Weekend Recap

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Hello again!  How are you?  How were your weekends? Excellent, I hope!  Our weekend was one of the best weekends and I'm feeling so very warm and fuzzy as a result.  Some highlights include ::

• Chicago visitors!!!  Some of our bestest friends came in for a weekend visit and it was glorious.  The time flew by unfortunately (as it always does) but we made the most of it.
• Pizza + wine/beer + fire.  Oh yes.  So.  Cozy.
• Morning coffee + chats.  I can't get enough!
• Baby shower - only two more months to go until we meet the newest addition to our extended family.  
• Champagne + euchre = perfection (except for losing to the boys)
• MY PARENTS!!  They arrived safely and right in time for dinner!  
• Tofurkey roast/pot roast dinner.  It was so tasty and so awesome to have the dinner table completely full with so many of my all-time favorite people.  
• Taboo night - Taboo is super fun with teams of 3, let me tell you.  Us girls totally ruled that one.
• Apple pancake brunch - a great way to send off the friends.  
• Bears victory!
• Delicious manicotti followed by some awesome r n' r.  I love weekends.

It's good to be back, it's good to be with family and it's good to be excited about Thanksgiving!  Here's to a wonderful week ahead!

HELLO!

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Hello, friends!!!

I am SOOOOOO sorry about my unexpected silence last week.  Lightning struck our modem, the husband was out of town and our internet provider and I couldn't work out a time for an appointment.  It was frustrating to live without the internet and be away from the blog, but I'm back in business.  I'm sad to see that a few of you stopped following during the downtime...but I do hope you'll come back.  Regular programming is scheduled for the week and I will try my best to make the rounds as well.  My folks are in town for Thanksgiving and I am oh so excited about hanging out with them and eating loads of delicious food!

Hope your weekends have been swell!

The Listeners/These Train Tracks

The Listeners/These Train Tracks is an awesome children's book and 7", handcrafted by artist/musician, Michah Middaugh of Breathe Owl Breathe.  If you haven't heard any of Breathe Owl Breathe's stuff, you're missing out.  Seriously.

If you're a fan of cuteness, music and well-crafted art, please check this out.  You won't regret it.

Take a listen.

The book/7" is set to release on December 6th, for $28.50.  Pre-order your copy here!

* When we have kids, I promise you, they're totally gonna jam to stuff like this.

What do you think?

Sponsor Love :: Coni Lab

Introducing ::

I wanted to officially say WELCOME! to my newest sponsor - coniLab!  Coni's Etsy shop is filled with lovely screen-printed sentiments, sure to brighten up your day.

"After working with diverse designers for many years I started my own journey creating and printing my own designs. My chosen technic: completely handmade screen printing… the type of work that makes your hands hurt… and gives you a lot of joy after seeing the printed results!!

I love language and typography. I love old etchings, viynets and signs, simbols and icons! In my artwork you will find a little bit of all these things."

Please be sure to head over to her shop, browse around and order everything ;)  I find it hard to resist!  

Lovely readers, please take a moment to join me in welcoming Coni and coniLab to the Mo Pie family! We're so happy to have you!

Want to advertise or sponsor Mo Pie, Please?  

Email me for a very low rate (and not just for a month!) @ 

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Weekend Recap

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Good morning, lovelies!  How were your weekends? Wonderful, I hope.  Ours was pretty good - aside from the fact that I spent most of it just trudging through, feeling a little off.  I still haven't become officially sick, but I can't tell if the fatigue and scratchy throat is going away or if it's just going to be kept at bay for awhile.  Does this happen to any of you?  

Anyway...'twas a good weekend.  Some highlights include ::

• MEETING DOGGIES!!  We're seriously starting the dog adoption process and on Friday evening we ventured down the street to meet a few pooches and to introduce ourselves to the foundation.  They're on the look out for the perfect match and I couldn't be more thrilled!
• Cumberland Brews - we decided to go out to eat afterwards and enjoy some casual hang time with good people.  
• Brunch - the husband's grandma came over and we served her biscuits + gravy.  Seriously, he makes the best biscuits and gravy.  He also watches a lot of Good Eats...
• Spending the afternoon going to LaGrange for furniture shopping and also the mall for other shopping.  I can't remember the last time I can honestly say I went to the mall.  It was enjoyable and we totally got some double doozies from the cookie store.
• Saturday night veg fest.  Since I'm not feeling 100%, I opted to stay in on Saturday while the hubs went to a bourbon party.  It was nice, I rested on the couch, knit, watched some of this and played some of that.
• Homemade french toast.
• U of L basketball!  Raegan treated me with a ticket to the Louisville men's basketball game vs. Lamar.  I loooove going to NCAA basketball games and she knew it.  It seriously made my month!  Even though the seats were so high up it felt like we could plummet, it was totally worth it.
• Bears victory! I may have missed the majority of the game but that's ok.  
• Chinese food + veggin' with friends.

All in all, a terrific weekend.  Add to it a 70+ degree November day and you've got some serious perfection going on.  I'd love to hear about your weekends!  Here's to a great week ahead of us, my friends.

Friday's Fancies + Have a Brilliant Weekend!

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Happy Friday, loves!  I would be a little more thrilled today that the weekend is upon us, but I'm sad to admit that I'm feeling under the weather.  I thought about how I haven't been sick in ages yesterday and boom, a cold hits.  It was bound to happen working at a doctor's office.  Oh well.  'Tis life.

This week's Friday's Fancies is all about gold!  This week marks {av}'s 50th week of Friday's Fancies (holy moly!) and to celebrate, what better way than going gold for the golden anniversary? When I saw this J.Crew number, I knew the only way to enjoy it was virtually.  Same with pretty much everything else you see here.  The sex appeal of those Louboutin pumps is pretty out of this world, right?

What are you all up to this weekend? We don't have much in store (thankfully) but we are hosting my husband's grandma for brunch tomorrow (at least we are supposed to, I'd hate to get her sick).  Hopefully I'm feeling better and can enjoy myself!  Whatever you get up to this weekend, I hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Thursday's Randoms

Seriously, how amazingly delicious does this cake look? I"m drooling! It looks like perfection in every bite.  I think I must add it to my list of cakes to bake.  Via Sweetapolita, where else?!

Love this print of woodland creatures from Etsy shop Chasing the Crayon.  I think it's easy to say that I'm just really into stuff like this, but I mean...how can you not be?!

I am totally itching to buy new sweaters, and J.Crew has a lovely selection right now.  I think everyone needs at least one new item per season and I have been a very good girl with our money lately. This honeysuckle one in particular is pretty great.  It's about time...right?

Many of you have experienced your first snows of the season recently.  While I am not at all jealous, I am getting slightly excited for what's to come.  Then again, I think back to that 2 feet of snow dumped on us in Chicago and I still shudder...Via

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we're already in the process of planning our menu.  I'm so so so excited to be able to host the holiday in our house and to have my parents drive all the way here for a week long stay!  It's going to be glorious, and I think for us vegetarians that there will be many dishes like the one above (broccolini and feta galette).  I can't wait!

I still can't stop thinking about this k.slademade clutch.  It looks a little monstrous in this picture but I think that makes it all the better.  I may not carry clutches too often but I would carry this all the time! I LOVE IT.

I Couldn't Think of a Title, So this is the Title

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"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites." - Marc Chagall

Oh how I am a sucker for the photograph above.  It possesses a quality that ignites something within me; a fiery passion that wants to seep into everything I do.  The vivid colors spark chaos and excitement, creativity and wanderlust.  I'm in love with this photo and want the world to know it.

RC for Kids

Vintage inspired unique couture kids knits pretty much sums up everything about RC for Kids.  I mean, just take a look at how soft and fuzzy those cardigans are!  Not only are these knits handmade and hand-dyed, but they're mighty stylish too.  Look at those elbow patches! That's so this season, right?

Be sure to head on over to their Etsy shop, browse around and just try to resist the temptation to adorn all the wee ones you know in one of these adorable pieces.

Here's the best part ::

Robbie is offering Mo Pie, Please readers 15% off in her store by using code "MOPIE" at checkout!  Just in time for the holidays... :)

Happy Tuesday, everyone!