Showers of Happiness

Hello reader!  How was your weekend?  Saturday I enjoyed going to my best friend from works bridal shower.  I was so happy she was surprised!  Here mom and sisters threw a beautiful party at The Vanderbilt in Staten Island, NY. 

I drove there with another good friend of mine Daniella (that's us below) Mental note: I've decided I take pictures best when the camera is angled down at me and left profile LOL and I desperately need a hair cut but It's not about me right now hee hee.

 This is my BFF crafting buddy Debby (this picture I like :) ) She knits/crochets and has this awesome shop on  Etsy check her out Once Upon a Hook

 The lovely couple to be Kerri and James

 Kerri and Me

 My friend Tara also from work

In 3 short months my bestie will be starting a new chapter in her life.  I wish her and James many happy years. I know they will have a blast along the way!

Cheers!



XOXO,

K

Cupcake Love

In my opinion they are the perfect dessert but not so perfect on your waist LOL.  I was browsing Etsy last week and happened upon these fake bake cupcakes from 12LegsCuriosities I couldn't believe how real they actually looked. It got me thinking about my toppers.  I want to enhance my photos and make them stand out and showing them on a dreamy dessert would be perfect but I don't want to purchase a cake or cupcake my waistline won't like it LOL.

I just love how the look now.  Don't they look yummy enough to eat? Take a peek....

The hubby and I took my stepson Matt to the Seton Hall - Rutgers basketball game on Saturday.  We had a great time.  I'll share pictures tomorrow.

XO,

K

Fitness Goals

I used to run 3-4 miles a day 6 days a week.  Some how I fell off the fitness wagon.  Ever since we moved to our new house 2 years ago and our commute got about 1/2 longer I can 't muster the energy to get on the treadmill after work.  Doing it before work ( I would prefer) is out of the question I already get up at 4:15am to shlep to work.

When I get home if I don't do it as soon as I get home before dinner I won't do it.  I hate to work out on a full stomach, plus wedding season is creeping up on me.  I'm starting to get busy with cake toppers.  I use the excuse "well I really need to get a good 2-3 hours of painting in"

It's so amazing how it seems to take forever to get to a certain fitness level, but in no time you are back to square one once you stop for a while.   I go through this cycle of being really actively fit and then completely falling off the map.  Right now I'm off the map.  I want to get  back on.  I love the energy exercise gives me. 

I'm giving my self weekly challenges.  Trying a new approach.  This week I will walk/run 3 days this week (bonus if I do it 4 or 5) but I'll work with 3.  Today will be the first for the week. 

What are your fitness goals?  Do you have any?

XO for now

K

Arsenic and Old Lace

I'm a huge fan of movies from the 30's - 50's.  Recently I've been utilizing netfilx (watching instantly) to re-discover favorites and explore new ones.

Last night while painting I pop up my old buddy netfilx and discovered "Arsenic and Old Lace" starting...

Cary Grant (swooning) 

Priscilla Lane

Josephine Hull

Jean Adair

Raymond Massey

Peter Lorre

John Alexander

There are a few other cast of characters I recognize from my beloved "I Love Lucy".  This was a film adaption of a play of the same name that ran on Broadway.

Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) falls in love with Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), who grew up next door to him in Brooklyn, and, on Halloween day, they marry.

Immediately after the wedding, Mortimer visits the bizarre relatives who still live in his old family home: his elderly aunts Abby (Josephine Hull) and Martha (Jean Adair), and his brother Teddy (John Alexander), who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt

Mortimer finds a corpse hidden in a window seat and assumes that Teddy has committed murder under somedelusion, but his aunts explain that they are responsible ("It's one of our charities"). They have developed what Mortimer calls the "very bad habit" of ending the presumed suffering of lonely old bachelors by serving them elderberry wine spiked with arsenic, strychnine and "just a pinch of cyanide". The bodies are buried in the basement by Teddy, who believes he is digging locks for the Panama Canal and burying yellow fever victims

To complicate matters further, Mortimer's brother Jonathan (Raymond Massey) arrives with his alcoholic accomplice, plastic surgeon Dr. Herman Einstein (Peter Lorre). Jonathan is a psychotic murderer trying to escape the police and find a place to dispose of the corpse of his latest victim

Jonathan, upon finding out his aunts' secret, decides to bury Spenalzo in the cellar (to which Abby and Martha object vehemently, because their victims were all nice gentlemen) and soon declares his intention to kill Mortimer

But eventually Jonathan is arrested, while Teddy and the two aunts are safely consigned to an asylum. Finally, Abby and Martha inform Mortimer that he is not biologically related to the Brewsters after all: His real father worked as a chef on a steamship. In the film's closing scene, after lustily kissing Elaine and before whisking her away to their honeymoon, he gleefully exclaims "I'm not a Brewster, I'm a son of a sea cook!"

~courtesy of wikipedia~

I highly recommend checking it out.

XO,

K 

J-E-T-S...JETS, JETS, JETS!

Yeah! they won.  I'm so happy mostly for my husband.  It was quite a game.  Joe, zoey and I cuddle up on the couch and prayed for a win.  The last quarter was a killer but the won by a field goal.  Now on to Tom Brady and the Patriots.

This will be a tough one to win.  I hope they can pull it off.  Here is Zoey decked out in her Jets shirt.

Shes a little stinker.  It took me about 10 tries to get a decent picture.  As soon as she the camera she walks away or turns her head and if you call her name she ignores you.  Such a brat.  I took a picture of me and Joe but it came out red so I deleted it.  Next week we are going to my BIL for the game so I'll be sure to take lots of pictures of the crew watching the game.

In shop news I finished a custom birthday topper for a client with a matching ornament.  I may offer this combo in the shop.  Still thinking about it.  Here's how the turned out....

I'm off to watch Jerseylicious.....

XO,

K



OH NO Snow again......

Yes it's true the NY/NJ/PA area is getting hit with snow again BUT thank goodness it's nothing like the blizzard we got hit the day after Christmas.

Right now I'm blogging from work, patiently waiting for hubby to be able to leave work (we commute together). Looks like I'll be here to 4:00pm. They rarely let him leave early. My boss....

1. isn't in
2. lets me do what I want (Love it)

I wish I would have worked from home today. Ahh well..... In other news

I just listed these 2 cuties in the Shop

JETS tomorrow! I hope they make it to the superbowl and end my husbands misery.  Enjoy your weekend~

XO,
K

Goals

I have some this year....

1. Get organized in all aspects of my life and home
2. Visit more touristy (sp?) site in NJ and NY

Check out my list more detailed list in the tab above called 2011 Do list. Keep reading here to see if I do it all LOL.

Happy Monday

XO,
K

How to train your Dragon

Have you seen the movie?  I haven't but over Christmas I had a client request a set of dolls (3 sets) to give to as presents.  She along with the people she was having them made for worked on the movie.  In showing them off a friend of hers contacted me to create a set for her husbands birthday this month.  She choose  to have hiccup and toothless the dragon made.  I just finished them and thought I would share....

Here are Hiccup and Astrid the set that started it all....

I also finished a new first birthday cake topper that was a custom order.  I just love the color combination.  The clients daughter will be wearing a white onesie with a 1 on it along with a turquoise tutu. So cute.

I also finished some wedding cake toppers I'll share tomorrow.  Pretty productive Sunday AND...

the JETS won!  Who hoo!  They play the colts next Saturday.  I hope they win for my husbands sake.  We will be glued to the TV with take out and our lucky Jets gear on!

XO,

K





Happy New Year!

Welcome to my blog.  My name is Kathy.  I'm a Jersey girl who runs a little cottage business The Pretty Pixie in my spare time.  A few fast facts...

1. I love hummus and peanut butter but not together
2. I'm an old movie buff
3. Painting is my passion
4. I've lived in NJ all my life and LOVE it
5. My birthday is in August
6. I love the cold weather.  Bring on a good snow storm
7. I like the smell of my dogs feet. So I'm weird.  They smell like Doritos!
8. I'm a dreamer

You can read more about me by checking out my bio page up top.  Follow me on my adventures.  They may not always be exciting but I'll try.

XO,

K