Monday, June 14, 2010

Monday, July 20, 2009

We All Scream for Ice Cream

We went to Bluebird Ice Cream this weekend - had yummy peanut butter and strawberry flavors. They were all out of chocolate pudding flavor which also sounded great. There seem to be all kinds of ice cream shops cropping up around Seattle, must be the new cupcake.

Old School
Molly Moon's
Parfait
Peaks
Poco Carretto

New easy cookies to try

Some new cookie dough I'd like to try soon. Like the new Five ice cream from Haagen Dazs. All natural all the time these days. Like the direction we're heading...

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Fun Things this Summer

Free outdoor play for kids for the next few weekends at Volunteer Park.
http://www.octheater.com/show.asp?show=126

Indoor play area at local gym (5 and under)
http://seagym.com/indoor%20playground.html
*This gymnastics studio also planning to open a location in Ballard soon.

Hikes to Fire Lookouts
http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/seasonal-hikes/summer-destinations/fire-lookout-hikes
*The first one at least looks manageable :)

Park in Ballard with fun play couch (phase 3 in the works still)
http://ballardcornerspark.org/ballardcornerspark/

Monday, June 22, 2009

Recycle Bottle Caps

Can be dropped off at Aveda stores now for recycling:
"The program accepts caps that are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol. This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter."

Also found that you can recycle plastic and metal lids larger than 3" in our curbside recycling bins.

Aveda information

Friday, June 19, 2009

Here's my first Animoto video...

Music Videos!

I heard about a cool site today where you can make your own videos. 30 second videos with about 15 pictures are free. You can add music and the effects they add are fun. Looks very professional.

Sign up for your own account and start making videos at Animoto. (This link uses referral code dqjbozny, this will get you $5 off if you decide to sign up for a pass to make longer videos later.)