What a moron...

This idiot from Fox TV in Eugene has been trying to sell me commercials for 2 weeks... He managed to get a meeting with me because he called one morning before I had my coffee. I hung up the phone and immediately thought "What the hell did you just do?? Now you are never going to get rid of him".

So today was the meeting and in my Zen of creating new displays and photographing our products for the fall line I remembered he was coming in. UGH! I called him to cancel because I figured if I was trying to sell something and I would rather get a call canceling the meeting rather than waste my time coming to a meeting that was only going to result in a big fat NO!

When I called to tell him that commercials "just weren't our thing"... he responded "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize that not making buckets of money and continuing to not reach people in mass quantities was your THING". I hung up on him. Someone needs to work on their people skills...

A word to the wise for all of you who are in sales... you catch more bees with honey...

Mr and Mrs McBride

Last Saturday my friend Ashley married her longtime love Ryan. The whole wedding was just so "her"... she is someone who does everything her way! The catering was gourmet pizza and caesar salad because she had dieted for 8 months and that is ALL she wanted! Instead of a wedding cake she had shortbread cookies and FILLED cupcakes - which were unreal! Instead of a large long table for her and her wedding party it was "seat yourself" and then there was a small table off near the river for just her and ryan lit by candle light. My favorite part of the whole wedding was that after dinner... she went upstairs and changed into her "party" dress. She loves to dance and hated the idea of dancing in a big gown. She is the cutest!!! The wedding was absolutely lovely! Such a wonderful celebration with family and friends... I hope that (in a million years) when I finally tie the knot, I can make my day as special and individual as hers was!

First time anyone has photographed me dancing where I don't look like I have some kind of a physical disability... Probably because I was just bobbing and clapping :)

Rob, Lynne, and I (Rob and Lynne are getting hitched next summer in NYC!)

Ashley and her dad

Congratulations Ashley and Ryan!!!! Beautiful couple!!!

One year ago today...

I was in Nice...

If Louis is doing it... I must be in the right line of work...

Way to confirm what I already knew... Anything personalized is amazing.

So stinkin' cute!!

I just started carrying this line in my shop and its pretty much the cutest thing ever... (aside from my own products of course! ;) Which reminds me that I really need to start posting some of my designs on this blog...

This is such a problem... because of my line of work, everything in my apartment is monogrammed... things just went from bad to worse. Or good to great depending on how you look at it :)

Junior League Run

OK... so I said that I was going to be running in the Junior League of Eugene's annual Run Eugene Run/ toddler trot. I might have lied... I did buy red and white shorts and I had every intention of running the darn thing... but when the week came I couldn't get my act together. Whatever... its fine.

I DID however put my other talents to good use and take photos of the event. Here is a sampling of the photos I took.

Side Note: The winner from this year was SO annoying... he kept getting in front of me when I was trying to take pics of other people... and screaming in my ear for his friends to cross. there was a lot of "oh did you get a shot of him... did you get a shot of her... I wanna put these on my website so make sure you get a good one of him"... needless to say - I passive aggressively didn't give him any photos. They are for the League... not his website. What a tool. I got a great shot of him crossing the finish line... but have left him out of this post on principle. :)

MY FAVORITE PLACE IN THE WORLD

I was watching a special this morning on Austria while I was at the gym, and it made me think about my trip to Salzburg last summer. I was almost tempted to look online to try and find a cheap flight to anywhere in Europe and train it back to Austria. I have been to some amazing places and seen some really amazing things... but I can honestly say that my favorite place in the entire world is Salzburg.

Since I created this blog after my trip... here are some photos from the 3 days I spent there.

Needless to say... I can't wait to go back!