I love love love AHAPPYENDING!!!

It's an absolute joy making new friends on Etsy, friends who craft and get creative too. It's also a great joy to make trades with these fellow Etsians. One of my most recent trades was for a painting on a deep canvas from ahappyending. And man do I love ahappyending.

Here is my "Dreamer of Dreams" print from Nichole, of ahappyending which I've placed in my window sill that sits above my headboard and couldn't have picked a lovelier place. It's sitting next to my broken alarm clock, that's sits next to a photo of my dad, that's next to a hanging bouquet of old roses {something I always do with my roses though I rarely get any}. And if you're wondering why theres a pillow in my window sill behind all this stuff, it's actually a draft pillow I made to help keep the winter chill out.

I love this print oh soo much and it's my first ever but I hope to have a large collection of painted prints one day. I picked this print because I have many dreams and aspirations and little by little God is gracious enough to allow my dreams to slowly become reality .. but as I continue to grow so do my dreams. Yet as ironic as this may sound, I rarely have dreams {scientifically I know I do, but I can never can recall a single one} ... I guess my vivid imagination and limitless aspirations make up for that.

Anyways .. on the other end of this awesome trade, Nichole got some Rini & Faith loving and man is Rini & Faith loving her! Nichole is not only super sweet and super talented, {little.miss.photographer is her blog} but she is as cute as a button!!

You make me want to chop all my hair off Nichole and be a rock star like you!!!

Thanks so much for the trade and for the pictures you're awesome and

I love love love ahappyending!!!

Have ahappyending of your own!

You look like Ingrid Michaelson.

I think Ingrid Michaelson was my customer on black friday... really.

As we all know Black Friday is by far the biggest shopping day of the year, and of course I was scheduled to work. I had an eight hour shift to get through and by the end of it I was spent and semi-delirious. Before my shift ended I had a couple, or at least what I have assumed was a couple, come in looking for a pair of shoes.

From the looks of them both, you could tell they weren't for the area. Their indie/rocker attire and city vibe gave them away, so I asked and they told me they were from NY, specifically Brooklyn. Long before conversating with the pair I saw the woman walk in and she instantly reminded me of Ingrid Michaelson. She had the glasses and chunky barrett and the perfect set of locks to boot. I mentioned it to her and she aggreed to a certain extent.

In the mists of juggling customers, and also finding an impossible pair of shoes for her I got to talk and even joke with her and the guy she was with. They were both extremely nice and were probably my favorite customers all day. Without thinking twice about them after they had left I went on my business selling shoes and serviving the Black Friday crowd.

The next day I got talking with Tim about the events of the weekend, and then I actually recalled my "Ingrid Michaelson looking customer". He's the one who remembered she was in town, {Because earlier in the week I had told him she was playing in VA} ... which got us both thinking ... was that her?

I looked up some photos of her, and the guy who was with her has an uncanny resemblance to a guy in a few of her photos. And just for curiousity's sake I looked up where Ingrid Michaelson's from .. she's actually from NY also.

What are the odds huh?

Was it really her? I'm still not sure. But if it was that's pretty awesome, and she and that guy were so awesomely sweet, down to earth and really hip. If not ... it's still a story worth sharing, especially if the odds were in my favor.

I'm pretty excited about who else may come through our store this holiday season, they say the Redskins always come through during the holidays since we're the closest mall to Redskin's Park, but we'll just have to see.

Rini & Faith LOVES YOU!

Here are a few Rini & Faith Customers who rock!!!

{Keep sending your Rini & Faith pictures my way!}