*How to* open a bottle of wine...

I love wine.  no secret there.

but I've always had one of those wine openers with the levers and poof, bottle open, wine in glass.


one of those restaurant-waiter style openers...never been able to figure one out. 


but when you are faced with the dilemma...only opener in the house and a bottle of wine begging to be consumed...you make it work.  any way you can.

I'll take a barrel of wine, thanks.

it's Tuesday, otherwise known as Wine detox day 1.


not forever of course, but it has been quite a few days of having a little too much fun.  and usually I spend most of my days working, doing school work, and doing work for JerseyGirlDesign.


so Thursday I took a break, and went to have dinner with my friend Kristen...we watched Virginia Tech...lose unfortunately...and had some yummy bottles (2) of wine.  which led us to the decision that we should go to a winery on Sunday...more on that in a minute...




then on Friday my co-worker Nicole stopped in on her way to DC, and we had some wine (that's one more bottle) up on the deck...since the weather was nice enough, had to get some outside time...

that same night we went to Maryland Live  at Arundel Mills, to see GoGo Gadget...which was lots of fun..and included several more glasses of wine...

Saturday I got a break...from the wine that is...but 7 hours of class was less fun because of the night before...



and Sunday was winery day...Boordy Vineyards had a wine and soup tasting day- it was beaaaaaautiful out...we sat by the fire pit, had cheese, bread and chocolate with our wine (2 more) and soup...and made some new friends, and formed an unofficial wine club...

sorry for the terrible sun placement in this photo :p  we'll just have to go back and take another one...



finally, I got to see my bestie Bonnie last night- Monday- and we had dinner in the middle of our two houses...it was still nice, so we sat outside...had the patio all to ourselves, and a few more glasses of wine...it was happy hour after all...

whew.  didn't know I had it in me still...of course I wouldn't have been quite so tired back in my earlier days...

Virginia Wine Festival

one of our favorite things to do in the summer, fall, well winter and spring too, is go to wine festivals :)  here are a few highlights from this year :)

Friday Finds - wine festival

since tomorrow we are going to the Vintage Virginia Wine Festival...

being outside all day in the sun requires a cute dress to wear...like this one by Ureshii

and how cool will you feel sipping wine in these vintage sunglasses from Vintmaillot?

finishing off the outfit is this delicate little necklace, with wine colored rhodolite garnet gems by Small & Mighty

now grab your wine glass holder and let's get tasting!

We <3 Wine!

Friends and wine on the most spectacular day of the fall...okay yes fall is only about 3 days in at this point, but still...we spent the day Saturday with Bonnie & Andy, and Jimmy & Michael at the Virginia Wine Festival in Herndon.

my favorite place was the champagne tent...could have stayed there alllllll day :)

oh and the hokies won! good day all around!!

oh, Great Grapes

this past weekend I got to spend two lovely days with some of the ladies from BEST (Baltimore Etsy Street Team)...thought I should clarify the name, although we are really the best ;)















the weather was beautiful, the wino's were out in full force and we got a lot of foot traffic...I actually did much better then I thought I'd do, after my last wine festival experience in southern VA (Bonnie can back me up on that!)















it was most fun to sit with the girls though...long days go much faster when spent with friends :) and even got to see Sarah, Sara and Alexis! Thanks for stopping by girls!