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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Another highlight of Chicago was the Saturday Night Cupcake Buffet at The Greenhouse at the Ritz Carlton.

cupcake buffet

There were 11 kinds of mini cupcakes.

cupcake 1

Carrot cake, double chocolate, hazelnut praline and tiramisu.

cupcake 2

Raspberry sacher, black bottom, banana and tres leches.

cupcake 3

Black forest, boston cream and vanilla buttercream.

Yup, I had one of each. I was full as a toad, but it was soooo worth it!

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

chicago

One last picture of the Windy City.

lush

There were a couple of questions in my comments I wanted to answer. HappyKatie wondered what I got at Lush.

Well, I got totally sucked in by their newest product, Shower Jellies. They are slabs of jiggly... well... jello like stuff that you can freeze, smoosh or cut out with cookie cutters then use as a shower gel. I got the The Big Calm... coconut and pineapple scent that is calming.

The soap in the upper right hand corner is Sandstone Soap. It actually has sand embedded on one end for exfoilation. I am always very smooth after a week at the beach so I have big hopes for this soap.

I also got a Magic Muscles Massage Bar. It has cinnamon, spice oils and aduki beans that will help relax sore muscles. Oh and I got a little tin to put it in.

I also got goodies for friends at home, but I can't remember what they were. I pretty much based all those purchases on how good stuff smelled.

Lady S wanted to know what Amy Sedaris was doing with the wand in the multi picture I posted.

She was demonstrating how you can use a wand to make guests think you use magic in the kitchen. You can see it here in the this video clip. (the video is cropped funny because a certain someone was holding the camera vertically for the video.... I'm not gonna name names, but let's just say HE feels a little silly now. I was able to rotate it with an iMovie plugin I downloaded. )

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Monday, July 30, 2007

More around Chicago


orange

We went for breakfast at Orange... I have wanted to eat there ever since Giada went for Giada's Weekend Getaway.

Aaron got the french toast kabobs and I got Popeye's eggs. The frushi wasn't ready yet and I was bitterly disapointed. 


boat

We went on the OFFICIAL Chicago Architecture Society's boat tour. The whole time the line "A three hour tourrrrrr" was going through my head. 


popcorn

Chicago's famous Garrett Popcorn. The cheese popcorn is good. The caramel popcorn is good. Combine them together and they are fannn-tastic!


katie and jenny

Katie from happykatie.com caught me taking a picture of a bus stop on the street. She is just about the nicest person I have ever met. And she directed me to Filenes Basement


piglet

Piglet enjoyed shopping on the Magnificent Mile. Piglet spent way too much at Lush


 
 trolley

I find myself attracted to this trolley. Must be the name.


bean

Would someone drag me away from this bean?!

Other notes and observations

My hair, albeit short, doesn't do well in humidity

I am going to have some shoulder issues this week after carring my laptop everywhere this weekend.

Stuffed pizza is good. 

I need to order more moo cards.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007
The Art of Crafting

amy

Amy Sedaris and Piglet

Really... need I say anything?

When I apologized for how grubby Piglet she said... "Oh that's okay... he's a dirty toy"


crafters

Amy was on a panel with Kristen of Craft Leftovers, Natalie of coquette.blogs.com and Crafty Chica... Kathy Cano Murillo who I was thrilled to meet in person. I think this was my favorite session of the conference.
multi amy
Excellent.

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lunch

BlogHerers at lunch
piglet

Piglet came to Chicago too.


ice cream

Woah... Edy's parked outside of Haagen-Daz... there is going to be an ice cream rumble.


shortTall

at the Navy Pier... the short get shorter and the tall get taller

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Friday, July 27, 2007
Pics from around Chicago

water

bean

Okay... so I am a wee bit obsessed with THE BEAN.

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The Hotel

piillow

There was a big plum pillow on my bed.


tp

Remember those crocheted doll cozies your grandma had on her extra roll of tp?

This is the upscale version.


mirror

These mirrors are evil. I thought... oh I just take a little look see. Yowza! I do not need to see my pores that close!


prop

They are filming the next Batman movie outside my hotel! Nothing like hearing gunshots and seeing a helicopter fly down the street at traffic light level!

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Monday, July 23, 2007

BlogHer '07 I'm
Speaking BlogHer '07 Conference Theme

I really should have posted this sooner, but I am going to be at BlogHer in Chicago this weekend! (look down at the "C's"... it's me!) I am not exactly speaking, I am going to be working at the Taking Your Blog to the Next Level Lab segment. I will be there to help anyone that wants to learn how to start their blog on Blogger.

Sooooo...

#1 Is there anyone out there that plans on going?

#2 What are some of the must visits for Chicago? I have never been to Chicago before. I know I want to go to Minnies. Minnies serves itty bitty food. Hee heee!

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