For those of you who don’t know, ranunculus are my favorite flower. In fact, I was quoted saying that in the New York Times. Apparently if I go down in history as anything, it will be a girl who loves ranunculus. Talk about official!

We even included them in our wedding flowers. Something about their little wonky heads and plethora or petals gets me every time.

(A note on the photo in the background: we got a couple of really beautiful Kate Spade frames as wedding gifts, but we haven’t gotten around to printing a single wedding photo. We’ll get to it soon.)

Tonight Peter surprised me with this lovely bouquet of ranunculus. I asked him why he bought them for me and he explained that it was for putting up with him lately. You see, he’s been quite preoccupied with work for the past few weeks. I told him that I thought I deserved them too. Obviously I was teasing, but they are lovely to have around.

From where I’m sitting right now I can see a green little house plant, a sprig of greens from our supper club, our dried wedding flowers, a single rose, a bouquet or irises, and my new bouquet of ranunculus. I have to say, I feel quite loved.

]]> http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2011/03/ranunculus/feed/ 4 http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2010/01/meet-emily/ http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/2010/01/meet-emily/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:00:52 +0000 Jamie Lee http://www.startingoutsavvy.com/?p=735 Over the holidays Peter and I drove from Austin, TX to Rockford, IL and back. Let me show you just what that looks like:

We  spent 19 long hours over the span of two days (each direction) sitting in our beloved Fit. Why’d we do it? We couldn’t bare to spend the holidays knowing that our two little dogs were stuck in a kennel. When my mom got wind of our trip, she insisted on having an early Christmas. Cue Emily. Still confused? Emily is the name of the female British voice on our brand new Garmin GPS. We decided that her voice was more soothing than the rest.

Throughout our journey, Emily told us exactly where to go and what restaurants and attractions we could stop at along the way. We ran into a few mishaps, like when we decided to go to Mama Josie’s Southern Kitchen somewhere in Oklahoma and it turned out that Mama Josie’s no longer existed (We were on vacation. Bad food choices are totally forgivable!), but all in all she was a huge help. It was an extremely thoughtful gift from my mom and we’re really excited to have Emily as a new addition to our family. If you’re anywhere near as bad as Peter and I are with directions then I recommend that you follow the link below to Amazon and buy one instantly! Does anyone already have a Garmin? If so, what’s your favorite part about it? Have you tried uploading celebrity voices? Tell us everything!

Images courtesy of Google Maps and Amazon.