warm fleece blanket

"The Golden Age offers women's clothing,made to measure from vintage patterns. Specialising in dresses, suits and coats from the 1930's -late 1950's, The Golden Age can also copy existing vintage items and always has a small, well edited selection of vintage and deadstock items from the 20's-60's."

http://www.goldenagevintage.com

2011-07-31T21:06:00.000-05:00

http://ru-foto.livejournal.com/49855080.html

most of it is green and blue

2011-07-25T15:06:00.000-05:00

http://annaemilial.blogspot.com/

method & craft on greg lutze

2011-07-22T11:21:00.000-05:00

http://methodandcraft.com/interviews/greg-lutze

don't fear the internet

2011-07-22T09:32:00.000-05:00

You’ll feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet and worst case scenario you’ll at least end up having a better idea of how professional web designers turn your design dreams into a reality on screen.

http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/

Romans 12:9-19 (The Message)

2011-07-20T09:55:00.000-05:00

9-10 Love from the center of who you are; don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.

11-13 Don't burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.

14-16 Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they're happy; share tears when they're down. Get along with each other; don't be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don't be the great somebody.

17-19 Don't hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you've got it in you, get along with everybody. Don't insist on getting even; that's not for you to do. "I'll do the judging," says God. "I'll take care of it."

Song of Solomon 4:1-7 (The Message)

2011-07-18T16:04:00.001-05:00

1-5 You're so beautiful, my darling, so beautiful, and your dove eyes are veiled
By your hair as it flows and shimmers,
like a flock of goats in the distance
streaming down a hillside in the sunshine.
Your smile is generous and full—
expressive and strong and clean.
Your lips are jewel red,
your mouth elegant and inviting,
your veiled cheeks soft and radiant.
The smooth, lithe lines of your neck
command notice—all heads turn in awe and admiration!
Your breasts are like fawns,
twins of a gazelle, grazing among the first spring flowers.

6-7 The sweet, fragrant curves of your body,
the soft, spiced contours of your flesh
Invite me, and I come. I stay
until dawn breathes its light and night slips away.
You're beautiful from head to toe, my dear love,
beautiful beyond compare, absolutely flawless.

canada has a bubbling frozen lake

2011-07-15T15:56:00.000-05:00

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/stunning-images-of-frozen-lake-1310566568-slideshow/001ca7590-photo.html

Etsuko Ichikawa's Pyrographs

2011-07-14T11:58:00.001-05:00

http://www.theanthropologist.net

professor gary greenberg and his micro-photography of sand

2011-07-13T15:45:00.000-05:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2011471/Pictures-sand-Close-photographs-reveal-incredible-beauty.html

belle fleur de lis

2011-07-12T10:49:00.000-05:00

"This blog will be the diary for and about my inside garden, my crochets and about the little things I love in life."

http://bellefleurdelis.blogspot.com

i go to seek a great perhaps

2011-07-09T22:18:00.000-05:00

http://nectars.tumblr.com/

studio-legohead

2011-07-05T08:53:00.000-05:00

http://www.studio-legohead.com

Takura Kuwata

2011-07-02T22:20:00.000-05:00

http://www.takurokuwata.com/

Juliane Eirich

2011-06-30T09:39:00.000-05:00

http://julianeeirich.com

bianca of hamburg

2011-05-13T18:41:00.003-05:00

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/articles/rise-shine-the-internet-told-me-so-578.htm

2011-05-06T00:18:00.000-05:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/colloidfarl/512212080/

(via)

2011-05-02T11:50:00.000-05:00

(via)

2011-04-16T09:04:00.000-05:00

anne-claire petit

2011-04-13T11:22:00.000-05:00

http://www.anneclairepetit.nl/

(via)

2011-04-06T19:53:00.000-05:00

http://www.criterion.com/films/228-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc

annie clark

2011-03-31T21:35:00.000-05:00

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124049298&ft=1&f=1039

the library

2011-03-31T18:33:00.000-05:00

The Library from Sergey Stefanovich on Vimeo.

Kindergarten Kekec in Ljubljana, Slovenia

2011-03-29T10:02:00.000-05:00

http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/kindergarten-building-designed-with-play-in-mind.html

compassion

2011-03-13T21:23:00.000-05:00

help japan

2011-03-12T19:28:00.000-06:00

Your gift to the American Red Cross will support our disaster relief efforts to help those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific. On those rare occasions when donations exceed American Red Cross expenses for a specific disaster, contributions are used to prepare for and serve victims of other disasters.

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=RSG000000000&s_subsrc=RCO_NewsArticle

steven alan

2011-03-01T21:04:00.000-06:00

http://www.stevenalan.com

kawashima kotori

2011-02-28T20:51:00.000-06:00

http://www.kawashimakotori.com/

(via)

six recipe sampler

2011-02-24T21:38:00.000-06:00

http://www.therecipeclub.net/downloads/PDF/Super_Natural_Every_Day.pdf

joachim badenhorst

2011-02-12T10:51:00.000-06:00

http://www.joachimbadenhorst.com/

(via)

blue star geyser

2011-02-09T20:19:00.001-06:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39037177@N06/5083386507/

(via)

tartine bread

2011-02-08T17:24:00.000-06:00

(via)

red fox

2011-02-05T21:50:00.001-06:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brian_kala/4269487224/in/faves-ulrikakullenberg/

lounge

2011-02-04T15:39:00.000-06:00

I feel like my television is too big. I want to replace it with a smaller one.

http://www.bo-laget.se/

cake with giants

2011-02-04T11:54:00.000-06:00

http://www.cakewithgiants.com/

(via)

put a bird on it

2011-01-27T20:29:00.000-06:00

(via)

bicycle portraits

2011-01-22T14:24:00.000-06:00

http://www.dayonepublications.com/Bicycle_Portraits/Index.html

mushi-shi

2011-01-20T23:13:00.000-06:00

http://www.funimation.com/mushishi/

"cathy"

2011-01-14T18:09:00.000-06:00

kids in the hall, season one: episode one.

light up your mood

2011-01-13T23:32:00.000-06:00

"light up your mood" stickers. £6.00
(via)

typography mustache chart

2011-01-13T19:50:00.000-06:00

source unknown.

warm fleece telephone bill

2011-01-04T12:52:00.001-06:00

“Your deposit plus interest has been applied. Thank you for establishing good credit.”

terrariums

2010-12-23T10:02:00.000-06:00

paula hayes.

national maritime museum

2010-12-09T09:47:00.000-06:00

the national maritime museum's photostream.

urnatur

2010-12-01T14:22:00.000-06:00

the anthropologist.

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki

2010-11-12T13:29:00.000-06:00

Henryck Gorecki died today at age 76.

guys

2010-10-31T22:27:00.000-05:00

killarna.

clara schumann

2010-10-23T21:24:00.001-05:00

Clara Wieck Schumann lived from 1819 to 1896. She was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann.
Clara Josephine Wieck was born in Leipzig on September 13, 1819 to Friedrich and Marianne Wieck. Friedrich was a noted German piano teacher, voice teacher, piano firm owner, and music reviewer. Her parents divorced when she was four years old and Clara was raised by her father.
When Clara was eight years old, she met Robert Schumann while performing at the home of Dr. Ernst Carus, director of a mental hospital at Colditz Castle. Robert admired her playing so much that he decided to stop studying law and take music lessons from Clara’s father. Robert took rooms in the Wieck household for about a year while taking lessons from Friedrich.
When Clara was eleven, she left on a concert tour of Paris accompanied by her father. When she was eighteen years old, she performed a series of recitals in Vienna. She was also named a Königliche und Kaiserliche Kammervirtuosin ("Royal and Imperial Chamber Virtuoso"), Austria's highest musical honor.
She was one of the first pianists to perform from memory, making that the standard for concertizing. Trained by her father to play by ear and to memorize, she gave public performances from memory as early as age thirteen.
As part of the broad musical education given her by her father, Clara Wieck learned to compose, and from childhood to middle age she produced a good body of work. At age fourteen she wrote her first piano concerto, with some help from Robert Schumann, and performed it at age sixteen with Felix Mendelssohn conducting.
Robert Schumann had been attracted to Clara since she was fifteen. By the time she was seventeen, Schumann was in love with her. The next year, Schumann asked her father Friedrich for Clara's hand in marriage, but he refused. Friedrich did everything he ever could to prevent her from marrying Schumann, forcing Robert and Clara to take him to court. During this period, Robert wrote most of his famous songs, inspired by his love for Clara.
They married on September 12, 1840 and she continued to perform and compose after the marriage even as she raised seven children.
Clara and Robert met Johannes Brahms in 1853 and he became a lifelong friend to Clara, sustaining her through Robert’s illness, asking for her advice about new compositions, even caring for her young children while she went on tour.
In addition to raising her own large family, when one of her children became incapacitated, she took on responsibility for raising her grandchildren. In 1849, during the May Uprising in Dresden, she famously walked into the city through the front lines, defying a pack of armed men who confronted her, rescued her children, then walked back out of the city through the dangerous areas again.
Clara often took care of the finances and general household affairs due to Robert's mental instability. She refused to accept charity when a group of musicians offered to put on a benefit concert for her. She made money by giving concerts and teaching and continued to play throughout her life not only for the income, but because she was a concert artist by training and by nature. Robert wanted a traditional wife to bear children and make a happy home and while she loved touring, Robert hated it.

As she grew older, however, she lost confidence in herself as a composer, writing, "I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose -- there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?" In fact, Clara composed nothing after the age of thirty-six.
Her family life was punctuated by tragedy. Robert and four of her children predeceased her. Her first son Emil died in 1847 when he was only one year old. Her husband Robert had a mental collapse, attempted suicide and was committed to an insane asylum for the last two years of his life. Her daughter Julie died, leaving two small children. Her son Felix died at age 25 and her son Ludwig suffered from mental illness had to be "buried alive" in an institution. Her son Ferdinand died at the age of 43 and she was required to raise his children. She herself became deaf in later life and often needed a wheelchair.
After Robert's death in 1856, Clara devoted herself to the interpretation of his works. During her last public concert in 1891 she played Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, in the piano-duet version. She suffered a stroke in 1896, dying at age 77. She is now buried at Bonn's Alter Friedhof (Old Cemetery) with her husband.
In the 1947 film Song of Love, she was portrayed by Katharine Hepburn. Paul Henreid played Robert Schumann and Robert Walker starred as a young Johannes Brahms.
Today her compositions are increasingly performed and recorded. Her works include songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, a piano trio, choral pieces, and three Romances for violin and piano.
*All information sourced from Wikipedia.

totokaelo

2010-10-15T19:36:00.000-05:00

http://totokaelo.com

historical list

2010-10-09T12:52:00.000-05:00

List of Romantic-Era Composers on Wikipedia

p.e. guerin

2010-10-08T17:20:00.000-05:00

p.e. guerin

berliner philharmoniker

2010-10-07T17:51:00.001-05:00

i got my first paycheck this week for doing desktop publishing for a local church.

i took brendan to memphis and we visited the botanic garden.

last night, i saw the berlin philharmonic wind quintet perform at um.

between all of that, i’ve been taking care of things at home and working on a few different projects.

tights for me

2010-10-05T20:42:00.000-05:00

anthropologie fox and pony legwear.

children's socks

2010-10-04T21:31:00.001-05:00

bobo choses.

quirky collective.

ministry staff assistant

2010-09-30T12:41:00.000-05:00

so, i worked as an extra on the set of the help and some of my ex-co-workers were there too. marley used to be my office mate and she told me about a position that had opened at a local baptist church.

i got the job.

i like it. i stay busy, but eventually, i've got to go to graduate school.

i write poetry sometimes

2010-09-17T08:10:00.001-05:00

last night, as i was lying in bed, i wrote a haiku.

brown leaves crunching.

the steps of a man slowly

walking into winter.

autumn is finally showing itself here in the delta. after an extremely hot summer, i think everyone is welcoming it.

Water Play

2010-08-24T18:53:00.000-05:00

brendan is lucky enough to have grandparents with a swimming pool who live within a 5 minute drive of our house.

but after this bout of extremely hot weather, i'm ready for fall or rather, i'm ready for fall clothing.

Early Morning

2010-08-19T08:30:00.000-05:00

i woke up around 3:30 this morning. my sleeping schedule is totally out of whack, but the morning light provided some lovely ambiance in the kitchen while making tea.

listening to gorecki's miserere, again.

thinking about making some tiny, plush zeppelins.

Breakfast

2010-08-17T08:40:00.000-05:00

i decided to have a big breakfast this morning. it's pretty much the only meal i know how to make.

smetana is on the turntable. i don't have much to do today; got to ship a textbook and buy some milk. probably going to spend the day reading kodocha and maybe get some new artwork started.

Weekend Trip

2010-08-15T14:33:00.001-05:00

i just got back home from a trip to oxford to visit my best friend jonathan at “the duplex of issac jenkins.”

we spent some time at the square looking at local artwork, browsing in the bookstore and bar hopping.

we also had a chance to admire the aged beauty of Rowan Oak, home to the late, southern writer, william faulker and his family. the interior decor looked like inspiration for the designs at anthropologie.

saturday night, we drove over to tupelo for a show by west of shake rag, the improv troupe that my sister-in-law, casey, has been participating in. i volunteered to be in one skit in which i had to make sounds effects for the actors. i think everybody was impressed with my abilities.

afterwards, we visited my brother’s house where i was loaded down with manga, lps and weird art mags.

my opinion of oxford is slightly more positive than before and it was nice to see some of my favorite people together.

Crafting Update

2010-08-09T17:40:00.000-05:00

This is a crocheted red fox made from Patons Angora Bamboo Yarn and felt (from recycled materials).
It features safety eyes and a button nose.


This is a bath mat made from 100% cotton yarn. It features berry stitches with hand-sewn glass beads and scalloped edging.

2010-08-08T21:16:00.001-05:00

i didn’t go to sleep last night. i read through a collection of articles about the recession on salon.com/life/pinched/. i fell asleep at 6:00am and woke up at 12:00pm. i ate a piece of raisin toast.

brendan spent the night at his grandparents’ house. i drove over there and ate lunch and watched a tv show about people with hoarding problems. then we went home and tidied up around the house.

i took a nap. i dreamed that i had an job interview, but instead of going to an office for the interview, the employer drove a van into my driveway where a lot of people were waiting to be interviewed as well. i think it was a job for the dollar tree.

brendan and i watched beetle juice again. i think that would be a good halloween costume for brendan. betelgeuse. betelgeuse. betelgeuse.

someone on etsy.com contacted me and said that she is going to include one of my stuffed animals in a treasury. this will increase exposure and hopefully lead to some sales.

2010-08-05T20:24:00.000-05:00

woke up around 6:30am and got brendan ready for his first day of school. i packed a snack for him that he ended up eating for lunch because the lunch he was offered was too unfavorable. i'm going to pack his lunch tomorrow so he doesn't starve himself.

went to the federal building for my fitting as an extra in "the help." i saw connie black. i tried on a green velvet dress that was too tight in the hips. a fuschia dress that looked like a bridesmaid nightmare and an off-white dress with bead embroidery that fit just right.

i spent the afternoon working on a bath mat (sewing tiny glass beads onto berry stitches) and napping until brendan came home on the school bus. the driver didn't know that jefferson avenue is really two separate streets, so the bus didn't show up until 4:00pm.

we went to the grocery store and bought some school supplies from brendan's hand-written list. then, we ate pizza.

2010-08-05T00:47:00.001-05:00

drove up to memphis today taking 35 and 51 which was interesting, but time-consuming. i saw 3 different car wrecks and several cars pulled over for speeding tickets. seems a bit excessive for a wednesday. i was able to find some matching yarn for my fox, so it should be finished soon!

brendan has his first day of school in the 2nd grade tomorrow.

i was called up to be an extra on the set of “the help.” i’m also going in for a costume fitting tomorrow.

2010-07-31T19:25:00.001-05:00

i woke up today around 8:30am. brendan and i tidied up around the house. then, we got in the car and headed toward jackson. i stopped the car along the way so we could get out and look at some cows. they were very dark black and young.

we got to jackson. i got some supplies, a book about ornithology, a really cute journal, and some sweaters. i don’t like being too hot to wear long sleeves. i’m looking forward to autumn, but i’m scared that winter will bring me down for a while.

there was a group of sand sculptures at the shopping mall. there was a contest. one of the sculptures was influenced by jim henson and kermit the frog. another one depicted a clock tower in madison. there was a huge sculpture in the middle, but it was a castle.

2010-07-29T21:01:00.001-05:00

i woke up today around 9:00am. I took a shower and drove to my parents’ house to pick up brendan but stayed over there until lunchtime. apparently, brendan’s very interested in playing chess lately. i am not an avid chess player and i’m not quite sure how he found out about the game. i know he plays it sometimes with his grandfather.

we ate lunch at the park.

we spent the rest of the evening at home even though he was supposed to participate in the final performance of the theatre workshop. he didn’t want to do it.

i did some cleaning up on the back patio. i think i’m becoming more of a succulent person than a bulb person. bulb flowers are very beautiful when they bloom, but before you know it, they’re gone: spending the next 12 months replicating and storing energy for the next time they want to bloom. succulents don’t like a lot of attention. they stay the same all the time. safe. comfortable.

i received the training schedule for my internship. i was pretty sure i had the job, but i don’t like announcing things like this prematurely. i’ll be in training every day next week.

2010-07-25T18:15:00.001-05:00

i woke up today around 10:00am when my mom called on the telephone. she kept brendan last night while i was working at larry’s fish house. i worked there on friday night, too. i ended up making a decent chunk of change, so it’s all good.

i started playing the sims 3 again. i think i revert back to playing that game when i start feeling out of control of the way my life is turning out. i’ve been officially unemployed for 14 months, although, i’ve had the opportunity to make a little bit of money through part-time work here and there. i’d really like to be in a position where i can start saving money again. right now, more money is going out than coming in.
i’m supposed to start training for my internship soon, but i’m still waiting on one of my references to return a form so i can mail a bunch of paperwork to hattiesburg.

i’ll be spending my afternoons at the theatre workshop again this upcoming week and since i found the digital camera, i’ll try to get some good pictures.

i would be working on my amigurumi fox, but i need to make another trip to jackson for supplies. i also need to get back to work on my birds of mississippi. i’ve just been so stressed about the job situation that i can’t bring myself to do the things love to do. i get discouraged so easily and even when i’m told that people like my work, i don’t believe them. my little brother said that artists who are determined to make a living from their artwork must be full of themselves. i don’t have that quality.

2010-07-20T17:41:00.001-05:00

i woke up this morning around 10:00. i couldn’t fall asleep last night at a decent hour. i took a shower and then headed to the mechanic to have my tires rotated. dad offered to pay for the service and i never turn down dad’s money, even if it means adding another link to the chain that keeps me bound greenwood.

i stopped by viking to pick up my recommendation letter and then picked up some lunch from burger king. i started my period last night so i’m allowed to have junk food.

after eating, i went to the the theatre for the second day of the workshop. it started with an exercise in voice projection, then the kids split into groups to work on dance numbers, improvisation exercises, and a game of telephone. they took a break to eat some popsicles and then watched a good bit of the movie, “cat’s don’t dance.” we ended the afternoon with a game of “ships and sailors,” an exercise in taking direction.

i’m not sure if its just because brendan is naturally defiant or if it’s because i’m one of the helpers, but he’s giving me a hard time during this workshop. i’ve tried to explain to him thoroughly why he especially needs to follow the rules and behave properly, but as long as i’m in the room, i think he’ll continue acting out to get special attention from me, even if it’s negative attention.

when he misbehaves, it reflects badly on me and that’s the real reason i want him to follow the rules and respond to adults respectfully.

2010-07-19T21:20:00.001-05:00

i woke up around 9:00 this morning and took a shower. i drove to viking range corporation’s head office and saw some of my old co-workers. i dropped off a reference form for tim, my former manager, to fill out for the internship job that i interviewed for last week. he was in a meeting with holly, marley, nick and matt. i forgot how much i love those people. i even found out that whit, who was laid-off the same time i was, and his wife, carolyn, are expecting a baby! marley had slimmed up, tim is as bubbly as ever and holly is still humorously sarcastic.

i have to say: my time at viking will never be repeated. i may have expressed discontent while i was employed there, but i consider the people i was working with day-to-day as very good friends. the fact that my employment ended with a very disheartening laid-off, followed by over a year of unemployment, discouraged me from continuing to share my life with these people.

after a few minutes of catching up, i drove over to my dad’s shop to see about getting my tires rotated. he had expressed some concern about the matter when he came to my house yesterday. i’ll have them rotated tomorrow. i also have to get the oil changed and replace the windshield wipers.

maintaining a car is so expensive yet completely necessary if you live in the south. everything is so far away from everything else. our cities were built for cars.

i spent the afternoon at the greenwood little theatre volunteering at the summer workshop. today was the first day. we had about 55 kids in attendance. they were able to play a few games and take turns doing a cold read of some of the skits that they’ll be performing at the end of next week. brendan seemed eager to get on the stage and perform so i think this will end up being a good experience for him.

2010-07-18T22:25:00.000-05:00

i woke up around 11:00 today and worked on a new project while watching SNL episodes on hulu.com. i'm working on an amigurumi fox using paton's angora bamboo yarn that i purchased at hobby lobby a while back. i don't know where the digital camera is so i can't post any pictures yet.

i interviewed for an internship last thursday with digital opportunity trust, a program funded through americorps. they seemed to really like me so i filled out a bunch of paperwork dealing with taxes and direct deposits. now i have to mail some legal documents and get two people to fill out reference forms. i also have to take a drug test in cleveland by friday. there's a possibility that i'll interview for a managerial position as well which trumps the internship since it pays more.

during the next two weeks, i'll be volunteering at the greenwood little theatre during the summer workshop program. brendan will be there with me and i believe it will be his first experience acting on stage.

friday, i planned to go to memphis and visit the botanic garden, but the rain came down too hard, so my friend anna and i made a detour in sardis to visit the family of her recently deceased boyfriend. we also visited the library in oxford. it was a far cry from the evening i had planned. i don't like going to bars or casinos.