aspen day 2 - the historic village

we spent friday morning exploring the historic town of aspen. everything was sooo cute. picture amazingly preserved victorian era town in the middle of the rockies. pretty sweet.


























there was a ton of galleries with awesome art, including the sighting of 2 Miro's and some work by isaac maimon whose work i loved. among many other awesome artists.















we also made a stop at paradise bakery where they had tons of gelato to choose from - mine was pomegranate. and it came with a perfectly cooked cookie on top. delicious!


















everything in every store was outrageously expensive in town - i don't know where middle class or lower class people shop here. even upper class folks probably have to search out cheaper options! what was super cool was that everyone was so pleasant and blended together. it seemed very green there - lots of walkers and cyclists. which i loved. and everyone had dogs that were very well behaved and were hardly on leashes.















more to come for fridays events!

aspen - day 1

after a month long absence i have returned. sometimes the time gets away from me. that's the motto of this summer though. all time has been doing is getting away from me. so anyway, back to the point. aspen - day 1.

the day started out with a hugely long time in the airport and on airplanes. well hugely long for me since i hate to sit still for any extended period of time. no worries though, i read almost an entire janet evanovich book. we landed in denver around 3 and were on our way in our rental car by 4.

the road trip consisted of some super cute mining towns, amazing mountain scenes, a stop in silverthorne for dinner and the scariest drive of my life. we crossed the Continental divide (sweet!) and traveled along independence pass (scary!). the road is two lanes and you are climbing the mountains, no guardrails - not one, hairpin turns and a 500 ft (at least) drop, oh and there are times where there is only one lane. that's right one lane and 500 ft drop. the road is not usually open in the winter. it was totally amazing though. the last picture gives you an idea of the edge of the road, guardrailess drop off. tracey (sean's sister) and i were in a panic the entire time. a mindset that i am sure was not helping sean(who was driving) one bit. fortunately, the scary part was only for about the last hour of a 3-4 hour road trip.

all these photos were taken from the car - we couldn't stop at all because we didn't want to be driving independence pass in the dark. there probably could have been more photos of the pass but i was too busy trying not to have a panic attack.

more to come, stay tuned...

crazy life

don't worry i didn't disappear again. it's just my life has been such a whirlwind this past month that i haven't had time to take a minute for myself!!! quick update, in the past 30 days i have:

• been to 1 wedding shower
• gone to 2 bachelorette parties
• went to a graduation party, Sean's brother graduated high school!
  
• also the actual graduation was attended
  
• a private art showing
• a bridesmaids dress was accidentally donated, a very good match was found on ebay, also holding on to a match 10 sizes to big currently, every nordstrom was searched and all the goodwills
• one of my very good friends had a baby (he's the first little guy of the group), so beautiful - his name is william glenn, june 9th, 8lbs 5ozs
• created the 80 page ad book for the very last Jack's 5k, realized that the fact this is the last one is really, really hard
• been to a wedding in ellicottville - sooooo pretty
• sold my first listing!
• started to put up our fence
• got my second listing!
  
• father's day parties at my parents and sean's parents
• cocktail party for friends who are getting married in week
• missed a real estate class - opps!
  
• finally hit 2.5 miles running - tomorrow i will be doing 3 at the race!
• said farewell to one of my closest friends who got an awesome job in chicago
• worked my butt off
• got all the rest of the wedding flowers
• went to see dave matthews on darien lake - too bad it was like fall out
• finished and mailed out our save the dates
  
• aaaaaand something that feels like a million, zillion other things...

as i typed this i realized i have tons of pictures of these things...those will be coming soon!

tonight: finally had some me time, watched 27 dresses with my mom and sean (yes that is how much he loves me). it was sooooo cute. LOVE the benny & the jetts scene - totally makes the movie!

lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

ok. well not quite. more like fox and ducks and moths. this has been quite the year for wildlife in our neighborhood (at my parents house). yesterday a giant moth took up residence on the side porch and did not budge all day. wasn't bothered by people coming close, the lawn mower of the neighbor cutting our grass or the leaf blower when he was cleaning up the trimmings. besides that, early spring we had a fox living in our backyard and our next door neighbor had a duck lay her eggs in her front garden.

i googled this guy, and found out it is a polyphemus moth. while i am not really into bugs, i found this fascinating because it was so big. the quarter photos makes me believe he is about 5 inches across and apparently they can grow up to 6 inches across.





















this little guy hung out for about a month in our backyard. he's sleeping there in the sun. the only time you could get a photo of him was when was sleeping. otherwise he would run and hide under the pool deck!

unforuntately no photos of the ducks. though they were way cuter than the moth. she was pretty protective of her eggs and i didn't want to scare her.

any interesting wildlife in your yard this spring?

i can only aspire...

i just read about this on Jenn Ski's Blog. who by the way is an awesome graphic designer with lots of great work.

this house is amazing. i can only aspire to collect this many awesome retro things. just the clocks alone totally rock. i'm in heaven i swear. as seen on apartment therapy (click for even more photos)

save the date

yes my wedding is just 3 months away. and yes i just put my save the dates in the mail today. what can i say, creating design for yourself is tough business. i am glad i waited, because i am happy with how the save the dates turned out. it was important to me to get the hotel information to our out of town guests, bridal party and family members before the invitations went out. so it wasn't a huge endeavor since we only had to send about 45 of them out.

since our reception is in an old mansion in historic allentown i wanted something vintage buffalo. for inspiration i used vintage buffalo post cards that i have been collecting and a book called "Postcard Views - A Walk Down Main Street Buffalo, New York, circa 1910." now i can't wait to do the invites! while they won't necessarily be postcard themed, they will incorporate a historic buffalo theme!


i know. i have been mia the past week. it has pretty much been a whirlwind, and this weekend will be too. updates on all that soon!

the bachelorette bouquet

my friends call me craftastic. i think it's fun word. and i try to act on it as often as possible. i have 2 bachelorette parties to go to this weekend and i have been working on perfecting "the bachelorette bouquet." this is bouquet number 4 & 5 and i am really pleased with how they turned out. the center is 5 or 6 pairs of underwear made to look like flowers. i especially like this gift for a few of reasons:

1. it's not raunchy...
   
2. you can tailor the underwear to suit the person you are giving it to, a really conservative person can get really conservative under garments and you won't embarrass them
3. it plays along with the wedding theme! bachelorettes often have veils when they go out - so why not a bouquet too?
   
   
   
   i am thinking about marketing and selling these soon. what do you think? i am trying to come up with a price. any ideas? i would certainly need some better photos...