Mood:
lazyTopic: Bartending
Saturday night, I ventured out to enjoy a night of charity. And by charity I mean drinking.
That evening, my beautiful friend and pageant queen Liz Dunn had arranged a night at local business Corks N' Canvas. The idea of Corks N' Canvas might be one of the smartest things you've ever heard of and frankly, I'm a little pissed off I didn't think of it myself.
CNC is basically a room with tables and stools set up, you make a reservation, pay a hefty fee, and an "artist" shows you how to paint the assigned painting. The "cork" part of the night is...you're allowed to bring a bottle of vino. Or, for the ladies sitting next to us, a 2-liter of club soda, and a jug of V8, and grape cocktail. Yeah...
A majority of the paintings they create look complicated, but are broken down for the artistic-impaired, or the drunk. The painting we did that night was a "Louisiana Trilogy"—a Fleur de lis made up of a red fish, crawfish, and a shrimp all in front of an ocean water scene.
Honestly, I was so hung up on what to paint and where that I forgot to relax and enjoy the wine (that I brought from home, of course). Despite my concentration, my painting still ended up looking like shit, but it's all about the experience and I really did have a good time out with my friends.
Liz had arranged the evening as part of a fundraising event for the Children's Miracle Network. As a pageant queen on the Miss America track, Liz raised nearly $400 for the national charity: Children's Miracle Network. The evening went hand-in-hand with Liz's platform: visiting Louisiana, with the painting along with supporting a Louisiana business.
All in all, it was a fun night and now I have a lovely painting to hang somewhere where no one will ever see it. Those of you following me on Twitter might remember that I invited my boyfriend's sister to come along with me to indulge in some bonding time. She ignored my efforts, probably because I'm fat.
