This Is How We Do It

Hello!

One of my favourite things to do, other than bake/cook of course, is to craft. I LOVE crafts! I've been making hand-made cards for a few years now.  Recently I've been making cute plush things and a few weeks ago I bought a bedazzler from Wal-Mart!! My bedazzler isn't as awesome as I thought it would be since I could just do it by hand, but now I have lots of beads and silver things to put on old clothes to make them look pretty and new.

Friday nights have been dedicated to going scrapbooking card-making with some of my awesome friends.  These are some of the things that I made this week.

 SO this is what I did this week.  It was fun.  I clearly know how to party and have a good time ;)

Have a great week everyone!!

-Kathy

Sunday Night's Alright for Pasta

Before I get to tonight's blog, we played a really awesome show last night at Crobar and I just wanted to thank everyone who came out and the organizers and other bands for making it so fun!

Now, back to the blog. To continue where we left off last week with Vanessa's pictures from our amazing turkey dinne... it's a week later and I still had delicious leftover turkey so I decided to make turkey ravioli.

Luckly, Kathy came over and helped me out so it went pretty well. (We also made some fettucini)
Here are the pics!

They were some of the best tasting ravioli I've ever had, so we will have to do it again!
Have a great week,
Diana

Eat It

If you've read our previous posts, or know us personally, then you're probably aware that we LOVE food. So last night, we joined culinary forces with our buddies from the band Luther Higgs for our first Annual (I've decided this has to happen every year) Luther Spectra Post-Christmas Christmas Feast:

Everyone working hard!

 

 

 

Hors D'oeuvres: spanakopita, mini quiches, vegetables and dip, artichoke dip with pita bread. Not gonna lie, after eating all that, I was already pretty full...

Starters: Delicious hot and sour soup with shrimp. The soup was seasoned with THE spiciest ingredients in the world. Glorious. After soup, we ate scrumptious beef and bean chili.  



Main Meal: TURKEY (of course), two types of gravy, zucchini covered in cheddar cheese, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, peas. I feel like I'm missing something...anyway, WAY too much food.

   



Kathy carved our ENORMOUS turkey



Our beautiful spread























   











Dessert: two cheesecakes - one with candy cane pieces on top (!) and another with a red velvet cake crust.



Midnight snack: ROCK BAND

Hope this made you hungry!
Vanessa

p.s. We're playing a show on Saturday, January 22nd at Crobar (1221 Crescent St - right next door to Brutopia) as part of a McGill Nursing fundraising event. Admission is $10, show starts at 9:00pm. Hope to see you there!

Music!

Hello!

So tonight we played a show and it was so fantastic that I'm blogging early! Also I'm lucky because my blog weeks seem to fall after we play shows so I always have something to write about.

Okay so first things first, a while back we were looking at venues to book that were either on the cheap, or free that were accessible to people who drive and to people who metro while also playing somewhere that is pretty decent.  We (Diana) stumbled on a little place called Piranha Bar located on St. Catherines.  I'd never heard of the place but it was only 50$ to rent so we were like "hells yeah".  Turns out THIS PLACE IS AMAZING! The downstairs is pretty and upstairs is where the bands play.  It's a small place but it's easy to fill up which is always fun.  The sound guy also told us that they plan on expanding soon to be able to fit more people.  Basically, we love this place, we are going to play there a lot.

Now on to the good stuff:  The Chicago Mint Club and Luther Higgs.  Really, we love them. We can't thank you guys enough for playing this show with us, we had so so so so so much fun.  Even though it was about 900 degrees inside.  I love that despite being 3 very different bands with extremely different sounds we can all play together and have a good time.

I had so much fun.  There was good company, good music and a good venue.

In case you are interested our next show is January 22nd, 2011 at Crobar (1221 Crescent St). I don't have all the details yet but I know that The Koalas will be there and it is a fundraiser for McGill so it will be some good times.

Kathy <3

Wrap it up!

Before I start my post, NEXT LINE SPECTRA SHOW IS JANUARY 7TH @ PIRANHA BAR!!

The holidays are just about over, so I wanted to share some of my christmas goodies I made this year. (Plus I already did a look back on 2010 in my last post).

I tried to give everyone something homemade, so I got to work in the beginning of December. First, my bandmates got custom pillows:

Kathy's: "Night Owl"

Front

Back

Vanessa's: "Cat Nap"

Front

Back

Next, I made plushies for my cousins:

Owl

ROBOT!

I also made a bunch of felt ornaments:

(definite owl theme...)



I also made handmade chocolates, but I'm saving those for the next foodie post!

Thanks for reading!!

-Diana