uh...where have YOU BEEN?!?

Woooooo - the WHIRLWIND of the last month! Where have we been? Its hard to remember, but a little run down and mash-up:


We celebrated a birthday, with YUM cupcakes from Whipped. (Following a WOW, sweetest of the sweet, birthday scavenger hunt.)

then ... summer ended,

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Wouldn't these stars & moon watermelon be B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L at a romantic summer end picnic at dusk with all of your best friends, favorite family, and every gorgeous person you see on the way to the bus? (just sayin')

And SCHOOL STARTED!

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And it was time to get organized, (and finally finish unpacking!)

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Oh, yeah, and there was an exhibition to hang at local gallery Grizzly Grizzly.

No biggie.

I gotta go comb my hair.

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I want the red one.

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We'll see you again soon & consistent.

Lot's of Wednesday Work piling up around here that we are dying to share....

Wednesday Work: Wedding Season

Have you all been to as many weddings as I have this wedding season? Maybe I am at that age, but even so - it sure seems like there have been A LOT of weddings this summer.

Last weekend with an impromptu invitation to a wedding reception of friends in Ithaca, this weekend a little more stressful family affair farther upstate. (Really? My cousin that is soooo good at mimicking while whistling while not speaking, in the game cranium is getting married? He can do that?!? Fantastic.)

Anyhoo, weddings weddings weddings!

Have you seen the photography of Love Me Do? They are a bunch of local ladies here in Philadelphia with a great take on wedding photography.

They have an ever-growing portfolio, which you can check out here. And an extensive blog where they update wedding images as they shoot them.

When the time comes I would love to work with Love Me Do, unfooooortunately in front of the camera I become an Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill, though he still might have more of a smile than I am able to pull off. Have you seen the awkward "farmer and his wife" - yes that's me, the farmer- balding, perplexed, uncomfortable. (Look it up.)

"Boobs are for weddings." And cupcakes are for work days. Is this one over yet?

Hope you all have a good weekend - we'll be at a wedding! (Congrats Andrew!)

DEFY MONDAY: Summer of Cupcakes

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Cupcakes are all the craze these days. From specialty boutiques to cupcake trucks popping up all over the city - cupcakes are being made for every occassion, birthdays and holidays, in lieu of big wedding cakes, even golf themed for father's day.

This DEFY MONDAY I am thinking about next Monday, our first Monday in our new house (sure to be in shambles) and a bank holiday to boot. I won't have to work, so what am I going to do - how are we going to make the fourth of July extra special on the 5th?

Cupcakes.

Always a fan of humor, I love those shark and beach cupcakes from Martha Stewart pictured above, and these ice cream cupcakes below.

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On the Martha Stewart site, you can see corn on the cob cupcakes, bug shaped cupcakes, flower cupcakes - you name it. I don't think you need Martha Stewart though, just a good standard cupcake recipe to start, and a big crazy wild imagination. Go crazy with that frosting! (G-G-Go crazy...)

Or keep it clean, simple and delicious.

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As for humor - check out Cake Wrecks, a blog dedicated to when "cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong."

There post for today? The cake pictured below, with a description that reads:

"that's baby Bigfoot on a BBQ, surrounded by beer bottles and a bonsai tree."

WTFudge?

Check out more, here.