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  • September3rd

    A tribute to Twitter friends, the badge goes out to our list of #FollowFriday sweet tweets.

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    @fleurdeleigh because your Twitter stream isn’t complete with out a dash of leigh … and her 3% spy-like qualitites …. and her amazing photography skills.

    @allisoncunny who always keeps here eye open for sassy situations and is also quite the Southern go-to girl on Ask Miss A!

    @designbabylon is where its at for interior design, inspiration and all around sassy coolness. Her site is impeccable and never fails to fuel my creativity.

    @c4womenchas for all their incredible work they do supporting women and the community. I’m a member. Are you a member? Join the cause here!

    @knackstudio because not only am I obsessed with her blog but her ability to turn old, worn out  pieces of furniture into beautiful, amazing artwork is absolutely mind blowing. One day I’ll make it up to see her items first hand, but until then you can often spot her on design*sponge !

    @JessicaO1020 is my Sista Sista who finally joined Twitter and started her own quilt happie blog to show off her sassy touches to classic quilting! Always there for inspiration and a :) along the way.

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    • a #FollowFriday & #WonderfulWeekend to each of you •

    ( psst … and don’t forget to follow us @TheSSMOnline )

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    The Mah-velous Magnolia badge will be awarded each Friday to a selected lady {or a few..or fellas..we’ll see!} who has had an impact on my week.  Who knows — maybe you’ll be up next!

  • September2nd

    { Happy 9-02-10 }

    Here’s to you and your favorite episode. Cheers!

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    photo credit: here
  • September1st

    [ jumbled ]

    Posted in: Random

    i came to starbucks after work to get some more work done.long story short, i’m  not in that workin frame of mind.but i don’t know what i would rather do now that i’m here with an internet connection and a chai tea latte with honey.hello reslessness, nice to see you again.well, i take that back – not nice – but whatver. silly southern manners.these high school kids at the table next to me are getting on my nerves.was i that annoying in high school? yes – i’m pretty sure i was. silly girl.why do i feel like i’m thinking 100 million things right now but can’t put my finger on a single one.maybe this is why people meditate.if my cup is really made from 10% recycled paper, i hope that wasn’t toilet paper.i’m pretty sure that’s not allowed.at least i hope it’s not.something tells me there is a bonafied cougar a few tables over.maybe i should take notes.just in case.i’m having serious Apple envy at the MacBook Pro right in front of me.last time i was lusting over someone’s Apple set up i apparently made them quite uncomfortable.how exactly do you explain, without deflating a boy’s ego, that i’m sorry – i know you may think i’m eying you, but in all honestly, i just want your tech set up.it was an iPad.who doesn’t lust over an iPad.i rest my case.holy cannoli the girl on her phone behind me just shouted that 22 was old.thanks honey, put me out to pasture then.i hope you wake up with a wrinkle on your forehead. that was mean, i take that back, i shouldn’t have thought that.oh damn i bet karma’s already sending me my very own new wrinkle for that comment even though i took it back.am i too young to start preventative botox injections.i’ll look into that tomorrow.the school girl across from me – with the mom with the MacBook Pro – is studying the area of a rectangle.to everyone who told me that i had to pay attention in math class because i was going to use geometry and calculus when i got older, a wrinkle to each of you.you thought i was just being lazy but i knew way better than you on that one.BOOYA.oh damn, i need to stop wishing wrinkles on people.i’m going to look like a pug if i’m not careful.maybe i should pack up and go home and just call it a night.obviously i’m not being overly productive if i’m wishing wrinkles on people.yea, that’s it.i’ll go home now.maybe if i start reading a book my mind will stop being jumbled.you have to focus when reading a book.right.right.my laptop battery is about to give out anyways.if only i had an iPad. lusting again.tech envy.time to go.look, a pretty picture!

    .because sometimes my mind takes off like this. no,it’s not ADD, it’s life.

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    photo credit: ruffled

  • September1st

    putch’yo hands up, putch’yo hands up

    .. let’s celebrate now ..

    Flo Rida – Club Can’t Handle Me

    (if you have trouble viewing this video, please click here)

    just a little something to get September started off in a Rock Star sort of way

  • August31st

    Not since Valley of the Dolls has a book, so quickly, moved into my Top 5. Very few stories have moved me to all 3 out louds – cried, gasped & laughed – but I am delighted to add this one to the elite group.

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    I’d seen this book everywhere, almost picked it up at least thirty different times. It wasn’t until a fabulous photographer friend of mine, Jenny Anderson, mentioned it on twitter that I took the plunge and picked it up two nights later at Target. I officially started the book on a Thursday night after work and stayed up till 2 .am. the following night to finish it. I was that encompassed in the story, the characters, the writing…everything.

    :: Jump a train and join a traveling circus in August’s Book of the Month ::

    Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

    My best description of the book is a love story wrapped up in a grimy, twisted, traveling circus, told by an elderly man who instantly grabs hold to your heart.

    “When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.” – Jacob Jankowski

    Gruen weaves such a tale with impeccable attention to detail, both graphic and historical, that you are quite literally picked up and set on the train traveling along with Jacob, Queenie and the whole Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.

    From sleazy, secret sideshow acts to the glitz and glitter of kinker’s costumes. There are clearly status lines drawn amongst the traveling circus where money is the bottom line and the show must always go on.

    Raw emotion and circumstance are explored throughout the novel, one right after the other, in such a striking manner that you truly see the ins and outs of human nature. The surprising heroine pulls on your heart with every lift of her trunk. And the ending is one I would have never seen coming but astonishingly found to be absolutely perfect in every possible way.

    “For this old man, this is home.” – Jacob Jankowski

    I don’t think I could say enough good things about Water for Elephants. I don’t want to write too much about it for fear of giving away too much information. (The twists are part of what makes it a page turner.)  You can wait of course until the movie is released next year, but believe me on this one – this is a story you don’t want to wait for …. so go get your copy and start reading! Maybe you’ll find yourself staying up into the wee hours of the early morning see just what exactly happens to that sweet, untamed , 90-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski.

    :: happy reading ::

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    Pick up Water for Elephants here at The Sassy Steel Magnolia eStore.