merely talk

I am so making this.

I think it's absolutely beautiful. But to go with my decor, I might take a more red approach to it. And put it in my room, screw any nursery for my nonexistent child.

I am also going to make this.

I find it very aesthetically pleasing. And I have all these funky black and white photos of old industrial buildings. Last time I was in Seattle Matthew took me to this park called GasWorks park. It had the best views of downtown Seattle and had all these old gas structures, so old pipes and wheels and oil containers. I went crazy with the arty black and white photo's, especially since my future mother-in-law called while we were there and he left me to my own devices for about 20 minutes. I started experimenting with angles and shadows and perspective and I'm quite pleased with the results. I've been looking for a creative way to display them, and this just may work.

So I'm finally moving into an apartment in Victoria next week. So stoked. Pender Island is lovely, but I am ready to be in a city again. My apartment is small, but cute and bright. The neighbours seem very cool and friendly, and there are many dogs for the Finnister to hang with. I will however be internetless in the new place. It's too small to fit my huge, dying, desktop in, and too much of a hassle to get the internet installed. I'm hoping after a few months of working I'll be able to afford a nice laptop, and then get myself equipped with wireless (oh what a dream that would be!). But for the foreseeable future, the only internet I will be accessing will be at the library or when I come to my parents place.

So in preparation I've been visiting a variety of crafty sites to get some projects lined up. So far I'm going to make awesome marble magnets, knitted slippers, re-cover some of my chairs (in prep for buying some vintage-y ones for my one-day house) and some fabric wall art (to decorate the new place). Perhaps I'll finally get around to that t-shirt rug I've been thinking about doing for ages too.

It should be fun. I love when I rediscover my inner crafter!

Labels: crafts, moving

A so called friend tipped me on this horrible firefox application, called stumbleupon. Basically you feed this website a list of your interests, and then with a push of a button it takes you to websites you might find interesting. I've now found crafts I want to make, recipes for good food, book recommendations, games, weird videos, cook pictures, cool pictures of books, shopping websites, etc. It's HORRIBLE. How is one suppose to get anything else done?