Scenes from the Weekend: Friendsgiving

Friday night I made my first ever pie and my mac and cheese so all I had to do was put it in the oven on Saturday.  I feel I am getting a lot wiser as I age, it took a lot of the stress out of Saturday by preparing these the night before.   Saturday I ventured out to the mall to return something and it was a mad house [apparently everyone is already Christmas shopping except me].  It just confirmed my suspicions that I should never venture out of the house for Black Friday. I left the mall frazzled, sweaty, and exhausted.  Saturday night the festivities ensued with fried turkey [so yum!], sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, rolls with homemade cinnamon butter, green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberry sauce, salad, cheesecake, and pumpkin whoopee pies [so good making them for the family thanksgiving too].  Everything was so yummy and so filling.  Let's just say we watched the sad let down of an OU football game with very full tummies.

Chocolate Cream Pie. I am not a big pie person. BUT this was so delicious that I might just be able to say I am a pie person after all.

Decorating a table is almost my favorite thing about Friendsgiving.

Full plate.

Ate one of these for breakfast.

Petra & Aunt Liz snuggling.

scenes from the weekend

Here I go again documenting my weekend.

New collars for the dogs.
Friday Night Lights.
Going to bed abnormally early.
Flea market.
Sewing new things.
Iguana Grill, salsa, and a pitcher of margs.
Saints' Slinger.
Broncho @Blue Note.
Impromptu brunch.
Brainstorming sessions.

Not doing so good at taking photos [mostly because my phone sucks].

scenes from the weekend.

great weekend.  quality time with the husband and friends.

Cleaned the house.
Thai food.
Crazy, Stupid, Love.  Wine by a fire.
Bike rides.
Sooner football.
Firepits.
Sangria.
Bananagrams.
S'mores.
Hot apple cider.
Earthquakes.
Beyonce.
Friday Night Lights.
Brunch.
Naps.

All in all.  No complaints. 

holidays are near [!?!]

One. It is hard to believe that it is November. Two. It seems crazy to think about the holidays being near. I love the holidays but usually they come and go so fast it seems like a blur and I don't fully enjoy them like I should. Three. I am going to try and make sure this isn't the case this year, thus I am already finding myself looking at Christmas decorations, gift guides and recipes.

Something I stumbled upon recently is this most amazing gift guide by Emily Henderson. She was a winner of Design Star a while back and now has a show Secrets From a Stylist which I LOVE. So of course I LOVE this gift guide too. Basically I would be happy receiving anything in it. That's how good it is!

Open publication - Free publishing - More christmas

Pistachio

 

I have been making the jewels, gearing up for:

1. Christmas
2. updating the ole Etsy site
3. Pistachio getting picked up by a super cool OKC shop!
4. and....Dustbowl Holiday! 

[yep!  Dustbowl is having a small Holiday market that we are super pumped about]
[and I dropped new stock off at Birdie.  Go check it out + they have all kinds of super cool scarves and winter hats that I really really want!]

i heart nyc shoppes

Seth and I did a lot of spending time with friends and eating while we were in NY.  My other favorite part of our trip was all the amazing stores we went into.  Talk about inspiring.

Brooklyn Flea - So awesome.  We arrived right at the end of a down pour so a lot of the booths were packed up or just reopening.  What a fun place to walk around, look at people's amazing vintage finds and handmade items.  There was also a small little area of yummy food stands.  

Madewell - If I could this store in it's entirety, I would do so.  Everything was so beautiful, so classic, so wearable, so lustworthy.

Topshop - This store was a little overwhelming but everything in there was beautiful.  There were especially tons of clothing with sequins and lots of beading...which i adore.

Muji - I wish I could organize my whole house with stuff from this store.  Our purchases here were sort of random: a calculator, a note pad, and a clock.  They have binders, pens, notebooks, bathroom goods, kitchen goods, clothing...a little bit of the most basic of everything. 

Catbird - This was in Brooklyn and it quite frankly made my heart skip a beat.  The most beautiful displays of jewelry, stationary, knick knacks, perfume, and the list goes on. It was pretty busy when we went which made it hard to look around but if it wouldn't have been so packed full of people I could have been in there for hours [quite a statement considering how small the store acutally is].

A&G Merch - Beautiful couches, accessories, jewelry, art, quirks for the home, etc.  Like heaven for the hip home body.

Smith & Chang General Goods - This was in Jersey City and it is officially my favorite store.  Every I turned I was drooling over something.  Soaps and lotions, Glassware and awesome kitchen stuff, light fixtures, furniture, paper goods, and on and on and on.  They are launching an online store in the next few weeks.  This was the 2nd to last place we went before boarding our plane and it made me realize something I think I have been trying to deny for a while now....that I want to have my own store someday.  Dreaming of my own store and what it would look like - it would be a combination of Catbird and Smith & Chang.

Brooklyn Flea

Brooklyn Flea

Brooklyn Flea

Catbird

Catbird

Smith & Chang

Smith & Chang

Smith & Chang

Photos//all by me except for Smith & Chang - pulled from their facebook.

scenes from the weekend.

 

Started the weekend off with 2nd Friday Artwalk at STASH.
Broncho show @the Deli.
Saturday I hung out at the Buffalo Lounge for the Myriad Gardens Grand ReOpening.
Made a pitstop at a thrift store on my way home.  Scored some super neat stuff including an umbrella that is making me so happy.
Went home, napped with the little man, went back to the Myriad Gardens with Seth.  Checked out Oklahoma's newest grocery store...Whole Foods!
Football, Friends, Beau Jennings show @the Deli (yep, twice in one weekend).
Candied walnuts, yum!
Watched Seth play soccer!!
Good weekend.

also.

Last night I was craving something sweet but our cupboards are void of sweets except for the gigantic tub of vanilla ice cream left over from the last time we made strawberry shortcake [I always over estimate the amount we need].  Well I improvised and made myself a little treat.

Ginger Ale Float.  So yum.

concrete jungle

Last week at this time Seth and I were in a row boat in Central Park having the time of our lives. Time flies when you're with people you adore in a city you love.

We ate oodles of good food and drinks:
Roebling Tea Room
Pies-n-Thighs
Oak Wine Bar
Taco Chulo
Frankie's Spuntino
Brooklyn Star
Pinkerton. A Wine Bar.
The Kitchen of Elliott Walker
Cafe Habana
Tortilla Flats
The Rusty Knot
The Standard Grill
Egg
Best Pizza
Beechwood

Pies-n-thighs...believe it or not is also known for their donuts. scrumptious! Seth ate the Rob Evans which was a homemade biscuit with egg, cheese and a healthy dose of sausage gravy.  I had the chicken biscuit, typical chicken biscuit only with some sort of awesome hot sauce. Great way to start the first morning of the trip.

Oak Wine Bar.  We were here celebrating the upcoming marriage of Kristin [pretty lady in the veil] and had some great fun while we were at it.  The food was delish, we drank pomspritzers, all the while it was pouring rain outside.  This was a great night full of lovely ladies, lots of laughter, and yummy drinks.  Before dinner Katie [or was this Elliott?!] made some crazy awesome sangria...I didn't even know I liked sangria and now I can't stop thinking about it. 

Frankie's Spuntino.  My mouth is watering just thinking about this.  The atmosphere combined with the apetizers, the meals, and the wine makes for a perfect date night.  I ordered the sweet potato ravioli in a parmesean broth and Seth ordered what else other than the gnocchi [his favorite].  Owned by two guys named Frankie.  Love it.  They have a cookbook out that I need to own!

Well.  Tortilla flats.  Great food, margaritas, and BINGO.  Also where Seth and I drank too much tequila before our first kiss.  This was like a walk down memory lane.  No one at our table was getting close to Bingo but at some point they pushed pause on the game and Seth got a free shot for having the most of something drawn on the back of his Bingo board...something unmentionable.  We were also so lucky to eat a birthday dinner with Rachel Slaton. Great night of course!

This is an amazing drink they custom made for me at The Rusty Knot.  This place is so cool.  Down by the river, has a sort of beach vibe with glass buoys, tiki dolls, and rattan furniture.  Micheal, Seth and I all ventured on after Tortilla Flats.  I ordered my standard tequila lemonade with salt, they don't have lemonade so they made me a fancy homemade lemonade on the spot.  It was delish.  Doesn't it look like that little mermaid is relaxing in a hot tub.  Seth and Michael both ordered 'a rusty knot' which was a frozen mojito. yums.

We tried to go to the Boom Boom Room [top of the The Standard Hotel] but as luck would have it they are closed on Monday nights.  We ended up at The Standard Grill drinking wine and eating dessert.  Milk and cookies and a brownie with a scoop of ice cream, almonds and what I think was caramel.  So great.  We had great converstation and allowed ourselves to get uncomfortably full.

We were so happy we ate here.  Even though we had eaten a rather large breakfast at Egg only hours before, with our luggage in tow we rolled into Best Pizza and shared a slice.  It was so satisfying.  The walls are adorned with paper plates all the walls that people have drawn, written or scribbled on.  We actually barely talked because we were so caught up in reading all the plates [and of course pointing out our favorites]. We decided we couldn't leave NY without eating some pizza.  We were very full but very very happy. 

Oh Beechwood.  How I love[d] Beechwood.  When we lived in Jersey City this was our go-to restaurant.  They have a great brunch and an even better dinner menu of classics and it is BYO.  We used to get a couple bottles of wine and hang out here for hours.  Penne al Pesto is my favorite.  Actually if you want to know this is where my love of pesto began.  Now I eat it on everything!  [This made me really sad, my stomach was almost instantly upset after eating this. sigh.] Also where we realized how amazing hummus is.  Seth always orders a bowl of their chili which is the biggest bowl of chili ever.  We sat outside and got to take in all the Jersey City happenings.  Something I sort of didn't realize I missed.

 Our trip mostly revolved around what food we were eating and the people we were so lucky to spend time with.  But we did make it into some amazing shops, and I mean uh-mazing!  I'll tell you my favorites at another time.