Father Daughter Evening Out

Last Thursday, my sister, Dad and I went to a concert in Indianapolis. It was an appetizer and concert package deal and only $20.00. Before the concert you have an hour to visit different tables set up in the lobby to try their food and drinks. It was at the Hubert Circle Theatre, which is a very cool, old building with lots of architectural details.

We all enjoyed a glass of wine before the concert.

The band was Time for Three and they are a string band. Fiddle, violin, and big bass guitar thingy, and the entire Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra was behind them.

After the concert we decided to go to Nicky Blaines. On the way there as we are crossing the street, my Sister laughs because she thought I had lipstick on the sleeve of my sweater. So I try to rub it out and it's not lipstick, it's blood. ewww. Dad cut his elbow...who knows how...and he touched my arm. Not funny.

As we are walking along the sidewalk and get to Nicky Blaines, I said, "ooh, it's closed." My sister said, "how do you know?" uuhhhh...no lights...Well, she opens the door and it leads to nothing but stairs! This place is in the basement, it's dark inside, and there are black leather couches and chairs all around the place. It was like some speak easy in some mobster movie. Very cool place really. But I had to go tend to my sweater dammit!

No one could decide what to drink so I ordered three french martinis. Do we want a cigar? Appetizer? No thanks. Don't smoke and my stomach was still full from that white castle cheeseburger we had before the concert (blech)

mmmm yum. I think I'll have another!

We had a nice evening with lots of laughing.

On the way home Dad said, "I'll be home by 10:00 so I'll get to see the end of The Mentalist." Uhhh Dad it's already 10:30 and we have half an hour to drive yet!

Cindy Bee

Damask Designs Outing

Yesterday, I was feeling better. I woke up after sleeping for hours...and felt great!!! It's good to feel good. And my friend Teresa came over and her and I went to a sale at Damask Designs. Last July, when there was a french flea market in Tipton, we met these lovely ladies. They had a booth at the flea market

http://thebeeladyfromhilltopfarm.blogspot.com/2010/07/french-flea-market.html

We also met Rebecca Ersfield, but she doesn't live 45 minutes away.

http://rebeccaforvintageliving.blogspot.com/

Damask Designs is about a 45 minute drive from Kokomo, they have this cute little store in the middle of farmville, right past Rossville, before Edna Mills-ville, and it's just a fun little outing.

And this is a bit of what is inside their shop...

aaaahhhhh....SPRING tulips.......

and here's the thing....when I walked in, Amber (the proprietor) said, "ooohhh Hi, are you feeling better?" She blogs......

http://damaskdesigns.blogspot.com/

and she recognized us from the last time we were at her little store....

I thought I'd give you a sneak peek of what they have for sale...

Love those frames....(I am so inspired and motivated but I'm blogging instead....)

I just put a couple of those glass jars in a garage sale pile for a "moving sale" that I want to have early summer....I'm gonna get them back out!

Now here's a little story for ya while we're looking at pics. Amber and her Sister-in-law (I think that's what she is and I didn't catch her name) were minding the store. Does anyone say that anymore? "Minding the store" or "catch her name?" Anyway, the SIL was doing something else besides minding the store, because she kept running in and out of the house. I think she was baking a cake, and she might have to share the recipe. It'd be great for V-Day since it has strawberries in it. But anyway, her cell phone kept beeping and beeping. Finally, Amber said, "I'm just gonna check her message so the cell phone will quit beeping. Don't tell on me!" So, I told her I wouldn't actually TELL on her, I'd just blog about it! But, when the SIL came back outside, Teresa said, "Hey you know what she did?!?!?!!" And I said, "I can't believe you are telling on her already!"

I dumped this big jar of letters because I wanted to spell something Valentine-y. I think they said they stole them off of telephone poles or something ;-)

Nothing was working out. Their isn't a whole alphabet in there....I guess telephone poles didn't use the whole alphabet....but we could spell fun, and I was having fun.

We couldn't spell love. Not at first. But they were so helpful...That 'L' was a 'T' and that 'O' was a 'Q'....by golly we're gonna spell Love come hell or high water.....or blowing snow....which it was doing on the way there yesterday. I was getting a little nervous because the snow was blowing across the highway in farmville, but Teresa and I decided if we had to spend the night in their store, we would!

I love the way they display things....

Now do you want to see what I bought?

First of all, look how they wrap stuff up. I love that too.

(BTW-they didn't really steal the telephone pole letters)

I bought some knit-cro-sheen.....

do I know how to knit or crochet with it? Absolutely NOT! But it's pink and I like it.

Do you know what these are...lurking in that cute bag (I hate to unwrap their stuff it's done up so cute!)

They are hem clips! When you have to hem something, you use these clips to make sure the hem is even. They have measurements on the clips. They thought they were old...who knows...I just like them.

You can use them to hold pictures.


or hearts...

I thought I'd use this ribbon to make my hearts into bunting, rather than crochet them together. The straight pins have pink heads on them, so I had to have them. Pink is my favorite color. So is blue. What? I can have two favorite colors if I want to.

I also bought pink twine. Why? I have no idea why. It's pink...I like it.

Then we went to JoAnn fabric and since I was in a pink mood, and Amber told me I could get pink safety pins there, we went, and I bought. Hey I haven't been out in two weeks folks, I have some catching up to do.

I also got a 5.5 crochet hook because apparently I have lost the only one I had. And if you remember a few posts back, the Queen told me to use 5.5 for my grannies. Well, I tried 5 and it was just a tad too tight, and 6 is a tad too lose. I needed a 5.5...so now I can get back to my grannies,

after I make more birds and motifs for the Winter Woolen Workshop.

Happy Valentine's Day

Love,

Cindy Bee

PS - Thank you to all of you who are crossing your fingers and toes for my bees to be alive. If you are a beekeeper, you know how anxious I am to find out. And this is the year I wasn't going to worry about them! ha~