IDK My BFF Eddie Ross?

Mornin guys! I thought I'd finally give you the deets from my Eddie Ross encounter from last week. Even though my crafting/drinking buddy LB and new friend Colleen already did entertaining recaps, there's no way I'm not gonna tell you all about it. First of all, LB and I got to Terrain a little early and hit up the store. I was immediately smitten. Terrain is a concept store from the makers of Anthro and Urban Outfitters. It is HUGE and every square inch is covered in some awesome display of awesomeness. I CANNOT wait to go back.

You die, right?

Guys, they have a whole terrarium SECTION!

I was quite smitten with the bunches and garlands of cotton.

I thought this board was pretty sweet.

Indoor fountains everywhere

All the glass bottles and cloches your grubby little hands could ever want to get ahold of 

This is when I looked at my clock and saw that we better get scootin over to the demo barn.  Unfortunately, most of the merch at Terrain is ridiculously expensive...which isn't very surprising seeing it's parent stores. I didn't buy anything 1) because I'm broke and 2) I would need more time to explore. 

So off to the barn we headed in the cold rain.  Eddie and his partner Jaithan greeted us with wine, which really, is my favorite kind of greeting.  Right off the bat, they both were funny and nice and i immediately relaxed (with the help of chardonnay obvs.)  We then sat down for Eddie's demo.

He showed us how to hollow out pumpkins and other assorted gourds to use to serve crudite, as seen below.  Granted I don't know anyone in real life who would actually do this but it was fun just the same.  My crowd's gourd would be filled with buffalo chicken dip instead of white bean and frankly I kinda prefer it. But I can appreciate the fancy schmancy shit too. Classy girl here.

At this juncture, I realized my camera battery was dead. I was livid with myself. Not sure how I let this happen. Luckily LB had a bar left on hers and did photog duty.

When I dip, you dip, we dip.

After his talk we headed over to the work stations.  In the middle was an impeccably dressed table, of course.  I was into the burlap and outdoor chairs mixed with the gold chargers and flatware.

The project we were working on was arranging flowers in a hollowed out pumpkin for a centerpiece.  The best part was that they were Cinderella/princess/fairy tale pumpkins, the wide, short blue ones. And they were pre-hollowed for us which meant no gunk. Sweet.  So along the wall was a huge selection of flowers and greens and it was a free-for-all to get what you wanted to work with.

By now I had realized that this was no one glass of wine per student affair.  This was an open bar. And I figured if I'm gonna pump and dump when I got home, I was gonna make it worth it.  Needless to say, I enjoyed myself. Then we played with flowers!

My hot mess

LB's thoughtfully arranged masterpiece

Whoever took our picture was clearly enjoying themselves too

Eddie and Jaithan walked around and chatted with everyone and were ridiculously nice. So while floral arranging isn't my go-to hobby, this whole deal was fun and a lil something different to do, ya know?  However, my go-to hobby is drunk window shopping/posing with things. So we headed back to the store for just that.

and hey Colleen! Thanks for the pic!

And here is my arrangement slowly dying on my dining room table...

 

To my untrained eye, it didn't look too bad the next day. Which is more than I can say for myself.