You got a lot of money but you can't afford the freeway

I went to see Aimee Mann on Sunday. It was absolutely perfect. I blogged about it here. Her voice is fantastic, she was witty and sweet and awesome. And also 48. (And that's in no way meant as an offense, I'm just baffled every time I think of her age, because she seems so young).

And apart from concerty goodness, I've been hanging out with my friends a lot, played some more Wii (but then I got bitter because I kept losing, so I just ended up watching the others play and ate candy instead) and started watching Madmen. We're only 4 episodes into the show, but so far, I'm enjoying it immensly. Except for Kartheiser. ("Angel's handsome yet androgynous son"). He's like Hayden Christensen and Keanu Reeves and all bad actors rolled into one, topped off with a baby face worse than mine, he will definitely be carded until he's 75. Oh well.

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Onto more papercrafty related things:

The new Vi scrapper was released on Tuesday, and once again, it's fantastic. The amount of Christmasy ideas is unbelieveable! I have an article in there about journaling :)

On Monday, Anette and I are taking a class with the ever so fabulous Ania! After two years of blogstalking , I finally get to see and learn her brilliance for reals :) I can't wait!

I battled with the sewing machine all Thursday and Friday night last week. This is the result:
I kind of like how it turn out, despite that everything is crooked and that a llama could probably sew better than this. But it has a zipper for hidden journaling (which I scribbled down on our grocery list note pad while waiting for my tea to boil) and Jimmy Eat World lyrics. So it's all good in my book.

And speaking of books, finally found a red Moleskine for 2009 yesterday (or "moleskinke" as a customer said once... I guess that's only funny if you're Norwegian though). The red ones are the best! For 2008, I have a different brand than Moleskine. It's prettier (because it has a bird on the cover), but not so practical. And not red.

I've tried going Christmas shopping several times this week, only to return with nothing but things for myself. Hm.

Ok. Time for bed. Have a great weekend :)

I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!

(I'm not really late... but we watched Alice in Wonderland last night and I kinda like that quote).
Halloween was pretty cool. But more on that later in this entry.
Since my last post, I have:

• Eaten too much candy
• Discovered Ben & Jerry's ice cream. This could also be filed under the above point, of course
• Finished watching Felicity... And man, I loved it. The ending was kleenex-y for sure, and I will really miss it
• Cursed a whole lot while trying to learn how to work my mom's old orange sewing machine from the 70s

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So, November. This means Christmas is around the corner. And this year, I feel totally unprepared. I've bought like 3 gifts. Yikes. After I get a scrapbooking project out of the way, I have to get down to business and start making the gifts I have planned to make, and buy the rest. And then I can finish my Christmas cards. Don't you hate how everyone just expects handmade cards because they happen you know you're a crafty person? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy making cards for people I love and care about, but I'm talking about those Christmas cards that fall under the "polite" category. (Because, let's be honest, we all have those :P)

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Back to Halloween. Sindre's costume was definitely the most talked about. The other guys were various soldiers of sorts (and it kind of makes me wonder why there are so many gun replicas among my friends?), and Sindre was... grapes:
I made zombie cupcakes:
And these were our pumpkins:
Aaand, I made a couple of layouts to freeze time:

And now we have a whole year to figure out what we're gonna be next Halloween. Who knows, we might go with Fredrik's idea of everyone dressing up as a Futurama character.

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I've definitely zoned out of my angry punk season (because fall disappeared so quickly), and now it's all about Low, Juliana Hatfield and Aimee Mann. And I'm seeing her at Rockefeller tomorrow! I really can't wait to see her live. She's been a favorite of mine for so many years.