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Jan 26 2011

loft(3) t.

Posted in loft3 t, spaces.5 comments

adam likes tshirts. a lot. he begged me for mths for us to design and print our own loft3 shirts. well, because i hate

spending money and we were right in the middle of our busiest season, i told him to get over the idea. what he chose

to hear me say? “sure honey, great idea! go buy hundreds of american apparel shirts!” so he did. i was a bit shocked

when he brought home the receipt for this little business investment. actually, i wasn’t shocked,  i wanted to punch him

in the face. because we now owned boxes of tshirts, i agreed to help him and my very nice brother in law screenprint them.

ben is a co owner of powerhouse factories, where they design and screenprint REALLY cool rockposters. (our house is

a mini gallery for them :) ) after many hours spent in his kickass space we brought home these boxes of shirts. turns out

we could barely keep our head above the water last season, which meant no time to market these badboys! now it’s winter.

now i’m breathing again. and our friends and family remember what we look like. :) now i have time to sell!

SO HERE THEY ARE!

$15 +tax and shipping.

AND i’ll be really nice to you and give you a 15% disc if you enter im special in the promo code this week! :)

very cool huh? we think so. as you can see, there are 2 shirts for women and 2 for men. if you aren’t familiar with

american apparel then you should know something very important. they are fitted. for very skinny people apparently.

the only person i know who can fit into a small is about 5’2″ and has like  1% body fat. have you seen me in person?

i wear a large. i could wear a medium, but i’m a mom now, no longer in college. ;)

how do you get one of these super cool tshirts? click HERE it will take you to our website. once there, you can select

and buy however many you want! we missed the bus on the whole “it’d be a great christmas gift!” for your artistic

loved one. so how about, “it’d be a great bday gift!” plus, all the cool kids are buying them. you should too.

PLEASE MAKE SURE WHEN YOU ARE CHECKING OUT THAT YOU SELECT THE SAME COLOR

SHIRT AS YOU PUT IN YOUR CART.

we’ve had this problem of people adding a teal shirt to their cart and then selecting plum in the

dropdown menu. if you are really confused about the whole process, please email me at pace@loft3pd.com. even

though my husband says i’m techno-handicapped, i’ll try my best to walk you through it.

thanks friends! heart, melanie

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Jan 21 2011

13mths.

Posted in lilOnes., nori, personal.3 comments

yippee im 13 mths! …and becoming more of a pain in the butt EVERY DAY!

if you look closely she got her second tooth. happens to be the top tooth directly above the bottom tooth. she uses the little clamp every chance she gets.

she loves to bite her goldfish into a million pieces now, most of which don’t end up in her mouth! hope you’re staying warm, wherever you are.

heart, melanie.

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Jan 14 2011

last minute vaca!

Posted in ali, nori, personal.3 comments

during nori’s first bday party my aunt debbie was begging ali to go to hilton head with her a few days from then. since ali is a stay at home

mom, she said she could go. then they turned and told me i had to go to. since part of my new years resolution is to ‘work less, play more’,

i thought, oh what the heck, why not? so i BUSTED my butt to finish stuff for clients so that i wouldn’t have to work the whole time i was

there. :) adam encouraged me to go, especially since deb was using her flyer miles on us and we’d stay at her condo! a cheap trip! sign me up!

i was very anxious about the whole flying with a one year old, withOUT daddy, not to mention ali had olivia by herself as well. here is a little

taste of the plane ride there. :) THANKFULLY on all 4 flights we had 2-3 seats each. took the stressful level down to 2 immediately!

nori was a ham the whole trip there. in about 4.5 hrs total in the air, she slept 15 min. olivia slept all BUT 15 min. :)

nori entertained everyone on the flight. but not a whine out of her or olivia the entire time. it was fun!

olivia the glow worm! remember those? i just love her in this outfit, we had to take some pics. :) she’s so dang cute!!

she always has at least one finger in her mouth, but usually she tries to stuff both hands in!

nori is definitely learning all sorts of new things every day. one of her favorite new things to do? hug and kiss a baby, THEN SMACK THEM IN THE FACE!

yep. in that order. awwww, i love you, WHACK! ugh. the worst part was when we’d shout NO!, she’d turned and hurry and point to anything in the room to

distract us. so excited, as if spiderman was standing right there behind me! she spent quite a bit of time in time out. this was her time out stool, that we

deemed ineffective because she thought she was too cool sitting on it. even when i faced her to the wall, she’d clap and play and look over

her shoulder smiling at us and waving. :-/  then out of time out she goes back, waves her finger ‘no, no!’ and then smacked olivia again! oy vey.

like i said, i didn’t want to work on my trip, so i barely took any pics. ali grabbed these on my iphone to share with adam back home. this was her first

official time on the beach! however, it was like 40 degrees near the water so it was literally a sprint to the water, “ooo look touch the ocean!” take a pic!

sprint back! haha. plus adam is a beachbum and i really wanted him to experience it with her “first”!

a couple more phone pics. olivia is always so happy. and ali, well she has this addiction to chocolate and cotton candy. she got her fill of both while there!

nori played with uncle john ‘from a distance’ the whole time. every time he’d get close, she turn away. it wasn’t until the airport to go home,

she peacefully sat on his lap. we had to get up at 430 am to leave, so we stayed in our pj’s!

adam couldn’t hardly wait for us to get home. though we did ‘facetime’ videochat every day on our phones, it was still very hard to be away

from him. since we’ve been home, he’s been wrapped around her finger! she even walked 5-6 steps to him when she saw him! too cute!

it was fun to be gone for the week and do a lot of girlie stuff! we even pierced nori’s ears, you may have noticed! thanks to aunt

debbie and uncle john for spoiling us, we all had an awesome time! i also have to apologize to deb, because as i was working

on these images, i realized that i didn’t take a single picture of her! :( not intentionally, told ya, i wasn’t in the ‘photo frame of mind!’

look at the bday blog, she’s the one in the cupcake pj’s! :) you guys rock!! heart, melanie and nori

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