I let Miley & Howie out for their morning bathroom break and backyard patrol.
They make the rounds, thoroughly inspecting every square inch of the yard until they’ve made sure no unauthorized visitors have trespassed into their territory during the night.
But at some point… when they think I’m not looking…
They find the Swamp.
You know… that overgrown area of the yard we like to forget about from October to April.
The Swamp is like the Bermuda Triangle for dogs & their toys. It attracts them and sucks them in.
But that’s no problem for Howie.
You have to keep a close eye on the backyard to experience this rare swamp monster sighting.
Miley, of course, is more dainty and attempts to hover over the swamp.
She sticks the landing…
But she misjudged how close that fence was. Doh!
So, when they’re standing at the back door, waiting to be let in, looking post-apocalyptic…
There’s only one thing we can do.
Bath time!
Spring. It’s Miley & Howie’s favorite time of year.
So, last week when I was talking about my current love affair with scarves, somehow in the excitement of all the commenting, and what I can only imagine was some sort of scarf-induced high, I let myself get talked into making… a video. That’s right, a real, live video documenting a few of my favorite ways to wear scarves.
Not that I’m an expert scarf-wearer or anything.
But today, right here on kevinandamanda.com, I am posting that video.
Before you watch, you should know- yes. I am a dork. A complete, and total dork. There you have it.
So, in conclusion, and in addition to me being a dork, while those certainly aren’t the only ways to tie a scarf (and you probably already knew most of them) they are the 5 ways I most often wear them. They’re quick, they’re easy, they’re relatively pain-free… and the looks could work for either winter or spring.
A couple of questions I meant to answer in the tutorial… but forgot.
How do you store your scarves?
Mine are just wrapped on a regular clothes hanger- tied on just like the first method I showed you in the video. You can kinda get an idea from the picture below- I just took the hanger from my closet and hung it up on the hook on the back of my door to take the pic. I meant to hold up the hanger and show it to you in the video, but I took all the scarves off the hanger first. You know, to make it easier to put them on while taping myself. Oops. Way to plan ahead there. Anyway, one regular-sized hanger holds about 10-12 of my scarves (they’re pretty smooshed on) – and I have about 15 scarves, but at any given time, the other 3 are usually either on me, hanging on the coat rack in the foyer, or strewn somewhere else about the house.
I did see this hanger the other day in The Container Store though. It looks pretty cool for a real scarf collecting enthusiast.
Where do you get your scarves?
The scarves in the video, in order of appearance are from Coach (striped scarf), LOFT (pink & white floral scarf), LOFT (purple paisley scarf) and Old Navy (solid white scarf with poms). All of my other scarves are from either LOFT or Old Navy- except for the pink one I got @ Gloss in Birmingham for Valentine’s Day. :) Now uh, hook a girl up here- where do you get your scarves??
So, I think that’s about it. Oh, and, just so ya know- The making and editing this video had me so flummoxed that at one point, without my knowledge, the webcam on the iMac snapped a picture. This, in all its deer-in-the-headlights glory, is that picture.
And I am a dork.
And I look like I belong in an infomercial for Bumpits.
I broke out my summer cargo pants and we took Miley and Howie to the nature trail for an afternoon hike.
The nature trail is always fun-
there’s a huge lake with ducks & geese that walk right up to you…
…a covered bridge…
…and a 2-mile walking trail around the lake.
I took these pictures with my Sony H20. It’s a compact point-and-shoot: a “throw it in my purse just in case I run into Orlando Bloom” camera. I love it for hiking- I mean, the big camera’s great and all- but my favorite lens weighs about 400 lbs. It’s nice to be able to grab the camera out of my pocket real quick- and not have to lug around the entire stock of B&H Photo when we’re out in the middle of the woods and already trying to wrangle two insane canines (yes, I’m talking to you, M&H!).
It has an “Easy” mode, which basically means all I have to do is turn it on and press the button. Ahhh. :)
My sweet Howie and his reflection.
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On Saturday, we lounged. We opened the windows, shared the recliner and watched The Breakfast Club.
Getting up at the crack of dawn. Taking a drive. Seeing the snow- beautiful. Morning shopping at the Summit. Being showered with festive Valentine’s cookies, cupcakes and treats in all the stores- just for shopping. Lunch @ The Cheesecake Factory. Yummy, yummy cheesecake.
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7. Finding a candle that smells exactly like our favorite ice cream spot.
Spending the whole day with my sweetie.
All in all, it was a *14 hour* shopping day with my Valentine. I love you baby!
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On Sunday we slept in, and sometime during the middle of the night- it snowed. When we woke up, everywhere we could see was covered in fresh, white powder.
Kevin went out into the cold and took this picture. I stayed inside in my pajamas. See Miley & Howie? :)
Sunday night, we had reservations for dinner and a movie.
We had reserved seats for the movie too- no waiting in line! :) We sat in a love seat and saw Valentine’s Day. I loved it. They brought us complimentary chocolate covered strawberries. We ate sweet potato fries during the movie.
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