and by popular demand...

ok, well it was just christina (my friend) so it probably doesn't count, but here is the summer scarf I made, directions here

ps - step 3 (pulling the pieces once you have cut them is very important - you'll see why after you do the first one...)

Boris says hi!

this is a little squirrel christina and I came across in a park in chicago years ago, he was not happy with us and was so funny to listen to him going mad on us... we named him Boris

happy birthday christina ballerina!

Christina and I met in Chicago, in a time in my life where I was in transition and rediscovering myself, and basically having the time of my life - and together we did have the times of our lives in that wonderful city.

We both moved to Chicago around the same time - her for school and me for a holiday from my real life. We have so many fun, crazy, unbelievable stories from the times we had in Chicago but we will never tell... :P

Christina is a wonderfully talented butterfly, and you can see her work here.

I love you lady!

kisses kate

happy friday!

I'm not sure if it's the time change (which happened 2 weeks ago) or the fact that these days all seem to blur together with all the things going on in our busy lives, but I am tired - just plain tired... and am so glad it's friday today - my favourite day of the week!

I'm so looking forward to sleeping in this weekend, which has not been happening lately thanks to a certain dachshund puppy who thinks she is a morning person...

I hope you have a wonderful restful weekend!

photo by Christina Lauryn

Friday night fun (drunk) times

a few weeks ago while Mike (Bryce's brother) was here from Chile, we decided to relive the Melita & Kate's World Tour of San Jose since we had so much fun and silliness the last time...

it was also the day I had my make-up done at MAC (which took forever) so I was late getting home to pick up Bryce and we missed the first country, Cuba (Melita will have to tell you about that stop)

We met Cody and Melita in Germany and were excited to get a seat in the beer garden, until we realised they were not playing the same tunes as last time... we were surrounded by couples on dates listening to jazz :( the best part about this place last time was the great band all dressed in costume and the lively dancing and drinking crowd - we were thoroughly disappointed, I mean it was october in germany, and no oktoberfest celebrations???

so we decided to drown our sorrows with some massive 1 litre beers

this beer even made cody who is 6'2" or something look small...

I just wanted my photo taken with it...

Mike looks like he's about to fall asleep in his...

we had some delicious german cuisine, I had stroganoff and mash potato and some scary sauerkraut stuff

we played this joke on Mike who read this piece of paper so loud with such conviction, we all just laughed... yes we were drunk and we are children, not 30 something adults...

after dinner we were on to England to Trials Pub, which was much more crowded than last time, so it was a short stop here, but I did get a shot of this cool helmet :)

then we walked for what seemed like hours

and decided to scrap the whole 'world' tour, since it was not living up to our first go round... we decided to go play some pool

and after a quick stop at the bar

and some tequila shots

we got comfy at the pool hall

some more comfortable than others...

brian

cody

and bryce were playing for real (this shot was taken after bryce sunk the black off the break - which meant he won on the first shot...)

while others were just playing around

my personal strategy is one of slam it and see if it goes in

and then distract the other player so they miss...

cheers christina

self portrait time brian & christina

kate & cody

some arty shots

some not so arty...

mike, still sleeping...

ok forget pool, let's just take silly photos...

we're funny...

cody & brian having 'a moment'

brian trying to scare cody with 'the hand'?

cody looks scared... :P

you decide what was happening here...

take 2

yeah - Kate ROCKS!!!

some bad self portrait on very dirty mirror...

awww

hey boys - oh look Mike finally awake!

cool lighting shots

the bar

christina's pirate inpersonation?

1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3

cheers (see the tequila's waiting for us in the corner)

not sure what was happening here - but obviously too much drinking!

love me a photo opportunity with some security guards :)

another failed attempt at a mirrored self portrait...

we found these guys which we ran into on the last world tour of san jose, and christina wanted to reenact my version of this photo

I had to show her how it was done...

and then we found the lavender - and they wouldn't believe me when I told them how nice it is to lay in, so I talked them into trying it :)

see, it's lovely to lay in the lavender...