Pink Glow

I got a little happy today with a can of hot pink spray paint that I like to keep handy for random days like this.

I really had no idea what I wanted to spray pink, I just knew I wanted to spray something. So I took a look around my room and spotted  a lamp that my grandfather had made many, many, many years ago. I don’t really know how many. I’m not even really sure how it ended up with me but it did. Since it’s been in my possession it’s gone thru more than a few makeovers. It started off brown, then black, then white and now pink. In my excitement to start spraying, I didn’t take any befores (silly me) but you can catch a glimpse of it in some of the before pictures of this post.

I gave it 4 good thin coats, you can see the progression of the first three below. I probably could have stopped at three coats, but I’m an overachiever. Typical Korean, right?

With the last coat done, I slapped together a makeshift drum shade so that I could see what it would look like with a white shade before I run out and purchase one.  And I must say, I’m pretty happy with the almost-end result.

Did somebody say Bridal Shower Games?

I told you on Friday I’d be back Monday with an update on the games from the bridal shower, except today’s not Monday. So, let’s pretend it is. Faux Monday, if you will.

So, to briefly recap. One of my nearest and dearest is getting married. I may or may not be known as the crazy game lady amongst my friend. I was put in charge of the games for her bridal shower. Got it? Okay.

And if I can toot my own horn, I put together a nice little arrangement of games. For the prizes I decided to use a raffle ticket system since each game would produce multiple winners. So, instead of the winner(s) from the games getting a prize right then, which would’ve resulted in a plethora of prizes, they got raffles tickets. We then raffled the prizes off at the end of the shower.

Here are a list of the games we played and in the order we played them.

1. The Clothespin Game – also known as the Don’t Cross Your Legs or Say Wedding Game. This game starts with everybody getting one clothespin to wear on their person. If they’re caught either crossing their legs or saying the word “wedding” (or any other word(s) you designate)  throughout the wedding then the person who catches them gets to take their clothespin. This goes on throughout the life of the shower.

Raffle tickets: For the Clothespin Game, each person would get 1 raffle ticket for every clothespin they had in their possession at the end of the game.

2. The Celebrity Couples Name Game – For this game a list of celebrity couples was prepared before hand. We were expecting 44 guests, so I came up with a list of 22 celebrity couples (ie. Obama’s, Beyonce & Jay-Z, Fred & Wilma, Ricky & Lucy, Bonnie & Clyde, Marge & Homer, etc.) One name from each pairing was placed on a name tag, which was then placed on each guests back (so that they didn’t see who they were). They then had to get up and talk to the other guests and ask questions to try and figure out who they were by asking a series of Yes or No questions (i.e. Am I a woman? Am I a singer? Did I just have a baby? Am I Beyonce? – YES!) until they figure out who they are. Once they’ve figured out who they are, they then have find their pair (in Beyonce’s case she found her Jay-Z) before they can collect their raffle tickets. **This game was a lot of fun and got everyone up out of their seats interacting with each other. 

Raffle Tickets: The first couple to pair up  received 5 tickets each, 2nd pair – 4 tickets each, 3rd pair – 3 tickets each, every other pair – 1 ticket each.

3. The Celebrity Hubby Game – for this game, we asked each of the guests to write down their fantasy celebrity husband on a slip of paper which were then placed into a bucket. The bride then pulled each response out one by one and attempted to guess which of the guests chose that husband. There were some duplicates, but the bride only had to make one correct guess. For our game, we gave our bride 3 guesses to get it right.

Raffle tickets: If the bride guessed correctly on the first try, the guest got 3 tickets. If she guessed correctly on the second try, 2 tickets. And if she guess correctly on the 3rd try, 1 ticket. If she didn’t guess correctly that guest didn’t get any tickets.

4. The Purse Raid Game – for this game, the guests needed to have their purse in their possession. A list was prepared beforehand of items typically found in a purse (lipstick, tissue, keys, etc.) and called out. The first person to pull that item out of their purse got a ticket. I then moved to a second list of items not typically found in a purse or slightly taboo (rock, underwear, condom, etc.), the first person to pull one of those items out of their purse got 3 tickets.

Here are the items we used, but you can of course come up with your own.

1-Ticket items: lipstick, tissue, car keys, cell phone, pen, camera, gum, coins, checkbook, business card.
3-Ticket items: rock, underwear, bridal shower invite, bottle of water, medicine, picture of the bride, tampon, calculator

Raffle tickets: The first person to hold up an item from the easy list got 1 ticket; the first person to hold up and item from the hard list got 3 tickets.

P.S. Be warned, if your group of ladies is anything like ours then they’ll be able to produce those items from their purses super fast (for the first list at least). So, we designated one person (the bride in our case) to keep an eye out and determine who was the first to hold the item up and give them their raffle ticket(s). 

There was also a 5th game that we didn’t play because we ran out of time (and I’m kinda glad, because coincidentally I was also running out of toilet paper at the house), but I’ll still list it here in case you needed another idea.

5. The Toilet Paper Bride Game – Divide the guests into equal teams (however many makes sense for the amount of guests you have), each team then picks a “bride” to be dressed in a toilet paper wedding dress. After a set amount of time (5 minutes or so) the Bride then gets to choose which Bride’s she likes the best.

Raffle tickets: The winning team each gets 1 tickets per person.

As for the prizes. I picked up a few items from my local HomeGoods. And let me tell you, if HomeGoods was a guy, I’d date him. I’m saving marriage for IKEA. But seriously, I love HomeGoods. They have all the goodies in there and at reasonable prices at that. The prizes included a Trina & Co. Travel Valet, a silver Sonia Kashuk clutch, a Progressive Food Chopper, a Fit & Fresh Lunch Box and an Oleg Cassini Crystal Votive.

So there you go. Hopefully this gives you some ideas in case you’re planning a shower. And if you have any shower game favorites, feel free to post them in the comments.

“If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done.”

I can be such the procrastinator sometimes, which is why I’m taking a half day from work today to do some last minute prep work for one of my best friend’s Bridal Shower tomorrow. I still get stuff done tho, even at the last minute.

I’m in charge of games. Can you tell?

I’ll be back on Monday with details of the games we played, prizes and pics.

Happy Weekend!!

Wildfox Couture

I normally delete without reading newsletters from online boutiques when I’m not trying to spend any money. You know, avoid temptation and all of that. But there was something about this 80′s Purple newsletter introducing Wildfox Couture Jewelry that said hey you, you should read me. So I did, and I’m glad. Because had I not, I probably would have missed out on these white enamel and gold plated deer head and cowskull rings. They are so my speed. Seriously. I want them all. And seeing as these particular rings only range from $35 to $45, I might just get them all.  

{images via: 80′s Purple}

Something like cousins

Remember the IKEA Ekby shelves I was talking about in yesterday’s post? If you don’t and you’re too lazy to click the link I’ll post a refresher pic below. I bring this up, because as I was sitting on my bed yesterday looking at the picture, I looked up at my desk and had a holy shit, they’re like damn near the same thing moment. They’re like brother and sister furniture or something. Or first cousins. Something like that.

See? See. Totally similar. Which means I have to buy them now. Well, not now. But definitely later.

Oh, and the fabric I have laid out. It’s there for a purpose. I’m thinking about trying my hand at making an oversized clutch (remember I mentioned needing one in this post?). But seeing as I’m a sew-as-you-go kinda girl and not really one for making patterns and whatnot it could potentially turn into a small disaster. You’ll know tomorrow if all you see posted is a picture of a trashcan with scraps of white leather and fabric crumpled up in it.