Oh my what fun Carmen and I had. When you plan a girls weekend just to do girls things I think it’s pretty hard not to have a fabulous time. We beaded, and chatted, made tee-shirts and chatted, shopped and chatted, and ate and chatted. Among other things. The photo above was taken at Word of Mouth Cafe. I asked Carmen what places she wanted to eat at while in town and this topped the list.
Rightly so, oh my goodness yum. I opted for the fruit in the fruit vs. potato battle. But least you think me too healthy I also got a last minute side of biscuits and gravy, oops!
Carmen got the cream brule (spelling?) french toast. I’m not a big fan of french toast, but I must admit this looked good (and the super thick bacon was good, she let me try some). Nora, I’m not sure when you are coming back up here, but I know where I am taking you guys to eat this time!
I have a few more pictures from our trip. Not of all the fun things we did, since we were too busy having the fun times (and often in sweat pants), but of an impromptu photo shoot with Carmen. I couldn’t resist her cute baby bump (she’s due in August). So you’ll have to image photos of the first night when I picked her up around dinner time. We went to Homegoods (there isn’t one in Alaska), and then a nearly three hour Moroccan dinner… with Tuesday! She did great though, having a belly dancer in the restaurant helped hold her attention :). Thursday we did some more shopping, and worked on tee-shirts. I will say we are both addicted to using the Silhouette for tees now. Carmen got to come to the Portland Modern Quilt Guild that night, and then we went out with a bunch of the girls, which was so fun, and such a rare thing for us to get to do. Friday we crafted it up some more, and of course ate at Word of Mouth (which took up a good part of the day, since the wait is long there). We went to Portland to do a little more shopping, but mainly to hang out in a beautiful hotel room Carmen’s husband had booked for us. We beaded, knitted and I got Carmen hooked on Alias (Bj has one of these for work, which makes watching movies on a laptop so much more enjoyable!). Saturday we went to the Barefoot Sage to have 1.5 hour soaks and massages for our feet. We rounded out our decadent weekend with more shopping and food, plus the photo shoot since we had absolutely amazing weather. 65 degrees and SUNNY!
I couldn’t have asked for a better time, or better company. Carmen lives too far away, and I was sad to drop her off at the airport. Of course knowing she’ll be back in a few weeks with her little darling Chloe makes it a little bit better. Then it will be girl time squared, I can’t wait to see what our little ones do together. They talk on the computer all the time so I’m sure it will be quite fun for them to see each other in person (the last time was December, in Hawaii). And to Carmen’s husband: Thank you Andrew! That was as much a treat for me as it was for Carmen!
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Carmen (who lives in Alaska) is on a plane on her way to see me for the sole purpose of a girl’s weekend! Her husband arranged everything as a surprise so I’m going to take the rest of the week off to celebrate girl time.
photo circa 1996 – Carmen and Amber trying to be models on the beach… sand in the face turned out to be not so sexy after all. -
Last week Kristen posted on her blog a necklace that she loved. She was coming down for a ladies fun crafty day so we decided that would be one of the projects. I have not dug into my bead stash in a long, long while. Part of the problem is that my collection is a little dated for my tastes:
I own thousands of tiny beads. Seed beads and a little bigger.
These are so small, it takes a lot to make a big impact. Kristen is more bold and already had some fun big beads, but I needed to enhance my bead stash so we went out to a few shops. Turns out one of our bead stores was closing (that day), one is an “open whenever we want” kind of place, and one was a bit over priced, where we did most of our shopping. So I’m not going to pretend this copy is much cheaper than the original. But I love it.
The sliver beads that make the necklace for me are from Michael’s.
This necklace is a combination of stone, glass, pretend stone and glass, and probably everything in between. Kristen, Sciarrino and I each made one. Watch their blogs because each of ours are a little different, I hope they show theirs off too!
I had never used a double clasp like this before, we were lucky our local bead store had them.
Now I have a lot more fun big beads to play with in the future (jars are from Ribbon Jar special collections).
Ten extra credit points if you guessed I couldn’t stop at one.
(if you make a necklace for your kid always ask yourself, “can my kid handle this jewelry?” And don’t leave them alone with it if they will eat it. Tuesday is a good necklace wearer, I think because of the teething necklace when she was tiny).
And another thing I scored this weekend:
So tiny and cute. I won’t even go into describing the hoarder’s house I had to traipse through to get these. Tuesday was on my back and as soon as we walked in she said, “mama, DONE!”
And more tulips continue to pop open. Supposedly we are supposed to get sun the next few days. I’ll believe it when I see it. We’ve only had three days hit 60 so far this year. Brr.
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