Sunny Day Seattle

I just posted a bunch of photos I took at Seattle Center on a sunny day a few weekends ago. Enjoy.

Ice sledding video from my dad in Oklahoma

What's so funny about this video is that my family had no idea Maggie the English Bulldog would act that way when they were sledding down the driveway.

Pink Elephant Car Wash

Tonight will be my second class in screen printing. This is the image I'm working on. It's a a sign for a car wash in downtown Seattle. I love the sign. I hope the print turns out as well as my mock up.

fun with kitchen utensils

First print done!

My first screen print done! Here they are on the drying rack. I'm in love with it. It's looks like something that would be fun to put in a child's room. It's definitely not perfect, but that's no biggie. I'm somewhat obsessed with the ocean since moving to Seattle, seems fitting.

Screen Printing Class

I started a printmaking class last night at Pratt. It's the first time I've taken one since 2002. Oh printmaking, how I've missed you! I know realize what was missing from my life for the past 7 years. The class was full at 12 people. Mostly female. I went into the class thinking surely it would take the whole 4 hour class to cover the basics of screen printing. I was pleasantly mistaken. We talked about an hour then she let us loose to do whatever. So I came up with a very quick design. The process is cutting a pattern in a sheet of newsprint then taping it to the screen. Very quick and easy with fast results. So I finished my first screen by 9pm then cleaned up for the evening. The class also gets studio time all day Friday as part of the class fee. So I'll be finishing the print up by Friday evening and will post the finished product then.

Poppy

My friends Diana, Lisa and I went to Poppy to try it out. It's a pretty new restaurant located at the end of Broadway on Capitol Hill. Plus the Seattle Times recently gave it a good review. My first impression was BRIGHT! This restaurant is incredibly bright with the orange and yellow tables and blonde colored wood everywhere. It didn't really bother me but I do prefer darker lighting. We met about 6 and it wasn't too busy. Then as I sat down the server informed me that all alcohol was 50% off in celebration of the new president. We also ordered food off the bar menu my favorite was the eggplant fries with honey and sea salt. Yummm.

Andew Bird

A friend gave me a copy of Noble Beasts a few weeks before it's release. Based on his new album, Jen, Missy and I bought tix to see him at The Moore Theater here in Seattle on Feb 23rd. I've been there once before to see Fleet Foxes. Jen is particularly excited since she's never been.

Slumdog Millionaire

Missy, Jen and I went and saw SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE at The Harvard Exit Theater here in Seattle last week. It's a story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

We absolutely loved it. First off, I adore almost any movie set in India or that depicts Indian people. It was a fantastic story about 2 brothers surviving under the most bleak circumstances. The love story is epic and there isn't alot of subtitles if that bugs any of you. The soundtrack kicks ass, Indian music of course, but they included a few MIA songs which was genius. It was like MIA, who wrote those songs years ago, had written them especially for this movie. Overall this is the best movie I have seen in over a year. If it is playing near you, go.

Floods

I wish it would stop raining! I got soaked between my work and Marcos tonight. I only had 6 blocks and I got totally soaked! My dad called from OK while watching The Weather Channel (his favorite channel, it's his favorite reality show) and said there was flooding and I-5 was closed to the south and north. So basically everyone in Seattle is stuck here!

As a side note, I think both my mother and my father missed their calling as weather forecasters. If I'm in WA my dad calls me from OK to warn me about the weather in WA, if I'm in OK my mother in WA calls me about the weather in OK. In the TEN years my mother has lived in Washington, she has called me during every tornado warning, her timing is uncanny she managed to call just when the sirens were going off.

The end is in sight, Friday starts a week of dry weather and even 5 straight days of sun (hopefully)!

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The other day I was headed to work and I stopped into an asian gift shop. I was looking around at dishes, cookware and all kinds of strange items when I came across these dolls. A wedding doll set. Which is normal enough. But they each have a small child next to them, they look about 8 years old are so. So who are these children? Are the doll children from a previous marriage or relationship? Are they the brides children or the grooms? Or maybe they each have a child from a previous marriage. How many times have these dolls been married before? How did they meet? Dollieharmony.com? And the biggest question of all, who makes cakes that put on a light show and play music and why didn't Kathy get one for her wedding? Edible or not, seems like a no brainer. I think asian doll manufacturers must be more socially accepting of alternative versions of the typical family unit then the ones I grew up with. Plus they make toy wedding cakes with lights and music!