Posted in art, poetry, righteous on July 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Because it’s useful to remember just how much ass we can kick, and in how many different ways, when we choose to:
In my next life, I’ll be able to dance like that.
What I really, really love about this video is at 2:47, where she gives a little stomp, [...]
Posted in art, crafts, disasters, genius, knitting on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the blogs I follow is the terrific I Like, a design and coolness kind of blog which first caught my attention with its great pictures of British tearooms and cafes in decline, and its love for Tunnock’s. Now she’s hosting a Tweetcret Santa.
I have Secret Santa trauma. Once upon a time, I went into [...]
Posted in art, books, recipes on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tuxedo Boy is on a Moomin kick–we re-read Moominland Midwinter as his bedtime book recently, and then had to rummage through every bookcase in the house collecting the rest of the Moomin tales for his delectation. So when he came across this lovely site, Axis of Aevil, with its architecturally accurate gingerbread Moominhouse, the fate of my [...]
Posted in art, genius on October 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I had to travel earlier this week for work. Lucky me, that meant a trip to the Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon, one of earth’s sacred places.
Professor Tono, designer of the garden, wrote that it provides “secluded leisure, rest, repose, meditation, and sentimental
pleasure . . .”
It’s true. But more than that, after a little while [...]
Posted in art, crafts, genius on October 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This Renaissance photograph is my entry in Mochimochi Land’s photo contest. She designed Bob (he’s the blue guy) and several other adorable animals, and she’s offering a prize for the best photo of one of her patterns. Other people seem to be leaning toward the cute, rather than the allusive.
I’m quite certain my artless homage to Georges [...]
Posted in Cool, Craft, art, knitting, teeny-tiny on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
pear factory
Originally uploaded by Loobylu
Piecework magazine is sponsoring an Excellence in Needlework pincushion competition, with a $500 prize. Tell me you’re not dying to come up with the Platonic ideal of pincushionery and scoop that magic cash–not to mention the exhibition in the National NeedleArts Association conference, and the photospread in Piecework. The adorable pincushions [...]
Posted in art, disasters, nerdalicious, romance on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So here’s the first installment of the Encyclopedia of Me meme (special vowels only edition): three things beginning with A.
Automata: I have always been creeped out by things that move when they shouldn’t. Ex.: the clown doll in the first Poltergeist movie (although in all fairness, that’s at least partly clown-related). Also, fortune-telling mannequins in [...]
Posted in art, crafts, teeny-tiny on June 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Wallet Shrines
Originally uploaded by melynda.huskey
This is what they look like opened up. If I were smarter, I’d know how to get more than one picture into a post, but I’m not. Feel free to help me, clever- boots readers!
Posted in art, crafts, genius, teeny-tiny on June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wallet ShrinesOriginally uploaded by melynda.huskey
Among the many temptations I have to spend all my time hogging the computer so that poor Tuxedo Boy can’t download any dodos for his Zoo Tycoon game is CraftyPod, where truly creative, generous people rain down coolness on the likes of me.
Hence, Wallet Shrines. Here’s the tutorial at Craftypod, which [...]
Posted in art on May 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This may justify the existence of You Tube (about which I’ve been dubious for a long time).
Via the always refreshing AllSorts
New York is exactly like it ought to be–crowded, dirty, hot, amazing. We ate barbeque last night, and it was superb. The B-52s stayed in our hotel, and left an autographed [...]
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