Tyler and Matt. Getting Married This Weekend!

At the Tonner doll convention this weekend, Tyler and Matt will make their union official.  In honor of that, I thought I'd do a  photo of one of my favorite Tyler dolls in "her" wedding gown.

Bi-ii-ig Hair!

Big hair. 

 I thought it might be fun to try a Dolly Parton look on Bijou.  Red lips and Big Hair.  What more do you need?  Well .... spike-heeled platform shoes for one thing.  Oddly enough they don't seem to make those for dolls.  Or they haven't yet.  I expect it will roll down the pike one of these days.  

Bijou will be ready.

With the hair and the lips, can the shoes be far behind?  I think not.

Announcing JEEVES' Own Blog.

For anyone who just can't get enough of my Mini-Cooper, Jeeves now has his very own blog.

Just go to http://flamingomoon-jeeves.blogspot.com/

Overlooking, and Overlooked by, the OSCARS

Once again I was forced to sit in my rocking chair and watch the much desired golden statues being handed out to other actresses. Each and every year this small pea is placed under the mattress of my life and I once again confront failure.

The good news is, that I can make fun of all manner of things that are involved in the Academy's decision to ignore me once again. Well, lets face it. They are in good company as the entire movie industry had a very successful year of ignoring me. Several, in fact. It has almost become a hobby, I believe.

THE WINNERS AND THE LOSERS. I had my pom-poms in hand only for Robert Downey, and he lost to a guy who died of an overdose. Sad. Downey kicked his own deamons, the other guy OD's, and he gets the Oscar. Just plain silly. What's the point in giving a dead person an Oscar? It's not going to help his career. Do a brief memorial and mention that drinking, mega drugging, and all that should not be tried at home as these are professionals and they still screwed it up. Anyway, sorry for Robert.
SlumDog Millionaire-- have not seen it, but was rooting for it because I like Bollywood films and was glad to see this be accepted.

THE SHOW. Bravo, Hugh Jackman! You simply didn't do anything wrong. Wonderful job.
The endless clips were not as annoying this year for some reason. Normally they drag on and on and on, but this year went fairly well. Or maybe I just quit paying attention and blocked them out. Not really sure on that one. Most years the musical numbers are just horrid and make one wish that the light battens would fall and crush these people who are inflicting added torture. This year, Mr. Jackman made them fun! And I found myself wishing the producers had just let him perform for a couple of hours and then just read a list of who won and be done with it. So, again, bravo, Mr. Jackman.

Still it is too long. I think she show could be cut to 2 hours with ease. Only show the "major" awards. Have an industry only event to give out the rest of the awards. How many tickets are really sold because so-and-so won an Oscar for "best sound editing"? I'm not saying the award is not important to the winner, but the fact is, it is only important to the winner and the people within the industry who might hire the winner for future projects. Take it off the show. Move along.

Sadly, the fun of seeing stars all dressed up and out together has pretty much left the building. The presenters this year were a step up from the actors and actresses or more likely rap artists and TV personalities who had presented for the last several years.

All in all, it was a fairly pleasant production. But, with the exception of the host, it lacked ... well, "starpower". I don't think it could contend for an Oscar.

Mini madness

Isn't it odd how the minute you focus on something you start to see it? Before I became Mini-turized, I had only seen one Mini-Cooper in K'ville. I used to see it at the grocery store every now and then. Now that JEEVES is being made over in Oxford, England, I am seeing Minis all over the place!
I had an email from my friend Suzanne who has moved to Charlotte, and she commented on how many she was suddenly seeing there.
Minis are on the move. They could be planning a take-over. Look out you honkin' big SUV's.... the Mini C's are coming!

Decorating for Christmas

I'm almost done.  Just a couple more small things, and then I get to sit back and enjoy it.  
As you can see, Mrs. Peel was a great help during the decorating process. Here she is admiring herself in the silver ball. Yep. Good help is hard to find.

And The Winner Is ....

After a bit of agonizing and a frantic call to my brother .... I followed my heart and bought the

MINI COOPER CLUBMAN!  

Thanks to all who encouraged me in this direction, and to those who laughed quietly at my futile efforts to resist the Mini appeal and go for something else.  I am still convinced that the Mini Cooper has some type of euphoric drug embedded in it's seats.  But that's ok with me.  Lets just hope that I can take it in and have it 'refreshed' every so often.  

I will say that the stiff competition was Toyota Matrix and the Scion xD.  I thought both were super cars, liked the way that they drove and the room inside.  And, the Toyota dealership was very nice.  No unpleasant feelings like I had at the Mazda dealership.  It was touch and go for awhile because Toyota was giving great rebates and my very practical self was screaming about saving money.   In the end, I decided that it was more important that the car make me smile when I see it.  And so....

A photo of the car will appear.  It is currently being made in Oxford, England. 

 Ta, ta, cheerio, pip, pip and all that.