Christmas!!!

I am getting super excited about Christmas.  I am more ready for Christmas this year than I ever have been before! My shopping is pretty much done, the house is decorated, I have finished the homemade gifts I want to give! Usually I am making things until the last minute. Here is a sneak peak of what I have been making...

Today I got a present from my work secret santa! A bottle of coke zero and a pack of creme de menthe altoids, the best altoids ever. So, Christmas is definitely here!

I am also soooooo close to finishing up my artomat paintings. Here are the latest completed paintings!

 

Only ten more to finish!

Halloween!

We had a very low key Halloween this year. I dressed up like a majorette.  I found the costume in a VA Goodwill and it was too good to pass up!

Mike played a flight simulator game...

But we did carve pumpkins!

Mike made the Reebok Pump-kin. It got a lot of comments from our 50 trick-or-treaters!

We were way more into Halloween last year, but I already have some ideas for next year!

Yay Goodwill!

I found 3 of these pink elephant glasses for .49 cents each! Now I am definitely having a Christmas party. I will invite 3 people, and serve egg nog and cheese!

Vacay pt. 2

We made it to Texas! We walked around Fort Worth and Mike took our picture! I am the Trail Boss.

We witnessed this epic battle!! I think the snake won. It was part of the restaurants decor.

It is true that everything is bigger in Texas!! I ordered a "spit roasted pig" and it could have made 5-6 sandwiches. I have also never gotten a whole ear of corn as a side dish, but I loved it!

Ghost Katherine and I tried out the pool. It was lovely.

I brought our host and hostess some cookies. I used my Indiana cookie cutter again and Mike made one Texas shaped cookie for Josh.

Vacay pt. 1

Mike's phone hated central time. It is also very dirty. (edit: The phone is dirty. I have nothing against central time! I love central time!)

We made to Illinois!

We listened to Nelly as we drove through St. Louis...From St. Louis to Memphis, from Texas back up to Indiana...



Angel Cloud!!



We drove through a lot of storms!


If I ever drive through Missouri during the day, I will have to come back to the Precious Moments Chapel to check out their sistine chapel! I had to settle for their sculpture garden and giant billboard!

Happy Easter!

Last night we had an Easter dinner party. I love dinner parties. I made brown sugar pound cake cupcakes with brown butter glaze, very buttery! We also made asparagus and mushroom tarts and shrimp bruschetta, but no pictures of those.

Happy Easter!

Happy Valentine's Day! (and Mike's Birthday)

Today I tried out some new recipes from epicurious.com- my new favorite website! Last night I made a glazed lime cake, delicious! And the first time I have ever made a cake not using a box! Then today I made Mike a special bday lunch (turkey-cilantro bites, and a spinach salad with avocado and orange) and I just made this....

before...


after...


I need to work on making it look prettier, it kind of exploded everywhere! I haven't tried it yet, just came out of the oven. It is a blueberry gellette.

We celebrated Vday this morning and exchanged presents and ate a fancy lunch. Mike gave me these beautiful earrings..


Tonight we are having some friends over to celebrate Mike's bday. I am making a funfetti cake for that!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Last night I went to a Chinese New Year celebration. It was so fun and had free chinese food! Score! Mike played with 2 of his friends, here is the band before their big performance...



The opening act! The cutest little kids singing!





The auditorium before the performances began...



Mike and his friends playing. It was very dark, so hard to get a good photo.



Andrew, playing traditional Chinese songs. It was really neat, the crowd was singing along and waving their cell phones.

"Cheesy" Christmas plates!

At Goodwill last week I scored these awesome plates!! I actually LOLed in the store when I was looking at them. Now only if Christmas wasn't like another year away!!







I will definitely be using these for a holiday party next year!!

Happy New Year!

Yay 2009! I think this will be the best year yet.
Mike and I got a wii fit, so maybe it will also be my healthiest year???
2008 was really good, I found a job that I enjoy and work with people I like and I am really starting to love Bloomington! For 2009, I'd like to keep doing fun art things, I signed up for ceramics again and I am just finishing up my 3rd set of artomat art. My art resolution for the year is to complete one painting a month. My other resolutions are to wear more interesting outfits and read more and blog once a week and cook/plan more exciting meals, we'll see how that goes!!

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The holiday party is over! This is what I wore...



I did not win a prize but at least I ate a free dinner and got to dress up!

In other news, when we were in VA for Thanksgiving, I spotted some prints at my inlaws house...



Charley Harper!

Polyvore = fun

So, tomorrow is my work holiday party. I have been looking forward to it since I started working there, over 6 months ago!
If I had a ton of money, this is what I would wear...



Holiday Office Party by erinclee

Although I couldn't and wouldn't ever spend $700 on a skirt, even if it WAS covered in sequins!!!! I did buy a new dress for the occasion! Woo hoo!

I hope I win a prize!!

Virginia is for lovers... of mountains

Mike and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley! We had a photo safari on Friday, so here is a tour..



This is a view of downtown Harrisonburg, you can see the Court House, some tall buildings, and lots of JMU housing!



Here is an upclose pic of the Court House. I have only been inside twice- once in high school when our government class got to witness a few court cases which was interesting because one of the defendant's was a previous classmate- yikes. The second time was when I got my marriage license.



Here is a view of the top of JMU. I like JMU because of the red roofs and their colors are purple and gold!



That pointy mountain is Massanutten. It is where some Virginians go skiing and it is where my mom lives! She lives closer to the bottom of the mountain!

Maybe there will be some snow pictures when we travel back to VA for Christmas!

Happy Halloween!

Mike and I carved pumpkins on Thursday night. Can you guess which one he carved?




Crowbars up! We dressed up as the Wet Bandits from Home Alone!

Marv!

Harry! I should have taken off my rings to be more in character, but I was very proud of my gold tooth made from a rolo wrapper!

Peace Out Summer

It is September and back to school!
I am taking another computery class at the local comm. college and a potentially super fun ceramics class at the art center. I am very excited I love school. I am also hopefully starting more artomat soon! I ordered new blocks to paint and I guess they will be coming soon.
Mike and I went on vacation to The Greenbrier in WVa a few weeks ago- it was totally awesome, we had a blast. I was very delighted and inspired by the interior decorating, it has given me some ideas for my own decorating and fashion....





I love the red leather with a green carpet! And this "springy" room is amazing- a pretty seafoam and tons of patterns!



We also did falconry! Very fun.

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We exchanged gifts- cotton gifts!
This is what I got for Mike...






And this is what he got for me!


All the shirts are from etsy. His brown shirt is from smallvictorystudios and the artist that designed it is Justin Richel- he has his own etsy store- talkingpaintings- they are amazing and I want to buy them all!

Mike's green shirt is from MisNopalesArt. I didn't take any of these pictures, I stole them from etsy! Mike wore one shirt yesterday and is currently wearing one, but I didn't get a picture.

The shirt he bought for me is from boygirlparty- maybe the best name I have ever heard! I am planning on wearing it on Friday- casual Friday at work! Hooray!