Weekly Finds

The husband bought me a print of this amazing painting last weekend.  It was painted by Elizabeth Cencini a fabulous Houston artist that is showing a lot of her work over at Style Cycle in the Houston Heights right now.  I fell in love with this painting and if my tax refund check had been larger maybe I would have bought the actual oil on canvas, but my print is fantastic as well.

The painting is called prelude to tango and I love it.  The girl in the painting drew me in originally with her great eye shadow and the passionate look on her face.  I love the blue and green in the painting...it reminds me of what the husband and I wore in our engagement pictures.

Photo by Monkey Tree Photography

Have a mentioned the colors go perfectly in my bedroom?

Beautiful Artist, Beautiful Painting (source)

Elizabeth's art will be on display at Style Cycle through May 4, 2013...go check it out! 

It is well worth the trip!

Have a great day!!!

Insta-Friday #12

Happy Friday everyone!  I am happy the weekend is here!  It has been a busy, but pretty great week.  Let's take a look...

I hosted a girls' night out in.  Clockwise from the top left: festive cocktail napkins; our healthy eats spread (sauteed shrimp, brown rice, hummus & pita chips, and Caesar salad); my gorgeous friend Stacey; fire in the fire pit; Mmmm...craft beer; Sammy and her chicken enjoying girls' night in.

Our cat Trixie loves our newly finished dining room...she is always in there.  She got a fancy meal at the table.  LOL.

I did a little shopping at Style Cycle, a super cute vintage store in the Houston Heights.  Clockwise from top left: awesome art glass bowl I purchased; beautiful art glass bowl still at the shop waiting for a lucky shopper; some cool glasses with old school cars on them (I personally think they would make great outdoor candle holders); happy shopper receiving their goodies.



I hope you have a fantastic weekend!!

Weekend Finds

It should not come as a surprise to you that I did a little shopping this weekend.  I am still having fun decorating the house so I thought I would share my little finds from the weekend.

My favorite...this vintage art glass bowl from Style Cycle.

If you joined me for yesterday's post you might remember the husband and I attended an auction at this cute Houston Heights shop on Sunday.  I fell in love with this little bowl.  Luckily, they let me bid while working.  :)  I picked up this cute piece for a steal and it looks great on the table in my blue hallway.

I added some glass beads to the bowl.

So, what do we think?  Beads or no beads?

I took a trip to Target on Saturday with my friend Rebecca.  I have been wanting a rug for Sammy the kitchen.

"I love my new rug!"

I found the perfect rug and I can't believe I considered not buying it.  I wanted something with green and blue in it; and one that didn't scream here I am.

I love how the background of this rug works with our tile.

I also grabbed some new cushions for the deck chairs.

And a new doormat for the deck.

With instructions for Sammy.

I am ready for spring.

Taking pictures for this post was fun.

Sammy photo bombs!

I don't think she understands why I would want a picture without her in it.

I hope you have a great Tuesday friends!  Did you do any shopping this weekend?

Weekend Recap

Happy Monday friends!  We had a wonderful weekend that I am ready to recap for you...so I will just dive right in.

I discovered the photo stitch app on my phone.  I am late to the party, I know.

Apparently I downloaded it a while back, but never used it.  Good times.  Odd that my first collage is of my dog, don't you think?  Speaking of which I had too much fun cracking myself up at this silliness while playing with said dog and my phone over the weekend.

Right Side Up Moose

Upside Down Moose

Good times.

This weekend was a weekend of discovery in the Houston Heights.  I love that area of our city...like with a huge heart.

Saturday we went and sat outside in the beautiful spring like winter weather at Crisp.  They have a beautiful outdoor area.

Crisp has a nice craft beer list and an extensive wine list and their food....delicious.  We shared tastes of the Baked Texas Goat Cheese and Marinara, the Saffron Arancini, and one of their delicious pizzas.  All were worth the splurge of weight watchers points I used.

The moon was full that night and I love the twinkle lights that Crisp has outside.

Look at all those people that photo bombed my picture of the moon and twinkle lights. Crazy.

On Sunday we headed over to Style Cycle, a super cute vintage store in the Heights.  I am not just saying it is super cute because I know the owners, it is actually super cute.

Sunday was their first monthly auction and the husband and I were helping out.  I got to practice my Vanna White moves showing off awesome vintage housewares.

The auction had a neat layout where you got to bid on a set of items and then come up and choose what you wanted each for the price you had bid.  I liked the set up and I am not ashamed to say that I went home with a super cool item...an art glass bowl.  It will be on the blog tomorrow.  :)

Go visit Style Cycle, they have a great selection of housewares, furniture and clothing that is all vintage or vintage inspired.  They also have a large selection of things that have been restyled and re-purposed.  Check their website for auction events as well!

Style Cycle teamed up with Speers Rolling Bistro to provide food for their event.  Talk about food truck love.

I had the best grilled cheese of my life last night.  It had two kinds of cheese, garlic aioli, carmelized onions and arugula on it.  Grilled cheese love at first sight bite...also completely worth the WW points I saved up for it.

The husband got the Cuban sandwich and the garlic fries.  I stole tastes and they were also phenomenal.  You can check their website to see where to find the truck each day to track down these delicious eats.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  I am linking up for Yolo Mondays.

 

Visit me tomorrow for weekend finds...little things I found for the house over the weekend.

Have a great day!!

Wow! It's Wednesday!

What a crazy busy week this has been!  I can't believe it is already Wednesday, I haven't even done the Weekend Recap yet this week.  I will get to that now.

The biggest event and accomplishment this weekend was the arrival of Patriots Junk Removal on Saturday morning.

They came and picked up all of this.

And they were fantastic.  Patriot Junk Removal recycles as much as they can that they pick up so it was nice to know they were just going to go dump all this stuff in a land fill.  They picked up what was left of the construction junk, a few small old TVs that needed to be recycled, lots of boxes and much much more.  They have great prices and they give a discount to veterans.  Nice.  I am not a vet but the husband is.  The two gentlemen that arrived to remove this junk were ex-Navy, so of course the husband had lots to talk to them about.  The guys were awesome, quick and cleaned up the space when they were done.  We will be calling them again when we clean out the attic.

In other weekend news my storage bench arrived.

Love.  I am very much looking forward to having everything finished and being able to do before and after posts of the rooms in the house.  Patience.

A cool front came through Houston this weekend.  I think it is funny that they call it that on the news.  It really meant we were having lower humidity, our highs were still in the low 90's.  I will be honest though, I really liked it.  It was so nice out.

Sammy approved.  It meant her family enjoyed sitting out on the deck throwing the ball for her even more so they stayed longer.

Happy girl.

She also enjoyed Sunday night football.

lol

The absence of humidity and the lower temps also made my walks across the campus of the University of St. Thomas much more enjoyable.  Monday and Tuesday were beautiful.

I had to pause for pictures to extend my walks.

This morning the humidity is back.  Sigh.  My mom's favorite quote from the weather man on high humidity days is, "Going outside today feels like you are being hit in the face with a wet mop."  It wasn't that bad this morning, but it wasn't great.

On the happy list for the week: getting the rest of the items packed for donation out of the house.  I delivered donations to 3 locations at lunch yesterday and I will be heading back to one of them today to take the last load.  Our friends are opening a resale store in the Houston Heights; they are calling it Style Cycle (super cute right?).  Anyway, I have lots of vintage purses and some clothes and a very cute lamp to drop off to them today.  I think it is so funny that the Dooney & Burke and Coach purses I collected in high school are vintage now.  I try not to think what that means about how old young I am.

My lunch time victory yesterday:

as posted on my WW online community page

I'll take it.  The accomplishment at lunch time today will mean ALL the donation things are out of the house.  The painter will be back tomorrow morning to paint the dining room.  Yay!!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!!