Keep Your Eye On the Grand Old Flag! Song Sketch

I hope that if you are celebrating Memorial Day, you have a wonderful one!  


And if not, I hope you have a lovely Monday.  


And if you're on the other hemisphere, I hope you had a lovely Monday.


And, to all, have a completely amazing week!

Superman Says - or - My Current Favorite Quote

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

--- Christopher Reeve


P.S. I love Superman forever.

C'mon Baby, I'm Tired of Talking

This song, I confess, I first heard as a remix.*  


Of course, I'd listened to lots of other Elvis songs a million times but this one I'd never heard.  I was thinking of this song while perusing YouTube looking for 60s inspiration and I absolutely love this clip of the original - the clothes are divine, the decor is divine, the dancing is awesome (why don't we dance like that now?! It looks way more fun than what I did in high school - arms around neck, sway, blah, blah) and, well, it's Elvis.  So...yeah, divine.


In real life, I wouldn't really go for anyone telling me to 'close my mouth,' but, hey.  As I said before, it's Elvis.  


*Which I still love, might I add. I like the little hippie girl that dances with the swirly skirt.  

Why I Blog

I've been kind of wondering why I blog, really, because I scrimp and save my time as best I can to do as much as I can.  
(I keep thinking that once I actually have more time I'll be getting SO MUCH DONE.  Or it will be like how you always seem to expand into whatever space you live in...?)


I know that blogging takes up time (especially when you do it regularly!  haha) - time that I could be composing or cleaning (yea, right) or practicing, etc.  


But here's the thing - I work from home as a musician and stay-at-home mama.  So my coworkers are my lovely Macbook, Snowball mic and Yamaha keyboard I've had since 2002.  I MISS you guys when I'm just doing my music! I love it so much and all, but I miss reading blogs and comments and such.  Other blogs and readers are my water cooler and my inspirations and friends.  


So that's why I blog.  What about you?

You Are My Lullaby

I found this video using my song and video clips of classic film stars in roles of mamas.  How adorable and warm is this?  


Happy Mother's Day, mamas!

Mothers-to-be-Day

So, as I'm sure you aren't able to forget, due to the emails from every retail place that exists, Mothers' Day is on Sunday.  If you happen to have a friend who is a mama-to-be, getting her a gift would be unexpected but would endear her to you for life.  And who doesn't want that?  

Here are a couple ideas for sweet gifts for someone who is expecting:

1.  Epsom salts - perfect for achey, swollen feet.  And if she's one of those amazing women who wear heels throughout their pregnancy, she'll need it even more.

2.  Oil - there are a ton of options for moisturizing sore and itchy pregnant skin but what I ended up loving the most was this lime-infused organic olive oil I found at Whole Foods.  

From O Olive Oil

3.  Eye pillow - these are wonderful any time but when you're pregnant, you are limited in pain relief options so it's nice to have something natural at hand.

From gracie jean crafts

4.  A tank top with a shelf bra - I looooooved these for sleeping in when I was pregnant! 

From Gaiam

5.  Aaaand, a mommy mug.  That was my Mother's Day gift when I was pregnant and it made me so happy!

From Blackbird Studio UK

Pretty Patterns and Mom's Perfection

From Wallaby's Outpost

From Designers Reserve

From My Vintage Finds for All

My mother can pretty much do anything.

I'm not exaggerating.

All the way into my adult life, I've had friends and coworkers who haven't even met her ask me to ask her opinion on things.  She can paint, design, change a car battery, homeschool four kids, bake bread, make bags, turn a little apartment into a place Martha Stewart would want to move into, style hair, make an amazing meal out of two to three ingredients, bring you from being completely discouraged to the top-of-the-world in a half hour conversation...

To name a few.

In addition to those (and the other million things), she can sew.  She's sewed a ton of dresses for me, my sisters and my niece (including this dress below) so it's no wonder that I associate the art on the patterns with my mother.

These are some of the adorable vintage patterns I've found on Etsy.  Not that I can sew them, but I love just looking at them.  Not only are the women completely glamorous, looking at them gives me warm fuzzies just thinking about the sound of sewing machine running in the other room long after I've gone to bed.

P.S. Sally did a great post on patterns a while back too. Read it here!