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.  :)