Girls day/night out

In my last post I mentioned I was getting ready for a girls day out with my cousin and sister. My cousin and I decided to leave early and go to Zionsville. Nicki, from The Vintage Farmhouse


was having a garage sale, and a yarn store moved to another location, all in the same town. So off we went.

I bought some vintage material items at the sale.





This is actually drapes.


A pink and brown hand towel. The color didn't show up right in my picture.

doilies and embroidered items

some old Easter decorations, and other fun stuff. We got there a bit late and stuff had been picked over but it was still fun, and it was nice to visit with Nicki. I met her through blogging.

And check out her chicken coop! What spoiled chickens.

Then we proceeded to the town of Zionsville. First stop, yarn store.

Whatever made you think I wasn't buying any more yarn? That'd be just crazy. I am donating money but that's another post, another story.

They have this yummy fantasy naturale' cotton that I like to make fun stuff with, and I can't get this yarn in my town.

Look at all of these colors to choose from.

And here's some pics of the quaint town of Zionsville, IN.

We found this pie shop right around the corner from the yarn store, and decided to splurge. I was doing so well eating healthy too.

That's Vickie enjoying a blueberry/peach piece of pie. Deeeelish. I had red rasberry.

Then we headed to my Sister's house. Apparently her husband wasn't watching their child yet, because this is what we saw when we walked into their house.

My sister was telling the girls..."Nooooooo"....several times while they continued to zoom down the stairs on this slick sleeping bag. They were going way too fast.

Then we headed to this place in downtown Indianapolis. We were having a glass of wine, a three course dinner, and jewelry making. "Dine & Bling" My sister bought the tickets for us, for a Christmas present.

My first thought was....another mansion! I need to get in the attic area and get some pics!

This place was HUGE. Made the mansions from last weekend look small.

The story about this place is a brewery owner built it. He was doing quite well, until....prohibition hit the United States. He lost it all. Sad. Now it's used for special events and womens groups.

Every window I looked out in the attic area I could still see the house.

It was that big.

Now, from this point on, let me just say....it's a good thing a glass of wine was included in this "dine & bling" event, because it helped with tempers. There were about 80-100 women at this event and we were in the ballroom. Third floor. At least a dozen tables full of women. When the TWO waiters started serving salad, it was getting late. TWO waiters for all of these women, and a third one filling water glasses. One end of the room would be done eating while the other end would be just getting their food. The food was cold and tasted like TV dinners. I'm serious. My sister, who I don't think has ever sent anything back told me to send it back. She took a bite of my chicken and winced. She said it was colder than hers. It was cooked through though, and the waiters were working their tails off. We decided we wouldn't complain because we were excited to make the bracelet they showed on their web site.

Then they started putting this "craft" on our table. Oh my goodness. I asked the guy where the beads were. Don't know....we just volunteer. Wait until you see this craft. You ready?

These people were at the same table as us gave me permission to put them on my blog.

You take this baggie that was previously painted on with fabric paint. It was already dry.

You pull the paint off of the baggie.

You paint the card stock backing.

Wad up the peeled off paint and stick it on the card stock. Glue on some earring backs...


You have earrings! Yup folks. That was the craft. Not what they showed on their web site. Look how hideous. Several people got up and walked out. We didn't want to do that because the lady heading up the craft was very excited and prepared. She went to a lot of work to provide us with the material to do this late 80's early 90's craft.

Doesn't she look sweet?

I sent an e-mail and complained today. They are supposed to refund my sister's money. We'll see.

The good thing was we had a fun day anyway. We had a LOT of laughs that night. We were together....eating bad food...and making bad crafts. Could be worse, huh?

Cindy Bee