Houndstooth & Hotties
...Since I always narrate blogs in my head and never take the time to type them up... you get a two in one
Saturday we went to the Field to see the Darwin exhibit before it left and for me to get two of my "out of the box" school assignments done. Colby bought he and I tickets to Darwin and Mom and the sisters came along. We were early for our scheduled entry time to the darwin exhibit so we went through the Polynesian exhibit first. I hated having to rush through it, especially at the old part. The Ancient Americas is the same thing, the brand new part at the beginning and it trails off to the stuff that looks like it's been on display since 1960. I love the older stuff because part of what I love so much about history and museums is the history of history and museums!
After Darwin Mom, Isabel and I went through Ancient Americas but I walked quickly through the new part since I spent about two hours there with my sketchbook on a recent field trip. I stopped to watch a little 6 minute movie about Incan bookkeeping and a last bit about colonization. I stopped mostly because a cute guy stopped, and heaven knows I like a guy who likes him some ancient history! When we got to the old part, I watched a bit of an old film on a pacific northwest tribe. That was great because it combined three of my favorite things, dark, musty museums, old anthropology films from the 1960s and earlier, and native american history.
Mom showed us one of the thingies she wrote. She wrote the "heritage of the field" or whatever they were called explanations of where the artifacts were from. Most are replaced but she said she saw one in the Egypt exhibit too.
Darwin was fun. They had a skeleton of an axolotl or whatever it's called. The display walls were so cool, chocolate brown with lighter brown designs. The kind that have been cropping up a lot in design, kind of royal stuff that I can't describe right now because it's 5 am. The great bit was these little gold stickers shaped like animals. Like at the wall that talked about questions of inheritance Darwin proposed to domestic animal breeders, there were silhouette stickers of several different breeds of dogs. The wall was covered with little 'flowers' made up of four dogs with their feet touching. I so want little pit bull flowers on my wall.
Anyways, what big d was asking was basically if you take a pointer and a terrier and breed them together, how long until they breed true, or make a new breed? Same thing we're asking today! Talk about ahead of your time.
Back to the title of this blog... There was houndstooth everywhere! I love the stuff, too. Very retro. I have this white and peach yarn, two impulse buys, and I've been wanting to do something with houndstooth with it for weeks but haven't got around to it.
And hotties- I watched the fist 4 episodes of Buffy just now. I've realized that when you create a character who is mysterious, kind, incredibly cute, and doesn't hit on you or seem like he wants to have sex with you all the time, you get the kind of character every girl falls in love with. That's why Edward seems so amazing in Twilight at first and that's why Angel is so unbelievably amazing in those first episodes-- But all spectacular things must come to an end, and Edward became a dissapointment. I know from seeing the last few seasons of Angel that he stays hott but not so incredible as he is as the mysterious, charming informant in the first 4 episodes.
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... HA! and even as I go to post this (wrote it in textedit) there is an ad with houndstooth on it right on this page!
Saturday we went to the Field to see the Darwin exhibit before it left and for me to get two of my "out of the box" school assignments done. Colby bought he and I tickets to Darwin and Mom and the sisters came along. We were early for our scheduled entry time to the darwin exhibit so we went through the Polynesian exhibit first. I hated having to rush through it, especially at the old part. The Ancient Americas is the same thing, the brand new part at the beginning and it trails off to the stuff that looks like it's been on display since 1960. I love the older stuff because part of what I love so much about history and museums is the history of history and museums!
After Darwin Mom, Isabel and I went through Ancient Americas but I walked quickly through the new part since I spent about two hours there with my sketchbook on a recent field trip. I stopped to watch a little 6 minute movie about Incan bookkeeping and a last bit about colonization. I stopped mostly because a cute guy stopped, and heaven knows I like a guy who likes him some ancient history! When we got to the old part, I watched a bit of an old film on a pacific northwest tribe. That was great because it combined three of my favorite things, dark, musty museums, old anthropology films from the 1960s and earlier, and native american history.
Mom showed us one of the thingies she wrote. She wrote the "heritage of the field" or whatever they were called explanations of where the artifacts were from. Most are replaced but she said she saw one in the Egypt exhibit too.
Darwin was fun. They had a skeleton of an axolotl or whatever it's called. The display walls were so cool, chocolate brown with lighter brown designs. The kind that have been cropping up a lot in design, kind of royal stuff that I can't describe right now because it's 5 am. The great bit was these little gold stickers shaped like animals. Like at the wall that talked about questions of inheritance Darwin proposed to domestic animal breeders, there were silhouette stickers of several different breeds of dogs. The wall was covered with little 'flowers' made up of four dogs with their feet touching. I so want little pit bull flowers on my wall.
Anyways, what big d was asking was basically if you take a pointer and a terrier and breed them together, how long until they breed true, or make a new breed? Same thing we're asking today! Talk about ahead of your time.
Back to the title of this blog... There was houndstooth everywhere! I love the stuff, too. Very retro. I have this white and peach yarn, two impulse buys, and I've been wanting to do something with houndstooth with it for weeks but haven't got around to it.
And hotties- I watched the fist 4 episodes of Buffy just now. I've realized that when you create a character who is mysterious, kind, incredibly cute, and doesn't hit on you or seem like he wants to have sex with you all the time, you get the kind of character every girl falls in love with. That's why Edward seems so amazing in Twilight at first and that's why Angel is so unbelievably amazing in those first episodes-- But all spectacular things must come to an end, and Edward became a dissapointment. I know from seeing the last few seasons of Angel that he stays hott but not so incredible as he is as the mysterious, charming informant in the first 4 episodes.
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... HA! and even as I go to post this (wrote it in textedit) there is an ad with houndstooth on it right on this page!