Canvas and Cabernet

As one final hoo-rah before Katie went back to Texas, the girls went out to one of our new favorite places - Canvas and Cabernet! Only one of us was into the "cabernet" part of the night, but that's ok. Basically it's a place in downtown Walnut Creek where you go to a painting class and the teachers are really fun and they walk you through a painting step by step. You're there for 3 hours so they added a booze element to loosen people up a little bit. We are dying to take my dad there and see what he comes up with... My mom and I went there for the first time over the summer and we loved it so much that we decided to go with Katie over Winter Break!

Before we went to our painting class, we stopped at one of my very favorite restaurants around home, Jules pizza! They seriously have the best gourmet pizza ever. It's inexpensive, close, and super yummy. I got the veggie pesto pizza and the barbecue chicken, as always.

This picture is sideways but I think you get the gist. 

Painting time!!!! Our inspiration was Van Gogh's Irises. Here is a picture of that painting so you have a reference. 

Here's how it started...

The instructor had her own up at the front of the class so we could watch as she painted along with us step by step. 

My cute Mom and sister painting away. 

Roughly halfway through...looking a lot like kelp. 

Action shots!

This was during our drying break. Unfortunately I had a searing headache the whole time and I was quite grumpy. Around the drying break I forgot to keep taking pictures so this is the last one...it was also a late class so it was hard to stay focused and awake. But I managed to take a picture of the finished product....

Ta dah!!!!

Since then, my break has been full of Netflix, food, sleep, friends, dogs, family, and all the other good things in life. I've got doctor's appointments and old high school visits lined up for the rest of this week as I get ready to go back to Tucson and have a fresh start at school this semester! I could not be more excited.