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Monday, June 19, 2006

And it all started with a twig of silk cherry blossoms...

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I'd have blogged earlier, but things have been a little busy at work so I didn't really find much time to create an entry until today :-).

If you've read Steve's blog, you know that he and I gave the bathroom a makeover last Sunday. I'm so thankful that he didn't let me mope around all day Sunday because getting out of the apartment was just what I needed.

After we dropped off dad's father's day gift (It was really funny: a garden stone with the words "Grow, Dammit" inscribed on it ), Steve and I agreed to go to The Avenue Carriage Crossing, a newer mall over in Collierville. For my Filipino readers, imagine the promenade part of Alabang Town Center as the overall theme: an open air mall. It's pretty when the weather's nice, but we've had some thunderstorms lately and poor Steve was drenched at one point because he had to go get the truck in the rain when we were ready to go home.

Anyway, we started off by going to the Cold Stone Creamery. They make really good ice cream :-). After you tell them what you want, they get a scoop of the base ice cream flavor, put it on a very cold stone counter, get the other ingredients, and mix the whole thing up for you. Imagine a Dairy Queen Blizzard, only with more flavors of ice cream and more things to choose from to put in it, mixed by hand instead of by machine, and placed in a waffle cone cup.

Next we went to the World Market. That was when the inspiration hit me. We were just browsing, really, when I came across twigs of silk cherry blossoms in a vase. I picked one up and thought, "Wouldn't this be lovely as an accent piece in the bathroom!"

Before you know it we picked up a Li-Leger print, a bamboo candle holder, a scented candle, and three woven baskets. Naturally we had to go to Linens and Things next door to get matching bathroom rugs and curtains (we forgot the towels, though--but that's okay, we got some good ones at Target).

I took some before and after pictures so you can see what our bathroom looks like now. It looks very warm and Oriental :-). Since these pictures were taken we've also added a small bronze-ish buddha candle holder to help solidify the Oriental theme.




Then for dinner we went to the Steak and Ale. I love that restaurant. It reminds me of the Old Swiss Inn in Manila, only more German than Swiss, and instead of all being in one room there are separate rooms with tables.

I felt MUCH better at the end of the day :-).


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