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My favorite craft store was having all sorts of sales. Along with my favorite fancy watercolor paper for 75% off there were all of these fun plastic animals for a buck each. Not sure what I'll be doing with them but it was very funny to be walking around with a bag full of animals, there were some double-takes for sure.

gallery wall

It seems I have at least one gallery wall in my home at all times. Having gone to art school, and in particular cause I majored in printmaking, it was very easy to exchange work with people so that over time I've amassed quite a collection. To the point where I could have some crazy giant loft with super high ceilings and I would still have piles of stuff that I wasn't able to fit. And I just keep adding to the pile.
Anyway, I like to keep some sort of color or content theme, and this time I decided to unify everything by using all black frames. It ended up being a lot of animal and California art, with bits of red and blue. I'm sure I'll change stuff up but this is the current layout.

Turntable Makover

I've had this record player for years now, and while it is awesome at doing it's job (playing records from my all-over-the-place collection) it makes me sad that it looks so dreary. So I decided to change that. My favorite hardware store will mix paint in very small batches making it more affordable to do these smaller projects, so I picked my favorite minty turquoise, which always looks so fabulously retro, and got to work.

I'm not going to lie, it was a hassle to take of all the hardware on this beast as I don't think it was ever intended to be disassembled  and some of it I wasn't able to remove so I had to paint around it. But after many careful coats I was left with a result that was well worth the effort. I will now be proud to whip this beauty out for spontaneous dance parties (which in case you didn't know, are always better with records!)

Tonights Special-The Visitor

Now that I have a bar setup I have absolutely no excuses to no be mixing up delicious concoctions at home. I will try to note recipes for these creations and hopefully snap pictures of finished cocktails as well.
The Visitor
2 oz Gin
1 oz Cointreau
4 oz pineapple juice
Shake vigorously and garnish with a pineapple slice (or some other fruit if you have it)

At my desk

This is the mending pile that's been building in my closet. It has all been fixed. Very satisfying plus it's like having a whole new wardrobe!

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This is a chocolate-dipped peanut butter cupcake. That's right. It was amazing. I hope your weekend is as good as this cupcake...

Home Bar-update

Now that I've got my bar cart set up and stocked with glasses, libations and tools I should be good to go. However I felt like there was something missing, and that something was of course, decorations! No corner can be left un-embellished therefore this little bar nook needed something to spice it up.

I felt that, as it's a bar and will mostly be used in festive party situations, well festive decorations were definitely the way to go, and I've been wanting an excuse to make some tassels inspired by Confetti System so I could think of no more perfect time than this! 

I made a strand with a dozen over sized tassels in black, gray and gold and then hung them willy nilly so they sort of overlapped in the corner (I had to leave the intercom uncovered just in case anyone wants to come and visit). I added some framed bones on the other side (more on those later) and a huge thrift store tray I had painted with chalkboard paint to use as a menu of sorts.


































Now that looks like a sweet home bar setup to me, so I guess all I need to do is have a party?!