It’s not a real trip til ya get 2 parking tickets! (video and pics!)
| 26 Comments on It’s not a real trip til ya get 2 parking tickets! (video and pics!)Here’s the four of us at Disneyland.
This might be my favorite pic from the trip: me and the little lady on the beach at Santa Monica Pier!!!
It was a reference to the fact that I feel weird about witnessing people putting their hands in someone’s butt pocket in public! I would like to state for the record that Manda started it. She’s a cheeky little monkey. Pun intended. But clearly she was too afraid to commit to the whole hand. Look at me, digging for gluteus gold!
Here’s my most genius video montage. Trust me. 6 minutes seems like a long video, but if you can make it to at least about 3:57, you’ll be greatly rewarded!!
Disneyland / LA TRIP! from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.
All the other awesome pics are behind the cut!!!
We are off to L.A.!
| 9 Comments on We are off to L.A.!Re-freshed my hair color, took the dogs to my parents’, and now packing like mad. I would like to get into L.A. before 3 a.m. but perhaps this is a pipe dream!! Hairy wants to go to Canter’s as soon as we arrive. He is cray cray!!!
Hopefully I will have lots of fun pics of the weekend. Let’s hope it’s not too devastatingly HOT! We are going to Disneyland on Saturday, and probably bumming around LA/Hollywood on Sunday. And hopefully having lunch with Renee on Monday. Seeing a good handful of old and new friends!
Here is a quick sketch of a felted cake clutch I am going to try to make for you guys. I need to re-fill my Etsy shop SOON!!! That’s next week’s goal!!
Corn Dogs & Funnel Cakes,
Fun Stuff Round UP! & Bibi Videos!
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1. Vintage Scottie Bookends
2. Vintage 40s-50s Record Collection
3. custom Golden Barbie dance dress by PinkZombies.
4. The Maraschino Dress from ModCloth.com
5. Teal Jumper by 123LaLaLovely.
6. custom JEM bikini! by MySugarDoll.
7. Vintage Ice Cream Dress
8. Honey Bear Print. I love honeybears. When I have time, I will make a honeybear scarf!
I recorded myself clipping Bibi’s nails once and never posted it. I just think she manages to be a really good girl about her nails. They are REALLY BIG GIANT BASSETY HOUND TOENAILS!!!! And the quicks have always been long, so I can never really chop off a lot, so I end up clipping them almost more than once a week in the attempt to get them shorter, but I’m also so scared to hurt her! I should take her to a groomer, but, I don’t want them to chop into her quicks, either. I am sure that is just par for the course, but I can’t bear the thought of it! The process is usually two-part. 1) I use the doggie guillotine clipper to get off the big chunks. 2) I use a human nail clipper to clean up the jaggedy weird ends that the doggie clipper leaves. She prefers the human clipper portion, so I have to try to remember to get a toenail cutter and see if I can do most of the damage with that! I am sure this is only interesting to dog-people, and perhaps even then, only vaguely interesting….
As a side note, Bunny actually prefers the Pet Dremel to sand down her nails! But I don’t think Bibi was ever able to get used to it. Plus Bibi’s nails are so dense and so big, that it takes FOREVER to get anywhere with it.
Also, I had this weird plan to make a collection of short clips of Bibi squeaking various toys. I think I got tired of this idea and gave up quickly, but here is what I had so far. Obviously it’s been a while. She’s a lot bulkier now!!!
BibiSqueaki from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.
Click the image to go to Vimeo if the movies doesn’t work here!
And finally, I ran into this cute gem while I was clicking thru my video folder!! BABY BIBI!!
Anonymous Hate Mail! I feel so special!
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I’m actually surprised I don’t get more hate mail from bored internet trolls! It’s not very exciting hate mail, but whatever.
In other news, here’s a very ugly and annoying picture of me and Marissa by SFStation.
If you want to see more pics from the event, check out this Shrinkle blog entry.
Hairspray Wars!!! L’Oreal Elnett vs. Bed Head Hard Head
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I’d heard that many people were excited that Elnett Hairspray would be available again. Apparently it was banned in the United States for 20 years because it killed the ozone layer, so people would smuggle it back to the states from Europe. The hold was supposed to be incredible, and every superstar’s secret for giant hair.
It is now available at Target. The formula is not exactly the same as before, and apparently it is a bit heavier due to a higher water content, but people still seem to be pumped that this hairspray is back.
I wanted to buy a small can to see how it compared with my all-time favorite: Bed Head Hard Head.
Now, I am probably looking for hairsprays with WAY MORE hold than most people need on a daily basis. My hair is really coarse, and heavy, and just wants to lay flat and straight. I damage it to kingdom come and put all kinds of product in it, just so I can get it big and fluffy and messy. And I need a powerful hold to keep all that messiness up, or else it will fall down flat in 30 minutes again. Most sprays that say they have super hold just make my hair crispy, but still flat. I think the water contents are too high to keep my hair fluffy. Aqua Net is pretty good, and not watery, but the hold is still not enough to last me through the day.
Bed Head Hard Head seriously does the trick. I can break crackers with my hair, the hold is so good. (Ahaha, actually I did this yesterday when I accidentally bumped my cracker through my hair and crumbs started falling into my lap.) But it also feels pretty dry when it sprays on, so it doesn’t weigh my hair back down. I was zazzed when my Safeway was carrying it for a hot minute, but now I have to track it down again at various beauty supply stores.
Ultimately, my thoughts on Elnett are: the hold IS good! It’s an excellent alternative to my Hard Head. HOWEVER, IT IS STEEENKY!!!!!! I was suffocating myself (and Bibi) while getting it in my hair. I figured this smell would fade out after the spray dried, but I still feel like I can smell a heavy, perfumey, yucky stench around my head. I am not digging that.
I will be sticking with my Bed Head Hard Head. Sorry, Ellnet!
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