Monday, August 29, 2011

staycation at the princess

Last weekend Chase and I had a lovely and wonderful "staycation" at the Fairmont Princess. This is what the local phoenix/scottsdale residents do in the summertime when all the resorts are offering cheap rates. Chase has been given a lot more responsibilities at work, and with that comes longer, harder hours. So this was a much needed break for him.

The Princess is literally across the road from our apartments! But that didn't take away from our weekend at all. It may be close, but once we stepped on that huge resort, it was like a different world. We enjoyed lying out at the pool, getting a little tan on our skin, and the delicious breakfast bistro.


On Saturday night, we ventured off the resort and went out for dinner at the Scottsdale Quarter, a new, luxury shopping center down the road from our apartments. It's a relatively newer center, but for some reason, Chase and I haven't explored this place yet. It was beautiful! All these fun shops (a nike store, west elm, pottery barn - all great places for some window shopping), and some new, cool restaurants. We had dinner at a Fox Concepts restaurant called True Kitchen. It's all organic with some vegan options, so it was interesting to say the least. Chase got an amazing bison burger with parmesan cheese and sweet potato hash on the side. I ventured out and got pangang curry. Chase's burger was DELICIOUS. But this was my first experience with curry (and a little coconut milk), and it was OK. The overall atmosphere was AMAZING. A beautiful, modern restaurant with huge light fixtures, long wooden tables, and an open kitchen

Date nights are fun - but date weekends are the best!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Decorating our apartment!

This past month, we decided to decorate our apartment by painting some walls and re-doing our furniture. Here are some pics!

Before

After


Painted the walls, painted the furniture, and hung some decoration! The mirror in the middle, I found at goodwill. It was an ugly wood color. So I painted and primed it and fixed it up!


We went to ikea and bought a few decor items to go on the other side of the room. We only painted two accent walls in our room, so these walls were left white.


The candlesticks were found at goodwill. They were so cheap and so beat up! The were a dark brown wood color with plenty of knicks. nothing a little martha stewart paint couldn't fix!


My little bit of purple I snuck into the room:)

Hope you all liked our changes! Still have a few more to make!