This weekend has been very fulfilling thus far. Friday night, Robert Daniel had an art exhibit opening entitled “Coffee Break.” A few weeks back, 10 of us dipped our hands or slung a coffee cup to create a coffee stained splashed background (of our own design) for him to draw our character. He took a few photos of each person’s face for reference. And on Friday we all (and many others) got to see the final piece and the complete project. It’s spectacular! I purchased ours, and I think they will hang beautifully against the blue in our bedroom. I took a few photos…especially since we won’t get them until after his exhibit.

(I know the photo doesn’t accurately represent the size…I’m telling you, these things are at least 20″ X 30″)

Friday night was also Steph and Daniel’s engagement party, which was in our store. It was a lot of fun…and very funny. My camera battery died, so I can’t wait to see what Steph captured. After the party (around midnight thirty) Andy and I went to my office to make copies of what would be our Record Store Day Mix CD cover. When we got home we stayed up until 2am burning cds. It felt like our wedding prep all over again…except this time I was folding the cd sleeves individually out of paper (instead of the convenient slip covers I had for our Wedding Mix).

Saturday morning: 8am rolls around and I’m restless. I went ahead and began burning more cds and folding more paper…and if I had waited any longer to start, we definitely wouldn’t have had enough. When Andy woke up, we took turns monitoring both computers to make sure there was no lull while the other got ready. We stopped by Kroger to get some refreshments and then it was on to Record Store Day Celebration!

By noon thirty we had a nice sized group in the store…and it continued like that throughout the day. There were a ton of new faces, and that’s always great. But especially thanks to all of our friends who made it up there! In retrospect we should have had The Dastardly Do-Nothings play around 1, since that was the crowd that would have enjoyed them the most. Ah well…there’s always next year! All the promotional stuff we got (and put together in goody bags) flew out of our hands. It was awesome. I had fun, and I hope everyone that came did too. It’s awesome to have participated in the first of something like this!

We left the store around 5:15pm and picked up more soil on the way home. We had accumulated several new plants from the Five Points Plant Swap that still needed a soiled home. Plus, we had another raised bed to build and fill. We also had to plant our grapevine and azalea bush. We finished up by dark, and we both had worked up quite an appetite. mmmmm manacotti. And that brings us all up to date…