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Friday, April 29, 2011

A Long Awaited Catch-Up

Spent a (much needed) full day of catching up with my bestest friend Marisa at her house yesterday....I know, it's like we're 12 yrs old, but what can you do? ;P

I loooove the retro style of this light (it came with the house), but she hates it:

My favourite artwork:

A lovely gift from England for one of her daughters:

And who can resist taxidermy?

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Rain Rain...

..go away....
....please come back another day....(as in 2 months or sooo?)

Monday, April 25, 2011

A Few Days Ago....

...we pretended it was Summer....

Hope your weekend was wonderful. :)

Friday, April 22, 2011

Happy Long Weekend!

Some nice things arrived this week.... :)

Happy Easter to you!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Finally Feels Like Home

When hanging things up in a typical apartment in this city, one has to have all the right drill bits, plugs and nails. It's always tricky to have to drill into concrete, and certain heavier items cannot go on dry wall if the studs are too far apart. I know I am stating the obvious, but I suppose this is all somewhat of a learning process.

It started with this mess:

But it was all worth it in the end....

Monday, April 18, 2011

"Beautiful Bacterium" ~ Kokeshi Doll #2

The concept of this was inspired by Maren's comment on my (Cyclical) Food Chain Matroyshka dolls, as well as waking up one morning, and feeling the need to make DNA strands out of Sculpey (um, perhaps this was slightly over ambitious I'm afraid...).
Regardless, it made me think that perhaps bacterium//bacteria can be perceived as something beautiful....with their wispy flagellum//flagella as an accessory, or resembling some sort of regal Elizabethan collar (right, Michelle & Sheena?!)! Ahhaahahahaaaaaa ;P

Here's the process!

Rough sketch...