We went to the “Color Me Mine” in Ladera Heights. If you are thinking about going to a Color Me Mine, we highly recommend that one over the Santa Monica location. This one is much cleaner, better-stocked and most important, friendlier. They even gave us a discount on the studio fee when they found out if was our anniversary!

We painted a small vase, knowing that we don’t have room for anything grander at the moment. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.

By now, 12 years later, it’s rare to see Bren make a face I haven’t seen before. But that day, he surprised me with a wicked good one!! Imagine him nodding whilst making this face. It was side-achingly funny.

A minute later, he was focused on painting his side of the vase.

We decided that each side of the vase should depict a chapter of our lives together, both fantasy and real. Here’s birth (I did this one):

Then meeting in college (the lyrics are from a Tori Amos song Bren may have been playing in his room freshman year, luring me into his room in the first place).

This one is my favorite; Bren painted it, FREEHAND! It’s us getting married.

And then, the final one, which Bren, whose humour brings a whole new meaning to “sickly sweet”, came up with: Death.

Yes, those are our hands clasping each other from the sides of our caskets. That’s… sweet. Right?

-x-
aarti