About Me

Basic gal from the Dallas area who has a lot to say!! I'm working on lens related to my odd-ball interests, as well as some tying back to my husband's website forum, TrackAddict. I'm just starting out but see this Squidoo thing as a place to combine my love of research and writing. Stay tuned for lots of lens from me!

Kung Fu Panda - Prepare for Awesomeness

Po makes his move to the big screen in what's sure to be the summer's hottest movie - Kung Fu Panda!!! Do you think you can handle all the action? Since it's release in June, reviews have been pouring in with tons of thumbs up for Po and the rest of...

How to Donate Your Hair

There's been a lot of publicity over the past few years related to hair donation, including Hillary Swank's highly public hair cut on Oprah last year. Before you take the plunge and donate your hair, however, make sure you do your homework in choosin...

Soles United: Recycle Your Used Crocs

My baby blue Crocs has been through it all in the two years since I bought them. Traipsing through the sand on a Mexican beach, clomping around my local mall, squelching through the mud in Sudan. As a result, they're starting to look a bit battered a...

How to Boil Eggs

There is no more perfect, more complete food than the egg. (Well, except for dog food, but let's not go there.) It has a great vitamin line-up, it's chock full of yummy fat and protein, and it can be cooked about 10 million ways - including boiled....

Kick It with a Kung Fu Panda Birthday Party!!

It's the hottest movie of the summer and guaranteed to be a favorite choice of birthday party theme for any boy (or girl) in your family. Here's everything you need for a panda-riffic party! Supplies you can buy, invitations you can make yourself an...

Miranda Cosgrove

You might know her as the prim and proper Summer, maybe the devilishly devious Megan, possibly the spunky and slightly spastic Carly. Miranda Cosgrove has evolved tremendously during her short career. From the silver screen to the small screen, Mira...

Jennette McCurdy

While she plays the sidekick right now, Jennette McCurdy appears to have the chops to be a Lucille Ball someday. Her wisecracking Sam on iCarly - the new hit TV show from Nickelodeon - draws some of the biggest laughs thanks to her comic timing and f...

Susans are Great!!

When I was a teenager, I wanted so badly for my name to be anything but Susan. I dreamed of being named something more romantic or exotic. I've come to embrace my "Susan-ness" over the years and am proud to share my name with some truly ama...

SusanVillasLewis

Well, probably for my mom and my husband. But I guess the rest of you won't love me just for existing. So here's more about me, links to my various lenses, thoughts on future lenses and just the general randomness that is Susan. This will forever be...

Abby Cadabby: Fairy In Training

Girl power comes to Sesame Street (finally) with the introduction of Abby Cadabby, an inquisitive 3-year-old fairy-in-training who has just moved to Sesame Street from Fairyside, Queens. Abby brought some needed girly-girl spunk to the show when she...

Count von Count: I Love to Count!

While the Count might have been a one-joke character on Sesame Street, he has managed to play that joke for more than 30 seasons now. From cookies to bats to stars to pigs, nothing escapes his steady numbering. No number too small to bring him joy, n...

Nathan Kress

From the voice behind movie cartoon characters to the kid behind the camera on the new hit TV show iCarly, Nathan has proven himself quite the charmer. His role as Freddie has him as the technical backbone of Carly's webcast and her not-so-secret cru...

Novelty Cycling Jerseys

If the only solid colored cycling jersey that appeals to you is yellow, help has arrived! This shop has novelty cycling jerseys of every stripe (except striped!!), so you're sure to find one to suit your personality. Chose from your favorite heavy me...

Ronald McDonald House: Collect Pop Tabs for a Cause

My 8-year-old friend Daniel collects pop tabs. Which I figured was just a weird enough thing to make sense for an 8-year-old boy to want to collect. (Have you read the Judy Moody books? 8-year-olds collect all kinds of weird things.) Turns out, he w...

The Well-Stocked Craft Closet

then you know all about the importance of stocking up on supplies. Inspiration doesn't want to wait for you to run to the store for glue or ribbons or paper. So what goes into a well-stocked craft closet? Well, some of it will be determined by the a...

Sarah Palin

The politicos are all abuzz over whom John McCain will choose as his running mate for the 2008 presidential elections. Rush Limbaugh is pushing for Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, right down to designing a logo for a McCain-Palin ticket. Nothing is clo...

Kermit the Frog: It's Not Easy Being Green

What's green, fuzzy and loved the world over? Kermit the Frog! His calm under pressure as Sesame Street News reporter and later host for The Muppet Show make him an icon for the mellow. His biggest moments of panic tend to come when he tries to escap...

What To Do In Dallas-Fort Worth

The Dallas-Fort Worth region is huge. Gigantic. Texas-sized, in fact. :-) And as a result, there are loads of things to do here. This is part lensography of all my lenses that have to do with Dallas-Fort Worth area events and part listing of places...

Novelty Cycling Jerseys - Beer Brands

Some of the most interesting novelty cycling jerseys out there are the beer designs. From big brewers like Coors to microbrews like Hazed and Infused, these are some great designs.

Throw An Abby Cadabby Birthday Party!

So you want to throw your daughter an Abby Cadabby birthday party? Well Abby thinks that's just a "magic" idea!! And she's here to help you do it! Below you'll find everything from plates and napkins to cakes and games. All designed to help you have...

Traveling Abroad on a Weak Dollar

Yikes!! Have you priced a trip to Europe lately? Even closer-to-home stand-bys like Canada aren't looking like too much of a bargain thanks to the weakened dollar - unless you want to take a cut-rate trip and who wants to wonder if clean sheets are i...

Small Cross-Stitch Patterns

There are many beautiful cross-stitch patterns out there - intricate, detailed, elaborate, tons of colors. But really - who has time to complete something like that? If your goal is getting your projects done, you've come to the right place! I've col...

Skelanimals: Dead Animals Need Love Too!!

The cutest bags of bones around are the Skelanimals! They're looking for a home with a special someone to love them, but not just anyone. They need people with lots of love who want to snuggle; after all, they're just bones and need help staying warm...

College Cycling Jerseys

If you live and die by your alma mater, here's the place to find a jersey to support your team. From Alabama to Yale, if I could find it, your school is here. Shirts are organized by region of the country, then in alphabetical order within the regio...

Inkheart

In the story of Inkheart, there is a story within a story: Mo originally brought four of Inkheart's characters to life while reading aloud from a novel which is also called Inkheart - Basta, Capricorn, Dustfinger, and Dustfinger's pet marten, Gwin. D...

Adventure & Exploration: First Woman To ...

Since, well, forever, there have been women who longed to walk on the wild side. Some of them managed to do so, climbing the world's highest peaks, traveling where white women (and sometimes men) just didn't go and soaring to new heights. Read below...

Michelle Yeoh

Don't let the Miss Malaysia title or the tiny figure fool you. This beauty has the chops to knock anyone down to size. She's been a star in Asia for years, but first broke into the American consciousness in her turn as Chinese agent Wan Li in the Jam...

Ben Stein

Ok, your first exposure to Ben Stein was likely in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but there's much more to this man than the droll, monotone you heard there. Stein's an economist, policy wonk, cartoon character(s), game show regular, all-around braniac an...

Giant Squids - Class of 2008

We are G-I-A-N-T!! No, that isn't a commentary on our pants size. (Although, collectively, we probably have a pretty big waist.) We're part of the Giant Squids, a super duper special covert elite group of Squids with razor-sharpened beaks and six-bl...

Brendan Fraser

OK, I'll admit it. I'm a sucker for a gorgeous smile. There are certain actors who, when they smile on screen, the entire theater just lights up. And for me, Brendan Fraser would be one of those guys. Yum. He smiles and it's just so warm and approach...

The Fairly Oddparents

I know. I'm supposed to be a grown-up. But I don't have kids, so someone in my household must do their part for supporting cartoon-dom. I volunteered. And high on my list of shows I love is The Fairly Oddparents. I'm not entirely sure why. It may be...

Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament

Return to the days of yore when chivalry reigned and knights roamed the earth! Too much? Well, go visit Medieval Times and you'll get a good dose of over-the-top entertainment. It's the kind of place that seems to take itself seriously, but you can't...

Leslie Feist

Feist who? For real. For the most part, mainstream American has just recently been introduced to Leslie Feist, although most of them probably just refer to her as "that girl in the new iPod Nano commercial" where she sings "1234." But she h...

Andy's Airplanes

Off we go, into the wild blue yonder . . . and you can join in on the fun in the new series Andy's Airplanes, an animated show featuring Andy and his best friend, a ferret name Yaygrr, as they learn about planes and travel around the world. In each...

The Edge Chronicles

The Deepwoods, the Stone Gardens, the Edgewater River. Undertown and Sanctaphrax. Names on a map. Yet behind each name lie a thousand tales - tales that have been recorded in ancient scrolls, tales that have been passed down the generations by word...

Sports: First Woman To ...

Women have been making their mark on the playing field since well before the birth of Christ. The Spartans believed that athletic competition was a key part in developing strong mothers, but as time passed, the attitudes about women in sports changed...

Decorate Your House with Beautiful Vases

Tulips, tulips, tulips. Every year about this time, my favorite flower is in season, and they just tend to jump in my basket. I get them home and I start digging through cabinets trying to find a vase. And why am I digging through cabinets? Why are...

Patio Party Lighting

Planning to spend lots of time in the backyard this summer? Wanting a little more glamor than that stark overhead light is providing? (Mine is attached to a be-ooo-ti-ful white ceiling fan!) There are lots of options for decorative outdoor lighting...

Sesame Street News Video Showcase

Those words and the cheesy little raincloud with the "News Flash" graphic signaled yet another report from the intrepid Kermit the Frog on location. Kermit valiantly interviewed a parade of characters from history, fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Fro...

Jerry Trainor

Jerry Trainor was well known to the tween set long before he made it onto the set of iCarly thanks to his role as Crazy Steve on the hit show Drake & Josh. He is definitely perfectly cast as the wild and crazy guy, able to do a goofy tummy rub withou...

First Woman To ...

It never ceases to amaze me in this day and age to hear that someone is the first woman to do something. But given that we're on the verge of having our first serious female presidential candidate and possibly female president here in the United Stat...

Monsterpiece Theater Video Showcase

Parody is one of the sincerest forms of flattery and one of the funniest forms of comedy. Sesame Street took it to an "art" form on several levels with Monsterpiece Theater. Designed as a play on the PBS classic Masterpiece Theater, it was hosted by...

Get a Grip on That Fat Toothbrush! -- 12 Great Toothbrush Holders

Toothbrushes, they are a changing. Toothbrush holders, not so much. Handles have gotten fatter in an attempt to make it easier, more ergonomic, more stylish, more expensive to get our teeth clean. And that's just with manual toothbrushes! But while...

Gifts for the Butterfly Lover - Jewelry

Butterfly love is a personal thing, so gift your butterfly lover with the most personal of items - jewelry! From necklaces to rings, you're sure to find some great options here. This lens is part of a series highlighting gifts for the butterfly love...

Stylish Cycling Jerseys for Women

Let's face it. There's little fashionable about cycling apparel. It's sleek, yes, but you can basically end up looking like a polyester sausage if you aren't careful. Now, there's not much that can be done about the basic style of the cycling shirt...

Grover: It's Your Lovable Furry Pal!

Hello, it's your cute, furry friend Grover!! From the skies to the restaurant to the stage, this versatile Muppet lights up everyone's day when he shows up on the screen. This fuzzy blue guy is one of hardest working Muppets on Sesame Street and guar...

How To Start a Blog on Blogger

So you've decided to start a blog and have chosen Blogger as your platform. Congratulations! The easy part of over! Just kidding. It's actually quite simple to get started blogging using Blogger. I've been using Blogger to blog with since 2005 and c...

Lower Your Energy Bills

Skyrocketing fuel costs create a lot of shock at the height of winter or summer when heating and cooling needs are greatest. Let’s face it, keeping our home environments comfortable takes a lot of energy, which keeps us cozy, but lightens our w...

Child's Play Charity

Gamers around the world have banded together to bring a little joy to children in hospitals. Since 2003, Child's Play Charity has worked with children's hospitals to develop wish lists of videos games, movies and toys to supply the hospital play area...

Day Out With Thomas | Thomas the Tank Engine | Dallas Railway Museum

Day Out With Thomas is a family event that offers children and their grownups the opportunity to ride with classic storybook friend Thomas the Tank Engine at heritage railroads nationwide. The Day Out With Thomas experience will engineer miles of smi...

The Secret Order Of The Gumm Street Girls

Welcome to Gumm Street in the town of Sherbet. A quiet street in a perfect little town where three little girls live. You'd expect they'd be best of friends, but ... no. These little girls greatly dislike each other and that doesn't seem likely to ch...

Breakfast in Dallas

Dallas has quite the wide variety of restaurant options and I love going out to try new places. Figuring out a good place for breakfast to meet friends or colleagues or clients has always been a bit of a challenge, however, if you want to step out of...

Judy Moody

The first day of third grade puts Judy Moody in a mad-face mood. She just knows everyone will come back from summer vacation with word T-shirts, like "Disney World" or "Jamestown: Home of Pocahontas." All Judy has is a plain old no-words T-shirt. She...

Little Miss Matched - Fun for Your Feet and More!!

I have two nieces who march to a different drummer. The kind who just start tossing on all kinds of weird clothes and call it good. So the first time I heard about Little Miss Matched, I knew I had a winner. Sets of socks and leggings were shipped of...

Gifts for the Butterfly Lover - Car

Help your favorite butterfly lover pimp out their car with some cool accessories. We've got seat covers, key chains, floor mats, you name it! This lens is part of a series with gift ideas for the butterfly lover in your life. Check out the rest for...

Matter of Trust

Matter of Trust creates ecological programs that focus on dealing with manmade and natural surplus and providing eco-education. The idea is that Mother Nature will supply what's needed to take care of issues if we just look around for it. I ran acro...

Dress Like Carly and Sam from iCarly

iCarly has been a huge hit for Nickelodeon. It's your favorite, right? And part of the hit is the cute styles worn by Carly (Miranda Cosgrove) and Sam (Jennette McCurdy) as they head to school and do their webcast. Fortunately, the overall look they...

Green Chile - Yum!!

Having grown up in New Mexico, my husband was stunned to discover you couldn't order green chile on your pizza in Texas. While in NM, almost every restaurant offers something with green chile on it, it's almost unheard of anywhere outside the state....

Cool Ways to Reuse Those Mother's Day Cards

Ah, the card tree (or ring or other display option). So lovely and appropriate during a holiday season like Christmas or Easter, but just a pile of paper once the next month hits. Is there life for the greeting card beyond Christmas or Valentine's Da...

Entertaining in the Great Outdoors (AKA Your Backyard!)

Summertime and the living is easy. But it doesn't have to be cheesy!! Add some style and flair to your backyard affairs. No more paper plates for you! Take your outdoor entertaining up a notch with these great items I've found - everything from snazz...

Scarborough Renaissance Festival | Medieval Festival | Renaissance Fair

Spend the day in the 16th century and have the time of your life at this year's Scarborough Renaissance Festival down in Waxahachie. 2008 dates are April 5 through May 26.

Technology killed the flu bug (and other nasties too!)

Feeling chilled? Running a fever? Achy all over? Yep, sounds like you are among the five to 20 percent of Americans who got hit by the flu. It's a common occurrence during the winter months. We're inside more, in closer proximity to other people. All...

Business: First Woman To ...

Snickers and head pats have often greeted women looking to run businesses. Through family ties, widowhood and pure pluck, women gradually began moving into leadership positions in business. Over time, they've proven to be just as great and inept as m...

Off-Beat Charities: Helping Others in Unusual Ways

I like the unusual, the off-beat, the different. And I noticed that charities I tended to lenses about were fitting that pattern. So I went to look for other lenses that featured unusual charities. I was looking for charities that had unusual ways to...

Gifts for the Butterfly Lover

For me, it's my mother. My entire life, she has been a butterfly lover. Butterflies for her are a symbol for II Corinthians 5:17, which talks about becoming a new creature in Christ. Plus, they're just beautiful. I know it's a challenge sometimes to...

Annie Oakley

When I was 8, I was obsessed with Annie Oakley. I wanted to be Annie Oakley. No really. I wanted to be Annie Oakley. We had a career day at my church, and I went dressed up complete with gun. Of course, given time, I came to understand that this was...

LittleMissMatched Bedding and Furniture

Check out what you can mismatch in your room. LittleMissMatched has an entire line of bedding and accessories for your room, as well as bedroom furniture. I love how the furniture is kept simple with so much white, then splashes of color added to dra...

Bluebonnet Trails Festival | Texas State Flower

The 57th annual salute to the state flower, sponsored by the Ennis Garden Club, includes free maps for self-guided driving tours of about 40 miles of bluebonnet trails along country roads (good for use throughout April). At the festival, expect arts...

Highland Village Balloon Festival | Dallas Events

The annual 'Lion's Club Balloon Festival' is a great Highland Village tradition. This community event is sponsored by the Highland Village Lion's Club and other area Lion's Clubs. This annual festival includes live entertainment, skydivers, arts and...

Canstruction

Across the country, perfectly normal people get caught up in the frenzy of competition and the spirit of design with - cans? Move over other food art. These "canstruction" projects deliver not just amazing creations, but also non-perishable...

Gifts For the Butterfly Lover - Outdoor Decor

Any butterfly lover would want to add a few to their great outdoors - be it front door, back yard or patio. Give them one of the great options you'll find here! This lens is part of a series focusing on gifts for butterfly lovers. Be sure to check o...

NFL Garden Gnomes

They might not be able to go long, but these gnomes are still ready to help you cheer on your team when football season rolls around. Packing a football, these resin guys stand at 11 inches tall and are painted in the official team colors with the lo...

MLB Garden Gnomes

With ball and bat at the ready, these gnomes are prepared for baseball season in your garden. (Maybe they plan to whack some moles for you!) These resin guys stand about 11.5 inches tall and are hand crafted and hand painted with raised and decal log...

Gifts for the Butterfly Lover - Lighting

Looking to bring some light to your butterfly lover? Whether you're looking for some candles, a night light or an elegant lamp, you can find them here. Check out the rest of this series for other great gift ideas for your butterfly lover!

Dozer Day: Playing With the Big Machines

Enjoy a beautiful day and the unique opportunity to drive, ride, and explore construction, military, and emergency vehicles! Best described as a Construction Theme Park, Dozer Days are held in various places around the country to raise money for sch...

Baby Quilt Patterns

Don't you just love baby quilts? They're my favorite projects for several reasons. It's a great opportunity to test out new techniques and blocks because you aren't making a huge commitment. They're small enough to finish quickly so you can move on t...

Big Bird: Yellow, But Not Chicken

Big Bird is a six-year-old child in an eight-foot, two-inch-tall body. Children relate to him because he is a lot like them: full of the excitement of discovery, sometimes makes mistakes, and devastated when things do not go his way. But Big Bird alw...

Kidtoons: G-Rated Movie Fun With Your Kids

Back in 2004, Kidtoons Films hit on a way to make life easier for parents. The movie company teamed up with toy giant Hasbro to develop movies based on the toys that would be appropriate for taking young children. Since then, Kidtoons has expanded t...

Science: First Woman To ...

From math to computers to chemistry to space, women have found ways to break down barriers and make their mark. For years, women dabbled in the science fields thanks to brothers and husbands who appreciated their perspectives. Only in the last 150 ye...

The Mysterious Benedict Society

The newspaper advertisement is addressed to "gifted children looking for special opportunities". Well, that certainly describes Reynie Muldoon! The 11-year-old orphan is one of four children to complete a series of challenging and creative tasks and...

Skelanimals Apparel and Accessories

Stock your closet and vanity full of cute (not creepy) Skelanimals. All your favorites are here - Kit, Dax, Jack, Marcy - on t-shirts, handbags, wallets, chains. I'll be adding as I find more great items. And don't forget to head over to the Skelani...

Toilet Tattoos - Lots of Fun, No Commitment!!

So you want to dress up your toilet, but don't want to commit to a $40 decorative seat? Think every space in your home should get decorated for the holidays? Think those fluffy toilet seat covers have got to go? Have I got something for you! Toilet...

Gifts for the Butterfly Lover - Decor

The butterfly lover in your life is likely to love any of these choices. Give them something to add a small touch to a room like a music box or help them make a big splash with a floor rug. Whatever you choose, they're sure to love it! Butterfly gif...

College Fight Song Ringtones and Wallpapers for Your Cell Phone

Do you occasionally break out with a shout of "Roll Tide"? Kiss your date when your team scores? Start singing along when you hear "Rocky Top"? You're obviously a serious college sports fan and love your team! Time to show that support with a fight...

The Baseball Project

Not sure about you, but I'm thrilled to learn there's music life in baseball beyond "Talking Baseball" and "Centerfield". They've been worn out and I'm OK with not hearing them again for 100 years. So I'm thrilled to introduce you to The Baseball Pr...

Ode to the Vacu Vin

I'll admit I was skeptical when I first read about the Vacu Vin wine saver. Seriously. A pump that was going to take out all the air and make my wine keep for a week? No way. But I broke down. After all, the $15 it would cost me to try it out was a...

NCAA Garden Gnomes

Enter the new garden gnome!! But not just any gnome. These gnomes are here to help you cheer on your favorite college team and mark your yard as belonging to a sports fan. Be you Volunteer, Longhorn or Huskie, there's a gnome for you. Made of resin,...

Nobel Prize: First Woman To ...

The Nobel Prize. One of the premier awards in the world, honoring achievements in five fields. Women have won awards in all five categories, although they’re still waiting for the laureate in economics, which was established in 1968. Thirty-fou...

Arts & Literature: First Woman To ...

No one thinks twice about seeing women on stage or screen or bookshelves or art galleries anymore. But that wasn't always the case, and it's still unusual to see women directing orchestras or plays or museums. So hats off to these women who have brok...

My New Toy - A Black & Decker Hedge Trimmer

I am not a work-in-the-yard person. I don't mind the physical labor, but I never seem to be getting anywhere. And I don't really have a clue what I'm doing. Which is why I stick to ... well, paying people to do my yard. But while my grass is beautif...

Texas Scottish Festival & Highland Games

Let the wee bit of Scot out in you at the 22nd annual Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games. Watch the caber toss, catch the Scottish fiddlers, scarf down some haggis. This three-day festival is a Scottish delight.

Politics: First Woman To ...

The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has raised the role of women in politics back into the spotlight. While there hasn’t been a woman to hold the highest office in the United States before, women have held the top position in other cou...

Dallas Blooms | Dallas Arboretum | Largest Outdoor Floral Festival

Hooray for flowers!! It's time again for the Dallas Blooms festival at the Dallas Arboretum. The 2008 theme is The Star of Texas, and one of the best things about our great state - the incredible beauty of the arboretum - will be highlighted througho...

Hail Caesar! Fiction Set in Ancient Rome

I admit it. Behind my contemporary exterior - the one that loves clean lines and simplicity, that revels in new technology, that can't live without a modern bathroom - beats a heart passionate about ancient Rome. From the birth of the republic to th...

Traders Village | Grand Prairie Texas | Dallas-Area Festivals

Traders Village is centrally located in Grand Prairie - halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth. The grounds play host to a huge flea market and a series of festivals, one of the most unique being a Native American celebration and pow wow.

The Invisible Man

So would you want to be invisible? What would you do if you were? What would you be willing to sacrifice to make it happen? The modern invisible man has its roots in H.G. Wells' story from 1897, but man has been telling stories of of invisibility si...

NFL Furniture: Watch the Game in Comfy Style!!

Whether you call it a sofa or a couch or a divan, you can show just how much you love your favorite NFL football team with one of these beauties. Pair it with a recliner and ottoman or just snag the sofa.

Susan's Testing Lens

If you landed on this lens, sorry. It's not meant for you. It's just for me. Testing out stuff, creating links, etc. I'm using it to try to do some of the advanced HTML stuff from some of the more techno-savvy lensmasters to see what it looks like be...

Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival

17th edition of one of the best art and music festivals in the area. The Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival began in 1993 as a small community event held in a local park in northeast Richardson, Texas. In just a few years, the festival has grown to be...

Dallas CityArts Festival

Head on down to the arts district for the city's annual celebration of the varied arts available in Dallas. Check out the art museums for free, chomp on some carny food and listen to great bands play on the various stages. (Don't forget to come by t...

Plano Balloon Festival

Join the more than 70,000 people expected to show up this year for one of the biggest balloon festivals in Texas! The EDS Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival, a spectacular three-day event beginning at 4 p.m. Friday, September 19, will provide spect...

Main Street Arts Festival | Fort Worth Arts Festival | Fort Worth, Texas

The Southwest's largest, four-day visual arts and entertainment festival, four days of fine art, food, fun and festivities! Rated as the Number 1 Arts Festival in Texas, the 9th largest Arts Festival in the country as rated by the Harris List and the...

Taste Addison | Addison Texas | Food & Music Festivals

More than 60,000 people are expected for this three-day festival highlighting all the great restaurants to be found in Addison.

Dallas Wine & Food Festival | Wine Tastings | Dallas Events

The annual event includes chef demos, food and wine tastings, seminars and entertaining tips. Runs April 23-27 this year. The annual Dallas Wine and Food Festival offers five days of exquisite meals, fine wines and tastings at various venues around...

National Polka Festival | Ennis Texas | Polka Music

42nd Annual National Polka Festival celebrating Czech heritage in Ennis, Texas Held annually on Memorial Day Weekend, the National Polka Festival offers an abundance of activities to be enjoyed by the entire family in the small town of Ennis, just s...

Artfest | Dallas Festivals | Fair Park Events

Signature fundraising event for The 500 Inc. in the Dallas area. Returns to Fair Park where it started more than 30 years. For 39 years, ARTFEST has featured hundreds of artists from around the country, food, entertainment, and a children's interact...

Dallas Roars | The Dallas Zoo | Events at the Zoo

Welcome to Dallas Roars! Bring the family and enjoy six weekends of roaring good fun featuring special Dallas Roars! children's activities and entertainment. Now in its third year, the Dallas Zoo's annual festival includes children's activities, ente...

Really Bad Singing

Ah, music soothes the savage beast ... or possibly gives him a headache if he has to listen to some of this stuff! I sing in the Women's Chorus of Dallas and our director is constantly admonishing us to "Sing Pretty!" There seem to be some...

Deep Ellum Arts Festival | Deep Ellum | Dallas Festivals

Biggest weekend of the Year for the Deep Ellum Entertainment District. The Deep Ellum Arts Festival exemplifies everything that makes this eclectic area rock. April 4-6. 2008.

Homemade Jamz Blues Band

Three siblings, a passion for blues music and the resounding cheers of the blues community - they all add up to the Homemade Jamz Blues Band. Made up of brothers Ryan and Kyle and their sister Taya on the drums, this trio is poised to take over the b...

AFI Dallas International Film Festival

Time for the AFI Dallas 2008 International Film Festival!! The stars will be hitting the town as various indie films make their world premieres and others are screened for the first time in the U.S. There are 15 films on the list for 2008 for screeni...

Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell's distinctive drawing style has proven over the years to be the perfect pairing for fantastical stories, political foibles and social commentary. I was first introduced to him via The Edge Chronicles books, which just really came to lif...

DFW Summer Balloon Classic

The Summer Balloon Classic is an aviation extravaganza featuring 4 Hot Air Balloon launches with 50 magnificent, colorful balloons including special shapes that only the mind can imagine. Beautiful mass ascensions followed by top ranked competitors f...

All People Are Not Created Equal

When everyone's special, no one is. I admit it. I'm an overachiever. A performance junkie. A gold star collector. So it's easy to understand why it chaps my hide (and a few other body parts) that in the name of equality and ego and self-esteem, we h...

Little Quack

Join Little Quack and his siblings for life in the pond - learning to swim, making new friends, enjoying bathtime and counting. These delightfully simple stories are sure to become favorites of any toddler you read them to.

Dallas International Guitar Festival & Musicfest | Dallas Music Events

The Dallas International Music Festival celebrates 30 years of bringing musicians, guitar makers, collectors, celebrities and music enthusiasts.

Real. Texas. Festival.

Three days of country music and cowboy fun in Mesquite, the Real. Texas. Festival. includes live country music, a marketplace featuring made-in-Texas arts and crafts, children's activities, Old West shootout re-enactments and a car show. It's three d...

Mesquite Championship Rodeo | Dallas Events

Head out to Mesquite for some stereotypical Texas fun at the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. Weekly events include bareback riding, bull riding, chuckwagon races, cowboy poker, cowgirl barrel racing, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, team roping and...

FLIGHT or INVISIBILITY

BECOME INVISIBLE VS. ABLE TO FLY In the first episode of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman", Lois asks Clark what his choice of superpower would be: invisibility or flight. Clark bemusedly answers that he'd rather be able to fly, while Lo...

Butterfly Festival | Dallas Events

Attendees will have the opportunity to explore a 600 square foot landscaped mesh tent populated with hundreds of individual Texas butterflies. Educational seminars detailing the life cycles of the different butterflies will be hosted by butterfly exp...

Quilt Celebration | Dallas Quilt Show | Quilters Guild of Dallas

Quilt Celebration is an annual quilt show put on by the Quilt Guild of Dallas. This year's theme is Timeless Traditions, which should lead to some interesting interpretations of classics such as the log cabin, flying geese and vine borders. It runs M...

Stenciling How-To: Turning One Stencil into Many

Ah, the well-coordinated room, where the fabrics work with the walls which blend with the accessories in one big happy family. But how do you get such great teamwork from one little stencil? Some simple manipulation of a basic stencil can result in a...

Music for a Monday

For a day no one likes, there certainly is a lot of music related to it! I started hunting around for things having to do with Monday and got so intrigued with just the music that it became its own lens. With a few notable exceptions, there's probabl...