This past Saturday, the tres amigas headed over the hill where the trees are lush and green and the roses are in full bloom. What a season teaser! The occasion? To celebrate our dear friend Patty's birthday. First stop - the Fountains Shopping Center, next to The Galleria in Roseville...Carol had given it an A++ recommendation and it didn't disappoint!
I want one of these cool hot houses someday....and a place to put it...
Then a walk over to anthropologie ... great displays, as always
Check out the art hanging on clips....
A fun fence outside a restaurant. I've seen the design before and would love
to run it around the front of my house!
Not my style of park bench, but nice to see something different and artsy in a shopping center
The birthday girl with her HUGE Vera Bradley bag! Inside: the coolest laptop bag on the planet!
This is an insider comment but I wonder if this West Elm display is where Katie Kendrick got the idea for her Artfest class...or maybe they got it from her!
then on to the Galleria mall and a mandatory Crate and Barrel stop...I have been buying fun things at this store for over 34 years ... no joke!
And then to Nordie's ...my camera didn't do this dress justice but it is a great reason to go to the gym!
Then we headed out to what turned out to be the tres amigas great adventure...trying to find a scrapbook store that I thought was a different store... and then I had trouble with the GPS
but actually, the GPS took us to our programmed destination... but it was a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere! SOOOO we drove on and and headed west - back towards civilization and miraculously found The Street and traveled 200 blocks to arrive just before closing...
We ended up at Stampers Corner in Elk Grove (judging how long we drove it felt like we might be in or at least near LA!) I was trying to go to a great store I visited last November - for the life of me I can't remember the name. But we ended up here because I was on this store's e-mail list - the power of Internet marketing - believe it!
In any case, we managed to drop some dinero even though the not-the-friendliest staff was locking the door on us..and of course we photo documented the experience...one we'll be laughing about for a very long time...
and finally one last photo of our customary stop at Ikeda's where we found Ripley's Largest Artichokes In The World!!! The "jumbo" sign doesn't do these babies justice!
Every time I head over the hill with friends I tell myself I should do it more often. So here's to more fun summer adventures with friends...and to getting lost and discovering new places!
Have A Creative Week,
Michele
