| harry potter - luna takes it! |
[Jul. 19th, 2009|04:05 pm] |
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http://shanalogic.com/wordpress/?p=2948 
I saw the harry potter movie this past wednesday- The theatre was totally sold out:-)
I really liked it! There was a LOT more romance which I’ve heard a few people complain about but I found the dating stuff super fun–I loved Ron’s “girlfriend” who was overly obsessed with him, so funny!
But, my favorite people were Snape as usual (I SO have an “ugly man” crush on him and have since the first movie:-) and Luna lovegood. Her comedic timing was perfect and she was pretty much the most upbeat part of the movie.
Everyone in the theatre giggled when she showed up in a lion suit like it was no big deal:-)
OMG I can’t wait for Ron and Hermoine to _______ in the next movie (i won’t give it away even though I’m sure 90% of you already know:-) |
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| One Peek from Renegade Craft Fair |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|10:04 pm] |
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There should be some fun photos from Day 1 of Renegade. I also have some funny video clips, but I am too tired to pull anything off my camera. I basically got no sleep last night!! This is from Hairy’s iPhone:
More later: me spitting out a turkey sandwich, Manda waxing philosophically about crochet, Amy Shrinkle and I jumping in the air looking classy.
Stay tuned!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/18/one-peek-from-renegade-craft-fair/ |
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| souvenirs from the last leg of our trip |
[Jul. 19th, 2009|01:36 am] |
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http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/?p=1212 
I didn’t get to take any photos today, and thought I would skip posting…but then I remembered a few photos I took of souvenirs! They are all stuff we bought on the drive home, so the last day. We also have a Monster Museum tee, Piggly Wiggly t-shirt, dog bowl, more fabric, shells, shells, and shells.
The top photo is the goods from Fancy Gap Fabric and Pottery Outlet. Fabric which was all 3.99 a yard, plastic/acrylic quilt block shapes which were .29 each, metal embroidery hoops (you may recall my leaving behind remorse-so I was happy to find these), beads, top hats, etc. Not pictured is the plastic mushrooms I got (and already blogged about), more ribbon, and some cute small plastic animals + deer.
The bottom photo is all the goodies we bought at South of The Border. Tanks, a smoking grenade, poppers, sparklers. We go for the mild stuff. A sticker and the fan pull, which will be added to our Christmas decorations.
Today has been a day of sewing upon sewing. I have a show coming up next month with my good pals Jenny Harada, and Spooky Daddy. You might remember our previous trio show Forest Party from 2008. Well the new show is going to be at Genuine Artikle in New York, on August 22nd. I will post much more about it as the date gets closer.
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| Inspiring Yourself Toward Cuteness & Relaxation! |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|05:19 pm] |
I so feel the exact opposite of this picture right now!!! Deep breath!
Off to do a zillion things!!!!!!
(Adorable strawberry playsuit by SewOeno. It’s completely awesome, but my thighs are still a little fat for it to be seen in public. Tight elastic = not cute. Is it bad to use clothing as inspiration for exercise….??)
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/17/inspiring-yourself-toward-cuteness-relaxation/ |
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| Summer Cleaning..and reading…and weeding |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|10:32 pm] |
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http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/?p=1211 
Since we have been staying at home lately (we did sneak out to see the new Harry Potter yesterday woo!) I’ve been doing a lot of cleaning, moving things around, tidying, etc. I have this love for white plates, especially ones with unusual edging. I seem to have acquired quite the collection without even realizing it. All purchases second-hand of course.
There has also been a lot of reading going on. Howl’s Moving Castle which I bought for the drive to SC. My 13 yr old finished it during day one of the drive, and then once we got home I read it in about two nights. It is really good and how now prompted a hunt for more of her books. Material Obsession has me very inspired to try to branch out a bit more with quilts, we shall see. This Is For You is of course just beautiful, Tom bought it for me a few weeks ago…and Wonderland another gift from Tom. It follows the story of MaryAnn and makes a fun edition to our Alice books.
It has been raining all day long, but stopped a few hours ago so I went out and weeded all the flower beds, and garden. The garden barely needed any weeding and I feel like I owe that to Katie’s parent’s garden. They have a huge garden which they mulch with grass clippings, and I just never thought about doing that. I did it a few weeks ago and the garden hasn’t needed much weeding since. Our rainbow chard on the other hand is gone. Something came and ate every last bit of it. We had about 9 bunches growing, and this is what they all look like now.
We have harvested green beans and one cucumber so far. We were late in planting our seeds, so I am not expecting too much greatness, but it is still fun no matter what we get.
B’s foot is healing nicely. We had a check up at the doctors today, but it will be ten more days before the stitches come out. He can however now begin to walk using his heel, and that is such a relief. |
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| New Arrivals - Paper never looked so cute! |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|02:04 am] |
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http://shanalogic.com/wordpress/?p=2937 
Recipe Cards - Bunnies & Squirrels
(I can barely cook but now I can see a reason why I totally should!)
NEW Fairy in stock!
Luke Feldman Limited Edition Print - Beezel
NEW Fairy in stock!
Luke Feldman Limited Edition Print - Blossom
Hummingbird To Do List Notepad
(eco-friendly: made with recycled paper!) |
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| Nesting |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|02:30 am] |
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http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/?p=1210 
If you are in the NYC area I hope you will consider coming out to this event. I will be there (and my nesting dolls too) Plus I will also have a table of goodies for sale. You can click on the photo to see it larger.
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| Jack Loves Modern Art |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|04:51 pm] |
First Visit to Art Museum, July 2009, Casio EX-S10
Disclaimer: I absolutely adore Jackson and I consider myself quite fortunate to be his mother but sometimes…
Yesterday was not the best “Mommy” day. Jackson was fussing, crying, teething and, what felt like, a million other bad “ing” words. He’s such an easy baby for the most part that when he’s not…well, it kinda hits me like a brick. My silly visions of having an adorable baby playing quitely at the feet of my sewing machine haven’t come true (except for the adorable part!) and my unfair efforts at trying to “do it all” only frustrate us more. Not fair to Jackson and a dangerous trap for me.
Yesterday I had plans. Things I wanted to get done. Jackson just had one thing on his agenda…get carried around. Unfortunately, his people didn’t communicate well with my people and we had a bit of a scheduling conflict. I tried hard to make it work in the morning but by noon (when Jim comes home for lunch), I was exhausted. Admitting defeat, we took off to explore downtown El Paso, Cafe Mayapan and El Paso Museum of Art (where Jackson was quite fond of modern art.)
I saw an episode of Oprah a couple months ago (heh, never thought I would be quoting the Oprah) where mothers were telling the dirty side of mothering and one woman said something like “You always love your children but you may not always love being a mother.” I heard that and it rang so clear and true that I couldn’t help the tears welling up in my eyes. It was so nice to hear someone say that it was ok to have off days and even though, at that moment, you’re not absolutely head over heels crazy about your wailing child…it’s ok.
I always thought, deep down inside, that I would be a great mother. I have a pretty strong nurturing instinct, get along great with kids and have had the greatest instructor on unconditional love, my mother. So when Jackson came along and I found myself in moments when I wasn’t being the best mother I knew I could be, I felt absolutely terrible. Jackson is just a sweet tiny little baby. He deserves a mother with endless patience, plentiful kisses and all the other great mothering traits everyone else seems to have. Definitely not one who sometimes rolls her eyes when he cries or purposely latches him on just so that she can update her blog. *shame*
So, yeah, sometimes there are bad days when I wonder what I’ve done to my life, if maybe this wasn’t what I was meant for. But then Jackson will reach out to me for the first time or giggle uncontrollably when I walk into a room and I know. I just know…
That this crazy, intense, eternal love I have for him is enough. It will carry me up and above the learning curve to being a good mother.
 Originally published at Indie Shopper. You can comment here or there. |
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| part time job? |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|10:26 am] |
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anyone know of any part time jobs available? i need something ASAP. |
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| Bird Buddy... |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|09:38 am] |
BIRD ALERT...
7:30am July 17, 2009
I was walking to work (about 3/4 of the way there) and was passing by a chainlink fence when I noticed that the little bird sitting on it had not flown away! (My walk is always plentiful with skittish sparrows and this guy was about sparrow sized.) I would have just moseyed on by but I noticed he (I don't really know if it was a boy or a girl, 'he' seems easy) was looking right at me!
I stopped, took out my headphones and said hello. He blinked his little eyes (which were surrounded by a handsome mask of black) at me, opened up his beak and made that super-needy baby bird scream that can only be translated to "BREAKFAST!!!" I took a closer look and noticed that although his wings looked grown-up enough, the rest of him (a couple different shades of lightish grey) was pretty puffy/downy baby-looking. I peeked around back and saw shortish stumpy tail feathers with yellow tips! I couldn't see anything wrong with him and since he was on the TOP of a fence I figured he could fly. He demanded breakfast again and I stood and chatted a bit "Are you ok? Can you fly? Would you like a piece of the bagel I have in my bag?" I was standing VERY close to the fence already but I put my finger out to see if he would fly away. He did not. I placed my finger on the fence, next to his foot, he stretched out one of his little claws and placed it on top of my finger.
We held hands for a while while I talked to him and once or twice he bellowed at me again. (I could practically see right down into his stomach! Such a big mouth!) I gingerly reached up with my finger and he let me pet his breast and seemed to at least 'not mind' if not enjoy it.
Just as I was getting a little worried that maybe he WAS injured and as I was weighing my options of skipping work and taking him home, he started to look around. He looked behind him and up to the tree a few feet away.
"Yeah," I said, "go for it, show me you can fly please." And he took off, up in to the branches. The leaves are huge so I lost him quickly but I heard him call down that he was cool and I should probably get to work or I was going to be late.
It made my day.
(adapted from an email sent to fellow bird nerds ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) boygirlparty and day_lab )
POST VISIT RESEARCH RESULTS:
I think he was either an older YOUNG Cedar Waxwing or Bohemian Waxwing (since wiki says that the very young Cedar's don't yet have the black Zorro mask)...
Cedar:
Bohemian:
Listen to this about the Cedar Waxwings!
Feeding: "...When the end of a twig holds a supply of berries that only one bird at a time can reach, members of a flock may line up along the twig and pass berries beak to beak down the line so that each bird gets a chance to eat."
Courting: "...During courtship the male and female will sit together and pass small objects back and forth, such as flower petals or an insect."
BE STILL MY FLUTTERY HEART! So cute. New addition to list of favorite birdies.
xo
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[Jul. 17th, 2009|09:35 am] |
more papercut!
this was based off of a couple drawings i did, and pictures i took at the georgia aquarium a few months ago. it came out almost exactly the way i had hoped. i planned it out quite a bit more than the previous ones, and cut out all the negative space instead of cutting out the positive space.
im already planning another one, and got a large pad of tracing paper and a thicker, softer, mechanical pencil to help. it is going to be about bikes. i also want to do one with different kinds of birds. my other plan is to try to adapt this to work for block prints. i wish i could still silkscreen easily, because these would be easy and awesome as rubylith prints!
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| ChanBurger Tee |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|11:09 pm] |
Preview of the Twinkie ChanBurger tee! I have to wait to affix the lettuce bows, and I’m not quite sure yet how I want to attach them, be it sewn on permanently, or pinned with safety pins for removal.
Sometimes when I have t-shirts with pins, I just don’t put the pins back on. But if people didn’t put the bows back on, their burger would be lettuce-less and naked!!!!
If I sew them in, I think it will all lay more neatly, but then people would DEFINITELY have to handwash their tee, and people probably think that is a pain in the rear, although, I have bought t-shirts that said dry clean only!
Some people on Twitter suggested snaps. I like that idea, but (a) I don’t really have time to sew on 40 snaps before Saturday, and (b) I’m afraid you’d be able to see the snap behind the bow.
I’ll keep thinking on it and decide tomorrow!
Here is a salad cowl I made for the fair. There is a light green one and a dark green one. Wish I had time to make more, but now I have to focus on booth design and promotional materials!
I got my hair cut and colored today at Dekko and while Jules was twirling my hair and making it big, she said, “I’m making you look like a crazy cow! Don’t Twitter this!!” HAhaha! Okay, I HAD TO MENTION IT!!!
Uh, this is what I look like now.
Sometimes when you are busy, you just need to get all the hair out of your face and put on your pajama pants.
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/16/chanburger-tee/ |
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| DRAWsome! |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|04:44 pm] |
So, i was just thinking about projects I would like to start, and I was thinking about when people contact me for custom drawings/paintings and I'm not always able to take them, so I was thinking about starting a custom drawing project now that i have a little time but don't want to work on any longterm assignments...so I came up with:
DRAWsome!
Results to follow... |
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| Butterfly |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|06:06 pm] |
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
- Chuang Tzu
Originally published at Indie Shopper. You can comment here or there. |
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| projects… |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|08:43 pm] |
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http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/?p=1209 
Thank you all so much for all the well wishes for B and his little foot. He is doing really great and being quite the trooper considering being confined to sitting/laying down. I thought I should post something a little more cheerful :)
Some party ghosts-in paper and I am trying to make a couple of hand puppets. On Tom’s birthday when we were at the Christmas Museum we spotted these amazing puppets, and I thought I would try and make a few. Maybe you can tell but two of them will be Pinocchio! They are just for fun/gifts, and will probably take me awhile still to finish because I have some deadline projects coming up…but I thought I would share them so far.
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