My first Friday night at Duxbury Beach this year. Luckily, my parents have the opportunity to drive their truck right out on the beach and we can stay there until 11:00pm. Hopefully our next beach adventure will include a clam bake in the sand!
My view from my beach chair
Fun in the sand: You are my Sun!
Night time bonfire on the beach!
What are your fave beach time activities?
*K
Recently, we ventured to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic for a friends wedding. We stayed at the Majestic Elegance. After a year and a half of working pretty much straight out, it was great to get away and take a break! Here’s a look back on our trip!
Beautiful beach days! 80 degrees, humid and sunny! The water felt like bath water!
On the Bucket List: Learn to Kite Surf! This looked like so much fun!
I spotted all kinds of lizard friends! They did cool dances! 
Poolside for the afternoon.
A pic of our room, welcome champagne included! Plus a nice deck and jacuzzi tub!
My tropical wedding attire!
The wedding chapel! So pretty! Great tropical colors! 
Me catching a wave while surfing for the day!
This was my 3rd trip to the Dominican Republic. I really enjoyed it! Our resort was an all-inclusive which was very nice! I loved the mojitos during the week, very refreshing.
Where have you gone on vacation recently?
*K
Over the weekend, Habitat for Humanity Metrowest had its annual fundraiser event, Spring Fling. Last year they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help local families. The event had an incredible sale of new and gently used items for your home, including sinks, windows, and furniture. Other outside vendors also joined in and live music was happening all day. Take a look for yourself.
A chair, that would be great, refinished and re-upholstered.
Beautiful crystal vintage champagne glass set, only $12.50
One of my new fave vendors from Crompton Collective, the Flea Circus.
Chanterell with some of their yummy food and oh so cute food truck!
Haberdash, where I bought a bracelet and new shoes!
Haberdash had a visitor! She was modeling bracelets for us!
Can’t wait for next year! Lots of fun goodies, for a good cause at a great price!
*K
Over the weekend, Habitat for Humanity Metrowest had its annual fundraiser event, Spring Fling. Last year they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help local families. The event had an incredible sale of new and gently used items for your home, including sinks, windows, and furniture. Other outside vendors also joined in and live music was happening all day. Take a look for yourself.
A chair, that would be great, refinished and re-upholstered.
Beautiful crystal vintage champagne glass set, only $12.50
One of my new fave vendors from Crompton Collective, the Flea Circus.
Chanterell with some of their yummy food and oh so cute food truck!
Haberdash, where I bought a bracelet and new shoes!
Haberdash had a visitor! She was modeling bracelets for us!
Can’t wait for next year! Lots of fun goodies, for a good cause at a great price!
*K
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, tiny cars, almost humorous to see driving around, but here they were! Creative designs, with character, and I want one! Right in Hudson, MA. Below are a few photos from the event. Mostly European Cars, and each one has a story to tell!
Too funny! It looks like it could come alive and start talking! 
This one has a unique cover
This one reminds me of a whale. 
Aww, it’s the one from the movie Cars!!
Very vintage glam! I want this one. 
Hahahah! It’s a Peel!! CUTE! Looks like something out of the Jetsons!
Now I have new obsession, cute little cars from Europe! Do you have a tiny car you love??
*K
Rich, delectable, sweet chocolate. You can’t go wrong with a tour of chocolate stores! For a friend’s bachelorette party, that’s just what we did!
We began at Hotel Chocolate
We sat in the tasting room, trying out different types and learning how to properly “taste” dark chocolate! I didn’t know there was a method!
They had Chocolate Pasta!
And I almost bought these! yum!
How rich?!
Next stop was Teusher Chocolatier. Swiss Chocolates 
Beautiful Boxes, all decorated with flowers.
We swung by Sweet for a double chocolate cupcake, amazing! 
Next stop was Robins. They had the world’s largest Marshmallow, Gummy Bear, Whoopie Pie and all kinds of sweets! Here, I sampled a chocolate covered cricket, not bad!That would be the World’s Largest Marshmallow, for those bonfire nights on the beach!
I walked away satisfied with all the goodies I tried! (even the chocolate covered cricket!) There were a few other stops along the way, but I don’t want my post to ruin all the fun.
I would absolutely do it again and I think the next tour I would try would be their new cupcake tour!
Check out Boston Chocolate Tours here, you’ll learn a lot and try a lot! Cheers to chocolate!
*K
I was so happy that one of my first “Wedding Events” being newly engaged happened to be at one of my favorite places, Crompton Collective in Worcester. If you haven’t been there yet, you need to go!
There are so many cute things around the store, whether you like crafts, antiques, re-purposed items or vintage clothing, this store has all things cute! I was thrilled when I saw that they were having this event! Here are some photos from the event:
Delicious cupcakes from The Queens Cups! I chose one that tasted like an ice cream sundae!
Cute arrangement in the store!
Love this sign (gotta have humor on such formal day) and the beautiful stained glass pieces from Three Cat Nite.
Such a cute set up from the Flea Circus! LOVE! 
I got my make up done from NKD. You can’t even tell I was sunburnt! Now I’m ready for dinner with the soon to be in-laws!
More beautiful little things, scrabble, how cute!
This event was an excellent one! Thanks Crompton Collective and your amazing vendors! I’ll be back soon for some more furniture/accessory shopping!
*K
That’s right, The Superbanite is getting ready to go from a Miss to a Mrs. A few weeks later, I’m still in shock! Here’s the story so many people have been asking for:
My amazing boyfriend…errr…fiance took to me to Top of the Hub in the Prudential Center in Boston. Thinking that this would just be another one of our nice dinners out, I had no idea what I was in for. We enjoyed a nice dinner with a view of the city just as the sun was setting.
A view from our table
After we had dinner, he told me he was cold and reached for his jacket. He didn’t look as though he was feeling well, so I asked him if he was ok. I thought it was weird, since he’s never cold and I felt quite warm when I’m normal freezing. I reached for my martini and took a sip as I looked out to the city lights coming on.
When I looked back at him, he told me he had a question he’s been meaning to ask, and placed a little red box on the table. He said “I don’t want you to be my girlfriend any more, I want you to be my wife.” I feel like I may have yelled it, but I said yes and started to cry. I was so shocked.
A look at the aftermath, I’m so happy, but teary!
Our waiter, who was excellent, came over a few minutes after with complimentary champagne and our desert which I could barely eat because I was so excited.
Congratulations in chocolate!
Now that this has happened, I have a lot of planning ahead. However, I’d like to take time to enjoy the glow of being engaged. No, we don’t have a date yet and we really haven’t done any planning, but we’ll get there. For now, I am so thrilled to have met a person I am so deeply in love with, some one I share my adventures in life with.
I assure you, my blog will not be overridden with posts about wedding planning. I’ll keep that separate, but if you’d like updates, please check them out! I’ll be sure to post links for you. Lots of DIY and fun ideas to come!
Finally, this photo does not do the ring justice, but here it is!
Thank you all for the well wishes. I can’t wait to marry my best friend! Cheers!
*K
I was able to attend Stylefixx for the second time. This event allows you to check out some local vendors in fashion, beauty, and hair, while you enjoy wine, beer, snacks and try out some services. Plus, you get a pretty neat Swag Bag with all kinds of great freebies, like beauty products, snacks, and coupons! Here’s some photos from the event:
Waiting to go in! They rolled out a red carpet for all attendees at the Cyclorama. What a nice touch! 
Inside, a flood of people and vendors. 
Got my Seadog Beer and I was ready to go shop, see beautiful little things and socialize with some girlfriends 
Always nice touches, with the LED/fiberoptic table and fresh flowers! 
My swag bag full of goodies!
A fun night had by all, looking forward to the event again in the fall!*K
Many of you know that I have a love affair with food. Cooking is therapy to me and tryingnew foods is an exhilarating experience. However, most of the time, I follow a Paleo type diet. Also known as the Caveman or Hunter Gatherer diet. It’s not a diet at all, it’s more of a lifestyle. Low carbs, high protein, natural, unprocessed foods and eating when you need energy.
However, for approximately 2 months, I was on the Keto Diet. More out of support (because if you diet with another person you will be more successful) but it was a great way for me to get rid of a little bit of winter weight and rev up for summer.
The Keto Diet was really to help people who had a seizure disorder. As a side effect, many people lost weight and quickly. I won’t get into it scientifically, you can look that up yourself.
Here’s a few photos of the food I ate while on Keto. By the way, I lost 10 pounds. Just enough!
This is Keto Pizza. Nope, not a dough crust. Eggs and mozzarella cheese! It came out pretty good, but extremely filling! You can also create a crust using cauliflower, which is another Keto Favorite!
Veal Parmesan, Keto Style. The cutlets are breaded in almond flour and egg, then tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. 
I eat these anyways, oysters. Yum! What’s that you see? Wine? Yes, I can have a few drinks on this diet, which works out great! Though, since you metabolize things so quickly on this diet, you need to watch out, one or two drinks can do you in and cause a nasty hangover!
Shrimp cooked in butter and seasoned with old bay. Delicious!
So the food isn’t all that bad, just no fruits, which really was a challenge for me! Some of my other personal faves were eggs cups (see my egg cup post here) bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers, and of course my bullet proof coffee, which I’m still enjoying. I got my bulletproof coffee recipe from the Bulletproof Executive, which you can get here. I have it every morning now, and it keeps me full, while also keeping my mind sharp!
If you want to see any recipes written out, let me know! For now, it’s back to eating normal (paleo 80% of the time) and I’m less than a week away from my vacation!
*K
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