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Two On Tuesday Biggest Fashion Mistakes

October 11, 2011 by Tsoniki 2 Comments

Tell me your two biggest fashion mistakes.

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Ah fashion. It never looks bad when we are in the midst of it! Hands down – spandex shorts. I’ve never been skinny enough to wear them alone, so mine were always worn under gym shorts. What was the point of that! Who needed to wear two pairs of shorts! Looking back on things, my 7th and 8th grade years were probably the worst, fashion wise. That whole rolling of the jean legs (anyone else!), bangs curled up and hair sprayed so the strongest wind wouldn’t move them, little bootie boots. Ugh those boots. I am pretty sure there is a picture of me in band wearing a sweatshirt, stone washed jeans and probably the worst pair of shoes ever. Who knows what I was thinking!

HHmmm, that is more then two. How about any time I wear black jeans and shoes and white socks. That’s not nearly as bad as seventh and eighth grade, but it’s bad enough to warrant me wishing I had black socks!

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Two On Tuesday Childhood Toys

October 4, 2011 by Tsoniki 6 Comments

What were your two favorite childhood toys?

2 on TuesdayHands down – Barbies and Strawberry Shortcake.

I loved Strawberry Shortcake. I even had a canopy bed with Strawberry Shortcake bedding on it! And yes, it smelled like strawberries. I loved her so much that one year my Mom threw her a birthday party – complete with my friends and a strawberry shaped cake! She was fantastic. I always did love dolls and babies. My Grandma, Mom, and one of my Aunt’s made my babies clothes, which of course adds to how awesome the dolls were. I still have the babies and clothes, though sadly I don’t have Strawberry Shortcake. The new version of her looks okay but look at that picture! That is vintage Strawberry! I might have to buy that for myself, just to have.

And Barbie. How can you not love Barbie! I don’t fall into the whole she’s a bad role model for girls and she doesn’t look like a real person. She’s a doll. Of course she doesn’t look like a real person! If you parent your children, then they won’t think that dolls should be their role models. They will think dolls are dolls. My Mom parented me and thus, barbies were barbies. They were fun to play with and dress up. Even if my brothers did steal Barbie so she could marry a GI Joe. Ken was never good enough I suppose. I didn’t have everything Barbie offered, I can’t even remember if I had the car, which I suppose means maybe I didn’t. I did have a Barbie trunk with clothes in it.

I still have a lot of my Barbies and my daughter plays with them once in a while. I even have a Michael Jackson doll, complete with the red and black jacket and one sparkly glove.

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Healthy Lunches

September 26, 2011 by Tsoniki Leave a Comment

The kids started back to school! Okay, I’m late on saying that. They’ve been in school for almost a month now. Alice is in fifth grade (FIFTH!) and Jake is in third. My babies are growing up so fast. I’ve been told that Alice is a pre-teen. I beg to differ, but I suppose it’s true. This year they are in the same school so that’s been nice for me.

Alice has been taking her lunches to school most of the time and I knew it was time to invest in something other then wrapping sandwiches and the rest of her food in plastic bags and paper towels. I bought some reusable snack bags for lunches from my friend Angela over on etsy at Sea Sow USA. I love them! They are the perfect size for snacks or for a pb&j. She has a lot of designs and recently added more. She also has a facebook page that you should join! When I bought my bags, I snagged a free shipping code from the fb page.

My snack bag, then Jake’s robots, and Alice’s flowers.

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Jump in with Two on Tuesday

September 20, 2011 by Tsoniki 7 Comments

Hi. It’s been a while. The summer was amazing, fun, tiring, exciting and more. School has already started and I’m back to my part time job outside the home on a regular schedule starting today! My classes have started and so has soccer practice for the kids. We are a busy family over here. I want to get back to being here so I thought I’d jump right in with 2 on Tuesday hosted by my friend Andrea!

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Many fall shows are starting up again this week. What two shows are you most looking forward to?

I love when the tv shows are back. Of course, I’m so busy this semester (the reading! Why is there so much reading!) who knows if I’ll actually get to watch the shows I’m most looking forward to. I did watch Two and a Half Men last night – which was funny! I also watched How I Met Your Mother – a full hour of that show and it was really good! I did watch one HIMYM this morning, so maybe that doesn’t count? I don’t get up early regularly so it was a fluke to watch this morning.

But what I am looking forward to the most is Sons of Anarchy (okay it started two weeks ago) – have you seen this? I didn’t start watching until last season or so but I caught up through netflix. The other show I am looking forward to is New Girl with Zooey Deschanel! She was great in the handful of episodes of Weeds that I saw and I love her in Failure to Launch. She’s just a funny actress.

In all honesty, my DVR is going to be packed. But I have so much reading to do, I’m not sure when I’ll be able to watch anything! Probably at 6AM like I did today. 🙂

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Pink Chalk Studio Solids Club

August 5, 2011 by Tsoniki Leave a Comment

One really fun thing about living where I do is living close to Pink Chalk Fabric. There are a few really great local quilt shops, but I love this new monthly club that was started earlier this year. I signed up for the monthly solids club as soon as I was able to and receive a new pack of beautiful solid fabric every month. And since I live so close, it comes only a day or two after I pay my invoice!

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Simply beautiful. This months selection is purples and oranges – I already have a project in mind! This year I am making the kids Halloween treat bags to take trick or treating with them. These solids will go perfectly with the other fabric I have.

I highly recommend joining the monthly solids club as soon as you can.

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