Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles

ONE OF THOSE DAYS

Rebecca and I changed the layout of my blog now if we could get the colors to come back.......


While I'm at work (for the 3rd Saturday in a row) enjoy The Dead Kennedys.

WEIRD DOLL WEDNESDAY, PART 12

Best friends. I think these ladies are from The Islands, but I don't know which one. The yellow dress is made from upside down Hello Kitty fabric! How cool this that?

Well do ya?

 DO YOU LIKE MY HAT?

Which one do you like? Spent Saturday and Monday making jester hats for the dance concert. Hope the director likes them!

The Boss trying to poke my eye out with a jingle bell.

Goofing off? What do you mean "no goofing off"?  We're in charge around here.

Geez, my nose looks long. See those large stitches? Using the 10-foot rule you won't. The 10-foot rule: If you can't see it from 10-feet, neither will the audience

Thinking about whether I can sneak some ball fringe and tassels on these puppies

All the jewelry I was wearing, no rings, the hats had a lot of hand sewing and the thread gets tangled on them. The cat is Betsey Johnson,the owl earrings are forever 21, everything else is gifted or thrifted. The socks are Missioni For Target ( yes, I wore socks for the first time in ages) the sweater is thrifted

 HAPPY FROCKING FRIDAY BIRTHDAY!

My student assistant #1, Patrice had her 22nd birthday last Friday.  She found this lovely dress at Ross, best part, it was 2 sizes smaller that the last dress she bought! Yeah, Patrice! I gave her the lovely vintage scarf. I'm channeling a zebra.

My sort of matching bag is Besty Johnson and for the first time since March, I'm wearing my boots.

Hugs from Elie, one of our tech students

Partice and student assistant #2 Rebecca. Rebecca frocks on Friday sometimes, but she was on her way to teach a pottery class at the Boys and Girls Club. She would have been a frocking mess after that.

 

Rebecca lookng fetching in one of the show's hats and her Saint's Super Bowl shirt. All the girls got professional theatre jobs last summer. Ellie in lighting design, Patrice and Rebbecca in costuming. Keeping track 24 of our student s got professional jobs last summer. Way to go!

 AND THEN, THE TREES FELL DOWN

Pine tree that was in front of the FAB. If it would have fallen the other direction, it would have hit the building. Photo be Julie Bowland

It pulled the power lines in front of our building down, but strangely, the power stayed on

One of my co-workers. She's about 5'4". It was a really tall tree

The other tree at the entrance to the parking lot

The first tree,looking towards the building

The parking lot tree. Yes, it's twisted! Photo by Julie Bowland

Around the corner from my house

The parking lot tree. You can make out the car next to the man in the yellow slicker. The driver wasn't hurt and her car wasn't damaged. Luck her.

My front yard. Missed my friend's car.

The clean-up is still going on. Photo by Julie Bowland. There was another tree that blocked the street in front of the university. It was lucky nobody was injured and no buildings were damaged.  This wasn't a hurricane, just a pop-up thunderstorm that blew thought in about 30 minutes.

 PHOTOS I FORGOT TO POST LAST WEEK

Awe! Neil and Elissa

Me and The Doctor

The above photos were taken here. This is from google images.

Welcome party day before the wedding. Christie, Ray, Karen and the man who married them. I can't remember his name.

Karen's BFF Hula. The man in the background wearing the white shirt is Mike, father of the bride. This is the only photo I took of him! Bad, Thorne Garnet.

We flew from Oakland to LAX. The clocks are Rolex. Welcome to LA!

AVAST ME HARDIES, IT'S WEIRD DOLL WEDNESDAY, PART 11

And International Talk Like A Pirate Day! This doll is called Cap. Jinks, not a pirate, but close. Cap Jinks had a kids show in the 1950's Yep, he's smoking a pipe.

 I BLAME VIX AND THAT'S A GOOD THING

If you haven't checked out Vix at Vintage Vixen, you should. She takes amazing trips to India, so that inspired me to teach myself how to cook Indian food

First off, ordered a tons of real Indians food stuffs on line. Well, first I bought a cookbook!

Then I made this for dinner last night. Chickpea poppers, tofu curry, onion nan and soan cakes. Yummy! And The Doctor loved it! I'm not vegan, but I like to make healthy food. Happy Monday!

X - Johnny Hit And Run Paulene

 VACATION AND WEDDING, PART 2

Neil and Elissa's front porch. No, I'm not holding the wedding gift

My skirt and top by Peter Nygard. The Doctor's outfit made by me. The tie from a thrift store and the shirt is from Dillard's

Welcome Ray and Christie Shelley!

Custom Chucks.

The dress back. Christie's been a jock all her life, hence the amazing back

My nephew, Joe The Doctor (MD) and the lovely Lina

Straight outta Black Rock, my niece Michelle and her man Craig. Michelle works at Burning Man.

Another niece! Kay and Danny, their wedding is next! The necklace belonged to Kay grandmother.

The Doctor and his sister Karen AKA Mother of the Bride. Can't believe I didn't get a photo of Father of the Bride! Sorry Mike!

Family, ya got to love 'em! The Doctor, brother Gary, Gary's wife Misty and Danny

Misty and her beautiful girls. Look another niece! That's Shila, mother of the twins, who I didn't get a good photo of, sad face

Damn photo bombers! Vanessa the brides maid who caught the flowers and plays a mean bagpipe. Me and Hula. And the bar

Grandma Misty.

Yummy Mexican food from Picanta, hope I spelled that right

Cutting the cake

The cake. The groom made the glass flowers and we got them as gifts

First dance

The grooms grandmother!

She's rocking it!

Every wedding needs a pinata

She killed it!

On Monday, Neil and I went thrifting. I found this table runner at Thrift Town in San Leandro. Slim pickings, but I was secretly happy I didn't find a tons of stuff I couldn't take on the plane

A ton of jewelry Elissa gave me.

 We had to get up at 3:30am to take the rental car back and get to the airport by 5:30 am. I'll admit I was nervous about flying on 9/11, but it was fine. We got home around 9pm, a long day indeed.