The End of an Era
I've been hinting away for a few weeks now, both on this blog and on Twitter, and the time has finally come to bid my adieu to Blogger. I am so very excited to finally share with you my new blog home base: A Little Coffee with my Cream and Sugar. You'll also notice that I have changed my name on Twitter to @alittlecoffee.I do hope you will visit my new blog, update your blogroll links if you have been kind enough to link to me, and update my feed in your feedreader. The new feed URL is http://alittlecoffee.com/feed .I will leave this blog

How to Paint An Entire Apartment in One Day
We left off, I believe, with some "before" shots of my new apartment, and also my new hair (which seems to flip under on one side and flip out on the other side, GRRRRR. So I've had to start styling it a bit differently!) And then I failed to follow through on my promise to tell you all how I conned my friends into free slave labour to get the place painted in time for me to meet my move-in deadline. And the answer is:

Makeover
I have had essentially the same hairstyle, barring the growing out of my bangs while wedding planning, for the last 7 or so years. I've thought of switching it up every now and again, but my hairstylist always tells me that long hair with bangs is the most flattering style for my face shape and I should just stick with what works. And I have, until yesterday.I'm not sure quite what changed. Two weeks ago when I booked my haircut, I was fully intending on just getting a trim and having her tidy up the bangs, as per usual. But a couple of days ago I started thinking that I want something a bit sleeker and more... I don't know... grown up?By the time my appointment roll

Moving House
Whew, has it ever been a busy couple of weeks! I have finally moved into my very own apartment. I hope to be back to blogging more regularly now, although I can't really promise anything. I don't have the Internet hooked up yet, and I'm currently able to blog only because I am borrowing Marty's Internet USB stick temporarily. I am still surrounded by a number of boxes and have only half unpacked my suitcases, so there is still lots to be done. But I'm taking the night off tonight because I needed a break. Besides, the place is already starting to look like someone actually lives here, so the

My Tweet Mosaic from Portwiture
For those of you who use Twitter, Portwiture is a really neat piece of software that pulls the most commonly used words from your recent tweets, matches those words with photos from Flickr, and turns those photos into an art mosaic. I LOVE this! Here is the art mosaic for this morning from my Twitter stream: