CaptainOrange

I think I just lost a button! Wendy and I are not much for partying. This year we started off Halloween a little bit early. We got some tickets to a Diabetes fundraiser and enjoyed ourselves dancing part of the night away with Jodi. The band played a little too much country for our taste but, for the most part they seem to read their audience well. We're just not typical, I guess. Anyway, the cool thing is that we got to design steam punk costumes for ourselves. I really love to make things and this was an awesome opportunity to play around with paint and cheap doodads that we found at Value Village. The two feature parts of my costume were the knee-length leather jacket which I found for $14 and a top hat. The hat was originally baby blue felt, which just wouldn't work for my particular costume. Although, as it turns out, it would've matched Wendy's outfit pretty well. Alas, the candied corn wound up in the trash :( Sadly, my camera had just arrived back fr...

James and I went to the Murray building yesterday to watch a frenzied feast for the brain -- a charity fundraiser for literacy. There is nothing more sexy than a bunch of 20-80 year olds spelling under the searing pressure of their uber competitive peers. The library entered a team. After watching from behind my camera for a few minutes I totally wished I had signed up. There is an explanation of how to play Speed Scrabble AND... if you are interested, you can find donation links through READ Saskatoon's website .  SPLs Team -- Happy before Pulverization :) Actually, they maintained a pleasant aspect all throughout the drubbing proceedings, which we kept telling ourselves, was in fact, for a good cause. Stylish costuming was in abundance. Dressed up as Saskatoon City Counsillors -- How Cute ;) The award for "Best Dressed" obviously went to this fabulous woman By the bitter end of several rounds, many words and many " not qui...