the night we were socialites

a birthday dinner

this one is my fav

an art show

some hipster love

all of the work is hand cut stencils done of photographs taken by the artist himself - UGLYSHEEP

on the stool - the artist
the one with the dopey look with drool dripping out of his mouth - the husband

If you want to know more about his work email me.

a holiday party and a free night at the Hilton

view from or room on the 18th floor

I felt very in-mature at this party

although they served packets of pop rocks which were right up my alley. they even put pop rocks on the cheesecake. shaddup!!

a peppermint martini with grey goose. yum! and totally complimentary!

Saturday night we spent the evening at Ty's sister's house eating hot-as-hell wings, drinking wine, and watching some UFC fights. I usually hate watching it but I had enough wine in me to enjoy the crap out of it.

Sunday I attempted taking my nephew's one year pictures but being as he hates me they didn't go over so well. I think I'll post the pics anyways for entertainment value. We did manage to get a decent family picture of my brother and his little family. 

Oh and I actually bought red hair dye. Now I just need to do it.

hanging out

one of my favorite things to do is just sit around and hang out with our friend Gabe

He's the guy responsible for 90% of the artwork hanging on our walls. 

Also, stay tuned for greatness on this new blog.

time for a change

Awhile back I did a makeover on our dinning area. You can see the original post here. The nice girl inside of me thinks that you need to have a dinning area in your house and that it needs to be picture perfect. The bad girl side of me decided to throw that idea in the trash. I needed to be realistic. A dinning area in a one bedroom that is barely 700 sq. feet? I don't think so. If we were never home this might be fine. But during the week we LIVE in our place like normal people. We don't sit at the table and say grace before we eat our food. In fact we use that dinning table for all of our crap that we are too lazy to put away. I don't have time to put shit away. I work a full time job and have chosen to live my life.

Excuse me while I step down from my box full of soap.

Where was I? Woooosh! Tornadoes are wicked.

I took all of the crap off the table and have decided to keep it free of nice things because lets face it, it will be covered with random crap and/or craft supplies most of the time.

The wall is what I am liking right now. I needed a way to show off some new pieces anyways.

before

reality

after

Left - "Asleep" by Uglysheep

Bottom right - "Idiot" by Uglysheep

Top right - Untitled by Uglysheep

Pink "F" - stands for Fuck! Since that is the word I like to say the most. Okay, actually it stands for Franklin. That's our last name, just in case you didn't know.

Black wooden candle sconce - thrifted

moved this piece to the kitchen

uglysheep art show was a huge hit

we even picked up another piece - so exciting! can't wait to hang it. i some ideas brewing. thinking of throwing our kitchen table out. had so much fun tonight although you wouldn't have guessed it considering what time Tyrone went to bed...9pm on a Friday night...awesome...but he does have a big day tomorrow...gotta rest for The Show

i didn't take my camera in so these are just from my phone

we love you Gabe

We Are So Lucky

Our friend Gabe aka Ugly Sheep gave us yet ANOTHER one of his incredible paintings. I am so giddy. Our entire house is now officially covered in his work.

I can't figure out where to put it.

{I wish I had a better picture to show how awesome it is}

Close up.

You can check out some of his work here. Or if you're in SLC this  next (oopsie) weekend you can check out his work at  Fresh in the 9th & 9th district, show starts June 18th. Store info here.

A gift

I hesitate to post this because I am a little nervous to share it. I was even more nervous to give it to him. I made this for our friend UGLYSHEEP who is an incredible artist. Have I ever mentioned him on here? I don't think I have...ha ha!

Well here it goes. I wanted to do something special for him but also do something that I am passionate about. I wanted to put a spin on what I normally do with my collages because I am thinking about doing more of this in the future. I wish I had better pics of it to share.

{in the center of the lens is a partial definition of the word soul}