Holiday Tea 2010

Today I went to Holiday Tea with my BFF Shelley. I can't even say how delightful it was to spend a "Ladies" day with her. We did some holiday shopping and then headed over to make our reservation.

Shelley's rule is that you should always buy yourself a Christmas and Birthday Gift. I love and embrace this! It wasn't the nicest day, but we shared an umbrella and laughed as we walked down the wet streets of downtown.

I love tea and the Heathman's Holiday tea is not to be missed! The staff is SO friendly, everyone offers to take your photo and help you with your coat and just be so nice. All the ladies are dressed fabulously and the little girls are SO adorable. I saw one today who brought her teddy bear and one wearing a pill box hat with a hot pink netting for a viel. Very cute and chic for a five year old!

Thank You to my fabulous friend Shelley for being my date today- it was so lovely and I hope we can do it again next year! It is a wonderful way to start the holiday season, sharing a memorable afternoon with a wonderful friend!

Side note: I also finally had my camera on hand for a great shot of the Arlene Schnitzer Concern Hall. I got a good night time shot during the She + Him concert, but I love the day time one as well. I think this would be fantastic in B&W. I think I'll try messing with it tomorrow.

Random Crafts!

A while ago, I went to Albertsons for some groceries and I walked by a guy and his two kids selling lavender from their farm. I bought a bunch because it smelled SO good. I love the smell of lavender. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I bought it any way.

Fast forward a few days when I decided to dry it and put it in the closet for a few more weeks.

Fast forward to two weeks ago when I'm in the middle of cleaning out the closet and find the massive bunch of dried lavender...

What am I going to do with this?!?

So I found some scraps and made some little sachets! They ended up being the perfect little additions to some Christmas Presents (which I've already gifted, so no surprise was ruined)... I even managed to keep one for myself. YAY!
I even got to practice my hand stiching on the ribbon additions.

Deck the Halls...

This is our super awesome new ornament for the year. Steven found this at a small Christmas shop at the beach on our anniversary trip. We had to have it. Steven LOVES his OSU hoodies and this is a hand blown glass OS hoodie! It totally completed our tree this year. I can't wait to put it up again next year.

Speaking of hoodies, Steven got an award at work this week. Part of this award was that members of his group all got black hoodies because that is what he wears all the time. Now they all have matching black hoodies for solidarity. Awesome!

Black Friday AWESOME!

One of my favorite days of the whole year has to be Black Friday. While I enjoyed shopping this year and getting amazing deals on stuff for everyone on my list... What was really awesome was what we did after I got home from shopping:
Steven and I cooked our second turkey and invited Darren over for a second Thanksgiving turkey dinner- full of leftovers. Then we enjoyed our Second Comedy Movie Marathon! Our first marathon was in honor of mine and Darren's birthday's. We watched a lot of super funny movies and ate dinner at a local pub.

This time we did an ode to Bill Murray. At least, that is what it ended up being: Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack and Ghostbusters 2. I couldn't believe that I got up at 5, was out the door by 5:30 and shopping by 6. Then I came home, ate another full dinner and watched four movies before finally passing out around 9 or so. I call that a great day!

Halloween Pumpkins!

Check out these amazing pumpkins! Mine is the one on the right with a tooth! Steven did the other two. We loved picking these out of the garden and then carving them. We're pretty impressed that we got such a good photo. Thank you super awesome camera. That's gotta be one of our best purchases of 2010!

Civil War 2010

All year we've been enjoying watching the Beaver Games at Darren's house with Pizza and other yummies. We thought we'd send the year out with a bang and do a Champagne Brunch!

We had yummy amazing waffles, piled high with nutella, mini chocolate chips, heath pieces and fresh whipped cream, berry puree for bellinis, fruit salad, scrambled eggs, bacon and lots of laughs.

I wish I could say the game went better, but at least we had good company, champagne and next year to make us feel better.

Here's hoping for a great Beaver Season in 2011!