Weekend Recap

As much as I want to be on point and start posting about all the things I got to do this weekend, I'm just not that good. Instead, I'm going to give a sum up and then post about some events in more detail during the week. My weekend as follows:

Friday, November 18th 2011

• Work as usual
• Completed poster and palm cards for Activated Spaces Pop-up shop project!! I'm going to give a sneak peek of my design this week :)
• KYLE came home after a visit in Cleveland!
• Watched movies and snuggled all night...awww....or ew if you aren't the romantic type

Saturday, November 19th 2011

• Woke up at 8 am...very unusual
• Went to Ikea. This was only the second time I had been there. The last time I went on a weekday and it was a entirely differently experience. My friends and I basically owned the place on Tuesday. This weekend? Not all. It was frighteningly full of families of all generations and generations to come (...pregnant ladies). I felt like I got a bout of agoraphobia from being there; the amount of people was daunting. It was just too much for me and I'm still a bit wishy-washy about Ikea. I like a lot of their pieces but it sort of bummed me out that when I would look at deisgn blogs and would be thinking "Wow, how unique they must have shopped at a million places to find that!", come to find out it's all right there at Ikea. I guess I just want to be more unique and less trendy when I decorate. Guess it's Goodwill for me; that way the items will be somewhat one of a kind. But for furniture...Ikea can't be beat. Cheap, easy to buy and easy to transport...well not for my Mazada. Fortunately, my friend had a truck and we made a plan for her to get the item and bring it to us when she came up for a mutual friend's Bridal Tea...of course things didnt't go according to plan...
• Crafty Supermaket!!! I got to see amazing work done by amazing artists. I also got to meet and greet a few familiar internet folks, namely VisuaLingual, Grace from Crafty Supermarket and more. I will deifnitely be posting about this more later in the week 
• Get Together with Fever Thrift. Ally was kind enough to have us over to hang with her and her friends. We had a great time! Thanks so much for having us!
• Skyrim....for Kyle. Bed for me.

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

• Couch plan did not go according to...urm...plan. My friend woke up a bit a late and we had that Bridal Tea to attend to. So, Kyle met her half way and swapped vehicles (she had the truck...thank God for friends with trucks, amirite?). He went to Ikea (shudder) yet again and picked up the couch all by himself. AND he assembled it before I came back from the Bridal Tea. All this after working in Cleveland during the week...ain't he amazing?
• Bridal Tea. My friend is our mutual friends Maid of Honor but running late made her uanble to get decor ready....so that's were I stepped in! My lifetime of collecting things I had no idea what I was going to use them for, FINALLY came to some use (instead of filling my craft cabinet). I even used some items I use as everyday decor in my home i.e. antique mason jars (love!) and other glassware. It turned out quite lovely even though it was planned very last minute. We bought some purple flowers at Kroger and it was a snap. I even had a chance to bring my hefty camera and take some photos of the get together. And I will glady be sharing the photos because I'm very proud of the decor results.
• Blog this post! CHECK
• Internetting after...yes, please!

Additionally

• Last Saturday (Nov 12th) I got to go shopping with Ally and Kim, the Marketing Specialist from Goodwill! It was incredible and they have reignited my love for thrifting for clothes. I bought so much and I was so inspired by the whole ordeal I even went home and collected old clothes I didn't need do I could donate them. Out with the old, in with the new...well gently used new :) I'm going to post about my finds and share some tips I learned from the masters. Thanks Kim and Ally!

Thanks for joining me through one of my fuller weekends. I can't wait to share more details on these fun events! How did your weekend fare?