Recently I had the pleasure of getting together with Lauren. You may have met as she occasionally writes over at The Dabblist. She is crafty and domestic and has a bunch of her own power tools which I find to be extremely inspiring and go-getter-ish of her. Basically, she’s fantastic. During the course of our hang-out she managed to give me at least three life changing tips about gardening  and one really solid piece of food advice. I did not know that they would crack and clean crab FOR you at the market. (Thank you, Lauren.)  Yes, I write a food blog. Don’t judge me.

We had lunch. She brought me an edible bouquet as a hostess gift (This is the best hostess gift ever. I had an inappropriately excited response to a bunch of chard and kale and carrots. Beautiful.) My puppy got really excited to meet her little baby girl. The puppy kissed the baby all over her face and the baby laughed. It was basically the cutest of cute overloads ever to be seen. Not even fair. If there was a video and I put it on the internet, the internet would break. We talked about life and food and blogs. Lauren mentioned that she wanted more drawings of bears on the blog. Later that day I got another twitter message requesting more bears as well. Who am I to disappoint my faithful readers? So, here you go. A fancy grizzly bear in a bow tie.  Living fancy.

I would like to point out that it is slightly ironic that the motto “Live Fancy” sprung forth from my pen. At the time I was wearing a pair of yoga pants that I had been living in for three days straight. I also wasn’t aware of that whole people will clean your crab for you thing.  Fancy fail.

I do however, have a strong love for fancy animals. Throw a bow tie on a bear and I am delighted. A porcupine in a top hat? Let’s be friends. A giraffe in stilettos? Get out of here. They are already so tall…what is that giraffe doing in stilettos? A wombat in a ball gown. Weird.

Too much crazy for you today? Perhaps.

Thanks for bear-ing with me. Get it?

I need to be cut off exactly now.

Have a fantastic weekend, friends!! xo

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