Teaser photos till the costumes is done! Enjoy!
Monday, July 30, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Early One Morning
Astrid Hofferson
That is just the teaser photo! See I have been working on something! ha ha! soon there will be more I promise! I finally found a family friend who is willingly to take photos of me!
Happy summer everyone!!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Quonset Air Museum/ URI Botanical Gardens
Quonset Air Museum
Air Museum Site
Last thrusday the ladies and I went to see the Quonset air museum, I had never been but have always heard amazing things. There is a little back ground on the museum.
"The birthplace of the US Navy, Quonset Point goes
back to the Revolutionary War, when a guard was placed there to watch
for British warships that might sail up Narragansett Bay to raid coastal
Rhode Island cities.
By the late 19th Century, Quonset Point had become the State
Camp Ground for the Rhode Island Militia and, later, the Rhode Island
National Guard. During the Spanish American War, the conflict in Mexico
and World War I, troops trained at Quonset Point.
During World War II, NAS Quonset Point served on
the front lines of the war against the U-boats. Numerous land-based and
carrier-based anti-submarine squadrons trained and shipped out from
Quonset and these accounted for many U-boats sunk and many merchant
ships saved. During the war, the base was also on the cutting edge of
research in airborne radar and electronics systems. "
The bluiding itself is amazing, all the weathering on the outside and on the inside too from all those years! Oh it was so cool to see all those huge air crafts and missiles!
We had to have spent about two and a half hours there just going back to some of the planes and reading every little detail we could! I felt so small next to all the planes! It was a great trip and all the gentlemen working there that morning were great! Oh how they had us laughing!
URI - Botanical Gardens
The website must have been down because for some reason it wasn't loading for me ... hmm well the garden blog is really cool! What a great idea for others to track the progress of the plants!
Can you tell I really really like taking photos of flowers? I loved this visit it was wonderful and the perfect weather for it too here in RI it had just cooled off for a bit.
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| Ding Hao Inc Chaysan Themuns |
Last stop we went blueberry picking! It was so yummy!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Newport Art Museum and Purgatory Chasm
Newport Art Museum
Newport Art
If you follow this blog, by now you have noticed that normally every Thursday my friends and I go out any about on some kind of an adventure! Well by the title of this post we went to the Newport Art Museum and let me be the first to tell you, I had an amazing time! The art was amazing some new and some old but the building, OH the building was wonderful. I think what I loved the most about this museum was that fact of the matter was that it was showing artist from the area. I felt so honored to be in that house and seeing all those paintings.
"Home for the Museum since 1916, the Griswold House is a National Historic
Landmark and an Official Project of Save America’s Treasures. Designed
in 1862 by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt, it was completed in 1864
for John N.A. Griswold, a China Trade merchant and financier. Griswold
House was Hunt’s first major commission in Newport and is the premier
example of American Stick Style architecture. Hunt went on to design
many of the grand cottages of Newport’s Gilded Age, including The
Breakers, Marble House, and Ochre Court. .."
after spending the day in the museum I found myself enchanted with one painting and now before I go on about this painting I must say at first I could tell if I liked it or hated it. But as a I kept going back to it and for more paintings by the same artist, I found myself loving the art work. Howard Gardiner Cushing (1869-1906) is the painters name, an artist from Boston but had a studio in Newport, RI. His family was a major player in the China Trade market and his painting had very strong Asian influence in his paintings. And after hours of looking and looking I didn't find a lot of information on Mr. Cushing, tho I did finally this short and brief bio.
"Cushing studied at Harvard University and later in Paris as a pupil
of Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He
exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1892 and 1896.
Examples of his work are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Newport Art Museum,
Newport, RI (of which he was a founding member)..."
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| Ethel Cushing, H.G. Cushing's wife. |
How I wish I took photos of the other painting he had done of Ethel, I can not find them anywhere online. Which just means that I MUST go back and see them again! A friend of mine has also spoken to me about going to some other museums in New England that shows some of his other works.
Road trip!
Purgatory Chasm
Newport, Rhode Island
Now let me explain that there are TWO purgatory chasms in Southern New New England and I had only recently found out about this one located in Newport.
"According to
legend, Hobomoko (the Native American devil) carried a woman to
Purgatory Chasm after she had murdered a "white man". When the woman
began to fight, Hobomoko hit her head against a boulder and attacked her
with a tomahawk. The bowl-like depressions show where her head hit the
boulder, the ax-marks where the tomahawk struck, and the footprints in
the vein of stone where he carried his victim's body to the edge of the
fissure. .."
Well the first bit of the interview is about the story and than it goes into more topics. I think it was pretty cool little story. When we we standing there near the chasm I felt a bit strange.
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| Its along way down |
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| Climbing trees all summer long!! |
Right so in other news no I haven't been working on any costumes... but I still seem to be adding costumes to the list! hah I have someone in mind that is going to take some really good quality photos on my costumes for me! Super excited about that!
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| baby quilt I've been working Had all the fabric layin' about and did want to spend any $$ |
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| Old singer machine and my NEW SERGER!! |
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| My aunt is getting married and here is the cake lay out! |
Friday, July 6, 2012
Be the Leaf
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| LOVE HIM!! |
Avatar Korra is an amazing show, probably my favorite in a very long time. I love the characters, the art work, the story.... simply amazing!! Just finished season one and CAN NOT wait for season two to air! Hope its soon!!! Yeah I'm totally added an airbender costume to my list. I know, I know its a long list and I haven't really touched anything on it yet. YET!
What needs to get done
What needs to get done
- Sailor Uranus - Boots cover / white gloves / tiara / style wig -75% done
- Sailor Moon - 0%
- Lightning FFX13 -Need photos. - 99%
- Spiderwoman - Need photos - 100%
- Hawk-eye (Kate Bishop) - purple tights - bow/arrow - boots - 50%
- Night Sister - red fabric - white tights - 0%
- Umi - (MKR) - 0%
- AirBender - 0%
- Harley Quinn - 0%
- Scarlett - G.I. Joe-0%
- Black Widow - 0%
Monday, July 2, 2012
Happy Birthday America...
First off, happy birthday to me! June 30th was my 23rd birthday and sadly just like last years party I don't remember much! ha ha! But that happens to the best of us, doesn't it? We did throw together this amazing garden party in a friend's backyard! Really hope someone posts photos of the yard, oh it looked beautiful!
I spent the 29th in Newport, RI with the boyfriend! Oh it was a dream come true, fancy dinner, the night life of downtown Newport and the spa! I truly am blessed to have such a thoughtful boyfriend!
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| The Boyfriend I on the Cliff walk! <3 |
But enough about that!!
I've sold two clutches already and have others wanting more! Super excited about that, costumes are still in the works I haven't really touch any of them in awhile.
I'm sure I'll post tomorrow too.
Cheers for now!
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