was going to miss it.

i put a hip playlist on my phone
and played it on the drive home
but...
it just wasn't the same thing.

i decided i would go anyway...
whatever time i got into town.
i stopped for gas and my friend messaged me and said
"second encore...
new orleans is sinking"
and there were many eff words and the pounding
of the steering wheel.

but i made it in time for the third encore...
the last encore...the last 3 songs.
and it was so totally worth it.

sunday was family fun day for whoever could make it to mill river...
with so many of us now and jobs, kids, commitments, life...
it's hard to get us all together in one place,
but we keep trying.  :)

and i swear...my father has got to have
the fountain of youth in his
backyard because i have never met a 70+ year old
so full of life and fun and mischief.

as evidenced by this video:

and what's friday i'm in love without some
evidence that the internet is both
the best and worst thing in the world
(especially if your plan was to be productive today
because, if you are me, it just didn't happen.)

 

♥  this letter..."also please say something that will make everybody calm"  i hear ya, kid. 
♥  caught reading - a pinterest board that i love
♥  tallulah...if you have not yet seen this movie, go watch it.  i ♥ ellen page.
♥  women having a terrible time at parties (in art form) this made me laugh out loud
♥  Blue Rivers of Bioluminescent Shrimp

happy weekend!

In friday i'm in love, my girl, we are family Tags the hip, friday!, my dad, you tube, she loves to link, my girl
1 Comment

friday i'm in love

June 24, 2016 Arlene Giddings

♥  with this photo...it makes me think of fairy tales and paths that lead to dragon caves and trails of breadcrumbs left by orphans looking for witches who wear silver sparkly shoes and sing songs about pirate ships that glow in the night but disappear during the day.

♥ that i have signed up to do this read-along-course again with this girl whose blog i have adored for years...& i love the look of her brand new site!

♥  this little doll's big and bright imagination..."shark girl has the power of sharks"

♥  dan mangan has a new EP!

♥  this website...i am enamored.

♥  and this letter to the female hat wearing dog in the PD Eastman book...gold.  pure gold.

♥ and this...well this....broke my heart.

♥  sunny warm fridays off with stirling manning the bbq while i play on the computer in a house that has been freshly scrubbed and laundered...my absolute favorite.

♥  finding this old wedding photo of stirling and i...this just makes me incredibly happy :) :) :)

In friday i'm in love, grateful, happy2016, the one i love most Tags friday i'm in love, looking back, love, that guy i love
Comment

friday i'm in love (summary::may)

June 3, 2016 Arlene Giddings

i keep a gratitude list where
i try to write 3 things every day
that make me happy.

here are some of the things
that made the cut
in May:

  • watercolor robots
  • sunshine
  • no headache today
  • game of thrones with stirling
  • canned corn
  • pc points
  • perfectly cold coconut cream pie from water st bakery
  • a good hair day
  • chicken fricot
  • polka dot rubber boots
  • a new space to put my pens and stuff
  • emma's mother's day gift...so sweet
  • seeing my family out in the sticks
  • surprise smurfs at work
  • emma playing purple rain on guitar
  • got my new bullet journal
  • robot shoes and mismatched socks
  • blackberry gingerale
  • my bff starting working days
  • bridget left me a comment
  • living your potential course
  • an unexpected and very sweet gift of a zentangle book
  • 5 days off in a row!
  • emma got accepted to a school
  • hiking adventures with an old friend & a hand drawn map
  • oreo cookies
  • bare feet
  • campbell treating to ice cream at dairy bar
  • felicia day liked my tweet!
  • canned corn
  • overboard with emma and stirling
  • milk duds
  • giggly texts with M when i was stressed out and needed a release (& also couldn't find a bathroom...which i also really needed...)
  • sunshine when they called for rain
  • a trip to kool breeze with my mom
  • recreating the "little red car" photo
  • bob's burgers
  • stovetop dressing
  • bare legs
  • emma and her 8 chocolate bars
  • stirling's bone crushing back cracking hugs ♥
In happy2016, grateful, friday i'm in love, list-me-up Tags grateful, May, all the good things, happy, happy2016, polka dot boots, i like canned corn
Comment

friday i'm in love (on a saturday)

May 28, 2016 Arlene Giddings

♥♥♥ i am totally enamored of these 60 second videos...so beautiful and evocative.

♥♥♥ this movie trailer...

♥♥♥ this sneak peek that might have made me clap my hands a little...

♥♥♥ this post...love the words...sigh

♥♥♥ now THIS is a hosta...so pretty!

♥♥♥ this instagrammer...so light and pretty and sweet

♥♥♥ i'm coming back to flickr...and realizing how much i missed it...it was a staple for me when i first started playing with photography....and so many fantastic awe-inspiring images on Explore.  Makes me want to grab my camera and play.

♥♥♥ there's a contest happening over here on this sweet girl's website...

and i've been playing with the timer on my camera...both the phone & the big camera...it's been fun...and fun is good.  :)  HAPPY WEEKEND! 

In friday i'm in love, happy2016 Tags flickr, rainboots, a green bench, hostas, beauty and the beast, friday i'm in love, a day late
1 Comment

friday i'm in love...(the long weekend edition)

May 20, 2016 Arlene Giddings

♥  with long, extra long weekends...mine started on thursday
with a trip to moncton with my girl...
which meant two things -
one:  i got to spend a full day just hanging out with emma :) :) :)
two:  i can cross "drive to moncton" off my bucket list

there were teeny tiny mushrooms and lots and lots of moss...

♥  meatball subs & cherry vanilla dr pepper with my favorite guy

♥  got up early this morning & spot cleaned the house
so that i could go out hiking
guilt free
with one of my best friends...
armed with a hand drawn map, a camera, 1 banana
and a lot of enthusiasm...
we got lost a couple of times...picked up a cute beagle
for a companion for a while,
might have wandered through a christmas tree farm...
definitely trailblazed through a golf course
and one of us peed in the woods.

someone said it's not an adventure til you get lost.
personally, i feel it's not an adventure
until someone cries
in the fetal position
but those might just be my rules.

♥  this kid singing this song...he also does hallelujah

♥  writer's block

♥  still 3 more days off to look forward to...and sunshine in the forecast!

In friday i'm in love, best friends Tags pei, nature trails, raindrops, adventure, happy
Comment
← Newer Posts Older Posts →

Powered by Squarespace