Halloween 2009- Par-O-Tweedles in Wonderland

WOW…. can’t believe it has been over a month since posting…. I guess I have been busy.  Saturday we won a couple of prizes for our creativity.  Here is how we spent Halloween 2009:
I build the tweedle bodies out of foam and hula hoops.  The shirt is just a Kwik Sew 2272, a shirt pattern  that [...]

Damn… I’m addicted to the NYT art and design page

So I am now technically on vacation.   Sadly, we are not going anywhere (the bus is broken:() but I have the time off.  I have two costumes and some private lessons to do over the next two weeks. 
SO yesterday we biked the green river trail for 20 miles.  Its a pretty good trail, you can feel [...]

Summer is here…. so a girl needs a new pair of shoes or two.

So I bought these shoes… they were a splurge.  I see it kind of like a hey good work on the play present to myself.  I also needed some sandal for our big trip in July.  But it’s me so…any justification will do.  I also bought some flip flops because I know how good they [...]

Solstice Update: MacBeth 2009

So doing this play was an extreme amount of work but so invigorating and inspiring.  There is just something magical to seeing a play build from concept to stage.  I just really love being in the theater, but know that it can also lead to burn out real quick.
MacBeth… yep I said it, is a [...]

MacBeth at Magnuson Park Theater

So here is the reason that I have not blogged in over a month….
I have been eyeball- deep in eleven century Scottish dress.  The show will be brilliant, with awesome fight scenes, lot of blood (which is poison to my costumer ears), and a gaggle of witches.  Please come and see it!!!!

Things I love, things I hate, and things I am guilty of.

First…. Butterflies.  We went to the Pacific Science Center couple of weeks back to see the 3D Under the Sea.  So we had to go to the Butterfly room!  It is the first time that I had been in the room (even though I live like six blocks away) and it is really amazing. 

So before [...]

Dude…. I just won a $3500 dollar sewing machine!!!!

O. K. so every year Nancy’s (my day job) goes to the Puyallup Sew Expo put on by Washington State University and held on the Washington State Fair Grounds.  We are a vendor and we sell off lots of fabric… mostly stuff that is on sale.  It is the biggest Sew Expo in the country.   [...]

Just like home.

Seattle is starting to look like Tahoe (where I spent my childhood) with its 6-12 inches of snow over the last two days.
In other news- I made nuts instead of going to work today. I made a sweet batch and a savory batch.

Sweet batch:
6 cup raw nut mix (I used three pecan and three almond)
3 egg [...]

Oh F%#K…. thank god for auto shut off!

So apparently I tried to burn down our house.  Well actually I set it up and started it and the cats (sweet little innocent lovers) made sure it burned.   This is an example of what NOT to do with your iron.  Don’t think that irons are safe while you eat dinner, you might come back to this lovely carpet design.

November’s Coastal Adventures

So we actually did a lot of traveling in November!  This is an exciting thing.  I think that Mr. Kurt Vanagon (the ‘84 Westfallia Camper we bought in August) is really going to help fulfill goals of travel and adventure…. YIPEEE!  So here are some galleries of our adventures.  The first is from the Golds Beach, [...]