baby bibs

so this past weekend i went and visited my family in AZ and had a great time. while out there i got to see my 3 month old baby niece Nora Rose (she's adorable). before Nora was born i had made two baby bibs for her. she's still too young to be using baby bibs, but while i was out in AZ, i took a picture of her with each of the bibs. i thought i would share with everyone the pictures. i've made a couple baby bibs and this is the first time i've gotten to see the baby with the bib.

the bibs are so huge on her. hehe. but she will get bigger and they will work out perfectly. hehe.

C2E2 2015

so this past weekend i went to C2E2. i had a blast. it was tons of fun to go. i saw so much and did so much i'm just going to list it off in no particular order. hehe. here are my pictures from the weekend.

-saw amanda connor a comic book artist. didn't get her signature, but i got to see her. which is cool.
-saw chad l colman from the walking dead. my cousin got his signature and a photo with him.
-saw tons of costumes. a cool spy vs spy costume. it was a father son duo who did it. saw a cool mystique costume. saw a cool white bandages 5th element constume. saw tons of spiderman, captain america, stormtroopers and others.
-hung out with my two cousins. for one cousin it was her 3 time coming with me. for another cousin it was her 2nd time coming with me.
-got to hang out with two other friends of mine at the convention also. always nice to see more people at the convention.
-i dressed up in my wheel of time green ajah shawl one day and another day i dressed up as captain america.
-brought my spiderman bag with me to hold everything and got some compliments from it. my sister made me the bag and it's perfect for the convention. hehe.
-bought the offical pint glass from C2E2. it had the logo of the beer they had created for the convention. it was called galaxy hero. i didn't drink the beer with the same name, but i made sure i bought the pint glass. hehe. every convention i go to, i always get some kind of cup/shot glass/coffee mug. it's just a tradition i have. sometimes its an offical thing. sometimes it's captain america. hehe.
-i bought a card game called chrononauts. i actually bought an expansion set. i have the original card set already, but i saw an expansion and i had to get it!
-almost got a tattoo but there was a $100 fee and the tattoo i wanted wouldn't cost anywhere close to that if i just went to a local tattoo shop. so i decided not to get one.

overall had a good time. walked tons and tons. my feet hurt like crazy on sunday. hehe. check out my pictures from the weekend. will definitely go again next year. it's a nice local convention to go to. i suggest for all to go.

the wedding dress

so my mom printed out the wedding pictures from my sister Marianne's wedding and the photographer got a picture of the 'something blue' i made for my sister on the wedding dress. so i just wanted to share with everyone the picture. here's the post i did about my sisters 'something blue'. and here's the photo of the 'something blue' on the wedding dress. :)

it's alive!

hey there! i'm really sorry it's been so long since i've written. time just gets away and then i feel like i'm running to catch up. so this post is just going to be an update post. and then i'll get back into the swing of things. sorry about that.
lets see...

family - yesterday was my cousin anna's high school graduation party. i can't believe anna is that old! i remember when she was born! yes i'm that person now. hehe. at least i don't pinched her cheeks or anything. hehe. at the party of bunch of my moms family that i don't see very often was there. cousins of cousins kind of family. so it was nice to catch up with them all.

playwright - well one of the cousin of cousin - my moms cousin lee is an acting teacher in new york at a special high school for the performing arts. and he said they are always looking for new scripts to perform. so he said for me to email my scripts to him and his students might perform them. so that made me very happy! i'm going to send him the first play i ever wrote. which is an adaptation of 'the things they carried' by tim o'brien. i wrote that for my senior one act in high school. and i've always been proud of it. so if it gets performed, i'm just going to have to take a trip to new york and see it performed and see the city! hehe. so i hope it gets performed. if not, i understand. but if it does, that would be amazing!

weddings - my sister marianne is getting married! caleb is the new addition to the family. i've met him over skype. i know not the best way to meet someone but when you live across the country from each other, that's about as best as it's going to get; until you travel there that is. so the wedding will be in october. which of course is two months after my step sisters wedding which is in august. so many weddings, so little time!

work - i've been at my new job for 3 months now. i really like it there. the people are very nice and fun to work with. it's a laid back job but at the same time they are demanding of my time. it's an very good balance of working hard and having fun at work. like the other day we all were given little pots with flower seeds to grow while we were at work. like we were doing a 3rd grade science project. but it was totally fun. it took about 30 minutes out of our day, which was a nice little break in the work day.

letterboxing - now that the weather is nice again i've been going out letterboxing. it's so nice to go out and do it again. i've been going just about every monday. since i have the days off, it's a nice way to spend my time. and there are so many by me that i haven't found! it's like pokemon, i must catch them all! hehe. me and a friend are talking about taking a road trip just for letterboxing. which i think would be totally awesome! we haven't picked where to yet. but i've very excited for the idea of a road trip just for letterboxing!

photos - check out my flickr account and instagram account for pictures from the last couple of months. too many to post on this. hehe.

well that's all for now. i will update much more now. sorry about that. until next time!

new stuff

So there are new cross stitch projects posted onto my 'look what I've made' site. and I have new pictures up on my Flickr. The links are on the right of this. :)

Pinball wizard

So this past Friday my work had its Xmas party. We went to one of the nurses house (I work in a Dr office).well her house was amazing! It was huge and beautiful! Well one of the amazing things about it is that the basement is a man cave. And this is the coolest man cave I've ever seen. I can't describe it. But I'll post the photos. All I can say about it is: pinball wizard.

stanley cup champs!

hey look a post that isn't about my precious moments cross stitching. hehe.

the blackhawks are the 2013 stanley cup champs!!!! with hard work and determination they have done it! that's twice in 4 nhl seasons. how awesome is that! here are a bunch of photos. go hawks!

 the guys celebrating after they just won.

 johnathon toews with the cup.

 duncan keith celebrating with his new born son. here he is posing with him sitting in the cup. parenting- he's doing it right. hehe.

 the guys celebrating in the locker room.

 patrick sharp holding the cup at the parade in chicago.

 the celebration in chicago.

cos-play photo database

so as you know i went to c2e2 a couple of weeks ago. and as you know i put pictures of my adventures at the con on my flickr page. well i was contacted by a person who has a website that links bunches of different peoples pictures of cos-playing. and this person wanted to add my pictures from c2e2. i was delighted and agreed. so you now can find my pictures along side other peoples pictures from c2e2. here's the link to the website. your going to have to scroll down to chicago comic entertainment expo (c2e2) it is alphabetical. my pictures are under the name little_egan. but please check out all the other photos that are listed from that weekend. there are some great ones. some very professional photos too. i love seeing all the cos-playing that people do. hope you enjoy the database.

c2e2

this past weekend was the chicago comic entertainment expo (C2E2). i went friday and saturday. friday i went by myself. that's right i took off work to go to this. hehe. saturday i went with my cousin. for my cousin it was her first convention so it was cool to show her what they are all about. i hope she enjoyed it and will want to go to more. i know i love going to them! hehe. over all i had a great time. makes me super excited for dragon con this year! hehe. for pictures of my weekend, go to my flickr and instagram.

here's a random breakdown of the weekend. in no particular order:
-this year i dressed up in costume for the first time. friday i dressed up as captain america. it was cool for it was the first time people stopped me and asked for my picture. which is always a compliment. means the hard work that went into the costume paid off. saturday i wore my steampunk costume. my sister made the harness i wear for that, so i was excited to display it for the first time. my sister can sew that is for sure! hehe. no one asked for my photo in my steampunk costume, but i did get some compliments about it.
-got to see my friend jimmy. he was my boss when i worked at a comic shop, so it was cool to see him.
-got to meet some of the people that work for challenger comics. i have been chatting with them on twitter, so it was nice to put a face to the group. all of them were very nice.
-the swag i got this year was: captain america piggy bank - which really it's just a nice cheap bust of captain america. captain america/red skull salt and pepper shakers. a signed poster from cbldf of lil depressed boy. a captain america travel mug. i'm very excited to take that to work. no one will confuse my drink for theirs. hehe. a really sweet necklace. a comic that jae lee did the cover for. i love his art work, he is amazing! a replica river song journal. i'm going to use it as my own journal.
-i got robert atkins signature. he's known for his g.i. joe stuff. but he also has done some marvel work. he drew a really cool cover for spiderman.
-saw some really cool costumes. harley quinn, the joker, batman, iron man, steampunk, dr who, captain america and so many more.
-i saw one of the dr's i work for there. it was cool to see him outside of work. you never think of the dr's as 'normal people' but really they are. hehe.
-the 501st legion: vader's fist were there. they are always at dragon con so it was cool to see them at c2e2. they are people who dress up in exact replica's of star wars empire troopers. their costumes are always pretty sweet.

so over all i had a great time. i was on my feet all weekend and now i'm ready to just lay down for many many hours. hehe.

watch out for the thorns part 2

as promised in my post before - here are the photos of where my letterbox 'watch out for the thorns' is hidden. the photos are a closer to closer to closer view.

 what the spot looks like when you see it on the road. 

 the tree where the letterbox is hidden.

 a close view of where my letterbox is hidden.

once you lift the log on top, you find my letterbox!

letterboxing fridays

just have to say that memorial day is for the soldiers that have died. veterans day is for the veterans that are still around. 

my friend jimmy calls fridays 'dance party fridays' and i would have to agree with him. i agree with him for (as some of you don't know) i don't work on fridays. hurray for that! i work four 10hr days (boo!) to have friday off (yeah!). so it seems the last couple of fridays have become letterboxing fridays for me. it's a great way for me to get out of my apartment and go enjoy the day/city.

this friday i went to graceland cemetery and st boniface cemetery to find two different letterboxes. both of these cemetery's are in chicago and for the very first time i drove in chicago to get to them. (yep that's right, i'm a real city girl now, ive actually driven in the city. after over a year of not doing it, i had to break down and drive in the city. it was the only way to go to the cemetery's without a huge hassel. i've been in the car while someone else drove in the city, but i never had to be the one. i have to say it's more fun driving with someone in the city then driving by yourself. specially if they know more about the city then you do - i don't know too much of chicago's history.)

graceland cemetery is a beautiful cemetery and is a famous one for chicago. just a couple of the famous people that are buried there are: marshall field (the store owner), william w. kimball (piano maker), dexter graves (hotelier). there are many architects; including the guy who created the layout for what chicago's downtown would look like - to make sure the lake front is not clogged with businesses and to have beaches and such. while i was there i saw a coyote running across the field. i couldn't believe it. and it wasn't a fox, for it was bigger, it was definitely a coyote. the monuments and sculpting of the gravestone are amazing there! it's just beautiful. -- so the letterbox i found at graceland was a mystery letterbox. which means the clue didn't tell you what city or forest preserve or cemetery it was hidden at - the clue gave you clues as to where it was hidden. this is the first time i've ever been able to figure one of those out. (i know i'm slow. and the only reason was, i had been to this cemetery before - i have an old relative buried there. she doesn't have a headstone or anything, but she's there). so after you figure out where the letterbox is, it then has normal clues like every other letterbox. this letterbox had you start at the kimball monument and walk a little bit. this letterbox was hidden in a crevasse of the stone wall that partially surrounds the cemetery. the stamp was a piano. i enjoyed my time there very much.

 kimball's grave

 where the letterbox was hidden (well behind the tree that is)

st boniface cemetery is right down the street from graceland so i just hopped in my car and went there next. it is a much smaller cemetery then graceland and doesn't have as amazing sculptures there, but still is a nice cemetery. while i was here i saw two hawks fighting over a dead prey - a mouse. i couldn't believe there were hawks in the city, but there they were, two of them. this stamp was in memory to the carvers grandmother. and where you started the clues was from the carvers grandmothers grave. the letterbox was hidden under a stone by statue of st joseph. i hate bugs, and when i lifted the stone to get the stamp i was grossed out. but still made sure i got the stamp. hehe. i must say i was disappointment with the stamp, but at the same time, it's about the journey of getting the stamp and not the stamp in it's self.

 the grave of the person's grandmother - where you started in finding the letterbox

 the letterbox under a rock - there were so many bugs!

watch out for the thorns

so as i said in my post my weekend i hid a letterbox in wisconsin. well excitingly 2 people have post that they have found my letterbox. one posted on letterboxing north america website and the other posted on the atlas quest website. i made sure i put the clue for my letterbox on both sites for some people only go to one; and i want to reach as many people as possible.  i didn't think to take pictures of where i hid my letterbox (shocking i know for i take photos of everything) but the next time i go to my dads, i'll take some photos and share it with everyone here. i hope more people find it! it is so exciting to get a message saying someone has found it. hehe

letter of pictures

so i tend to stay home a lot and putz around. i try to fill my time with more then just watching netflix. i love netflix, but i need to do more then stare at my computer all day. so i follow a bunch of different blogs and look on pinterest to get inspired. well i found this project and decided to make it for my mom for mothers day. it's a wood letter that i pasted pictures of the family on. the letter i chose was F for my moms last name starts with that. i then pasted different pictures of me, my siblings, grand kids and pictures of my mom and my step dad. for the first time doing this project i thought it turned out pretty well. here are some pictures of the finished product.

 the finished product.

the top edge - my sisters eyes. i love how this turned out.

a close up view of the finished product.

the side edge - my sister in law. i love how this looks.

the alphabet in pictures