Bella Boston

Monday, March 2, 2009

JA Fix

Oh Darn.

I just found out that because of the snow my class at the Harvard Extension School has been canceled for tonight. Have I mentioned what my class is yet? I'm really excited about it!

It's called "Jane Austen's World in History, Literature and Film". Could there *be* a more perfect class for me?! It's wonderful to be able to learn and talk about Jane Austen for 3 hours a week. I'm just sad because with the President's Day holiday and last week being just for "credit students" I haven't gotten my weekly dose for a while! I was really hoping that by tonight the snow situation would be better, but no such luck.

So to make up for that, I thought I'd at least get a little Jane Austen fix, via YouTube.

So, check out this fun video, and then maybe go watch some more. Some of them are pretty good!

Are you kidding me?

The weather last Friday (for my birthday party) was a beautiful 60 degrees. So lovely, so perfect, I got all excited that spring was finally on it's way!

Well, that dream came to an abrupt end on Sunday morning. It was snowing lightly, and I thought well, hopefully it won't be too much.

Boy was I wrong.

I woke up to so much snow this morning that Harvard even canceled their classes. Unfortunately our work did not proclaim it a snow day, so I trudged in.

I'm going to keep dreaming of this:

Photos: David Paul Ohmer

I can't wait to ride the Swan Boats at the Boston Public Gardens during tulip season... how much longer will I have to wait?

Technical Difficulties?

I'm wondering if people are having problems viewing the post content on my blog... Maybe my last post broke it? There were a lot of pictures... Maybe I'll try reposting it or something. For now, I'll try tweaking some things and see what works. Let me know if you can read this!

Thanks!

*Update:
I think I got it working again... I limited the number of posts that appear on the page to just 5. Since I haven't been very good at blogging lately, most of my posts are kind of picture overload. Anyway, I hope it's working for everyone again! Thanks for leaving feedback!

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Celebrating the End of my Roaring Twenties!

So last night was my birthday party! It was a totally success and such fun! I had fun decorating the house, planning the music and getting myself all ready.

We served Chinese food (egg rolls, dumplings and edamame) with Shirley Temples garnished with cotton candy (thanks to Spark for the idea) and Maraschino Cherries. Unfortunately I didn't get a good shot of the table before everyone arrived. The color theme was Black, Silver and Pink and I made the tissue pom-poms from Martha Stewart to hang in the entryway and above the table, along with some pink battery operated Chinese lanterns I found at the Dollar Store.

Upstairs we had a photo booth with hats and beads for those who weren't appropriately dressed, and a Movie Theater showing "It" with Clara Bow, a silent movie that was pretty hilarious.

The Photo Booth turned out to be the smash of the evening I think, people had fun hamming it up, and I set the camera to Black and White and then printed copies for people to take home with them. I hung them up on the stairs to the door so people could just grab them on their way out. I hung two sheets from the ceiling (staple guns are so handy) to rope off the "Photo Booth" area, and set up the bookshelf normally in the hall with a mirror and the hats and beads so people could set the camera to a timer and take a self portrait. It worked great!