Crafty Fun Things

Hello!

Yesterday I was invited to sell my hair ties and crafts at a craft fair in December!  I'm so excited!!  Today I worked on making a bunch of Holiday hair tie sets and I'm going to make some headbands next.  I also want to make cards, tags, and anything else I can think of so I have lots of stuff to sell!!

Yesterday I was near this outdoor mall so I looked around and I found a fun store called Becket Hitch.  They have so many cute things like paper goods, cute jewelry, things to hang on the walls, blankets, baby toys, lotion, candles, etc.  I didn't buy anything (it was all pretty expensive) but I got some good ideas of things I want to make for my Etsy shop!  

Alex and I were going to go to the American Visionary Art Museum tonight because they had free admission from 4-7pm and they were also doing a lantern-making workshop that sounded fun!  At 7pm they started showing Ghostbusters outside.  We figured parking may have been kind of hard and I'm a wimp so I thought it might be too cold to watch a movie outside :)

Somebody in one of the restaurants in our building apparently was mad and pulled the fire alarm that set off alarms on the entire block.  Thanks a lot!  This was about an hour ago and luckily we didn't have to be outside very long at all.  We never see anybody in our apartment so it was weird seeing how many people live here, especially on our floor!  Funny.  We got inside in time to watch Scandal now and How to Get Away with Murder next!

Tomorrow is Halloween and my first Moonbot improv show with Charm City Comedy Project!  That should be very fun!

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American Visionary Art Museum

Hi!

We didn't end up going on a hike today - it was SUPER humid and there was a good chance of rain - but we still had a really fun day!  We rode the Charm City Circulator (a free bus that has several routes that run all day!) to Federal Hill, a super cute area that we hadn't seen before.  We walked through the neighborhood on our way to the American Visionary Art Museum.  We passed a really cute bookstore on the way and we had to go in!

It's called The Book Escape and it's so adorable!  It is full of tons and tons of shelves and rooms of all kinds of used books.  It's narrow and goes far back like a lot of buildings and row houses here, and in the very back there was a little patio that connected it to the building next door where there were even more books!  I saw a few books I thought I might want to buy, so we decided we'd come back after the museum.

Federal Hill has a really huge hill in it!  Who knew?  :)  Here's a view from the top.



They don't allow any photography inside the buildings at the AVAM so we had to stop to take a really hot and sunny selfie before we went inside!  The outside of the museum is covered in mosaic tiles!!  So pretty.

We loved the museum!  We may want to get a membership there.  That also gets you discounts on things like mosaic workshops (YES, PLEASE).  One of the floors was closed because they're getting a new exhibit but we went in the basement (where there's a "flatulence machine"), on the first and third floors, in the gift shop, in a cool outdoor area, and in another huge building with three floors.  There was so much cool art!  Paintings, sculptures, lots of mixed media art, moving figurines...  They were setting up for a wedding that was later today.  What a cool place to get married!

At the very cool and weird gift shop, Alex found a table with a bunch of boxes of old post cards.  I had to go through every one and find the oldest and cutest!  Some of these are from the 1800s!  The "Binkie the Bear" one is a little book.  I tried so hard to find one with a picture of something in Baltimore.  I'll have to go back and look another time!

Tomorrow morning we're going to free yoga at Pierce's Park, which looks really cool!  It's in the Inner Harbor so we'll be right by the water again!

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