hey, bartender!

That's me! I'm behind a bar. It was taken with a blackberry but look at how white my teeth are. Thank you, Crest Premium White Strips. I'm still not even done with them; I horded seven so that I can pump up the brightness in the few days before our e-session next Thursday. So excited!

I am not a bartender, so what am I doing behind that bar? Serving drinks for charity! That sounds more prestigious than it actually is because the charity was my softball team. We need money for equipment! Girl scouts sell cookies, we sell beer. This great Irish Pub, Gael, in the museum's neighborhood allowed me and Andrew (one of the team captains) to get behind the bar and pour some drinks. I was a natural at doing tap beers and I had a quite a knack with the mixed well drinks, but Kevin and Conor (the professionals) kept yelling at me for my heavy hand. Whatever, guys, all I'm saying is that people kept coming back to me! A great funk band started at 8pm and we had a mini dance party. All in all, I think it was an excellent exercise in building team spirit!

This weekend, we're going to Philadelphia to see Steve's sister graduate from college and say Happy Mother's Day to his mom. We're going to an art fair downtown so I am going to keep an eye out for unique reception decor. I am hoping to find someone crafty who can make some small-ish easels to hold our table 'numbers'. We're not actually having numbers, we're naming the tables after our favorite songs and then stuffing a mixed compilation of all of them in our OOT bags...(more on that later). Steve is going to use his artistic magic to create the signs and I am looking for some hand made type mini-easel to set against the center piece. I found some cool ones on Etsy, but I actually want to get my hands on something before I marry the idea. I'm also not sure what kind of look I want for them. There are two styles I have in mind:

I like the classic, kind of industrial, functional look of the one on the left, but the one on the right is a bit cleaner and  I think it has the potential to blend better with the rest of the table. Like I said, I really need to see something in person because I go bananas about it. Maybe I'll end up deciding on something 100% different. I really think that searching is the majority of the fun.