Gallery Purple and Forbidden Broadway

Gosh, a lot has happened today!

#1: I entered an art contest at work about a month ago by submitting 5 photos that I had taken. Two of them were just selected to be displayed and I was notified today!

This one is called “Black & White”:

And this one is “Serenity”:

They’re going to display them along with other winning entrants’ pieces in building C – the training/meeting/cafeteria building mezzanine for about 3 months. After 3 months, they will be moved to different locations in Sunnyvale or Santa Clara campuses.

Now I am desperately trying to get these printed and mounted in time to submit before the gallery opening. Yes, there’s a gallery opening! Here’s the info:

The official Gallery Purple opening will be on August 6th from 3:00 pm. – 7:00 p.m. in the Mezzanine area of Building C. Friends and family are invited to attend the event. Live music, food and beverages will be included.

#2: A show called “Forbidden Broadway” is playing at the San Jose Repertory Theatre through Sunday. Christian & I were able to get tickets from our friend Emily and went tonight. I had known about this show for a long time, having owned several volumes of “Forbidden Broadway” for years now. It was pretty awesome to see it live. It’s musical theatre parody at its best and I recommend to anyone who enjoys musicals; It’s a great laugh!

After the show, Christian and I went for froyo at Penguin Froyo in downtown San Jose. The froyo was great, the service was great, and the seating was great. Overall, I would also recommend hitting this up.

Thanks for reading about my awesome Friday Have a great weekend, Everyone!

Craft Show-and-Tell for 7/9/09

I’m doing a quick blog update while the boys are out shopping for nerdy computer parts (by boys, I mean Christian and our friend Kevin who is visiting from L.A.)

I baked my cinnamon bread last night.  Yum again.  Cross one off the list.

I had crocheted a few things that were not on my list before I created my actual list, and wanted to mention them here:

Moonfruit – for a contest that moonfruit.com was having:

Cheetos Giant Cheese Puffs for a Co-worker as a thank-you gift for my free iPhone case (Giant cheese puffs are an inside joke):

A slice of bacon for my manager who gave me a WWBD (What Would Bacon Do?) Spinning wheel from Kentucky:

2 Cupcake Scarves that friends of a friend wanted to buy (they look indentical, I know):

And finally, sushi (maguro, to get specific) that I made for Kevin (our friend in town):

(JK – I hope this wasn’t disappointing.  Glad I already had this one cranked out to show you!)

I’m currently working on some bookmarks, but also trying to re-read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince before the movie comes out Wednesday, so I might be a little slow in my crafting this weekend/coming week.  We’ll see.

Crafting Ambition Overload!

I’ve been sitting in the office/craft corner for 15 minutes debating about which craft project to start up next.  I just finished making 2 cupcake scarves for some friends of a friend (first time selling stuff I’ve made and it’s kinda weird, but whatever).  Now that those are done, I have a bazillion other things I want to make – just not sure where to start…

Here’s my list:

• Crochet sushi
• Crochet turkey drumstick
• Crochet pear
• Crochet ice cream sandwich
• Crochet ice cream cone
• Crochet chocolate chip cookies
• Crochet strawberries
• Crochet bunny rabbit
• Crochet roses
• Crochet Sack Boy
• Crochet mini-monkey
• Crochet blanket (that’s a huge project)
• Make Cute Stuff tote
• Make Cute Stuff sack
• Bake bread (to be done on 7/8)
• Sculpt Fimo cupcakes for glazing
• Sculpt Fimo ice cream
• Make bookmarks
• Finish scrapbooking the rest of 2008 (I left off in March 2008 – another huge project)
• Make Iron Man blankets (2)
• Make pocketed skirt (haven’t decided on red or blue yet)
• Make bubble skirt

I’m sure there’s more to add to the list.  Those are just the first few things I was able to come up with immediately.  Each project has a purpose and several have more flexible timelines than others. 

Marathon crafting – here I come!

Sorry About This…