Blogger's Note | The Grass Stain Guru

Happy Birthday, Grass Stain Guru!

March 8, 2010

Cheers to mud pies and puddle jumping. To going barefoot in the grass and catching perfect snowflakes on out-stretched tongues.

Cheers to the feeling of sun on our faces and the taste of fresh berries picked from the garden. To sunsets that stretch across forever and to moments that last a life time.

Here’s to a million more lighting bugs and nights spent swapping stories around a campfire.

Cheers to the kids in all of us — and to the children’s lives we all touch in one way or another.

Thanks for spending this year with me, dear readers, and for always being welcome playmates in my sandbox. It means the world to me.

Now, who wants a cupcake?!

See ya outside! ~ The Grass Stain Guru

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Dear Mother Nature

January 29, 2010

Can we talk? I mean, honestly? Nature girl to nature girl.

Something is in the chilly air…

Alison Kerr stopped by earlier this week to help us dream of the coming spring and the future blooms of our gardens.

And I’ve noticed a lot of posts around the interwebs lately about the winter blues — who’s got ‘em, how to beat ‘em, and how much they suck.

And let me just say: hear stinkin’ hear!

I am good for the first half of winter, but by January, I start dusting off my cranky pants and wearing them for the duration.

Sure, I love to make snowmen, look for critter tracks in the snow, go birdwatching, and other fun nature things. And I think we all know how I feel about hot cocoa.(Read: deep, abiding love.)

But I gotta be honest, Mother Nature, I am done for the year. D-O-N-E.

No, really. I’m serious. My cranky pants are getting too tight and if I don’t get some more day light soon, I am gonna snap. We’re talkin’ full blown white trash fit. It will not be pretty.

So, I would like to order spring now, please. Glorious, green, warm, fragrant, AMAZING spring.

Bring. It. ON! (Pretty please.)

xoxo Your biggest fan, The Grass Stain Guru, she of the cranky pants

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Honest Scrap Awards: Guru Tells “All”

January 22, 2010

So, I finally got off my lazy blogger’s butt to accept the honor of the Honest Scrap Award and share the randomness that is me. Thanks to the lovely and gifted Naomi Sachs of Therapeutic Landscapes Network Blog and the glorious green thumb of groovy goddess Carole Brown of Ecosystem Gardening for tagging me.

So, to be accept the Honest Scrap Award, I have to share 10 honest things about myself that you wouldn’t know from reading ye olde blog. And I have to tag 7 other bloggers to participate.

And for those of you I tag who, like me, never do this kind of thing, think of it as a fun way to chat with your readers, versus a blogger’s chain letter.

So, here ya go:

I don’t watch a lot of TV, but am OBSESSED with House Hunters International. I have a well documented case of wanderlust and an odd fascination with Suzanne Wong’s ever-changing bang length.
I don’t like to drive. It has nothing to do — I’m sorry to say — with being green. I just find it to be a total pain in the ass. Um, and for the record, I think Maryland drivers are super stinky.
As social as I can be, I am a bit of a loaner. I need an above average amount of alone time or I get very squirrely.
I am a sucker for corset dramas. Lord, this independent modern girl loves her a period piece.
I believe with every fiber of my being that ice cream is a food group.
My dream is to win the lottery, retire to Costa Rica, and write trashy novels. (Um, and drink a lot of coffee, while watching birds — naturally.)
I shamelessly love both George Michael AND Ricky Martin. There, I said it. Go ahead, mock away.
I have more lip balms than any one human should be allowed. If there were a 12 step program for them I would go, but stop by CVS to buy a new one on the way to the meeting.
I would love to go work in the UK — they are so far ahead of the states in the play movement. (Um, the fact that I enjoy a pint has nothing to do with this desire. Honest.)
My brain candy of choice is a great mystery/thriller novel. I have been tickled to connect with some great writers on Twitter, including super sweet James Scott Bell, who gives good read and great writing advice.