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!

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Halloween Spooktacular

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Alex and I had a fun day today!  We walked to the Washington Monument which is a few blocks south of us and went to the Halloween Spooktacular in the East Mount Vernon Place Square.  There were cute decorations, snacks, and cute little pumpkins that everybody could decorate with all kinds of fun stuff!

It was perfect weather!  The Mount Vernon Place Conservancy organized this (they're the ones who also put on free yoga in the park/at the Belvedere, showed the free movies when we first moved here, etc.).  We had fun decorating our pumpkins!

I got a Conscious Box in the mail today!  It's my last of the three I got with a Living Social deal.  This time I got lots of things I'm excited to try!  Maple almond butter, some fun lotions, tea, root beer with natural sweetener.  I'll write about things after I try them!

Tomorrow Alex and I are doing something very fun!!  I will write about it tomorrow night!  I also have my first improv rehearsal with Moonbot!  I bet that will be fun :)

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My Paper Pumpkin

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Today was another rainy, cloudy day!  I stayed inside all day but I got a lot done!  I got a package in the mail from my mom that had a bunch of fun Halloween stuff in it - two sets of clear stamps to make cards, etc, cute paper, and some other stuff!  I made a ton of Halloween cards and envelopes!  So much fun :)

Speaking of cute Halloween crafts, I have to write about my Paper Pumpkin!  It's a monthly subscription box ($20 a month including shipping) from Stampin' Up that comes with everything you need to make a specific project!  It might be a set of cards, cute gift bags, something to decorate your house, or another cool craft!  My mom is a Stampin' Up demonstrator and she's gotten Paper Pumpkin for a while.  I've gotten to do a lot of the projects with her and they are all so fun!  They come with instructions, but you can also watch tutorial videos online or make the project your own way!

October was my first month to get a box and the project is these adorable burlap goody bags!  Since this was my very first box, it also came with a clear block to use with the clear stamps that come with this box and many upcoming boxes.  It really does come with everything you need (except double stick tape...you may need that sometimes)!

This kit came with six burlap bags - three with polka dots and three with stripes, different shapes of punch-out cards, little stickers of bats, skulls and cross bones, etc, mini clothes pins - three purple and three orange, black string to tie the bags closed, a string of orange sequins, 3D foam adhesive stickers, a set of stamps, and an orange ink pad!

Here are three of my bags completed.  Aren't they so cute??

I'm going to fill them with candy and give some to the girls that work in the office at our apartment!  I just got my second box a few days ago, so when I make that project I will post about it!

Let me know if you have any questions!  If you want to subscribe (you can cancel at any time and you can opt out of a month), click here and follow the instructions.  When it asks you if you have a demonstrator, if you don't already have one, you can put my mom!  Her name is Sara Contevita and if you need the state, put AZ.

Tonight we had the yummy cauliflower recipe I've posted last month!

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