plastic cupcake

bye bye, cupcake.

plastic cupcake — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:15:15 +0000

sooooooo sad!

it’s time to retire plastic cupcake.

it’s been amazing, but since dan and i got married in february, i want a space that reflects us both.

you can visit us at: www.emilyorodriguez.blogspot.com

love to you all!

bingo!

plastic cupcake — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:25:41 +0000

i was presented with the task recently, of helping with games at a wedding shower for my fabulous friends, camila and steven. i am not a game person, so this was a total challenge for me. ha! i tend to be cynical, especially, when it comes to wedding or baby shower games, because they are usually just a big bunch of cheese. CHEESE!

i wanted to do something special and unique…and something guys and girls could both participate in and have fun with. after much research on the interwebs, i decided to make up my own game. i remembered playing this type of ‘human bingo’ game before, where we were given a list of qualities or traits, like, ‘blue eyes’ or, ‘born oustide of Texas.’ we had to find people within the room who matched these descriptions, and have them sign our bingo card.

this was so easy to make, in photoshop and it only took me about an hour. i had a lot of fun thinking up the clues, and although i was unable to make the shower, i heard it was a great hit! and the couple got to keep some of the bingo cards for a keepsake. i should mention, that they are having a destination wedding in florida, this july.

here is the card, ta da!

(photo compliments of jana gross)

thanks for reading!

the un-get together

plastic cupcake — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:22:11 +0000

we had a little get together with our neighbors last night…that ended up be the un-get together. so sad! we had been planning it a little over a week, and even confirmed and reconfirmed…when 7, 7:15 and 7:30 rolled around, we got a little worried. about 7:50 we started eating, and at 8:45 the doorbell rang.

one of our neighbors ended up bringing a gorgeous cheesecake and 1/2 a loaf of banana bread that he had made. they were both SO tasty! we never got a straight answer for the nonattendance, but we were really touched by these amazing treats!

i think we kind of realized that, you know, our circle of friends that we regularly have over, are people we work with or go to church with…aka people we see every single day. although we (i) have been building relationships with these guys for almost a year…we definitely don’t interact every day and will go weeks without seeing each other. i think it sort of dawned on us that, especially in our neighborhood…people are really skeptical, and it might have been a big deal to actually show up and show trust in being invited into someone’s home. the truth is, they DON’T know us. kind of sobering.

we hope to have them all over to the new place, as we are running short on time. totally a crazar evening, and hoping that they will welcome our continued outreach.

i made some last minute centerpieces for the table last night and couldn’t go without showing them to you. :)

ta-da!

i picked up the flowers yesterday at whole foods for $4, and already had the dried beans (about 60 cents in bulk at whole foods). i just used two drinking glasses from my cabinet, and voila….a cheap, but fun, centerpiece!

i paired them with some yellow bird tea light holders (love!). we were totally set.

dan and i enjoyed a delish dinner for two and it was nice to catch up. :)

thanks for reading!