Musings: Saturdays Are For...

Skyping amazing (and handsome) people

Style: Remake Black Clutch

So the other day I spent $2.00 on this simple black clutch from a thrift store. It's a black vinyl number that had splatters of what looked like gold dust in random places (previous owners nailpolish?) I know I couldn't just leave it be. The lovely Kinsey at Sincerely Kinsey did something similar. She wasn't dealing with slippery vinyl though. I didn't use the tacky glue, but instead just plastered that thing is Modpodge. I did one doily on one side and one on the other. I tried to cover the major spots that had the gold on them. I must say too that my Great-Grandmother who passed away two years ago made these doily's. I have a whole bag full of them that I've been dreaming of what to do with forever. Honestly it's not perfect (the Modpodge is somewhat outside of the doily and you can see it if you look close). I love it though, and am looking for a time to bring this beauty out!

Musings: Shifty

So I bought it without knowing how to drive a standard. I was seduced by the perriwinkle and the cuteness! One driving lesson down and I can shift but I can't stop without stalling. Thus, tomorrow this chicky takes the bus! I think a few more hours going around with the Dad-o as co-pilot and I can drive this sucker. But there were too many tears for my liking tonight. Bed time for this one.

Book Review: Water for Elephants

Whelp... I now know what goes on in the head of a boy around my age... SEX! I'm probably not going to use that word too much on my blog. It just seems to strange to type it S-E-X. WHEW! Anywho let's just say I spent a lot of this book clutching my metaphorical grandmother strand of pearls and going "oh my". This is one of the issues in reading a book. Sometimes you get to deep into characters heads. This guys looses his parents, drops out of Ivy league, and hops on a train. A train that just happens to be a circus when he was going to College to be a vet. COINCIDENCE? My cynical mind says NO! He spends this book pining for the girl he loves but can't have because she's married to a psycho. A "i'll throw you off a moving train" psycho. I actually did feel for the two of them though. They were meant for each other. I'm not going to give away too much of the book because I honestly would recommend it. From a historical look of circus' through the depression it is fantastic! What I am going to do is rant like I did after I watched the movie. Firstly, it is altogether creepy to watch Reese (pointy-chinned but beautiful) Witherspoon hit on the sparkly guy from Twilight. Secondly, they erased the owner of the circus Uncle Al and thus changed how we looked at her evil husband: driven by money not by Marlena obsession. Thirdly, they made the Marlena into a sad orphan, when in the book she left a pampered life to join the circus, thus giving her the gumption to be able to do that rather than tossing her into something she had no idea how to handle (sorry for the run-on sentence but it is pivital in a rant). Fourthly, the elephant was not mischevious enough. DANG in the book that elephant got into some shenanigans. So what I would say is read the book or watch the movie but heavens to betsey don't do both or you'll turn into a maniac like me!

Musings: Use The Force

 

I hope your day was as nerdtastic as mine was! P.S. my Jawa looks like it is melting...

Musings: Family Outings

Heart Creek Trail outside of Canmore with the family the other weekend was beautiful. I must admit I was possibly crying at one point as the trail was covered in ice and a hill covered in ice + clumsy me = fear. But it was a great time with the family none the less. I snapped a few shots along the way as things were just starting to look like Spring. I would suggest going when the weather is a bit warmer because then you might avoid tears and sliding down hills on your bottom.