So my handsome husband and I packed up our tent and babies and went camping...
I actually closed the shop for a weekend...aaahhh!! Wow is that ever scary! Huge amounts of product arrived Wednesday afternoon & Thursday Morning... I stayed up painting and wall papering the shop to 5am just to get things completed....I was so excited that I left 4 boxes from my many new boxes unpackaged and left at exactly my promised exit time. Never have I ever left the store with unpacked boxes (I even missed a very promising jewellery party that sigh.. I was craving an enamelled bracelet from) See the gorgeous picture.. only downfall was that I wanted to see it in person and try it on my bony big wrists. The line is Stella & Dot.. TO DIE FOR!! Sigh... only available at house parties...hmmm...maybe I should have one at Toscana...if you can't wait... www.stelladot.com/scarlett
Camping... it was a 4 hour drive to the "sunny" okanagon...which by wrong exits & turns took us about 6 hours to drive... full of chuckles for me the passenger and I am sure now amusing to my handsome driver in a past tense kind of way! It was a drizzly damp miserable weather experience that did not bode well for my gingham, wildflower bouquet and tied cutlery with bows moments for which I had packed & carefully planned. Yes, in my silly world I had cutlery wrapped in bows and matching my "NOT WATERPROOF" tablecloth and a vase packed for those "wild flowers" and candles and matching tealights. How silly it seemed while we cooked in the pouring rain...but truthfully...the napkin wrapped and bow tied cutlery was FABULOUS and handy when grabbing and running for cover.
Our carefully planned dining menu was adjusted to the quickest items which we could cook and eat while huddled in our tent. It was lovely to laugh by lantern light and infuse our souls with the presence of pure family. The morning light came bringing sunshine and sigh...we headed home.
