Kitty's wedding

Roxanne's wedding is fast approaching and to say I have a million paper cuts from making pper flowers would be an understatement. OUCH.

Just wait until you see what we are doing with these bad boys

Here is a sneak peek at my projects for this week....

i'll be making flowers, painting, making mercury glass and doing a lot of thrift store shopping.

I'm really excited for this!

Stars, they're just like US

Before I moved to Los Angeles, I had a subscription to US Weekly.
I did celebrity gossip on the radio show Your Time with Kim.
It would have been the most exciting day of my life if I ever saw from afar, a "celebrity."
Now, not so much.

But this is what all of my friends out of state and at home want to hear about.

I have met countless "moviestars" and "rockstars" over the last couple of years here and really, who cares...

But I do get excited to see or meet a complete HOT MESS like these guys...

DAVID BLAINE; illusionist

I met David in a private home in Beverly Hills. I was there for an interview with an assistant who was ushering me to the back guest house so we could have a private minute to chat.
She opened the door and sitting right before us, magically, was David Blaine.
How i even recognized this guy, im not sure.
The assistant said "i didnt even know you were here!"
and i thought, "duh...hes a magician. He just appeared, dummy"

I should seriously work for TMZ cause i can spot a famous person from a mile away.

Mary Carey; adult movie star

About 6 months ago I was at Pinz on Ventura in the middle of the afternoon (i was working-i'm a nanny in case you're new) bowling with the kiddies, and there was literally no one else in the place except us and Mary Carey.
She was bowling alone.
It was so weird.
I wouldn't have known who she was if it wasn't for her stint on Celebrity Rehab, and even then, i couldn't remember her name and had to consult my sister.
Who goes bowling mid-day by themselves?
So strange.

and now, the HOTTEST of the hot messes.....

Janice Dickinson; former supermodel

I was in an elevator with this lunatic.
Just her and I, in a building on Sunset...i was picking up a check from a big entertainment company and she was in her workout gear, checking herself out in the mirror and GROANING.
It was so awkward and awful and AWESOME.
Moaning and groaning and making weird faces at herself in the mirror.
I loved every second of it.

I have met some insanely talented and insanely famous people, but these guys are my favorite.
They are such a strange breed of crazy.

I love LA.

Baby Owen

My sister in law always posts all these darling pictures of my nephew on her twitter,
and i always save them to my laptop.
I decided to just put them together in a little video.
Plus i just love this song.

"i'm a little sugartit 12 days old..."

Gabes is famous!

My old roommate Gabrielle was on Minute to Win it last week.

Did you see it?

She lost 50 grand.
Sad.

But she looked cute, even though they put her in a weird workout outfit that she would never wear and as she liked to say "Why did they put shimmer on my eyes and curl my hair?"
Ha.

watch it here

High School Mean Girls

When I was a sophomore in highschool, my friends and were eating lunch in the quad outside and saw something horrific. A popular freshman girl was using her makeup compact to reflect the sun into the special ed kids eyes. It disturbed me. I then watched as a young boy who had special needs, took the trash can around to make it easier on people to throw away their gargabe...and she threw her pasta bowl (if you went to folsom high, the pasta bowl was EVERYTHING..so delicious. no sauce, just parm. YUM) at the boy and totally humiliated him while her and her friends just laughed and laughed. It infuriated my friends and, and its times like these I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. We told her off. We were older than her and we thought we were totally more mature and obviously nicer...but we let her have it. She left feeling pretty dumb, but she never apologized to the kids she was hurting.

That made us real mad.

We then went home from school, took a bunch of tampons out of their wrappers and painted the tips red (so gross) and then taped them all over her locker with a sign that read "You are a dirty tampon." We thought she deserved this and that our actions were justified.

sophomore year...see we weren't even mean. Just dorky.
look at Jens ENTIRE leopard outfit. Hilarious.

Well I dont know when, but she left school and started homeschool. I always felt sort of bad, and hoped I wasnt part of the reason she left school. And then i forgot about it.

A few years passed and AOL was in FULL SWING. I found her on there and we had an AIM conversation and i apologized and she was now living in Portland with family or something and that was that. No hard feelings, whatever.

Well I just got off the phone with a friend of mine from HS who was in on our tampon joke...and she tells me that this girl is now a millionaire and owns this huge vintage fashion store and shes huge.

I shouldn't even say this outloud but i'm sort of jealous! She never apologized and I did and now shes awesome.

I'm mostly joking so dont go blowing up my comments about how its all fair in the end or how i need to grow up and all that crap, because i already know.

Anyway i want to tell you what the website is and what her name is but i obviously cant now cause that will make you never want to support her and she has some pretty great clothes that i actually already have supported in the past. I DONT WANT TO RUIN IT FOR YOU.

You're welcome.

Do any of you have really successful friends from HS?

Jordan and Owen

my baby brother is a dad.
I can't explain what these photos do to me...i'm obsessed with them.
It doesn't seem like that long ago (and really, it wasn't) when Jordan didn't know how
(mostly he just didn't want to) to make macaroni and cheese on his own,
or make juice from concentrate-and now he has a kid.
A freaking cute kid, that I know has the greatest parents in Kristine and Jordan.
How cute is that baby?
I die.
I cannot wait for the weeks to fly by until I go to Utah and get to meet this baby and see my brother as a daddy.

Ahhh, warms my heart I tell ya.

also the picture on the left kills me because Jordan looks like he should be a dad on teen mom.

Week from Hell

This past week has been a dooooozy.

Being poor sucks. Tooth pain is the WORST, and having my iPhone go missing just really takes the cake.

Instead of feeling sorry for myself though, I'm going to just be grateful.

-My DVR taped a million episodes of Flipping Out so that's a win.

-Antibiotics and pain killers really are so fantastic.
Having a friend as an Endodontist that i can just call at midnight to call in Vicodin for me
was SERIOUSLY a life saver cause I kid you not,
I was like THIS CLOSE to getting a hammer and shattering my tooth and pulling it myself.
Would have felt better.

-I have AMAZING friends and people in my life.

-The Help was an excellent, EXCELLENT, movie.
sidenote on this, having raised other peoples children this movie really hit home
in a lot of ways and was also so delightful and lovely and i just really loved it (saw it twice)

-Jack in the Box has their large sodas for 99 cents right now
and i DEFINITELY have been taking advantage.

-I saw Justin Bieber at the Grove on Monday.
Thanks to my friend Chelsie for running into the bathroom and yelling into my stall
"JUSTIN BIEBER IS OUTSIDE, HURRY!" Hilarious.
Everyone in the bathroom ran out to see. So so funny. Also he is small. Very teeny.
Maybe i am really 14 cause that was by far my best celeb sighting and I also saw David Arquette
and his daughter Coco in the same outing and i usually think he is such a babe but i couldn't have cared less
cause DUH, i have Bieber Fever majorly.

-Glad to have a crafting stash so that when i am antsy and feeling uninspired
i can just create something and be grateful for the talents that I do possess
and stop feeling sorry for myself.

this is for Roxanne's wedding. Their wedding song.
Thanks Nicci for the idea, I am obsessed.
Everyone make one. It's so easy, i did it in like 2 hours.

-I'm not too bad at 4-square

-Bachelor Pad is back on and its fun knowing the dirt on these idiots.
Thanks friends for knowing all these fools personally.

Basically what i am getting at....My life is good.
Real Good.

Photo dump

I haven't blogged in a few weeks.
Here are some photos from my phone.
Sorry, im boring.



jessica turned 27


my nephew Owen wearing the cute little chambray outfit i got him for his baby shower


a real good fortune cookie


Christine and I made Chelsie a birthday video. This is her watching it.
She loved it.


Our ward went to the LA food bank to volunteer, and Dave found 2 boxes of Magnum condoms in the cabbage.


made these caprese sandwiches for Chels's bday swim party.
I am now obsessed. SO GOOD.
Put pesto on anything and i am a happy girl.



finally finished Kittys wedding invitations.
Letterpressed invites really are so much more beautiful than the regular kind.
It took so long though.


Camping up at Zuma, Lindsey and Rachel made shadow puppet hats on me.


Found this in the ladies restroom.
DISGUSTING.
I dont even know how this happens.


Spent Saturday in South Central at the Family Living Fair.
I painted some photo backgrounds for the kiddies. This is one of them, before the head was cut out and the background was painted on.
The other one was a a robot fighting a dinosaur. BIG HIT.


I was also able to babysit little Lyla on Saturday morning while her parents went to a wedding.
MAN SHE IS SO CUTE.


Back to South Central on Sunday to the Pilgrim Missionary Baptist church with our ward.
They fed us the most delicious BBQ food in the world. The banana pudding wasnt so bad either.


Casey and Alyssa were in town this weekend.
This is Casey with his harem.
Ladies love the Cuz.


I love where i live.