Friday Favorites~

Happy Friday Ya'll

Shoegasm of the Week: My favorite fall work suit, is black with gold buttons, and I "need" these Miu Miu's to go wiht that suit!


Fashion Orgasm of The Week: Thank You Olivia!


Favorite Tumblr Picture of the week: Play with me at Tumblr, click the pansies on my side bar!

Favorite Dustjacket Attic Photo:

Quote of the week:

Favorite Recipe of The Week: Kitchen Belleicious and her Spicy Alfredo Pasta Frittata. the Captain will be having this for breakfast on Sunday, Click HERE to get the recipe. Cajun Belles be sure to see what she's cooking up today, as well!

And to leave you with a laugh this week: Do you read Slynnro? I have lurked over there a long time. Click

HERE

to read a post that's hits home to me. I think we all have an bounding acquaintance like this. In my group of friends we call her Miss Mary F*cking Sunshine. Hilarious Slynnro and her hubby Ole Waxy. Two of my favorites for a good hard laugh. She doesn't hold anything back, so if you need a warning, consider this it.

Ya'll have a happy weekend. We are pouring concrete in the laundry room, and the bottom floor of the barn this weekend. No hot water for a day or two. I feel the Marriot in my future, I just don't want to deal with this equation.

5 dogs AND lots of new concrete. Can you see the free stamping I am gonna get out of this deal yet?

Love,

The Bumpkin

Friday's Favorite~Red White & Blue Extravangaza

International Readers, I love you all, but please allow me a brief moment, to show how proud I am to be an American.

Favorite New Blogger Find: I love her blog, well blogs, but I really love the woman who writes them. Georgia from Simply Smile Photography aka Gigi from Going Glam with Gigi.

Same lady, She Rocks, ya'll She Rocks! I call her Gigi, fits her to a T, let's bring her tightly within our circle, she has been so supportive of The Captain and I during this challenge we are facing, and also knows just the right thing to say. Fashion anyone, we made a pact for today, and she's joining me in the Red, White, and Blue Extravaganza over at her fashion blog. Click Here to check out what she came up with, here's a sneak peek to get your curiousity flowing..
Told ya, get your booties over there..........
I didn't first find Gigi through our love of fashion, she's one of the crazy women who has two blogs......here is her photography blog, that's how I find her. Click here to visit Simply Smile Photography.
Trish and I were talking on the phone a few weeks ago, about Gigi, and what a jewel she is, she just fits right in with the rest of us, ya'll get over there and visit her won't you...Click those follow buttons for her too!
Some of my favorite photo finds (steals..teee heee hee) this week.





I have learned this week, I was stronger than I thought I was, and that I can push myself way harder than I thought. Sleeping 3 hours a night on average, not counting the crash last night.

Can you name them? I can't on the white, and it's driving me crazy, do tell readers.



Lurrrvvvvveee this one.

Could I offer anyone a Shoegasm today?

How bout a little Friday Fashion Fix? Red, white, and blue for you.....

Poppies, Here's your sunshine! By the way did ya'll see here Wordless Wednesday post, she's getting good. I better tighten up! Click Here for a Vintage Fashion Orgasm.


Sexy girls what do you think of this? Gentlemen?

The Captain is coming to see you all this weekend! He misses you, and wants to give you the scoop! He's working so hard, and I am doing nothing but homemade meals for him this weekend!




Chanel anyone?

Ooooo La La!


Gigi mentioned earlier this week a way we could still have fireworks this weekend. Great idea, Gigi......

I'm trying, thanks again for that attitude adjustment Trish. You were right my sweet bestie.

Favorite Dustjacket Attic Patriotic Images: Like I'd leave DJ out of this extravangaza, even though she's an Aussie, she fits right in. I spend hours in her archives.

Love the shoes.

I think this is my all time favorite DJA picture, well maybe top 3, it's so hard to narrow it down.

This is me tomorrow readers: R & R is a must this weekend need to rebalance a bit. I even have a new outfit for those B@TYC (Biatches at the Yacht Club). They need their own show, now you want drama Ladies, they can put on the drama.
Friday Leave You With A Laugh:
Eclipse Lovers, this laugh is for you....Today I'm leaving you with The Blog O' Cheese, with his Open Letter from Jacob the Werewolf post. Click Here!


If you're celebrating our freedom this weekend, I wish you much joy! Don't forget the ones still over there protecting it!
Love,
The Bumpkin

Friday Fabulous Favorites

I didn't want to post these with the personal post I made a few minutes ago, but here, you go readers.
Favorite Photo of the Week: OMG! Takes my breath away. Perfect in every little way. I need a huge print of this...bad in the worse way, for my new boudoir'.


Favorite New Blog this Week: Meg and Kate at Meggasus Peggasus and Katie Lu, their profile says: We are identical twin sisters who believe that life is one chic editorial in Vogue. Nuff' said right ya'll? Click HERE to visit them.

Favorite Quote of the Week: from Juliana at A Blonde Walks Into A Blog. Love Juliana, she's a peach!
So Bumpkin, So Bumpkin!

LouShoegasm of The Week: Tahiti in Ivory. ummmmmmmm, ummmmmmmm, uh... Sorry, just channeling the shoe Gods for a second there......

This week's Handbagasm: Only available in the UK, dad gum it! Dishy, it comes in pink too!

Favorite Recipe of The Week:
From My Fashion Diva Kate @ elefantitas alegres (happy little elephants)
Click HERE for Chicken & Summer Vegetables Tostados. Kate A Texas Belle, knows Fashion and Tex-Mex like no other. She's hilarious, and one of the first blogs I ever read. Make sure to follow the directions carefully, concerning the dribble of green salsa left on the outside of the jar. Just go, you'll love Kate. Check out her wedding archives, wedding stuff lovers. Now that's style!
I bet her Chef's hat is Lands End Canvas. Color? Bold Sun!

And to Leave You With a Laugh: Jenny Mac, kid you not, if I need to giggle, she's one of my go to gals. She gets me everytime! Click HERE to read the post titled Apparently I Will Get Naked for Prada. Yeah, me too, Jenny, but in a different sense, think about it Ladies.
Ya'll Have a Good Weekend, The Captain promises a Sunday Jam, as for me I am going shopping. Serious shopping going on, Summer Clearance sales will have me set up till at least November, before the cruel Mississippi humidity, lets us breathe, and wear a 3/4 sleeve. Ya'll will be freezing your nibblies off, and I will still be wearing my breezy dresses. Nanna Na Na!

Love,

The Bumpkin

It's Finally Friday & We Have Something To Celebrate

My Captain is home, this is not the celebration I speak of. The Captain he replaced got a release from the doctor to return, but the good thing is, it went really well. A fellow Captain on the boat over said he's one of the best he's seen. The guys out on the oil rigs, were really pleased that he could hold the boat super steady while the guy with the crane loaded and unloaded. Usually they use tie lines hooked to the boat to do this. Our Captain can do it without the tie lines. Impressed the heck out of the guys on the rigs. He has also been labeled the Docking Master, by the other Captains, he can back it in on a dime. The other Captains, pull in sideways, and bump the boat around in the spot. The guy who owns the company he worked for called first thing this morning to tell him to stay packed and ready to go, he would hear from him asap.

So on to our celebration. Guess what. Guess what.
When he got in the truck at the dock last night, this is what he said:

"Baby, Baby, Guess what? It was about 5am this morning and I was about 5 miles east of Mobile Bay. I was just chugging along, drinking a cup of coffee, and enjoying the morning. I look about 1/4 mile off the bow, and I see 8-10 dolphins all in a line like a football team riding a wave headed straight for me. When we passed they turned around and rode my wake all the way out to the rigs, feeding off the fish I stirred up. In total Baby today, I probably saw 250-300 dolphins, playing and feeding, and I also saw 8 big green sea turtles, swimming around the boat at the rigs. All I kept thinkin' was Swim, Swim, Swim, Fly, Fly, Fly, it worked, it worked. We have to call the bloggers, do you have their phone numbers?"

How cute is that? He was ecstatic. Big ole' tough Marine Sniper, that excited to see his dolphins, really pulled at my heart strings, and the little part about them following his wake, I love it.
Apparently after more discussions, he determines, there was not much oil seen yesterday, although for the last three days it's been a lot of oil, but the currents changed, and were heading the opposite direction. We are sure hoping, that they have figured out to move away from the oil to stay alive, as I told you before, when the oil was surrounding us, we saw none for days, noone did. This is fabulous news and gives me hope. He again stated the sharks are really bad right now, and if any of you are in the waters near the spill, please don't forget this warning. He couldn't have brought me better news, so let's keep praying and wishing okay everybody. Swim, swim, swim, fly, fly, fly.

Did ya'll see the riot on CNN at the local job center over the jobs that are available with the oil spill. It was ugly, Robyn Meade showed it this morning. This happened about 10 miles west of the Captain and I, people are desperate for jobs right now, it was already bad enough, and now these people are getting really mad. They better stop trying to steal the jobs from the mad locals. It could get real ugly. Mississippians don't take kindly to being kicked when we are down.

Alright on to this weeks favorites.

Favorite New Blog Find: Lemons and Laundry, adore Marcie, she's such a lovely blogger. It's one of those happy little places to hang out in the bloggy world. She takes great pictures, like this one below. Now this is my idea of doing laundry. Make sure to click HERE to read one of my favorite posts, titled Trash The Dress, click the follow button, and tell her The Bumpkin sent you. Another thing about Marcie, I love, she started a spark in me last week for........Kate Spade Summer 2010 collection

Favorite Beach Tote This Week: I thought instead of a Handbag, we would do a beach tote this week. Kate Spade, this is so Bumpkin.

This Week's Shoegasm: Love these, also from Kate Spade.

Favorite Fashion Photo of The Week: Love the dress here, and the editing makes her so mysterious to me.

Favorite Recipe This Week: From Paris Pastry, Lemon Butter Cookies, in French known as sables. This is going to be my Sunday morning project this weekend. I have to bake early (4am ish early), or the oven will run us out of the house in this heat. Click HERE for the recipe.

Favorite Dustjacket Attic Image This Week: I hope to get a little of this in this weekend.

Favorite Animal Photo of The Week: I just can't put it in to words, what this picture does to me.


And to leave you with a laugh today, from a Robyn Alana Engel's blog Life by Chocolate. A fellow 40-something blogger, who is single and still trying to find her prince charming. At our age, it's gets a whole new spin, the dating dilemma does. Need a really good laugh? Check out the eligible bachelors for Ladies like us by clicking HERE. Robyn, a social worker, has a serious side too, she can reach out and grab your soul, with her stories of what she sees daily in her line of work. I love me some Rawkn Robyn.
So what's on the agenda for you guys this weekend? I have the little pool party to attend, spend some time with The Captain of my Love Boat, and guess what I'm not doing, poop scooping. Thank you to the powers that be, for that one.
Love,
The Bumpkin