through the looking glass

Okay, so I guess I'm more excited for this movie than I even realized. So excited in fact, that I had a dream about it last night. Alice and I were best friends and we both went to Wonderland together. I tried telling the Mad Hatter that he was really Johnny Depp but he wouldn't listen to me. He told me it was nonsense. It was a pretty chaotic dream.

Awhile back I read Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I finished both books in two days. To be honest, all of the nonsense gave me a little bit of a headache but I recovered. Then I watched Disney's Alice in Wonderland. And then I got really excited because I found out that this movie was going to be coming out in March 2010. I hope it is as awesome as I'm thinking its going to be!

Here is some Alice in Wonderland artwork by Mary Blair that I came across. I think it is absolutely lovely.

Yay for adventures! :]

Is anyone else excited?

new found love!

Okay, so a couple months ago I posted a picture of a quilt kit that I was really excited to start. Well I started it back then...but all I did was cut the strips. Then it got shoved in the corner. Over this Memorial Day weekend I pulled it back out. And finished it! Well not quite. All thats left is the binding which I am working on tonight. After work on Sunday I came home and laid out all the strips, pinned the back and the batting together and then began sewing. I wasn't able to get too much done because it was late but I was hooked. I LOVE quilting!!! When I woke up Monday morning that was the first thing I wanted to do. I worked on it for 5 hours straight and finished it...well except for the binding.
I think my favorite part is the rick rack. :]

I'm ready to start my next one. I'm going to start cutting my squares out of the Heather Ross fabric I bought a month or so ago.

AND I just ordered some more fabric for ANOTHER quilt pattern that I saw at a store on Saturday. It should be showing up in the mail any day now.
I think this is probably one of those hobbies that I should not have gotten into...

My sister and I went and saw Earth last night. And the best part was that it only cost $3.50 for the both of us (mmhmm...gotta love buy-one-get-one-free coupons and Tuesday Bargain night at a cute little twin theatre). Okay so that wasn't the best part...the movie was the best part. More specifically, the polar bears were the best part. They were so cute. I wish I had one for a friend. The movie was beautiful and it made me glad that I'm not an animal. Nah, it really opened my eyes. It was good.
I'm recommending it to everyone.

And sadly, my holga film still hasn't come back. I was informed that it could take up to two more weeks. Seriously?!!

ah...this brings back memories....

While opening presents at my grandma's house on Christmas Eve, Sarah and I were talking about all the old xmas shows we used to watch when we were little.
and I just had to go find them... :]

Mickey's Christmas Carol






Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952)


Donald's Snow Fight (1952)


Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)


Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936)


Somewhere In Dreamland (1936)


and then of course we have the ever famous....

Remember, remember the fifth of November...

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

I LOVE this movie! And I LOVE V.

Now for a little history lesson....

"Remember, remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.”

Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) was one of the English Roman Catholoic revolutionaries who planned to carry out the Gunpowder Plot. Now this plot was an attempt to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the aristocracy by blowing up the House of Parliament during the State Opening on the fifth of November in 1605. Although Fawkes was not the mastermind behind the plot, he is believed to have been placed in charge of executing the plot because of his experience in military and explosives. The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt and Fawkes was captured while guarding the gunpowder that night.

On January 31, 1606, those involved in the conspiracy were to be "hanged, drawn and quartered. Fawkes, though weakened by torture, cheated the executioners. When he was to be hanged until almost dead, he jumped from the gallows, so his neck broke and he died, thus avoiding the gruesome later part of this form of execution."

Thhhhank youuuu Wikipedia :]

xo.