3D

This twisted winter, filled with adventures of every kind recently led us to Hugo a beautiful movie based off of the book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  One half of the Sideshow (possibly the good one) even read the book before the viewing!  We invited a dear friend, whispered, laughed and cried throughout the film.

and recently found a new use for our 3D glasses...... photo booth.

A Sideshow Weekend

ONE GREAT WEEKEND!!!
 
This weekend the Sideshow will be running on high, dancing, and spinning in heart shaped circles! We will be experiencing three great GREAT events this weekend but are planning for countless unexpected adventures!

To start the weekend off we will be stopping at The High Dive to dance and sing with the most wonderful and glorious.....The Great Um.

Show starts at 9pm and The Great (greatest) Um will go on around 10pm.

http://www.highdiveseattle.com/ 

While we plan to have fun like cirky's on Friday night we have pinkie sworn to wake early on Saturday morning to make it in time for SWAG BAGS at the Urban Craft Uprising!

http://urbancraftuprising.com 

This local craft fair offers a chance to meet many of Seattle's greatest crafters and foodies!

We are excited to see all but in a frenzy about a few.

http://bigspoonjam.com/big_spoon_jam/welcome.html 

http://slowshirts.com/ 

http://www.devoutdolls.com/gallery.htm

http://lilli-pilli.com/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/thistinyexistence

And for a little icing......on Saturday night The Glass Notes will be playing 

here at 8:30pm!!!!!

http://www.antgallery.org/

Sunday may be a recovery day but we can't make any promises on that!  Fun seems to find us and we seem to always be ready for it!

We plan to take many pictures of all of our adventures, especially the unexpected ones, and will post for your pleasure soon.

The stew is at a boiling point! 

The Sideshow will be bringing it soon but in the mean time check out the Mixtape.

Something we often take time to do.  

The Mixtape is quite expectedly dangerous and libel at times but well worth the adventure.  

Sean De Tore, word.

blog it
http://themixtape.co.uk/ 

or main line it

http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=571&p=14&n=the%2520mixtape

A Sideshow Halloween!!!

R2D2 and Sand Dune.........The Clown

We have been busy, busy, busy BEES lately!!  Many apologies for not posting!

Our stories are currently brewing in the cauldron and will be posted soon.

 

The Phinney Farmers Market

The sun shined brightly as Rayne and Tippy welcomed this first day of fall and their first visit to the Phinney Farmers Market.

The Phinney Market located on 67th and Phinney and is open from 3-7pm June 3rd thru Oct 21st.

Seattle in its typically predictably unpredictable style of weather showed up in her best costume with all it's beauty for this Emerald Sideshow Adventure.

The Phinney market was lovely, basked in warm sun it offered an often peaceful silence broken only by laughter and the usual sounds of commerce.  And, like all of the markets we have visited we found gifts of the earth to tempt our pocket books until they found themselves bare.

Our first stop was the Alvarez Organic Farms Booth.

 

While Tippy thrives in the summer she spends most of the year looking forward to the FIFTH season....Chili Season!  The season which we have recently entered which enriches and excites our gustatory lives.

Green chilis

Goat chilis

Jalapenos

Habaneros

These are a few of our favorite things.

 

 

 

The Fremont Market!

Called again by the temptations, sounds and wares of the markets we found ourselves in the depths of Fremont answering the call. 

If you have not yet had the opportunity to visit the Fremont Market, the time is NOW!

This market runs year round but the summer and early fall offer the best opportunity to experience the HUGE variety of treasures assembled upon the tables of these lovely local vendors sans rain.

Unlike many of the markets and fairs in town this one in particular wet our pallets to the the point of drool.  We found our wet mouths salivating over the many found and vintage objects offered by the  vendors of The Fremont Market.

Rayne found a dream list item..... a cursive typewriter!!

The market offers not only vintage booths and the usual but also an entire underground garage filled with all and everything.  This market is about history, vintage and the dregs. 

If you are like us you will definitely find what you are looking for!

Have a happy hour at Nine Million In Unmarked Bills.

http://www.fremontmarket.com/

http://9m-unmarked.com/

Magic Fingers

We have been working like crazy, stirring the cauldron and building terrariums for the masses. Behold the DOUBLE DECKER!!

 

The Day Rayne met Mango

Mango, the rescued bird that Rayne stumbled upon.  While their conversation was sort they both cawed in the end.

Send us your pet images!!

A Little Art

 

Tippy recently ran into these beautiful D.O.G. paintings at Kiss Cafe in Ballard.  

F.Y.I. they also serve Balls Deep from Seven Seas Brewery, very hard to find in Seattle!!

Check out Shai Steiner at

shaisteiner.com

Beautiful paintings and prints available!!

Sideshow Terrariums!!

  This past weekend we decided to make our own (maintenance-free) Emerald Sideshow, Emerald Jungles.
  The act of watering plants can become a task when living life on the road or just living in general.  To solve this black thumb gift we have been handed we decided to make TERRARIUMS!

Ingredients:
You will need at least one Garden Cloche or bottomless jug from Bedrock... $12.00
Pair that with a glass plate from Value Village or Goodwill...$1.00
Add a few actors, characters, or scenery which we found in mass at Value Village...$2.00
Succulents are the perfect low maintenance plant for the job, found at The Indoor Sun Shoppe...$5-7.00

Preparation:
  Your first step is to pick the main characters of your Jungle.  Tippy chose a giraffe, two chickens and two babies.  Rayne found an elk, a deer and a resting white pony.  Now, set the stage by laying down a small amount of dirt in the center of your glass plate.  Prepare your plants by removing them from their planters and lightly separating the roots.  Then, take your characters and toss them ever so slightly with your succulents.  Remember that your jungle is a stage in the round so, make your audience happy by pleasing their eyes from all angles.
  When your cast and characters have found their marks add a touch of H2O to the soil and nestle your Garden Cloche over the top.
  Within a couple of days condensation will begin to build in your terrarium.  This condensation will cycle through the plants and soil unendingly thus the low-maintenance jungle!

Check out the cool spots where we gathered our set materials.

http://www.bedrockindustries.com/

http://www.indoorsun.com/

http://www.valuevillage.com/

 

Three Absolute MUSTS from The Sideshow!!

This week we picked three of our favorites from our recent local adventures as our MUST, must, MUST DO's of the month.

Coming up this Saturday, August 13th is the always impressive Georgetown Art Attack!!! Highly recommended by the Sideshow, this is one of the best art walks in town!

Visit the Georgetown Trailer Parks for food, art, crafts and fun.

http://www.georgetownartattack.com 

El Numero Dos is,

Monday nights at Sitka and Spruce

The food of the "Malafacha"

 This tip is yet another one of our hidden secrets of Seattle.

Not just tacos! This experience offers the opportunity to eat fresh, local ingredients and enjoy traditional comidas Mexicanas from the talented Alvaro Candela-Najera!

Monday evenings 5:30 to 9:30pm

Lovely, amazing food and don't forget to order the Agua Fresca!!!  If you are lucky enough to have Ksusha as your server, tell her we said HI!

1531 Melrose Ave E.

Seattle WA 98122

http://sitkaandspruce.com/mondays.html

And last but not least on our MUST list is................

.....................

A vintage tooled leather purse

If you haven't seen them yet keep your eyes peeled.  This is a must have of this week and most likely, this year!

Visit one of, if not THE best places in town to buy vintage boots+belts+bags+more

Vintage Angel Company

3519 B. Fremont Place North 

Seattle WA 98103

https://www.facebook.com/VintageAngelCompany

Keep in touch, for the deets.  We have been exploring like crazy and will post our stories soon!!  

You can look forward to these tasty adventures

Georgetown

The 'Mad Homes' Exhibition

Sitka and Spruce

The Fremont Market

Readings from Thundercloud

and

The Meltdown Festival with The Glass Notes

A Call To The Museum of Communications

ring, ring...........ring, ring.

Somewhere in the distance we could hear the call, the sound beckoning us, but not the automated ring tone programed into a cellphone, uploaded from the marketplace of unending choices.  This was a RING, a sound from the past calling us back into our history and tempting us to take a new adventure.
On Tuesday morning Rayne and Tippy made the trek to The Telephone Museum, otherwise known as The Museum of Communications.  Located in industrial Georgetown, just steps from the Boeing runways this museum is by far one of the greatest hidden treasures of Seattle.  It houses an extensive collection of communication devices from teletypes and telephones to satellites and vintage computers.
While we both enjoy the beauty of an old phone, Rayne has been building her collection of telephones for many years.  This passion led us to discover the delights of this local gem.  We were lucky enough to receive a guided tour by one of the lovely volunteers and spent hours wandering through the vast collection.  Unlike most museums you are allowed to touch the treasures and at times are even asked to answer incoming calls!

Needless to say, we loved every minute of it.

 

Click the dial to see more photographs on our flickr photostream.

The Museum of Communications

7000 East Marginal

Seattle, Washington 98108

http://www.museumofcommunications.org/

Tippy meets Alki

As Rayne and I know first hand, there is almost nothing that can compete with the constant love and companionship of a sidekick i.e. the big D.O.G..  I myself have often wondered what I would do without the morning cozys and kisses that I have become accustomed to from my sweet loving Mr. Bingly.  As strange as it may seem, I at times view him as my North, my rock and possible guide in life.  So, It is not unreasonable to ask how far I, and maybe we, could take this doggy obsession.  

This weekend, at the Alki Arts Fair I had the opportunity to meet a wonderful lady that answered this previously unasked question.

Welcome to the world of Felted Fantasies!!

by

Sheila Saxon

This talented artist knits beautifully functional purses upon which she hand felts
ANIMAL PORTRAITS!

 

 

Felting is an incredibly difficult technique to learn which takes immense skill and patience.  I myself briefly and quite unsuccessfully dabbled in the world of felting and am still applying Band-Aids to my artist ego.

So, I was surprised to discover that Sheila began felting only three years ago.

Kudos Sheila

With any luck I will be rockin a Mr. Bingley purse in my very near future. 

Sheila Saxon has an etsy store but is taking a short vacation to travel the local Arts Fairs. 

Felted Fantasies

ART - with a PURSE attached

feltedfantasies.etsy.com

check out her website

http://www.feltedfantasies.com/dogs.html

Here are a few more images from the Alki Arts Fair.

The Sev Shoon Arts Center tent where we spent the afternoon doing etching demos and speaking with the public about printmaking.

Betsy pulling a print.

An afternoon Bloody Mary at Chupacabra with Julie, yum.

And finally......Rag Top Heaven.