Matt and I put together my LEGO car. I like when assembling LEGO things to have two people, one to hand over the needed item and one to place the needed item.
Matt was the hander, I was the placer.
It was pretty cool to see everything come together. And when we were done, we disassembled the car, packaged everything back up, and then I dropped it off in a free box for someone else to enjoy.
Another blackwork embroidery done. Here’s my completed sampler:
And here is where you can buy your own.
Making all those small, short stitches is very calming. I like using the lazy daisy as fancy frame embellishments.
The sampler bonus was this cute bat stuffed animal, which will stay in this format until someone cleans out my estate.
My next project will be something of my own design, and I’m quite excited to start!
I really liked Redbox, and was sad to see it go out of business. Besides keeping people in blockbusters, they often had a good amount of independent films. And the prices were so very low.
Most kiosks have been removed but, for some reason, this one outside the Walgreens near me is still there. It’s been there long enough for some miscreants to see if there are any DVDs remaining.
I’m not sure if there were any left when they opened it up, but it’s interesting to see how many disks a kiosk could hold.
Laurie, Kelly, and I watched the Academy Awards at the Kiggins Theater in Vancouver, and boy, was that the correct choice. There were prizes! Laurie won!
And so did I!
The Kiggins gave everyone a raffle ticket with a nominee on it; if your nominee won, you got a prize. And then, because turnout was a bit light, we got extra tickets.
After each award was given and the broadcast went to commercial, the Kiggins people had the gift certificate donor come up and talk about their Main Street Business, and then hand out the award. It was like we had our own awards ceremony, and we also got to learn a ton about downtown Vancouver businesses.
I won because the person who really won wasn’t there, and I had best sound in a different category, and they gave me the prize, which was to a music store. A woman offered to trade her prize (a comic book store) and I did. So now I have $50 to spend!
Us after the show.
We also played the Happiest Oscar Viewer game. It was the kind of Oscars where I wasn’t overly excited for many categories, so I wasn’t happy very often. But also wasn’t annoyed.
Also, this quote from David Chen was spot on and made me laugh.
I grabbed this so I could read it to Matt, because I knew he would laugh. He did.
I also laughed. I like how the writer is getting ahead of themselves. The couple has been seeing each other for three months, and this writer has them past the alter and at the reception. But I also think the writer is humorous and could probably do a great toast.
It was another fun night at the Movie Quiz. There were lots of things to do with the number two (names of sequels, for instance) and the word “and” (Thelma and Louise, for example)
Battleship Cinematic Universe did pretty well considering we were a team of two.
In the realm of names, I enjoyed that the roster included “All Out of Bubblegum” (regulars) plus “I Have Come Here to Chew Bubble Gum and Kick Ass, and I’m All Out of Ass Kicking Ability”
Other names I enjoyed:
I spent the summer scanning my grandfather’s slides. The vast majority of them were 35mm, and could be scanned with the slide scanner I bought. But there were a few large format ones and a few of other sizes that just didn’t work in my scanner.
So those, I dropped off for scanning. In less than a week I had them back and stored on a handy USB drive. Most of them are from the early 60s, when my mom and aunts were still in high school. So it’s fun to see new pictures of them when they were young.
Note my grandmother’s label, slides, and that it is affixed with cellophane tape.
Firehouse advertised a special Valentine’s Day prix fixe menu, and Matt and I took them up on their offer. It was quite good.
We had eaten at this restaurant before (and check out that post to see if you can find the fun typo), and I was glad to see roasted carrots were on tonight’s menu. While we didn’t opt for the wine pairing, I had a nice red, and Matt had some ginger beer.
We ordered one of each item and traded. This served us well until the dessert course. The sorbetto was good, but not nearly as good as the chocolate brownie.
He loves the sun so much.
I finished Kiriki’s sampler a few weeks ago, but took my time washing and stretching it. Let’s have a look.
I like the overall result of my stitching, but I do wish the ink transfer had been darker. It’s almost invisible.
The embroidery turned out well. I really like that rose in the center of the skull’s forehead made out of bullion knots. And I also enjoy pistil stitch, which made up the flowers on the top of the skull.
This pattern came with the sampler club bonus. (I think it was the reason I bought this, the haunted house, and the crow, because they were the last available samplers that included the sampler club bonus). It’s a cute little candy corn cat, which I have diligently embroidered and which will stay in this form until someone comes to deal with my estate.
