Shes not going to New York Jane! Shes going to Brooklyn.

Happy Thanksgiving! Its been a very adventurous week devoted to turkey, phones dropping in turkey, mixology, pizza, french cuisine, foursquare on ferry docks, Christmas window admiring too early, Christmas decorating too early, and much more. But, my gal Emily and I got a pretty good start when my Grandpa sat us down and mapped out our drive from Long Island to Brooklyn, on a 1972 New York map. Sitting through one of this Paladinos lessons, is like sitting down to chat with Albus Dumbledore at Kings Cross station after you may have been killed by the darkest creature on earth...your going to want to pay attention. When Grandpa saw Flushing on the map, he told us of a woman he used to date before he met my Grandma, who lived in Flushing, while Grandpa lived in Bellmore..and the words from his mouth "I'd go to the ends of the earth for that girl....but Flushing was TOO far!". Yes..it always is. 

We packed our drinks and our snacks, and listened to one of our old favorites Rilo Kiley. Tomorrow I'll be heading to the Archery range with my brother...absoluuuutely no sleep tonight.

The Pocket Lady

Today, Chase and I met the Pocket Lady at the Bay Shore library. She had crazy curly hair and was very excited..most importantly, she had a lot of interesting things in her pockets. Chase's interest peaked when she pulled a green bowl out of her pocket. She blew us kisses before we left.

-Lexi

Oh good golly miss Molly

I found this old post of my good gal Molly's, and I think its worthy of some shine time.

Molly my guru

Skee-ball

A good friend of mine from school has been asking me to illustrate moments of adventure I have, so I said Okay, I will do that Erica. And now this blog has a little bit of a purpose. So, thank you Erica! Im using paper lunch bags and thread, we'll see what else we can add along the way.

To begin, the weekend of 11-12-11 seemed to be all about skee-ball..and losing skee-ball. We learn the lesson that it is okay to lose.


Im excited.

-Lexi

Spreading the good word like wildfire

This is great news. A high school English teacher named Tracee Orman has created lesson plans for the Hunger Games and posted them on Scholastics website for teachers and teacherspayteachers.com. Over 4,000 teachers downloaded her material when it was first posted, and this was back in 2009. She was having trouble getting the boys in her classroom to get into the reading materials, went to her principal to get permission to buy the books for her classroom, and started the series. Its interesting to see the classic novels she compares each book with in her lessons, shes even drawn out maps of Panem. There is always so much to talk about, about these books. There is so much depth to them. Good going girl, get that revolution started.
http://www.hungergameslessons.com/

Another Earth

I came across this three part interview with this great actress and writer Brit Marling. I really like this girl because she seems genuinely moved and excited to be experiencing such a surreal moment in her life. I also find her story extremely real, and very inspiring. She cowrote the film "Another Earth" with a close friend of hers, Mike Cahill. I loved this movie so much, it is beautifully shot and very thought provoking.

I think it's a very beautiful way to look at acting when she talks about looking at it, as being a vessel for story telling. I cant wait to see what else she'll be working on in the future.

La Mercerie

I received a small little book from a beloved friend and student of the fibers department while here in France. In this small fibers book you can find a collection of favorite shops found around France. The small book has been designed just for this trip. Before we went to Nimes, Pamela had told us about the small ribbon and trim shop in Nimes. The small shop was included on important places to visit in the fibers book. This special ribbon shop is called "La Mercerie". We were planning on a rainy day but were surprised to be greeted by clear blue skies. After visiting the collisieum, the contemporary art museum and Maison Carree (where we saw a very interesting 3D movie..) we headed straight for the trim store, only to find it was closed for lunch. Since we had to leave around 2:30 and the shop opened at 2:00 we had to plan the rest of the day around having our 15 or so minutes of bliss in the ribbon and trim store. After a day of exploring and having a quick lunch, 2:00 rolled around. We quickly made our way to the shop and the anticipation built as we reached our destination. I was particularly intrigued by the display in the window. Small wooden boxes with windows in them let the small bobbins of thread and ribbon become precious objects. The display in the window was very imaginitive with its ribbons and trims hanging from the ceiling in its unique way.

As I walked into the shop i discovered many colors of trims. I could not come to a decision on the trims and in the end only ended up purchased two, but as i checked out i discovered the wall of buttons! Time was running out and I had to make decisions, quickly. As I checked out and came to a decision, the woman behind the counter threw a few extra buttons in for free. When the last of us left she ran downstairs quickly to bring us a bag of extra ribbons and trims, which was very kind of her. I have noticed that they do this in lace and trim stores here in France more often then I have seen in America. The gesture is so kind. The attention that is paid to detail in the store fronts is very inspiring. Every little element has its place. It is so much more looser in France then in America, you can see a flair of someone else's imagination and not just a plan that was told to be done by corporate. This is something that I will miss when I return to the states.