FINALE! APHRO CHIC!!!
And so this ends another fabulous month of goodies…Sigh. We are thrilled to close ‘Home, Sweet, Home’, with the newly launched AphroChic. What you haven’t heard of AphroChic yet? Well, maybe the blog but the shop? Oh you will. Mark my words, we have ourselves a design super star on our hands…
San Francisco based Jeanine Hays is the founder of AphroChic which is the embodiment of her mantra: Modern. Soulful. Style. Hays creates her collections by combining a synthesis of high-end design and ethnic culture, with an emphasis on maintaining an eco-friendly/responsible enterprise. By the look of her collection I would say that Hays has accomplished her goal a perfect balance of both. Any fashionista worth her Louboutin’s could spot a mile a way that the offering today, the Haze in Mimosa, is a riff on the traditional Ikat pattern. Can we ooh and aah any more? Why yes, I think we can! Because this beauty is made of 100% Belgian linen, filled with 100% down (which goes through a rigorous sterilization process to remove allergens). Ooh. In fact, all of her Dreamland pillows are made from 100% natural fabrics, hand sewn mind you. Aah. This is the start of your collection, or should I say the star? Since it’s an impressive 24′ x 24′ inches (for those that don’t like numbers that’s substantial), how’s that for delivering some sunshine to your abode? Don’t think it works with your current color scheme? Uhm, maybe you should take a peek at the AphroChic look book , shot by none other than former contributor and renowned photographer Patrick Cline (Lonny Mag ring a bell?) It seems that color can be built upon to make your space effortlessly chic, or should I say effortlessly AphroChic?
The last time I laughed so hard i cried is when my extremely funny best friend(who also happens to be amazing at telling storys, i usually am smiling with anticipation before the story even begins) was telling me the story of how he tried to teach his three year old nephew how to pee on a fence. he decided to do it with him so his nephew would feel comfortable.. hes explaing how he told him ok pull down your pants, hold it in your hand , and aim at the fence. well needless to say he forgot to tell him to pull down his underwear…. woops!! the little guy peed all over himself but couldnt have been prouder!!! I said why didnt you look to make sure he was doing it right he said well i tried but his little belly’s so big i couldnt see his pepe under it!!! haha Gotta love kids!! :)
My teenage son is going through a never ending growth spurt and the result is he eats and drinks everything in site. One day I was irritated that he drank a whole bottle of apple juice in one night. He said, “Maybe we could work something out – maybe if you buy me apple juice and buy yourself a juice I don’t like… like beet juice or maybe prune juice” We both just busted up laughing and crying…I still have not had any apple juice yet…
A few weeks ago I decided to try potty training my 2 year-old daughter. Silly mommy that I am, I started on a Friday afternoon when we were both exhausted. After accident #6, I left my daughter sitting on her potty ring on the toilet to go clean up the carpet. I heard a splash! and then Mommy! She had somehow flung the potty ring across the bathroom and fallen into the toilet! I grabbed, cleaned her up, plopped her in her room and ran into my bedroom to laugh myself silly with tears streaming down my face.
My cry-inducing funny moment happened while sitting on the couch with my boyfriend. We were reduced to puddles of laughter watching “The Big Bang Theory” after a long and stressful work day. It’s a small moment but it feels so good to relax and enjoy a good laugh with someone you love.
I laughed so hard that I cried at the end of a 2 day, 20+ mile hike when my husband told me that I was having problems with my “legular area.” I was so tired and sore, and something about it just made me crack up. I was a little punchy at that point, but the laughter distracted me from my blisters and aching muscles – a much appreciated reprieve!
My 3 year old niece calling my fiance who’s name is Eric “Uncle Yak”. Sometimes its the simple things.
While watching “Yes, Minister,” an older British series that is one of the best-acted, smartest shows that I have ever seen. It’s also absolutely side-splittingly funny; if you like politics and/or British comedy, do yourself a favor and check it out!
The last time I laughed so much I cried was when my husband and I were at my parents house having dinner. My husband was trying to tell my parents a funny story and I didn’t really even know what he was going to say but for some reason I was in a giggly mood and started laughing. To this day I have no idea what the story was about because he had such a hard time telling it due to my uncontrollable laughing – the initially loud, then silent laugh, you know the one. The laugh that is like a spasm that you can’t take a breath, and then the tears start streaming. My husband and I were both in fits – laughing at each other- my poor parents had no idea what was going on ( and neither did we!).
I am in college and have three roommates. One of them was a random roommate and she ended up being the one I get along with the most! When we are together, we are notorious for asking stupid questions (not on purpose, it just happens. We say it, then realize how stupid we sounded!). The other night me and her were eating dinner in our apartment, and she asked me if sweet potatos were man made. Something about it made me bust out laughing, which casued her to laugh, and then it just continued..and continued..and continued:)
I just bought my first house, and last weekend was moving day. My generous fam pitched in helping me haul furniture across town for two days. Toward the end of the marathon move, as we were carrying the bohemoth chest we had saved till last across the front yard, each of the four of us shuffling and clinging to our corner or said dresser, my brother muttered something about what hicks we must look like to the neighbors. We all lost it – put the beast down, laid down in the grass and leaves and laughed for a good five minutes. I guess it was the exhaustion that triggered it, but sometimes laughing at yourself is the best release. (The pillow would be the perfect finishing touch to my new den!)
My youngest is potty trained but for the longest time would not get himself dressed again. I would find him running around the house naked and we would have to go on a search for his clothes.
I went out one morning and left my husband in charge. I guess the poor kid got tired of running around with nothing on and nobody caring (!) so had gone looking for something to wear. He came proudly downstairs, wearing his older brother’s shorts – backwards – with one hand holding them to stop them falling down. When he stepped towards me to give me a hug the shorts fell to the floor, exposing his sister’s pink bikini bottoms underneath!
I laughed harder than I have in a long time…
My husband called me “muffin”– for some reason I almost cried I was laughing so hard
I am admitting something very difficult for me. Funny cat videos. Funny cat videos are my tonic. I was having an incredibly rough day at work last week, and I just wanted to go home and crawl under the covers. What saved me? Funny cat videos. You cannot stay upset watching those squirrelly fluf-things missing the couch, jumping into walls, completely losing it when a baby/dog/another cat sneaks up behind them. I spent 26+ years of my life thinking I hated cats and was a total dog person. Now I secretly watch cat videos when I’m sad. I don’t know how it has come to this!
Thing is, I remember laughing out loud yesterday when my best friend was hre for dinner and my husband told her some story, but the thing is, I can’t remember what it was about or why it was so funny. My belly still hurts though.
Last night, I laughed so hard I had tears. I was watching “Little Miss Sunshine” and the little girls dance scene at the end is the best!!!!
I think the most recent time I laughed that hard was my first visit to a Karaoke bar in Greece. There was this lovely girl there who sang beautifully in tune, the only problem was that her voice sounded exactly like a chipmunk! I had to try to laugh discreetly so I didnt offend here as I actually loved her singing… it really brightened my evening!
When I was cooking and had a Tofu on my hand, my boyfriend gave me a diamond……we were staring at each other for a few awkward seconds, no conversation, and all of a sudden we started laughing so hard cuz that was the worse timing to propose ever!
Yesterday, I was laying on my Google-phone-obsessed husband to trap him and tickle his belly button, and I said to him, “no app can save you now!” Then I laughed at my own joke until I cried.
Yesterday actually. It was like a comedy of errors. I was sitting having lunch with my girlfriend. My 1.5 year old daughter started vomiting everywhere, non-stop. It went everywhere. We eventually cleaned it up and then made our way to the bathrooms to clean up. I had my dress up around my hips with it in the sink trying to wash it. I suddenly imagined my husband in the same situation… and cracked up laughing. I couldn’t stop.
My best friend loves to takes baths. She loves taking baths so much that it is almost a ritual for her. Bubbles, candles, and such. Meanwhile, she has been kind enough to let her sister, nephew and their dog (which she is allergic) stay at her house while they await the purchase of a home. She has been pretty firm about not allowing the dog free roam of the house and has managed to agree to him staying out in the yard, to feeling guilty and eventually letting him stay in the laundry room to being nice to him today and letting him out in the house. He managed to vanish for a second until she heard noise in her bathroom, where she found him in her sacred bath tub with the shower curtian closed until he peeked his head out of the curtain.
I teased her and told her that he was waiting for her to add the water and bubbles. I guess its back outside for him.
My husband regularly tickles me until I laugh so hard that I cry. When we were first married, I used to beg him to stop and would get so frustrated at him. He would always say, “But it makes you so happy!” Last month, I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time he had tickled me. When I asked him about it, he said, “You didn’t like it, so I made myself stop.” I realized that I had turned away the gift of laughter. It’s taken awhile, but I’ve convinced him that I now like to be tickled, and whenever I’m laughing so hard that I cry, I feel so much gratitude that I have someone there to make sure I have these moments of happiness every day.
The last time I laughed so hard that I cried was when my husband and I went on a double date with a woman and her husband that I had just befriended. We went to a jazz restaurant for dinner and the woman’s husband talked my husband to death about politics ALL night long, and the woman was eating a cheese platter and a piece of cheese fell into her cleavage and melted. When my husband and I got home we laughed so damn hard about that melted cheese that we could hardly breath. It literally turned into Nacho sauce!
I always laugh so hard I cry when my sister and boyfriend make fun of each other. She says he smells and he tells her she’s chubby.
have you ever played “loaded questions?” like a lot of “boardgames,” it’s way better without the board.
you ask a question from the card. your friends write down secret answers which are then read to you. you guess who wrote each answer for points.
my friend, trying to read my husband’s ridiculous answer to the question, “what 1-900 number would you run?” was laughing so hard, he couldn’t get through the 4 word answer.
soon all of us were in such fits of the giggles that we were all crying!
Almost everynight, my husband and I make it a point to go to bed early enough that we can talk about our day… A few nights ago, we were reliving some of the antics of the people we encountered (we’re both in the social service field) and just couln’t stop laughing. In the end, I don’t even know if it was that funny… but it sure did help put the day into perspective!
my fiance speaks english as a second language. there are many times we laugh at his word mix-ups…. cotton-butts instead of cotton balls, old/new testicle instead of testament…as well as his random syllable additions…for instance, when he says shocks instead of socks (he does this one a lot) ….the list goes on.
recently we were laying in bed having an interesting discussion about death and the afterlife, when he asked me if i would take care of his ass when he dies. i repeatedly asked him to repeat his question, as i couldn’t quite figure out what he was asking me. again and again he said “my ass, my asses….”. after some time it finally hit me and i started laughing. he was confused, but having been down this road before, knew he had mistakenly said something funny. with both of us laughing it was hard to correct his english….but finally i was able to say “ash, not ass…it’s your “ashes” i’ll take of”. we rolled in laughter for some time. laughter is such a wonderful thing…what a great question! i’ve enjoyed reading all of the responses!
Last time this happened wasn’t that long ago. I was with my boyfriends family we were going to Bisbee AZ {very small ghost town} to run the Great Bisbee 5k + stairclimb. We got to our motel on the outskirts of town the night before and it was so dark and sketchy. We had my guys dad go in to check us in. While in the car we were laughing histeracally because we were doing redneck voices and asking about how we could get an upgrade at the motel, which clearly did not have any upgrades. That then proceeded to have several other funny questions like “where’s town”.
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This morning and it was a YouTube music video parody of Twilight.
It was a few weeks ago, my husband and I were watching “The Proposal” with Sandra Bullock…there is a scene where she starts dancing and singing – not to give anything away – but it is the funniest thing ever…seriously , go watch it! We keep rewinding it over and over again!
last night. my 2 1/2 year old was dancing to his own little tune in his head!! hillarious!
There is never a dull moment when I’m with my best friend. The most recent laugh till we cry moment happened while raking leaves in her backyard in the rain and taking leaves out of her pool that was going to be closed the next day. She slipped on some leaves and fell in the pool! It took both of us forever to get her out; we were laughing too hard to be efficient :)
When my husband and I watched the Modern Family tv pilot. The scene where the family schedules when to shoot their soon with a BB gun was hilarious! “Sorry kiddo, it’s in the calendar.”
I feel so blessed to have grown up in a family that laughed 24/7 – but two things come to mind. My two younger brothers called me at college, the older of the two (11) wanting the younger (4) to repeat a joke the older thought was hilarious. For whatever reason, my younger brother refused and the 11 year old tried to use psychology on him by saying “I know why he doesn’t want to tell you. He told he he hates you, HE HATES YOUR GUTS!” My younger brother, who I am now extremely close got so angry and screamed, ” Allright, I’ll tell it, but I never said that! Tell him to stop saying that, “Cyn, I love your guts, I love your guts, I always loved your guts!
#2 – My brother met his wife in England while stationed in the military. She comes down to meet family in NC and very nervous. We take her food shopping, making her feel at ease, and once we get to the cashier, she says in her English accent- “I forgot. I wanted some hicks”. My brother and cashier and I all looked at each other and I wanted the floor to open and swallow me – what could she be thinking? She noticed we were flabbergasted and repeated “Hicks” “Hicks” – haven’t you had it, I love it? We asked her to describe it and finally – we realized – what she meant was…drum roll….HI-C – the juice! LOL!!
About 6 months ago on a car ride. In all actuality nothing even happened to make me laugh, I just got the random giggles. Then my husband looked at me side ways and was like ummmmmmmm are you okay? Then I got the giggles more and just couldn’t quit. By the time I finally got done laughing I had tears streaming down my face. I think I freaked my husband out, but apparently I just had to let out some laughter.
Actually it was last night! My 11 month old woke up at 11pm and I was watching the World Series (Yea Yankees! and Matsui!!!)in bed while my husband was out cold. He has to be to work at 4am. Because I didn’t dare want to miss a thing I brought her into bed with me. Well she noticed the hair in the armpits of her dad and just had to find out what it was. She decided to pull on it and he woke up all startled. I just lost it right there!
The last time I laughed until I cried was on Halloween. My son was Michael Jackson, and on our way to trick or treating with friends of ours, he told me he was going to perform his favorite Michael Jackson song. So I asked him what that was, and he replied “Phyllis”. I said, dear, Michael Jackson does not have a song called “Phyllis”. He said, yes he does, and procedded to sing, “Cuz this is Phyllis, Phyllis night”! Priceless and hilarious! My husband and I still sing “Phyllis” at least once a day, for a laugh!
During a long car ride, my older daughter was discussing her age (7) and how many months since her birthday (bit over 3) and that she was 7 and a quarter. My 2 year old, then piped in “Sissy is 7 and a cuckoo, 7 and a cuckoo, 7 and a cuckoo!!” repeatedly!!
Spending the day with my six yr old nephew, while eating sandwiches together, he lost one of his tooth. We looked and looked for it but I was convinced he swallowed it. He refused to accept that so he said. “You’ve got to help me find my tooth, or the tooth fairy wouldn’t give me any money… lol… low n behold we looked again (his sandwich) and it magically appeared… i wrapped it up, put it aside so he could take it home.. just when he was leaving i couldn’t find it, he didnt tell me where it was until he said ” i put it under the pillow (quest room) and his expression was so funny when he saw his tooth still laying there….
Yesterday, my coworker showed me one of her origami creations and asked what I thought it was. I said “a mountain?” Clearly I was wrong (it was a goldfish) but the look on her face was hilarious. She looked like a child who had her artistic dreams crushed by an unimaginative parent. We/I laughed for a good 10 minutes about that one.
Monty phytons sketches XD XD
One of my favorite things about my boyfriend is his ability to have me laughing so hard, I’m gasping for air. I don’t know what it is, he doesn’t have to say much, he just knows how to tickle my funny bone. Hehe.