Monday minutia

On Saturday night, the Husband went off to watch some dudes pummel each other into goo at a local Mixed Martial Arts fight event, leaving me with the perfect opportunity to finally watch the ultra-girly "Marie Antoinette" DVD that has been sitting here for more than a month. I know I'm terribly late to the party on this, but can I just tell you that I LOVED it? Okay, so the plot was iffy at best--but I read the book it was based on a couple of months ago, so I knew what was going on and it didn't bother me. It was the visuals that I loved--I just wanted to pause each scene to drink in all the details and colors! Every surface seemed to be positively dripping with ribbons and flowers and trims and feathers of the most gorgeous, rich variety. I know that the costumer for the movie won the Academy Award this year, and I can see why. Wow! The whole thing was very visually inspiring. Just gorgeous.

In a complete 180 stylewise, would you look at these cute camouflage Hershey's Kisses I found at the commissary last week? I'm a sucker for specialty packaging like this and I bought two bags. I'm not sure what I'll do with them yet, but I'll just store them in the freezer until a brilliant idea hits me. Too bad its about a zillion degrees in Iraq right now, as these would be cute to send in a care package to a soldier.

I went thrifting today on the way home from an appointment and found a few fun things so I'll get some pictures up in the next few days! Also, one of my favorite bloggers held a little contest and I am one of her runner-up winners! I never win anything (everyone always says this, so who in the heck is doing all the winning?) and I am just tickled. One of the other winners writes this blog, which I just discovered today and I totally love! Check out all her great vintage finds and you'll be drooling like I was!