2010 reading list

My ratings, out of ***** stars.

1. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, By Donald Miller ***
2. Having a Mary heart in a Martha World, By Joanna Weaver ***
3. Have a Little Faith, By Mitch Albom ****
4. The Good News about Injustice, By Gary A. Haugen ***
5. Three Cups of Tea, By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ****
6. Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, By John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber ***
7. Adverbs, By Daniel Handler
8. Thinking with Type, By Ellen Lupton
9. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite, By June Casagrande
10. The Me I Want to Be, By John Ortberg ***
11. What Should I do with my Life? By Po Bronson ***
12. The Shack, By William P. Young **

13. Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College, By Jacques Steinberg

I recently was made aware of an area at my local library called "honor backs." The policy for checking out books from that area is exactly as the name: " Return when finished, no fine on book." Imagine how happy I was to find out about that! I went crazy pulling out books from there, left and right, but then I controlled myself. I'm thinking not having a due date may actually make me read slower. Ah, the love of a deadline ...

Anyway, here's what I brought home:

13. The Time Traveler's Wife, By Audrey Niffenegger
14. When We Were Orphans, By Kazuo Ishiguro
15. The Life of Pi, By Yann Martel

Belatedly one month later ...

Happy 30th Birthday to my sweet and wonderful husband. Cheers to many celebrations ahead.

Spots of Sunshine set on Polyvore

Spots of sunshine by jantastic featuring Melissa shoes

Cupcake roadtrip pitstop

I'd love to take a roadtrip to SoCal just to indulge in these cupcakes along the way.

http://enjoycupcakes.com/

Simply inspirational.

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.

ROYGBIV

One of the things I love most about our apartment are our built-in bookshelves. They saved us money on not having to buy any, and I figure it goes towards the steep monthly rent instead. This took me about two hours to do after unpacking and everything - but here are our shelves.

The wreaths are from the wedding. I should probably hang those somewhere else.

nightstand project

I bought these two matching nightstands at a garage sale for $10 when I first moved to the Bay Area. I painted mine white, and gave the other one in it's very faded original paint and color to my then boyfriend, now husband to use. I wanted to repurpose them to match the other Blue/brown tones we have in our bedroom, so I bought some semi-gloss light blue paint and made it my first "home" project. Here are some pictures:

Before:

After: Not sure if I should have left the trim to have some contrast, but it's OK.