Craft Lake City

Craft Lake City is happening this Saturday, 2pm-9pm on Gallivan Avenue (behind the Wells Fargo Building). If you read my other blog, you have probably already seen a post about this.

If this is news to you here are the deets. I have a small little business selling vinyl chalkboard decals. We were accepted as a vendor for Craft Lake City. We participated last year and loved it, so we submitted our application this year and were accepted again. Woo Hoo!

I highly recommend making time to stop by Craft Lake City on Saturday. There are 130 vendors, live bands and food. The vendors all make their wares and have fabulous talent!

This is a great time to pick up gifts for others or just splurge and buy a ton for yourself. I know I left last year with several fabulous things.

Come check it out, and while you are there stop by and say hi.

Pioneer Day

This weekend Jon and I went to dinner with his brother Jason and his girlfriend. After dinner we walked to the car and could hear the fireworks in the distance. We spotted a parking garage and decided to see if we could see the fireworks from there.

We were in luck. We watched the show and it was awesome. No crowds and no traffic to fight with afterwards. Plus there was the fabulous atmosphere of downtown.

Cleanse & misc. housekeeping updates

I know I was going to post this on Saturday, but between everything going on at Craft Lake City and then leaving the next day for the saltflats it got looked over. Finally tally after 28 days is a weight loss of 10 pounds. Woo hoo!

I am going back to the wellness center in a little over a week and will see what will be the next step.

In other news.. thank you to everyone who came out to Craft Lake City and stopped by my booth and said hi. My apologies to those of you who came early while I was still having a minor stress out. Thanks to the fam who ran and got me a plug adapter. I never ended up getting the laptop hooked up to the wireless, but at least I am now set with an adapter if I ever need it again. Also, thanks to my mom and Chicka & hubby. Without them I never would have been set up in time.

I hope everyone had a good time and picked up some fabulous things from the vendors. I know I did!

Mark your Calendars...

Two weeks to go!

I'll be there with a booth for my vinyl chalkboards and whiteboards.
Come check out the crafts!

Craft Lake City

I found out this weekend that I was one of the artists picked to be in the first annual Craft Lake City Festival. Yay! I will be there selling my chalkboards and new whiteboard items. The festival is on Saturday August 8, 2009 from 2 p.m. - 10 p.m. at the The Gallivan Center in downtown Salt Lake City.

You can check out more info at their website.

I am going to be on TV

This coming Wednesday, Feb. 18th, I am going to be on Ksl's Studio 5. I was contacted over the weekend by Brooke Walker who asked if I would be on the show and have my Needle & Pin Production felt cases highlighted. Apparently, they had been brought to her attention from someone she knows; she thought they were cute and wanted to have them on the show. There will be some other local business owners and their products also highlighted during the segment.

The show starts at 11 am on channel 5. I am super nervous. Wish me luck!

Homeownership and HOAs

I have been a homeowner for several years now, which don't get me wrong, I love. However, I was not completely prepared for life in an HOA. HOA are for some people, but I have come to find out I am not one of them. I do not like paying a monthly fee to cover services which I feel are basic and not worth what I am paying each month.

This weekend I received a letter in the mail from the HOA management company, advising that someone had complained about our 1962 Mercury Comet being parked in the driveway and that the car had made a stain on the driveway. Maybe its my humble upbringing, but a stain on a driveway seems pretty commonplace to me, since you are parking cars there - which do drive on the dirty road and contain various types of different fluids.

Anyway apparently this vehicle and stain are bringing down property value for everyone else. The letter also asked that the vehicle be stored in the garage in the future and to make sure there was something protecting the concrete in the garage from damage from the vehicle.

HOAs may be for some people. They are definitely not for me. This has made me more motivated to find a new house.

Fireworks, First aid and Food

Oh boy what a holiday weekend it was. I managed to start the weekend off just right while injuring myself during a craft project. Unfortunately, I couldn't have done something simple like burn myself with the glue gun. Instead I managed to cut open my index finger with a very sharp pair of scissors. This injury, although a clean cut, was deep and began to bleed profusely. Thankfully Jon was nice enough to drive me to the hospital and reminded me to keep my hand above my heart to limit the blood loss.

Being the evening of the 4th of July the emergency room was very empty. I was expecting there to be people waiting who had blown off a finger playing irresponsibly with fireworks. Nope, just me, the girl who cut herself with scissors.

After quite the ordeal to get my finger numbed so they could stitch me up, I got three stitches.


After the stitches they wrapped me up in a split that I get to sport for at least a week. This is because, once again, I had to make things difficult and cut my finger near the joint and in order to heal I can't bend it. This splinted finger has resulted in many jokes on my behalf from Jon and my coworkers.


The whole weekend was not all tragedy though. On Saturday Jon, his brother Jason and I all went to a new restaurant that opened on Oakley Utah. This isn't just any old restaurant, it's an original classic diner. This diner was originally manufactured in 1939 in Elizabeth New Jersey. It began it's restaurant life in Fall River, Mass. until 1953 when it was sold and moved to Middletown, Rhode Island. There it operated until 2006. Oakley Utah was then picked as the new home for the diner and it was transported cross country here to Utah.

It's a great little place and has great food. There is a very retro vintage style to the diner, but also has modern conveniences such as air conditioning and remote jukeboxes. The jukeboxes weren't up and running yet when we where there but they were cool non the less. They also make their own potato chips, which I thought were amazing. If you go there to eat, definitely get the chips.


For those I didn't get to personally say Happy 4th to, I hope you all had a festive holiday weekend!

In Search of...

Beignets. These are a french donut, commonly seen in Louisiana and absolutely delicious. There used to be a place in Sandy called Crescent City that made them. But this place has gone out of business and I am not aware of anywhere else that makes beignets. I have had a mad craving for these little lovelies rolled in cinnamon and sugar. If anyone knows where I can get some please let me know.

Cupcakes

Many know that I have an obsession regarding cupcakes. Recently, there have been a couple of new cupcake bakeries open in town. Due to my fascination I only felt it right to go and check out their goods. The first bakery I visited I was not entirely impressed with. The cupcakes were cute, looked delicious and came in a variety of flavors. However, after paying $2.00 a piece for mini cupcakes we soon found that they were dried out. I couldn't even finish my red velvet cupcake, and it was pint sized.

This last weekend, So Cupcake celebrated it's grand opening. Wanting to recoup from the prior weekend's cupcake disappointment - I made my way to Highland Drive. The store was decorated fabulously and the owners were a delight. So Cupcake sells full sized cupcakes as well as minis. This place more than made up for the other. Their cupcakes are amazing!

If anyone else loves cupcakes too, I completely recommend visiting So Cupcake.

A wrinkle in time

As some may know another one of my favorite places on the internet is the Utah Historical Site. I could and have spent countless hours searching through their photo databases looking at pictures of our city through out the decades.

For as long as I can remember I have thought it would be cool to buy the Murray Theater, restore it to it's original flare and show old movies. Over the past couple of years the building has been vacant but saying that the "super theater" is coming. To my sadness that day has come and the murray theater has been turned into a dance club.

I guess I will just have to hold on to my memories of the summer dollar movies that included popcorn, drink and a treat at a theater that was a wrinkle in time.