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UConn Greenhouse Adventure

Seeking shelter from the awful weather we had yesterday, Mayya and I headed to the UConn greenhouses. There weren’t many other people there, so we loudly exclaimed our excitement about each tree, herb, and flower while bird songs were played over the speakers. I’d never been to the greenhouses before Mayya brought me a few weeks ago, and I’m so glad she did! It’s like stepping into a natural wonderland! I’m really thinking about acquiring more plants than the singular lucky bamboo in an elephant pot that Stan and I own. Here are a few photos I took with my iPhone while we were there:

This is my favorite one, and I’m pretty excited that it came out so well considering I took it with my iPhone, standing on my tippy toes and reaching over a bunch of scary pricker bush-type plants.

More photos after the jump!

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Bright Tights, Little City.

I just bought these wonderfully bright & spring-y tights from We Love Colors {Remember Stan’s sister’s guest post about them?}. During our styling session, Sabrina and I talked about creative ways to add color to my outfits and bright tights were one solution. Going by the first photo above, from left to right, [...]

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Chocolate-Chocolate Pancakes

I promised you the recipe for Chocolate-Chocolate Pancakes in my ReStyle ReVisted post, so here it is! My mom used to make these for my sisters and I when we were little, and now I rarely eat pancakes that aren’t chocolate-chocolate {one “chocolate” is for the cocoa powder in the batter and the [...]

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Blog Makeover!

New layout! What do you think? Love it? Hate it? Want the old one back?

I know the navigation menu could use a little tweaking, but I don’t think it’s awful. I’d love your feedback though!

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Today, My Deer, is Earth Day

I saw a deer today while I was making dinner and I did this thing when I get really excited where I squeak and ball up my fists and wave them around. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get that on camera, but I did get the deer!

I apologize for the screen-ness, but it was [...]

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