my sad day in hockey...

i have a thing for hockey players. i am a BIG fan of hockey hair. i am marrying a hockey player. and i have a slight obsession with jaromir jagr, so much so that the fiancé bought me a jagr shirt just to appease me. but even he thinks my obsession is going overboard. i asked him last week if he thought that if i invited jagr to our wedding he'd come (yes, i have problems). so you can imagine my dismay when i was told he will not be returning to the bruins next season. i am crushed.

i mean come on, does a 41 year old hockey player with a 20+ year career get much hotter than this?...i think not...

look at this young 18-year-old mullet, amazing...

i even love his freakin' playoff beard, who rocks a beard like this? no one...

for all those nay-sayers who talk about jagr being too old to keep playing, i say go pound sand. he's amazing.

remember the cabbage patch kids???...

if you're a child of the 80's then you'll definitely want to get yourself or your little one some of these cabbage patch kids crocheted hats (as seen on the today show). check out her etsy site for cabbage patch kid and yoda inspired hats...

inexpensive and stylish? yes, it exists apparently...

it's no surprise i have champagne taste on a beer budget (and we're not talking the good beer, we're talking like natty light shit). so i was shocked when i received the new home decorators collection catalogue. have you seen the incredibly low prices for these incredible stylish lights? i feel like i need to buy a bunch up just because they are so inexpensive, even though i have no place to use them...

capri pendant

globe bronze pendant

orb pendant

emeline mini pendant

chase mini pendant

brian williams + gangster rap...

jimmy fallon is a genius for these mash-ups.

brian williams doing a little snoop...

and a little warren g...

artist crush...

i love coming across new artists. i just happened to be looking at stephanie nelsons instagram this morning and she posted a great little drawing by artist caitlin connolly, whom i know follow on instagram and who is now my current obsession. i have to have some of her drawings...ok, so i actually just ordered a couple. they are going to look darling matted & framed in our bedroom...

check out her paintings too... gorgeous...

wedding 'work'...

there are many perks to working in construction, first and foremost knowing exactly who to call when something goes wrong at your own house and having them come out immediately. but the second best perk is your boss being able to make things for your backyard wedding...

like directional signs (still to be painted)...

and the structure for your diy photo booth...

just one reason out of a million i love where i work!

rundown glories...

do you ever drive through an area, wether it be through a desolate farm town or past a urban corner, look at a rundown building and think to yourself, 'man, i'd love to have that house for myself to fix up'???  i do, all the time. my dreams are mostly of old rundown homes in upstate new york and/or vermont. i think to myself how wonderful it would to buy that house and fix it up, but with all the modern day amenities. some of my favorite renovation projects are of old, dilapidated homes- i can see the potential in those former glories. in fact, i can't imagine myself ever buying a brand new home, they just don't come like they used to.

i came across these books on pinterest and my imagination began to run wild. now all i need is a few million dollars to invest in my run-down dream home...

ruin: photographs of a vanishing america

gone: a photographic plea for preservation

currently reading (for the month of june)...

i love when my nightstand is piled high with books to read! here's what i've got lined up to read this month...

dark places by gillian flynn- i figured since i've read all her other books i'd give this one a shot. i just finished it on my trip to virginia, it's probably my least favorite. sharp objects and gone girl are much better.

z: a novel of zelda fitzgerald by theresa anne fowler- i'm half way through this one, it's due back to the library over the weekend. i'm a fan of all books f. scott fitzgerald so i thought i'd read about the woman behind the man. let's just say they are dysfunctional, at best.

the other four books below were given to me by my co-worker, i can't wait to get started on them... here are their summaries...

perfect life by jessica shattuck- "explores how one woman's decision to shut the biological father of her child out of her life affects a group of old college pals. Harvard grad Neil Banks isn't exactly thrilled at having sold out and taken a job that moved him from L.A. to Boston to design the video games he used to review. After his arrival, he happens across Laura, a mutual friend of his and his college sweetheart, Jenny, who got pregnant using Neil's sperm after her blank-shooting husband couldn't deliver. As Laura, now unhappily married and the mother of two, and Neil embark on an affair, Neil's desire to connect with the son he's never met (and signed away all rights to) grows ever more intense. His chance comes in the form of a sexually voracious rep from Jenny's pharma company who is working on an antidepressant product-placement deal for a game Neil's designing."

the three weissmanns of westport by cathleen schine- "Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband’s mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schine’s playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annie, a library director, who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister."

the buddah in the attic by julie otsuka- " tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war."

rules of civility by amor towles- "On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar with her boardinghouse roommate stretching three dollars as far as it will go when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a tempered smile, happens to sit at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a yearlong journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool toward the upper echelons of New York society and the executive suites of Condé Nast--rarefied environs where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. "

we're also reading the ashford affair by lauren willig this month for book group...i have a feeling (other than bruins playoff hockey) i will be watching very little tv this month!

playing in my head...

ok, so the video for this song is a little wierd- although anything with lou diamond phillips in it is pretty cool in my book- but i've got this song set on repeat this week...

a weekend in virginia...

over the weekend i took a trip down to virginia to visit two very special people...

my 11 year old cousin... we hit up the pool & the local summer carnival...

and my 87 year old grandmother... despite her alzheimer's, visiting her still feels like when i was a little girl...