Elvira in Milwaukee

About a week ago, I decided I'd try a make-up trial for the wedding.

No. No. No. I looked like a drag queen.

When I described what I wanted…I told her Audrey Hepburn cat-eye - muted and not dramatic.

I also explained to her that I don’t typically wear a ton of make-up and do not want a ton on for the wedding – just want to look a little nicer than my every day.




In lovely list form I’ll tell you what she did:

1. She drew eyebrows for me so that the lower part met where my eye lashes ended and she used a super dark, dark, dark brown. It was mortifying.

2. She lined my lips with a pretty pink and then put a frosted color over the top – but leaving the lip liner on the outside…..OUTSIDE lining my lips. I looked like I was from the late 80’s/early 90’s.

3. I told her I wanted a matte, nude eye shadow with a focus on eye liner and lashes. Well, she used a dark gray sparkly shadow on the upper portion of my eyelids UP. TO. MY. EYEBROW line. Then she took a stark white sparkly shadow and filled in the rest – including down the sides of my nose. Then she proceeded to rim MY ENTIRE CIRCUMFERENCE of my eyes with black…and thick.

4. The only part I liked were the eyelashes…which I am fully capable of doing myself.

Worse yet!! My make-up chair was facing everyone. I didn’t get to see the make-up until she was completely finished. So there I am, thinking I looked great and wasn’t really all that embarrassed that EVERYONE was watching what was going on….until B.O.O.M. she shows me the mirror and it takes every mental, emotional and physical bone in my body to not cry, laugh or just emotionally explode – maybe even give her a little punch. I looked like a clown and my ego was smashed to the ground! I politely said, “it’s just a bit dramatic and intense.”

Oh and…I had to pay $35 to look like a clown.

Long Weekends in September

Man oh man, I have some great people around me.

Some days it's easy to forget but then after a brief moment of reflecting...or daydreaming...or simply avoiding that co-worker's e-mail (you know, the one who N.E.V.E.R. reads your entire e-mail before replying with utterly unnecessary questions) - oops, I slightly digressed there. Anyways, after just a second of thinking about it - it's easy to remember all the awesome people in my life.

Sister, Sister! Last Thursday my sister flew in from Brooklyn for the long weekend. My world always feels perfect when my sister, Carl and I are all in the same town together. Unfortunately, I had to work Thursday. No worries though, Carl & Amy both were generous enough to send me pics of their lunch at AJ Bombers. Whatever...WHAT. EVER. Great, just thinking about it makes me hungry for their burger with peanut butter on it. Heavenly.

Friday was my Milwaukee bachelorette party. I didn't really want a full-blown extravaganza - but my friends and sister planned an evening of fun that was an exciting surprise!

Meeting at my house, we drove downtown to a surprise hotel room at The Pfister. Yeah, we know - we're fancy. After dinner at Cubanitas they surprised me with a bar crawl of all the bars I frequented as a 21 year old. #Awesome

Saturday we woke up with a bit of a headache. But nothing a little Advil couldn't help! By 9:00 AM my sister and I were dressed and driving two hours north for our cousin's wedding. It was so great seeing our entire family all together again! Very few things beat dancing the night away and laughing with family.

This is my cousin that got married. Well, it's him about 18ish years ago. Him & his sister were such cutie pies :)






Finishing the weekend back in Milwaukee by just hanging out with my sister was the perfect holiday weekend wrap-up.

Just 53 days until the wedding...suppose I should start focusing on wrapping the planning things up!

p.s. Even Lewis loves it when my sister visits!