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Hotel Happenings: The Big Apple, Chocolate and Trump

February is typically a slow period for New York City lodgings, which means Valentine’s Day lovebirds looking for great deals on hotel rooms can score big this month. (After all, nothing says love more than discounted rates if you live on a fixed budget.) During the entire month of February the city’s tourist board, NYC & Company, is running a new promotion that showcases more than a dozen luxury hotels in Manhattan. It’s very simple: you pay for two nights and get the third free at 17 participating hotels. Plus all guests will receive a VIP package at the Saks … Continue reading →

Celebrities and Sleeping Pills – Part One

While we will not know exactly what killed Heath Ledger for another 10 days or so, we do know that the police have reported that sleeping pills were found in the room. Maybe not “scattered around” as originally reported, but he did have prescription sleeping pills in his room with his name on the bottle. What is certain is that if he did take an overdose of sleeping pills, he certainly would not be the first celebrity to do so. Here is a list of celebs who tried to take their life with sleeping pills: Actress Mary Astor starred along … Continue reading →

The Night Before Thanksgiving – Natasha Wing

The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing is a takeoff on the Clement C. Moore Night Before Christmas story. Instead of visions of sugar plums there are visions of turkey legs. And instead of what to our wondering eyes should appear there is “what to our watering mouths”. The Night Before Thanksgiving is a heartwarming story that does a good job of showing a hectic modern family holiday. The book is actually more about the day of Thanksgiving than the night before. The illustrations by Tammie Lyon are quite charming. They show the children playing, helping with the dinner, and … Continue reading →

Night and Day (1946)

Cary Grant stars in this recap of the life of one of our most prolific music composers to date, Cole Porter. He wrote more standards than anyone else I can think of; if you’re singing a Golden Oldie, chances are you’re singing a Cole Porter. The movie title, “Night and Day,” is also the title of one of his hits. The movie takes us on a journey to Yale, where we see young Cole Porter as a student. His family wants him to go into law, but his heart is in his music. Going home for Christmas vacation, he tells … Continue reading →

Calendar of Strange Holidays and Other Events for Scrapbooking in August

Imagine the strange and jazzy layouts you can make celebrating some of these wild, wacky and unusual holidays. These have been collected and compiled from various sources over the years of my teaching and we celebrated many of them in the classroom. Celebrate them with your children and family and create fun and wacky layouts! The Month of August Black Business Month Cataract Awareness Month Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month Children’s Vision and Learning Month Get Ready for Kindergarten Month Happiness Happens Month Learn Japanese Month National Immunization Awareness Month National Inventor’s Month National Win With Civility Month Neurosurgery … Continue reading →

Movies Week in Review – April 7th – 12th

I found some fun movies this week. Would you like to hear about them? First was the new DVD release, “Alvin and the Chipmunks.” These little guys have been around for a long time, but they’ve never had their own full-length movie before. When Alvin, Theodore, and Simon are brought from the forest in a Christmas tree, they find themselves being taken home in a food basket. Dave Seville, wannabe songwriter, is the owner of that basket and the house they proceed to trash. When he discovers they can sing, he writes a song for them which launches them all … Continue reading →

Tristi’s Favorite Christmas Movies

It was Thanksgiving yesterday, and that means Christmas movies! I always kickstart my holiday season on Thanksgiving night by watching a Christmas movie, and at least once a week until the Big Day arrives, I watch another. Christmas movies are a wonderful way to bring the joy of the season into our homes. In no particular order, here are the films I watch every year, without fail. 1. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The Herdsmans are the worst behaved kids in the whole town. When they catch word that the local church serves refreshments, they start attending, and they even … Continue reading →

Fun With Fake Snow

You might think we see plenty of snow here in Colorado. And we do. But last weekend we bought more! We took the family to one of those holiday food and craft fairs. At one booth we watched a demonstration of this fake snow. It’s a white polymer powder. You add water and it instantly expands to 100 times its size. It really looks like fluffy white snow, and it’s even cold. The snow is supposed to last for month, although we were warned we might need to spritz it with water in our dry climate. They demonstrated the product … Continue reading →

My Dream is Yours (1949)

Featuring the velvet voice of Doris Day, “My Dream is Yours” is a fun story of a young woman’s rise to stardom and the events that brought her there. Jack Carson plays Doug Blake, agent to the conceited singer Gary Marshall (portrayed by Lee Bowman). When Gary refuses to sign the contract offered by the radio station’s biggest sponsor, and personally criticizes Doug at the same time, Doug decides to go out and find a new star. Using money loaned by Vi, the receptionist at the talent agency (played by Eve Arden) Doug travels the country, looking in all the … Continue reading →

The Benny Goodman Story (1955)

I’m a huge fan of the music of the 1930’s-1940’s, so it was a treat for me to watch “The Benny Goodman Story” starring Steve Allen. As I always do when watching what is, supposedly, a true story, I went online to find out what parts of the movie were based on reality and which parts were fabricated for Hollywood. Unlike “Night and Day,” the story of Cole Porter, “The Benny Goodman Story” is largely based on fact. Benny was born to Polish immigrants and raised in the Jewish faith. Benny was introduced to the clarinet through a teacher at … Continue reading →