Charm City Comedy Project

Hello!

**All photos in this post were taken by either Megan Wills or Keith Becraft!  These photos and more can be found on the awesome Charm City Comedy Project's Facebook page!**

I've been getting to do so many fun things with Charm City Comedy Project recently!  My main group, Moonbot, has continued to have our monthly shows, plus an extra show here and there when we're all available.  Those are always super fun and it's so great getting to know my group better!  The more we practice and perform together, the more fun we have.



Photo by Megan!
This is Moonbot, Safeword (an awesome improv group from DC), and Championship Air Wrestling.

I've also gotten to perform with a couple of other CCCP groups, too.  One group that I've performed with twice so far (we have another show tomorrow) is the Ladies All-Stars!  It's all girls, obviously, and it's so much fun!  It's a mix of people I know well, sort of know, and don't know at all!  It will probably never be the exact same group which is fun, too.  Megan, who is the co-founder of CCCP with Keith (who is in Moonbot with me), runs our Moonbot rehearsals, but she performs too when we have the all-girl shows!  I'm really excited to be part of this group.



Photo by Keith!
Here are the Ladies All-Stars and the stand up comics from that night.



Photo by Megan!
This was after a show where I performed with Moonbot and the Ladies All-Stars.

Last weekend, I played a small role in a totally different kind of show, Championship Comics.  It is a sketch/improv show based off of comic books.  I was a thug, along with fellow Moonbotter Scott.  I really had no idea what to expect, and it was really fun (and funny!).



Photo by Megan!

Next month I'm going to be a character in a Championship Air Wrestling show, too!  I'm so glad that I was able to find this group (thanks to a member of my improv group in Arizona, Tucson Improv Movement)!  I have felt welcome from the beginning and we always have so much fun.  I'm looking forward to the Charm City Comedy Festival, which will be happening this Spring for the second year in a row!  It sounds like it's going to be awesome!

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Club Orbit Improv Show

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Yesterday was the second Friday of the month, which means it was Club Orbit at Zissimo's with Charm City Comedy Project!  This time, I got to co-host the show with my fellow Moonbot member Nell!

We had a lot of fun!  We welcomed the audience, announced the lineup, introduced the groups as they performed, etc.  We had four groups last night, including Moonbot.  The other groups were The Soupstone Brothers, Only Rollercoasters, and Throwing Lobsters.  It was such a fun show!  We had fun wrapping up with Moonbot :)

The audience was full and they really got into each performance, which was fun!

Here are the Moonbot girls with some tiny candy cane bows I made for us to wear in our hair :) I got to go to a super fun workshop this morning that I will write about tomorrow!!  If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen what I made :)

Last night before my improv show, I went to another workshop!  It was put on by Make Tribe, a group that organizes all kinds of crafting workshops.  That sounds like my kind of thing!!  I just looked through the Event Archives on their website and they all look like so much fun!  I hope I can go to lots of these next year!

This workshop last night took place at Madewell, a cute store in the Towson Town Center (a mall).
  


We got to make wood and copper necklaces and it was really fun!  There were tons of different sized and shaped wooden beads, tubes of copper, and different types of string and cord to use.

The table setup was so adorable!

I used leather cord and a mix of all of the fun beads!

Here's a silly pic of me wearing my necklace after the show last night!  I'll take a better one the next time I wear it.  I might make it a little bit shorter, too!

I met some very nice people (someone even knew who I was when they walked in!) and it was really fun!  I can't wait to see what their next workshop is.

Thanks for reading!

Golden West Cafe

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The other night before my improv show, Alex and I had dinner at Golden West Cafe.  It's right by Zissimo's, which is where Charm City Comedy Project has shows.  It's a really cute restaurant!  Their menus are inside record cases and I like how it's decorated :)

We both got tomato, mozzarella, and pesto sandwiches with garlic fries and it was all SO delish!!  

They gave us York Peppermint Patties for dessert, too.  So that was a huge plus.

This afternoon I finished the final draft of the custom order wedding fans I've been working on!  Here's a sneak peek!

As soon as I hear back whether the bride wants the fans on white or ivory paper, I'll finish making them and ship them to Australia!  If you or anyone you know wants something customized for their wedding, baby shower, birthday, etc., visit my Etsy shop!

I am taking two different workshops this week and I'm sooo excited for both of them!!  I will write all about them here!

Thanks for reading!

Library Cards!

Hello!

This morning Alex and I went on a nice walk around the neighborhood!  It was in the 30s but we bundled up.  We walked down to the Washington Monument and then we walked over to the library!  We've walked past it before but never when it was open.  It was open today so we went in and got library cards!

We didn't stay in there very long (we got hot because we were wearing so many warm things!) but I can't wait to go back!

It's so pretty inside!


I got lots of fun mail today!  A package from my mom and my Birchbox!

So fun!!!  One of the things my mom sent me is a lettering textbook from when she was in high school!  I can't wait to look through it at all the fonts and practice!  I got so many great samples in my Birchbox, too!  I'll write more about them soon.

Last night my improv group Moonbot had a show!  There were four improv groups total and we went last.  It was so much fun!

Here's the poster for our show.

We took a group pic after of all of the performers :)

It was a fun night!

Alex and I just started watching Mildred Pierce.  We're on the second episode (it's a mini-series and there are only five episodes).  It's good so far!  A new SNL is on tonight!

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Toni and Guy Casual Sea Salt Texturising Spray Review

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Last week I won a full-sized bottle of Toni & Guy's Casual Sea Salt Texturising Spray!  I promise that's how you spell it :)

I won it through a Birchbox contest on Twitter! :)  I have tried it several times since then and I love it!!

I got it at the perfect time, too, because I've just about finished my bottle of mark. Curl to Curl Reactivate and Defining Mist that I mentioned a few posts ago.

I've used it after showering on towel/turban-dried hair.  I put about a nickle-sized amount of Miss Jessie's Leave-In Condish in my hair first, I scrunch it all over, and then I use the sea salt spray all over and scrunch a little more.  It makes my hair very shiny and soft and it somehow manages to add texture while smoothing out my frizz!  It also seems to keep my curls more defined than they usually are on the second day.  The smell is so good and subtle.

Here's a pic from the first time I used it.

Like I said, I've also used it on the second day on dry hair to give my hair a little more volume!  That works great, too.

I used it again today after washing my hair and I still love it!  I would definitely recommend this sea salt spray if you want to give your hair some texture and hold!

It's really cold today...in the 30s!  We will have to bundle up when we go to my improv show tonight!

Thanks for reading!

Craft Fair Preparation

Hi!

I talked about it a little bit in a previous post, but I am going to be a vendor at a Christmas Market craft fair!  I have been making several items a day to sell and I'm having so much fun!

I've made a bunch of ornaments filled with hair ties.  Some have holiday colors, some neon colors, some with polka dots.  I have small-sized ornaments with eight hair ties each and a larger size with twelve hair ties.

I had fun making the tags for them!  I have been using my Big Shot from Stampin' Up like crazy!

I also made a few head band sets today.  Some baby-sized and some child/teen-sized.  I'm going to make some sets with the holiday printed elastic tomorrow!

I'm also going to make some head band sets in cute little jars!

My improv group, Moonbot, has a Facebook page now!  You can like it if you want updates :)  Here is Charm City Comedy Project's page, too.  We have a show tomorrow night!  I'm excited to see the other groups that are performing before us!

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Halloween Moonbot Show

Boo!

***Today, Alex found out that he passed the Maryland Bar Exam!!!!!  I knew that he would but he is so relieved since he got the results!  He took it in July so he has waited a long time to find out!  Woohoo!!!!!!  I'm so proud of him!***

This was before he found out about the Bar, but after getting a nice hair cut!

I hope everybody is having a fun Halloween!  Alex and I just got home a little while ago from my first improv show here!  Charm City Comedy Project had a Halloween party/show tonight!  There were actually two shows but my group was in the first one.  There were five stand-up comedians,  Moonbot (the group I'm in), and another CCCP group called Uncle Awesome.

Here's the poster for tonight!



The show was where auditions were, which is upstairs at a bar called Zissimo's.  The neighborhood where it is, Hampden, was sooo full of families trick-or-treating!  That was so cool!  Our neighborhood doesn't seem to have that many kids, so it was fun to see everybody out getting candy!  Lots of the businesses on "The Avenue" (36th Street where there are tons of shops and restaurants) were sitting outside handing out candy :)

We got there early so we could find parking and we ate at a Mexican restaurant called Holy Frijoles (hahaha we forgot that's what it was called).  It was pretty good but not quite like the Mexican food we're used to eating in Tucson :)

The show was so fun!  The room was decorated with tons of cool Halloween decorations. 

Everyone dressed up in fun costumes.  The stand-up and Uncle Awesome were fun to watch and I had fun in our part of the show!  We did a montage - a series of scenes loosely based off of each other and off of audience input - and we had a good time!  We all wore matching skull bracelets, too :)  Alex took lots of great pics!

What a fun Halloween!  We also got our car back from the shop (Alex got rear-ended almost a month ago) so that's good.  Anyway, we're tired!!


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Crafty Fun Things

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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!

Thanks for reading!

Screen Printing Workshop and Moonbot Rehearsal

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The super fun thing that Alex and I did today was a screen printing workshop at Baltimore Print Studios!  We learned so much!  It was from 11am to 5pm.  The studio is owned by a husband and wife team and they both taught the class.

We learned every step of screen printing starting with putting emulsifier on a screen and burning an image onto it, to getting your table, paper, screen, and ink ready, to pulling the ink over your screen with a squeegee, to taking the image off of the screen when you're done.  It was so much fun!  After you take one of their workshops (they also have a  letterpress workshop that I definitely want to do) you can rent studio time for $15 an hour and print your own stuff!

The first print we made was of a(n adorable) supplies list!  In orange, my fave.



Then we each picked out a transparency with an image that we liked and did the whole process of getting the image onto the screen, mixing ink to a color we liked, etc.  I picked the mouse/rat and Alex picked the narwhal!

We got a 45 minute break for lunch and we walked to Sofi's Crepes.  So yummy!  We both got the bacon, egg, and cheese crepe but there were so many kinds that sounded good.

We got to make a bunch of prints of the image we picked so we could practice and so we could adjust how we were pulling the ink to change how they turned out.  We traded afterwards so we got to bring home one of everybody's prints!  There was also a fox, a pelican, a floral pattern, and a dinosaur skeleton.

Speaking of skeletons, then we got to do a really cool two-layer print!  The first print was the outline of this skeleton image that they had.  We did that in glow-in-the-dark ink on black paper.  We got to learn how to do pin registering.  That makes it so you can line your paper up with your screen exactly how you want it, which is necessary when you do multiple layers.  Then we did a top layer that was very detailed and had all of the bones and labels and we did that in black on top.  It turned out so cool!  I can't wait to go back!

Tonight I went to my first improv rehearsal with Moonbot!  After we walked home from the workshop, we grabbed dinner really quick and then Alex drove me there!  It was at one of the other member's houses in a cute neighborhood.  We rehearsed in her basement and it was really fun!  Everybody is so nice and we had a fun time.  We have a show on Halloween!  So that's exciting!

What a fun day!!  Thanks for reading!

SoBo Cafe and Other Fun Things!

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Alex and I finally had everything we needed plus time to do all the car stuff we needed to do at the MVA (MD's DMV), so we got that over with today!  Yay!  

It has been getting colder here!!  This morning it was in the 40s when we drove to the MVA so I bundled up!  Our apartment is 74 right now.  Time for cozy quilts!  Well, it's always time for those.

The other night Alex and I went to dinner at SoBo Cafe.  Alex found it online and made a reservation!  It was soo cute.  It was fancy, with white table cloths, but also kind of cazsh (I can never decide how to spell that) with orange walls and cool art and the staff didn't have uniforms.  Our food was SO good.

They  have lots of different spreads that come with vegetables and crostini so we got the spicy feta one, which had garlic and jalapeno mixed in, for an appetizer.

It was amazing...I probably could have had just that and been good!!  I got the SoBo Burger and Alex got the Chicken Pot Pie.

My burger came with a yummy salad and the best potatoes (roasted fingerling potatoes) I've ever eaten!  Alex's meal came in a bowl and it had the "pie crust" in a big square that they laid on top of it!  He loved it.  For dessert we shared the SoBo Sundae - brownies with ice cream, caramel, candied nuts, and MARSHMALLOW FLUFF.  Yummy!!

We will have to go back again for lunch or brunch!

Tonight Alex and I started watching the show Transparent.  There are ten thirty-minute episodes that were released all at once in September on Amazon Prime.  We watched 3 episodes tonight and we love it!  There are lots of great actors in it and it's just really good so far!

I don't think I ever wrote about this, but on Saturday I went to an open audition that Charm City Comedy Project was holding for their improv groups!  It was really fun, we mostly did short scenes.  The auditions were upstairs in a bar called Zissimo's in Hampden, which is a really cute neighborhood west of JHU's undergraduate campus.  We hadn't been up there yet and it was so nice!  It sort of reminded us of 4th Avenue in Tucson.  We'll have to go back there soon.  Anyway, I found out yesterday that I made it onto one of their improv teams called Moonbot!  I'm excited to get to do improv again and make some friends!  The first rehearsal I'll go to is Sunday.

Gotta go read in bed!  Thanks for reading!