favorite things

oooh... favorite things. we all have them. some have more than others. i have a lot of favorites... favorite food, favorite stores, favorite things and even favorite people. it's hard for me to pick ONE i love the most, because i don't love one more than the other. i guess that's why i have so many...

my beautiful sister, keely, has posted her favorite things on her blog and has asked us to do the same. since we're sisters, we have a few of the same favorites... so you may see some of the same things here as on her blog.

here are a few of my favorite things

a few of my fave's (in no order of importance, of course)

1. latte bowels from anthropologie (we use these for everything)

2. pumpkin spice flax and roasted almond crunch kashi bars (i eat these for b-fast, lunch and dinner some days, they are THAT good)

3. country living mag (the only mag i have found inspiration from since losing domino and now cookie...RIP... if you know of a great decorating mag, please let me know!!)

4. american apparel ruched front tube bra (i live in these!!)

5. stilla illuminating tinted moisturizer with spf 15 (better than any foundation)

6. tarte cheek stain (best blush for on the go women... i also use it as a lip stain)

7. kiehl's creme de corpes nourishing cream (try it, you'll like it... promise)

8. kiehl's lip balm #1 in either tub or tube (my dad has been putting these in my sister and i's stocking for at least ten years now... it's the best... EVER!)

i have many, many more.... but we'll save them for another post another day.

what are a few of your favorite things? check out keely's blog to play along and enter her giveaway!

happy hump day friends.

xo,

kassi

Two Things I Love... Around my Home

here are my two things i'm lovin this week

i have a thing for pretty dishtowels... i'm lovin mine from anthro

i also have a thing for salt and pepper shakers. i actually used to collect them when i was younger (i've been a salt addict for 29 years...) here are some pretty s&p shakers that my bestie got me for my last birthday... also from anthro.

i would love to know the two things you are re-appreciating and lovin in your home this week.... leave a comment and let me know. feel free to also leave a link to your blog or flickr account if you would like to share your two loves that way.

have a lovely tuesday evening friends.

xo,

kass

hot and healthy tuesdays

wow, that was a quick week... time flew around here and i didn't get my cardio in like i wanted. :-( i did get  four hours of working out in though. i even got up at 6:20am this morning to workout and am going to try to do that every day... an hour in the morning of my tracy anderson mat workout and then an hour at night of my cardio on the rebounder. that's what i used to do and have been lagging the last couple of months. i'm excited to get back into it!

like i said last week, i'm not a "snacker" but i do have a major sweet tooth and didn't do very well in that area. saturday i had a donut for b-fast and four cookies (they were small) for dessert saturday night. we had friends over last night and they brought a pie... so of course i ate a slice - i didn't want to be rude! ;-)

my sister, keely, who is heading up this challenge along with her friend, mama m, asked us a few questions:

1. we bumped up the cardio last week. did you meet it? exceed it? coulda done better?
i exceeded it and did 240min but i def could have done better. i only worked out for one hour on tuesday of last week. then skipped a ton of days and did two hours yesterday and then did my one hour this morning.... my goal for myself is two hours a day 5 days/week.

2. how about the eating? snacking less or snacking "smart"?
 no snacking. but eating way too many sweets.... read above.

3. how's the water consumption going? 
i drink a lot of water. it is my favorite beverage (besides coffee) and i drink way more than recommended daily. yay me!

4. have you been trying the recommended pilates exercises?
ummmm, no. sorry keel. i like my tracy anderson dvd... but i do a TON of ab work with it.

keely also asked what our problem areas are...
ummmm, all of me..? i've had three kids, and all of you moms out there know what that can do to a body... luckily my tracy anderson mat workout works every part of my body and i love it.

be sure to check out keely or mama m's blog to link up if you want to partake in the hot and healthy thru the holidays challenge!

also, i love hearing how you ladies are doing so feel free to leave me a comment!

i'll be back later with Two Things I Love... Around my Home later today so be sure to check back!

xo,
kass

monday mourning

dan took out a load of clothes from the dryer this morning and i noticed that one of my favorite anthro cardigans, that is dry clean only, was on top of the load... it was a beautiful burnt orange, rusty colored cardi that i bought back in august. it was long and covered my bum so that i could wear it with leggings... and now it is waist length and faded. dan washed and dried it even though it was in the 'delicates' pile. oh my anger! oh my sorrow! i actually cried. sad sad day.

the weekend was good though.

i took tannyn antiquing on saturday and found a few pretties...

fawn, old ad, puzzles and pretty doily

fawn books ends from the 40's or 50's... so cute and perfect for the holiday decor

old ad from 1932...i just love the print (the frame is not an antique)

super cute puzzles (i bought them for the girls, but i'm keeping the pretty boxes) and the pretty doily

we also had some lovely company come over for dinner saturday night - my sister-in-law, shawna, her husband, john and their two kids eva and max. we enjoyed chili and cornbread and great company. love them!

shawna, max, tannyn and dan

precious little max

tayli and max

tyler, eva, tannyn and john

i may be mourning my cardigan, but at least i have some new pretties to enjoy. this monday of mourning can and will be turned around to be a good morning... i can feel it.

what did you guys do this weekend?

xo,

kass

inspiration in picutres

one of my favorite places... the central coast of Ca - the coast of Big Sur to be exact. these pics were taken in august when the hus and i went for our six year anniversary.
they are inspiring me this morning.. the fern trees, the rugged coastline... the beauty!

have a lovely saturday.

xo,
kass

i'm lovin right now

some clothes from anthro... i would LOVE to get one (or all, haha) for Christmas... 
i'm starting a challenge of the utmost kind that tif over at dottieangel is doing. the challenge is to not buy anything new for one whole year for myself or my home. but that excludes gifts... so feel free (husband, mom, dad) to get me anything you see here in this post ;-) if you are interested in checking out the challenge, then please check out tif's blog.

it's friday folks... friday the 13th actually... my youngest daughter, tayli, was born on a friday the 13th... so i say it'll be a good day!


happy friday!


xo,
kass


ps. i wear an extra small... :-)

My Creative Space

i've decided to play along with kootoyoo's creative space thursday - it's so inspiring to see other people's creative spaces... so every thursday i will be posting what is happening in my creative space. if you want to see more creative spaces, be sure to check out kootoyoo's blog.

today i'm getting my stuff ready to ship to my giveaway winner,  tyler (sorry it's taking me so long!) and my birthday present to my niece emme - hopefully it gets there in time! i've also got my little project that i'm embroidering for myself...

xo,
kass