dumb Bunny meets little Bean

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Nopalito

I've been eating a lot of mexican pork belly dishes recently. Today was no exception other than the fact that i'm in another state. Full, tired, content. And it's warm. It's never warm when I visit Amy, even in the summer let alone February-March. Plans for the next few days: eat, knit, read, drink tea... outside.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Bright Star

The snow has been getting me down. And I just feel unsettled. But boy did I love this. Achingly beautiful and sad. Maybe its the (silly) upcoming "holiday" and hormones-but I haven't been so haunted and cried so much at a movie since Nobody Knows (and children-really cute Japanese children-die it that).

Am I getting soft or what?

Sidenote: making special pretzels tonight. Maybe will post picture if I can figure out my new phone.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Thanks google

Sometimes you receive helpful nudges from strange places. Like google's tribute to Rockwell today. "Little Spooners" was just the pick-me-up I needed. Hope it is for you too.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Snowed--Again

I feel slightly unhinged recently. I wanted to yell at the fact that there was snow on the ground today.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Handcrafted Earrings

Thanks lB for the year of cuteness! It's so kawaii! =) Hope you and your boy are sleeping well.

My Noisebridge-affiliated art has expanded. We're now working on two projects - the pulse choker (convertible to bra) that will light up in different patterns in time to the wearer's heart beat and a wearable breathalyzer armband (convertible to necklace). The convertible versions demarcated in parentheses will be jazzed up and chic, i.e. all electronics will be hidden with no black boxes peeking through. It's become much easier to camouflage circuits now that we've found the sewable circuits Aniomagic offers!

Last week my collaborator built the truth wristband kit, which has provided tons of fun. There were a couple mirrored pieces of plastic shaped like lightning bolts that were extraneous from the kit. We thought that they'd make for cool earrings. And yes, they do:

Lightning storm earrings

Mirrored plastic piece as bolt, wire as cloud, Swarovski crystal bead as rain drop

While I was at it, I turned some laptop keys into earrings. These earrings cater to the web programming geek with one earring as the '<' key and the other as the '>' key that go around your head to stand for the <head> command used in html programming of web pages:

<head> earrings

laptop keys, wire, plastic beads

One last shot with all the earrings together:

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Insomniac

This cross stitch sampler pattern is for you, dB.

I'm living with another one. Maybe it's me, but every roommate, boyfriend and house guest I've had to share a bed at some point can't sleep a wink for a couple days straight. Now, my attitude towards it is to be as patient and kind as possible and otherwise ignore it. I (extremely frustratingly) can't help matters and any advice, assistance or aid is snapped at angrily (no offense taken--they haven't slept in a while).

But I expect I'll be tired and wanting to sleep for 10 hours and not leave the house soon anyways (not because i'm pregnant). Also my body wants weird things when I don't go to the hospital enough. In order, cravings list dependably includes:
1. Soda, any kind but preferably something with caramel flavoring and spicy.
2. Sushi - seaweed and raw fish in particular, but sweet shrimp (with fried head) something awful too
3. Cheeseburger
4. Ramen, cheap kind with flavor pack, bonito flakes, fried egg and oyster sauce
5. "Mongolian" lamb with leeks - though I seem to only have it at Muslim restraunts
6. Jook, with that chopped salty pickle stuff my grandma serves it with
7. Chocolate mousse (but only towards the beginning when i'm not too tired to think about making it).
8. Cheese--enough said

Also i'm very proud and excited for my boy. Now I gotta step up and find something permanent in this silly, high taxation town.

Friday, January 15, 2010

RIP Eric Rohmer

I famously love his films but only ever want to see them when I'm totally peaceful and serene or high. Go figure. Check out Slate's particularly lovely eulogy.