A True Blue Friend

Last Saturday J and I went out to Franklin street with my friend JE and her boyfriend. It was a bittersweet night, because we had a really fun time and stayed up and about till almost 5 in the morning but it was sad because this is one of the last times we’ll be able to hang out like this. JE and her family is moving to Nashville in 2 weeks and it really hit me hard that night. Throughout my time in NC, JE has been one of my closest girlfriends. We call each other when we ar mad at our significant others and we have a Thursday Night= Girls Night rule . After she is gone, I wont’ be able to do those things. I know, we’ll still be close and I’ll call her and we’ll stay in touch, but it won’t be the same. We definitely bring out the silly, girly, side of each other.

A story that illustrates is what happened saturday night. We went to one of JE and my favorite bars- The Blue Horn Lounge on Franklin Street. The reason we love this bar is because it is tiny and has a very old school feel to it and most importantly it has a spectacular bathroom. First of all the bathroom is nearly half the size of the bar and it is bathed in blue light. It is also decorated really nicely with mosaic tiles and cool iron fixtures. This saturday, when we were obviously drunk JE and I went to the infamous bathroom, while our boys waited at the bar and had a 20 minute photo shoot. People and our boys were banging on the door and we were giggling like crazy and by the time we came out everyone was giving us really strange looks. But we didnt’ care, out bathroom photoshoot was really fun, with the both of us pretending we were on ANTM and trying to figure out our best angles and poses. Unfortunately the blue light didn’t come through in the photos. When we came out our Boys had left the bar to stand outside cuz they are just dumb boys and rolled their eyes at us. Silly boys!

Anyway, all good things must come to an end and it seems like our silly days are over at least until I see her in october for the wedding. I guess my brief stint as a bathroom model is over:(

A Layla Story

This weekend I decided to start a themed album project. Its going to be a 8×8 album of the Laylster. I made a Title page for it on Sunday. Since it was my first 8×8 layout, I made some really big mistakes and somehow barely managed to salvage it. I also made some changes to the Title, from Layla to A Layla Story. But the pics had already been taken and uploaded and I was too lazy to take another one.  Also the Laylster’s cuteness makes everything look good. Right? right?

I give this Layout a low C

Infusion Photos

J and I tried to experiment with a recipe we found online last week. The recipe didn’t turn out very well and is not worth sharing, however , since we infused vodka with chilli and tomatoes, it made for a very pleasing visual. Here are two photos at different stages of the infusion.

Infusing the chillies

Infusing the Tomatoes

Blog Roll

So because I occasionally blog about scrapbooking I had my blog added to a Scrapbooking Blog Roll. This makes me nervous because I feel like I have all this pressure to make my posts good but I’m also super excited.

So in the spirit of that here’s a scrapbooking post. During lunch today, I went to Big Lots. I had read on the different scrapbooking forums that you could find really good deals on albums and embellishments and paper. And the forums were right, they had tons of designer stuff for one dollar.

I bought a transparency,  two metal tags,  and a sheet of rub ons for a dollar each. One postbound album for $5.00 and a 30 sheet sheet of printed paper for $3.00.

 It was worth fighting the lunch hour traffic.

Its Official!!!!

J just booked our tickets. We are getting married in UT. Yipeee. We will be in UT from Sep 27 to Oct 8.  I have missed SLC so much! I can’t believe I am  finally going back and to get married too! We also got a really awesome deal on the tickets thanks to my favorite activity at work – slacking off and searching the internet.

Countdown

Its a slow day at work so here’s my countdown to exciting events coming up in my life.

105 days till I get married in utah

182 days till I get married in India

47 days till my birthday

96 days till I go to Utah

324 days till  I graduate

Rainy day…Moping around

This morning, what was starting out as a nice relaxing morning quickly ended drastically on my way to school. I noticed my car was driving funny and I pulled over, only to find that I had a flat tire. I know, I know flat tires can happen to anyone  anywhere, but I was especially upset because they were brand new tires. I had just replaced my tires last month and here I was in the pouring rain, on my way to school with a flat tire. I called J and he drove out to help me fix it but for some reason he couldn’t get the tire off to put the spare tire on. So we had to drive to Target, buy a fix a flat and by now it was raining quite hard. When we got to the car, it turned out the fix a flat had a defect and most of the goo ended up on J and we only had a little bit to fix the tire. We finally manged to  get it to the mechanic and they assured us that they could fix the tire and I wouldn’t need new ones. Of course luck wasn’t on our side and they had to end up replacing the tire and it of course took a lot longer than they said it would. Ultimately, I am now poorer and had to come late to work and now I have to stay late too. Boo Hoo.

In other news, since I had a few hours at home this morning because of the car, I was able to make a yummy lunch and i decided to experiment with potato salad. J has been asking for poato salad lately and I’m really picky about potato salad. I absolutely love Jason’s Deli potato salad , where its all mashed and mustardy so I tried to make my own. I used

 Horseradish mashed Potato Salad

smashed potaoes,

horseradish mustard

a little chilli powder

  celery salt

black pepper

onion powder

Mayo

Bacon

 I mixed them all up together until it was smooth and lump free and it was delicious. Next time I am going to add hard boiled eggs, for more flavor explosion. We were in such a hurry to eat lunch that I didn’t take a picture, it looked so creamy and delicious though.

Here’s a generic pic thats close, only mine was creamier

i am so lame, i just blogged about potato salad. oh well

Snow Layout

 

I did this layout this weekend about the one time in snowed this winter in NC. I was going to use fewer embellishments but I thought the stickers were too cute to not use. Especially since I don’t know when I might see snow again. I think it still turned out okay though. I am still undecided about adding journaling.

Wild Weekend

Last weekend , I went to a Jungle Theme party at on of my friend’s houses.  Everyone was required to dress up as something or someone that was related to the Jungle. I was convinced my costume was going to be really lame because I just used stuff from my closet but it actually turned out to be one of the better ones there.  I tied a old sarong as a dress and wore big pieces of jewelry. Since the sarong has a wild print, it worked. Here’s a pic :

Life Art

Since I mentioned Cathy Zielske a couple of days back, I thought I’d mention another of my favorite designers- Ali Edwards. Ali, however likes to think of herself as a “life artist” rather than a designer and she also encourages most people who are inspired by her work to think of themselves as life artists as well. Ali’s designs are clean and simple, but always personal. I have been most inspired by her appreciation of the little things in life.  Her blog is a great reflection of the things going on in her life. She is an active artist, campaigner for autism research and of course a mom. Her stories and layouts are so humorous and insightful that it forces me to learn more about myself.

Her stuff can be seen here and on her blog(listed under blogroll).