Summer, Summer, Summertime

Our British house guests have moved on to Cape Cod, and Mr. Kinne and I are done with school for the summer. (Well, except for the fact that I am teaching summer school).

We had a lovely few days of playing tourists with our guests, and I am putting together some posts about our Western Massachusetts adventures.

For now, I leave you with this picture from last summer, because I love it:

A Night at the Theater

We're taking our guests to the Berkshires tomorrow night to see one of my very favorite musicals.

The soundtrack is one of my favorites to sing along to at the top of my lungs.

Darling, You Send Me...

I made this print to fill an empty space in our shiny, new guest room. It is a quote from one of my favorite songs, which was also Mr. Kinne's and my first dance at our wedding.

You can download the print here-- it can be trimmed to fit an 8 x 10 frame.

From Mess to Guest Room

It's done! Our spare room actually looks like a guest room, instead of the room where we throw the stuff we don't know what to do with.

Here's where we started:

Here's the end result, two weeks and a couple hundred dollars later:

Make-Up Monday: Clinique Full Potential Lip Gloss

I got a sample of Clinique Full Potential lip gloss with my last Clinique order, and I'm just not in love with it.

I got "Glamour-full," which, admittedly, is a fun name. It is a pretty pinky-brown shade, but it is a little too thick and sticky. Plus, I don't see any of the plumping effect that the gloss is supposed to provide.

Definitely not one that I would purchase.

In unrelated news, our spare room currently looks like this, and our guests arrive on Wednesday.

We've got a little work to do.

Happy Father's Day

My dad is the best, and I could think of no better way to tell him than with cupcakes.

(Those adorable cupcake toppers are from here).

A Baby Shower Cake

The room re-do is at a bit of standstill, because it is report card time again.

However, I did manage to take a little break from schoolwork to make a cake for two of my pregnant co-workers. (Pregnancy is like an epidemic in my school this year).

The cake recipe was this one, and the buttercream recipe was from Smitten Kitchen.

The umbrella decoration was made with candy melts spread over waxed paper.

(I printed out a picture of an umbrella and used that as my guide).

I was pretty impressed with myself.