Brainery Bazaar and Janda Made

Aprille, Tina and I did a summer craft show... at the Brainery Bazaar this time. It wasn't super busy but we enjoyed our time hanging out together.

The Brainery had goodie bags for the first 25 visitors and I made pug moustache buttons for them. "Distinguished pugs choose Janda Made." What is Janda Made you ask?

Well, after years of working together on Christmas gifts and other projects, Aaron and I have finally settled on becoming a husband and wife creative team called Janda Made. Janda as in J and A or Jenny and Aaron.

Both of us has a hand in everything we make. Aaron drilled the holes in the birdhouses, and I burned and painted them. Aaron flattened the silverware, then I stamped them. Aaron turned the wood strawberries while I woodburned the seeds and made the felt leaves. Aaron made the bottle cap cuff links while I.... uhhhh I art directed them. Hah!

So look for more from Janda Made to come in the future!

Tiny Kitchen

When I was on the plane I saw a few short clips of Tiny Kitchen. I loved it!

Times recipe tester, Jill Santopietro's kitchen is 11.5 square feet with no dishwasher or garbage disposal and only two feet of counter space. But she still manages to create delicious dishes.

I like some of the special features they have like Tomato Can Cam....

and the huge print captions for instructions and things like "lettuce cutting montage".

She doesn't have room for a lot of kitchen tools, so she makes use of things like a pan for crushing nuts. She has to use a stepladder to get things down often too.

I have a smallish kitchen, rather than a tiny kitchen but I still love these segments!

On this trip to NYC we did something I have always wanted to do, we went to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. It's the perfect time to go because it's their 75th Anniversary Christmas Spectacular.

The Rockettes first came out as reindeer. They had a lot of acts and it was all amazing.

I was excited about the live camels, sheep and donkeys in the nativity.

Radio City Music Hall is gorgeous and the show was great. I walked around with stars in my eyes for hours afterwards. And I HAD to have the Collectors Edition Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular Program.

Vegas sure has a lot of shows.... things like Chippendales, Thunder from Down Under... and what do we go see? Menopause the Musical! Bah-hah. Tina's brother got us the tickets, which was so nice. It was cute... and funny.

We also saw $250,000 Game Show Spectacular. I went in there hoping I wouldn't get called up on stage but by the end I was hopping up and down "Pick me! Pick me!" I didn't get picked and I didn't win $250, 000. Jamie Farr seems like a really nice guy.