Christmas 2012

Christmas this year was lovely and we managed to stretch it out an extra day. Joe and I did our own celebrating Christmas Eve with a mini holiday dinner, then the big family event on Christmas Day out on the North Shore.

Highlights:
1. Video of my cousin Kaimana, age 9, being a yoga instructor.
2. Doctor Who t-shirt from my husband.
3. New game; Quelf. (Thanks to April for letting us know this exists. Moores, go check it out! Joe, I've got you now!!)

Internet Christmas Card

Merry Christmas from the Winskyes!

We wish you a wonderful holiday season and many adventures in the new year.

Green Christmas Wrapping

I decided that this year I'm doing all my gift wrapping using fabric. It started because I've been seeing beautiful furoshiki everywhere as I do my gift shopping. Furoshiki are Japanese cloths used for wrapping and carrying things. They are so versatile! For a great chart on a bunch of ways to use them, look here: How to use furoshiki.

Here is some of my gift wrapping this year:

Using a scarf that I have. It's about 18" x 18"

A Turkish scarf that I've had for many years but only now found a use for. Same size as the first scarf.

I also used scrap fabric that I had around. None if this was square, so the furoshiki ties didn't apply here. This was a little more trial and error than anything else, but I'm happy with how they turned out.

If you don't have scrap fabric laying around you can create some from old bedsheets, pillowcases, t-shirts or other clothing. Anything you don't use anymore is fair game. It doesn't need to be a perfect square. Study the furoshiki ties and then improvise. You can make almost anything look great by wrapping and tying very tightly and then tucking in any stray bits that you don't like the look of.

Happy wrapping!

Ice Skating

If you want to see what hapiness looks like, take a Canadian who has been living in Hawaii for 18 months, and walk into an ice skating rink:

Aww, he's a ray of sunshine... :)

I however, am not so great on skates, but at least we had a good time. While Ray was racing around, I looked more like this:

 

What I said was, "The fact that you can even have your phone out right now sickens me." He's skating backwards. But beware of getting too cocky... I hear karma is a bitch. Look for the dip in the camera at about 8 seconds.

This is What Homework Sounds Like

After being sick for three weeks, simultaneously trying to keep up with classes and stage manage a show, I am pushing to finish all of my term papers. How does one concentrate on finishing a presentation and five written assignments? The answer is this, on repeat: Palladio, performed by Escala. I am not joking. I am listening to this as I type. On repeat. Over and over again, for the past week and probably well into next week. Thanks to my Apocalyptica themed Pandora station.

Grad school is taking its toll.