Weekend Wanderings - November 9th-11th

The weekly post that provides my readers with all the cool happenings around Seattle for the upcoming weekend.  You will have no excuse to not get out and make memories.

Saturday and Sunday, Nov 10th-11th
Northwest Coffee Festival – Take part in this fabulous event for coffee lovers.  There will be a coffee crawl, prizes, free coffee, and tons of other activities.  Look for tons of gifts, coffee and desserts by Stumptown, Cafe Ladro, Chocolate Cakery, Cakes by CK, The Waisted Belt Co, Azula by Design and many, many more.

Details:

• Seattle Design Center (Georgetown), 5701 6th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108
• 10am-6pm Saturday and 10am-5pm Sunday
• Purchase tickets here, $15 for Adults, $5/$8 for Youth

Saturday, November 10th
Couch Fest Films – This fest is quite unique, it is a cozy short film fest hosted on random people's couches.  Totally bizarre, yet intriguing right?  There are for volunteers that have opened up their homes for the event.  

Details:

• Locations here.
• Movie start times are at 1pm, 2:30pm, 4pm and 5:30pm 
• Feel free to "sneek" snacks in

Saturday, November 10th
Glitter Sale – The biggest sale of the year featuring designer clothes, gorgeous jewelry, vintage pieces and beautiful accessories.  Items are saved throughout the year for this event.

Details:

• 9am-6pm
• Seattle Goodwill, 1400 S Lane St, Seattle, WA 98144

Saturday and Sunday, November 10th-11th
America's Largest Antique & Collectible Show – The largest show in the Seattle/Tacoma area with 400 booths of cool, funky antiques, ranging from 1880s to the 1970s.  You can get your family treasure evaluated for $5.

Details:

• 10am-6pm Saturday, 9am-5pm Sunday
• Adult admission $6, Children 12-17 $3, under 12 free
• Free parking
• Puyallup Fair & Events Center, 110 Ninth Ave SW, Puyallup, WA 98371

Holiday Craft Shows and Bazaars
I love to hit up craft shows to help with my Christmas shopping.  The problem is then I end up buying stuff for myself, woops.  Here is a list of the upcoming craft fairs going on this weekend.

11/10, 2012 - My Friends & More Holiday Bazaar
Bothell, Washington
Location: IUOE Hall 18701 120th Ave NE
Contact Phone:  425-486-5864
Website: www.craftybug.com

Have a great weekend!

Do the Puyallup and Reminisce the Days of Saved By The Bell

Since Oktoberfest, a 90's party and the horse races wasn't going to be enough to satisfy me this weekend, I decided I needed to check out the Puyallup Fair on it's 2nd to last day.  I know I'm crazy, I really need to work on relaxing.  Summer's officially over, there will be time for that soon.

For those of you that don't know, the Puyallup Fair is ginormous.  It gets bigger every year and is hugely popular.  So I told Tyler that we were going to eat our way through the fair.

First stop, fair burgers, double at that.  We enjoyed them at the beer/wine garden.  Although, Alicia didn't consume any beer or wine...I know it's freaking weird.  But, I feel a bit weird that they have a beer garden at the fair.  

Watching this poor sheep be bathed was somewhat unsettling for e.  It was making awful noises due to the fact that his/her face was muzzled to a hard metal thingy.  I would never make it as a farmer.

Air brush tattoos for $3 a pop.  Yes please.  It was really neat, and they supposedly last for 7 days.  I had to do Mario Bros. since I was going to a 90's shindig tonight.

Camels at the fair; which is a bit weird since there is nothing desert-like in the Pacific Northwest.

They had BINGO!  I do love bingo from time to time.  It was $5 to play 3 cards.  You were looking for a regular bingo or 4 corners.  I was not doing well and then bam, I won!  It was thrilling.  There were so many fun, pretty useless prizes to choose from; I went with a fountain.  I still am regretting not grabbing the Jesus toaster a bit.

We were both craving ice cream, so stumbling upon the fro-yo place put a smile on my face.  Why do I not like cereal but I do love it in my frozen yogurt?

A zebra at the fair?  That's a bit weird as Chloe would say.

Steve Urkel pull up your pants and watch out DJ Tanner, 90s Alicia is moving in.

My friends Travis and Alyssa were having a 90's party to celebrate Alyssa's birthday as well as to celebrate their new apartment.  I was thrilled to have the opportunity to go, both because I don't get to see them enough and because of course I'm a child of the 90's.  The greatest thing is that you don't have to go to thrift stores for the gear you just go to Urban Outfitters, as the 90's stuff is back.  I chose to go early 90's, like my middle school days.  I still have my Calvin Klein jean jacket from the time period and I have red converse so I was basically building the outfit around those items.  

I was so excited that Doug and Ivy were there, otherwise I would've been the oldest person eva'.  There were people born in '91.  It blew my mind.  Anyhow, this is Travis, Doug and me, 3 of the biggest nerds of all time.  However, we are nerds with personality.

Please tell me you remember Tank Girl, the movie.  I was so excited when I saw her outfit!  I'm pretty sure I was the only one that got it, but it made me uber happy.

Travis, being the most amazing boyfriend to Alyssa ever, concocted a delicious pink champagne hello kitty cake.  I asked for his man-card...

I can't believe Travis found a DARE shirt.  When I was in 5th grade, I totally read my DARE essay in front of the school.  But, all I remember is that that program kind of made me want to try some drugs (earmuffs).

Of course someone brought silly string and I can't think of a more perfect moment to let it spray.  Happy Birthday Alyssa.

I swear I was not on bath salts.  I just had this desire to eat Ivy's face.  It's not weird, everybody has urges.

The outfit, minus the skirt, red leggings and red chucks.  Tip:  don't wear a candy necklace when you've applied perfume.

90's was one of the most memorable time periods of my lifetime.  I enjoyed wearing sweet spandex outfits, using scrunchies, and carrying my trapper-keeper.  I LOVE THE 90's.  I really wanted to represent Beatlejuice, one of my fave movies, but it was '88, boo wikipedia, why couldn't you lie to me?

Later Alligator, have a tubular Sunday!