Wardrobe Architect: Your Color Story

I was held up by this week's installment of the Wardrobe Architect.  The color thing I wasn't really interested in doing.  But I buckled down and here are the results.  I think one of my things is that black is the main color (although khaki is creeping in a bit more) and then I wear something that pops, meaning I like a lot of bright or strong colors.  Bright orange is my favorite, but I like bright blue (aqua) or bright green too.  I used Kuler to create these palettes.  As for base colors, I never wear brown, grey or white.

Three sentence movie reviews: Slings and Arrows Season 2

The play this season was Macbeth, which I learned is a very difficult play to stage effectively.  Our leads got up to some amusing shenanigans and some young players got to do the worst Romeo and Juliet ever conceived.  I found this season to be not as funny as the first one, but still enjoyable because the characters are interesting.


Cost:  free from library
Where watched: at home with Matt

poster from: http://www.amazon.com/Slings-Arrows-Season-Paul-Gross/dp/B000H5U5M6

Postcard from Oklahoma

This is from Aubrey who passed along this quote:  "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."  Francis Bacon.

Oh by the way, did we mention we would stop publishing the community news section?

No?  Funny, it must have slipped our minds.  But no matter, this is the last time you will see one.

Three sentence movie reviews: Prince Avalanche

This was a very pleasant movie to watch in that way one gets when they have ample time and don't really care so much if the movie has a ton of stuff happen in it and everything.  The characters were interesting and time passed along.  However, I could not help thinking the following repeatedly throughout the picture: this is totally a film that would never, ever be made with women cast in the lead.

Cost:  $2.00 from Videorama
Where watched: at home.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2013/prince_avalanche.html

Postcard from the Netherlands

This is from Eke who tells me her favorite quote is "Life is what happened to you while you made other plans."

And this card just launches me into "Everyone's a Hero" from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog.

Vintage Cakes: Gingerbread Icebox Cake with Mascarpone Mousse

Or make that "mascarpone" mousse as I had plans to make my own mascarpone, but the shop that sells the cultures was closed due to snow.  I needed a pound of mascarpone, which would have cost me $10.00 at New Seasons, so I went with the Internet cheat of cream cheese, a bit of sour cream and a bit of whipped cream.  Viola!  "Mascarpone"

I made the cookies on the Friday of the snow and the party was moved from Sunday (because of ice) to Monday.  So Monday I assembled.  Ten layers of gingerbread cookies with the mousse dividing them.

"But how will you cut this cake?" every single person at the birthday party asked me individually.  The plan was that the mousse would soften the cookies and it would be easy to slice.

And it was!  Isn't it fun?

Delicious too!