If you are like me, you find it increasingly tough to juggle the demands of work, family and life and probably can’t name the last time you enjoyed a weekend away with your friends. I recently decided it was time to just go for it, so I called Zoe and Tonja and we organized a girls trip to go ...
My boyfriend spent Sunday laboring away to build and plant our vegetable garden. I’d also dragged him to two wine tasting events (he goes along patiently, but is a beer guy!) I thought Bob deserved a good hot dinner and some beer, and I instinctively guessed he’d enjoy the ambience of the brand new Woodinville Cut Shop. This restaurant had ...
The other day I was out exploring Woodinville’s Artisan Hill wine tasting warehouse district and stumbled across The PicNic Table. It’s a Mediterranean style cafe tucked into a strip mall near several wine tasting rooms. I’ve been curious about it for quite a long time but never really set off on a quest to find it, so I was glad to ...
Recently, my friend Valerie and I were able to agree on a day to go to lunch and wine tasting in Woodinville. It’s nice to be able to fit a Ladies Lunch into the middle of a workweek! Not to mention a wine-soaked afternoon, grin. Neither one of us had been to Barking Frog in quite a while, so we ...
My friend Rebecca is a busy working mom – a teacher with an active family life and busy social life. So she hasn’t had a lot of opportunities to just go out and check out Woodinville tasting rooms, though she loves drinking wine (perhaps, dare I say, even more than I do!) We managed to miraculously make time for each ...
Recently, my friend Rebecca and I were able to carve out some time for a gossip-filled girls luncheon together. We couldn’t have chosen a better day – a Saturday lunch that happened to take place on an unseasonably warm, sunny day in late winter! We’ve been yearning for Spring, so being able to eat lunch outdoors and not freeze our ...
I want to introduce you to my friend Claudette, who I met through her social club: Eastside Social Club on Meetup. I joined her club over a year ago and she immediately realized I like hosting movie parties, tea parties, cocktail parties and events. She drafted me into being an assistant organizer, and now we meet up from time to ...
This week I met my friend Serret (from Serretabella Images) for a healthy lunch, followed by some wine tasting. Too rainy to garden, hike or walk around shopping at outdoor malls, so we thought wine tasting in Woodinville would make a great consolation prize for our afternoon off! We thought Purple Cafe would be a great jumping off point for ...
This week I took my friend Radonna out to lunch at The Commons here in Woodinville. I was forcefully encouraging her to take a break and enjoy a day off from her jobs. She’s been working extra hard, with the busy festive season approaching, and I’m worried she is exhausting herself. I thought a nice meal out and a ...
Carrie and I were so delighted to be able to dine outside on the patio of the Bistro at the Hollywood Schoolhouse on a 70 degree October afternoon. It was so warm, we even dared to squeeze one more day of wearing sundresses out of this late summer season! On this particular afternoon, we had decided to try more than ...