Squeaky David

Behold the Squeaky David... a molded rubber toy of Michelangelo's David, with a squeaker in the base. This is one of the best toys ever. Amanda found it for me. I don't think you can imagine the sqeals of glee.

Yesterday was a beautiful blue-sky day, perfect for driving and being out in the sunshine. Amanda and I drove up to Farmington, Connecticut, to go to Design Forum, one of my favorite shops. As usual they had a million beautiful things, from cards to jewelry, and lots of fun stuff too. The rubber stamps were on clearance and I got two. One of them has toast on it!

I don't think I saw Laura's favorite pens, but then, I don't know what they look like! (Laura is home from Hawaii, by the way!)

Afterwards we went to HomeGoods and I got a new tablecloth for a great price. Also a picture frame with conversation hearts on it, which I could not resist, for obvious reasons.

We finished the day by meeting our husbands at Eli Cannon's in Middletown for dinner and beer. What fun!

Today the weather doesn't look nearly so perfect. It's gray and overcast, and it seems like it'll be cooler than yesterday too. In the backyard everything looks gray-brown, wintry and cold, except for the red See Rock City birdhouse hanging in one of our trees. Here in the study, Ziggy is curled up on the daybed behind me on Mamie's red thermal blanket, which is one of his favorites. He knows how to keep warm even in this cold, old house.

Today I think I will work on my craft room some more. I have taken some "before" pictures, so I need to get working on the room so I can get to the point where "after" pictures might be appropriate...

I just remembered... the other night I had a dream that I was driving my car and taking pictures out the window at the same time. Driving along, I looked up and I saw a million buttonballs hanging in a tree overhead. I took a bunch of pictures and said to myself, oh, I must send these to Laura! I was reminded of this dream because I finally figured out how to download my camera to the new computer, and I was a little surprised to find that there were no buttonball pictures... or any pictures taken out the window of my car, for that matter. But anyway, welcome home, Laura!

And here's Design Forum on a gorgeous February day: