everything looks better

through a fisheye lens.

Sausage and mustache party

Oktoberfest party with a selection of delicious sausages from this place.

we picked up: Bratwurst, Chicken Apple, Austin Blues, Louisiana Hotlink, Duck and Bacon, Apple Sage, Rattlesnake and Rabbit.




Sausages were first boiled in a broth of beer and onions


Then charcoal grilled. (Dog for scale)


Served with sauerkraut, german noodles and potato salad.


And of course, lots of Oktoberfest beer.


Oh and a lot of mustaches, for good measure.

More Hallows Eve

On Halloween, Long Beach has its annual Haute Dog Halloween Parade. Every year this event grows in size and gets better and better. I am always amused and amazed at how creative people can be.

There were pirates

Bounty Hunters

Pitbulls in Tutus

Dogs dressed as dwarfs wearing sunglasses

Kentucky Derby Dogs

A 3 Headed Hellbeast Chihuahua

Down the rabbit hole

the metamorphosis

and then there were the tributes to Michael Jackson, this one was complete with professional security (from Sgt. Jim Dangle?) and umbrella holder

and this one, which was just brilliant

Happy Halloween

I had planned on posting a ton of pictures and ideas this month leading all the way up to Halloween, but time got the best of of me and I didn't have the time or energy to photograph all the crafting I did for the party. So alas, here's a long pictorial of the October festivities that have led up to Hallows Eve.

Halloween has begun!

More Halloween

Halloween has officially arrived at the stores, and I must say some store displays and merchandise selection are beyond creative and others just didn't hit the mark. Stats of course looked great, and Cost Plus was impressive too (sorry for the crappy iphone pics):









I hit Target last weekend and was incredibly disappointed. Michaels was not that great either.... I am hoping they are going to step it up at the end of September and bring some new stuff in, cause right now they are booor-ing!

Have a gorgeous friday.

image from here.