Snuggle Bunny Monday

Oreo., originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

Weekend Wind-Down #70

(Leia's freshly-colored PEE WEE HERMAN tat, courtesy of PAIN & WONDER, dwntwn Athens)

Our friend LEIA was in town from Cleveland, Ohio - she was here with her band, THE AFTERNOON NAPS, to play at the big HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME RECORDS 10th anniversary gala. Yesterday, after we had a late brunch with her and her bandmates, Leia came over to Rancho Cocoa so that she could geek out with Missy over BLYTHE DOLLS and so Leia's vintage KENNER BLYTHE DOLL could had a play date with Missy's girls. First they played in the little REMENT BAKERY...



Then Leia's gal reclined against Nilla's super fluffy rump...



Then the girls posed for photos with our baby cantaloupes...



They hung out with our collection of plush thingys in our living room...



And then rode side-saddle on the back of a huge horse...



Before we knew it, the afternoon was over...we dropped Leia off at The Caledonia, just in time for her soundcheck, and bid her adieu. Missy and I headed for THE YOUNG BLOOD GALLERY in Atlanta to catch a showing of HANDMADE NATION...it was being shown in conjunction with a big film festival that was happening in the city. Unfortunately, we had left Athens a lot later than we planned and got to Young Blood a little too late. When we got there, everyone was already in the back, in the darkened gallery part of the store, watching the film. We hung out in the store listening to the movie, but weren't able to buy anything because they were actually "closed" for business, due to the film...darn it too, because I really really wanted to buy these GANGSTA RAP STICKER PACKS:







Feeling a bit defeated, we exited and headed a couple of doors down to the ATLANTA CUPCAKE FACTORY to console ourselves with some gourmet cupcake yummy goodness. I opted for the LEMON ON LEMON cupcake and Missy chose the spicy MEXICAN CHOCOLATE cupcake. We told our sad luck story to one of the owners of the bakery - about how we had driven all the way from Athens to Atlanta to see this movie and how we got here a little too late...I think he felt sorry for us and ended up hooking us up with extra cupcakes! So, we ended up getting six sinfully delicious cupcakes for the price of two...







We ate the two cupcakes we had originally ordered (the Mexican Chocolate had a hot spicy kick to it...so awesome!) and then stashed the rest in the car, before walking over to the hipster wasteland that is URBAN OUTFITTERS...we wanted to check it out because Missy's baby brother, Joe, just interviewed for a job there - if all goes well, he'll be designing and building the displays for a new store that's being built in Red Bank, New Jersey. Not wanting to go home empty handed, I ended up buying a little STYLOPHONE KEYBOARD, which I ended up playing late into the night, annoying Missy, the pets, and probably our neighbors...



FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Hangin' out with Leia and Desi, her Blythe doll!
RAOUL - Hangin' out with Leia!

WORST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Trying to find a vet for Oreo (nothing is wrong with her, though).
RAOUL - Getting to Young Blood a tad too late sucked...

FUNNIEST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Finding 217 bucks cash that I forgot I had!
RAOUL - Unexpected cupcake overload courtesy of Atlanta Cupcake Factory.

WORD OR PHRASE OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - "Cinnamon raaaawl!"
RAOUL - "Turtle race"

FAVORITE MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Atlanta Cupcake Factory!
RAOUL - Cupcakes from Atlanta Cupcake Factory. mmmmmm...

THREE THINGS ON YOUR TO-DO LIST FOR THIS WEEK?
MISSY - Pet Oreo, pet Nilla, make ad for Mixtape zine.
RAOUL - More water, more cardio, less stress.

WHICH MONKEE PERFECTLY DESCRIBES LAST WEEK?
MISSY - Probably Peter, because it was stupid.
RAOUL - Ringo

PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Laura Marling, Jellyfish, Loveletter, Of Montreal.
RAOUL - Unrest, Teenage Fanclub, Au Revoir Simone, BARR, Best Fwends, The Very Best, Best Coast, Vivian Girls, The Clientele, Panther, Abe Vigoda, Ponytail, Girlfriendo, Of Montreal, The Haywains, Saturday Looks Good To Me, McTells, The Bartlebees, Fat Tulips, Delightful LIttle Nothings, Incredible Force Of Junior, Jale, Nothing Painted Blue, The Shins, Shitbirds, The Stool Pigeons, Mayer Hawthorne "Hawthorne Radio" mixes on Stones Throw podcast.

Shiny Happy People

This is too cute not to share...tonight we headed over to JO and ANDRE's house to help them celebrate their 5-year WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Jo owns and operates HONEY'S SALON (it's where Missy gets her hair did) and André writes the NEITHER BIG NOR TALL blog (he did the story on Missy's TOFU BABY for FLAGPOLE). There was plenty of Mexican food and mariachi music spinning on the record player, an amazing chocolate cake, a pop quiz about how they met, and slow dancing in the backyard to R.E.M.'s SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE...Happy Anniversary, Jo & André!

SHINY 5713 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Nilla Sixty-Eight

Icy Hot Mess

Sometimes after an evening of trapeze practice, Missy's shoulder muscles get super sore...so out comes the ICY HOT roll-on applicator to take care of that hot mess of muscles.

Weekend Wind-Down #69

We spent a good part of the weekend cutting and stapling even more zines...even now, I can hear Missy in the living room stapling zines that were left over from the weekend...the factory is in full effect...







FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - The tribute show to Susan at Canopy!
RAOUL - Knight School, My Teenage Stride, Night Moves at the Caledonia Thursday night.

WORST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Bad cupcakes at Ike & Jane!
RAOUL - Friday - not having nearly enough time to hang out with Kevin and Lisa.

WORD OR PHRASE OF THE WEEK?
MISSY - "Butternut"
RAOUL - "Can I have a bite of that?"

FUNNIEST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Oreo jumping up on top of her cage.
RAOUL - Crackin' wise with Kevin and Lisa at The Grit.

FAVORITE MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Dinner at White Tiger.
RAOUL - Mashed potato, asparagus, and butternut squash soup at White Tiger.

WORST MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Cupcakes at Ike & Jane.
RAOUL - Sadly, the cupcakes at Ike & Jane were very disappointing...

THREE THINGS ON YOUR TO-DO LIST FOR NEXT WEEK?
MISSY - Draw my comic, wash clothes, feed the pets.
RAOUL - Register for Walk GA, sew some pouches, catch up on sleep.

THREE-DAY WEEKEND: MONDAY OR FRIDAY OFF?
MISSY - Monday.
RAOUL - Monday! I don't like Mondays...

PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Siouxie & The Banshees, The Decemberists, Jellyfish.
RAOUL - M Ward, The Coctails, Archer Prewitt, De La Soul, The Crabs, The Ventures, The Temolons, Silicon Teens, M, Gollipopps, Hot Pursuit, Air Miami, April March & Los Cincos, Rade Slavko & Maric Perovic, Zdenka Vuckovic I Vokalni Kvartet, Bijele Strijele, Marko Novosel & Gaby Novak, Kvartet Paloma, Radmila Mikic I Ansambl Milivoja Markovica, Teenbeat Records Sampler 2004, Swag Surfing mix on Mad Decent podcast.

Sketchbook Sunday

Drawings in a hand drawn book for Susan at Canopy, our trapeze studio., originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

So tonight I share with you some drawings from a little handmade book that I drew for Susan's going away scrapbook. Susan was the director of CANOPY STUDIO where I take trapeze classes here in Athens.


The first time I saw trapeze here in Athens was at TASTY WORLD, at the after party for FLUKE, the yearly zine fair. I saw the TRAPEZE TARTS with their cute costumes and amazing aerials - I just had to try this for myself!


I started my first trapeze classes in spring of 2004. Now, I started these classes not knowing what I was in for. I started yoga classes in winter of the same year, so that was good conditioning for trapeze. After the first few classes, my body hurt in ways I did not know were possible! Nowadays, I feel like I can take on pretty much anything. And this is coming from someone who was never good in gym class and was always picked last! I think MARY JESSICA and I maybe had similar backgrounds coming in to Canopy!


I am not a dancer, I am not graceful, and I am not a gymnast. I am clumsy! At least at Canopy I can try and forget those things and focus on trying to be things I am not. I sometimes imagine my time at Canopy more like the performance art I would see at the Warhol Museum at home. Movement, sound, and visuals, all in one.


At the start of 2005 I began silks aerials! This proved to be more difficult than trapeze to me. I thought I would never be able to flip upside-down without help from the floor! I also sometimes get nervous being up so high. I am slowly getting over this, but some days that feeling does not show up at all.


I hope you enjoyed my story about Canopy and my little drawings that went with it. This would not be possible without my fabulous teachers (past and present) - Julie, Allison, Chris, Megan, Nicole, Dana, etc. so not to forget anyone, and of course, Susan!

Knightmare Tour!

(Knight School's EL GOLD blogs about tour on her iPhone as My Teenage Stride sound checks)

My friend Kevin was in town this past Thursday with his new band, KNIGHT SCHOOL...they were on tour with another indiepop band from Brooklyn called MY TEENAGE STRIDE. We met them at the CALEDONIA LOUNGE during their sound check and then stuck around to see them play...



Kevin, Lisa, and Chris of Knight School opened up the show with their garage-y pop sound

KNIGHTMARE 5539 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Local hip hop crew FUTURE APE TAPES filled the next spot on the bill with freestyle rhymes and disjointed beats...



Afterwards, MY TEENAGE STRIDE expertly commandeered the stage and got things hopping with their raucous style of pop...

Untitled from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

At the end of the night, Jed from My Teenage Stride, and Kevin took a quick breather before loading up the van and finding places to stay for the night. Kevin and Lisa from Knight School ended coming over to RANCHO COCOA...Nilla was excited to have company and showed off by rolling around on our dining room table, being utterly cute...Lisa took photos of Nilla for her tour blog, BANDS ON THE RUN







I took Friday off work so I could hang out for a little bit longer with Kevin and Lisa. We ended up at THE GRIT for breakfast, where we were served more food than we could possibly finish. After loading up on food, I took Lisa and Kevin to meet up with the rest of their tour mates...they loaded up their cramped mini van and away they went on their way to a house show in Virginia...

Baby Cantaloupe

Baby cantaloupe., originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

My mom and dad wanted to see a photo of the cantaloupe we were growing in our back yard. Here it is - the baby cantaloupe!

Blast From the Past: Snowflake Soiree

ready to go!, originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

Do you remember the first indie craft market you participated in? Well, I was reminded of the Snowflake Soiree we had from Emily's thoughtful post. This was a great memory for me cos Raoul had just moved here at the end of October and I had set up the Soiree at the Athens Recess Center.


The Athens Recess Center (aka ARC) was a community space run by locals, namely my friend Jo, who was thrilled to have the ARC host this event. We had the chalkboard out and balloons from my work, too. Even though it rained, we had an excellent turn out. All our goodie bags got snatched up so fast!






We had our table packed to the gills with Raoul's pouches, plush doggies, ornaments, zines, and much more. I have not looked at these photos in a long time. I see lots of handmade goodies that I don't even make anymore. Maybe I should bring some of that stuff back?


Emily and Jenny were at a table together. Look at all those fabulous goodies! We had a bunch of crafters there - like Glue and Glitter, A bardis, Deli Made, and Genevieve Gail to name a few.


And Sarah, too!






Here I am, too. Wow, December 2005 does not seem like that long ago, but my, we have come a long way!

Sketchbook Sunday

Bunny Love., originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

Here is today's drawing for Sketchbook Sunday. I was thinking of making some little cards with these cute little love bunnies. I love how they look like little jelly beans!

Flossy Love!

Flossy at the barn!, originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

A great big thank you goes to Lyndsay from LOU LOU BELL HANDMADE for a nice write up on my FLOSSY THE PONY Bobbins! I have a few of these ponies left and they are ready for good homes! You can find them in SHOPPE SUGAR COOKIE and on my PERSONAL WEBSITE!

Weekend Wind-Down #68

Yesterday we walked up to the new CVS PHARMACY that opened up the street from us. They had been open for a couple of weeks, but yesterday they had a grand opening party. We drove by it earlier in the day, while we were running errands. We saw a moonbounce, a petting zoo, food stalls, and a DJ, packed into a crowded parking lot...it looked pretty exciting! But by the time we got back home and then walked to the CVS, the party was over and the employees were already cleaning up the mess. Oh well. A couple weeks before the grand opening, CVS had mailed out all these crazy coupons to the houses in the surrounding neighborhood in an effort to get people to come check them out. Needless to say, it worked...we were there to cash in before the coupon expired this weekend...



Turns out that there's a lot more to be had at the CVS than we expected...it's nice to know that if we ever need anything at the last minute - shipping supplies, toiletries, medicine, food - we can always pop up the street in no time, 24 HOURS A DAY. It's nice to have that sort of convenience really close by...





One of the coupons we took advantage of was this offer to get 25 photos printed for free. Missy just happened to have her camera on her and we printed some photos off her memory card...





FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Performing at Canopy on Friday!
RAOUL - Friday's show at Canopy.

WORST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Having to get up at 4:30am for work on Friday...
RAOUL - 6AM critique at work on Friday...so early!

FUNNIEST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Weird dreams! I dreamed Mom, Joey, and I were in Paris...
RAOUL - Cashing in our CVS coupons on Saturday...crazy deals!

WORD OR PHRASE OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - "You gonna put cheese on that?"
RAOUL - "KARMA"

FAVORITE MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - I like my noodle bowl and soup from The Grit.
RAOUL - Big Daddy veggie burger at The Grit.

THREE THINGS ON YOUR TO-DO LIST FOR THIS WEEK?
MISSY - Clean up, do the bills, pay the bills.
RAOUL - Clean the house, see Knight School, water the garden.

"SHAPE" THAT BEST DESCRIBES LAST WEEK?
MISSY - A squiggle!
RAOUL - Trapezoid.

WHAT PART OF THE HOUSE DO YOU HATE TO CLEAN THE MOST?
MISSY - The kitchen table and my desk!
RAOUL - The patio!

PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Jellyfish, Neutral Milk Hotel, Frumpies, Joanna Newsome, Beulah, Mt. Eerie, Mirah, Pandora radio.
RAOUL - Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, The Tentacles, Built To Spill, The Moves, Emily's Sassy Lime, Darryl Hall & John Oats, The Kinks, Sparks, Stereolab, Dean & Britta, Watercolor Paintings, The Lil' Hospital, Mazzy Star, Money Mark, Fol Chen, Bugbear, Danielson, Happy Supply, Pavement, Juliana Hatfield, Flying Tigers, Sean Lennon, Three Berry Ice Cream, Call And Response, The Essex Green, Human League, Adam Ant, Yo La Tengo, Lootpack mix on Stones Throw podcast.

Factory Girl

Late afternoon: sitting on our craft room floor, I helped Missy staple a ton of little MINI COMICS...some old, most new...they're going to help fill some orders, including a couple of restocks of some brick and mortar stores that carry Missy's "stuff". As she cut and sequenced the pages, I deftly stapled and stacked...we were a little zine making factory...

Works In Progress

Missy had an AERIAL PERFORMANCE tonight at CANOPY STUDIO...last night she got to babysit the SILK SLING that she was going to use in order to insure that the sling was tied properly...



The performance was a student show, showcasing "works in progress" by different groups from different classes. Missy's group was scheduled to go on very last. I took a few photos of a couple of the groups and then filmed Missy's entire performance...it was kinda hard to get good photos because the studio was backlit by sunlight streaming in through the high windows...















If you can't tell from the grainy video, Missy is the one in the middle of the group, on the fuchsia silk, and if you can't tell from the bad audio, the group is performing to a COCTEAU TWINS song...considering that we had been up since around 4am and we were dead tired, it was the perfect end to a very very long day...

CANOPY 5514 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Nilla Sixty-Seven

We got Nilla a new bag of food tonight...she was so excited, she started rubbing her face all over the bag in complete adoration. Missy got down and started copying Nilla, rubbing her face all over the bag too!

Dear Creatures

Here's Missy in the BIRD BATH (a.k.a. the master bath) trying on her cute new dress from DEAR CREATURES. She's standing on the toilet so she can see herself in the mirror and see how the dress looks on her. Last week, moments after she had ordered the dress online, we saw ZOOEY DESCHANEL wearing the exact same one (but in navy blue) on an episode of TOP CHEF...so Missy was especially excited to try it on when it arrived on our doorstep...straight from the box in all it's wrinkled glory.

Snuggle Bunny Monday

Oreo in relax mode., originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

Oreo is usually a very busy bunny, but here she is in total relax mode! Check out her back feet tucked up on her sides. She is so silly. Check out all the stuff that she enjoys playing with, too - like cardboard and oatmeal containers.


I got her a Nibble Knot a few weeks ago and she tore that thing up! Just look at it. It is the rainbow-colored wooden toy on the left.


Here is the final cute Oreo photo of the day! Aw!

Weekend Wind-Down #67

Missy is close to completing her trio of plush PINK ELEPHANTS...just a few finishing touches here and there, and the little pachyderm family will be ready to leave the ranch for Seattle...







FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Sewing up the elephants.
RAOUL - Thursday night's show at the Secret Squirrel.

WORST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Being at work so long on Friday.
RAOUL - Working 10 hours on Friday without taking a lunch.

WORD OR PHRASE OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - "Sprinkle cheese!"
RAOUL - "Junk hole"

FAVORITE MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - I like The Grit on Thursday.
RAOUL - Homemade German noodle bowl last Sunday.

THREE THINGS ON YOUR SHOPPING LIST FOR THIS WEEK?
MISSY - Cat food, lettuce, broccoli.
RAOUL - Apples, hummus, fancy hand soap.

FOOD ITEM THAT THAT DESCRIBES LAST WEEK?
MISSY - Peanuts
RAOUL - Molasses?

PERSONAL RESOLUTION FOR THIS WEEK?
MISSY - Clean up!
RAOUL - More cardio.

PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Jellyfish, Kristen Hersh, Beirut, Microphones, Aislers Set, Dean & Britta
RAOUL - Mazzy Star, Watercolor Paintings, Iji, Pipas, Dean & Britta, Au Revoir Simone, BARR, Ivy, Desolation Wilderness, Ponytail, Of Montreal, Rafter, The Dimes, Cause Co-Motion, Abe Vigoda, Love Is All, King Tubby, Pterodactyl Squad's 8-Bit Weezer tribute comp.

Sketchbook Sunday

My sketches., originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

Here are some of my new drawings I am working on. I love tracing my drawings to tracing paper! It is alot of fun to me. Here you see my drawings taped to the window on a sometimes sunny day.


I am thinking of making a series of drawings of kids in hoods. I used to sew these hoods with cat ears and bear ears. I think I still have some! And of course I love the Red Riding Hood look, too.

No Not With The Light On

I don't usually go out to shows on a week night because I usually have to get up early for work the next day...and I'd like to think I've grown into a "responsible adult". This past thursday night was the exception to the rule though, because sometimes when "CHANCE" puts an opportunity in front of you, you have to take it and see where the magic takes you. Thursday on the way home from work, Missy and I were trying to decide where to go for dinner - we were both famished and feeling much too lazy to cook. As usual, we found ourselves at THE GRIT. As soon as we entered the restaurant we were greeted with smiles and "hey!"s from a table full of strangely familiar faces. It finally took a minute or two for Missy and I to realize that 1) these people were from out of town, 2) we knew some of these people, or at least knew of them, 3) they must be in town to play a show! Turns out that the members of IJI, WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS, and THE BLANKET TRUTH were all sitting at that table, finishing up their meal. We quickly found out that they were actually hoping to run into me and Missy downtown (something that's all too easy to do in a place like Athens) because they were playing a show that was *JUST* thrown together...it was going to be Iji (pronounced EEE-HEE), Watercolor Paintings, Theo from NANA GRIZOL, Julian Koster from THE MUSIC TAPES and NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, and unknown "others" playing a potluck at the SECRET SQUIRREL...and that best of all, the show started super early - at 8PM. I thought, "yeah, I can do that!"...only in Athens...



Amazingly, the show started on time, with Theo kicking off the festivities...people sang along to a few of the Nana Grizol tunes he performed:

SQRRRL 5380 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Julian took the floor next, setting up next to a surreal Turkish MINARET, with hands that came out of it and gently stroked a keyboard. He played his SINGING SAWS along with some sort of GYPSY ACCORDION MUSIC emanating from the tower. I could not help but think of the song "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" the entire time...

SQRRRL 5381 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Julian and a friend performed a rendition of the Christmas classic "LET IT SNOW" for the crowd:

SQRRRL 5391 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Afterwards, Santa Barbara, California's Watercolor Paintings, charmed the crowd while sitting on the side of the stage:

SQRRRL 5393 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

SQRRRL 5395 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

SQRRRL 5396 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

SQRRRL 5397 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Seattle's Iji were up next and they were raucous and loud...you couldn't help but bounce in your shoes...

SQRRRL 5402 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

SQRRRL 5412 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Just when we thought the night was over, John Fernandes of Olivia Tremor Control pulled out a BASS CLARINET and started playing along to a cassette which he threw into an 8-track recorder...as his set got underway and the lights were dimmed, I decided that I better call it a night, knowing that I would have to get up for an early morning meeting in just a handful of hours...

Nilla Sixty-Six

MISSY spooning NILLA on the couch in the living room as they napped in the late afternoon yesterday...

The Donger

Like many Gen-Xer's that grew up in the 80's, I was saddened to hear that director JOHN HUGHES passed away yesterday. I could go on and on about how his movies helped to shape my young impressionable mind, but I'll resist the temptation. Instead, I was reminded of a funny avatar I made for my FRIENDSTER profile many many years ago...I found a film still from John Hughes' FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, featuring actor GEDDE WATANABE as foreign exchange student LONG DUK DONG (a.k.a. "THE DONGER"), resting his head on the ample breasts of his "American-style girlfriend"...I sloppily replaced his head with a photo of MY OWN HEAD...needless to say, I still crack myself up at how terrible it looks...I regret that I can't make the images any larger, without them looking terribly grainy. Anyways, you get the idea. Pour one out for Mr. John Hughes and watch one of his classic movies this weekend...

You Say Tomato

The recent rains have been good to our little backyard garden, causing new tomatoes to pop from the vines. We picked a trio of CHERRY TOMATOES which we promptly ate. As cliche as it sounds, vegetables really do taste way better when you grow them organically yourself! Seriously, the tomatoes we've eaten out of our garden so far have put any store bought tomato we've eaten in the past to shame. We're hoping to plant even more vegetables in our yard soon and can't wait for our current plants to give us more food...

Snuggle Bunny Monday

Wild bunny in the back yard., originally uploaded by sugar-cookie.

We have OREO as our inside bunny, and here is the WILD BUNNY that lives outside. We have seen this bun for quite some time now, and this is either the mom or the baby.


Here we see her in our backyard doing lots of bunny things! These photos were taken while standing in our kitchen and peeking through the window above the sink. It faces the back yard. So far we see this bunny every evening in the back yard. I think she is nibbling on our OREGANO and other garden goodies.


We also spy this bunny in the front yard, too. She just likes hanging out in our yard, I guess!

Weekend Wind-Down #66

We had got a big bag of thick GERMAN EGG NOODLES, made with free-range eggs, from the EUROPEAN DELI (previous post HERE). We boiled them along with some frozen peas, while Missy improvised a sauce made with soy sauce, soy milk, nutritional yeast, water, butter, sage, thyme, dill, garlic, pepper, coriander, plus half a veggie bouillon cube. We also steamed a bunch of baby carrots, and mixed everything into a big hearty stew, enough to last us a couple of days...talk about carbo load! It's the sort of meal that makes more sense during the fall and winter, but certainly not during the summer!

BTW....TOTALLY YUMMIES!







FAVORITE MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Sponsoring the Craftsanity Podcast!
RAOUL - Finally sewing a buncha new pouches.

WORST MOMENT OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Being tired.
RAOUL - Effed-up sleep schedule.

WORD OR PHRASE OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - "I would love you more if you had goat eyes"
RAOUL - a tie between "Punkaaaay!" and "Would you still love me if I had goat eyes?"

FAVORITE MEAL OF THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Tomato soup and crackers.
RAOUL - Frozen custard from Rita's Italian Ice.

FAVORITE FOOD ITEM WE BUY FROM THE EUROPEAN DELI?
MISSY - I like the dark chocolate. The noodles are good too.
RAOUL - Definitely the russian candy.

THREE THINGS ON YOUR TO-DO LIST FOR NEXT WEEK?
MISSY - Sew, sew, sew!
RAOUL - Sew, clean, fix up car.

WHAT COLOR BEST DESCRIBES THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - Pank!
RAOUL - Burgundy.

WHAT COLOR DO YOU HOPE DESCRIBES NEXT WEEK?
MISSY - Purple, cuz I want to paint in here...
RAOUL - Gold.

PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE PAST WEEK?
MISSY - The Bangs, The Frumpies, Beirut, Belly, Beulah.
RAOUL - The Shop Assistants, The Rock*A*Teens, Guv'ner, Elastica, The Bangs, Bratmobile, Heavens To Betsy, Takako Minekawa, Tugboat Fantastic!, Poundsign, The Moonlings, Rizzo, Juniper, David J, The Autumn Teen Sound, The Maulies, Going Stagg, The Princeton Reverbs Colonial, Kosmonaut, Fantastic!, The Tyde, Brittle Stars, Beanpole, Nerdy Girl, B'ehl, The Seashell Sea, Cub, Raggedy Ann, Belly, The Breeders, Saint Etienne, The Sundays, Pterodactyl Squad's 8-Bit Weezer tribute compilation, Major Lazer mix and Swag Surfing mix on the Mad Decent podcast.

Baby Elephant Walk

We spent the bulk of this afternoon in the living room watching T.V. while Missy stuffed her LITTLE PINK ELEPHANTS and then sewed ears onto each of them...they're slowly getting closer and closer to completion...