The San Francisco Chronicle has a great set of write ups and reviews on some of the board games that came out in 2009. We’ve been enjoying Finca and the original Dominion, and Small World is currently being shipped to us. I’ll have to check out the other games and see what else would be good to add to our already overburdened shelves!
November is turning out to be an exciting month for me! I’ve got a painting in the Pilgrimage show at the 100th Monkey Studio. Friday November 6th is the opening, from 6pm-9pm. There will be art, food, music, and tastings by Hip Chicks Do Wine. The show runs until November 29th.
I also did a painting for the Audubon Wild Arts Festival. They have a 6×6 project that allows artists to get a 6×6 canvas from Art Media and paint anything they like relating to the theme birds (go figure). Audubon will be selling these for $40 each with 100% of the proceeds going to their conservation and rehabilitation programs. You can get a sneak peek of my painting on my blog. The festival is November 21st and 22nd at Montgomery Park.
I submitted my art and was invited to join in the Art in Hand project in Portland. They’ll be making a deck of cards where each card is a unique painting by a local artist. I’m just waiting for my card assignment, I can’t wait to get started.
I’m also participating in Art Every Day Month, which is a bit like NaNoWriMo for artists. Check out what I’ve done so far…
All in all, an awesome month!
We had a nice Halloween, I can’t believe that it stopped raining and was actually warm out!
I allowed the kids some control over the Halloween decorations, which is how we ended up with a string of pumpkin lights down the hallway.
XM got to go to the pumpkin patch with her school and picked out a big pumpkin, a baby pumpkin, and a gourd. I also miraculously ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen in about seven years, so that was great!
The tiny art directors had me carve the pumpkins into their chosen shapes: Boo (from Mario) and Darth Vader.
Their grandma helped them make caramel apples…
and we decorated Zombie Eyeballs (a peanut butter fudge type thing dipped in chocolate).
XM couldn’t wear her princess dress to school for Halloween dress up day because it sheds glitter like nothing else. She opted to be a tiger at school:
And they wore their chosen outfits on Halloween night and at O’s school Halloween Party. O saved up his allowance all summer to buy the Optimus Prime voice changer helmet, so his “trick or treats” were very robotic.
We had almost 100 kids come by this year, beating our record of 73 set last year. I promised D I’d take down the Halloween decorations by December…
