Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

can't you just hear Judy Garland singing?
ok so now you can

 

Love "Meet Me in St. Louis" don't you? 

Seeing as I've been on a vintage music sheet kick I thought I'd throw in the music itself.

Alright - on to the card...

which coincidentally has sheet music for this song in the background. And in the foreground - Papertrey Ink In the Meadow die of that cute sledder as well as the hill itself...and the sentiment is from PTI's Think Big Favorites #20

Love and chocolate

I was listening to Martha Stewart's show this morning. I often listen while I'm doing other things around the house. I'll run on over to the tv if she's got something interesting on I need to see. Well this morning I heard something I hadn't heard for a while -
the sound of Jacques Torres.
ahhhhhh
Jacques
I've had a serious crush on this man for years.
Not familiar with Jacques? comment triste!
Here - go see and hear Jacques
http://www.frenchculinary.com/video_jacques_torres_2.htm
not only does he speak in theeee most wonderfully french-accented english
(I could listen to him talk forever.... ahhhhhhhhh)
he is Mr. Chocolate
(he owns a chocolate factory - seriously he does)
Dean of Pastry Arts at the French Culinary Institute
He's the perfect man - he speaks that way and he knows allllllll about chocolate. And did you read the part about his having a chocolate factory????
Just looky what he made on Martha this morning
a Chocolate Clutch Bag
So lets review:
He is handsome, speaks French, (and better yet speaks English with that French accent), is all about chocolate, and makes wonderful chocolate things in his chocolate factory (sigh).
Case closed
How could you ask for more?
hope you all are having a good Friday

some christmas music

for your listening pleasure

part of the plan

Yesterday I was in the car and the song "Same Old Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg came on the radio and I got to thinking about him and how much I loved his music back in the day.

This morning I heard he died yesterday.
So here's my little tribute to Dan Fogelberg
This song (Part of the Plan) is part of the soundtrack of my college days. I used a quote from it in my college yearbook.
** edited to remove the music from auto playing so i could post more music in subsequent posts

And now for your musical enjoyment ......

Now that WAS fun wasn't it?
okay onward ......
postcards for Tuesday - i found this pic online somewhere - the kids got some large ears and i dubbed him the record holder for worlds largest ears - non-elephant category (as the son has the mistaken notion he's got the title (not even close). And today's postcard is a little bit of fun regarding our wedding weekend (the shuttles were never crowded but i couldn't resist when i found this photo).

Well i gotta run. Hope you have a good Wednesday

some fun listening

so i was reading the post yesterday (i read the washington post everyday - as if you didn't figure that out already) and there was a review of a concert The Nellie McKay Show
here's the link to the review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802217.html
they made it sound like so much fun. It was being recorded by NPR so i thought why not hop on over to NPR and see if i could listen.
If you don't mind some bad words :-) and like some clever song writing and a little bit of crazy thrown in you might just enjoy the show. I found it extremely entertaining (and it was great accompaniment whilst i was working on some pages). Here's a link to the NPR site
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9044009
You can listen in Real Audio or Windows Media. I tried the download but it didn't seem to work.
Enjoy!