I had big plans for today - been planning a strawberry picking party for weeks. The weather had other ideas. Everyone was a trooper, but we had to throw in the towel and head right to the shortcake eating part of the party.
I did get a few pictures at the patch though, like this great one of Sarah and Anna. I think the rainbow umbrella helps!
Aaron was the only one who braved the rain and picked a giant bowl of berries!
Today was my friends Sarah and Denis' annual St. Patrick's Day party. I was sporting my shamrock shades. I don't know why Tina and i look so serious.
There was corned beef and cabbage aplenty.
Aaron and I brought a bean salad my grandma gave me the recipe for. Here it is if you would like to try it out. If you like sweet pickely things you will like this. It's pretty tasty.
3/4 cup sugar, 2/3 cup apple cider vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1/3 cup oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 can green beans, 1 can yellow beans, 1 can kidney beans, 1/2 cup inch slices of onion.
Heat sugar, vinegar and oil together until sugar is dissolved. Cool and poor over beans. The longer they soak, the better they taste.
Aaron is the chair of the George Eastman House's Young Professional's Oscar's committee. From what I have heard they have an amazing Oscar's party planned this year.
Aaron has been doing interviews about the party. He was on WBER and will be on Channel 13 too.
There will movie themed food - Indian for Slumdog and a milkshake bar for Milk! Nik and the Nice Guys will be playing so people can dance.
Also there are lots of chances to win prizes! One of the coolest prizes is the use of a Smart Car for a weekend!
There is a silent auction, which for the first time is also available online.
It's not too late to buy tickets and there will even be tickets available at the door.
I am going to be in LA for the Oscars (I have a ticket to the red carpet bleachers) but I am still a little bummed to miss the GEH Oscar's party!
Today was Shruti's baby shower and I was a co-host. I was in charge of decorations. The theme was autumn with the colors, orange, pink, lime green and brown.
I made sure there were lots of pumpkins and leaves.
I especially like the brown glitter pumpkins I found.
There was lots of cake eating and games like "guess the melted chocolate bar in the diaper"- type games. And judging by the gifts, Shruti's baby will be the best dressed little girl in town.
Tonight I am having a sit down Halloween dinner party, so that required some crafting on my part.
I handmade the party invites. I used pre-cut black cards and added a moon with a stamped branch and a punched out owl.
Was it an excuse to buy the Martha Stewart owl punch at Michaels? Perhaps. Look how cute! It even embosses the eyes!
Aaron cut the moons out of yellow paper for me and then I used a branch rubber stamp to make a tree branch for the owl to sit on. Aaron then wrote the party details on the back with a white pen.
We also made paper mache pumpkins for favors.
The pumpkins were filled with ye olde fashioned candy like Bit-O-Honeys.
The pumpkins weren't hard... we covered balloons with orange crepe paper soaked in Mod Podge mixed with water. After they dried we popped the balloons and pulled them out. Aaron added wire handles and I added black crepe paper jack o'lantern faces.
I was going to make one for each person, but they were more work than I anticipated so we made them larger... one for each couple.
