Confession Tuesday

• I want to contact the Bravo network and tell them to create a new reality show surrounding Speakeasy.  The arts co-op that always has some sort of drama and/or intrigue going on.  It wouldn’t be a competition like the one they started last week, it would  kind of be like the Real Housewives, but with struggling artists instead.  It would definitely be as dramatic as the Real Housewives.  LOL
• Tim and I went to LongBeach on Sunday/Monday.  Thirty-six hours at the beach and not one picture.  I can’t believe that I didn’t take any.  It is so ridiculous.  One of the pictures I would have taken was of a man who looked like he should be appearing on one of those websites where they show hideously dressed people.  He was a tall bald senior wearing dirty grey sweatpants that were too small/short.  He had suspenders on *with* the sweatpants, so they were riding high.  He was wearing flip flops and a grimy t-shirt as well.  Not a pretty sight. 
• Wherever we go, we seem to find some unsavory food situation.  We will be grossed out and complain about it afterward, but we never tell the restaurant because we both avoid confrontation.  Sunday evening, we went to a restaurant that seemed like it was going to be a good experience.  It was awful.  I had a wilted salad, watery corn chowder, and a french dip that was on the wrong kind of bun and the au jus smelled like a wet dog.  Ewwww.
• Before we came home, we ordered a Tsunami Burger from The Corral, which was a little hole-in-the-wall burger joint the size of a postage stamp.  My daughter and her friend had one a couple of years ago and wanted us to bring one back.  It was 5 pounds of burger and it fit in a catering deli tray.  Hugely obscene really.  They asked if we wanted the 5 pounds of fries too… we passed on that.  We only ate a tiny portion and now are sharing it with others.  Crazy.
• I wish Jessica’s cat, Piper, would run away.  She is so weird, and she often tries to kill us on the staircase.  I wouldn’t be sad if she were gone.
• I want to see Despicable Me.  :D  It looks so cute. 

Confession Tuesday

I have an idea.  It is a project I’m going to run at Speakeasy, and I’m totally excited about it for some reason. 

Probably ten years ago, the Jaycees made a trip to the Hands-On Children’s Museum in Olympia.  We had a blast.  I don’t know who had more fun… the adults or the kids.  Anyway, I have wanted to start a kids’ museum ever since. 

I was thinking about that the other day and thought about doing a major event at Speakeasy where we’d basically put on a kids’ museum for the day.  But then when I was thinking about all of the ideas I had for that, I thought it might be a little bigger than I would be able to do (without help) in the next couple of months, so I pared it back to just one of the elements. 

We are going to put on an archeological adventure day for kids.  They will come into the gallery and receive a passport/adventure book.  Each station will have a stamp to add to their passports. 

• We will have the first station be the picture taking/identification station.  They will get their pictures taken and printed for their passport booklet and have a badge with their names. 
• The next station will be an introductory meeting at “base camp” on Speakeasy Island.  Everyone will introduce themselves and get an itinerary of the day’s events. 
• They will move on to the “map room” where they will be able to color and decorate their maps. 
• Then the group will move ahead to the “fossil station” where they will make bones from clay and fossils with plaster of paris.
• While those items are drying, they will move on to the station where they will hear a story and get more info about digs and other cultures.
• Finally, they will put together their own archeological dig box (a rubbermaid tote with sand/soil) and add a coordinates grid.  someone will then place their bones in the box to be dug up later.  The kit will have a brush for cleaning the items and a notebook for documenting where the items were found.

The Speakeasy artists can help with decorations and being guides for the stations.  We will project dinosaurs onto the walls and have a big volcano.  There will be greenery around and then a canopy tent for base camp.  I’m pricing sand, containers and other components and putting together a project/event proposal. 

I just hope that it will work and that we could actually get some kids to come out and join in the fun.  :)  If so, then I will start working on the bigger plan of the kids’ museum for the day.  Yay!

If you want to help out/volunteer or have any ideas to add on, let me know.  :D 

Confession Tuesday

It is becoming more and more evident that I can only seem to keep up with my blog when it is confessional time.

1. I am behind on all things right now (except at work).


2. Kennedy snuggles are amazing. Being a grandma rocks.


3. It is still hard to get used to the idea that my baby has her own baby.


4. I finally got items into my space at the Speakeasy gallery. Yay. Now I just have to create more.




5. I am daydreaming of vacation.


6. I’ve been carrying a Safeway cake slice around in my backpack for a week, only taking a bite or two at a time. It may be time to throw it out.


7. Thoughts of art keep creeping into my day, and now that is all I want to do.


8. After dropping my in-laws off at the home yesterday afternoon, my MIL had an “episode” where she was disoriented and wanted to go outside to walk in the grass. Somehow I feel like it is my fault. Logically, that doesn’t make any sense, but it still feels that way.