End of Summer

Happy Friday Folks!

I'm ready for a three day weekend.
You?
I thought so.

I have a busy weekend ahead. Cast parties, sewing, auditions, wedding showers, rehearsals for a staged reading, pumpkin beer, homemade ice cream sandwiches and enjoying the glow of my sunroom. Please join me in a contented sigh.

:::sigh:::

As it's pretty much the end of summer I stumbled across this article on NPR's website this morning with their picks of five songs for the end of the summer days. I figured I'd share. :)

In other news, today is my friend Jane's birthday, so here's a shout out to her...

HEY JANE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)

Have a great Labor Day weekend kids!

*M*

Glenwood Arts Festival

Howdy Folks!

If you're around the northside of Chicago this Sunday come and visit me and the kids from Rascal Children's Theatre at the Glenwood Arts Festival from 12-2. We'll be handing out flyers for Rascal's upcoming season and spreading the word on this awesome little theatre. :)

You can find more info here and here you can get info on other theatres that will be at the festival!

Hope to see you there!
Have a fabulous weekend!
*M*

The latest.....

It's been a busy couple of weeks on this end m'dears.

My show, The Wonder, opened this week and so far it's getting some positive feedback. Woo hoo! Now if only I could catch up on sleep!

I've been working pretty diligently on many different projects. I made this the other day for a friend and her daughter:


I also made this over the weekend while my mom came to visit:

She lounged on the couch watching movies while I sewed and sewed and sewed. I still need to touch it up in certain areas, but considering it took less than two days to put together I can't complain with how it turned out. :)

Anyhoo, I'm about to start working on a chuppa for a friend's wedding, prep for some auditions coming up, house sit for some friends this weekend and finish crocheting the gun from Blade Runner.

Yeah. You read that right.
I must be insane.
*M*

Lovely weekends come and go so quickly...

My dear friends Jim & Jo came for a visit this weekend. They live across the pond in England. The last time I saw them was over a year ago when they came to visit Chicago during a seven week long vacation to the States. They jet-setted from the west coast to the east coast and we got to spend about four days together, roaming the city, over eating, going to museums, seeing plays, and drinking snakebites (which I found out during their most recent trip are illegal in the UK!). This visit wasn't all the different. :) We had a lazy day here and there, but we managed to keep ourselves busy with the Wicker Park Fest where we saw my friend Marcie's band Silverghost play, we shopped, swapped new music, talked about getting tattoos, they sat in on the first dress rehearsal for my show, The Wonder and countless pictures were taken.

Just before they left (at 4am this moring) Jim went out into the night and left a little something behind in the streets of northern Chicago...


I'm so happy to have something new to look at one the way to the train in the morning. :)

Happy tuesday folks!
*M*

Fireworks and Terrariums

What a busy weekend!

I drove home to Detroit to see my mom and surprise my friends. I was somewhat successful. I got to see about half of them, but it was great to be home (even if it was only for two days)!



For the past year or so I've wanted a terrarium. I was debating on whether to buy one from Etsy, but I couldn't get it together to purchase one. Then there was a Threadbanger episode where they showed how to put together your own terrarium and I KNEW I'd have to make one! This proved a little more challenging then I originally thought simply because I was having trouble locating some of the ingredients, like Activated Carbon (which now I know you can find at PetCo!). Once I gathered all the pieces I found this lovely glass jar at Marshells. Who knew Marshells had a plethora of glass jars with lids/tops to choose from?! And Voila!





Here's to hoping I don't kill it! :)
Happy Post Fourth of July Folks!
*M*

Etsy Find For The Day

I think this sums things up rather nicely.


White Elephant Collective

Happy weekend folks!
*M*

Etsy Race

Etsy.com is holding a promo video contest until August and my friend Gillian and I decided we'd give it a go.

We've got ideas for a couple more videos that we have to find time to shoot, but this is our first one: Etsy Race.



Please feel free to share this with others as the more views we get the more likely we are to win!

Happy Tuseday!
*M*