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Another one for Hamels. Quilted with Morning Glory

quilt monday

I made this quilt for Jim's dad and step-mom when they got married 5 yrs ago. Happy anniversary!

To the New Moon set today to get some daytime shots. And how cool it was. I am not ashamed or embarrassed to admit that I may have squealed like a tween. And more than once.

Bella's house. It isn't even a real house; just a complete shell. The chimney is actually made out of styrofoam

The telephone/utility poles are also fake

And fake trees

The cars. I hope they remember to change Charlie's license plate to a WA state one lol

Bella's truck(one is a stunt double?? lol) And Bella and Jacob's motorcycles

We actually made it to these (fake) trees Friday night. Now we understand why security was so upset; we were super close lol!

View from infront of the trees we got too Friday night. Yup, we were pretty close

And where too next? How about Jacob's house? It was a fair drive away but we figured we were going for it. And so glad we did.

Rumour has it that this is *THE* meadow

What a great day

we heard wolves

Yes, I am a Twilighter. And with filming for New Moon happening around Vancouver for the past 6 weeks, when some friends and I were given a tip where some filming was happening last night, we literally bolted for the car cameras in hand

We were disappointed when the road we discovered we needed was closed for construction. Was it real construction??(we were told the roads had all been closed by the city for filming) We did end up wandering up to see the construction and yup, it was real construction lol

Not to be discouraged, I reprogrammed our trusty GPS and off we went to find the other end of the street. While driving through what seemed like the middle of no where, Jill yelled that she could see lights. And WOW those lights were bright; and on cranes taller than the trees. We were in the general area, was this it?

And I have to make a comment here. When we got home last night, I popped my card into the computer to look at my 100+ pictures I shot and what do you think happened? My computer froze during downloading and not a single picture was saved. AHHHHHHH! So I've stolen these pictures from Jill and Cindy.

We hiked through a field(thankfully it wasn't a cow field so no *presents* left behind lol) We could see lots of trailers and more lights. And the best part??? We could hear wolves. Yes, wolveS-more than one. What we had read online before we headed to the set, the big break up scene between Bella/Edward was being filmed. Hearing the wolves literally sent chills up and down my spine. How many more days until the movie??(208 lol!!)

Than out of the bushes, mr security guard. He was polite, he told us it was a closed set. Couldn't say what they were filming and asked if we could leave. I debated about taking a picture of him and one of the all the trailers behind him but than a *very* cranky guy jumped out of the bush and told us that we were trespassing and could be arrested. I'm thinking he was a tad tired of chasing people away lol

So we did leave; but our plan was to find other fans. The location of the filming had been written up in this city's local paper on Friday; surely there was more people.

We drove to the next block to drive under where they were filming and the lights! I don't' understand why there weren't more people there taking pictures. We found the dirt road they had made to drag in all the trailers and equipment. I should point out that this house they were filming at, it was made just for the movie and it is a shell of a house. It was moved into this location during the week and filming is occurring there until the 30th. At least that is what the road closed sign told us lol.

Driving around the block, we did discover fans huddle on blankets patiently waiting. Apparently the security guard at that checkpoint was really mean, we didn't wander up to find out lol. We got talking to a TwilightDad, he drove his wife and daughter down from Kelowna for the weekend to see filming, how cool is that?? He said that they were able to drive past the house during the day so we might make a trip out there again during filming. I would love to see the house!

snack saturday

Glazed Chocolate Sour Cream Cake

1 pkg. (2-layer size) devil's food cake mix
1-1/4 cups sour cream, divided
3 Tbsp. Instant Coffee, divided
1 Tbsp. hot water
1 pkg. (8 squares) Semi-Sweet Chocolate
4 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
1 cup thawed Whipped Topping
1 cup each: halved strawberries and whole raspberries

GREASE and flour 2 (9-inch) round cake pans. Cover bottoms of pans with parchment paper; set aside. Prepare cake batter as directed on pkg., substituting 1 cup of the sour cream for all of the water. Stir in 2 Tbsp. of the instant coffee granules. Pour evenly into prepared pans. Bake as directed on pkg.; cool 10 min. Remove layers from pans to wire racks. Immediately remove parchment paper. Cool completely.

DISSOLVE remaining 1 Tbsp. instant coffee granules in hot water; set aside. Microwave chocolate and butter in medium microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 to 2 min. or until chocolate is almost melted. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Add dissolved coffee and remaining 1/4 cup sour cream; mix well.

REMOVE 1/3 cup of the chocolate mixture; place in medium bowl. Add whipped topping; stir with wire whisk until well blended. Place 1 of the cake layers on serving plate. Spread with the whipped topping mixture; cover with remaining cake layer. Pour remaining warm chocolate glaze over top of cake, allowing it to drip down side of cake. Top with berries. Refrigerate 30 min. or until glaze is set. Store in refrigerator.