Presenting Presents and Presence

For her berfday she had got...

...Chocolate Ale in a bag

Mushroom socks for her feets...

...bend doz hooks around yo wrists

See look, dey go like dis...

...Sexy dice fo at cho house

 goD's eye will be on you...

...dis button on yo box

won't give it all away

but make you cry...

...and all us sigh

fo you on your berfday! Word!

Count them...seven large teddy bears around her neck.

Dis OPP signing off, ya digg!

Hooty Hoo!

How fricking cute is this!  We heard tale you can pick one up at Kohl's.  And have you noticed the prices on owl stuff in the thrift stores has gone up?  Those little buggers are earning that dough.

Hope you had a great weekend!

We're Ba-ack!

It's Official.  The Catty Kitchen has finally got its shit together and are ready to blog, drop and roll.  Seriously.  We will be trying out a new format for girls' night and the data upkeep to hopefully make it easier on us busy TCK ladies and keep you in the loop more consistently.  Because really, who wants to miss out on what we're doing?  I know I don't.  So, look for us next Friday casually sipping wine and egregiously gossping at J-Fer's house.  Hope you can make it and in the meantime check out what we did on Friday.

Scarlett opened her first studio space!  We are so proud of her for teaming up with Maven to give herself some room to make all those pretty accessories you will often find us wearing.  And guess what else?  If you have any old, tired or broken jewelry you just can't seem to part with, Scarlett Garnet offers classes to revamp the pieces and give them a new life.  You may remember we tried this a while back and came away with some fantastic pieces.

 The feisty jeweler is ferociously protecting her wares.

And look what you could get for free with the purchase of any other piece!  Talk about a bargain.  Ms. Scarlett will also very kindly adjust the fit of any piece you buy while you are right there.  Thanks Kate!

Afterward, we headed to the Schlafly Bottleworks around the corner from her shop to catch up with another catty mistress, her husband and some work buddies.

 The meal was hardly vegetarian between the pulled pork, bison nachos, bison burger and mountainous plate of sausages.  The pumpkin beer was out too, but Schlafly's pumpkin has never been my favorite.  Too clove-y for me this time, but the APA was rocking.

 This speaks to so many facets of my German heritage...OMG!

F-Bomb and I split some scrumptious hummus and pita.  Then Faith left a treat for the bus boy...

So fricking gross!  Can't wait to be back next Friday with the whole gang.  It's been far too long ladies.

Revamp Your Jewelry-A Seminar with Katie of Scarlett Garnet

This past Thursday we did our first official learn-something-new seminar and it was a smashing success.  We hooked up with our good friend Katie, co-owner and designer for Scarlett Garnet, to turn our old and forgotten jewelry into new treasures we will actually wear.  There are actually two revamped necklaces in the first pic, but one is hard to discern because it is black.  The gold treasure was actually a combination of materials from KT and Faith's extensive montage of costume jewelry.  Very rock star!

Up here we have a little insight to the bits and bobbles OP brought along.  Thank goodness she was able to do something with this mess.

...The jeweler extraordinaire Miss KT Scarlett.  She is a fantastic teacher.

OP's coral beads in mid-restring.  She created some matching earrings with the extra beads too.

This is the invisible necklack in the first pic, slightly less invisible.  We will get some nice pics of the pieces we created to really show off what we learned.  Thanks for everything KT!  Can't wait to do this again in a few months.

You can always go.....Downtown

Not really......more like South City. Melissa hosted the kitchen at her house this week with special guest Katie Miller of Scarlett Garnet Jewelry.
My photos have been turning out really crappy recently so please bear with me. Faith and Melissa both made delicious treats from recipes found here. And the wine wasn't too bad either.

Oliver Noodle Jackson

Later on Melissa gave us a tour of her home and then teamed up with Katie for a glass bead making tutorial. We settled down on her new living room furniture before calling it a night. We left kind of early because we had to see Katie on TV the next morning revamping jewelry. Way to go KT!