Lord of the Rings Movie night

Movie night with the extended addition of course...its a tradition of ours ( for about 9 months) to have our twin friends come over enjoy papa john's pizza and movie or two. It started with Mega mind, then went to Avatar the last bender, Clue etc. It has been so much fun! So Lord of the Rings was selected to prep us up for the hobbit in December. Nerds yes! Refer to the chart from factfixx.com on nerd vs geek. Though I do fancy Arrested Development as a must see once a year on my list of movies with A&E Pride and Prejudice. I delivered a dinner to a friend(who just had a baby last week) of ham casserole which we called a break. We only got through half of the 2 movie that night. No worries we will finish them all in November with another movie night. Aww!... Sigh!... The joys of a blu-ray and good friends!

Becoming Van Gogh

So we went to the becoming Van Gogh exhibit at the DAM this last week for our weekly date and it was slightly underwhelming compared to the other exhibits they have had previously.

With viewing Van Goghs I love seeing the texture of the strokes which on most of the pieces in the exhibit  was lost in a glass refection which covered the painting. Though for the $10 each person, we paid for it was worth it, if I paid $20 I would have hated it.
  Van Gogh finding his style was highlighted and my favorite part was his Japanese prints. They were beautiful! His life was more the highlight then his art in the exhibit.... the audio was distracting to the art more than enlightening, I ended up turning off my audio and glaring at the few self-portraits that they had of him and pondered on the difficulty that it would be to stare at myself in a mirror and paint, no wonder he had an interesting crazy look in his eyes. If I could talk to Van Gogh I would want to ask him if he was proud that his art went big or totally embarrassed. With my art if someone took my beginning sketches and mainly highlight them not displaying the best pieces in an exhibit--I would be embarrassed. 

Iron Chef "Corn"

We had Iron Chef last Saturday it was corn! No corny jokes, just alot of corn pudding, corn meals and the winner made corn Polenta with lime and cilantro. It was spicy it cleared my sinus and so hot I had to drink tons of water but I loved it! Little C slept for alot of it and Peanut woke up from a nap right before we went to the party in downtown so he was clingy on my lap which everyone know that was not normal behavior for him. Though when he noticed there was soda, he livened up and chugged it down! Next Iron Chef is ginger!    

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Victorian Horrors

Photo from A sort of fairytale blogspot

Like last year, we went to the Molly Brown house for the Victorian horrors on our weekly date. It was tales of the sea commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the titanic. It was awesome! What is a Victorian Halloween story read without Edgar Allen Poe? This year his poem was Anabel Lee, the others stories were amazing too. Scary and thoughtful... not creepy, the way I like it (I'm a scary cat that will punch if annoyed in haunted house)!

      The storytellers were fabulous, and there were three older high tea enthusiast women who were in costume on our tour, I absolutely love seeing older people going about life having fun and in costume. They don't let their age stop them from doing things. They told me a good tea place was Miss B's downtown, which  I have not tried yet. We love going to the Victorian horrors  and we will go again as long as we live in the area.  Though weather was hotter then last year so Mr Incredible frowned on the fact that they did not give us apple cider, it just meant that we sweated a little... OK it was a lot, it was really hot in the house. But all in all it was fun night, despite the house was very hot!

 The next day at 7 am, I met up with my dear friend at La Mars donuts( love there seasonal donuts pumpkin) I got Carmel apple cider which was warranted with the weather before my photography seminar that I had a love-hate relationship towards. I loved it because it was inspiring! I hated it because it was no techniques of photography taught and very long!

 

Clothing

Lately our Peanut has been wanting to dress himself. He is very independent(like when he tries to drink out of the milk jug). He will take off his shirt and put on mine or Mr Increditable black, and white stripped shirt it's funny. It looks like he is wearing a dress a large dress, which he loves to run around and play, instead of wearing pants.

 The first time he put on one of daddy's shirts for himself he put the sleeve over his head and got stuck, screaming for my help it. When he put on his own shirt for the first time he put it on upside down stretching the collar and was frustrated that he could not figure out, how to get his arms in the sleeves, and what went wrong. It's a step up from his nudist days on the balcony, hopefully he will not go back.

Canning

Photo from Jared's Gaint Pumpkin Fest 2010 when we went!

                         


So on friday I went and canned at my friends house sans kids we canned applesauce, apple pie filling and cucumbers. Crazy because of how much we had to do and yet fun! I miss my garden this year, due to little C coming we forthwent the community garden, so missed lookng for my butternut squash like an easter egg hunt and trying to grow a mid-sized gaint pumpkin, perhaps this next year.Gaint pumpkins once they hit 850 lbs are to flat to look like beautiful pumpkins.

Sickness was rapid at our house...the only one not effected was me... so that shot our weekend to a low. Though our babysitter came as usual for a weekly date we went to Hotel Translyvia a tradition of going and watching one halloween movie every october since we were married and going to alot of feastivals and parties. I like pumpkins to much to eat to deface them, (its like putting avacodos on on your face, a waste of a good fruit)  gourds are a different story, they grown to be carved on. They are hard to find in stores.

Korkers take forever

So I attempted to make korker hair bows bad idea. One because they take forever to make the korker curl and you have to have tons of ribbon... no wonder why I see tons of people buying them on wholesale for a dollar or 1.25. The ones that I started to make took me like 4 hours+ to do and I'm still not done. And if you see that I have a korker on my crib shoes in the shop that are black and small mark my words they are going to be expensive! Korkers you are killing me, never again.

On the bright side my jingle bells came in with my monarch butterfly wings! So I went to crafting and here is what I got.

If you want them message me and I will give them to you for 10.00 + shipping

                                                        Heart these christmas tutu and shoes.

Fall tutu!

 

 

Sale of fall hair clips at frilled lizard. Have a great night!