Matinee Monday

I've missed a few Mondays!  I was getting ready for the Made in Monmouth shopping event this past Saturday.  I'm excited to show you my booth from Saturday and debut a few new dolls I painted.  I also have lots of in stock items to start your holiday shopping early!

Now back to the movies.........

Staring......

Farley Granger............. Guy Haines
Ruth Roman................. Ann Morton
Robert Walker.............. Bruno Anthony

Plot:

Bruno Anthony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train, he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple. Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants disposed of. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of hand but but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the 'bargain' and disposes of Miriam. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it quite clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused him a divorce. It all leads the police to believe Guy is responsible for the murder, forcing him to deal with Bruno's mad ravings

Made in Monmouth

Only a week and a half away!  I'm no where near ready.  Hustling this week to get stock/samples ready between orders!

Corners Of My Home (Part One)

I thought it would be fun to take a tour of our home.  We live in a modest town home.  It's not a huge mansion, can sometimes feel cluttered with baby toys, shipping boxes and supplies but it's ours and we love it.  It's home...... (note I realized I neglected to take pictures of our dining room and second floor so we'll do this post in 2 parts)

When you enter the front door immediately to

the left is our baywindow/eat in kitchen nook

This shot is the view from our kitchen table

(I'm thinking of painting my cabinets...eek! 

Possibly a cream color with an antique effect)

View in the kitchen looking down to the nook

When you come out of the kitchen there is a little openish hallway

then you enter the living room/dining room comb

This is our living room before we repainted 3 of the walls

(the wall color is Benjamin Moore Chopped Dill)

Living room re-painted.  Wall with fire place was left green

Remaining 3 walls were painted Benjamin Moore Squirehill buff.  

It's the color most of our home is painted

I love how the furniture stands out more against the lighter wall

Dining Room 

Thats it for this addition.  Now to photo the rest!

XO,

K

9-11-01

A single date in history changed a nation/world forever.  We will never forget those who lost their lives and those hero's who walked among us that day.  Thank you to the brave soldiers that defend our freedom to this day.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Cast:

Cary Grant.........................Mortimer Brewster

Pricilla Lane.......................Elaine Harper

Raymond Massey..............Jonathan Brewster

Jack Carson.......................O'Hara

Plot:

Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

The year is 1941. The location is a small house next to a cemetery in Brooklyn. In this house live two kind, thoughtful, sweet old ladies, Martha and Abby Brewster who have developed a very bad habit. It appears that they murder lonely old men who have some sort of religious affiliation and they consider doing it a charity. They then leave it to their bugle blowing nephew Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt) to take them to the Panama Canal (the cellar) and bury them. In this instance, the "poor fellow" suffers from yellow fever found in the window seat. It is another of their nephews Mortimer Brewster, a dramatic critic, who returns home only to find the man in the seat by mistake. Another nephew, Jonathon, returns to the home after years of fleeing the authorities due to his "unofficial practice" of killing people and using their faces to change his. However the results cause him to look like Boris Karloff (this angers him upon the mention of his similarity to the actor) due to the poor craftsmanship of his German accented, alcoholic sidekick Dr. Einstein. As the story continues, we see each character trying to find resolve in their suddenly been flipped upside-down lives. Mortimer tries to keep his aunts safe and prevent them from continuing their nasty habit while trying to stay sane with the woman he loves (Elaine Harper), the aunts try to continue their "charities", and Jonathon tries to make a wealthy practice that is stationed inside the home. Written by Andrew G. Wallace -- Mortimer Brewster -- Bergen Community College Theater Production, 2003

For the clan known as Brewster insanity runs in the family. Two sweet old aunts take it upon themselves to poison lonely old men with nothing to live for, as an act of charity. Their nephew Mortimer has just got married, and is trying to negotiate his way around the shenanigans of the house, while trying to keep his new bride from fleeing. Shady brother John returns from a world adventure involving using corpses to change his appearance to allude capture. The merry mayhem continues with bugle-blowing brother Teddy who is charged with burial duties. Written by G. Florence astortheatre@bigpond.com

(Photo credits .... Google image search)

One of my favorite Cary Grant films.  I stop to watch it anytime it's on TCM but I really love to watch it during the fall/halloween season.

Happy Monday!