On Saturday, Christine and Lindsay and I went to the Hammer Museum to see the Kara Walker exhibition. Most of her work is done by drawing images from ye olden slave days onto large black sheets of paper and cutting them out with an exacto knife, then adhearing them to the walls to make life size panoramic scenes. This piece here is called Darkytown Rebellion. They are so impressive to walk up next to and experience. It's also a lot to take in, as it dwells in the ugliness of racisim and brutality to black women. After dinner we went to a housewarming party at Hazel's loft to finish the night and engaged in many conversations about cats, obese animals, tapeworms, and Trannys as seen on Cops.

Sunday was more of a relaxation day. I finally finished an apron for me :) and also I baked a cinnamon apple upside down cake. David was able to enjoy it because it's so moist and smooth, it's more like pie than cake. We tried to do yoga in the living room in the afternoon for fun, but we were not all too successful.

Baby Munchkin Baby

This video makes me want to cry. I am crying right now. This is a baby-cat-baby. Baby-headed-baby-head. I made Elwood watch it and he was pretty transfixed for a while. I wish I got him when he was a tiny baby-head! Baby Elwood Baby!

Crafty Wine

Last night Agata and Lindsay and Misti came over for Craftable Thrusday. We ended up eating tons of Thai food and drinking wine, and soon I didn't feel like crafting at all - I just wanted to open more bottles of wine! The girls got a little stitchery in, and I drew in my sketchbook, but the fabric I laid out to make my apron just laid there unmeasured uncut. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend. I am looking forward to the pear & salmon salad at the french restraunt on Overland today, and the back garden patio that will make lunch seem like vacation and not a work day at all :) This weekend holds the promise of a party at Hazels' new loft, and going to see the Kara Walker show at the Hammer Museum.

Wonder Wheel

The Ferris Wheel at Santa Monica Pier is for sale.
On Ebay.

Please, please, please, I really want this. I want to take Elwood on it. High in the sky up up up way far away from the shore. When you go to the auction, you see the minium starting bid is $50,000. Maybe we could buy this instead of a house. House or Wheel? It's a tough call. I will be very interested to see who ends up buying. As of yet, I see there are no bids.

In my eight years of living in Los Angeles, I have never been on this great wheel. DAVID MICHAEL - THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE ME ON THE ORIGINAL SANTA MONICA WHEEL! He doesn't even care. Sigh.

Ties!!

Yeah! My guy-ties arrived in the mail today! They are silkscreened with honeycomb/bee art made by Cyberoptics Tie Lab on Etsy. I am so happy, I feel like the wedding suff is coming together.

It was a great weekend too, I had my first beach trip in forever! Tiny and I went to Malibu and baked in the sun all day Sunday. Who knew so many ladies like to go topless in Malibu? I'm all for everyone feeling free in the sunshine, but it seemed strange when families with kids walked by super-oiled up with sunscreen boobs. All my freckles happily emerged on my arms and shoulders and face, and I burned my back some but not too bad. Then Tiny cooked me such a delicious dinner of chicken in creamy-soup-sauce, rice and corn.

This House is Clear!

I want to cry with joy because we cleaned house yesterday! My bedroom is free of all crap, all clothes put away and the floor vacuumed so clean, and the kitchen all scrubbed and the bathroom sanitized. It's so lovely to sit in a fresh clean space, it's hard all week to come home after work and tidy, and now I feel great. We got JR's ribs and beans and potato salad and drove out to share with David and Heather and see baby Lily. She is so small with monkey toes and her baby head is so kissable. It was a lovely Saturday, plus the weather hit 90 degrees, and it truly felt like summer had arrived. Tank tops and sandals, hooray! I am filled with daydreams of upcoming summer events, and dreaming dreaming dreaming of Honduras :)

Honeycomb Print?

I've been hunting online for cute bee or honeycomb pattern prints to made fabric wrap for wine bottles, but so far all that keeps coming up is this Amy Butler Midwest Modern print. It's really cute, but at $8-9/yd it's a little costly ( i need 20X25" squares for each) and I think it's a little too loud. I'd like something more yellow overall. The hunt goes on.