:) Starting a new project! (I was going to hold off a few more weeks to start so I could do either a pink or a blue explosion, but I fell so in love with this rainbow wool - mine is #7824 - that I couldn't wait.) Want to knit along with me? This is a fun, easy pattern.

:) Looking for an awesome, classic everyday watch for an also-awesome price? Here you go.

:) Kendrick told me a couple of days ago that when I am pregnant, I am like the nice and evil Gollums having a conversation with themselves. That sounds about right.

Oh, good.

The Ramshackle Glam book is now available for pre-order on Amazon (it officially comes out in March)! You can check out the trailer here.

11 Awkward Things About Email, including that guy who responds to a group email chain four days later.

We booked a vacation. It was directly inspired by my 2013 recap, in which I posted the above photo and realized just how very much I wanted to be in that exact spot right this very moment.

We weren't planning on going on a trip this year (other than possibly heading to Maine for a few days this summer), because Kendrick's in school (and he's going to India - !! - as part of his program during the spring semester)...but the weather broke me.

I am broken.

Can't stop eating this lasagna. (Recipe coming up on RG next week.)

I spent the holidays binge-watching the entirety of Orange Is The New Black. It is so good. I may try to get into Homeland next if I can get past the fact that it looks incredibly boring (I know, I know: it isn't. It just looks boring).