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See How My Garden Grows

May 18, 2010 by Arena Blake 4 Comments

Are you ready for a garden update? I know I am! The Angelonia has been growing like crazy! There are purple flowers everywhere. The African daisies — notsomuch. They are starting to die off. Ah, well, you can’t have everything. I *do* have these: The butterfly bushes are blooming! I love, love, love the vibrant…

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Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Garden, Photos

May the Force Be With You

May 16, 2010 by Arena Blake 8 Comments

The other night, James and I went to the mall just to browse. Of course, we had to go in my favorite store. And guess what they had! Aren’t these cookie cutters awesome! Yoda, Darth Vader, Boba Fett and a Storm Trooper! I’m super excited to make some cookies to use these. I’ll let you…

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Filed Under: Geeking Tagged With: Cookies, Star Wars

Review: City of Bones

May 16, 2010 by Arena Blake 6 Comments

City of Bones (Mortal Instruments) Lately, I’ve been frequenting the Nest Book Club message board, and it has again sparked my love of reading. I’ve found many, many great books over the last few weeks from the ladies over there and I’ve decided to start writing reviews of the many books I read. This is…

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Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Cassandra Clare, Five Stars, Young Adult

Change is a Good Thing

May 12, 2010 by Arena Blake 3 Comments

At least, that’s what I keep telling myself. Every once in a while, I get a wild hair to make a major change in my life. This time, I’ve decided to re-design my blog. With the help of my patient, kind, wonderful brother, Andy, I’m going to separate this blog into different sections. For a…

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Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Thoughts

Review: Dead in the Family

May 12, 2010 by Arena Blake Leave a Comment

As you all know, I *love* vampires. Remember when I waxed poetic about my love here? I’ve read *all* of the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. And I couldn’t *wait* for the release of the next in the series, Dead in the Family. I seriously read it within two days of its release. Now,…

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Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Charlaine Harris, Sookie Stackhouse, Three Stars

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Arena is the wife of a Nerd and mom of a toddler who loves his Star Wars blankie a little too much. She shares parenting adventures, yummy recipes, and great photography on this Dallas mom blog. thenerdswife@gmail.com

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