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Using a magnet for a barrette was a fail (at least the way we did it... still worth experimenting with, though!)
We got these cute button & ribbon goodies at Knittn' Kitten, Portland's craft thrift store!
FULL tutorial for many kinds of barrettes: dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/08/baby-barrettes/
Making cute barrettes for newborns, infants, and little girls is a simple and fun project. My mom and I were only too overjoyed to experiment when we were faced with several baby showers for female babies (there are no little girls in our family yet!). We made hair adornments with newborns and infants in mind, and we experimented with several different styles, sizes, and hair-clipping methods.
First off, we hit up our favorite local craft thrift store (if you like crafting and you are ever in Portland, OR, I highly suggest scheduling in a trip to Knittn’ Kitten!) and gathered supplies for making wee barrettes. You can use whatever you have in your stash, too!
The evening of the 5th day of our Rhine Cruise saw us leaving Koblenz and heading downriver towards Cologne, and it was time for some entertainment put on by the staff. What a fun evening!
This gal was supposed to be a circus tightrope walker, and got several gentlemen from the audience, including my husband, to hold the rope tight. After a number of failed attemps, since the fellows couldn't hold the rope tight when she tried to get on, she hauled out her wet laundry and proceeded to hang it on the tightrope turned clothesline! (12-10-11-4680)
Just a failed shot that I pushed out trying to submit to a camera club contest. It looks great save for the scarf on the left. Likely a casualty of over processing.
Randomly I realized I didn't have a screenshot of this guy. Fail Whale - what you know all the tech folk/twitter addicts will be talking about whenever he appears. Also it's just fun to say Fail Whale.
...And of course seconds after I get the Fail Whale Twitter is back. So there will be no excited mass panic or blogging or ranting. Darn.
...Meanwhile do you notice how happy the whale is? And are those birds taking him back to the ocean or taking him away...elsewhere? You'd think a whale would look more nervous if he was actually leaving the water. Also those are some pretty strong birds - there are only 8 of them. This makes me wonder if some fellow nerd has already done the math to figure how much weight each of those birds is carrying. (Yes, I googled - I'm still looking.)
Meanwhile this is a hysterical fail whale alternative image:
www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/2537309848/
Also the blog post:
Fail Whale's Birds Must Work Out A Lot - Or They're Really Pterosaurs
where I ponder whether 8 pterosaurs could carry a whale.
Heroes - Lamb w/ Roasted corn, fried bread, Braised Carrots, and Seared Bananas with Chocolate Peanut Butter sauce
Well, fail tables I guess is more like it. Forgot the beers, got bounced on every attempt, and my camera battery wasn't charged (DOH!) so only got these two blurry shots (not even from the right angle...these were actually goin downhill more than flat) before it died altogether. Fail. The night was saved by a few Young's Winter Warmers and Affligem Holidays ales at Doyle's after.
15/08/2009;
mod. Canon EOS 350D with kit lens;
blue film in background and underneath. a red film overhead.
Parenting fail. Tornado sirens going off. This parent drops their kid off to go run to the bus stop. Really? Just drive your kid to school fool- you are 1/2 way there & did I mention tornado sirens?!?!?
I found a recipe for perogies in a Russian cook book, and it made no sense to my intuition how it would work out... but I went with it, and I admittedly don't like it. These have ground beef filling (why? if you're making perogies, would you go with something so plain...) This dough baked to be like harder bread, and the ground beef on the inside dried up pretty bad. It was difficult to eat these without a drink on the side.
See, here's the thing. If you are going to sent recruitment letters to HS/College kids, expounding on the ways that you, that National Guard, can further their education, the inability to construct a letter that has no grammatical errors in it is a huge detractor to your cause. The highlighted piece is a sentence fragment, not a complete sentence. Using "because" to begin a sentence can be done correctly, and it is done so later in the letter. But here, it is as my teenagers would say, an "epic fail."
My kids have been raised, occasionally to their chagrin, by an English teacher. This child, in particular, tweaks when people who are "supposed to be smarter" or "supposed to be professional" demonstrate a clear lack of comprehension of basic grammatical mechanics. She is planning to write them a letter to explain how she would never be able to trust an organization to "further her education" when they cannot even write a well constructed letter to her.
Arrogant though it seems? She's right. I cannot wait to read the letter she writes.
The back of our programs had paper airplane folding instructions on them for folks to through at us at the end of the ceremony. It was super fun and I couldn't stop laughing but it didn't translate in the photos. You can see one here at the top right corner.