A Beautiful Life: the girls

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Get Out Again!!

The fabulous 4 is going to be so sick of me!!

Tonight we have a fun filled night of drinking and painting. I know this is a lot of activities crammed into 1 week but I just couldn't pass on this one

Vino Vangogh, if you live in St. Louis or Chicago get out your wine glasses and put on a smock. This is the perfect marriage of art and wine. Tonight we will meet at a private room in a local restaurant. All the art supplies and the instructor are provided, we just show up, order foods and drinks and get painting.

Tonight our subject is tulips

I think I will paint my tulips white, they will go better in my house.

Added bonus, the restaurant is Mexican. I am in the mood for a little this...

and a little this...

I will be hitting up this place tomorrow...

me thinks I am officially hooked!!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Get Out!

And the party planning continues!

Tonight I have round 2 of event planning but this one is girls only. A couple months ago a much anticipated french patisserie opened and it is formidable!!

I have popped in for lunch, some macaroons and also did the mother's day tea. I would like to say I had some influence on tonights event but I will never really know... anyway on mother's day I was chatting with the owner and told her that she really needed to host a baking class because her pastries are a-mazing.

A couple weeks ago I got an email from the bakery inviting me to their first class, "the art of french baking." I immediately called the fabulous 4 (a nickname given to me and 3 friends from the hubs) and signed us up for this class. I am really excited for tonight, I am not much of a baker, but I want to be. I am too impatient. I have always heard with baking you have to be very precise with measuring and you must take your time. I am usually eyeballing how much flour to use and I never let anything sit or rest for 30 minutes, I am way too busy, of course this is probably most of my desserts taste like paper. I
think I would enjoy baking if I just took the time. We will not know what we are making until we arrive tonight but you can't go wrong with any of her desserts...