Sunny days in Bryant Park with no plans except to enjoy flowers…

and people watching and kites…

and making goofy faces (lots of them) with friends!

Attempts at starting a flash mob in Grand Central Station. Except, I learned that you’re not supposed to scream, “Hey folks, this is a flash mob!” (which I may/may not have done…)
Isn’t Grand Central so pretty?

Riding the subway with your best friends to find the “secret subway station” (on the 6 train after the Brooklyn Bridge stop)…

Impromptu dinner parties and grocery shopping with six people. (I was distracted by this very iridescent purple potato!)

Watching friends guess silly drawings…

Making breakfast dinner at midnight…

This bunny bread makes me think of my new favorite book, Watership Down.

Charades!

Yah!

Last night was the world premiere of Josh’s film, Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey!

It was just awesome.

My heart felt like a little jumping bean, I was just so excited and proud.

Folks, this is an amazing movie. You will laugh, you will be inspired, you’ll tap and bop your head to the music, and you will want to reach through the screen and give Arnel a huge squishy hug. He is just that lovable, not to mention his voice literally blows you away.

I think my favorite part of the film was listening to him describe his feelings about his very first time performing as part of Journey. His story is moving and it just makes you feel good. My second favorite part is watching the ridiculously talented musicians write a song.

I have SO MUCH respect for filmmakers and their passion to keep moving forward, through, and around until they get to their finished film. Yah! You all rock!

Here are some quick snaps from last night. Real photos from the “big camera” to come soon (thank you, Mr. Lichti for letting me use your good one)!

And if you made it to the end of the post, you’re in for a special treat!

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I love this song and this video is brilliant.

You must be decked out in sparkles and look extremely over-the-top.

This Christmas I participated in one of the most moving, volunteer experiences ever. I was part of the entertainment for a Christmas Dinner.

The event was amazing and I’m already planning a costume for next year.

Here are some photos from the day courtesy of Michael McTwigan and Amy Drucker.

for more holy awesome sauce

seriously.

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found this on the interwebs today. and it’s been on repeat ever since.

This too. 

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Remember when I participated in Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Experiment?

They posted the video (probably awhile ago, but I just found it).

It. is. awesome.

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Saturday I participated in Improv Everywhere’s Mp3 Experiment. Past experiments looked so awesome, that I when I found out about this one, there was no way I was missing it!

I didn’t get too many photos of the actual event, but took some blurry pics after. Hooray for light up dance parties!

Wandering on the border of Chinatown and the Lower East Side, I stumbled upon some brightly wound yarn art…

If you haven’t heard, there is a whole movement of this yarn bombing.

It’s so cool!

It makes me want to knit more than boring scarves so I can join the movement!

Until then, I can always make a new batch of bunnies to leave my own random surprises.

New York, I love you!

I took a hiatus from the Visions class, but after last night I realized why I missed it and must return. The students are fun and we make awesome projects.

We all decorated these gold foliage with sparkles and paper, but then I decided we should make a whole collage full of glitter and tissue paper.

So we did.

The result: glitter-rific awesomness!

There was a tiny glue spill, but it was perfect for impromptu tissue paper flowers! To make – just smash tissue paper scraps (people’s floor scraps are perfect) into balls on the paper – and voila!

Textured flowers!

We also made glitter designs. I had her follow my hand so she could understand the shapes that we were making.

Birds~

Swirls~

So much glitter!! (sorry for the blur, taken with my glittery hand holding the phone!)

This project was really fun for both of us and my student proud of her work!

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Have I told you how much I LOVE sparkles?!

What do you love? What are your favorite crafty projects? And lastly…how do you think this project would go over with my kids in Art Explorers? I think they’d like it, but it would be glitter maddness!

Anyway, hope you all had a happy hump day!

xo

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btw: I started this post while I was in choir today – our concert is coming soon! December 17, 2010 – save the date!

btw2: Kristin Chenoweth is incredible in Glitter and be Gay