YEARLY TRADITION - Watching the Academy Awards

Here I am, watching the Academy Awards, which I do every year at this time.  As I have mentioned in a previous post, I really want Colin Firth to win for "The King's Speech".  Otherwise, I don't really care who wins.  I just like to watch all the movie stars!  At the same time I am working on making my first really nice Vintage paper bag Mini- Album.  I have been watching a series of videos on You Tube by Kathy from Paper Phenomenon, and she is so talented.  I am trying to make an album like she does, but so far I've spent all my time undoing things I've already glued down because I've done it upside down or backwards.  I don't know how she keeps everything straight!!  Flaps going here and gussets going there.  I got so confused, I've wasted at least three of my paper bags and gobs of paper from my K & Co. stack.  However, I shall keep trying.  I'll take a picture and show you what I have so far.  I haven't put the back or front on yet, though.

The King's Speech

Today's post is to give a "plug" to a movie I went to yesterday - "The King's Speech" starring Colin Firth of "Bridget Jones' Diary" and "Mama Mia" fame.  He is an absolutely wonderful actor, and has been nominated for an academy award for this film.  In fact the movie has 12 Academy Award nominations in all!  I was blown away at how good he is in this film, playing Queen Elizabeth II's father, King George VI, who inherited the throne when his brother abdicated to marry the twice divorced American commoner Wallis Simpson - quite the scandal at the time.  The plot is simple.  This man stutters (or "bloody well stammers") as he calls it, and his wife (the recently deceased Queen Mum, Elizabeth's mother) hires a very unusual man, played by Geoffrey Rush, to be his speech therapist.  It is the relationship between these two men that is the story, and it couldn't be better!  I learned quite a bit about the royal family in the early years, and also about a king about whom very little is written.  You must go see it!  That's all I'm going to say about that.