Lets take a blast to the moon baby

Our weekend clockwise from the top left - Southfield Antiques Expo and the goodies we brought, Fridays OOTD for getting fish n chips at Applebees Jumper - Target, Shirt - H&M, Trousers - Zara, Necklace - Charmed Charlies. Ed spotted playing with the typewriter, giving up pop for lent has led me into investigating more of the fancy teas Joe has in his cupboard - this one in particular being a new favourite. Making strawberry margarita's on Saturday night - a new addiction and detailing of our new vintage teapot.

On Saturday we went to the Southfield Antique and Vintage expo here in Michigan which was a show I'd been looking forward to for ages. The hall was filled with all kinds of vintage goodies, from old clothes, posters, toys, antiques and lots of vintages ladies accessories - from buttons [oh so many buttons], bags, costume jewellery and my favourite thing - vintage compacts. As with these exhibitions a lot of the compacts were over priced [predominately being priced between $60-$180 dollars] but we managed to find two which were reasonable priced and in a fair condition - a Bourjois and a Rex compact which I'll blog about in the future in more detail. There was also a stall selling plate stands which I use to display my compacts so we grabbed a load of those because they aren't the easiest thing to find.

Although I did get slightly disheartened about collecting compacts yesterday when your constantly faced with not being able to find information on the internet about manufacturers and feeling somewhat faulduant because of it when it comes to blogging and writing about then in comparison to the big name compact collectors who also have blogs. Gah.

Driving back we happened upon the Mitt Romney campaign bus - currently in America is the big Republican candidate leader campaign to decide who will run against Obama for president, the vote for which in Michigan is on Tuesday. Not to get political but I don't side with republicans for their views and it was weird seeing his bus that close to our apartment. To get over it we drank posh wine and made strawberry margaritas from scratch which were delicious - I totally got into drinking margaritas on our honeymoon and they are my weakness.

I was trying to think up something to give up for lent although I'm not religious but I'm all for a challenge and if it helps saves us money - all the better. I opted to give up drinking pop/soda for the next six weeks. Its something I never drank it in the amounts I did before moving to the states at the expense of not drinking enough water. It's been the perfect opportunity to drink more fancy tea too. Our friend has been clearing out a family members house and gave us a teapot to re-home, it has gorgeous porcelain rose heads and leaves decorated out around the sides.

Did you have a good weekend? Anything planned for this week?