JImmy Kimmel Live!

 

Last Wednesday Julie and I went to see Jimmy Kimmel Live! It was so much fun!! We got seated in the second row (Ego boost! We are still pretty enough to be seated up front!), and our guests were Jonah Hill and Busy Phillips. It was truly a great experience, we got there 30 min before and they let us right in, we didn't have to wait in a long line at all. We got seated and then were entertained by the pump up guy and the band; Jimmy Kimmel even came out and chatted with the audience for a while! Danny and I watch him every day. He is our favorite! He is funny, and nice, and oh so handsome! He was the president of the Handsome Men's Club after all! If you haven't seen that clip please click here! It's just too funny!

I can't wait to do it again soon!

Waiting to go in!

Yay Jimmy!

We got some Frank's Red Hot sauce as a parting gift. It was very exciting for us ha ha.

D-Land for B-Day

On Saturday we went to Disneyland to celebrate Danny's niece Bonnie's 6th birthday!! It was SO much fun! We don't go to Disneyland on Saturday's very often because it is super crowded, but since we were in a group it was not bad at all! We were able to chat while we were on line and it was so neat to see Disneyland through kids eyes. It made every ride better! The girls were cracking up, or in awe of things and it was just too cute. Here is my favorite picture of the day ...

These girls are just too much fun! 

Dear California

Thank you for letting me lay out in March. 

Love,

Me

Museum Date Laguna Art Museum

Saturday was the most beautiful day, so Danny and I decided to head down to Laguna Beach to get some lunch and check out some galleries and museums. We headed to the Laguna Art Museum first, then went to some art galleries, and finished with the Fingerhut gallery. The Fingerhut gallery holds one of the largest collections of Dr. Seuss art in California! There were so many amazing pieces. I need to save up my money so I can buy the swordfish taxidermy piece! Amazing! We had lunch at Nick's and then ended our date with some ice cream on the beach. I love California, beach days in March! 

I felt that this picture captured my outfit perfectly.

Gun Art.

Dr. Seuss Art!

There's my swordfish!

What a beautiful day!

Museum Date: LACMA

This past Saturday Danny and I went to the LACMA. They have a exhibition right now on California Living from 1930 to 1965. It was amazing! That isn't exactly Danny's cup of tea, but lucky for me Metropolis II was also at the LACMA, so we each had a lot to see. The LACMA is amazing! It's a bunch of different buildings filled with the most amazing art! You get to visit all these different museums all in one place! It's my favorite! If you haven't been, you have to go. You will love it. I promise. Especially if you go between now and June 3rd, you will get to see the California Living exhibit. It's fabulous. 

The view from the top!

I felt like Alice in Wonderland

 Monets and Picassos ...

Walls full of Monets. It was brilliant!

Monet

Picasso

Walls full of Picassos. 

The precision is insane. 

 California Living from the 1930's - 1965 "Living in a Modern Way"

The most amazing BBQ/Fire pit!

I want to put this in my living room. It's a fantastic piece!

Blue print. I loved how there was a garden by each main room. 

I kind of want to get these for Danny and me this summer.

This wasn't part of the California Design exhibit, but it fit in so perfectly! This is there year around!

 And last but not least, Metropolis II ...

It was insanity!

Look at all those cars! They just whizzed around like crazy!

The man in the center didn't seem that excited to be working the Metropolis II!

 And that was our trip to the LACMA! So much to see, and so much fun!

First Skirt Pattern

It's been really warm lately so I was digging around my closet trying to find something fun to wear, when I came across this!

This is a skirt made from the very first pattern I EVER made! I took a sewing class about two years ago and made this pattern as my first project. After I made it for my class I just kept remaking the skirt over and over and over again. I made it in all kinds of fabrics. Danny's sister asked if I could make her a skirt, I told her if she bought enough fabric for the both of us to get a skirt out of, I would make us skirts! This is the fabric she bought. It was a silkier fabric, but I had made that skirt so many times by then that it didn't really phase me. I think it turned out so cute. I wore it yesterday and it was really comfortable, I think I am going to get all the skirts I made from this pattern out of storage for the spring!

Color Blocking Craze!

I am having a lot of fun with this color blocking trend! Here are some more color blocked creations from this month. I made both of these patterns, well, more like I made one pattern and then modified it ...

Color blocked dress, with an elastic waistband to give a bit more shape. 

Same pattern as above, but this time I made the last piece shorter in order to make a shirt! 

Fit is Key

Patterns are not perfect. At least they aren't on me. The other day I made this dress, and when I was all done, I put it on, and it was HUGE. Here is what it looked like before ...

And here is what it looked like when I fixed the bodice. 

By altering it so that it's more form fitting it makes it look more ready to wear, and less home made. Fit is the key! I have to be better about trying on my garments (with the proper undergarments!) along the way. Putting it over my sports bra and t-shirt isn't going to work anymore. I need to stop being lazy, and try it on properly! Nothing's worse than finishing a garment and finding out it doesn't even fit well. Lesson learned!

Happy Love Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you do something fun today! Danny and I will be going to Casa Vega for dinner. We've been going there for the past 3 years, it has become our Valentine's Day tradition and we love it! 

This was taken four years ago, our first Valentine's Day together. We went to a Famous Couples dance. Danny and I got Beyonce and Jay Z (I loved it!).  From the looks of this picture it looks like I got Jay Z.

Here we are now, I love that we have swapped outfits, I am in a striped sweater and Danny is in a grey shirt. Ha ha ha we've turned into each other!