bits of our weekend

our weekend started with a trip to the local minor league baseball field friday evening to see these folks. as you can see below, we had very good seats.
seats so good this sign was no joke.
thankfully, no balls or bats came flying in our direction. that's good because i'm a slow reactor.

it was a beautiful evening and we had fun watching what folks will do to get their face on a jumbo tron.

saturday morning i headed to a local warehouse where a design store was having a sale. 15 minutes of shopping, 45 minutes in a checkout line, and here's what i walked away with...

landscape oil #1.
landsape oil #2.
and a blue/white ginger jar.
all 3 items added up to less than the original price of the ginger jar. score.

and on sunday i overdid my workout so that i'm now very concerned about bootcamp tonight. pixel and i jogged 1.5 miles (good for her as we're rehabilitating her leg from her partially torn acl and good for me as i have not run that far in one spell in awhile). and i followed that up with some weight training and a bikeride up and down, up and down, and up and down the hills in our neighborhood. i'm sore.

our weekend

we had a busy weekend. saturday started with steve and a coupla guys (all of polish heritage) from work making pierogis at our house. it was a little surreal seeing these strapping men rolling out dough and filling it with their prepared stuffings. (you can click on this photo to see a slideshow of all photos enlarged.)
of course this gal wasn't far from the action, waiting patiently for scraps to fall.uh oh....what just happened in the football game?
the finished product. yum!while the pierogi making was happening, this showed up at the door.
about 3 months ago at a neighborhood planning party for halloween, we got off track and started discussing the christmas event. i nonchalantly volunteered steve to play santa, exclaiming that he would be PERFECT. things snowballed from there....
he's santa!we arrived fashionably late to the party to build anticipation. this little girl was too cute... she had her list all prepared for santa.that beard's a little ticklish.good job, honey! (and can you get over that sneak peek of my neighbor's christmas tree! it was sooo pretty.on sunday we went to a local nursery for some christmas decorations. i love poinsettias, especially white ones.
pretty wreath.
i'll show more photos of the decorations when i finish.

a snippet of our weekend

weekends always go too quickly. ours are still packed full with 'settling-into-a-new-house' chores. and leave me sunday night feeling as if i need another day. a day to do nothing.

we went to whole foods friday night. for dinner and grocery shopping. i loaded up on gourds for some fall decorating. although i still don't feel like it's fall yet here in dallas, considering today is going to be 90 degrees. cool front coming tomorrow and bringing temps around 70s degrees. funny... in seattle, 70 was a hot day. dallas cools down to 70.

this is on my dining room table. i went with greens and greys. i love orange, just not at halloween. weird, huh?
this is my favorite guy. maybe cuz he's so ugly he's cute.i also managed to get the ghastlies up on the wall. also in the dining room.
they make me laugh.speaking of the dining room, this will be another framed fabric in the room. i bought this on onekingslane last year and have yet to do anything with it. i'm thinking of framing it in gold.

and i just ordered these silk grommet drapes from pottery barn for the dining room. more than 50% off. can't beat that. well, free can beat that...ah, perhaps i can use this room as inspiration for the dining room. lots of cream (my walls), hints of pink, and grass green drapes.***

what i've been up to

steve was in ohio this past weekend surprising his mother for her birthday. i worked on some projects around the house. of course.

i bought this picture at a garage sale for $1 before we left seattle. i bought it for the frame.
here's a sneak peek of what i'm doing with it. i found this super fun fabric in albuquerque nm on our road trip from seattle to dallas. it's the ghastlies by alexander henry. and i painted the frame hot pink. it'll be a quirky addition on a dining room wall.
i also spent a lot of time framing some of my favorite artwork and hanging a small gallery wall in our breakfast nook/desk area. you'll see more of this area when i recover and paint the chairs in here. fabric for those is on the way.
and, steve and i went to homegoods last night! my first trip ever. yes, ever. washington state doesn't have a homegoods. somebody needs to rectify that.

ummm, maybe we hit it on a bad night, but i was expecting a little bit more. we did buy a pair of these lamps for our master bedroom, but sadly they don't work in the bedroom like i thought. love the lamps, but i'll be returning them and maybe picking up another pair i saw.
and lastly, occupying my time this morning was a trip to the dentist. ugh. i hate dentists. nothing personal to all you dentists out there. steve and i literally had dental check ups on our last day living in seattle so we wouldn't have to deal with finding a dentist here in dallas right away. yesterday while eating my lunch, i forgot to take the fork out of my mouth before biting down and chipped my front tooth. yikes. small chip, but still, it needed attention. nothing like going to a new dentist and having him work on your oh-so-obvious front tooth. but he did a fantastic job. and i'm snaggletooth no longer.

sunday morning in the suburbs

a little tennis action.
which prompted our own tennis ball action in the backyard. do you think she's possessive of her tennis ball?
a little coffee and a book. like my coaster? i got it here.
and a little gazing at the peonies i bought at the farmer's market saturday. i think i got the vase idea here.
and, on a side note.... hostas amaze me. they die back in the winter but somehow manage to grow leaves 2 feet long in a matter of weeks.

snippets from our sunday

there was an open house. we had to leave. i didn't feel well and just wanted to crawl back in bed. the rain and cold temps (seattle has yet to realize it's late spring) didn't help. we headed to the nearest coffee shop and read our books. steve was engrossed. i told him it was a good one. he hesitated reading it because he watched the movie with me and doesn't like to read the book after the movie. he's almost done with the book, after just one day. he's a speed reader.
i read this for our book club meeting friday night.
and the coffee shop is dog friendly so this one got to join us inside.

hoppy easter

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what are you doing this weekend? tonight's our 2nd book club meeting, at my house. i'm excited to chat about our latest book. and find out what our next book is. any recommendations?? tomorrow i may hit up the farmer's market. it started here locally last weekend and it's always the best place for inexpensive flowers. and sunday is easter lunch at a neighbor's.

happy weekend!

what are you doing....

this weekend?

i hope to catch this on tv. golf. the masters. always a good watch. and getting me in the mood for our move to texas because we'll definitely play more golf there. (less rain = more golf.)
i'll read this.

and i'll read my book selection there on the sidebar. book club meets in a few weeks and i'm way behind. i haven't had too much time to read lately.

and in between all these things, i must declutter the closets and clean the house.... all for our house listing next week! keep your fingers crossed that we get an offer quickly...

the weekend

in no particular order, my weekend....

i made cauliflower soup sunday afternoon. it was perfect. my mother-in-law made this recipe first, told me it was good, so i tried it. she lied. it was great! loved it. steve loved it. you'll love it too.

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we had it with these burgers. can you say yum? i did, several times, during dinner.

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sunday night, the oscars. star of the show, for me... miss sandra bullock.

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first of all, beautiful. secondly, witty, funny and amusing while giving best actor award.

friday night, my first book club meeting. we talked about this.
it was a mixed crowd in reviewing the book. some liked it. some didn't. i liked it. i thought it was good, not great, but good. it's the story of a 90-something man in a nursing who recalls his days as veterinarian for a travelling circus in the 1930s. there's some animal abuse, some people abuse. that's why some people didn't like it. i thought all that was secondary to the story and didn't focus on those elements, but i can see where it would be bothersome to some. but, hostess dayna put out a spread of some awesome food and we had a lot of laughs. a lot.

saturday afternoon, i walked across the street to my neighbor's house for a clothes party. we viewed CAbi clothes. i'll be sporting the tee shirt on the right in 7-10 days when it arrives in the mail.
i have never laughed so hard. i was there for 4.5 hours it was so much fun. funniest part of the whole evening... after a trying-on-clothes-session, a couple of women were telling another woman not to purchase that jacket she had on because "it didn't fit right, it looked like something from the 80s,....". the woman with the jacket replies "um, this is my coat. i wore it here this evening.". open mouth, insert foot. thank goodness they were all very close friends and even coworkers and it resulted in a lot of laughter.

hope your weekend was just as great.