<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:27:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Bella Boston</title><description>{ Crafting Adventures }</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>105</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-4717128726992245299</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-24T15:37:12.628-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Miss Ella</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sewing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>costuming</category><title>Costume Blog</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sorry I haven't posted in a while! &lt;br /&gt;Nothing too interesting going on really, but I have been doing a lot of sewing/costuming lately. &lt;br /&gt;I'm going to be attending a costume event in the beginning of December so I've been getting a new outfit together.  It's a &lt;a href="http://www.goreplace.org/holiday-tea.htm"&gt;Regency Tea&lt;/a&gt; at a &lt;a href="http://www.goreplace.org/"&gt;historical home&lt;/a&gt; here in MA. &lt;br /&gt;I can't wait I think it's going to be fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you want to see my progress, thoughts and pictures you can check out&lt;br /&gt;my new costuming blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bellamissella.livejournal.com"&gt;Bella Miss Ella&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{she's my dress form}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason I started a Live Journal blog is because there is a huge costuming network going on over there and it makes it easier for me to keep tabs on others and vice versa!  I'm kind of enjoying it so far, although I like the formatting options for blogger more.  But that's neither here nor there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll be sure to post pictures from the event here when it happens so don't worry too much!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-4717128726992245299?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/11/costume-blog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-4187740748542254934</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-03T12:08:57.863-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sewing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Parties</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Halloween</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Good Times</category><title>Halloween Masquerade Ball!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Finally!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;What I'm sure you've all been waiting for...&lt;br /&gt;Better pictures of my costume!&lt;br /&gt;And of the Masquerade!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a great night, at an amazing location&lt;br /&gt;with 600 people!&lt;br /&gt;So much fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My feet hurt by the end of the night,&lt;br /&gt;I'd lost a feather from my hair (wah waaahhh)&lt;br /&gt;and I got some frosting on my dress somehow&lt;br /&gt;{even though I avoided the treats table, except for a cookie}&lt;br /&gt;and driving in a corset is hard&lt;br /&gt;{thanks to my roommie for driving home}&lt;br /&gt;but all in all it was good times!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On to the pictures!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nOtQ6WjI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ijJFVgsXiRQ/s1600-h/104_3445.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nOtQ6WjI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ijJFVgsXiRQ/s400/104_3445.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296136885983794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With Nicole and Janey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nO5lho1I/AAAAAAAAA8Q/rYno6FxL30E/s1600-h/104_3446.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nO5lho1I/AAAAAAAAA8Q/rYno6FxL30E/s400/104_3446.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296140193669970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nPPDgeDI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/k-SE_4xTCUI/s1600-h/104_3447.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nPPDgeDI/AAAAAAAAA8Y/k-SE_4xTCUI/s400/104_3447.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296145956567090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Inside the Ballroom, which you can't see too well here, but had amazing wood paneling and incredible chandeliers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4neUJ10kI/AAAAAAAAA8w/eOjPoeFM7dI/s1600-h/104_3453.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4neUJ10kI/AAAAAAAAA8w/eOjPoeFM7dI/s400/104_3453.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296405023347266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A group performed Michael Jackson's "Thriller" which was awesome, I just wish I had a better view!  I could only see their heads really...  People were going crazy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nPmEk5XI/AAAAAAAAA8o/LWMNb_tBCCs/s1600-h/104_3450.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nPmEk5XI/AAAAAAAAA8o/LWMNb_tBCCs/s400/104_3450.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296152135066994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With Natalie, the 1992 Moonlight Masquerade Barbie&lt;br /&gt;{she painted her mask on! how cool is that?!}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nPTppH2I/AAAAAAAAA8g/zgpEzStnCVM/s1600-h/104_3449.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nPTppH2I/AAAAAAAAA8g/zgpEzStnCVM/s400/104_3449.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296147190259554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With Aimee, showing off our lovely fans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4ne6r9R8I/AAAAAAAAA9A/A42cqMHfLoQ/s1600-h/104_3458.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4ne6r9R8I/AAAAAAAAA9A/A42cqMHfLoQ/s400/104_3458.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296415366989762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A view of my shoes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nehv9IBI/AAAAAAAAA84/UdPICLBPjxM/s1600-h/104_3456.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nehv9IBI/AAAAAAAAA84/UdPICLBPjxM/s400/104_3456.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399296408672870418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And from the back&lt;br /&gt;{man I have bad posture, even in a corset!}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I pretty much just said "Thank you!" the entire night,&lt;br /&gt;most people thought I'd bought it at first,&lt;br /&gt;but it soon spread that I'd made it myself,&lt;br /&gt;so people were asking for pictures with me!&lt;br /&gt;It was pretty crazy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm glad I did it, but next time I might try to give myself more time to get everything done.&lt;br /&gt;There are still a few little things that I haven't finished on the corset and with trimming the dress, but I was glad I was able to wear it two weekends in a row.&lt;br /&gt;Who knows when the next time will be!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-4187740748542254934?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/11/halloween-masquerade-ball.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Su4nOtQ6WjI/AAAAAAAAA8I/ijJFVgsXiRQ/s72-c/104_3445.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-8398326627168533589</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-29T17:03:03.165-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sewing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Halloween</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Good Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Boston</category><title>Another small preview...</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;OK, so I know I promised lots of pictures of my costume and the party and everything but unforunately my cameras weren't working and so I had to rely on others to get photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have gotten a few so far, so check it out, but I will&lt;br /&gt;FOR SURE&lt;br /&gt;post pictures of each part of my costume after this Sat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the Halloween Masquerade Ball&lt;br /&gt;for the Education Conference&lt;br /&gt;(you &lt;a href="http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2007/11/finally-update.html"&gt;might remember&lt;/a&gt; that from a couple years ago)&lt;br /&gt;and I can't wait because it's going to be awesome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So for now, here's a look at my&lt;br /&gt;"Queen of the Dead"&lt;br /&gt;costume and then a link &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jacksonsage/Halloween2009?feat=email#"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to more pictures from the party!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuoCaxDnaAI/AAAAAAAAA8A/oQhOv51V-co/s1600-h/11055_100547103302751_100000423853760_13065_891157_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuoCaxDnaAI/AAAAAAAAA8A/oQhOv51V-co/s400/11055_100547103302751_100000423853760_13065_891157_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398129762225317890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With my friend Janey who's a vampire.&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{notice the slit neck that's been "stitched" back on...}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuoCab7XJGI/AAAAAAAAA7w/u2CBTeSTq0o/s1600-h/IMG_0072.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuoCab7XJGI/AAAAAAAAA7w/u2CBTeSTq0o/s400/IMG_0072.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398129756553552994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A fuller shot, but my face looks funny here... just ignore that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More to come soon, for sure!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-8398326627168533589?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-small-preview.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuoCaxDnaAI/AAAAAAAAA8A/oQhOv51V-co/s72-c/11055_100547103302751_100000423853760_13065_891157_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-5354620310129327706</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T15:11:26.553-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Movies</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun Times</category><title>MoreSightings of Famous People</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ok, so I didn't get to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;meet&lt;/span&gt; them&lt;br /&gt;per se&lt;br /&gt;but Ben Affleck was filming right around the corner from my work yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZgRuZWI/AAAAAAAAA7g/uBPRBwGl1As/s1600-h/photo%284%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZgRuZWI/AAAAAAAAA7g/uBPRBwGl1As/s400/photo%284%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395501907750839650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;That's Ben Affleck and John Hamm getting ready to shoot the scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I couldn't resist walking by on my lunch.&lt;br /&gt;And then I had to snap pictures.&lt;br /&gt;Because really, how many times do you get to see movie stars in real life?&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{Sorry they're not better, I just snapped them with my phone, so that means no zooming in...}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZ65wuwI/AAAAAAAAA7o/VSy1D_2wHAk/s1600-h/photo%285%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZ65wuwI/AAAAAAAAA7o/VSy1D_2wHAk/s400/photo%285%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395501914898086658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I was having lunch in the Au Bon Pain, which conveniently had a window looking right out on the action.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZGLc-yI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/x5tnFMdujRg/s1600-h/photo%283%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZGLc-yI/AAAAAAAAA7Y/x5tnFMdujRg/s400/photo%283%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395501900745210658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;That's John Hamm in an FBI jacket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZFsyRwI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/clPsKi8t50A/s1600-h/photo%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZFsyRwI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/clPsKi8t50A/s400/photo%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395501900616582914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Other people were gawking, which made me a little uncomfortable joining in, but hey, maybe they're used to that?  That's Ben under the black tent thing...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it was pretty cool to see how movies work for a bit.&lt;br /&gt;They were setting up the scene&lt;br /&gt;getting directions from Ben (he's the director)&lt;br /&gt;and setting up the cameras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsY_t15MI/AAAAAAAAA7I/LPi-WR3U6UY/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsY_t15MI/AAAAAAAAA7I/LPi-WR3U6UY/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395501899010401474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't realize till I walked by today, but the electrical box on the wall was placed there by the crew.  It's not there in "real life".  Crazy huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have any of you met a movie star?&lt;br /&gt;Who would you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;die&lt;/span&gt; to see?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-5354620310129327706?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/10/moresightings-of-famous-people.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCsZgRuZWI/AAAAAAAAA7g/uBPRBwGl1As/s72-c/photo%284%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-692234503651347681</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T15:45:43.453-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>crafting</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sewing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Parties</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Halloween</category><title>Playing Dress Up</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I just love Halloween!&lt;br /&gt;Dressing up is one of my favorite things&lt;br /&gt;so when I get a chance it's hard for me not to go all out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last weekend I was invited to a Halloween Dinner Party.&lt;br /&gt;I was the only one who was remotely dressed up,&lt;br /&gt;and this was toning it down for me!&lt;br /&gt;Hello people, it's a HALLOWEEN dinner party!&lt;br /&gt;You would think costumes or at the least all black is appropriate!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's what I wore:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCo5T5AS8I/AAAAAAAAA64/67I46ubWDa8/s1600-h/photo%289%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCo5T5AS8I/AAAAAAAAA64/67I46ubWDa8/s400/photo%289%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395498056135232450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A little witchy-fun!&lt;br /&gt;I didn't get a picture of my nails but they were halloween inspired too,&lt;br /&gt;with little spiders on an orange french manicure.&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{Please ignore my messy room in the background... I've been sewing so much I haven't had time to tidy up!}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And since we're on the subject of costumes&lt;br /&gt;here's a look at the undies I finished for under my&lt;br /&gt;Marie Antoinette costume!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCo5DjbhRI/AAAAAAAAA6w/46hfjHnhxiY/s1600-h/photo%288%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCo5DjbhRI/AAAAAAAAA6w/46hfjHnhxiY/s400/photo%288%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395498051749774610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I have on the chemise, stays (aka corset), pocket hoops and petticoat I made over the 3 day holiday weekend.  That was only 50% of the entire costume!&lt;br /&gt;I'm almost done with the costume, and I'll be sure to post&lt;br /&gt;TONS&lt;br /&gt;of pictures of it and of the party.&lt;br /&gt;I'm excited with how it's turning out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one thing I haven't tackled yet is the wig...&lt;br /&gt;I think it should really *make* the costume.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and here's a little piece of costuming cuteness I just can't resist sharing:&lt;br /&gt;My niece in her cupcake costume!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCqIuMvEuI/AAAAAAAAA7A/jomsedfi3ZE/s1600-h/IMG_7339.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCqIuMvEuI/AAAAAAAAA7A/jomsedfi3ZE/s400/IMG_7339.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395499420406977250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;She really is cute as a cupcake!&lt;br /&gt;Can you believe how talented my sister is?&lt;br /&gt;She made that without a pattern, using a lampshade as the bottom!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love Halloween!!&lt;br /&gt;What are the rest of you going to be...&lt;br /&gt;if you're dressing up?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-692234503651347681?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/10/playing-dress-up.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SuCo5T5AS8I/AAAAAAAAA64/67I46ubWDa8/s72-c/photo%289%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-4149385952783765366</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-14T09:30:00.048-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Books</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun Times</category><title>Meeting Shannon Hale</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;She was hilarious.&lt;br /&gt;She signed my books, even the dust jacket&lt;br /&gt;{although she seemed a little confused, "You really want me to sign right across the front here?"}&lt;br /&gt;She petted our heads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's proof:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTWGKzHHPI/AAAAAAAAA6U/nqGiKqxeXQY/s1600-h/photo%283%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTWGKzHHPI/AAAAAAAAA6U/nqGiKqxeXQY/s400/photo%283%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392170055335615730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;That's why Karen and I are cracking up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know how it's possible but I think I like her even more now!&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{Oh, and that's my Sgt. Pepper jacket there... you can't see it but it's pretty cute}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-4149385952783765366?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/10/meeting-shannon-hale.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTWGKzHHPI/AAAAAAAAA6U/nqGiKqxeXQY/s72-c/photo%283%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-8903139796360426001</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-13T15:28:19.111-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>crafting</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Family</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>road triping</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Halloween</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Good Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Boston</category><title>Getting in the Halloween Spirit</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My parents came for their visit!&lt;br /&gt;We had a great time except that Dad got sick,&lt;br /&gt;then I got sick.&lt;br /&gt;Mom has an iron constitution and has thus far avoided it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to NYC which was awesome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTUDC5kmvI/AAAAAAAAA6M/p40flefsV_E/s1600-h/photo%286%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTUDC5kmvI/AAAAAAAAA6M/p40flefsV_E/s400/photo%286%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392167802652367602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out just &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;one&lt;/span&gt; wall of ribbons at the amazing trim store&lt;br /&gt;M&amp;amp;J Trimming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTTt8UfuXI/AAAAAAAAA6E/McdWCucOyyE/s1600-h/photo%285%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTTt8UfuXI/AAAAAAAAA6E/McdWCucOyyE/s400/photo%285%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392167440108992882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mom and I went a little crazy in here...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had fun in Boston too.&lt;br /&gt;on Thursday, their last day in town,&lt;br /&gt;we went up to Salem and had fun exploring&lt;br /&gt;Witch City.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTTtJ5b_HI/AAAAAAAAA50/C2sj3iMloWI/s1600-h/photo%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTTtJ5b_HI/AAAAAAAAA50/C2sj3iMloWI/s400/photo%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392167426573728882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;One of the shops all decked out for the season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man Salem is crazy around Halloween.&lt;br /&gt;I mean, it's crazy any time of the year but I had never been in October before.&lt;br /&gt;They go all out here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It really got me in the Halloween spirit,&lt;br /&gt;so I was able to devote this entire 3 day weekend after M&amp;amp;D left&lt;br /&gt;to working on my Halloween costume!&lt;br /&gt;Here's a little peek at what I did this weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTTtagBSOI/AAAAAAAAA58/XEgChNFyT0I/s1600-h/photo%284%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTTtagBSOI/AAAAAAAAA58/XEgChNFyT0I/s400/photo%284%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392167431030524130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the rest you'll have to wait!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks Mom and Dad for coming to visit,&lt;br /&gt;I had such a fun time!&lt;br /&gt;If anyone else wants to come, please do.&lt;br /&gt;There's so much to see and do here, we only scratched the surface!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-8903139796360426001?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/10/getting-in-halloween-spirit.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/StTUDC5kmvI/AAAAAAAAA6M/p40flefsV_E/s72-c/photo%286%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-2670601970073907085</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-30T09:04:00.199-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Books</category><title>A Trip to Austenland!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Well not really... I wish!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But it's almost as good&lt;br /&gt;because I get to go see, hear and meet&lt;br /&gt;the author of some of my favorite books!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squeetus.com/stage/main.html"&gt;Shannon Hale&lt;/a&gt; is doing a book tour to promote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forest-Born-Books-Bayern-Shannon/dp/1599901676/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1254247854&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Forrest Born&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;her newest book in the Bayern series.&lt;br /&gt;{this is number 4 and should be just a beautiful as the first 3}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsJOtRshfPI/AAAAAAAAA5k/aa1-aV_FzEU/s1600-h/forest+born.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsJOtRshfPI/AAAAAAAAA5k/aa1-aV_FzEU/s400/forest+born.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386954644039761138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hear she's a fabulous speaker&lt;br /&gt;and if &lt;a href="http://oinks.squeetus.com/"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; is any indication she's super nice as well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite book of hers is &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Austenland-Novel-Shannon-Hale/dp/1596912863/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1254248290&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Austenland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{can you guess why?}&lt;br /&gt;but my copy of the book is in Utah with my sil,&lt;br /&gt;so I'm going to take the dust jacket for her to sign instead!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsJPlZxm4oI/AAAAAAAAA5s/Rjrbqen6dKM/s1600-h/austenland.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsJPlZxm4oI/AAAAAAAAA5s/Rjrbqen6dKM/s400/austenland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386955608281244290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I hope she gets a kick out of it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you live in Boston and want to go, check out the details &lt;a href="http://www.squeetus.com/stage/news_events.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-2670601970073907085?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/trip-to-austenland.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsJOtRshfPI/AAAAAAAAA5k/aa1-aV_FzEU/s72-c/forest+born.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-7585854560316012760</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-29T14:28:00.444-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>History</category><title>A Fair Day for the Faire</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5K_NuDII/AAAAAAAAA5M/27VIHyTYv_c/s1600-h/photo%287%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5K_NuDII/AAAAAAAAA5M/27VIHyTYv_c/s400/photo%287%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386930965218987138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we went to the Renaissance Faire this weekend!&lt;br /&gt;Wow, what an experience.&lt;br /&gt;It was surprisingly crowded and not everyone was in costume&lt;br /&gt;{unfortunately including ourselves - we decided to go for warmth rather than "authenticity"}&lt;br /&gt;but I think I can still say we were some of the most normal people there&lt;br /&gt;{and attractive, if we do say so ourselves}.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI6DE94T3I/AAAAAAAAA5U/zjQCxDVXZW0/s1600-h/photo%288%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI6DE94T3I/AAAAAAAAA5U/zjQCxDVXZW0/s400/photo%288%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386931928835837810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cool thing was that it was basically set in a forest as you can see in the pictures.&lt;br /&gt;I felt like I had walked into a Robin Hood movie or something.&lt;br /&gt;The whole thing was a little village and there were stages with performers scattered throughout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5EYhqWDI/AAAAAAAAA40/oNYKT5MKj7o/s1600-h/photo%284%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5EYhqWDI/AAAAAAAAA40/oNYKT5MKj7o/s400/photo%284%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386930851754432562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They accept all thy cards of credit:&lt;br /&gt;Master Card, Lady Visa, New World Express and Lord Discover&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5DhP6MOI/AAAAAAAAA4k/or9ZTdkDOn8/s1600-h/photo%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5DhP6MOI/AAAAAAAAA4k/or9ZTdkDOn8/s400/photo%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386930836916023522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trying on wreaths at one of the shops&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI6Df6_6QI/AAAAAAAAA5c/Wfux_0C9jC4/s1600-h/photo%289%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI6Df6_6QI/AAAAAAAAA5c/Wfux_0C9jC4/s400/photo%289%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386931936071510274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5DOefArI/AAAAAAAAA4c/NqbfhFHbtSM/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5DOefArI/AAAAAAAAA4c/NqbfhFHbtSM/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386930831876883122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We mostly just walked around looking in the shops and staring at all the people.&lt;br /&gt;There were some people who really went all out with their costumes&lt;br /&gt;like this Troll&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5KeVuLhI/AAAAAAAAA5E/C1vlTftH90M/s1600-h/photo%286%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5KeVuLhI/AAAAAAAAA5E/C1vlTftH90M/s400/photo%286%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386930956394180114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;{this woman actually asked him to pretend like he was cutting off her head... yeah}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this living Gargoyle which was also pretty cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5Erl9T4I/AAAAAAAAA48/DKml5fL9FH4/s1600-h/photo%285%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5Erl9T4I/AAAAAAAAA48/DKml5fL9FH4/s400/photo%285%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386930856872726402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favorite guy was this performer who, while wearing a kilt, rode a unicycle and played "Star Wars" on the bagpipe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5D_i_CtI/AAAAAAAAA4s/D9HhVxHO588/s1600-h/photo%283%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5D_i_CtI/AAAAAAAAA4s/D9HhVxHO588/s400/photo%283%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386930845049096914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It was pretty funny.  And he was pretty cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which led to the question:&lt;br /&gt;Would you ever date someone you met at a Renaissance Fair?&lt;br /&gt;And if you would, would you admit to how you met?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I would, even though it's a little quirky,&lt;br /&gt;cause I'm kind of a nerd myself in some ways.&lt;br /&gt;Plus I think it'd be a hilarious story to tell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about the rest of you, married or not?&lt;br /&gt;Would you date someone you met at a Ren Fair,&lt;br /&gt;or would you admit it if that's where you'd met your loved one?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-7585854560316012760?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/fair-day-for-faire.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SsI5K_NuDII/AAAAAAAAA5M/27VIHyTYv_c/s72-c/photo%287%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-7840013600014421695</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-25T17:47:17.713-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Family</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Flashbacks</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Boston</category><title>Flashback Friday</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I've been thinking a lot lately about how I've been in Boston for almost 4 years.&lt;br /&gt;That is just crazy to me!&lt;br /&gt;I seriously feel like time has almost stood still since I moved here.&lt;br /&gt;{which hopefully means that I can still claim to be 26, right?}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boston is a great city and I'd always wanted to live here,&lt;br /&gt;but before I moved out it was kind of an emotional time saying goodbye to everyone.&lt;br /&gt;Especially my family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sr0GyoCV3UI/AAAAAAAAA4U/NbH1CibJzjU/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sr0GyoCV3UI/AAAAAAAAA4U/NbH1CibJzjU/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385468196215446850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a miracle you can't tell in this photo but I had been crying my eyes out.&lt;br /&gt;This is the last time I was together with my brothers and sisters {the ones in Ut anyway} before moving out to Boston.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My life is so much better in so many ways than it was before:&lt;br /&gt;I have an awesome job {my dream job really}&lt;br /&gt;I've made some incredible friends&lt;br /&gt;I've been able to visit so many new places&lt;br /&gt;I've been able to take classes at Harvard{!}&lt;br /&gt;I've really just been so blessed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only thing that's been difficult&lt;br /&gt;{other than the non-existent dating life}&lt;br /&gt;has been being so far away from my family!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are truly my best friends in this world and there's no one I'd rather hang out with.  Which is why I'm so glad my parents are coming out to visit me in just two weeks!&lt;br /&gt;My Mom's been out before&lt;br /&gt;but this will be my Dad's first trip.&lt;br /&gt;I'm really excited!&lt;br /&gt;It's going to be fun times!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-7840013600014421695?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/flashback-friday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sr0GyoCV3UI/AAAAAAAAA4U/NbH1CibJzjU/s72-c/photo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-5296196368421050132</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-23T17:54:00.177-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New England</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Planing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Good Times</category><title>Once a Pirate Wench...</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Always a pirate wench. Or so I hear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My friends and I are going to the &lt;a href="http://www.kingrichardsfaire.net/index.html"&gt;King Richard's Renaissance Faire&lt;/a&gt; this weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlIlMgOvCI/AAAAAAAAA4E/yVXO0E2Zrqo/s1600-h/3815106505_8ea648c9f6_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlIlMgOvCI/AAAAAAAAA4E/yVXO0E2Zrqo/s400/3815106505_8ea648c9f6_b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384414633346907170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm thinking it's going to be a total blast.&lt;br /&gt;To really get into the spirit, we're dressing up.&lt;br /&gt;So I'm breaking out the Pirate Wench costume!&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure I'll take a ton of photos of the &lt;strike&gt;weirdos&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;nerds&lt;/strike&gt; cool people we see.&lt;br /&gt;I guess after this you can count me among them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlIlaTAilI/AAAAAAAAA4M/gJ9zwfBo2IY/s1600-h/3815096593_31b4cc7430_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlIlaTAilI/AAAAAAAAA4M/gJ9zwfBo2IY/s400/3815096593_31b4cc7430_b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384414637049547346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-5296196368421050132?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/once-pirate-wench.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlIlMgOvCI/AAAAAAAAA4E/yVXO0E2Zrqo/s72-c/3815106505_8ea648c9f6_b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-4617610114615935381</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-22T17:32:00.188-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Treats</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>about me</category><title>Guilty Pleasures</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have quite a few guilty pleasures.&lt;br /&gt;Here are three I enjoy simultaneously:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlBboPouEI/AAAAAAAAA38/TRGrPIKDz7o/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 388px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlBboPouEI/AAAAAAAAA38/TRGrPIKDz7o/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384406772413413442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Dr. Pepper&lt;br /&gt;2. Gummy Raspberries&lt;br /&gt;3. Teen Vampire Fiction (current read, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Diaries-Fury-Dark-Reunion/dp/0061140988/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1253655032&amp;amp;sr=8-3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Vampire Diaries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;What are some of your guilty pleasures?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-4617610114615935381?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/guilty-pleasures.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrlBboPouEI/AAAAAAAAA38/TRGrPIKDz7o/s72-c/photo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-8881055148600259223</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-21T13:04:41.834-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New England</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Camping</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Good Times</category><title>A Weekend at the Lake</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My 4th ward campout was a success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New friendships were formed,&lt;br /&gt;bonfires were enjoyed,&lt;br /&gt;moonlit dancing occured,&lt;br /&gt;stars were gazed&lt;br /&gt;{facilitated by Edwina of course},&lt;br /&gt;the lake was canoed,&lt;br /&gt;diet coke runs were made,&lt;br /&gt;like I said, complete success!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had Ward Olympics.&lt;br /&gt;It's the only time I broke out my camera.&lt;br /&gt;As a warm up a few people built a pyramid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrevOTtsq5I/AAAAAAAAA3s/NOb8ATqNC7E/s1600-h/photo%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrevOTtsq5I/AAAAAAAAA3s/NOb8ATqNC7E/s400/photo%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383964539889691538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Check out our spirit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we crammed 14 people onto a homemade raft of blow up swimming pools, tubes and floaties.&lt;br /&gt;I was not one of those people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrevN0oBYPI/AAAAAAAAA3k/D7V9BnXE8XA/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrevN0oBYPI/AAAAAAAAA3k/D7V9BnXE8XA/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383964531544383730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few other events took place.&lt;br /&gt;In the end our efforts were not enough to secure the gold,&lt;br /&gt;but I think we could still consider ourselves champions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought the highlight of the weekend was the Campfire Cabaret.&lt;br /&gt;Seriously hilarious.  And an impressive show of talent!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So all in all, good times can be had in New Hampshire!&lt;br /&gt;{Especially if you get to sleep in a cabin...}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-8881055148600259223?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/weekend-at-lake.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrevOTtsq5I/AAAAAAAAA3s/NOb8ATqNC7E/s72-c/photo%282%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-5668455091906214912</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-19T12:15:01.069-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Auntie Carly</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Edwina</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vacation</category><title>How could I be so remiss?</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As to forget to post the adorable photos (and videos) from my trip to see my adorable niece and nephew!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me fix that right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0gh_5iKI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sF-PQwYsR-U/s1600-h/photo%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0gh_5iKI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sF-PQwYsR-U/s400/photo%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382844450613069986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you handle the adorableness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0gYrlV9I/AAAAAAAAA2c/c0ubFLsTJGE/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0gYrlV9I/AAAAAAAAA2c/c0ubFLsTJGE/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382844448111941586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you dead yet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0h0rk9HI/AAAAAAAAA28/CDIcGnHwFj4/s1600-h/photo%285%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0h0rk9HI/AAAAAAAAA28/CDIcGnHwFj4/s400/photo%285%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382844472807978098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jack loved my shoes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0hiuYapI/AAAAAAAAA20/8PhzWH2xz2I/s1600-h/photo%284%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0hiuYapI/AAAAAAAAA20/8PhzWH2xz2I/s400/photo%284%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382844467987901074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0hAJI_NI/AAAAAAAAA2s/rWF3D-EWgfw/s1600-h/photo%283%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0hAJI_NI/AAAAAAAAA2s/rWF3D-EWgfw/s400/photo%283%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382844458704895186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;How can you resist this face?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and we had a dance party.  Jack loves to dance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-68c3bf89c50abaf6" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAIiSxp13MRsP2RXZVN7myjJ8g-D4tf533WnqPch5-5IhpP5O7ANPZ3Nqso0zoLjSaCg_nfDoUoTEVOncjqmENU3hlzA2PMybWxGOB-aR0e3VZOkaJJqzX11dav9u1_1Y6bIVPy_tVc_8E7LLnOmVu413dps8GlzO-U1JH4sQPySWwvuTb47-fcbrIY1Ml0qoT3hj5FXm105DjBoicXggqNaf7mG3wsqgFYqKiSmqdlXo%26sigh%3Dx2iV7L_AVELJvOo-UsG9vDx2saQ%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D68c3bf89c50abaf6%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DPQdSaULBmF5zifkkxCpihRlRCl8&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAIiSxp13MRsP2RXZVN7myjJ8g-D4tf533WnqPch5-5IhpP5O7ANPZ3Nqso0zoLjSaCg_nfDoUoTEVOncjqmENU3hlzA2PMybWxGOB-aR0e3VZOkaJJqzX11dav9u1_1Y6bIVPy_tVc_8E7LLnOmVu413dps8GlzO-U1JH4sQPySWwvuTb47-fcbrIY1Ml0qoT3hj5FXm105DjBoicXggqNaf7mG3wsqgFYqKiSmqdlXo%26sigh%3Dx2iV7L_AVELJvOo-UsG9vDx2saQ%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;amp;nogvlm=1&amp;amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D68c3bf89c50abaf6%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DPQdSaULBmF5zifkkxCpihRlRCl8&amp;amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just ignore silly Aunt Carly...&lt;br /&gt;Oh and did I mention that my phone now takes video?&lt;br /&gt;Thanks Edwina!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-5668455091906214912?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-could-i-be-so-remiss.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrO0gh_5iKI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sF-PQwYsR-U/s72-c/photo%282%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-92386651346536782</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-18T11:29:59.002-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>the Church</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>New England</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Camping</category><title>New Hamp-shire!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;{Said in Bill Murray's voice from "What About Bob"}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOmlc1GMCI/AAAAAAAAA2M/E3XjXqHjcj8/s1600-h/trailsteps01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOmlc1GMCI/AAAAAAAAA2M/E3XjXqHjcj8/s800/trailsteps01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382829141962141730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'm heading up to NH this weekend for our annual &lt;a href="http://zionscampnh.org/index.html"&gt;ward campout&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Hoping to get a cabin...&lt;br /&gt;otherwise I'm sharing a tent with my friend Trent.&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"&gt;{hey that rhymes}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOmlPiiFhI/AAAAAAAAA2E/74Eqns1hSwE/s1600-h/lakeview01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOmlPiiFhI/AAAAAAAAA2E/74Eqns1hSwE/s800/lakeview01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382829138394617362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year they tried to make me sleep in a spider infested boy scout tent.&lt;br /&gt;There is no way.&lt;br /&gt;Hopefully the cabins are spider free!&lt;br /&gt;I hear the showers aren't.&lt;br /&gt;Guess I won't be showering tomorrow!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-92386651346536782?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-hamp-shire.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOmlc1GMCI/AAAAAAAAA2M/E3XjXqHjcj8/s72-c/trailsteps01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-5825311688408623002</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-18T12:10:52.926-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sewing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Halloween</category><title>Busy Busy...</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I've been consumed with planning my Halloween costume for this year!&lt;br /&gt;Can't wait to get it all done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For now here's what's helping inspire me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/74/164121782_0e4bbfb9fc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/74/164121782_0e4bbfb9fc.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ma08.org.uk/images/97265/medium.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.ma08.org.uk/images/97265/medium.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/macarons/gurdyk/confiseries/macaron1.jpg?o=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w220/gurdyk/confiseries/macaron1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOw6K4HRfI/AAAAAAAAA2U/68WnQyY87Mc/s1600-h/carriage1b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOw6K4HRfI/AAAAAAAAA2U/68WnQyY87Mc/s800/carriage1b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382840493036488178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you guess what I'm going to be?&lt;br /&gt;I think I've made it really easy for you.&lt;br /&gt;{OK, some of you already know the answer to this one...}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-5825311688408623002?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/09/busy-busy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SrOw6K4HRfI/AAAAAAAAA2U/68WnQyY87Mc/s72-c/carriage1b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-4191101027182378894</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-12T16:26:27.850-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Auntie Carly</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sewing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Shakespeare</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Vacation</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Boston</category><title>Hello August</title><description>So far I've been very busy in the month of August.  It started out as a volunteer thing and turned into a part time job.  This is where I've been for the last week and where I'll be every night for the next week and a half:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SoMlH103uWI/AAAAAAAAA18/MzChWKYxaTc/s1600-h/pic1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SoMlH103uWI/AAAAAAAAA18/MzChWKYxaTc/s800/pic1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369175997393910114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Working on the Boston Common as a Costume Assistant for the annual Free Commonwealth Shakespeare Company production!  So far working on the &lt;a href="http://www.commshakes.org/"&gt;Comedy of Errors&lt;/a&gt; has been fun (if stressful going from full time day job, to the Common until midnight) and I've been excited for the chance to meet some new people and get out of my comfort zone a bit!  Read the great review the Boston Globe gave us &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/08/07/commonwealth_shakespeare_company_brings_the_comedy_of_errors_to_boston_common/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  If you're in Boston come see us before August 16th!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then two days after the show ends, I will be &lt;a href="http://www.weggeland.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SnxZfuY2c6I/AAAAAAAAA10/ygX6SWZ_mNI/s1600-h/Mom-and-Anna.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SnxZfuY2c6I/AAAAAAAAA10/ygX6SWZ_mNI/s800/Mom-and-Anna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367263257481868194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SnxZfXoQhCI/AAAAAAAAA1s/76Ei5qhhS6g/s1600-h/dad-and-jack.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SnxZfXoQhCI/AAAAAAAAA1s/76Ei5qhhS6g/s800/dad-and-jack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367263251372475426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visiting my brother and his cute cute family in Utah!  Yay!!  I'm so excited!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then when I get back it's time to move.... Dun dun dun!  It's gonna be busy!  Hopefully I'll have time to post all the adorable photos I'll be taking of my niece and nephew while visiting them, so check back later this month!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-4191101027182378894?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/07/hello-august.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SoMlH103uWI/AAAAAAAAA18/MzChWKYxaTc/s72-c/pic1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-7557881869462093483</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-21T18:16:32.279-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Auntie Carly</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Gemma</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Harry Potter</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>road triping</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flea markets</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Edwina</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Good Times</category><title>In the effort to be a better blogger...</title><description>Here's a random mind dump of things I've been up to lately:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Taking a whole Saturday to play at Six Flags New England&lt;br /&gt;2. Feeling like I've taken a beating the day after said adventure&lt;br /&gt;3. Signing a new lease for a new place with my roommates - we'll be moving at the end of August&lt;br /&gt;4. Buying tickets to visit Utah at the end of August, which will make moving 5 days after getting back from said trip super fun&lt;br /&gt;5. Enjoying Edwina, my new iPhone 3GS, whose name had to be changed since she was just too pretty to be a boy&lt;br /&gt;6. Lamenting the fact that pretty much everyone (and everything) in my life is now female - where have all the men gone?&lt;br /&gt;7. Volunteering as a costume assistant for Shakespeare on the Common and then feeling like a crazy person for continuing to email them since I haven't heard anything from them (but keeping my fingers crossed)&lt;br /&gt;8. Watching Harry Potter 6 last Wed!  And loving it!&lt;br /&gt;9. Continuing to love my new car, Gemma, and the freedom it brings to go anywhere I want whenever I want&lt;br /&gt;10. Getting some fabulous knock-off Coach bags at a great "purse market" in New Hampshire for super cheap (ie around 10 dollars a pop - oh yes I bought more than one)&lt;br /&gt;11. Watching "So You Think You Can Dance" every Wed. and Thurs. and consequently wanting to start dancing again (thinking about taking a class)&lt;br /&gt;12.  Thinking about maybe teaching a bookbinding class at the "Cambridge Center for Adult Education" since I heard their teacher left&lt;br /&gt;13. Reading lots of good books, especially the "Percy Jackson &amp;amp; the Olympians" series, you should check it out&lt;br /&gt;14. Getting no where on the quilting projects that I made goals to finish before the end of the summer and feeling guilty&lt;br /&gt;15. Finally starting on the tan I vowed to get this summer - I no longer look like a vampire&lt;br /&gt;16. Video chatting with the nieces and nephews - this is probably the best invention ever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it for now... And just because it's not a post without a picture:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SmY93W_6qSI/AAAAAAAAA1c/EvPvreKhEsw/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SmY93W_6qSI/AAAAAAAAA1c/EvPvreKhEsw/s800/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361040427706919202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of the group I went to the beach with 2 weekends ago which was the beginning of said tan!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-7557881869462093483?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-effort-to-be-better-blogger.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SmY93W_6qSI/AAAAAAAAA1c/EvPvreKhEsw/s72-c/photo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-5771709714746788106</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-16T23:58:05.285-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Design</category><title>Testing...</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sl-m56rI-zI/AAAAAAAAA00/dzwGx9N6awg/s1600-h/summerwedding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;  width: 420px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sl-m56rI-zI/AAAAAAAAA00/dzwGx9N6awg/s800/summerwedding.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359185595527134002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Testing out some new pictures sizes... trying to see if I can get them to go big!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love these images via &lt;a href="http://snippetandink.blogspot.com/2009/06/board-399-marry-go-round.html"&gt;Snippet and Ink&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sl_dGwmSpjI/AAAAAAAAA08/hfsy3NBvsZY/s1600-h/redandbluewedding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 420px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sl_dGwmSpjI/AAAAAAAAA08/hfsy3NBvsZY/s400/redandbluewedding.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359245189788640818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Makes me wish I had a wedding to plan!  Don't worry, that wasn't a hint or anything.  I'm just one of those girls that's always collecting ideas.  Will these colors still be popular when it's my turn? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I've been playing around with the look of the blog again.  I found the tutorial for how to get your pictures big &lt;a href="http://www.bloggertricks.com/2009/06/hack-how-to-post-larger-hq-images-in.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I also changed the font for my posts and sidebar titles to a fun handwriting font with &lt;a href="http://www.kevinandamanda.com/whatsnew/tutorials/how-to-use-a-cute-font-for-your-blogger-post-titles.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; tutorial.  How cool is that?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-5771709714746788106?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/07/testing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/Sl-m56rI-zI/AAAAAAAAA00/dzwGx9N6awg/s72-c/summerwedding.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-4130994710517787199</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-21T14:31:48.598-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Good Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Edwin</category><title>Fun with Edwin (aka iPhone)</title><description>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;I've downloaded some new applications that let me edit my photos right&lt;br /&gt;on my phone, which is pretty cool! Check it out!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;Original photo straight from my phone:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmjI134mI/AAAAAAAAAz8/5CdwoFJNyDg/s1600-h/photo-732909.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmjI134mI/AAAAAAAAAz8/5CdwoFJNyDg/s800/photo-732909.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351303904845357666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;Edited to look like an "instant" photo with &lt;a href="http://www.apptism.com/apps/camerabag"&gt;Camera Bag&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmjbJ22bI/AAAAAAAAA0E/anebVV6qDBM/s1600-h/IMG_0588-733681.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmjbJ22bI/AAAAAAAAA0E/anebVV6qDBM/s800/IMG_0588-733681.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351303909761014194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;Edited to brighten and then added a border with &lt;a href="http://www.apptism.com/apps/photogene"&gt;Photogene&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmjq8YfiI/AAAAAAAAA0M/2gbDGASIA0s/s1600-h/IMG_0590-734326.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmjq8YfiI/AAAAAAAAA0M/2gbDGASIA0s/s800/IMG_0590-734326.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351303913999466018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;Edited with "Elf Glow" in&lt;a href="http://www.apptism.com/apps/cinemafx"&gt; CinemaFX&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmkP5hbEI/AAAAAAAAA0U/OeCtdAJZw_0/s1600-h/IMG_0591-736520.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmkP5hbEI/AAAAAAAAA0U/OeCtdAJZw_0/s800/IMG_0591-736520.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351303923919580226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;I went to the aquarium the other day, this is the edited version of some Jelly fish using &lt;a href="http://www.apptism.com/apps/photosharpfree"&gt;PhotoSharp&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmkX9Z8NI/AAAAAAAAA0c/JK18jzW7ET0/s1600-h/IMG_0600-737547.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmkX9Z8NI/AAAAAAAAA0c/JK18jzW7ET0/s800/IMG_0600-737547.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351303926083350738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;Before editing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmkn6aqiI/AAAAAAAAA0k/bfgTyc9iAtk/s1600-h/IMG_0524-738687.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmkn6aqiI/AAAAAAAAA0k/bfgTyc9iAtk/s800/IMG_0524-738687.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351303930365782562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;P.S. Who knows, maybe the next time I post I'll be able to take video with my phone as well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-4130994710517787199?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/06/fun-with-edwin-aka-iphone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SkOmjI134mI/AAAAAAAAAz8/5CdwoFJNyDg/s72-c/photo-732909.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-7681771567473501310</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-22T16:49:54.239-04:00</atom:updated><title>Tweet Tweet</title><description>OK, so I know I've been kind of a bad blogger for the last little while (and by that I mean always).  But the good news is you can still kind of know what I'm up to now because I've started getting into the swing of "Twittering"!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShcP2jBuzKI/AAAAAAAAAz0/YS9K3_BSCv0/s1600-h/twitter-logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 118px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShcP2jBuzKI/AAAAAAAAAz0/YS9K3_BSCv0/s320/twitter-logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338753313060867234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;For those of you who don't know what Twitter is, it's kind of like micro-blogging.  You only get 140 characters per post to say what's on your mind.  You can see a few of my most recent updates on my side bar to the right here, so now if you visit Bella Boston and I haven't updated, there will probably be something more recent going on over there.  Or why don't you join Twitter as well and then you can &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/carlyw"&gt;follow me&lt;/a&gt; over there to catch them all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, I do all these things for you.  Cause I'm a giver like that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-7681771567473501310?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/05/tweet-tweet.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShcP2jBuzKI/AAAAAAAAAz0/YS9K3_BSCv0/s72-c/twitter-logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-8312536244820866136</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-16T22:05:43.926-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>the Church</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Books</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Boston</category><title>Sad Day</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRlJmZ0lI/AAAAAAAAAy8/TXYLFhFPdMU/s1600-h/fire17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRlJmZ0lI/AAAAAAAAAy8/TXYLFhFPdMU/s400/fire17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337558944549818962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Just before the roof above the chapel collapsed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday while attending Stake Conference at our building, the fire alarm went off, just half an hour into the two hour broadcast meeting. I had smelled a little smoke before it went off, but didn't think much of it. As I was exiting the building I started to worry a bit. When we got out to the park in front of the church my fears were confirmed. There was smoke coming from under the eaves of the roof above the chapel and the spire. I quickly moved my car as it was parked right next to the church and fire trucks were obviously on their way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In just a matter of one short hour the entire chapel was engulfed in flames and most of the building was starting to burn as well. Despite the 8 ladder teams (8 huge fire trucks!) and over 12 response trucks that came to the scene (in total about 70 - 80 firefighters), our beautiful historic church was only a charred shell after several hours of fighting it with hoses inside and out. The building is one of the first that was built in the New England region and has seen many generations of the church, including some of our general authorities. I've attended it for just 3 short years but thought of so many memories as I watched it burning. Our chapels really are our second homes, especially out here as young single adults. It was a very sad experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRll-97QI/AAAAAAAAAzU/V8rW1icJLcQ/s1600-h/fire15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRll-97QI/AAAAAAAAAzU/V8rW1icJLcQ/s400/fire15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337558952169041154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;At this point the chapel had completely burned and they were working on keeping the other side from burning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRl4kLBUI/AAAAAAAAAzc/DG9XKPhGUU8/s1600-h/fire.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRl4kLBUI/AAAAAAAAAzc/DG9XKPhGUU8/s400/fire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337558957156926786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Someone took this picture of me watching while holding William, one of the kids I used to teach in primary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was stunning to watch it from start to finish, but there were a few small miracles that happened despite the overall tragedy.  Luckily no one was hurt or injured (although 4 firemen suffered minor injuries), we were all able to exit safely and in addition, miracle of miracles the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;entire&lt;/span&gt; Institute Library was rescued practically unscathed!  We set up a "book brigade" across the park into the basement of the Quaker church across the park.  It was so amazing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRlLDlfYI/AAAAAAAAAzE/fbItNFeMS0c/s1600-h/fire11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRlLDlfYI/AAAAAAAAAzE/fbItNFeMS0c/s400/fire11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337558944940653954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Many of my friends helping out in the book brigade across the park to the Quaker Church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The building was still on fire when the firefighters started pulling books and bookcases out of the library on the first floor.  They also rescued most of the art work as well, a huge picture of Christ that sat on the wall just outside the chapel was completely untouched by either fire or water!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRlWW-etI/AAAAAAAAAzM/7oD4VO8Nq6Q/s1600-h/fire12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRlWW-etI/AAAAAAAAAzM/7oD4VO8Nq6Q/s400/fire12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337558947974773458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to these miracles, some important documents and blue prints to the building were recovered after the blaze was extinguished from the completely destroyed library.  They had been in a cupboard that only one person knew about.  A firefighter went in later (the room was very unstable as it sustained the most fire and water damage since it was right under the steeple) and found them.  They weren't even wet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were so touched by the community's outpouring of hospitality during the whole ordeal.  The Community of Friends, Quaker's as their more commonly known, whose church is directly across from ours, opened their facilities to use, passed out water and juice to everyone watching and then helped us in the endeavor to rescue our books!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Katie Smith and myself oversaw the response and triage to the damaged books.  About 200 were wet, so we had many people helping to interleave them with paper towels and setting them out to dry.  But still, there were so many more dry than I expected!  I was also able to bring some of the more soaked ones that were more important to save to the book freezer at my work, which was also a great help as it buys us some time to fully recover them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLTTa4djBI/AAAAAAAAAzs/idmb50WH3YY/s1600-h/fire6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLTTa4djBI/AAAAAAAAAzs/idmb50WH3YY/s400/fire6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337560838974573586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLTTeAhCXI/AAAAAAAAAzk/TZ8nk4GIW_U/s1600-h/fire2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLTTeAhCXI/AAAAAAAAAzk/TZ8nk4GIW_U/s400/fire2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337560839813663090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;In the basement assessing the damage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a crazy day and I'm still totally exhausted but I'm so glad I was able to be there to help.  The way everyone banded together throughout the day to get things done was just amazing.  We still have a lot of work to do, and unfortunately our building will not be &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;usable&lt;/span&gt; for likely more than a year, but I'm just so glad for the blessings that have come already from the experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find the photos I've used as well as more &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/luke.hutch/LongfellowParkMeetinghouseFire20090517#"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/photos/200905-lpburn-chirsch/"&gt;here (arial views of the damage)&lt;/a&gt;.  Read more and watch video&lt;a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1194177766/Report-Fire-tears-through-Cambridge-church"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*All photos by Luke Hutchison.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-8312536244820866136?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/05/sad-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/ShLRlJmZ0lI/AAAAAAAAAy8/TXYLFhFPdMU/s72-c/fire17.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-5439399859546313579</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-12T15:20:13.093-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>old stuff</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>road triping</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Fun Times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>flea markets</category><title>Ready to "Flea"!</title><description>Sorry sorry for not posting sooner when I said I would!!  For some reason I've been really busy, but hopefully my life will be settling down now.  I had my last Jane Austen class last night.  I'll have to do a little recap of it sometime.  Overall it was fun, but not quite what I thought it was going to be.  Anyway, another time.  Also, letterpress is over for the summer, also a bummer, but that means more time for sewing and blogging, right?  I just wanted to post and let you know that I'm still planning something fun so come back soon (hopefully by this weekend), plus I'm so excited because tomorrow I'm going to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brimfieldshow.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;The Brimfield Antique Show!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SgnKyIhSFGI/AAAAAAAAAy0/FuHo_oyugnY/s1600-h/191370850_38f5818d9a_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SgnKyIhSFGI/AAAAAAAAAy0/FuHo_oyugnY/s400/191370850_38f5818d9a_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335018196226413666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;small&gt;Brimfield photo from &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rizzolo/191370850/"&gt;rizzolo's&lt;/a&gt; flickr photostream&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the largest Flea Market in the world!  I'm seriously so excited.  It's my first Flea Market trip ever, so it might be a little daunting to start with the biggest one ever, but I think it will be seriously fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things I'll be keeping my eye out for:&lt;br /&gt;*big type drawer&lt;br /&gt;*wood type&lt;br /&gt;*cake stand&lt;br /&gt;*old dress form&lt;br /&gt;*an old globe (like the ones above)&lt;br /&gt;*bedside table&lt;br /&gt;*an old quilt (if I can find a sweet deal)&lt;br /&gt;*old glass jars and tea cups&lt;br /&gt;*paintings and frames&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weather is supposed to be perfect (*keeping my fingers crossed*) so it should be a lovely time!  My friend Barbara is going with me.  I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post all my exciting finds when I get back!  I have a feeling I'm going to be tired tomorrow night!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-5439399859546313579?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/05/ready-to-flea.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SgnKyIhSFGI/AAAAAAAAAy0/FuHo_oyugnY/s72-c/191370850_38f5818d9a_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-2192987759383851444</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-01T15:34:56.603-04:00</atom:updated><title>Craftiness Coming...</title><description>Here's a little preview of really bad pictures taken by Edwin (in my room with really bad lighting, hence the bad pictures) of the things I've been up to.  Stay tuned this weekend for more detail, better pics and even more fun!  Something exciting is coming, it's a secret, but I think you'll want to come back for my next post!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftOENJOlaI/AAAAAAAAAyo/IjsFPvdNc5I/s1600-h/photo%286%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftOENJOlaI/AAAAAAAAAyo/IjsFPvdNc5I/s200/photo%286%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330940418077922722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-nolveI/AAAAAAAAAyg/njcEbaroA9g/s1600-h/photo%285%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-nolveI/AAAAAAAAAyg/njcEbaroA9g/s200/photo%285%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330940322109570530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-Yaeg_I/AAAAAAAAAyY/OL7jKydHX7o/s1600-h/photo%284%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-Yaeg_I/AAAAAAAAAyY/OL7jKydHX7o/s200/photo%284%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330940318023844850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-WKFaVI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/gkOsiTTi7qc/s1600-h/photo%283%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-WKFaVI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/gkOsiTTi7qc/s200/photo%283%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330940317418219858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-GMmRDI/AAAAAAAAAyI/eSMGOTRPczg/s1600-h/photo%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-GMmRDI/AAAAAAAAAyI/eSMGOTRPczg/s200/photo%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330940313133794354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-FjJMHI/AAAAAAAAAyA/2qHPmcCCS3c/s1600-h/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftN-FjJMHI/AAAAAAAAAyA/2qHPmcCCS3c/s200/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330940312959922290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-2192987759383851444?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/05/craftiness-coming.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gOJR9RD1UjE/SftOENJOlaI/AAAAAAAAAyo/IjsFPvdNc5I/s72-c/photo%286%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737961.post-3670850347383869185</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-22T14:25:28.312-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Living Green</category><title>My New Mantra</title><description>Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And not just because it's Earth Day.  This is something I've been thinking about for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not something I've always been interested in doing, in fact, I'm still probably a bad consumer in some ways, but after working in a "Green" building for the past year, I've gotten a little more educated about ways that I can help save the Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First off, you have to go check out &lt;a href="http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/04/earth-day-every-day.html"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.designspongeonline.com/"&gt;Design*Sponge&lt;/a&gt; today. Before I'd even read it, I'd made up my mind to celebrate the day and the things that I was going to try to do better by buying a &lt;a href="http://www.baggubag.com/"&gt;Baggu bag&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://k2.stylefeeder.com/thumb/6f/02/6f02381650b9d8f01138b36096c6467842f26a6a-200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://k2.stylefeeder.com/thumb/6f/02/6f02381650b9d8f01138b36096c6467842f26a6a-200.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; It's something I've been wanting for a while now, since my co-worker introduced me to them and I figured, why not, since today is Earth Day.  But I was so glad to read this article, because number one, I think it's totally true and the facts are amazing, but it also made me feel just a little bit better since the three things it asks me to do are things I've already done in the last couple months!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing I was kind of forced into.  My work, in an effort to not only cut the budget but live up more to our "green" title, has decided to stop buying paper coffee cups, which I will ashamedly admit, I used pretty much every day.  What a waste!  I now have my own mug that stays at work to use in the mornings for my hot chocolate.  I also have been better about putting my cans and containers into the recycling, which I used to be bad about, although as the D*S article points out, even recycling isn't the best option, it's better than nothing, but it does use a lot of energy resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also bought a travel mug at the dollar store a couple months ago which I was excited about because it was personalizable and I've been using it in my car when I want to take something to drink.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was also given an aluminum water bottle by my roommate (it's got a pharmaceutical advertisement on it which I'm going to cover with some shelf liner paper) which I'm still trying to remember to bring to work... but I have it!  And I actually don't buy water bottles all that much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, on top of the three things they suggest, I've been trying to buy more second hand things and donate my things I'm getting rid of rather than just throwing them away.  If you think about everything you throw away in a week let alone a year that's a lot of stuff going to land fills!  I've also started buying more energy efficient lights which last longer (keeping less out of land fills) and save money and energy, so win-win-win!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, I'll get off my little soap box here.  This is something I'm still trying to get better at, I'm by no means an expert, but I think we can all agree there are things we could be doing to reduce our impact on the world.  I hope you'll all try making some of these changes with me as well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I've also heard that if you shop at Target today they'll give you a reusable bag with your purchase!  I'm heading there after work!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{ Happy Earth Day! }&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30737961-3670850347383869185?l=bellaboston.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://bellaboston.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-new-mantra.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Carly)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item></channel></rss>