A Day of Many Things

Today, as the title suggests, is one of many things. First, it's Sunday and I actually went to church.  A friend of mine is the Priest in Charge at the Episcopal church here that I occasionally go to, and she asked if I would help with Sunday School this year.  So I went to church (it was Youth Sunday where they talked about what they learned in Kids Kamp, and all those little voices in the service made me happy) and then had lunch with the priest and the current Sunday School teacher with whom I'll be working.  I figure it's one way to start to get back and involved in church since I've been doing a crap job of it on my own.

In other news, today is Yellow Pig Day, which apparently is a mathematician's holiday.  Check out the link if you want to know more.  In the meantime here are some yellow pig shoes:

Yellow pigs kind of scare me a little bit.

Pink pigs on yellow shoes are better.

Today is also World Emoji Day.  Although, like Social Media Day, isn't every day kind of emoji day?

I don't necessarily want to wear either pair, but they are fun.  I like the bright colors on the black pair better.

 It's also National Ice Cream Day!  This is definitely a holiday I can get behind.  We had frozen yogurt this afternoon, so that kind of counts as celebrating?

 

I've posted ice cream shoes before, but I don't think I've posted these?  I'm fairly certain about the pink pair and I'm positive I haven't posted the pair with the chocolate sprinkles.  Because you know me and chocolate.

It's also Peach Ice Cream Day, which seemed odd to me until I realized that National Ice Cream Day is the 3rd Sunday in July and Peach Ice Cream day is actually July 17, so they just happened to coincide this year.

 

This is what came up when I did the search for peach ice cream shoes.  They're very pretty, but do they remind me of peach ice cream?  Not really.  Too orange.  Which means they are perfect for SKD!

AND, it's National Tattoo Day!  I had no idea there was a holiday.  Now I do.  I should have done something for my 4 tattoos to celebrate.  I wonder what that would be?  Extra lotion?  They're own social media pages?  The perfect way to celebrate would be to get a 5th one, but the hubby might divorce me...

These are both odd, but kind of interesting.  And WAY better than some of the crazy-@$$ pictures of shoes that people have tattooed on themselves. You know I love me some shoes, but it has never once crossed my mind to get a tattoo of them.

Dang, July 17th is a busy day.  Finally, it's Scout's birthday!  Scout, you might remember, is Pippi's and Tink's big sister, and she turned 21 today.  Which makes me old.  Sigh.  Here is a picture of the 2 of us when I was about the same age she is now.

She was beautiful then and she's beautiful now, inside and out.

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014.

Rainbow Crochet

On the 4th day of Christmas here is an afghan I crocheted for Tink's and Pippi's big sister:

It was actually supposed to be a starting college present, but things got crazy and it ended up getting sent home in the Christmas box.  It occurs to me that I don't actually have a blog nickname for the big sister, and I should as it would be way easier to type than Pippi's and Tink's Big Sister.  Her family calls her Scout sometimes, so we'll go with that.

 

When I was looking for shoes for yesterday's post these came up as Christmas shoes, and I thought they would be appropriate for a rainbow Christmas post.  The rest of the shoes, though are rainbow crochet, in case Scout needs some coordinating accessories.

Baby rainbow slippers! Cuteness.

Obviously not shoes, but rainbow crochet. Hmmmm...maybe Pedro needs a new hat?

Not as cute as the baby slippers, but still fun.

I really like the yarn used for these.

Rainbow socks!  I might need a pair of these myself.

Oooh...I love these.  Someone needs to have a baby so I can make cute shoes for him or her.

I have a giant headache today, and I won't even describe the stuff coming out of my sinuses.  I really just want to go home and go back to bed.  Rainbow crochet helps, but if only it could eliminate the headache, then I'd be in business.  In the meantime hopefully the rainbow crochet will help keep Scout all warm and toasty in her dorm room next semester.

Happy Birthday, Scout!

I found pictures for a post yesterday, but then got sidetracked some how and never got around to writing it.  I don't even really remember why.  Which is OK as nothing really happened today to write about, so I'll just go ahead and use yesterday's pictures.  Yesterday was Scout's birthday (Scout is Pippi's and Tink's older sister).    Scout is a wonderful sister and an amazing young woman, and I feel lucky to have known her for her whole life.  She spent a year after high school studying abroad in Norway, and is planning to start at the University of Montana in the Fall.  And, like her mama, and my mama, and all the cool kids, she has shoes named after her:

Shiny, sparkly, wedding wedges named after her!

And more shiny wedding shoes, but with a sparkly shoe clip.

I wish this picture was bigger, but these seem like they're cute.

(No, her name isn't Nina...that's the designer)  The kid has lots of styles of wedding shoes named after her.

 

Ooooh...shiny red!  Love 'em.

And shiny pink!  I'm less fond of the shiny pink, but it's still a very cute shoe.

All in all not a bad selection for Scout in honor of her birthday.

PS--on a side note, Facebook reminded me this morning that it was 5 years ago today that I arrived in California to start my call at St. Someone's.  Crazy how time flies.