Betsy’s Golden Birthday @ Cocktails & Canvas

My dear friend Elizabeth aka Betsy celebrated her Golden Birthday this past weekend. The poor girl just got out of a 3 year long relationship, so instead of allowing her to be sad for her Birthday, a group of girlfriends and I decided to plan a fun filled night out for her. We started the night off with Cocktails & Canvas. What is Cocktails and Canvas? Well, it’s this really cool place where you go and learn to do some acrylic painting on Canvas’ while hanging out with your best girlfriends and sharing a cocktail or two. The best part is, you need zero experience and zero artistic ability to do it and for all you non-drinkers, you don’t have to partake in the Cocktail part. I have to admit, I was SO super nervous going because I am the farthest thing from being an artistic person so I was really intimidated. Much to my surprise, their advertising is spot on when they say you don’t need experience. Is my painting a masterpiece? No way, but it came out cute, I had an absolute BLAST doing it, and it was a fun new experience to share with my friends. After Canvas & Cocktails (about 3 hours of it) us ladies headed down a few blocks in Cherry Creek to the Milwaukee Tavern where we met up with the guys and a few more friends that didn’t go to the painting part. It was a super fun night out Celebrating one of my Very Dear Friends on her Golden Birthday!

At Canvas & Cocktails they feature a different painting everyday. So when you make your reservation online you can see the painting you will be doing. The one we did is the Pink & Blue Tree Painting you see in the picture above on the right side. There is an instructor that stands up on the stage and give you VERY detailed step by step instructions on how to create your painting. You can follow her step by step or you can get creative and make your own version. SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

All set up and ready to paint with my glass of Vino! When you first get there you are instructed to go over to the ‘Pump’ Station where it tells you how many pumps of each color to get.

Left Pic: Liz, Betsy (Birthday Girl), and Sam. Middle Pic: Me & Betsy. Right Pic: Kelly & Betsy!

Painting Away.

During the ‘Break’ we decided to chit chat, be silly, & take some pics. Left to Right: Liz, Kelly, Betsy, Angie, Sam & Me.

Progress of our painting at break time. Left to Right: Mine, Kelly’s, & Betsys. Betsy cracked me up! The original painting had a couple sitting on the bench, but since she just got out of a long relationship there was no way she was painting a couple so she made some random people, the guy had on a sombrero and so did the dog. Lol, too funny!

And our Final Masterpieces. Again not professional, but not bad for my very first painting!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETSY!!!!!!

Me & Betsy getting photo bombed by Nate & Liz at the Milwaukee Street Tavern. The Chicken Quesadilla was AMAZING!!!

Me & Brandon on the way home. Such a fun night out with all the people I love!

I have REALLY hit the jackpot with friends here in Colorado. Don’t know how I lived my life this long without them :) I feel truly blessed!!!!!!!!