Happiest Saturday Date on Earth!

This weekend it was Danny's turn to pick what we did on Saturday, and he said all week he just wanted to relax on Saturday and not do anything. Around 10am on Saturday Danny had had enough relaxing and said he wanted to do something, so we went to Disneyland! The happiest place on earth! We ate pizza and saw some pretty fabulous outfits while roaming the park. They had all of the trolleys and carriages up and running, it seemed more like a busy downtown than a theme park. Next week it's my turn to pick, and I am already excited! 

We have been eating here every time we go to Disneyland now. It's too yummy!

I want to put these lanterns in my backyard! I think they are so cute!

Every time we go to Disneyland Toon Town is closed, because we tend to go to Disneyland at night. But since it was Saturday afternoon it was hustling and bustling! Micky's house is pretty amazing.

This is Chip and Dale's house. It kind of scares me in the winter, it looks too bare!

After Disneyland we popped over to California Adventure to check out how the construction was coming along. It looked great! Stuff was already up and a lot of the scaffolding was down! I can't wait for summer 2012!

Saturday in the Park

On Saturday Danny and I went to the Irvine Park. It's the most amazing park! If you haven't been you MUST go! You can ride a train, you can rent and ride bikes, you can rent paddle boats, you can have a BBQ and they even have a zoo so, you can visit cute animals! I can't wait to go back, set up the badminton net and have a picnic!  

It was the most beautiful day! There was not a cloud in the sky and it was hot hot hot!

Our first stop was the zoo! We saw some cute cats and big bears and fed some funny farm animals.

After the zoo we went for a bike ride. They have lost of different bikes you can rent. Danny and I rented one of the bikes above. It was so fun!

Peddling was fun! But somehow, there were more uphills than downhills! I was tired after 30 min!

This is my model shot, Danny took this picture as I was coming back to the bike. I wore one of the color blocked skirts I made this week! 

 After the park we went to the Orange Circle to look at some antiques and get some lunch. It was a fantastic Saturday! 

Color Blocking Take Two:

Since I couldn't find navy blue rayon at the fabric store, I took some navy blue knit that I had and made  the same color blocked skirt in a navy blue jersey knit. I used my serger and put an elastic waistband since I was making it on a knit fabric. It took me FOREVER! I thought it would be easy peasy since I had made jersey knit skirts before on the serger, but for some reason this skirt sucked the life out of me! Maybe I got too ambitions trying to add pleats on the waistband as well as gathers, whatever the reason, this skirt took me 4 hours to make! While the rayon one took me an hour and a half, and that's with an invisible zipper! 

I am just happy I don't ever have to make this skirt on knit again!

Anthropologie's skirt ...

Picture from Anthropologie

My skirt ...

Museum Date: Planes of Fame

This past Saturday it was Danny's turn to pick what we did and he wanted to go the Air Museum! So off to Chino we went to check out the Planes of Fame. 

It was free hat day at the museum that day. It was so hot and sunny, I was very grateful for that hat!

I love airplane art.

They even had tanks there!

 It was a great Saturday date! We saw some planes then went and had lunch. Can't wait for this Saturday! 

Here kitty kitty ...

Another copy cat creation! 

Here is the original ....

Picture from Anthropologie 

And here is my version ... 

My local fabric store didn't have any navy blue fabric! It was crazy!

I did, however, find navy blue knit and I will be making this skirt again out of navy blue knit!

We will see how that one turns out : )

Museum Date: Norton Simon Museum

One of Danny and mines favorite things to do on the weekends is go to museums. There are so many cool museums around us and it's fun getting to know all of them! This weekend we went to the Norton Simon Museum. I'd heard about it from my dad, he is the smartest man I know! Whenever I have a question about anything I call him up and he always knows the answers! Last week I told him that I wanted to see some good art and he told me about the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. As usual my dad was RIGHT, this museum was amazing! I could spend all day there. Since it rained on Saturday they had closed the garden, so lucky for me I get to go back soon and check out all their sculptures in the garden. Yay! Here are the pictures from our fabulous outing.

(It was hard to choose, but I narrowed it down to my absolute favorite paintings there).

This is what I was most excited to see! Vincent van Gogh is my favorite,  Mulberry Tree, October 1889

It was so brilliant in person, pictures can't do it justice.

Standing next to Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier), August 1888 by Vincent van Gogh

Oh how I love Claude Monet, The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1881

There were so many Degas! This was one of my favorites, The Star: Dancer on Point, c. 1878-1880

Dancers in the Wings, c. 1876-1878 by Edgar Degas

Another great Degas, Dancers in the Rotunda at the Paris Opera, 1895

Standing next to an astonishing Picasso, Woman with a Book, 1932

This painting is by Stanislas-Victor-Édouard Lépine it's called The Pont Neuf, Paris, c. 1875-1879. One of my favorite landscapes is the Seine. The plaque said that when he painted this he wanted to capture what it looked like everyday when he saw it, so he did a very simple painting. Nothing extravagant, just exactly as he saw it every morning. Since I can't be in Paris everyday, I thought I'd take a picture of this and pretend like I live right on the banks of the Seine. Oh to dream!

Safari Park in (lots of) Pictures

Here are almost all of our pictures from the Safari Park! I can't edit, so there are a lot!