The Apkers

A Matter of Taste

Katie Darlin' — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:03:20 +0000

I have this friend Rosie who is basically the most beautifully tasteful person I know. She dresses, speaks, eats and lives on a level I can only aspire to. On a trip to the beach earlier this year, I am luggingaround my red, faux-snakeskin duffle from Ross, while she has monogrammed Pottery Barn canvas totes. She wears classic black trenches while I am still in my turquoise Wet Seal windbreaker (with ruching I might add)… It seams that I am often teetering on the edge of garish – I am just so schmoozed by glitter and rhinestones and color and pop! And I have this innate fear of getting super boring as I get old. Not really afraid of getting old – just blah and boring. But I am trying to be better. Trying to remember that I am not my 15 yr-old little sister. That I can’t (and shouldn’t want to) wear neon Reebok hightops.

So here’s how good I am being. Watch. You’ll be amazed……drumroll……I just bought WHITE, WHITE, WHITE towels for my bathroom this weekend!!! Aren’t you proud? Five years ago when Mark & I got married, we registered for minty seafoam green towels. I even chastised another couple registering at the good BB&B at the same time as us for registering for some “boring beige” washcloths… I was young…and rude…what can I say? Here are my new, so classic and tasteful bathroom accoutrements:

But here are the shoes I was wearing when I bought them:

Hah – They’re leopard AND they have little sparklies. I think they rock. And they’re super comf. Maybe Rosie would never wear them, but I’m not really sad right now that I do.

not just like butter…

Katie Darlin' — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:33:04 +0000

We get raw milk from our farm co-op each week. I skimmed the cream and made some butter and accompanying buttermilk with it. It was good – but you gotta eat it up quickly…

Locke @ 6 Months

Katie Darlin' — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:40:14 +0000

Working on getting up to date with all my personal posts (some of you know why I’ve gottten a bit behind)…

Here are some shots Mark took of Locke (almost) on his 6 month b-day:

Nellie @ 8 hours

Katie Darlin' — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:49:12 +0000

She’s here!

P.S. Sorry about the grain and such – the room was so, so dark…

beautiful, no?

Katie Darlin' — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:00:38 +0000

SOOC, first time on manual.

First Solid Type Food

Katie Darlin' — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:41:31 +0000

Rice cereal tastes like paper. But I guess Locke does really like to chew on paper. Plus novice attempt at photo processing (compare pictures 1 and 2).

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what the hail?!?

Katie Darlin' — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:25:53 +0000

So we got permission from the land overlords to roto-till up our lawn – what amounted to approx 1/3 of our green space. All for a lovely garden. We planted seeds back in February and happily watched them sprout and grow on our warm kitchen window sill. The weather was nice and sunny on April 27th and we decided it was time for our little seedlings to broaden their roots in the big real world. So we headed outside and got our hands a bit muddy. We were such proud parents. Then the unpredictable NW weather proceeded to sabotage our plans of veggie glory. Curse you Matt Zaffino! It hailed and hailed and hailed. Boo. Our plants DIED! Well, not all of them. Just the zucchini, beefsteak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, orange peppers, and eggplants. The red onions and carrots were apparently skinny enough leaf-wise to dodge the haily darts. We have replanted. We are resilient. We will rebuild.

Baby Dump

Katie Darlin' — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:44:15 +0000

Variation of a brain dump. All those baby pictures that I want to have printed eventually – getting them out of the vacuous pit that is my computer’s hard drive – but that are essentially miscellaneous. P.S. I love monster shoes. I want these.

My Dog Jack

Katie Darlin' — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:33:05 +0000

Remember Doug and Olivia Johnson? They moved to Seattle in January. Sad. I want to visit them. I never could convince Olivia to join my book club group. But I did cajole her into making wreaths with me. Christmas 2008, Fall 2009, and Christmas 2009. Hers were simple and tasteful – think pottery barn. Mine were sparkly and garish – think forever 21. They had two dogs – Bruno and Jill. They let us water their tomatoes when they were on holiday. Don’t you just love the sound of going on holiday? I want to go on holiday to Seattle and visit Olivia and Douggers.

Art of Weddings 2010

Katie Darlin' — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:26:57 +0000

The one wedding show I have committed to be in every year. Hard to pull off at one month post-partum. More pictures on my word website/blog (www.fleurbliss.com). But here is a sampling: