Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts

Thursday, April 14, 2011

i heart ... smeeks



i love smeeks.
i mean, i love smeeks!
it is the happiest place on earth
(or in phx anyway).
i wish i could live there.
i wish i could marry it.
then my name would be paula smeeks, which isn't far off actually!





"a sweet little shop for sweet little folks"



my favorite thing at smeeks is the gnome cottage.







































smeeks has fun pop that we always pick up on our way out the door.


one day brennan discovered leninade.


it's our new favorite pop -
and hilarious!
it has all these funny slogans printed all over it
(well, funny if you're a capitalist such as myself):

* a taste worth standing in line for!
* get hammered and sickled!
* join the party!
* drink comrade! drink! it's this or the gulag!
* misha, chill down this bottle and chill out!
* a party in every bottle!
* our 5-year plan: drink a bottle a day for 5 years and become a hero of the socialist flavor!
* beware the repressed communist party animal who is really a proletarian in denial masquerading as a bourgeois cold war monger!

(what in the....?) 










p.s.  -  let it be known to one and all, that sierra and i discovered smeeks together.
(that was for you, sierra!)

Monday, March 29, 2010

i heart ... weird chief


this weekend
brook and i went to the


there were men juggling fire...


and dogs wearing hats...


but we didn't really find any art that we loved.

that is,
until we found

oh man i love his art!

here are his paintings
i have to have:

bono


U2




the mad hatter


george washington


abraham lincoln



and these are the other paintings
that i loved:

willy wonka


bjork


joan jett & debbie harry


radiohead


daft punk & ll cool j

marilyn monroe & audrey hepburn


edward scissorhands


morissey











Monday, March 22, 2010

i heart ... american gothic in 3D

have you seen this sculpture yet
in downtown mesa?
it's so cool!

see how tall it is?
taller than the street lights.
taller than a two story building.
ammon, kaitlyn, brennan and thomas
i took my nieces and nephews to see it.
it's called
god bless america
by





after the kids played around the statue,
brennan thought it would be fun
to walk around the mesa arts center.
i've been there many times,
but this was the first time i went just to walk around.
it was so fun and so beautiful.
even baby thomas had fun!




i love the colorful planters!









there are several water features for the kids to play in.
perfect destination for when it gets hot!!!












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