The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Ooooooh what a great movie. We went to the midnight premier in IMAX 3D. Earlier in the year, we had considered dressing up and going all-out, but with moving plus working plus everything else going on, we just went as ourselves.




Peanut Butter with my ticket

They gave out free poster sets, and I think ours will be the decor over the bed in our new bedroom. But that could change. I have to find frames first, and they're a weird size.



Bilbo poster. The other three are Gandalf, Gollum, and Thorin.

 If you want to know more about what I thought of the movie, I wrote about it on my Quoi de neuf blog.

Christmas Countdown Craft

For the stocking swap, I sewed twelve little drawstring bags and filled them with treats. I provided clips for my partner to hang them wherever she wants (on the tree, on a garland, wherever). I didn't provide numbers so they can choose which one to open on which day.

And of course, Peanut Butter helped!!!

Bonus: Crafting Photos

Now that I've sent out my wall art for the Multi-Partner Wall Art Swap, I can show you my photo of Peanut Butter helping me with bunny1kenobi's piece:

It's a tree. It's just... sideways. And naked.

He managed to not get any fabric glue on him (which is good, since I imagine that would be like Krazy Glue for someone who is made of fabric).

Decorating... At Work

I can't put up my holiday decorations yet because if I did, I'd have to turn right around and take them down to move them, so I was very happy that we decorated at the library this weekend.

Peanut Butter is on the tree; do you see him?

And after work yesterday, I went to an all you can eat sushi place with my friend Amy!

Peanut Butter and Amy got along famously

Fun weekend! The coming week will be hectic and stressful with all the packing, and wait until you hear about the weekend...

Packing

No, Peanut Butter isn't packing up to move back home yet... We are packing to move into a new apartment! We should be getting the keys on Saturday (though I work all morning and we're going to Fairfax in the afternoon) so this week is packing like crazy!

Peanut Butter is trying to help, but he's a bit wee for most of the stuff we have to pack.

We went out to buy more bins yesterday
(two are designated for crafting supplies!)

Fiance packed dishes while I was at work one day

I spy with my little eye... Peanut Butter! (And Halloween decorations,
and the box to the TV, and a shoe box of crafting stuff,
and plastic boxes of rubber stamps, and a mess on the floor...)

Moving is HARD WORK. And we aren't even doing any heavy lifting yet.

Lynnhaven House

We also went to the Lynnhaven House during my time off for Thanksgiving. There are a lot of historic sites in and near Virginia Beach, including a handful of historic houses. Lynnhaven House was built in the late 1700s by a former ship builder from Norfolk who wanted to live on a plantation.

We couldn't take many photos, but the house is really beautiful. The man who built it had a great eye for aesthetics, and including lots of unnecessary - but pretty - elements that were purely ornamental.

Here is Peanut Butter outside the front door:

More Christmas Crafting

We got some more Christmas crafting done during my time off for Thanksgiving. I can't show off some of the pictures because they contain swap items, but I can show this one:

On the sewing machine! Too cute. (He had to keep his scarf on because it is chilly in the room where my sewing machine currently resides.)