Growth
My little Echeveria succulent is growing flowers! You know what that means…
Spring has sprung!
Wire Jewelry Lessons: Big S-Clasp Tutorial
Here is a wonderful tutorial I found for making a lovely, textured S-hook clasp from Wire Jewelry Lessons.
Happy New Year!
It’s wet and rainy here. We got some hail, a tiny bit of snow. Not enough to make us happy, but it’s snowing!
I can’t believe how quickly 2009 has gone by. So many things have happened this year, not all of them good, not all of them bad. It was a good year.
I am thankful for many things at this moment and I am hopeful that 2010 will be better.
I want to thank all of you who have supported me and my endeavours and wish you all the very best in the new year.
Reflected Rain by jared in kansas
We’ll be staying in tonight , no chance of us hanging out outside.
I hope that you all have a safe and happy New Years Eve!!
Happy Christmas!
From me to all of you.
Handmade Christmas
Christmas in our house involves a lot of handmade items. So, when the husband asked if he could use some of our plain glass ornaments to make some super special colour changing LED ornaments, I said, “hells yeah!”.
It’s not easy to get a photo of something that changes colour.
Well, I suppose we could have just videotaped it. But, we didn’t.
My husband is cooler than yours. 
Mary and Max
… is the cutest movie I’ve seen in a very long time.
I have a huge appreciation for all the work that goes into making a movie like this.
Mary and Max is a 92 minute Australian ‘clayography’ stopmotion film that took almost 5 years from script to screen to make. Each of the six animators on average created 4 seconds a day!
Max (my favourite Atheist) is played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mary is played by Toni Collette. There are plenty of other big names in this movie too.
Watch the trailer here:
Some other facts about the movie…
- 133 separate sets were created for the film
- 475 miniature props were made, BY HAND!
- 394 individual pupils were hand punched then had a white, sparkly dot painted on them
- 147 tailor made costumes were created
- 808 miniature Earl Grey tea bag boxes were hand cut, folded, glued, wrapped and airbrushed.
- 12 litres of water based sex lube were needed to create everything from tears to a surging jungle river.
Mary and Max is innocent but not naive, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, where babies come from , obesity, religious difference, agoraphobia and much, MUCH more.
I highly recommend it.
I didn’t kill ‘em!
We’ve had these for about a month now and they’re still alive!
Rachel -1, Mother Nature – 0
I am a slacker
My poor little blog has been neglected. I don’t know if anyone actually reads this, feel free to let me know if you do, but I figured I should post something.
I took a vacation a few weeks ago, then had some personal things to deal with… and now I’m just finding it difficult to get back into the swing of things.
I will make it happen though. Soon.
edit: Yep, exactly one month since my last post. Disgraceful!
Where would YOU rather go?
I recently got word that I’ll be going home (my other home, in Ca) soon. (!!!!:D) I hate flying, but I love to travel.
I thought I would prepare myself by looking at landings on YouTube. haha
Where would you rather fly into?
Grey LA?
Or Green Dublin International?
It’s a tough call.
