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Downtown Adventure or big ass picture post&trade

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Hi everyone! I bet you’ve been thinking, hmmm long time no big ass piscture post from hell! well my parents rule and gave me one of these for xmas:



oh yes that’s a Canon Rebel XTi, digital SLR. My parents are so cool and gave this to me early so i could take it to philly this week. Nat has the same camera, but a lot more glass (lenses) to go with his. So nat and i decided to take an adventure downtown. We’d ride the Holiday El Train. It was on the brown line this week. So on saturday even tho it looked like this outside:



yes it was snowing and blowing, typical chicago weather. Here’s a shot nat took of me being snowjen



and snow nat



So what’s the holiday train you say? why it’s a special el train that only runs along all the lines during the holidays. It has a car missing int he middle and santa sits in his sleigh with his reindeer, welcoming everyone aboard the santa express. Now santa is one brave soul, cause he is riding outside in the already blowing snow and cold. Poor santa. I hope someone was there every three stops to hand him off a hot coffee.
some type for you







the inside looks like this complete with elves handing out candy canes, xmas music, and FAKE ADS!





state street 5 pm Nat & Jen december 2007


we went to daley plaza to see the tree and the kristkringlemart thing where they sell european handcrafts for ALOT of cash. And sell hot pretzels, potato pancakes, schnitzel, and mmmm hot almonds with cinnamon coating. yum

The picasso had snow on him



The tree had these complete with snow

the city tree




and the poor train was pushing so much snow around the tree this was taken shortly before it de-railed.



we then went to the old Marshall Fields, now Macy’s and looked at the windows. They were done up as the Nutcracker this year. Outside there was this strange looking bike. It’s puppetbike! i suggest clicking on dance! and then selecting dance 3 that is similar to what we saw



when someone put money in the slot music came on and a puppet show happened!



these little tigers were so cute. They’d blow kisses at you if you tipped them and they’d dance to the music and hi-five people. I think more adults were charmed than children, myself included. They blew kisses to Nat when he tipped them. They also are missing an eye each. Poor lil tigers.
I think the snow totals for the day/night were around 8 inches. In northwest indiana where i live we got 11inches and really bad drifts.

A couple weeks ago i gave nat a lot of flack about getting a tree. He gave in and we got a really really fake tree.
here’s a few photos of our tree:

the stars behind it







some of my favorite ornaments:

my pig in a blimp




and my favorite glass one:



So i’m still getting used to the new camera. And now i will have to sew-for-dollars™ to buy glass. Or just borrow all of nat’s. So i leave for philly this week! And zander has his very first xmas pre-school program wednesday nite. So this week won’t be boring. And i’ll be eating cheesesteaks by the weeks end. So y’all have one warm, safe, and happy holiday!!  Thanks for hanging in there for yet another goofy big ass picture post™

Posted by Jennifer on 12/17 at 10:37 PM ♥ Comments (18)

and the lucky number is….

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37. Random Number generator picked number 37. The winner would be Cary! I’ll see if it will fit in an enveope i have and it will go to the post tomorrow with the last of the packages and some of the moustache factory’s packages!!

I’d like to thank you all for dropping to say happy bloggidty-blog-blog-o-versary and stuff. It was nice to see some new people come out of hiding. I’ll now have some new blogs to read. Thank you, and say hi once in awhile i like to say hi back.

Well we got 10 feet of snow over here in NW Indiana. I hope to have some pictures up for you maybe tomorrow of our adventure ont he Xmas El Train on a very snowy saturday. See you tomorrow!

Posted by Jennifer on 12/16 at 11:36 PM ♥ Comments (7)

stuff and things and a contest

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Hi. Where have i been you say? Hiding under a pile of bags. Wendy and I finished sewing up 30 pocuhes today to add to the 16 yesterday for probably our biggest update in a long time for tomorrow. I don’t know when yet. I’m a little stressed out. I just can’t do it. I just can’t call a time yet. Please forgive me for that. To make up for it. I’m having a contest. To celebrate two things that passed. My five year bloggidty-blog-blog-aversary and to celebrate 3 years of sewing. So first you all want to know the prize don’t you?




It’s LEONA by Ruby Sapphire on etsy

and here’s the info on the yarn:
LEONA Handpainted RUBY Superwash Sock Yarn

Handpainted in Shades of NAVY, BLACK and BRIGHT BLUE

Our yarns are dyed with professional quality acid dyes.

Our RUBY yarn is our softest line of handpainted fibers.

It is a superwash merino wool sock yarn.

This yarn is an excellent choice for the knitter who prefers all natural fibers.

Approximately 4oz./ 114 grams/ 550 yards

2ply light fingering weight

100% Merino Wool

Machine or Hand Wash

Lay Flat to Dry

What do you have to do to win? Any of you who have read my blog over time know i have serious irrational fears. First i will define irrational fear in my terms. It must be something that you KNOW cannot possibly happen, but will only happen one day to you. And just you because you are unlucky and stuff like that can happen. So here’s my list:

1. touching my belly button makes me vomit. Mostly because i have this great fear it will come undone, and my guts will come flying out like one of those joke cans-o-snakes.

2. when someone throws a lit cigarette out their window while i’m driving and i see it, and i drive over it. i close my eyes and wait for my car to explode.

3. i will not ride one of those city busses with an accordian on it. It WILL turn the corner and the 1/2 i’m in won’t follow.

4. i will not walk up open backed stairs. I have to run. I think something will eventually grab at my ankles.

5. my best friend in high school had an old VW Rabbit. It had cherrios sized wheels. One time she was driving fast and said what if my wheels flew off like cherrios?? I always kind of fear little hactch back cars.

Ok so what you have to do is leave me a comment. You MUST tell me one of your irrational fears. Irrational as i defined above. And i will take everyone’s names and draw one to win. I might come up with a second prize too if they are good.

the contest will end dec 15th.

Posted by Jennifer on 12/06 at 11:02 PM ♥ Comments (49)