It's Me, KP

For Sale

I'm purchasing a new lens to replace these two, so I wanted to put them up for sale here before listing on ebay :)

Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens (the kit lens with the Canon 40D)

In good condition - there is a small chip in the body but does not effect the glass
Purchased two years ago
Listed for $409 at B&H, selling mine for $335 + shipping

Sigma 30mm 1.4f for Canon

I love this lens, it's a great fixed length
Purchased last February
Listed for $439 on B&H, selling for $380 + shipping

The photos from the California post were taken with only these lenses.
Please email me with questions or for other photos
Thank you! :)

Crumbs in My Belly

The one that has made me forget my best friends Sweet Mandy B's, Molly's, and More Cupcakes back in Chicago.

Come to NYC.  I will take you to Crumbs.  You will be in heaven.

California Photos

I took a record number of photos during my week in California.  Here are just a few faves :)

Dinner at R + D Kitchen


Santa Monica pier


Santa Monica from a penthouse bar


Nightime on the Pacific Coast Highway


A quick trip to Grauman's Chinese Theater


Beautiful house on the Venice Beach canals


Dinner in Chinatown


Roses in front of the Rose Bowl


Dots Cupcakes downtown Pasadena


A trip with Sarah to In-n-Out Burger

And I still have tons of Disneyland and Warner Bros. photos to go through.  It was such a busy, fun vacation :)

Blogging

I said I was going to blog this weekend but I went to do it and decided to give my blog a makeover instead.  So now here's a quick post :)

I saw both The Proposal and Away We Go this weekend.  I liked them both!  The Proposal was hysterical and Sandra Bullock looks amazing for being 45!!!  And Away We Go was wonderful and funny and sad and enjoyable.  Tomorrow I think I might go see Food, Inc.  Has anyone seen this yet?  Looking forward to it.

So yes, that is Stanford in the pic :)  He is good friends with Sarah's brother Drew and for years I have been pestering kindly asking to be introduced to him.  When I was in California, Drew as nice enough to set up a dinner with him... so not only did I get to visit his amazing house but we also all had dinner.  He was seriously one of the funniest people I've ever met.  I am a SATC superfan so I was pretty much repeating "stay cool, stay cool" in my head the whole time.  They are shooting the SATC sequel here in August, so you can bet I will be stalking harmlessly checking that out if I can find the super secret locations :)

And here is my new favorite jumping pic that Jamie took for me in Pasadena.  How much do I love that mosaic wall!  Thank you so much, Jamie!!!

Have a good week, everyone!

TGIF

I keep thinking I should blog more about my California trip.  But then I leave and when I come home there is other work to be done.  Like right now I should be working instead of blogging.  This weekend I will blog.  I will I will I will.

And so here is my new celeb BFF on the far right side of the photo ;)

Do you recognize him? :)

California

I've been to Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Venice Beach, Studio City, Anaheim, Pasadena, Burbank, the Valley, and Chinatown. 

I've gone to Disneyland, the Santa Monica Pier, the Rose Bowl, Warner Bros. Studios, Grauman's Chinese Theater, the Venice Canals, and a restaurant where Meg Ryan is a regular.

I've gotten to spend time with one of my best friends and her boyfriend, lots of fun ladies at CKC, Sarah, Sarah's brother + his wife, Candice, and my sweet friend Jamie Waters + her daughter Elsie.

And I got to have dinner with one of my favorite tv/movie stars.

Minus all the cloudy days, L.A. has been pretty good to me.  But now it's time to head back to NYC tomorrow.  Hopefully I'll see some sun there ;)

Election Mini

I have been a bad blogger lately :(  I'm not home much and when I am it's to get work done.  Tomorrow I leave for California for a week to see one of my best friends and teach at CKC Pasadena, so I'm afraid the blog will be neglected once again.

But I never posted about the new Garden up at 2ps this month, so I wanted to share one of my projects really quick.  The theme this month was Minis... and even though it was open to wide interpretation, I did sit down and create a little mini album.  I used this Maya Road envelope album which I loved and will be using again :)

Last year I saved a lot of stickers, papers, and took quite a few photos during the election.  I had no idea what to do with it all but the envelopes in the album were perfect for holding my memorabilia.  Here's a few pages...
Usually I struggle with minis, but I kept this one pretty simple and it came together easily.  I know that I'll enjoy looking back on it in the future :)  You can see more here. 

Have a great week everyone!

UP

Sarah, Chloe, and I met up with my friend Laura for dinner at Republic and dessert at Max Brenner.  This was like my fifth time to Max Brenner and I will never get sick of the overpriced delights ;)

Laura recommended the movie UP so we went up to Times Square and made the next show.  We even got to see it in 3D :)

I think this is the cutest movie I've seen in a long time!  I loved it!!!  Really funny and it's got scrapbooking.  Hello, you had me right there ;)

Have you gone to see it yet?  I highly recommend it.  Even more that I Love You, Man which was my favorite movie so far this year.  Hee hee.

Also we saw the preview for Paper Hearts and I'm excited about this too.  I *heart* Michael Cera and love that it's a documentary...

Tuesday

I didn't have anything planned today before meeting Chloe for dinner + a Target run, so I went over to SoHo and did a little walking.  After a stop at J.Crew (a collection store - woot woot!) I swung by Purl - or purlsoho.com online :)  These are all iPhone snapped pics...

I know nada about knitting so I walked a few doors down to Purl Patchwork.  And even for an amateur sewer like me, it was a little slice of heaven!

The store is quite small, but filled with so many beautiful fabrics.  I picked up two bundles to use for some upcoming projects :)  And I totally want to do this on a wall, it's super cute...

After that I walked through the Village (past where Candice told me Anna Wintour lives!) and stopped in Washington Square park to just relax.  I got to have a great chat with my best friend Kellie while sitting back and doing some people watching.

I love New York :)

And here are some sewing projects that I did for my picnic article up at Fiskars this month.  This is a case you can sew to pack along silverware and a plate...

And a sewn lunch sack...

I hope you'll check out the rest of the article, up right here :)

This Girl Needs a Nap

Back from teaching at CKC Buffalo.  Complete with a little bed jumping ;)  Must remember to bring my remote... worked off those Buffalo wings I ate by running from the camera to the bed many times.  My schedule this time was super full and exhausting but I had a great time and met some wonderful ladies.  And word is Coldplay was staying at my hotel (too bad I didn't learn this until I was on the way to the airport!)

So... THE dress.  I think that dress from the last post got more comments + emails than anything I've ever blogged about, ha ha!  It is from DownEast Basics and was purchased last year in Utah.  This is the most comfortable dress and I practically wore it every day last summer.

They don't have it anymore but here are some similar ones they are offering right now...

Ukulele Dress and High Tide Dress

If you are ordering and thinking about sizing, I purchased mine in a small and have noticed it shrunk just a bit, mostly gotten shorter.  Let me know if you order and how you like it :)

Have a good week, everyone!