October 5th is “Star Wars Reads Day“. This initiative partners with several publishing companies and involves events throughout the country celebrating Star Wars and literacy. My fellow GeekMom colleague Kay Moore is getting to attend an event at the San Diego Central Library where Ian Doescher’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will be read along with a … Read more
Because I haven’t posted too much lately. Clerks. This is one of my favorite movies. Actually, I enjoy all Kevin Smith films and Clerks. — IMDB seems to think you need to include that period there — was his first. Much of the movie isn’t for children, but this is a more family-friendly conversation that goes … Read more
“I was a Geek Pinup Girl!” Who out there has seen the recent Jenny Craig ads? My husband saw one of them this past weekend — I think it was a “targeted” online ad on a health website — and he couldn’t believe it was Carrie Fisher! We didn’t recognize her! Seriously. Then this morning … Read more
This week my youngest son is celebrating his 6th Birthday. I won’t be specific about which day, but with family in town this weekend, I made some pre-birthday cupcakes to serve as dessert. Last weekend we were at our local mall-like-shopping-location. It isn’t really a mall, since it doesn’t have that old-school enclosed building thing … Read more
Hello friends…enjoy some pictures from our fun Halloween today. It was a nice balance of fun and not being overwhelmed! Too bad it was in the mid-70s this afternoon and I had purposefully designed all of our costumes for temperatures about 15-25 degrees cooler! After Jake went off to school, Timmy and I went to … Read more
So we figured out how to keep that wide trashcan lid on Timmy’s head for his R2D2 costume. Thanks to Dave’s Mom (Grammy Vollmer) for the idea: “As far as Timmy’s helmet–can you take one of his hats, cut off the peak and glue it to the inside of the helmet? Don’t know if this … Read more
So today we just about finished with Timmy’s Halloween costume. You can see the shots of pre-construction from earlier this week here. Yesterday I painted the top of the trash can chrome-silver and it turned out pretty nice. From 2008 10 20 R2D2_Costume_Construction Today ended up VERY windy! Gusts exceeding 50 mph! We ended up … Read more
I can’t remember if I’d mentioned it before, but Timmy declared around Labor Day that he wants to be R2-D2 for Halloween. And of course I agreed. I already finished Jake’s costume, which is described here. I’m still trying to convince Jake to shave his head like Mace Windu. We’ll see… After some discussion with … Read more