Mad Men - The Making of the Poster

This is a cool video about how they shot the poster for Season 3, underwater. I am anxiously awaiting Sunday night and the return of Don Draper!

Icing on the Cake Martinis

I am a big fan of the Food Network and I came home for lunch one day last week and caught part of the Sandra Lee episode on Creative Cakes. She ended the show with a martini that tastes like frosting. This grabbed my attention right away. Since everyone loved the idea of frosting shots at the cupcake shop in Michigan, thought you guys would like to try this as well. I bought all the ingredients on Saturday so John and I could try them.


Here's the recipe courtesy of the Food Network.

Icing on the Cake Martinis

Ingredients:

1 shot spiced rum (recommended: Captain Morgan's)
1/2 shot butterscotch schnapps
1/2 shot vanilla schnapps (I could not find and substituted vanilla vodka)
1 shot half-and-half
Ice
Candy confetti, for garnish

Add all ingredients, except candy confetti, to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a sprinkle of candy confetti. Makes one drink.

Enjoy!! Beware, if you can drink more than one of these, they WILL sneak up on you. One was enough for me. They are very sweet!

Cool Finds at Target

Here are a few of this week's cool finds at Target...

This t-shirt was found in the men's department. Don't be afraid to look there ladies! This shirt is "so me." It looks artistic and I love trees. Price $12.99. Score!

You can never have too many decorative glass pumpkins. Just ask my husband. He will vouch that I have too many fall decorations. Did I mention fall is my favorite time of year? And at only $4.99 this had to go home with me.


My son was mortified when I spotted the Hello Kitty pencil bag for school and made a bee line towards it. LOL! This was only $2.99. And it really did not bother me that 6 year old girls were buying the same thing. You are never too old for Hello Kitty back to school stuff. I know Hello Kitty fans will back me up on this.

AND
Only two more months for the new Target location to open super close to my house. Exxxxxxxxceeeeeeellent!

Cool Things in Downtown Louisville

John and I went downtown to run an errand and had to find something to do while waiting on someone. We drove around for about 30-40 minutes and saw lots of cool stuff! Good thing I had my camera!

Here's a picture of the new arena being built. Kinda neat to see how they do the elevated bleacher seating. 448 days till completion!


Cool painted tires on Main Street. Not sure of the story on these, but they caught my eye.


The front of the Science Center. What a colorful fun, building!


I love this bicycle rack that is in front of the Kindred building. So cool!


There were a couple art cars still parked on Main Street from Art Car Weekend. The limo is a marketing tool used by the 21C Museum Hotel.





I took LOTS of pictures of the painted Gallopalooza horses. But that will be a separate post! I will be curious to see which are your favorites.

Francisco's Farm Art Show in Midway, KY

My friend Bobbi and I went to the Francisco's Farm Art show in Midway, Ky in late June. It was the first time for both of us and we were not disappointed! I loved how the area was lined with cotton tie dye flags as we drove toward the campus.


This festival was voted one of the top art 10 festivals by American Style Magazine, and I can see why. They have received that award for the past three years and when the 2010 awards are published in February, I am sure they'll be there again. This festival seems to be doing everything right. The quality of the art was evident, there was a variety of live music both days, the volunteers were everywhere and there was a great selection of food indoors in the air conditioning, or outdoors if you prefered.


I know I will plan to be there next year and am glad I made the trip to Midway to experience this festival. Here are a few more photos.


These cute dogs had four fans blowing on them to keep cool and had water bottles on the sides of their wagon. I had to stop to take a picture of them! You can see one of those tie dye banners in the background.


I bought these very cool flat fused glass vase. Very unique and whimsical! The artist is Faith Wickey from Austin, TX.


This piece, I love! I call it my "drinking vessel" as it's not really a glass or a cup to me. Everything tastes better when I am drinking from this! I love leaves and nature based art, and this is now one of my very favorite things. The artist is Jonathan Kesler of Earthly Arts Pottery. He is from Marysville, OH. No website on his business card but I can give you his email if you'd like to contact him.


I coveted these earrings for a whole year. I saw them at Summerfair in Cincinnati in 2008 and was intriqued by them because they were so unique. When I spotted them a year later, I immediately recognized them, which says a lot as there were so many jewelry vendors at this show. After waiting a year, I just had to have them! The artists are two sisters from Alabama and their company is Brennans Jewelry.

If you haven't been to this show, you'll have to check it out next June! Midway, Ky is close to Lexington if you plan to make the trip. Beautiful country!

Wordless Wednesday - or how I love my camera

My Trip to Michigan

My mom and I recently took a long weekend trip to Michigan to visit my brother and his wife. They live north of Detroit in Troy. They were kind enough to take off from work and entertain us for a few days. We visited two great towns, Birmingham and Northville. Both were great shopping areas with fun galleries, restaurants and boutiques. And these huge hanging baskets of flowers lined the streets in both areas. They were gorgeous!




This is my brother Jeff, in a trendy dog boutique. We don't have dogs but it was a fun shop.


The sky was very pretty that day. I love the detail in this building and the reflection of the clouds in the glass.


This theater is really neat! My sister in law Pam said when it's lit up at night, it looks really cool too.



This cupcake shop was to die for! They had mini cupcakes which were great so you could try several different flavors. We went there twice in 4 days. Good thing I don't live near this place.


Here is a pic of my family at the cupcake shop - my sister in law, my mom and my brother.


Here is the sign showing they had frosting shots that day for 25 cents! Yes, I had one! Basically they piped the icing of your choice into a small cup. Ate it with a spoon. Cream cheese frosting. Yum!


This picture is for my etsy friends. The baby beanies are too cute!!


When in Detroit, I always wanted to see the big Uniroyal tire and see Kid Rock. But I had to settle for the tire. Took this shot in the car as we were driving down the highway toward the airport.

We had so much fun! Next trip, Indianapolis!