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Dr. Dog and Nina

Mondays are usually dreadful, right?
Not this week. Not in Fayetteville!

Dr. Dog and Deer Tick played at George’s.
And I took pictures.
Duh.

Drinks at Kingfish before the show.

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As soon as we got to the show, we saw Scott,
one of the lead singers from Dr. Dog.

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I introduced myself and mentioned that we had a common friend.
Her name is Nina.
She is an amazing photographer.
Not only has she taken photos recently for Dr. Dog…


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But she shoots fashion shows…


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the occasional celebrity…


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captures the love of our shared hometown (Memphis)…


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…and just takes pretty pretty pictures.


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When I told Scott about the Nina connection,
I mentioned the promise I made to her.

That I would take lots of pictures.

Without hesitation he got down on the floor
and made this appear out of Dr. Dog merch…

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So cute!

Deer Tick opened the show.

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Then Dr. Dog took the stage.

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I danced with friends.
(and apparently with a random guy that only Brandy was aware of)

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Everything sounded amazing.
My ears are still ringing.
And smiling.

I’ll always have a soft spot for Dr. Dog.
My dad walked me down the aisle at my wedding to
“Today” on Easy Beat.

Love.

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C and C

This Thursday us girls had a little Cupcakes & Champagne action.

We threw in some knitting, Domino’s pizza tracking, and singing made up songs to strangers on Chatroulette for good measure.

Despite the fun, it just wasn’t my night:
a) I forgot my cupcakes at home.
b) the champagne I bought was rotten.
c) ants got to the cupcakes before I made it back home.

Don’t worry.
We had back up.

Also, I received some very exciting news this week, which I’ll share after some photos…

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As for my good news, I’m going to Maui in just 11 days!
I was invited to attend a few days worth of meetings in Hawaii, but I’m managing to get some relaxation time in too. It’s always been a dream of mine to go and this was just the perfect opportunity. Only bummer is that I’m going all alone!

Here’s my hotel, Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa

Maui!

I’ll leave you with a tip I overheard from a little Bleubird
Pebbles is making cupcake cereal! I need some… now, please.

Cupcake Pebbles!

Pretty Weekend

It’s Sunday, so that means it’s time for three things:
Take out from Slim Chicken’s
a Lifetime movie marathon
& a weekend recap blog post.

Friday night we took it easy and doggysat our friends’ dog, Bowsie. This crazy little creature is a Bichon and Pug mix that was rescued by Bryan and Jenny and is quite a looker (and licker).

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Sadie had a blast with her slumber party pal, but was a bit confused about it all.

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Saturday morning was pretty lazy, but by noon Todd and I were off to do some thrifting and to see some glass blowing in the country. Todd’s stepdad, Ed, runs Red Fern Glass, a hot glass studio where he makes gorgeous chandlers, sculptures, and more. He has an annual Glass Blow Out around this time every year and this one marked the 25th anniversary of Red Fern Glass. Of course the art is amazing, but so is his property.

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Thrifting adventure

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I found a cute vintage knitting carrier for a buck!

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Vintage summer sandals for 50 cents (in my size, which is rare).

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Don’t put heavy on here!

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This is one of my favorite thrift stores ever. Green Forest, Arkansas.

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What a selection of name pins. Tammi, Mildred, Micky, Tonya, & more!

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Headed to the Glass Blow Out…

The property is at the end of a long dirt road

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Todd stopped to help two turtles cross the road.

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Finally, we were there.

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Little garden house
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This use to be Todd’s grandfather’s truck

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The actual studio

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Best Chill Zone ever.

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We headed back towards Fayetteville…

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… where I then headed out with GL.

We met up with friends at Kingfish, where more than enough photos were taken (thanks to my camera being passed around).

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We played a few rounds of Knockoff

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I won!

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After closing our tabs, GL and I decided we weren’t quite ready to call it a night.
We went across the street to the Walton Arts Center Rose Garden and snapped a few more pictures, taking full advantage of the camera’s self-timer.

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Silly girls.

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This reminded us of Stitch & Bitch, so of course we took even more pictures.

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I don’t know why, but we saw a fresh bagel in the garden and it made us laugh.

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Although we were pretty hungry, we didn’t eat it.
Instead, we each got a hot dog from the hot dog stand on Dickson.
Soooo good.

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It got crowded quick. Some randos jumped in for a shot.

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After stuffing our faces on the sidewalk, we headed home.

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Now that my friends is what you call a weekend.

Wisteria Lane

Here are just a few photos of my week…

The Wisteria in our chill zone is pretty amazing right now.

Wisteria in our Chill Zone

My afterwork hours were spent sitting under the blooms playing Words With Friends.

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And hanging out with my friend Brandy.

Brandy & me

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Friday arrived and I celebrated the start of the weekend with some fun girls and overpriced Mexican food.

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running with the bulls

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Saturday was spent with more friends, summer brew, and playing two rounds of Celebrity.

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And now Sunday is here and it’s as lazy as can be.

Morning Baby Bear

Tonight, I’ll finish the weekend off with The Pacific and Treme on HBO.

Hope your week was just as good. ♥

Bacon Day 2010

Oh lordy lou. Saturday was a long, long, great, long day.
It was Bacon Day.

Pretty sure that my body is still recovering from all the little piggies.
Let’s just let the pictures do the talking…

Girls heading over to the action.

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Bacon in everything…

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Even bacon in faces.

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I made bacon rice krispie treats.

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Relaxing and eating and relaxing and eating.

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And being grossed out.

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And then the Star Wars Bacon AT-AT showed up!

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Nick with his creation.

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More hanging out and being silly.

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The sun started to go down but the fun stayed for awhile longer.

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We ended the night at Smoke & Barrel with Epiphany and Gina Gee.
Their song 5 Dollas will be stuck in your head for days.

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And that, my friends, was Bacon Day.
I’ll leave you with one side note:

I was a vegetarian for over 12 years. A few years ago I started craving one kind of meat. Bacon. That’s what did me in. It’s powerful stuff.