Oklahoma City, OK, USA - 16th December 2011
By: klubwerks
Hi Mom!!
We decorated the Christmas Tree today. My host Amelia made all the ornaments herself, with the exception of a few sentimental ornaments. Tannen the Bedtime Bear ornament is one of the toys that lives here. I got to meet all of the xmas toys that live here too.
I posed in Jane's Hat, from the tv series Firefly. Then I helped make some treats called "Puppy Food". It's not really puppy food and it's really yummy!
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Posted Dec 17, 2011, 4:28 am Last edited Dec 17, 2011, 4:39 am by klubwerks
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 23rd December 2011
By: klubwerks
The household decided to open presents early this year. They wanted plenty of time to play with thier presents over the weekend. Everyone in the house caught a terrible cold, so presents made everyone feel better too.
So, we toyvoyagers decided to open presents too! I got a pretty xmas dress that ties in the back, and some butterfly clips to make my ears look even more darling! I thought I was too small to much clothing, but this works out great for me. I love it! Thanks!
Oh, and it's supposed to snow this weekend. We'll see!
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Posted Dec 24, 2011, 4:22 am
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 7th January 2012
By: klubwerks
It's been a busy holiday season over here. Sorry, I haven't checked in for a few long days. We've been doing a lot of crafting, from sewing toys, watercolor painting, and writing.
We finally had our first snow, but it wasn't much. By the time I could get outside to get photos, the flurries had stopped. Ah well!
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Posted Jan 13, 2012, 5:47 am
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 7th January 2012
By: klubwerks
It's been a busy holiday season over here. Sorry, I haven't checked in for a few long days. We've been doing a lot of crafting, from sewing toys, watercolor painting, and writing.
We finally had our first snow, but it wasn't much. By the time I could get outside to get photos, the flurries had stopped. Ah well!
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Posted Jan 13, 2012, 5:47 am
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 29th January 2012
By: klubwerks
We played with a bunch of Steampunk stuff and we had fun! They have a more western style steampunk here in Oklahoma. They like pistols, flintlocks, and the worn "old" look... poker cards... that sort of thing. It's pretty neat!
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Posted Jan 30, 2012, 3:30 am
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 2nd March 2012
By: klubwerks
I had a lot of fun today! First, we had a lobster and seafood sub for lunch, did some grocery shopping, and said goodbye to another Toyvoyager who is going to Russia.
Then later on, I met Murdock the bat who is new in the household (but not a Toyvoyager like me) and we visited a big candy store. Lots of yummies there! Then, we went out for dinner at Jazmo's. They make very yummy cajun food. I had fried calamari for an appetizer, and tried lobster bisque, lobster macaroni and cheese, and blackened catfish topped with etouffee. I was so stuffed that I had no room for desert! Oh, and there was live music right by our table.
After dinner, we took a walk by the river and then saw a movie called Chronicle. It was a good movie, and very creative cinematography.
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Posted Mar 3, 2012, 7:05 am
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 17th March 2012
By: klubwerks
I had fun celebrating Saint Patrick's Day in Bricktown (down town) Oklahoma City. My host says it's an Irish Holiday that they celebrate with getting drunk, listening to Irish music, and lots of green things and Irish flags.
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Posted Mar 18, 2012, 6:23 am Last edited Mar 18, 2012, 6:24 am by klubwerks
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 24th March 2012
By: klubwerks
We went out to see an IMAX movie, called Tornado Alley, at the Sciene Museum. Yes, Oklahoma is part of Tornado Alley where we got lots of dangerous tornados. No, I haven't seen one yet! We went with a couple of good friends, including Miss Toki (the bunny).
When we got back to the apartment, my host's husband Dan received a new steampunk piece in the mail today. It's a replica of Malcolm Reynold's firearm - which is a tv series from some years back. Dan has a replica of his coat too! Me and Toki got a picture with it.
A third friend was late arriving and had missed the movie, so we went out to lunch with him. We went to Cajun King. They make some great authenticate cajun food, like gumbo, ettoufee, alligator, frog legs, and fried catfish -the batter is a little sweet and even if you don't like catfish, you'll love this!
Then we went out to see another movie! We watched Hunger Games which is like an American version of the Japanese film Battle Royale. It was a great movie, but very sad.
We had a fun day!
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Posted Apr 15, 2012, 8:47 pm
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Jefferson, Texas, United States - 31st March 2012
By: klubwerks
We went to a Steampunk event called Nightmare Machine. It was held in Jefferson Texas, which they say is the most haunted town in Texas. We were sitting in the vistors center with a frame photo on the wall fell and broke, and then a bunch of people walked in saying that the Steam Train derailed and they all had to walk back. Thankfully no one was hurt... unfortunately we didn't get to ride the train.
Still we had a lot of fun. We went camping out by a swamp lake at the Cypress Bayou RV Camp Grounds. It was so pretty out there! We saw a lot of neat things around town. We even visited some of the stores. The town itself was pretty neat because it is one of the oldest towns in Texas.
And it was moth season, because there were a lot of moth caterpillars crawling around. We brought two of them home only to find a third stow away in a bag. One of them already made himself into a cocoon (we named him Jefferson). I can't wait to see what kind of moth he ends up being!
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Posted Apr 7, 2012, 10:23 pm Last edited Apr 7, 2012, 10:27 pm by klubwerks
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 15th April 2012
By: klubwerks
I wanted to let you know that I'm okay!
Sorry about not being in the photos, I just wanted to show you the storm that was moving in. We're in "Tornado Alley" and it's Tornado season right now. My home in Kansas is also part of Tornado Alley. So, let me know you are okay mom!
There was a very dangerous "super cell" storm that passed through Oklahoma this weekend. It's been all over the news. There were several dangerous tornadoes that killed 5 people (3 were children) and injured 29 others. As exciting and beautiful tornadoes are, they are deadly and very scarey!
Don't worry, we are okay in our area of Oklahoma. The winds got really strong out, but luckily the majority of the storm went Northwest of us.
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Posted Apr 15, 2012, 9:00 pm Last edited Apr 15, 2012, 9:01 pm by klubwerks
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San Antonio, TX, United States - 7th May 2012
By: klubwerks
I had a lovely time at Aetherfest - a Steampunk Convention. The St. Anthony hotel was so beautiful! It was built in the 1880's in San Antonio, TX.
We even walked down to the Alamo! This was were Texas fought the Mexican Rebels and won, despite impossible odds. Such brave and strong soldiers! You can read more about it here: http://thealamo.org/battle/battle.php
The other TV's in the photos are Toki (my hosts' bunny), Schnattchen (duck from Germany), and Mr. Shawn (sheep). Mr. Shawn may end up adopted by my host. His mentor has been missing for a long time and several toys have been lost with her, including my hosts' toy kitty Bo. Mr. Shawn misses his mentor and maybe one day she'll come back - but he's very well loved with his host. I think Mr. Shawn will be just fine.
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Posted May 20, 2012, 8:36 pm Last edited May 20, 2012, 8:36 pm by klubwerks
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 20th May 2012
By: klubwerks
Yesterday's Annular (ring) Solar Eclipse had a Ring Of Fire! This doesn't always happen and the next one won't happen again for another decade or more. The Ring Of Fire is when the moon is directly infront of the sun creating a black hole with a thin ring of light (fire) peeking around the edges of the moon. There are also crescent shaped shadows under trees too!
We got to see the very beginning, but that was it. The clouds covered the sun. We had a lot of storms that day. But we still had a lot of fun outside and taking photos. Then when we got back inside, we watched a live stream of the eclipse.
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Posted May 21, 2012, 8:08 pm
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Oklahoma City, OK, United States - 25th May 2012
By: klubwerks
The other TV's and I helped our host write an article about taking photos for toyvoyagers.com and it turned out pretty good! She's hoping this will be useful to other hosts. More than anything, it was just good fun. As part of the project, we had lunch at a diner called Freddy's and then stopped to smell the flowers. Here are the photos we took while getting photos prepared for the article... but only the really good ones. You can see the article here: Article
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Posted May 25, 2012, 8:00 am
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