The second part of that title first!   Sain and I had a movie marathon recently which included a movie called The Losers.  It is the most awesome movie I’ve seen in awhile!  I don’t know why we haven’t heard of this movie at all – it’s got an A-Team like feel and manages to balance the action with the cheese.  And it’s a comic series under DC – I’m not excited about that purely because it’s a comic series but because I think movies based on comics have the potential of having the most amazing character development.  And this movie did that   For those of you who are more plot driven – it’s got the basic comic/action movie plot line but I find it forgivable in trade for some really hilarious moments and cool action scenes…also the best application of the song Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey I’ve seen.

ok! the first part of this post’s title

So awhile back a buddy with super sharp eyes found these jars while we were all walking around in Jo-Ann’s :

They're the smallest jars I've ever tried to squeeze stars into - about 4.5 inches tall

I had originally called them ‘apothecary’ star jars but now I realize that apothecary jars have quite a distinct look about them.  These bottles still remind me of those small vials and jars of mysterious healing liquids you’d see on the shelves in a physician’s establishment way back when.  Anywho!  Turns out the star paper I had were way too big to fit down the neck of the bottles so I ended up downsizing to these little guys:

Luckily, I had the perfect size of paper on hand and I just needed to cut them into stripes

I gotta admit that metallic paper are the hardest to fold for stars and after folding all those stars, I felt like I developed the finger dexterity required to diffuse a bomb   However, the colors turned out pretty well – especially with the bottle patterns.

I think my favorite is the one in the middle

I was so excited with the results I went back and bought more bottles   So maybe the next post you’ll see is my army of mini-star jars   And to illustrate the size of the stars I thought I’d take an obligatory use-a-coin-as-a-size-comparison photo

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