Hi, nice mice! Here's the week in review from Souris Mariage:

Delicious vintage paper details from Papier Valise.

A spot of luck regarding Mason Jars.

Gorgeous new hair goodies from Heart of Light.

A survey on engagement to help out a doctoral student.

Incredibly beautiful save-the-dates from .cevd.

Dress hunt: the dress with a million holes.

Be sure to stop by next Monday for our first real wedding feature! It's super cute, let me tell you--and there's a preview over here.

There is a really neat Grace Kelly slideshow over here, in honor of her being honored for epitomizing American beauty. Go look.

This is the greatest thing since the Association for the Radical Defense of the Apostrophe. Tragically, they are sold out. I'm keeping an eye out for them to come back, and then I'm going to use them to slap this town around (I'm looking at you, Bobs Hardware, and at you, air-quote-addicted junior professor). Kudos to Dylan Meconis. Although it needs to have "apostrophe needed" and "dammit, use active verbs," too.

I read a thing in one of the Martha mags recently about getting the air in your home ready for winter--it makes good sense. We spend so much more time indoors once it's cold out, and the air quality in homes is waaaay lower than that outside. I like the suggestion she made about tea tree oil: dilute 2 tsp in 2 cups of water and spray about--it naturally reduces airborne mold and other narsties. Or, you can use this diluted kind (Desert Essence Kinder to Skin 20% Tea Tree oil, which is cheaper, and available at Whole Foods or online) and dilute it a little bit less. It's nice. The smell is pleasant to me, but also goes away quite quickly. And unlike a room spray, this is working on, rather than masking, the gunk in the air.

I suspect that I am a non-grownup Mouse today. Let's see:

1. Are you wearing pants that fit and are not pajamas? (Yes. +1 But, sweatpants. -1)
2. Did you wake up before 9:30 a.m.? (Yes. +1 But then I lingered in bed. -1)
3. What was for lunch? (A burrito, +2, and basically an entire brick of Jarlsberg cheese. -10)
4. Did you open Word? (Yes. +1)
5. For work? (Yes. +1)
6. Is it still open? (Yes. But without actual documents. -1)
7. Did you accomplish anything this morning? (Yes. +2)
8. Related to work? (No. -2)
9. Have you been to the gym? (Yes. But no points due to copious eating of cheese.)
10. Are you blogging instead of working? (Um. Yes. And watching TV on my computer. -5)
11. Get to it, then. (NO. I don't want to! -10)

Yep. Little kid me is driving the bus today. I think I'd better lower my expectations about what I'll get done.

Guess what? It's going to be Halloween soon. This is He-Mouse's mom's pug dressed up for last year. The other pug is in the background. He was a lobster. I'm generally not a fan of clothes on animals, but these ten-minute spurts of costume are pretty fun. The pugs enjoyed chewing on them. Have you seen the doggie costumes at Target? The ones online are boring, but in the store, you can get a hotdog. Or a squirrel. Ahhh, irony...

Tired today, quiet. How are you?

P.S. This is what I would like to send to Tiny Nephew for the sigh of relief he just gave me. It will go with his Halloween costume (cowboy. again.). Plus, rubber, so horseshoes without denting Tiny Niece's head.

(From Back to Basics Toys via Mighty Junior)

Well. I spent the weekend driving around Tucson, looking for a wedding venue and trying not to freak the eff out about money. Something occurred to me just now that keeps things in perspective. I told Tiny Nephew about the wedding:

Mouse: I'm getting married!

Tiny Nephew (in exactly the same tone of voice): I'm driving a JEEP!*

Perspective. Aaaahhhh.

*A TOY Jeep, obv.