Photobooth Friday: Summer

What a fun day! Yesterday was a carefree play day. We ate tons of diner food, shopped at Giant Robot and had awesome ice-cream from Scoops (can you say fresh lychee ice cream?)! And of course we boothed. We boothed so much we sucked all the paper out of the machine. We also decide that Andrea needs to be our firend (you do!). Our last two strips were never seen but no worries. We plan to head back to finish the deed. It was a hot ,hot day and it wasn't even a traditionally hot day. Three digit temperatures will come today. Yikes!

More booth-o-rama in the flickr pool. Don't forget to check the sidebar to the right and of course the goddessherself!

Some morning

There's nothing like waking up to the sound of a weed wacker, especially when it isn't quite past 8am and it sounds liek they're chopping up your blackberry bushes! I got up so fast my heart was pounding. I tripped over my feet as I scrambled into something more presentable and ran out the front door to holler my head off. The manager of the building that backs up against us seems to think the blackberry push that climbs the fence between us blocks their pathway to the trash cans. Nevermind the god awful overgrown honeysuckle that they had planted that took over and almost choked out our grapes. We need some sort of climber on the fence so that there is some sort of wall between the two buildings otherwise we get to look into their bedrooms and they get to see us draw with sidewalk chalk. The honeysuckle got chopped back and we put in blackberries because they won't be too invasive if we keep up on them, they have pretty blosssoms and the fruit ain't a bad thing either. Erk! The mow and blow crew that was doing the weed whacking seemed to only have chopped off one one branch. Sure it was full of berries but what does he know? Creep. I just don't get it. The added insult is that this building has instlled these psychotic glowing safety lights. They shine so bright it is like we never have a night. So bright! We were hoping that something on the fence may block out some fo the light but the lights are of course, higher than the fence. Oh well. What can you do. What is wrong with our neoghbors? The folks in the house next door chopped down their grape vine when it was FULL of grapes and now our other neighbor doesn't like the blackberries? Huh. I just don't get it.

Today is a "I dunno, what o YOU wanna do?" kind of day. I'm hanging out with the Caffeine Fiend and we're not sure what we are going to do. At least we know beverages will be involved. It's darn hot outside so we'll take it easy. Happy Thursday folks. Here's a picture of some Thursday Lurve:

I think toy monkeys make the world go around....

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (Episode 2)

yay! another episode!

It's Tuesday, what shall I do?

I just got home from a little bit o' work and some Trader Joe's shopping. It is hot in the valley my friends, HOT! Here it is kinda nice. Hot but with a breeze plus all the birdies and bees are out so there is plenty to listen to and watch. The mister and I sometimes sit on our back step and watch the bees fawning all over the thyme. There are little lavender blossoms popping up all over and boy do the bees love them! I tried to take a picture but the mavica isn't up to it. Oh well, just know that I have never learned so much about bees until I had a garden. We also have all sorts of wasps, both the stinging and nonstinging kind. Some of them are tiny and the hover over the cilantro flowers like there's no tomorrow. I saw one that was red and black, tiny, so cute! Even with all the heat smiling upon us, the garden looks good. The nastertiums not so good but the sage and lavender are just dandy and I'm finally seeingsome red coming into the tomatoes. I can't wait!

Today I will do a little crafting though I'm not sure what. I haven't made anything for the shop in awhile and I'm starting to get the itch. Perhaps a viewing of Please Don't Eat the Daisies will help. Oh how I love Doris Day! Netflix is turning out to be handy for the summer. Today's flick's are the afore mentioned Doris Day and a couple of After School Specials from 1976-77.

The mister has brought over one of his nifty art boxes. They are stored elesehwere and for the summer he brings in a new one to work each week for a revolving desk gallery. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I LURVE his boxes. They are magnificent and amazing and I wish more people could see them and buy a few even though of course if people bought them then I couldn't look at them as much. Imagine a whimsical wooden box that looks a little like an antique radio except the colors are fabulous blues and greens. You go up to the box to see what it is and there is a crank on one side and a peep hole. You look around to see if anyone is watching and you slowly lower yourself for a peek. You look into the mysterious peephole and begin to turn the crank. It sounds like an old school film projector and you wait. Suddenly you are watching a scene. A fantastical, magical story of love, longing, and loss. it ends but you keep turning because you NEED to see it again and again and again. That is what these boxes are. You can interpret the scene differently each time you view it and the vignette is different in each box though the characters remain the same. I need to find an awesome gallery for his work I think. Anyone have any ideas? Sigh. They are trully amazing.

And now for some eye candy. Here is a pretty Vintage Button Card I picked up from Picnic by Ellie's etsy shop. She has such and eye for pretty, pretty things and her flickr stream makes me smile everytime.



Okee dokee, time for crafting. What colors shall I put into the shop?

The Week in Review: June 18-24

Last week was pretty spiffy. I had a day fo the blues but for the most part it was swell. There was a lot of eating of yummy goodness and a lot of visiting with friends and granny. I went in to work a couple of days, did a bunch of crafting (bias tape is NOT my friend) and even went to an exhibit at the Western Heritage Museum. Thanks Cat! Oh, and, I made it up the hill to the Observatory! Susan, my friend, I don't know how you did it on a regular basis. It took me an hour and a lot of whining, a little crying and a declaration that Mr.a-go-go should go find a more athletic missus. We made it for the star party and got to see Saturn which looks just like it does in cartoons, rings and everything!

I rented oodles of flicks and hit the library up for the Bollywood thang. I broke down and set up a netflix account for the summer and already watched three dvds. We saw The Holy Mountain which had a disappointing ending for me. Sante Sangre is MUCH better. We also saw Easy Rider which had me bawling at the end I was so shocked. I had NO idea. I thought it was a feel good biker flick. I did not feel good after it and it made me very sad. I also spent a couple of hours on Saturday gleefully watching me some After School Specials. Whoo-hoo! Take me back!

This week is semi-chock full of visiting and appointments. I need to nail down school stuff, prep stuff for work, take care of some granny business, craft, clean and visit. Right now I need to get rid of the groggies, get dressed and head out to Darby's for a breakfast date with the Leets. I hope you all have an extra spiffy week! The year is almost half over!

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Photobooth Friday: punchy

Lookie those lips, those eyes..er...eye, lookie my man. Can he take a faux punch or what? Out of all the props I use in the booth, this one, this guy is the best. He takes it to a whole new level. I am luckier than lucky to have him in my life. Meow. If you were a fly on our wall you would probably hear a lot of interesting senseless conversations. We are slapstick in our home. We rarely take ourselves seriously cuz when we do things get bad. We get mopey and sensitive so instead, we are slap happy or maybe that is flap happy. I dunno. We sit on the sofa or on the bed or on the porch swing and brainstorm amazing photo booth feats that we never actually get around to doing but someday, someday we'll show you! Sometimes we will be in the car, comfortably driving around wherever listening to tunes when one of us will suddenly say "How about American Gothic? Do we have a pitchfork?" or "Ooh! Ooh! Let's do Captain and Tenille!" okay...that one of us is usually me but still, he has great ideas also and I totally wanted to be Captain and tenille for Halloween but he wouldn't do it...maybe this year, or next year or maybe ten years from now cuz ya know...love, love will keep us together...

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