The Mansion in My Head

I just discovered this site called Wanelo. It's fantastic, I could litteraly spend hours perusing this stuff. Below are just a few things that I think would look fabulous in my make believe mansion.

It's Our Anniversary

Today is our 3 year anniversary - of being engaged!! So crazy, it seems like only yesterday that Mike proposed to me on a beautiful day like today in the woods behind our old house. It was perfect and the ring he made for me was the icing on the cake.

YES, we'll get around to getting married - eventually :)

Forget You

My New Ride

Work has been totally nutso these last couple of weeks. So this weekend was a much needed respite from it all. I had a Groupon to this little restaurant in Dupont Circle called Cafe Green. It's all vegitarian and all good. It's places like these that make me wish I lived in the city. I would eat delicious, healthy food all the time.

Then later that day, I bought a bike! Last year I signed up for a charity bike ride called the MS 150. About a week before the ride my bike got stolen. I still get all steamed up about that.... But on Saturday I forked over a big chunk of change and got this new baby. Watch out bike trails!

All I Want

Last week, after our fun day of skiing, I came down with the flu. You know, the yucky kind. NO FUN. I couldn't eat for almost 2 days. All I could even think about ingesting was coconut water.

I discovered the wonders of coconut water sometime last year after a Bikram yoga class. It is so delicious and nutritious, I can't get enough.

An interesting tid-bit I just learned from ZICO's website:

In times of famine and war, coconut water has been used as an intravenous fluid and saved many lives. It’s the only natural substance that can be safely injected into the human blood stream.

Hmmmm. Mark my word – coconuts are the way of the future!

Design Challenge - Superbowl Party

This week's design challenge is to turn a shabby basement

into a den fit for a Superbowl party!

A replication of Heinz field - complete with terrible towel throwing toddlers.

To deal with the Steeler's loss, we took a ski trip the following day. It's been a long time since I've been on skis but I'm glad to say I only fell once getting off the lift. We're hoping to make another trip before Winter's over.

Heinz Field

Here is a sneak peak at our re-creation of Heinz Field for the Superbowl party. This idea was all Mike, so I'm playing the role of production artist. I feel like I'm Andy Warhol's assistant or the person on one of those interior design shows who doesn't actually have ideas but gets to do work. Still, it's fun to bust out the paints and not have worry about decision making.

Final product to come!