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This Friday (yes, this very one) I am absolutely, positively loving life. I got the three best kids (cats) in the world, my home is clean and smudged in ever crooks and crannies, I found an awesome location for our Sunday engagement shoot with Sam and Shea, and  I have clean crisp bed sheets. The last one just makes me laugh from pure happiness. Seriously. One of the best feelings in the world is laying on “just out of the dryer” bed sheets. I love my linens.

Onto my “Friday I’m in Love:”

1. I love my cats. That’s pretty much understood. It’s also understood that they sleep a lot and I best not disturb them when they do. They’re actually not picky about where they sleep, in what positions, or what humans they are trampling on but sometimes I wish they can just curl up into one of these and dream away. How pretty would that be?

2. I found my wedding cake chef. Not that Matt asked or anything but I am already planning my wedding. I want Melody Brandon of Sweet and Saucy Shop to make my cake. I haven’t tasted her cakes, I haven’t met her in person, I don’t know what flavor I want, or what design it’ll be but she is mine. When I visited her site and looked through the gallery, I drooled. My heart started pounding and I knew that when the day comes I will snatch her up and put her in my pocket. And if the day comes later than sooner, well there is always that “I’m finally 30 and loving it” cake. Her shop is in Long Beach. I don’t know if she grew up in Long Beach like I did, but she’s there now so she has to be cool right?! Represent! 

3. The most I have done in “raw food” dieting is leaf through a cook book called… ahem “Raw Food.” I can imagine life without red meat, pork, chicken but I like my seafood. Any diet that says I can’t have sushi isn’t my type of diet. But in learning about the raw food lifestyle I have reduced my meat intake, included more vegetables, and I found almond milk. I was also introduced to Two Moms In the Raw in Boulder. They make the best granolas and sea crackers. I can live off of the sea crackers alone. Seriously good stuff and healthy too!

4. I am going to try to make this very short because I am seriously in LOVE with Everyday Minerals. Here goes: I have very sensitive skin when it comes to makeup and so rarely have any on. As a teenager (and even as an adult) I never experimented with makeup and found all terminologies a bit confusing. I also didn’t buy into spending that much money and time caking your face.  PLUS my mom used to scare me and said, “Make-up eats your face.” Good ole Mom using the scare tactics but she is right in a way. Of course then I found Bare Minerals which saved me from my dilemma with makeup for awhile. It was suppose to be the healthier way to makeup. I liked it but because of the Bismuth Oxychloride my skin would still get irritated, especially when I sweat or when I get… hot. They also had very few shades of foundation which annoyed me. Enters Everyday Minerals. EDM doesn’t contain Bismuth Oxychloride so I’m not scratching at my skin come high noon. They also have 43 shades of foundation powder, brushes that are super soft (try the flat head one. you will not go back), and some amazing eye shadows (into the garden is gorgeous). I just got my full customize kit in the mail today (which come with 12 of your chosen items for $50). Prior to that I tired some samples for free. Big plus! Picking the right foundation color is hard so free samples really help.

That’s it for now folks. I’m off to relax on the couch and look at youtube videos of make up tutorials via Matt’s laptop. I rule.

Half of the day was spent in toy stores, drooling. I have dreams of being able to afford toys of all kinds and shapes. I want shelves and shelves of tin robots, wooden pull toys, plastic cowboys, monkeys with cymbals, trains, rocketships, kewpie dolls, board games, wind-up animals, instruments, etc. I imagine a bathroom filled with rubber ducks in every crevice. A bathtub filled with bath paints and crayons and little plastic froggies. I’d also like a big cabinet filled with coloring books. I don’t even want records as much anymore… just robots and the likes of that. Toys and toys and toys. I am just a kid at heart.

I want to be married in a pink 60’s dress with toys as decorations. Kids will do the invitations, with pictures of giraffes and space people in crayon. Perhaps we’ll even pick vows from passages in children’s book. It’s true. I don’t want to grow up.

And because I’m in nolstagic mood. Here’s a video of me pretending I know how to drink wine. Rome 5 years ago. Embarrassing but if I can’t laugh at myself, who can?