Shoes fit for a princess

I was spending some time perusing Etsy this evening, like I often do, coveting the beautiful things that talented folks have made and came across these simple and lovely shoes at the shop for The Generation.

I thought, "OMG!  These look like the shoes from The Dancing Princesses!"  The Dancing Princesses was my FAVORITE Faerie Tale Theatre movie.

After deciding this little discovery warranted a blog post, I started looking for Dancing Princesses pictures, like the one above, to complete the blog post experience. 

Then, I found this:

Handmade Vegan Shoes 

fit for Shelley Duvall's 

12 Dancing Princesses

Ha!  Awesome, no?  :-)

Traditions we can do without

Hey y'all.  What's up?  Been up to much lately?  Yeah, us neither.

You know how I post some of my crafty stuff on here and feel all proud of myself?  Um, there are about eleventy billion bloggers out there who post way cooler stuff than I do and with greater frequency.  But what is up with these people?  They make everything in their houses, they bake crazy amounts of deliciousness, they post on their blog, and they home school their kids.  Why do all of these crafty folk home school their kids?  What is going on with that?

I guess I'm feeling a little threatened.  And confused.

But on to other things: holiday traditions.  You know you have them, you know you love them (or hate them).  We tried to honor some folks we know by trying their family tradition on for size but, I hate to say, it did not work out.

Before I go on, let me share some of our (um, well, my) favorite Christmas movies.

 I love "The Snowman."  Sigh.  Let's all sing together....

"We're walking in the air, we're floating in the velvet sky,
we're walking in the air, we're walking in the air..."
Yeah, I have no idea what the words are either.

"White Christmas" - you are the best.

Um, duh.

How old does a movie have to be before it's a classic?  

I think "Elf" may have made it in record time.

Then I've had all these friends whose families EVERY SINGLE YEAR watch "Christmas Vacation" together.  As in, "it just doesn't feel like Christmas until we've watched Christmas Vacation!"  

Yes, that Christmas Vacation.  

So we gave it a try.  We Netflixed it, we settled in, and we only have one thing to say.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

Nope, it's not making the B-S list of holiday traditions anytime soon (ever).  Doesn't that movie stress you out and make you sad about life?  I don't get it.

But if you do, I am happy for you.

Eh, nevermind

I decided to forgo the high-tech attempts and went back to good ol' trace-and-cut for my silhouettes.  Here's the first attempt:

It's not the best picture of a picture, but can you tell who it is?  Yeah, not a difficult one. :-)  I actually really like the depth created by having paper on paper so I guess it turned out just fine!  Now to find three more subjects. 

We went to see "Eat, Pray, Love."  I loved the book (huge surprise).  Reading the book was like going on a trip and wanting to skip my return flight.  Seeing the movie was like finding a postcard, it was pretty but I don't need to gaze at it for 2.5 hours.  But it was pretty.  And now I want to hit the road!  Sometimes I feel like Juliet Binoche's character in "Chocolat" and get so antsy to make a change.  That "clever north wind" makes me so restless!  S, ready for a new adventure?