Christmas Lunch Bag Friday!

Happy Lunch Bag Friday the 13th~

Yay! More Christmas bags.  A few nights ago we watched “Home Alone”. It was the first time for our youngest (that she can remember anyway). The girls were in stitches rolling around the floor and acting the painful parts out- especially Penelope- which made us all laugh even harder. I got out my phone and began recording their giggle fits. So fun. Penelope has been talking about it everyday since… I have a feeling we will be watching that many more times before Christmas is done. 

On the back of the Rudolph bag Seth wrote something like this: “So, eventually Rudolph did go down in history, but more for his role as Supreme Dictator of Canada.” hahahaha LOVE IT!

Hopefully this brought you a chuckle. Feel free to “share” the smile 

Merry Christmas Season! 

Rainbow Dasher and Queen of the Lunchroom

Happy Lunch Bag Friday! 12-6-13

Did you miss us last week?  We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving... we did! It was wonderful stuffing ourselves and spending so much time together. One more month of overtime and we will get to see this awesome animating/illustrator daddy more.

The girls put in special requests for this week. Makenzie loves My Little Pony (even though she's a teenager- hey it's not strange... there's a whole fun community of Bronies).  She asked him for something My Little Pony-ish and this is what he came up with. LOVE IT! Seth calls this one "Rainbow Dasher" hahaha I guess you'd have to be a Brony to understand the joke behind the name.

Kendyl requested that he draw on her lunch bag showing her as the undisputed Queen of the Lunchroom. SUCCESS!  I love her sitting on all the lunch tables stacked up almost like the Princess and the Pea. She was very excited to bring it to school today. She kept looking at it and proudly smiling as we waited at the bus stop this morning.

I look forward to the rest of the month and the beautiful Christmasy things Seth will draw for them on their lunch sacks. Happy Friday!... Happy December!... Happy Christmas!

Lunch Bag Friday: Mythical Creature Hunter

Lunch Bag Friday’s Post

Oh WOW! Seriously? This set is sooo knock-your-socks- off amazing! I kept trying to sneak peeks at them Thursday night while Seth was drawing because I could tell they were going to be great. He keeps out-doing himself on these. I loved hearing the symbolism behind this idea- it led to a great late-night discussion.   It has such beautiful lighting too.

I loved listening to the girls Friday morning morning, debating and creating the story of what they thought was going on. Pip’s theory made absolutely no sense, was slightly macabre, and super silly.  We all just looked at her like she was nuts when she was done telling us about it/acting it out. lol

Lunch Bag Friday (11-8-13)

"Too Late"

You can just tell this this is such a sweet story and a sad story at the same time on these bags. Seth and I were talking about how the teenage years and preteen years for both of us seemed to be filled with unrequited love. It was in those years that we both had our first really strong crush and heartbreak. Our older girls are going through that just a little bit and Seth wanted to make them some lunch sacks that say, “I know. I love you!”  

It was fun to hear them run down the stairs two Fridays ago when Seth drew these, flip on the kitchen lights, and both let out a long sigh, “oooooOOOOHHhh. How cute,” and “Poor guy!” When I walked in the room Kendyl was still sighing and smiling at her sack (she’s our hopeless romantic). She turned to me and said, “I haven’t had a boy like me at the same time as me liking him since Kindergarten. We use to pretend Stars Wars and puppies and one time we hid in a closet from his sister and he kissed my hair.” 

WHAT?! I never knew that! hahahaha I think we may be in for some rough years ahead with these girls. hahaha Wish us luck!

Lunch Bag Friday: A Cold Thanksgiving

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!

"Sudden Ice Age Theory" (poor guy had bad timing) and "A Good Thanksgiving"

Crunch time on his movie = either staying up to the middle of the night to draw or getting more sleep and printing off old sketches onto white paper sacks. I'm so glad Seth chose to print off previously made art so he could get more sleep. The girls and I got such a kick out of these this morning. Makenzie was especially excited to bring hers to school. Seth "picked" this one for her because of some old Kindergarten graduation footage I shot of her going to town trying to hook a big one while she was on stage many years ago. hahahaha We love looking up that old video. It gets funnier every time.  It's awesome and she's super proud of it. lol

Well we hope you have a great weekend and a fun Thanksgiving just around the corner... I hope it turns out better for you than this good wife. 

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #4

This is the last set from Seth’s Peter Pan Series that he made last year for our girls.   I'm sure Peter Pan would approve of finishing the series off with the wonderful boy himself and his Wendy Bird. :)  I imagine they are overlooking the scene of Hook tying the native princess to Skull Rock in order to try to trap Peter.  tsk tsk  Such bad form Captain! 

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #3

Another mermaid and her octopus buddy. When Seth gave our girls these two lunch sacks they thought these friends were playing hide-and-go-seek.  :) I love Seth's mermaids.  They are always so beautiful.

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #2

A Captain Hook loving crocodile and some lovely mermaids.  :)

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #1

Seth drew a "Peter Pan" series of lunch sacks for our girls last year.  I'll post a set a day this week and start this adventure off with the unrelenting Captain Hook, his companion Shmee, and the even more stubborn Princess Tiger Lily as they head to Skull Rock.

Lunch Bag Friday- Trick or Treat!

 Silly me forgot to post last week... oops. :)  

Here were the Lunch Bag Friday Sacks for October 25th.  Seth has been working crazy overtime hours, finishing up animation on the movie Rio 2.  By the time he gets home at night we have about an hour to play with him and then he's out like a light just to wake at 5am and start the next day.  He came up with an awesome solution to be able to still give his girlies some loves, but not be up all night drawing....  He found some old artwork that he had made a few years ago and printed them onto white lunch sacks.  The girls loved them and Seth was a well-rested daddy/animator. :)  win win

Here are today's Lunch Bag Friday sacks 

and possibly the last Halloweeny drawings he'll make this year. (tear)  :)

I just want to hug that sad little vampire.  Our oldest dressed up as a vampire this year for Halloween so she claimed this sack to bring to school.  She said he was mourning over her- of course.   Love it.

This other sack is another reference to Disney's Haunted Mansion stretching portraits, only Seth replaced the usual tightrope ballerina with ME!  :0)  I can't wait frame it and put it alongside the other haunted mansion picture of our girls in the quicksand.  He's so cool. :)   It makes me happy to see those ballet shoes on my feet in the picture.  I was a dancer from the age of 3 on until I really messed up one of my knees in high school and needed a few surgeries.  It's been a hard thing to let go of.   I always say I'll be dancing in heaven when everything broken is fixed again.  This particular sack is a sweet present to me along with my girls.

Here's the framed "Quick Sand" one.  

It's on our coffee table in our music room waiting for it's friend the "Tight Rope Ballerina" to join it.  

Did you have fun trick or treating last night?  We sure did!  

Here's a pic I took of our group with some family friends before they trekked through the rain and were filled with too much candy.  Seth kills me with his silly Edward Scissor Hands expression. lol

And here are some photos of our girls before they went to a Halloween party at Seth's work a few nights ago.  Do they know how to get into character or what?  We're just a tad dramatic around here.

She actually helped sew this vampire costume last year and it still fit.  It turned out so awesome she decided to go another year in it.   I love how quickly she is picking up sewing.  It'll be so fun for her to express herself and wear her creations all her life.  (such a proud mommy)  :)

Uh- wow!  She's gonna give me nightmares!  hahahaha  A few people asked if she was a zombie pilgrim.  lol  So in case you can't tell she's "Wednesday" from The Addam's Family.

Our little sweet little Pippy ghost wanted to be a character from a story that we've been telling her since she was 2-  the ghost with a black eye.  As the story goes a family is scared to discover a ghost in their house except for the littlest girl, named Penelope, who tells the ghost to get lost or she'll give him another black eye.  hahaha  She slipped just before the picture was taken and was crying and rubbed off her black eye though. hahaha  We sewed this costume for her big sister a few years ago so it was nice to just pull it out of the costume closet and not be sewing like a mad-woman the night before.   Here's a well loved lunch sack from near the beginning of when Seth was drawing them for the kids (a few years old) of the ghost with a black eye.  

We had some friends stick around last night to sing silly camp fire songs with the guitar that have the words changed to disgusting Halloween kind of lyrics (like "My Body Lies Over the Ocean" and "Do Your Guts Hang Low"  and  "Blow Blow Blow Your Nose"  etc.  It was so fun.  One of the families that came by last night is all boys and they create animation shorts like our girls love to (but they are MUCH MUCH better)  hahaha.  You should check out their awesome site- Animations Chefs.  They created a special one just for Halloween and shot footage at the Old Dutch Church and Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow where Washington Irving is buried who created the story about the famous Headless Horseman. (One of my favorite places to visit)  Here's a link... http://www.animationchefs.com/animation-chefs-halloween-special/   You'll seriously LOVE these guys and want to get into stop motion animation yourself!

Well with all that Halloween out of our system  (sort of)  I guess it's onto Thanksgiving   .... And just so you can see we are a pretty normal crew usually...    We hope you had a lot of fun last night and aren't sick from eating too much candy!  We secretly throw out bits of everyone's piles everyday to help it disappear quicker.   shhhhh   Don't tell our girls.        I know... we're evil.  :) 

Lunch Bag Friday... More Halloween! :)

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!!!  :)  A clever monster and allusion to one of the shrinking portraits in Disney’s Haunted Mansion…. only Seth used our daughters instead.  I LOVE THESE!  

Tricky Situations

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!!!

We laughed and laughed over these lunch bags Seth drew for the kids.    I can neither confirm nor deny if these things have ever happened to us. :)    I love the reference of the Haunted Mansion wallpaper in the ghost drawing.  The kids loved bringing these to school.  In fact Makenzie said that along with other kids, her teachers are beginning to look forward to Fridays to see the sacks she will bring and Kendyl has had the lunch room duty hold them in the air for the lunch room to see several times.  It can be hard to move and go to a new school- I’m grateful for these cute presents their dad draws them.  They are great conversation starters for making new friends. :)  Thanks Seth!  Happy October!

A Witch and Her Friend

Here's a witch lunch sack that Seth made last year and her friend.  :)  One of the reason I love Halloween so much is because of the colors.  I took these pictures from my front porch this morning as my girls and I sat out there eating our cereal watching the sunrise turning the purple clouds to gold and burning off the morning fog. 

Lunch Bag Friday: WitchyPoo on a Mop! :0)

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!!!  I always look forward to the "first witch of the season" that Seth draws.   I'm so  amazed with how they never look the same.  I didn't know there were so many different types of witches until I married this guy. :)  

This little Witchy-poo is quite traditional I think.  She's pretty cute.  Kendyl has appropriately named her Esmeralda and is going to make up a little story about her and her feisty kitty when she gets home from school today.  :)  I really love the look of contrast that can be reached on these brown sacks.  The white seems so bright.  I love that moon.  Seth was inspired to create Esmeralda by the animation clip our girls made the same morning as the animation I posted last week of the ghost coming from the fire place.  They actually created this one first.  It's very very brief, but they were excited to discover how to make it look like Kendyl was flying and made about 20 other versions of flying kids. hahaha  This little clip was the first one to jump start a whole new world for them. :)  When I saw it I was so impressed with them that I jumped up and down. hahaha  It's cute to see Penelope in the background eating her oatmeal and watching her sisters be weird.   When she watches this clip now she says, "I don't remember Kendyl flying. I thought she was just jumping, but I guess she was flying really quick when I wasn't looking."  lol  Here is the clip.  You will notice that Kendyl is flying on a mop.  She couldn't find the broom and they were too excited to try out Kenzie's idea of jumping in the air while taking the picture to see if it would look like she was flying.

I like how my kids are inspired by their daddy to create animation like him, who is in turn inspired to make a drawing, which inspires Kendyl to want to write a story, and on and on.  Creativity is a fun, never ending cycle.  Life is art.  Art and beauty and inspiration are all around us.  I don't understand when people get jealous of other's skills instead of being inspired by them or want to surround themselves with it.  It's just a jumping off point for something else fun you could create or in the very least enjoy and find beauty and happiness through.   Well we hope you have a great weekend!  Enjoy those fall leaves and keep your eyes out for any witches on mops. :)

Lunch Bag Friday: Dead Man's Party

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!  We kinda get into Halloween around here... just a bit.   We don't really like to wait until October to start celebrating and neither do our lunch sacks.  :)   Oingo Boingo's song "Dead Man's Party" was the inspiration behind this deadly lunch bag duo.  A week ago our youngest begged and begged to have our family watch "Monster House" one night after decorating for Halloween.  She felt like watching something Halloweeny and was proud that her daddy helped animate that movie back in 2006.  We warned her over and over it was probably too scary, but finally we caved to her pleadings.  Sure enough she was freaked out and got after her daddy for sometimes animating scary movies.  hahahaha   (fyi- She's fine now, by the end she liked it).

For fun I thought I'd share some of our Halloween decorations this year that we have up so far....

Witch's Brew in the fireplace.  I loved our daughter's idea to put lights in the cauldron to look like it was hot and boiling. 

Front Entry way.  The kids love to play and decorate with that huge, hairy spider and put him in different places- so it feels like he wanders around the house when we aren't looking.  For now, he's guarding the stairs and admire the little Halloween silhouettes I made of our family this last week.  :)

Close ups of our silhouettes I made.  They were a lot of fun.

Family Room-  I love sewing and that dress in the corner was my oldest daughter's Halloween vampire costume she helped me sew last year.  I also designed and made the little felt advent calendar countdown to Halloween on the right side of the photo.

The real beauty in all of our decor is the family painting that Seth made of us a few years ago.  We love it so much we just keep it up year round!  :)

Top of entertainment center.  These Disney BigFigs have a place in our home year round too.   hehe

Our girls like animating like their daddy.  Nothing like some spooky decor to inspire a little stop-motion animation.  They are currently saving up for an ipod to create much better animation than their 3ds, but they still have fun.  They did this bit last Sunday and they figured out all on their own how to make it look like she was flying.  We were so proud.  :)

Well Happy Haunting this next month!  Enjoy the fall and think of us.  :)  More spooky lunch sacks to come!  

The Winning Bag!

This is the bag Seth drew for the winner of our contest that we had on our facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/whizbangbags.  When we contacted Kori (the winner) she said that it would be tough to narrow down one funny story because she has four kids (I guess she doesn't play favorites lol), but said that she loved elephants... so this is what Seth came up with. 


We know Kori from church so Seth thought it would be fun to reference the writings of Paul to the to Philippians (Philippians 4) also one of our articles of faith (number 13). It's a funny saying that Seth and I always say when we are talking about that particular Article of Faith (the real words are "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent...). Kind of like a hymn that we sing in church that we changed the words to "High on a Mountain Top, a badger chased a squirrel" instead of "a banner is unfurled" or "I Am a Child of God... with parents kind of weird" instead of "with parents kind and dear" or my personal favorite from Primary which Seth believed were the words for many many years "Give Seth the Little String" instead of "Give Said the Little Stream". We haven't been struck by lightning yet.  (knock on wood)

Well Kori, you didn't have to play favorites, he threw the whole family in! I think it's fabulous! He's never turned a bag sideways for the design. It's very charming.  We'll pass it along to you soon.

Congrats again on winning! We'll have to do this contest again soon! In the meantime, only one more day until new "Lunch Bag Friday" drawings are posted. He was sketching out fun ideas last night.  Please share this site with your friends and family. We'd love to get a big enough fan base of people following the page to be taken more seriously by book publishers or companies that could print these sacks.

Monster of Frankenstein and His Bride

Well even though it's not October yet... we have been decorating for Halloween.  :)  It's one of my favorite times of the year!  I'm creating some Halloween silhouettes of our family for the staircase.  Seth and I will be this couple.  :)  He drew these bags in Oct. of 2011

Lunch Bag Friday!

 Old Friends

City Birds  :)

Best Friends

There's something so charming about this bag that Seth drew in 2012 for Kendyl.  So sweet.  I sure hope his buddy is ok...

Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel

Seth drew this lunch bag duo Fall of 2012.  I LOVE it!  I love the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman…. even more I love the history behind the story.  We use to live just a few miles from the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY where Washington Irving sang in a choir as a boy and is buried on the grounds of that church. I use to go there weekly and just wander around.  There was another old man there named Bill that would “haunt” the place as well and would give me little histories lessons.  For Halloween this year one of my daughters wants to be Katrina Van Tassel.  Seth is excited now about the idea of being the Headless Horseman.  I’ll need to see about finding a huge suit to make him look headless.  We’ll see. :)

Contest!

If you are on Facebook here is a link to our Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/whizbangbags where you can find the details of how to enter and win!  :)  Happy Lucky Friday the 13th!~

Lunch Bag Friday!

Our daughter really wished that she could bring the Hulk with her to school today for show-and-tell.  A cool drawing is a close second though. :)

Frog Prince

For Lunch Bag Friday last week I alluded to one of my children trying to kiss a toad that week.  Well here's a pic I took of her going in for the kill. :) hahaha  Ok.  So I dared her with money.  I really didn't think she would do it.  It was hilarious (and a little queasy-making) being proved wrong- totally worth being poorer from the dare.  Too bad it didn't turn into a prince... not that I'm ready for any of my girls to fall in love.  lol  I actually pity the boy who takes our oldest out on her first date when she is 16+.  Seth is a very protective daddy.  lol  

Seth drew this particular lunch sack in the spring of 2012.  I loved finding his lunch sack princess in the same position as our own princess in this photo. I just had to put them side-by-side.  :)

CHARGE!!!!

Drawing time with Daddy

Last night while Seth was drawing on the lunch sacks for Lunch Bag Friday our littlest decided she would draw on a lunch bag next to him (she does this from time-to-time).  Our oldest ended up joining in as well.  I thought this picture was too sweet not to share of them.  Here’s a pic this morning of all the bags together waiting to be grabbed by the girls.  Pip says her lunch bag is of “3 seals swimming in the water looking for fish”.   She’s so cute!  She used it today, but said that she was going to give it to her buddy at church on Sunday. :)

Pets or Pests?... depends on who you ask

Lunch Bag Friday! 9-6-13

I don’t know if your kids (if you have them) are like ours, but our kids are always trying to keep everything as a pet! Even spiders! I’m sure if they could sneak an elephant into the house they would.  

Today our kitty had proudly placed a dead mole on our porch (she’s a good mouser and we live in the woods so it’s helpful). I was grossed out, then sad, because a little mole is so much cuter than a mouse. The first thing our littlest girl tried to do was run inside to get a tupperware to keep the dead mole as a pet! Needless to say I would’t let her. (such a mean mom) lol 

Twice last week my kids caught frogs and once a toad and begged to keep them- one of them even kissed the toad to see if it would turn into a prince. EWWW!! 

There have been many times that I have discovered dead roly poly bugs, ladybugs, or fireflies in Pip’s pockets when I am about to wash her pants. I’m terrified of finding something worse. lol 

We don’t have a dog, but Seth and I both had dogs when we were kids and this is the way they waited for us after school. Actually our kitty waits like this for the kids and even runs partway to the bus stop in some places we’ve lived to greet them.  With the start of a new school year and having moved to a new school, Seth and I feel like this puppy everyday, anxious to hear their news and give them loves. 

These bags are so charming.  I love them Seth!

Resolutions

Of all the lunch sacks my husband has drawn, this one represents the essence of my middle child the most!  :)  She is the sweetest, most inclusive, creative, caring girl in the world.  She loves to sew, draw, pretend, and create stories and plays for little kids.  Seth drew this on her lunch sack the first Friday of the new year (January 2013).  I love that her “new friends” are ones that she’s obviously sewn herself and the big imaginary friend behind her is enjoying her newest creations.  

This lunch sack has been popping to my head lately because of the dozens of plays she has been creating and performing for us the past few days and so I thought it would be fun to share with the rest of you.  Time to go create something myself… (I promised a few months ago to sew something for a friend).  

The Get Away!

Seth drew these lunch sacks this last spring.  Some of my favorite lunch sacks are like these where the sacks alone look awesome, but when you put the two sacks side-by-side they create an even better, more full picture or story.  I was looking at this particular set last night remembering a funny story about our kids…

Makenzie loves dragons! Always has… so anytime there is a dragon on a bag it automatically becomes hers. When Makenzie was in 4th grade she had been reading a lot of dragon books. One night, while we were driving in the car she very seriously told me that she needed to have a talk with me. She sounded almost scared, so I turned down the music and told her she had my full attention. She then began to explain that she felt she needed to warn me about something very serious… she could tell soon that she was going to morph into a dragon because when she swings high on the swings she could feel wings trying to burst out of her back and toe nails growing into claws inside her shoes. She wanted to warn me because she didn’t want me worried if she didn’t come home from school one day… it probably meant that she had completed morphing and was flying to join the other dragons. I couldn’t believe that she was in 4th grade and her imagination could be so strong that she truly believed this. It was so random and sincere I tried my best not to burst out laughing (…it was extremely difficult). Kendyl on the other hand didn’t try so hard (she was in 1st grade). She burst out laughing and said, “You don’t really think this do you? You haven’t told anyone else this, right? That would be soooo embarrassing!” Makenzie’s face was filled with confusion and I saw her little dragon heart break. It was the sweetest and saddest thing ever! Makenzie then decided that Kendyl was wrong and declared that just because Kendyl hadn’t seen dragons didn’t mean they weren’t real! Kendyl considered this and decided Makenzie might be right, but it would probably be a good idea not to talk to other kids about this just in case. Makenzie agreed. Oh my kids. 

I love when Seth draws these sorts of things and memories come flooding back. Even though Makenzie doesn’t believe she will morph into a dragon anymore, she does still love them and would probably love to be a dragon for an afternoon. hahaha  These lunch sacks sometimes bring back memories and moments captured in time and help me hang on to them as we watch our family growing. They are gifts for me as much as they are gifts for our girls. Thank you Seth!