Something in the air

Hanging out at my local Pier 1 I found some pretty awesome defusers. Now the defuser train is not one that I'm usually on but recently one of my co-workers brought one into the newsroom, it made it smell like cookies. She had to remove it because the men complained but I will say it was an awesome two days.

Here are some cute Pier 1 options:

TGIF

I know we've posted about state necklaces before, but this Ohio necklace really stood out to me.


via quartercup's Etsy

I'm torn between the clear Ohio and the one from the shop's "fifty nifty" collection. I couldn't find a large photo of the Ohio pendant from the "fifty nifty" collection, but check out the Colorado one and take a look at the photo that has a thumbnail of them all. Pretty awesome!

A little Ohio fiesta!

The weather here in Ohio has beed wild for February, yesterday it was 61 degrees out.

This spring weather has made me feel like eating all my favorite summer foods including Willy's salsa.

The best part of these delicious fresh salsas is that they are made in Bowling Green, Ohio. One of my favorite places in the world.

This is my favorite flavor, it's so good on fish tacos.

Weekly tune-up: Hunger Games mania

If you're tired of hearing about the Hunger Games, you should stop reading this post right now and accept my apologies, although I'm not so sorry. I love the Hunger Games. I devoured the books in a week and I've been contemplating buying tickets for the midnight premiere even though work the next day will be difficult.

So you can imagine I was excited when it was released that two of my favorite artists - Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars - were teaming up for a song on the Hunger Games soundtrack. In case you haven't heard their song ("Safe and Sound") yet, here's the video . . .



In addition to releasing this song, the complete track listing for the Hunger Games soundtrack was released on iTunes so here it is . . . and as always, may the odds be ever in your favor . . .

1. Arcade Fire - “Abraham’s Daughter”
2. The Secret Sisters - “Tomorrow Will Be Kinder”
3. Neko Case - “Nothing To Remember”
4. Taylor Swift feat. The Civil Wars - “Safe & Sound”
5. Kid Cudi - “The Ruler and The Killer”
6. Punch Brothers - “Dark Days”
7. The Decemberists - “One Engine”
8. The Carolina Chocolate Drops - “Daughter’s Lament”
9. The Civil Wars - “Kingdom Come”
10. Glen Hansard “Take The Heartland”
11. Maroon 5 feat. Rozzi Crane - “Come Away To The Water”
12. Miranda Lambert feat. Pistol Annies - “Run Daddy Run”
13. Jayme Dee - “Rules”
14. Taylor Swift - “Eyes Open”
15. The Low Anthem - “Lover Is Childlike”
16. Birdy - “Just A Game”

What should I wear today?

Here we go! Today marks the first post of my exploration of the world of business casual. I seem to have some issues following the rules of semi-professinal wear. Sometimes I end up wearing plaids and and TOMS.

So these are the choices ...

Some things to keep in mind. Today is suppose to be 42 degrees here in the OH.

Also the teams I'm covering tonight wear red and gray and black and gold so, those combinations should be avoided. The following are some options I chose on a whim

Option #1: my peach eyelet dress with turquoise sweater.

Option #2: my blue textured dress with gold sweater.

Option #3: Shirt dress with my favorite scarf.

I think my main issue may be that I dress like a 14 year-old girl but who really knows.

Here's what I went with, I put my gray slouch books with it.

(Sorry, I cut off my head, I'm still getting use to the iphone camera)

It's almost baseball season . . .

I can't wait for baseball season - I think there are 40 days left as of today. So between plans for a fantasy league, reading up on spring training sessions and picking which Cleveland Indians games I want to go to this summer, I've also been getting in baseball mode with these amazing baseball cards from Left Field Cards.



Photos from Left Field Cards

I bought my boyfriend the top pictured pack for Christmas - the first pack in a series of players who suffered bizarre injuries off the field. Since then, Left Field Cards has added another series (bottom picture) of "Edible All-Stars" (can you figure out the players' last names?). All of these cards are hand printed by artist Amelie Mancini onto letterpress paper and beautifully packaged in vellum wrappers. Each series consists of two different packs with five cards in each pack.

The cards are all beautiful - it was hard to choose which ones to order, and I can't wait to order more. I'm thinking I'll have to frame these soon and hang them up before opening day . . .

TGIF — Taking care of business

Here of late in my job as a sports reporter I have really been pushing the limits of business casual. Wednesday, I definitely wore black jeans and a plaid shirt with converse. Not my most shinning moment.

If I could be honest, my fear is that I'm on the fast track to looking like Clarissa here.

(believe me, I own all of those pieces of clothing and I'm a huge fan of the side pony.)

So stay tuned to Ohio is 4 Lovers for some biz casual dilemmas.