Well it is Christmas/ Yule or what ever you call it and my holiday was the best one yet this year even thought I was not able to by my little girl anything because money was short... but thanks to The Hope House my daughter had something under the tree.
As you can see:
My daughter in her new Christmas dress isn't she cute...just like her mother
Then after my family came by and we had dinner and hung out...my gaming family came over so we could play the campaign that my husband/ Dungeon Master has been working on for 20 years called Summer of Eternal Frost if you want to check it out here is the link: https://summer-of-eternal-frost.obsidianportal.com/dashboard
On Friday my room mate and I always head over to the local free-be spot where people can get thing fro their house holds with out paying out of pocket for it...yeah its all hand me down stuff but I never complain it where I find everything I needed for photo shoots.
On our way to the bus stop we decided to shop at a place we had always walked by to get something to eat
When we walked inside it was small and intimate, smelled of freshly made food, and the sound of a old school dinner.
Its a family owned business and daughter who was running the shop at the time of our arrival was sweet, kind and greeted us with a smile, just what you would suspect from a place like this
She asked us what we would like and when we said it was our first time stopping in here she went through the whole menu plus the specials. (I was impressed)
So my room mate and I settled on two sandwiches she got the Chicken stack it had chicken (of course) lightly seasoned, bell peppers, grilled onions and mozzarella cheese and I got a Philly stack it had philly stake, bell peppers, minise the onions (because I like kissing my husband), and pepper jack cheese both sandwiches where $7.95 plus taxs
Both sandwiches where to kill for but we learned one thing about their sandwiches don't wait to eat them because if you do you will have soggy bread from all the juice from the meat all in all they where the best hot sandwiches I have ever had.
Here is there information and they also do catering call them for a quote if you have an event you need covered
And oh my gods it was fun!!! Fur suits! Food!! and Ice Skates???
Had to take a small video of the furry tunnel form the out side...hee hee
This was suppose to be a meeting but the person who was suppose to do the meeting part didn't show up so it just turned into a big party in the dancing hall above the Highland Ice Arena at 18005 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline there was enough food to feed a herd of animals...lol...and the one thing I missed...Fur Suits!!!! and getting hugs from furies too...I was only in a par-shall fur suit but it was still fun...took a lot of pictures before we went out onto the Ice
Yeah we went Ice Skating too...my first time back on the ice since I was a little furry...and what do you know I still remembered how to do it :) I fell once and only once the rest of the time I skated like a BOSS!
But since I was out on the Ice I didn't get any pictures of all the Furries that where on the Ice because I didn't want to brake my camera...But I have pictures from people who did take pictures of furs on-ice
I had fun and was invited to more of there meeting/party's so I will keep you updated in my adventures in the world of the Furry Community.
So
this is a small blog about the very woman who got my mother and I
started on making clothing for ourselves and for other people Edith
Head, October
28th was her one hundred and sixteenth birthday.
She
was a very important woman in Hollywood in her day, she is the reason
our favorite actors and actresses looked so good in their films
And
she also had a cartoon character based on her…can you guess how?
Can’t guess… well I will give you a hint… “Yes…and I will
also fix the hobo suit.”…still nothing…Edna
Mode!
One
of my favorite creations she made was for Audrey Hepburn’s
European ensembles in “Roman Holiday,” the floral sarong worn by
Dorothy Lamour in “Jungle Princess”, and Elizabeth Taylor’s
sparkling strapless dress in “A Place in the Sun,” among more
than 400 other movie wardrobes.
Her 35 Oscar nominations and 8
awards make her both the most honored costume designer and woman in
Academy Award history to date.
Interred at Forest Lawn,
Glendale, California, USA, in the Cathedral Slope section, plot
#1675.
Rarely did her own sketching
because of her time schedule. Almost all sketches of "hers"
one sees today were actually done by a devoted staff of sketch
artists.
During the 1920s, she taught
French and art at the Hollywood School for Girls.
On They
Might Be Giants'
2001 album, "Mink Car", there is a song called "She
Thinks She's Edith Head".
Was a close friend of actress
Anne
Baxter. She was
godmother to one of Baxter's children.
A photograph of Miss Head working
on a dress design appears on one stamp of a sheet of 10 USA 37¢
commemorative postage stamps, issued 25 February 2003, celebrating
American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes. The stamp honors costume
design.
Received a master's degree in
French from Stanford University in 1920
The Costume Department building
on the Paramount lot is named after her.
The character "Edna Mode"
in Disney/Pixar's The
Incredible
(2004) was modeled on her.
Extremely diplomatic, she went
out of her way to get along with co-workers and rarely gossiped. In
later interviews, however, she mentioned that she did not enjoy
working with Mary
Martin,
Claudette
Colbert or Hedy
Lamarr. In
Paulette
Goddard's case,
she thought it was insensitive for the glamorous star to bring her
bulging jewelry boxes to the studio workroom and tell her
seamstresses (who were working for minimum wage) that they could
"look, but not touch.".
Her trademark "sunglasses"
were not "sunglasses" but rather blue lensed glasses.
Looking through a blue glass was a common trick of costumers in the
days of Black and White film to get a sense of how a color would
photograph. Edith had a pair of glasses made out of the proper shade
of blue glass to save herself from looking through a single lens. Her
friends commonly would see her in regular "clear" glasses.
She is tied with composer Alan
Menken for
third most Academy Awards won. Each of them have eight.
Biography in: "The Scribner
Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages
376-378. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
Alumnae Initiate of Delta Zeta
sorority, Mu chapter.
She is credited with putting
Dorothy Lamour in her first sarong for "The Jungle Princess".
Her first job was as a teacher of
French, Spanish and Art at the Bishop School for Girls at La Jolla,
California. She got into films by answering a wanted ad as a sketch
artist for Paramount. Edith worked there in that capacity under
Howard Greer from 1924 to 1927. In 1928 she was promoted assistant to
Travis Banton. From 1938 to 1966, she held the top job as Head of
Design at Paramount, contributing in one way or another to over 1,000
motion pictures (supervising costumes for 47 films in 1940 alone).
Raised in the mining town of
Searchlight, Nevada. Studied at the University of California,
Berkeley. Attended the Otis Art Institute and the Chouinard Art
School in Los Angeles.
Personal Quotes
I've designed films I've never
seen.
If it is a Paramount film, I
probably designed it.
What a costume designer does is a
cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of
changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to
believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's
become a different person.
I have yet to see one completely
unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
You can lead a horse to water and
you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what
they don't want to wear.
[1977 comment on Jacqueline
Bisset] One of
the greatest bodies I've ever worked with. But besides that she is
rather the opposite, because she is so damned intelligent. It's a
strange combination, almost a double personality.
[On Grace
Kelly] I've
dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am
asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, "Grace
Kelly." She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to
me, a valued friend.
[On Kim
Novak] I don't
usually get into battles, but dressing Kim
Novak for her
role in Alfred
Hitchcock's
Vertigo
(1958) put to the test all my training in psychology.
[On viewing what many tanned
actresses wore to the 1966 Academy Awards]
I looked at all those white dresses and I thought we were doing a
reprise of White
Christmas
(1954).
I never thought I did good work
for [Cecil
B. DeMille]. I
always had to do what that conceited old goat wanted, whether it was
correct or not.
[On winning her fifth Oscar,
1954] I'm going to take it home and design a dress for it.
[Her reaction to losing the 1956
Color Costume Award
to Love
Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955)] Charles
Le Maire is a
good friend of mind and I would tell him to his face that his designs
were blah compared to my gowns. All the costumes Jennifer
Jones wore were
Chong Sams, the traditional Chinese dress, which could have been
purchased in Chinatown. That loss was the single greatest
disappointment of my costume-design career.
This
is a great event that I will be going to thanks to a group of my
furry friends from last year’s Convention they said this is a great
winter event for people of all kinds and it is great… The Furry’s
themselves call it “Furry’s on Ice”
So
I am going to check it out this year and I will be taking lot of
pictures too so be on the lookout for the skunk with a camera…
It's
time to start thinking about the holidays again!
What:
RF Holiday Potluck Where: Highland Ice Arena, 18005 Aurora Ave N,
Shoreline When: Saturday, December 14, 6 P.M.-9 P.M. Meeting from 6:30
to 7
Public Transportation: Route 358 Parking: Behind
building. Lots of parking.
It's time to start thinking about
the holidays again!
RainFurrest is pleased to host a holiday
potluck party on Saturday, December 14th, from 6PM to 9PM at the
Highland Ice Arena, 18005 Aurora Avenue North in Shoreline. We'd like
to have a meeting between 6:30 and 7 so we can be sure to thank all
of you for your help.
The potluck is in the upstairs meeting
room. There is lots of parking behind the building, which is also
where the entrance is. Bus route 358 stops right outside the
building. There is a Fred Meyer two blocks north if you'd like to
pick up food there.
RainFurrest will provide plates,
silverware, glasses, and beverages. You'll need to bring your own
serving utensils. Please note that the venue does not allow
alcohol.
Since it's a potluck, you can use the opportunity to
show off your culinary skills or your shopping prowess by bringing
something yummy! Please e-mail tuxedo.kitty@yahoo.com to let us know
the type of dish you want to bring. As awesome as 50 plates of
cookies would be, we’re afraid we'd like a bit more variety.
But
wait, there's more!!
The Highland Ice Arena is open for open
ice skating from 7:30 P.M. to 11 P.M. Skating is $7, and skate rental is
$3. Best of all, skating in fursuit is allowed!
Okay so you know I told you that no matter what I was going to FurCon this year... but sadly I was unable to because I was not able to get time off of work L
But....
Thanks to all my furry cuteness all the friends I made last year where willing to take pictures for me so I could keep you guys updated even thought I couldn't go this year J
=^-^= I love my furry friends! =^-^=
One of my favorite pictures was of a group of baby furs hotel room...ZOMG IT IS SO CUTE!!!!! I would have love to sleep in this room...
why?...
Shhh...I secretly love Care Bears hee hee
All the rest are from events
Okay...well that's all for Fur Con 2013, and hopefully next year I will have saved up so that I will have my fur suit and at Fur Con 2014.
If you want to find out more information Just go to the link I placed below.
Well hello!
My dedicated readers, I know it has been a little while since the last time I posted and since then I have found my self deeply enthralled in a new book series that I just can't stop reading! It's called "The Generalist," and I know I have talked about it before but now there are three books out "The Generalist - Taboo 0: Cliché of Memories", "The Generalist - Taboo 1: Where's the Beef?" and "The Generalist - Taboo 2: Magic and Mayhem (Part 1 of the Mayhem Arc). As of right now the only book I have in my possession is Taboo 0: Cliché of Memories on my kindle.
What I am asking you my lovely readers is for a favor... the links that I am posting all I want you to do is go check them out...pick up your free copy of Taboo 0: Cliché of Memories tell the author what you think.
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Also, have a free download on the house: http://www.amazon.com/The-Generalist-Taboo-Cliché-Memories-ebook/dp/B009F7K5U4
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Meet us up at https://www.facebook.com/events/434867853280505/?source=1, and last but not least don't forget to pass this message on to one person, yeah?
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