Riot and Frolic

– the best weekend ever!

– Friday, I started the day off right with the amazing fourth installment of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 with my ladies, America and Ms. Brown.  Amazing might be the wrong word.  It was terribly AWESOME, in case you're wondering.  Just note the "terribly" part, too.  Be prepared for lots of sexual innuendo (what happens on a honeymoon and why is everyone so worried about it?), talking wolves (are we suddenly watching a cartoon?  I'm confused), and general acting choices of constipated vs. tortured from all cast members.  Will I see it again?  DEFINITELY!  

Then, we headed down to the Cheesecake Factory for a movie recap and gluttony.  Mmmm, cheesecake.

After that, there was a bit of conspiring amongst my friends and rascal husband, as America and Ms. Brown lured me into a trap with words like "crafty store" and "Anthropologie-like."  We mysteriously ended up at Scooterville (a stop on the way to the artsy-fartsy store perhaps? I thought) to ogle their nifty retro wheels.  After wandering the store and admiring a few "scoots," I saw one particular one that got to me.  "Ha!  This one has a Polish eagle on it.  That's so cool."

Enter the G with a shit-eatin' grin on his face.

Mine is actually way cooler than that one.  I don't have any pictures that feature the eagle properly yet, so here's something to help your imagination.

So, now I will be doing this a lot.

Ciao.

Your husbands are all in trouble now, aren't they?

– Saturday, the fun continued as I met up with The Maladroit Wife and a new friend (new friends!  yay!  does anyone else have trouble making lady-friends nowadays?  maybe it's because I use words like "lady-friends" and "nowadays"…) for coffee-drinking and vintage fabric shopping.  And regular fabric shopping.  And craft-mania.  Like, I was actually a little manic the whole time.  Squirrel!

We visited digs, a ridiculously cute shop with fabric, trims, yarn and free cookies in the back.  Yeah, you heard me.  Free cookies.  Sewtropolis is a sweet, little store/studio where you can rent a sewing machine by the hour.  Neat!  

The first Minnesota snow "storm" did not deter us from heading up to Crafty Planet for the release of One Yard Wonders 2 and some more craft extravaganza-ing.  I finally bought Handmade Beginnings by Anne Maria Horner, so I could make these cute pants for my ladies. They are reversible and adorable.   I have been admiring projects from the book for awhile, and SouleMama recommends it, so I'm game.

[Thanks for the picture, Sew with Sass!]

– The last day of my incredible weekend included more of The Wife and the Book Club ladies at Pizza Luce.  It was my pick this month and I choose Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby because I generally love his stuff.  I say "generally" because I didn't even read my own book pick.  Oops.  Well, the beer and talking was good.

Then, my darling G took me out to dinner after wrangling America to watch the wee bairns.  We consumed mass goods at Burger Moe's.  Cheese curds, bison burger, fries, beer. Um, guess who ran this morning?

– B-T-Dubs (that's "by the way" for all you all who were lost for two seconds), how does one go about running outside in the winter?  Besides slowly and with many layers?  I didn't fall down and that was good enough for me.  

I'm sorry.  I had to.