Our First Grader

 Today is a classic first day of school, rainy and gloomy (just as I always remembered as a kid). We just got back from California yesterday but we are all ready up and bright this morning for first day of school. 

Aston will be in first grade and we are excited for him. We met his new teacher (who's wonderful!) and classmates last week and it was nice meeting parents as well! 

We were the first one there today in the classroom and we get to snap a pic of him and his teacher!  

Never fails. I cry every year when I drop him off on the first day of school (notice how small my eyes are?). I was a total mess while he's all embarassed. Year after year you get to realize that he's all grown up. A bit more responsible. Slightly reliable. Is that really our baby boy? 

Do you moms feel the same way? 

Crafting with Splendid

Splendid's store grand opening was last Saturday and we attended the fun-filled crafting + shopping event at their Highland Village store. For the full recap, visit my other post HERE. 

With blogger Audrey and the boys // my bracelet made of gold and blue beads with Splendid fabric 

Aston enjoying his treat post-escalantes lunch // button station where kids get to pick and make their own

Latest Food Haunts

Restaurant week started the other day and it's a great time to check out dining places you have not visited before in the Houston area. The yearly event is for a good cause and judging from past years success, this one will be too if not better. To see if your favorite restaurant is participating, check out the list here. 

I have a few places that I frequent lately and I couldn't be more pleased with their food and service. Love to hang out here : 

• Sweet Paris - my favorite is their Dulce de leche crepe
• Tiny's (both the Saint and Rice locations) - the best choc chip cookie ever in town! 
• Guru Burgers and Crepes - with an only Sugar Land location, I'm so happy we're so close to this gem! Faves : Ukulele Burger (with egg and pineapple) and Guru Truffle fries. Oh the crepes are fantastic too! 

We also dined last Saturday at Triniti and that was a fabulous place with really high energy crowd and amazingly delicious food. They are pariticipating in HRW too! 

My Favorites in Instagram

By no means I'm a photographer nor a stylist in real life but I'm loving how my iPhone shots come out using the Instagram app. I love taking photos of interesting lovely pretty things and add a little dreamy feature and tiny bokehs, they come out pretty amazing! 

You can follow me in instagram @swankychicfete 

Instagram iPhone App and More

I am quite obsessed with my iPhone 4S and recently discovered fun apps to play with. Of course there's instagram. I've found new friends in the IG community and led me to find out more easy apps to play with your photos. 

Frametastic, Phonto (for texts and fonts), Labelbox (for labels and tape add-ons) and Photogram. So fun! 

Here are some of the pictures and collages I've created just by using my phone killing time......

and yes, that's me winning free brownies! HAPPY NEW YEAR to me! 

He is the Reason of the Season

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Thank You Steve

RIP Steve Jobs

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Gifts, Sweets and More

Today's post is just about some random ramblings of what's going on in my everyday life.

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Yesterday I was excited to receive my prize giveaway from lovely blogger Michaela where I won an adorable Dani Notes monogrammed cupcake notecards. Cupcakes? How perfect! Btw, If you have not checked out her shop yet, you ought to. So much cute stuff! and Oh, I stalk her pinterest boards too!  

I had a little fiasco last time when I took home the wrong lunchbox from school. In my defense, it's the same exact lunch box Aston has (thank you Auntie Katherine for his personalized train lunchbox gift!) and the other little boy's name is Aiden. See? Can you blame me? Enter this new tin lunchbox by Rachel of Pencil Shavings Paper. Isn't it cute? I need to order one for me -LOL!

I'm still in the mood to iron-on anything on Aston's $2 plain shirts. Armed with coupons from Michael's and a few shirts from the Target clearance racks, I was iron-on trigger happy. I'm sure the folks at his school will never ever forget his name!

Lastly, a couple of weeks ago we attended our good friend's son's birthday party and this was the fantastic Mickey Mouse birthday cake! How awesome is that? It tasted delicious too!

So, what's going on with you? Are you still taking daily trips to Target to see if that Missoni for target throw that everyone wants appears miraculously? Or are you still clicking and refreshing that Target.com site? Seriously, I'm ready to move on to the next designer collaboration as my sister has scored me some Missoni stuff (from Chicago's Target) that I may not see till December (earlier I hope!)

It's almost Friday, everyone!