These are more photos of my uncles' place. Sorry, all of you will have to wait for a tiki room photo just yet. The last photo shoes sesame balls that Ryan, Jeff and I made together. It's amazing how hard it is to get them to be all the same size--it definitely didn't happen! There is a behemoth of a ball...can you spot it?

I've spent the weekend getting prepared for surgery and post-surgery. My nail polish is removed, bought some pre-made dinners and I did as much laundry and cleaning as I could. I'm a little nervous, and I will probably be even more nervous right before the surgery, and so I am looking forward to it being over even more.

I also found more chalkboard frames today! I was very excited that I could find more frames to turn into chalkboards and offer them to the Etsy community.

Here is my sweet bear, zonking out on our bed in Portland.


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This weekend, I spent many hours making mini and regular sized chalkboards for the Etsy shop. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I had put painting them off for a bit, but once the power cut out, I knew I had to do things that did not require electricity and this was one of them. I definitely took over the kitchen counter. The majority of these little frames already sold this week and I enjoyed packing up each order. I also sent out the mystery grab bag prize to the winner, Kate Dooley. Congrats again, Kate! She chose the Brooklyn scarf from my shop and I threw in a few other items for her to enjoy as well. It's been a busy week, both at my day job and this job, and I have been enjoying it!

This evening, we went out for some snacks and drinks. For once, I didn't take any photos of my drink or food, but rest assured that it was all tasty. 

Smiley Ryan

Tater, peering

New shoes

My smiley girl.

Can you see the bulldog in her now?

Skeptical Ryan is skeptical.

Let me tell you about these new shoes...we were walking to this place to eat and hang out when all of a sudden, my fancy sandal basically folded in half under itself. It stayed broken and there was no fixing it. Of course this happened right after I had just thought that the sandals were quite comfortable/broken in after buying them last year. Sigh.

We stopped at one of my favorite local clothing stores so that I could continue walking around downtown for the evening. One pair of shoes was too small, another not the right color and another was...manageable. The sales person felt so bad that my sandal broke while I was walking around that she gave me a discount when ringing up the new pair of flats. I was grateful for this unexpected gift and walked the shoes out the door.

Let it be known that while I am not a fan of sequin shoes, I actually don't mind these and they are kind of fun with this flowery print maxi dress from H&M.

With the shoes purchased, we were able to carry on with the rest of our night, enjoying some food and drinks with our Tater Bear.

 We spent a lot of time in the Mission District on our trip. Ryan wanted to check out a photography store and a Brewery while I wanted to look through a thrift shop and checkout some vegan eats (ok, so I wanted to go to the Brewery, too). These first couple of photos are from a mexican food place called Gracias Madre. It is EXCELLENT. I had the open face enchilada and until this point I had never had an open face enchilada. It did not disappoint!
 Another day, we headed to the 21st Amendment Brewery. We had a pack of their beers here in MA and liked them enough that we thought we would try out the brewery while on vacation. Below is Ryan's glass, the Back in Black. He also had wings that he enjoyed. I was able to devour a veggie burger and was quite pleased.
 At some point between Mission visits, my uncles began putting out tiki items around their home.

leis

punchbowl

Puffer fish

They have many tiki items for their home...in fact, we stayed in their Tiki Room during our stay. More photos will be shared soon (also featuring the Tiki Bar). I love flipping through all of these photos...they happily remind me of our vacation and how nice it was not to have to worry about a thing while we were gone. Stay tuned for further updates!

Ah the weekend. We woke up at our usual weekday time today to leave to help a friend move into her new house. After 3.5 sweaty sweaty hours, we had loaded and unloaded everything to her new place. That was actually one of the easiest moves that I have helped with and am so glad. I have no photos, though, so I cannot share the gloriousness of it with you all. Instead, you may gaze upon the hummingbird that I found in Chinatown for my uncles.

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