mi casa tu mikasa

When we were married, we had family china passed down to us. An entire set and then some...like the gravy boat! BUT I have drooled over Honey We're Home's black and gold chevron china ever since I set my eyes on it. It's lovely and very us. She got it at Zgallerie but by the time I discovered it, it was no longer in stock. I have since done some detective work and found the exact design at Mikasa. I really want it...obviously! AND I found it on sale on Mikasa's website. Plus free shipping and two 20% coupons I found online. (1 off entire purchase and the other off a single item)
BUT after doing some browsing on Mikas's website I fell in love with another idea...
I got 8 of each: Platinum in the chevron pattern and gold in the polka dots.

And we don't have any champagne flutes. Insert sad face, huh? Ha! I just haven't found any I liked well enough to go with our existing china, etc. I have even been known to borrow flutes from friends for showers I've hosted. I don't know what it is about my shopping commitment issues. I either really like it and have to have it ASAP or just do without and dwell on it forever. Like my coffee table and camera bag dilemma! I guess that's a good thing???
Well in this case, waiting is a good thing because the crystal Mikasa flutes I want are now on clearance for $5.99 so I bought 8.

I plan to buy 8 of Kate Spade's New York Grace Avenue flutes too. I think the bows are precious but it will take me a bit to round these up. I'm going to use my 20% BBB coupon and buy a pair one at a time.

Then I'll have a party and we'll all drink mimosas.

make an entry

I updated the entry a tad. Here's an after pic. Click HERE to see the before from the realtor's pix prior to us moving into our casa.

randoms from lee

I talked to Lee at lunch and he said a couple of things that he finds weird in Afghanistan:

1. There is meat marinade for purchase in the PX but no meat available to buy...so what meat are people using when they buy marinade???

2. You can find TONS of cereal options in the PX but no milk. Are there really TONS of people that like dry cereal??? Because using powder milk just sounds gross.

Pansy sale was a huge success. We ended up selling $7,000 worth of pansies and proceeds help to benefit CASA! Awesome, huh?! I took this pic and gave a shout out on FB to our donors from our Admin page. Really starting to feel more comfortable with my camera:



last night

I had an alum meeting for my sorority. I'm VP this year and really loving being more involved. Last night we announced so many exciting things. One of which has to do with our annual pansy sale. Proceeds help to benefit out philanthropy, CASA. Which I especially love since I'm an advocate. We sold a record high of $6,920 in pansies and they're ready for pickup today! I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of planting in town this week! I also pushed a tshirt design that I'm sure will be going viral soon. Our actives (college gals) caught wind of the design and they purchased 77 in the first few days they became available! Our National HQ even wants them. Super excited about that too. I'm just really loving that I get to have my creative juices flowing by being more involved and receiving affirmation that I'm doing a good job is the cherry on top.

But the home of the hostess last night was A-mazing. Seriously. She's an interior designer and I loved her eye for detail. I wanted to snap so many pictures without seeming like a weirdo and that was impossible. Ha!

My photography class is tonight. It's also my last lesson for this particular class I'm taking. I start Basics II in October! My homework this week was to use a leading line technique and study depth in our images. Here's what I submitted:

If you haven't figured it out yet, this is the dining room. Did you note that the new ikat curtains are missing? I sent them back to the seamstress to add more length which is why you haven't seen a big reveal yet. Remember I teased you, HERE. Isn't Cooper just the cutest squirrel hunter ever? That's is favorite spot to watch for squirrels.