Share A Link {Saturday}

Two of the best videos of the internet ever! The classic "Charlie Bit Me!" I just can't even handle how cute their accents are. Reason #3 why I'd love to marry an English guy...

And little Capucine and her fantastic story of magical adventures!! Another incredibly adorable accent made even cuter by the fact that its coming from a toddler. Le sigh...

Click on over for the cutest little girl with the biggest eyes and an even bigger story!

Hope you have a great weekend ahead! I need to go eat some grub and figure out what will be in tomorrows post for Teeny Tiny Things Sunday!

Cheers! Ciao! Adios!

~HM~

A Mess of Chairs or A Tiny WPA Piece of Art On A Collge Campus

Eeeho! I'm supposed to take my Ambien in exactly one minute and here I am blogging! But I had two pictures to share with you and a fun little night I wanted to describe before I go to bed and lose this feeling of silly and fun and happiness.

Okay, so I met up with my totally awesome friend Mikey at Urban Outfitters and we came across this cuteness:

Which he described as "a mess of chairs." Ha! So true! But I think it looks like a tiny little piece of WPA art on a college campus. And really...I think we're both right. Or as my good friend Jamie just tweeted "very tiny wedding reception gone horribly awry..." I think she totally wins this round.

After perusing the tiny arts of Urban, we went next door to the lovely bar Two Fools (how great of a name is that? Almost as great at the Thirsty Scholar in NY). And had some grub and a beer. Gah, I love me a deep, dark beer. Mikey suggested one for me and of course I can't remember the name. All I know is, I couldn't see through it when I held it up to the light which made it per-fect!

As we sat there chatting, I felt very How I Met Your Mother (without the annoying Ted). What, with my boots and dark denim combo and my stylishly dressed friend (he's always wearing some kind of awesome tie or sweater or vest or hat). Did I mention he's a musician? Yeah. He's awesome like that. He's in the local Albuquerque band Of God and Science. Check them out stat. My favoritist song of theirs (so far) is Impossible You. So perfectly good.

After Two Fools we went back to Urban and wandered around a bit more and then the song "Two Weeks" by Grizzly Bear came on and we both did that thing where you hear a really great song and you kinda slow down a bit and marinate in the sounds surrounding your eardrums. And you ask yourself, "what is this music loveliness?" I noticed Mikey get out his blackberry and I asked him what song it was and he was trying to do the song identification app thing but couldn't pick it up. And I exclaimed: "It was really loud in the purses section! Let's go over there!" So we moseyed on over to the purses where we stood listening to this awesome song.

I may or may not have listened to it 353 times from that point till now. Maybe.

Okay, I'm like 40 minutes overdue for an Ambien so I better go and stop giggling about tiny chairs. Thanks for reading lovely, impossibly...you!

~HM~

Modern Love

How awesome is my lovely friend Jamie? Way awesome=is the answer to that question. She's a brilliant writer, artist and all around awesome lady. We survived undergrad together with sarcasm, snark, silliness, smiles and...soda.

For the holidays she sends personally illustrated adorable cards. How cute is this Valentine's Day card? Way cute=is the answer to that question as well.

Today (the beginning of my work week) ended surprisingly well. After an...interesting...day at work, I rushed home, said hello to the family and then ran off into the big city for a play reading for my friend Jennae's dads' play. {It was an awesome play by the by!} My good friend Kristin co-owns her own theatre downtown so that's where we held the play reading. It felt sooo good to do a play reading, let me tell you. I haven't had one of those since college...almost five years ago!

After the play reading we took a stroll downtown to a yummy little cafe. When we walked in, all the tables were taken and it was oddly quiet. We took a seat at the bar and then Jennae proclaimed, "Oh! It's Geeks Who Drink Night!" haha. That's why it was so quiet. All the cute bar peeps were concentrating on their survey questions. As we enjoyed our drinks and a burger, we got to hear some ridiculously funny trivia questions. There was a segment entirely based off of the CSI: Miami scream and random movie audio clips. It was hilarious!

All in all, a great Tuesday night! Need to have many more like it.

PS-That last photo is of Jennae's boyfriend Kurt (or Qurt as I call him). Isn't it just so freakin' funny? haha...makes me laugh...

~HM~

Written Words {To Be Continued}

Since I'm a major procrastinator...and I have a half finished word doc saved with a ridiculous rambling love story...and I didn't want Valentine's Day to pass by without posting a little something...for you: A Haiku.

For My Friend Jamie
You Deserve Some Written Words
I Don't Even Know

Librarian Paper Art {from my co-worker}

<3HM<3

Naranja con Cuchillo Chiquito {Orange with Tiny Knife}

Today's {Teeny Tiny Things Sunday} is brought to you by the very lovely Angelica. My super awesome sister! I was bugging her for a week straight about taking pictures for me and being the awesome sister she is, she did!

You might not realize the full extent of my teeny tiny thing love. Oh, but you will soon my friends.

I've actually been brainstorming making a little house for all the little knick-knack things I've collected. My sisters and I used to have one when we were little. It was in the shape of a little house and every time we'd go to the mall, we'd stop by the store Coach House and buy cat figurines.

So, without further ado: Naranja con Cuchillo Chiquito {Orange with Tiny Knife}

The lovely teeny tiny knife.

Stabbed in an orange cause its funny and cute. My sister said it made an equally cute stabbing sound with a lite citrus spray.

How cute is that?! Yup, I love it so. Full disclosure: I dreamed about finding a teeny tiny knife of my very own buried in an old closet. I was so excited that I had my own. Maybe that means my sister should give this to me, right? See, I knew you'd agree.

Do you want a li'l knife of your very own? Well, you're in luck cause you can purchase your very own here! Made by Philadelphia based designer Sarah Lewis. {If you happen to be in Philly, she has a new shop opening up in March!}

She has some other amazing pieces in her shop. I want them all. Especially the tiny banjo. It would go perfectly with my tiny harmonica (coming soon to a blog near you!)

Thanks for reading friends!

~HM~

I don't even know...

I have no idea how I feel about this blog. I'm completely torn between keeping it and deleting it. I think it's because I read things like this article and it just really creeps me out. To imagine, when you die, you leave all your cyber fingerprints on everything. That someone can trace you back, find the trail you've left out in the open, all those profiles and usernames and accounts we create. It just feels like sometimes there is just way too much of me out there. I just...don't know.

Its the paranoid part in me that wants to delete all available data of myself from "the grid" and be independent of all this social media. But then the other optimistic part of me loves the idea of connecting with the world through all these amazing forms of communication we have available to us. I mean what's not to love about the possibility of having your words, thoughts and pictures shared across the world?

Do any of you ever feel like this?

As of right now it looks like I will embrace the moment and blog. It'll give me the chance to connect with all the lovely yous out there and share a little bit of my life. And on another more personal level, I think it'll help motivate me, hold me accountable to the passing days.

 Anywho, welcome to another attempt at keeping up with this blog by yours truly!

Oh and cause I promised my good friend Jamie and my sisters, here is a pic of a teeny tiny sombrero cause...well, why not?

~HM~

 

A teeny tiny sombrero!

I bought this li'l guy in San Antonio for $1!

Fly Away Pig?

Hello and welcome to the new blog of me! I decided a fresh start to my blog was in order. Plus now the URL matches my blog title so, you know, that's good.

The first thing you might be wondering is where my fantastic blog title came from? Well, as the story goes, my grandma (Grandma Lady) and her brothers and sisters used to say this phrase every time they would return home. And it became one of those family phrases that's been passed down to the next generations (currently in its 3rd rotation and on to the next when us grandkids buck up and start popping out some li'l cuties of our own).

A quick google search tells me that the original phrase is "Home again, home again, jiggety-jig" from the Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme:

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.

To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.

To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

Okay, so why did I choose this as my blog title? Well, it's just home to me. It's what we say when we return safely from our errands. It runs through my mind automatically as I make my way up the dirt road to my parents house. As you'll see in future posts (if I can keep my act together and actually write the darn posts) is that home is a big part of what makes me, me. Cliche, I know. But, none the less true.

Home. It's where my memories were started. It's where my sisters and I had free reign to be creative, yell and fight, test the boundaries, break some rules, grow, learn, laugh, love.

So home. It's definitely where my heart is and maybe we can't go home again, but there sure is no place like it.

And thus is the story of the blog title.

Thanks for reading!

Peace, love and flying pigs.

HM