Yesterday, my friend Steve and I went to see Nick Offerman speak at BAM. Well, really it was a question and answer session after a movie with him, as well as the director and an actress from the movie. The movie was called Somebody Up There Likes Me, and it was a odd little dark comedy. In any case, once the movie was over, Offerman came out and answered a bunch of questions, and was every bit as hilarious as […]

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Clearly I’m having a productive day. Just whipped off another pillowcase dress out of some scrap fabric I had lying around. Both of these fabrics were from projects I made for myself and just sitting there, leftover, collecting dust. I only had two coordinating fabrics for this one, and then I found some white to use on the bottom (I prefer using solids on the bottom instead of another pattern; it looks less busy to me). The strap is much […]

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This is already my new favorite pattern.  And I think now that I’ve made it once, it went together even faster this time.  I’m searching my fabric stores for more scraps so I can make more versions of it!  This one was made with some of the leftover fat quarters, after I had cut out the quilt squares I needed (because, yes, I DO intend to make the quilt). This one had a mostly orange motif (I wanted an excuse […]

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Recently I decided I wanted to start quilting, so I bought a cutting mat and rotary cutters, something I’ve been wanting for a long time. Wanting to make my life a little easier I also bought a collection of nautical fat quarters. They are adorable – blue with white polka dots, little whales and anchors, blue rope in a squiggly pattern, sailboats, etc. However, I was having trouble envisioning them into the quilt I wanted. I’m sure I could have […]

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So last night I dozed off around midnight, only to wake up at around 2 a.m. from one of the weirdest dreams I have ever had. Also strangely enough, as I sat there, slightly disconcerted from the weirdness of it all, more and more details actually came back to me, which is strange, since usually the details become fleeting the longer I am awake and try to remember them. In any case, here’s the basic lowdown – I got stuck […]

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So today I was looking up horoscope-y things and discovered that there are different animals that represent you if you combine your sign (Pisces) with your Chinese zodiac sign (Rooster). Apparantly my combination creates The Ocelot. As I always enjoy these personality breakdowns, I’ve highlighted (in bold) the things I find to be the most accurate. I quote (from Primal Astrology): “In the animal kingdom, ocelots are nocturnal, solitary, and very territorial. They build their own little world around themselves […]

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Last Sunday, I headed to Philadelphia with my sister, her boyfriend and my mom to have dinner at Talula’s Table. It turns out that Paul’s old roomate had gotten a reservation after a last minute cancellation, and needed ten people to go. The restaurant is actually a market that does a tasting menu in the evenings for one group and normally takes a year to get into. It sounded like a fun little adventure, despite the fact that it was […]

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I took a brief break from the travel tales posts when I headed to Minnesota last Tuesday. It was nice to stay away from the computer for a bit, actually, though I was hardly away from the internet entirely (phone). It worked out for the best, in any case, since my days in the mid-west were a lot more low-key than the ones on the west coast. And by low-key, I more or less mean I didn’t take as many […]

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Today we spent twelve hours scouring and exploring Disneyland! It was fun and exhausting. The End. Seriously… we actually did spend the whole day at Disneyland, getting there early enough to have extremely short waits on a lot of the popular rides, and then braving our way through the heat of the day, ending up in the California Adventure Park. I’m exhausted, and still have to get ready for tomorrow’s travel day, and so I’ll leave off with some pictures:

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