i'll tell you what you can do with your buttons

lil' miss isadora has not had a clock in her room ever, because i've been wanting to find a fun one for her to enjoy. most of those fun ones are ridiculously expensive, so i opted to make my own. i had a few band buttons that have been sitting around doing nothing, and i thought they would serve a better purpose being displayed rather than sitting in a box. (i don't care to wear them anymore, if you're really wondering.) here is what i did with an $2 ikea clock and my buttons.

finally decided

so i have put off buying and eating all organic as a whole, because i just wasn't really into the idea of paying more for food that looked smaller, older and generally less-appealing. however, i just finished watching this movie:



i can't remember which friend or acquaintance mentioned or recommended it, but i wasn't ready to watch it until now. man oh man, was i in for an awakening. i mean, i've read "the jungle" and known that there are pesticides and weird stuff that goes on in the food industry. obviously. i've gotten food poisoning a few times, but for some reason, i always thought that it was my fault for "choosing" the food that i had. i've also worked a couple of waitressing jobs and was a pizza chef (first job), so i know what kinds of gross things can happen. trust me, you don't want to know. this movie sort of reiterated more the importance of how i need to choose better for myself and for my family.

i already cook practically every day for my family, but there are still a few things that we buy/eat that we could change. even though it costs more money, i think i want to try and buy as much organic as i possibly can. i would like to make more things from scratch, and this is where my baking skills are going to have to take a step up. perhaps a baking class? i don't think i can stop eating meat. it seems impossible for me and my family right now, so i would like to try and seek out locally-farmed and butchered meat options. does anyone know a good place to go for that in utah? also, i am going to seek to get better at growing plants/veggies/herbs again. my thumb is so black, it might as well be frostbitten.

anyway, i know a lot of this can't happen overnight. i just know that i'd like to be more conscious of what i eat by supporting more local growers and farmers in general. i already read labels like crazy (for izzy), but now i am going to be more diligent about it. i want to instill healthy eating into my family, especially my kids, because i don't want them to end up with type II diabetes like most in my family or even dying from tainted food. and hopefully...just hopefully, there will be a good change in my efforts.

i guess this is kind of a resolution for me, but i hope that i can carry it through the years to come.

i love you new camera

so i got a brand new camera for christmas. and yes, i opened it already. we've had a little point-n-shoot that we got before we were married that was really starting to crap out on us. the screen was getting all fuzzy, and the pictures were coming out with weird 70s movie colors. for some pics, i guess that would be fine. i just didn't want to have it be that way all the time.

thus...on black friday, went out and got this camera.

i pretty much love it, even though i am still no good at capturing the greatest images. don't worry. i will learn. since it's almost the new year, why not it be a resolution?

of course, it's always fun to get really good candids of your family too.

Who loves their MacBook?

Is there anyone who reads this blog that has a MacBook and loves it and is female? I am working on a marketing project for my MBA class and need to talk with someone who fits the above criteria. If you are willing, we can conduct the interview over g-chat or facebook chat. Just email me: petefaleschini@gmail.com

Thanks,

Have a happy holiday

budding artiste

so izzy has taken to coloring. with crayons. thankfully, they are the washable kind or the bathtub kind. otherwise, i think most of our stuff would be covered in crayon marks. seriously, she loves coloring so much that she talks about it every day now. she even goes into her closet and pulls her sketchpad off the shelf along with her cup of crayons.

here she is, getting pretty serious on this sketchpad.



unfortunately, she also loves to eat crayons too. well, maybe more like taste them. blue is her favorite.

p.s. see why i have to get a new camera? it looks cool, but i don't want all of my pictures to look like that.

izzy's costume

so i gave in and made izzy's costume. this thing was a beast to find materials for. utah has a lot of fabric/craft stores, but they are so shopped over or dinky that it was really hard for me to find most of what i needed in one place. i think i might have made 10 trips to 10 different stores just trying to find stuff. plus, i happened to choose a costume that (had i followed the exact material list) would have cost $70. *super gasp! i know, right?!

so with much patience and a good eye for thrifty alternatives, i figured out a way to make this:


look like this:




although mine is much shoddier, because i am a horrible hand sewer (and still had to use crappy material alternatives), i think this costume came out looking super cute. she's gotten lots of comments on it, which is nice and makes me feel better about making the decision to make her costume rather than purchasing it pre-made.

well...happy halloween! faleschini out.

p.s. this was a martha stewart costume. gotta remember to give props.

been a while

so i got a "complaint" that we have been neglecting our blog. i didn't realize that many of you even read our blog anymore. maybe you do and do not comment. if so, then i fault you!

kidding. i just have been sort of out of it with my blogging lately. we've been keeping busy, and i've had some other projects that i've been working on (i.e. organizing past photos, gathering materials for izzy's halloween costume, lots and lots of cooking, etc.). i will try to do at least a blog a week going forward, just to make ryan...i mean, everyone happy.

so here is what we've been doing:


seeing beautiful views from our balcony


visiting with old but best-est friends


watching old but good bands reunite for a show


tried out some oversized rocking chair for the mansion we will someday own


izzy tested a pumpkin at cornbellys to see how pumpkin-y it was


izzy is really into puppets (thankfully, not the marionette kind) and enjoyed this show


izzy tried on some new glasses


izzy also started driving. hasn't your kid?


here, she shows me how to sit properly on playground stairs


my first pumpkin carving ever


pete's best pumpkin carving ever


i made spicy pumpkin soup the other day. someone told me you can't use the stringy stuff in pumpkin for food, and here i prove them wrong.