Target Blue and White - Success!

I've finally found a great blue-white pillow for the living room! Turned out to be in the outdoor section - where often the fresher patterns live.

I've been frequenting Target the last two weeks picking up decor for work. I tell you, Target for the frugal city folk and Target for the extravagantly endowed North suburban folk are no different. I walk out of each glazed over and carrying more than I meant to purchase. Made a lot of returns, and if you can manage getting in between 9 and 5, there's no wait at customer service. Love it. Thanks Target for a universal and budget-disarming experience!

April Wallpaper

Definitely some fun ones this month on smashing magazine's desktop wallpaper for April! Alright... can you guess which wallpaper I'm staring at?

A beautiful day in the neighborhood

David sitting up in his stroller - big boy! (Go Cubs)

Strollin' and swingin'! It's about time the sun came out around here! Took a few minutes this afternoon to explore the parks in our neighborhood. There's one big park adjacent to the middle school that's just steps out our front door. Today there was a great mix of kids and moms with babies to teenagers. Unfortunately, four eight-year-olds thought the other baby swing would make for a great game. So, we ventured on the little park on Marshfield about 2 blocks further. The little park was gorgeous and all ours! David swung and I got to peak in at some of the back porches to the condo's there. Saw a nice older lady that lived right there, made me feel we were right at home.

 

This was David's 2nd time at swinging, thanks to the Lee's little park we visited on Saturday. As the weather gets nicer, I'm looking forward to venturing out for further park exploration. I will definitely be back to the big park soon, hoping to get to know other moms in our area. Got a few smiles today - that's promising!

Wordle

Today, a freelance design bud of mine shared an incredibly entertaining diy-design site - Wordle. I took a minute to make a Wordle world cloud for David to demo this totally neat program! Once you're at the Wordle page, click on create, drop in a bunch of text, and hit 'go'. Then, once you're wordle has been created, you can play around with font and color and layout.

In order for some words to appear larger in your wordle, you have to make sure they're entered multiple times in your text. For example, here was what I entered to get the pics you see.

Licensed Green Doggie Whisperer
Notorious Kitty Cornerer
First in fuzz!
Most Vain - cute and he knows it!
Suma Chewm Laud in Constitutional Studies
Highly competitive in collegiate athletic gambling
Shamrockstar
Shamrockstar
Shamrockstar
Shamrockstar
Grandson
Grandson
Grandson
David
David
David
David
David
David
Baby Boy
Baby-do
Little Bud
Little Bud
Little Bud
Little Bud
Boodie
Boodie-guy
little sucker
Most Spastic Gooey Rice Eater
Cutest Little Eater that You Ever Did See
Best Dressed in Squash
MVB 2010: Most Valuable Baby
Real Mover and Shaker in America's Top Literary Circles
Toe Toucher of the Year
Grandpa G's First Place Grandson
Most Fashionable Holiday Ham
Jumper with most Potential
#1 Eager Eater of Gooey Cereal for January 2010!
mom and dad


Tap into your inner designer and wordle! I can't figure out how to save the image, only to take a 'screen grab' and save it that way. Otherwise, I see they have a print feature. So cool.