This weekend was kind of awesome.
Here’s why….
I ate delicious food. Hung out with good friends. And hung out with Grace Bonney. Yes. That Grace Bonney (of Design*Sponge). But, more on that later. Let’s start from the beginning….
I had Friday off.
Spent it yard-sale-ing with my mom and aunt. Scored some good swag. Yes. I know I just said swag. I know it’s not cool and I’m not sure why I used it, but I’m just gonna go with it.
Spent it yard-sale-ing with my mom and aunt. Scored some good swag. Yes. I know I just said swag. I know it’s not cool and I’m not sure why I used it, but I’m just gonna go with it.
Later I had dinner with my mother-in-law at Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty.
SO good! We had salads and shared a pizza: green garlic + asparagus + ricotta + fontina. YUM!! AND….salted caramel and mint stracciatella ice cream for dessert.
Saturday I….
Styled a bunch of sets for the Ace Summer School I mentioned last week. Lisa Warninger taught a fabulous photography class and after the lecture portion, the students got to shoot around – taking photos of the styled sets and of our lovely model Meredith whom I also styled. (P.S. Please note that my iPhone photos do not do either the sets or the model true justice – especially Meredith. She looked gorgeous! Her hair and makeup was done by the lovely Madeline Roosevelt and she did an incredible job as always).
roll sheet.
the lovely Meredith.
some of the styled sets.
most fun “lecture” ever. too bad college lectures weren’t this fun.
Hopefully some of the students will send me links so I can share their lovely photos here, since obviously my talents lie in styling and not photography :). Everyone really seemed to like my sets and styling, which is always nice. Positive affirmation makes all the hard work worth it!
After class….
I met some other lovely ladies teaching classes….. Joy Cho, Sally Shim, and Grace Bonney. And I got to have lunch with Lisa and Grace at Olympic Provisions.
I had the most delicious chicken salad sandwich that left me full for the rest of the day (but that’s another story) and got to enjoy hearing about Grace’s life in Brooklyn. She was incredibly sweet and down-to-earth and not what I expected the founder of such a huge site like Design*Sponge to be like. Actually, I’m not really sure what I expected but she was completely lovely. I didn’t take any photos of our lunch, because I didn’t want to geek out too much, but I definitely thought about it :). We also checked out Grayling jewelry since it was in the building and sampled the espresso at Coava – the quintessential Portland experience. All in all it was a lovely time.
Later I came home and rested up since I’d stayed up ridiculously late putting the sets together. My friend Jamie came over to spend the night and we watched Juno and ate cereal for dinner. Total party animals, right?
Sunday we….
Had breakfast and went to church with my parents and then had a BBQ at the in-laws place. Now I’m blogging while I should be doing laundry. Oops. I guess it’s time to wrap-up this kind of awesome weekend and finish being productive. If you read this great big post, then I’m truly impressed.
How was your weekend?
xo
Lauren
O_O that coffee table looks awesome! i cant stop looking at it. i want one!
and that pizza that you shared with your mother in law looks delicious.
oh and HAHA! you said swag 😛
-Abby
SO jealous that you had lunch with Grace Bonney! How much fun!
Lauren,
Your styling skills are the tops! Great job. Looks like so much fun, wish I could’ve been there.
Angela
Wow what an AWESOME weekend Lauren! Sounds like you were quite busy!
Your weekend looks so wonderful! I love all the photos. The pizza looks so delicious and how awesome you met the founder of design*sponge.. love that site!
ooh what did you get whilst garage saling? I’m thinking of going this fri to start looking for furniture…mostly dining room stuff though.
That pizza looks amazing.Yum!
I love the can of shasta in the (second picture) of the ginger ale set…I’m assuming thats not supposed to be there 🙂
I love all the sets but I especially like the teacher one!
Are you still going to the meat market tomorrow? We may come but it depends on the time.
PS: we got a finally Furminator and its amaaaazing!
Ooh that class looks like it was fun!
And that pizza looks delicious!
yup that pretty much sums up an awesome weekend!
wish i got to be in on the lectures!
How fun would it be to learn and have fun with awesome peeps!
xo
B
I had an awesome pizza experience this weekend too! (http://acollectionofpassions.blogspot.com/2011/06/wonderful-weekend-fathers-day.html)
XO,
Kacie
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Sounds like a great weekend – would have loved to attend the summer school + sit in on one of those lectures! And see your pretty styling in person.
PS. movie + food w/ a friend is my fave kind of Sat night!
Um, your weekend was awesome. Mine was was pretty good, but not as awesome as yours.
Great job styling the sets, friend! You’re so talented. You’ve truly found your calling. I miss you. Let’s have a blizzard and skype date soon, OK?
Hugs, Dana
I’m so embarassedly in 2 of your shots. Your styling were amazing. And here I am reading blogs when I should really be posting my pictures of your lovely sets on my blog…yay for procrastination. I’m so jealous you got to hang out with Grace!
Looks like the best weekend ever! And I love your sets, totally cute!
you styled?? how cool is that?
i’m new around here… so maybe that is normal, but it’s totally cool to me:)
I’ve just been reading around a bit- this is a very sweet blog. You sound very in love with your husband, and this sounds like a great weekend.
-another Lauren
That class looks like a lot of fun!
Glad you had a great weekend 🙂
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One of my co-workers said she went to summer school and loved it. I’m not sure what class she took though. I’m definitely in for next year, it sounds like so much fun!
That’s so cool. It’s awesome to have been reading your blog for a while and to see you break into the styling world and to have cool opportunities like this. Your sets looked fantastic!
WOW, that does sounds like an awesome weekend!! how neat to be a part of that photog class! and that you got to have lunch grace!! glad to hear she’s a sweet lady 🙂