It was a lovely warm sunny day to sit on the patio and sip margaritas and cuba libres.

It felt weird to be at local Italian restaurant Romeo’s at 10 in the morning yesterday, but that is where I was. It has taken the Austin Craft Mafia forever and a day to get new group pictures set up and yesterday was the big day. We decided to go for an Italian theme for whatever reason, it wasn’t my idea so I just showed up and smiled. Once I was there I really regretted my outfit decisions. I originally thought I would wear my Naughty Secretary Club hoodie, but everyone thought I looked dumpy. Everyone except for Jen A and I had worn black, white or red and there was a plethora of polka dots. I really wish I had gotten the memo about this outfit bonding and I would have dressed accordingly. Sadly the only other top I had was this green tuxedo style top with ruffles that I have only worn once and was never quite sure about. Well now it is immortalized forever, so I better learn to like it. So we all took group pictures throughout the restaurant in various poses in front of faux grapes, statues of Venus and gold leafed mirrors. The group shot was all of us eating our lunch: pizza, pasta, bread, salads. I’m on the Atkins I couldn’t eat the pasta, I know lettuce does not really fit the theme. I can’t wait to see the pictures, Cory Ryan is an amazing photographer so I am sure they will rock.

After pictures wrapped up around 2 we all decided to head over to Hotel San Jose for some cocktails. Well San Jose does not open until 5 so that plan was foiled, but I remembered Becks across Congress has a lovely back patio so we ran across the street and snagged a table in the back. Cory, Hope, Tina, Jen A, Jason, Vickie and I all got ready to order a drink when the waitress bestows some interesting news upon us. Apparently Becks has lost their liquor license so they can’t charge us for booze. HOWEVER, they can give it to us for free – and that they did. It was a lovely warm sunny day to sit on the patio and sip margaritas and cuba libres. Ah heaven.

So this morning I woke up to even more stuff to do for the Austin Craft Mafia, sent out our EVITE for the Stylelicious premiere party. If you live in Austin you should totally come. Wednesday April 5th 7:30pm at Docs Motorworks. Free drinks from 8-9, swag bags for the first 75 people, $1 tacos, and Stylelicious on 5 big screen TVs. How can you say no to that! Well if you don’t live in Austin you can and in that case you should just watch it on the DIY Network starting Thursday April 6th at 1pm CT and again Sundays at 3pm.