It's Movie Monday!

I'm not sure if a lot of you know this but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE old "B" movies and if you have ever been to my house you would know that my husband and I am a collectors of these bad movies. They are in our living room, our dining room, upstairs, and in my husband's office. They are everywhere! I really feel that one of my goals, no missions in life is to spread my love of "B" movies to all of you. I thought I would start with the one of the kings (okay, maybe jesters) of bad "B" movies, Ed Wood.

To me, Ed Wood represents the ultimate Indie film director. He knew how to make a movie on a budget and give the audience what they wanted; suspense, intrigue and a cute girl in a fuzzy sweater (granted that cute girl in a fuzzy sweater was Ed Wood, but that's a whole other chapter)

One of his earliest movies and is still relevant in today's times is Glen or Glenda. In this movie, Ed plays Glen-a transvestite that is coming to grips with his "feminine"side (hence the fuzzy sweater). This movie is SO awful that is it wonderful. We have Bela Lugosi playing the narrator and cut scenes of the devil and wonderful tight cute clothes. What more could you ask for? Incidentally he was hired to make a film about Christine Jorgensen's sex change and made this piece of cinematic history.


Ed's most well known movie is Plan 9 From Outer Space. I. Love. This. Movie. The dialogue makes this film great. How could you not love lines like:

" Now, don't you worry. The saucers are up there. The graveyard is out there. But I'll be locked up safely in there " ( Wait, where are the saucers again and you are where?)

Or this brilliant line:

"But one thing's sure. Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and somebody's responsible." (Someone is responsible for a murder? Well, it was totally believable up till now)

Once again the films stars Bela Lugosi, but unfortunately he passed away before the film was completed and Ed had his wife's chiropractor play Bela's part. I was going to insert a totally tasteless joke here but was told it was too mean, so I'll leave it up to you (or my husband).


Apparently I'm not alone in my love of Ed Wood, Tim Burton is a fan also. Burton's amazing film Ed Wood, is not to be missed. Martin Landau won an Academy Award for playing Bela Lugosi. The movie was based on the book Nightmare and Ecstasy, The Unauthorized Biography of Ed Wood. I'm told it's a great book. Johnny Depp plays Ed Wood and portrays him in a way that I think he would want to be remembered as a man with a heart of gold and an imagination of a 12 year old.


So, check out Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 From Outer Space. You will not be disappointed in the camp factor. For a more "artistic" look at Ed and his eccentric life, don't miss Tim Burton's Ed Wood.

The world's worst film maker? I think not!

It's a Scrappy Dog Sunday!

As you all know, I LOVE scrappy dogs. The scrappier the better in my book! On my husband's urgings I decided to do a Scrappy Dog Sunday entry for the next few weeks(or until I run out of scrappy dogs). Since Lola is the supreme ruler of scrappy dogs. I thought I would start with her. A lot of you already know her but let's get to know the REAL Lola, shall we?


So, what's you favorite thing to do during the day?
Oh! That's easy! I LOVE playing ball, I could do it all day.
If I don't get to play ball,I really like reflecting on life.
I tried to get a few naps in a day too. I've got to get my beauty rest.


Do you have a favorite food?
Cupcakes!


Who is your favorite person?
Oh mom....of course it's you, unless you're not there, then it's dad. Really-anyone that pets me. I got a lot of love to give.



Any words of advice?
If you have something to say-bark loud, even the tiniest voice needs to be heard, cuteness can only get you so far, then it's all about personality, love deeply.


Couldn't have said it better myself Lola.....

The Walk of Lola and Jujube

This is a tale of two Jack Russells, two parents, and one walk.

C'mon dad! C'mon! We gotta go! There are squirrels to chase! HELLO!

The park is deserted! It's ours!

Please let us off the leash. We are ever so good.

SUCKERS!

Hey! What's this?

This is GREAT! Thanks mom and dad!

Ummm, we aren't allow in this park anymore....we aren't at liberty now to discuss it at this time.

SQUIRREL!

Home again!

I love my dogs.

Maker Faire-The Recap

I honestly don't know how to put into words all the amazing, awesome, creative stuff I saw over the weekend (I guess I just did put it into words-HA!) So, I thought I would break it down day to day.

Day one...set up.
I got to San Mateo in the afternoon and met up with Casey and Lori (jungrrl and batgirl from Craftster). They pretty much had everything set up by the time I got there so 1) I had incredible timing and 2) all that was left was to peek at other exhibits. One of the first people I met was Rachel aka Average Jane Crafter and can I tell you how SWEET and cute she is! It was instant friendship and she better come to Portland and visit! If you ever get a chance to meet her, it will be like seeing an old friend again. She is wonderful! Wait a sec,,,,who did I see setting up right beside us? CRAFTY CHICA! Oh yeah! She is the sweetest person too! (there must be something in the water in Texas!) She indulged me with a picture and continued to spread the glitter around. After I totally geeked out and was a fangirl with Average Jane and Crafty Chica we were on our way to scope out the exhibits. Robots, Steampunks, human mousetraps and fire were among our adventures. Everywhere we turned there was another thing for me to yell, "You've got to be kidding me!, NO WAY"

1. Casey and R2D2, 2. Casey and R21D2, 3. Me. Crafty Chica, Average Jane Crafter, 4. Wing sculpture, 5. Wing sculpture, 6. Wing sculpture, 7. Wing scuplture, 8. moldy men, 9. Toxic Skull, 10. Freaky piano, 11. freaky piano thingy, 12. back of bike, 13. Front of bike, 14. Steam punk ladies with bike, 15. Inside of snail, 16. Giraffe, 17. Snail mobile, 18. steam motorcycle, 19. Whirly people, 20. snail mobile from a far, 21. Casey and the Crawdad, 22. Steam punk motorcycle, 23. Human powered wheel, 24. Snail mobile, 25. Steam punk car, 26. Lego Village, 27. Puppy Monorail, 28. Puppy monorail, 29. pinball machine, 30. Lego cake, 31. Lego hotel, 32. Lego flowers, 33. Music maker, 34. Plastic bottle sculpture, 35. Some sort of flaming spinny thing, 36. flamey spinny thing

Day Two....
So many people! So many buttons! So many Perler beads! At 10am we could see the floor, see our surroundings. At 11 all we could see was a wave of people. We had people waiting up to an hour to do our crafts at the Craftster table. It was CRAZY! A few Craftster peeps came by and I wanted to get pictures taken with all of you and chat but I think my body was glued to the seat with E-6000. If I looked a little crazed-I'm really sorry-I was really happy to meet everyone and say hello and wish I had more time to chat. You guys are what keeps us going and I'm so lucky when I get to meet you "in person". We were so beat by the end of the day that all we could eat was soup because none of us wanted to chew-LOL!

1. Weird steam punk robot thing, 2. Steam punk bird, 3. resistor earring, 4. 8 bit take away, 5. 8 bit take away, 6. cell phone charm, 7. cell phone charm, 8. cupcake mobile, 9. cupcake mobile, 10. cupcake, 11. Moving house, 12. human mouse trap, 13. moving house, 14. human mouse trap, 15. beginning of day, 16. Beginning of Maker Faire, 17. Beginning of Maker Faire, 18. Casey and Lori helping people, 19. Maker Faire day 1, 20. set up

Day three...
The final day! BOO! It wasn't as busy as it was Saturday but we still had a lot of people at our booth. All of us took little breaks to venture out to see the hand of man slam 55 gallon drums and give us the thumbs us, cupcake cars driving around, we even got to do a few crafts at other tables and in a blink of an eye-it was all over. All of our beads were gone, the glue had dried and the cupcake cars had driven off into the sunset. There we were, in the parking lot, with big wiener dogs, a girl with pink hair and stripe tents. Man, I can't wait till next year.

1. 100_2147, 2. 100_2144, 3. Cool destroy robot, 4. adult playground, 5. Hand of Man, 6. Robot drum, 7. Fire Flower, 8. Dragon bike, 9. Dragon Bike, 10. Robby the Robot, 11. Me and Ritapizza, 12. Side of Art car, 13. Back of yard car, 14. Art car, 15. Art Car, 16. Maker Faire outfit, 17. Maker Faire outfit, 18. Little girl on art car, 19. Completed projects, 20. Average Jane Crafter

Maker Faire Bay Area May 30th and 31st

I've only been home for a few short days and I'm getting ready to go back on the road again. This weekend I'll be at the bay area Maker Faire with Craftster. If you are in the area, come on out and say hello to me, Jungrrl, and batgirl. The Craftster booth will have several make and take projects; including vintage button rings, 8 bit video game art with perler beads and super cool jewelry from the book Kilobite Coutour (trust me, this book is very cool).

Come by and see me! I'm always up for a good visit.

Midwest Tour

Last week Mark and I went on a little vacation to the Midwest. Neither of us had been to Chicago or to Minnesota so we booked a flight, told our friends we were crashing at their houses and decided to conquer the Midwest. We had yummy hot dogs at Hot Doug's Sausage Superstore, Yummy Mexican and Cuban food, deep dish pizza-it was pretty much an eating frenzy. We also had yummy drinks at a Psycho Suzie's pizza and tiki bar(More pictures to follow). I was also amazed that you could bring your own beer to restaurants in Chicago. Crazy!
We also got a behind the scenes tour of the bird department of the Field Museum (thanks Casey!)The Maori hut was also amazing. It was so peaceful and beautiful. The story behind it brought tears to our eyes.

St. Paul and Minneapolis reminding us of Portland. I loved all the Victorian houses and the cute little shops.

Thanks Casey, Rey and Lori for showing us such a good time.


1. Casey, Rey, Mark, 2. statue at Field Museum, 3. prehistoric deer, 4. prehistoric sloth bear animal sort of thing, 5. freaky dino bird, 6. Casey and Rey, 7. Field museum, 8. Sue, 9. Maori house, 10. Man catcher, 11. Mark and Rey, 12. Mask, 13. Mask, 14. Dino


1. Milou, 2. Milou in doggy jail, 3. Mark at pyscho suzie's, 4. Mark at pyscho suzies, 5. Mark and Rey, 6. Lori and Phillipe, 7. Casey, 8. Lori, 9. Rey, 10. Casey, 11. Mark, 12. Me!, 13. Casey and Rey, 14. Lori and Mark, 15. My Cubano sandwich, 16. Grumpy old men, 17. Grumpy old men, 18. Real Grumpy old men, 19. bird building nest, 20. silly dog, 21. Me and my true love, 22. Snoopy Snow Cone Maker!, 23. Rats in alley, 24. abandon hospital, 25. abandoned hospital, 26. abandoned hospital, 27. abandoned hospital, 28. Examine table, 29. abandoned hospital, 30. creepy hospital, 31. abandoned hospital, 32. Felix, 33. Mark, 34. Mark, 35. Rainy Chicago downtown

A tribute

I wanted to thank everyone for all of the warm thoughts after Kato passing away. The cards, emails and posts really helped us through a rough time. I wanted to share a beautiful pillow that some of the moderators from Craftster had made for Mark and I. Here's the picture that inspired the pillow.



And here is the pillow.


Can you believe how amazing it is? Thank you again from the bottom of my heart. I also want to acknowledge the person that made it. The person is mybonnie on etsy and her store is called Handmade by Bonnie. She does beautiful work. Go check her out-you will not be disappointed.

I have been having lots of adventures lately as well as getting some stitching done, so stay tune for the details.