weekend in chinatown:

Nick & I spent our weekend at the LA Craft Experience, which was held during the Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown! We didn't get to see much of the festivities but it was fun hanging out and eating from lots of the food trucks.

Nick took these shots, I love his photos ;)

On Sunday before we headed back to the event, we went to Melrose Trading Post, which is held every Sunday in LA. They had a ton of stuff.. I got a duck gumball machine and a set of brass penguins for about $25.

Back to the event:

My neighbor had really pretty succulents for sale.

Are food trucks big in your area? They've pretty much exploded in LA. They have a food truck for every food you can think of! I tried pattywagon hamburgers, it was the best mini burger I've ever had. Yum. I want one right now!

So that was my weekend, I totally forgot to take a picture of Nick & I together. How was your weekend? Be back tomorrow with more good cheer and regular posts. It's not too late to get the good cheer deal from K is for Calligraphy! It's open to international friends too! Happy Monday friends.

weekend trip to the hospital:

*pics posted with my husband's consent ;) he's so cute!

You know how I was supposed to go to Renegade SF last weekend? If you follow my twitter, you may have known that didn't end up happening. What did happen was around 1am on Friday, well, technically Saturday - Nick started getting bad pains in his stomach and so we decided to go to the ER.

Our original plan was to leave for SF at around 8pm, get there by 4am and sleep for a couple hours. Instead, we came up with a weird/crazy plan of going to sleep early at 8pm, waking up at 2am and driving to SF to arrive in time to set up for the show. The 2nd plan was crazy but I know the Lord was really watching over us through it. If we had left at 8, we would have been on the road when Nick's stomach started hurting. and I wouldn't have known where to take him!

Anyway, they released us from the ER at around 4am and Nick said he was feeling better and that we should still go to SF. I really wanted to go but I was concerned about him. We prayed about it and I just felt like we needed to stay. At 7am, Nick's stomach pains were back and they were worse. We went back to the ER and they gave him a CT. It turned out he had a bowel obstruction. I hear these are quite common but his pain was really awful. He was throwing up and it seemed like the pain would never end.

We were praying praying praying. I asked friends + family for prayers. Praying for Nick to feel better, praying that he didn't need surgery. By Sunday he was feeling better and they kept us in for observation. We got discharged yesterday afternoon and I was so glad for my husband to be home.

So we thought we were going to have an adventure in SF, we ended up having a hospital adventure instead. It was a long hard weekend. But I am grateful Nick is better. I've never seen him in so much pain before. Thank you to friends + family who prayed for him. The Lord is good and I believe He really watched over us through this entire situation. Sorry to anyone who came out to Renegade, I got some emails + tweets about it. I was bummed about not being able to make it to SF but of course my husband's health comes first. My aunt said that there will be many craft shows, but I only have 1 Nick ;) so true.

a trip to the flea market:

Well, I figured it's been a while since I've shared my adventures at the flea market with you so here's another post :) I learned my lesson in buying stuff for the wedding (my place is over-flowing with decor from the wedding) So I didn't buy much this trip, but it's just fun to walk around and see all the treasures.

Oh how I would have loved to take home this yellow bike.

You know yellow is my favorite color? Yep, I suppose it's bound to happen

when I have a mother whose closet is full of nothing but yellow. ;)

Wouldn't have minded taking home these industrial drawers + boxes too.

Nick probably would have minded though. Just a little :)

I wish I had ruby's sewing skills so I could buy

this lovely fabric and make something pretty.

Really sweet Matryoshka doll collection. Come to

think of it, I think my mom has a few of these.

Maybe I'll take them and start a collection!

Bottles, printing blocks, pretty spools and old soda cans.

Love the can designs from back in the day.

I have a thing about drawers and cubby's. I love them! But I have lots of drawers + storage in my studio already.. Only, a lot of the drawers are empty, ha! Or I'll put something in a drawer and forget about it. Maybe it's the idea of having all the storage spaces or something. Anyway, these drawers were $140. What do you think? Reasonable? Or overpriced? I should have got them, they're cool!

Vintage wood rubber stamps, my favorite!

Well, that's all for this trip. I got a great shelf I'll be using at my craft shows for only $30. I love useful finds. Do you have any good antique market stories to share?

a GLEE surprise:

i have to share my weekend update with you, though this was a couple weekends ago. so i like glee. i think it's a great show. i read some twitter controversy going on a while back about how they auto tune their voices and everything, but i can't carry a tune so i'm not a stickler when it comes to these things.

nicholas told me he had a surprise for me, and i had no idea what it was. he just said it was on a thursday evening and that i was really going to like it. i tried guessing and thinking what it could possibly be.

so we're in the car and i happened to call my older brother to ask him a question and as i was saying goodbye, he was like, "wait danni are you going to see glee now?" and i was really confused. lol. i replied "glee? what are you talking about?" to which he replied, "glee. aren't you going to see it tonight?" i said "bro, what do you mean glee? like glee the tv show? like you mean a glee taping?" lol. this continued for a good 2 minutes. neither of us got it. he didn't realize it was a surprise, and i had no idea what he was talking about.

then it hit both of us at the same time. i realized and was filled with such excitement i was like, "ohmigosh, i gotta go!!!!" and he was like, "oh wait, never mind. i don't know what i'm talking about. ok bye!" haha. the whole time nick was just about to die listening to our conversation and hearing the surprise spoiled.

i got off and looked at him and asked if we were seeing glee?! he said he got GLEE IN CONCERT tickets a couple months ago! i was SOO excited, it was the best surprise ever!

the concert was in la at the gibson amphitheatre at universal studios.

they showed all these classic glee quotes before the show started.

they sang all my fav's, including defying gravity and bad romance.

the entire glee cast was there, it was legit. during the performance i thought "i can't believe i'm here seeing all these glee people in person! this is unreal!" hehe. so all that to say, i have the best fiance, soon-to-be-husband EVER! ;)

weekend:

hi friends! i'm still here: sorry i've been absent the past couple days.

trying to get back into life and get into wedding planning.

nick + i had a fabulous time driving up north. he is the best, he

helped me out all weekend and he's so much fun to be with. :)

here are some other pics i snapped this past weekend on our road trip:

northern california has the most lovely sunsets,

or maybe i've just been missing sunsets lately because i'm always inside! ;)

more tomorrow!

flea market:

hi! i've missed being here. i want to thank you all for your sweet comments about the good news about my mom. i was just discussing with nick last night how i am so fortunate to have such a great community of blogger-friends and readers. you are all so supportive and i can't thank you enough!

how was your weekend? this weekend was filled with lots for us. we saw iron man 2, spent saturday building a standing necklace panel for my display (will post pics once it's in action this weekend at bazaar bizarre maker faire! click events to the right to find out more info!) and went to the flea market!

i found a beautiful lace dress that i thought would be lovely for the wedding, and it was only $50! i'll take a picture of that too and post later ;) i also ran into cathie, and met lots of her sweet friends, which was so cool! well anyway, here are some photos from the long beach antique flea market i thought you'd enjoy:

my favorite stop, "how does this guy get so much cool stuff??"

is my question whenever i stop by, heh.

i really love wood crates and wire baskets.

beautiful printing blocks.

a whole bin of keys, my dream! ;) bought some of these

for a invitation or something.

so that's about it! if you saw something you want/need that you can't get at your local flea (or dont have antique markets) i can i'll totally look for something for you next time i go! what did you do this weekend? share your weekend posts from your blog or stories: i love to read what's going on with you. hope you all had wonderful weekends!

flea market trip:

flea markets are one of my favorite things in the whole world. if i could, i would take a thrift/flea market road trip and travel the country stopping through markets and swap meets and thrift stores ;) here are some images from a trip to the rose bowl flea market.

my nicholas. he is such a sweetheart. he's not the biggest fan of flea markets but he goes cause he knows i love it. he doesn't ever complain or get grumpy, he says he just wants to be with me.

my finds. a few things from the dollar pile. some pretty handkerchiefs that i will tie together for a simple flag banner for wedding decor. old keys. a special jewelry box. and my favorite green suitcase.