November's Links to Love

Artsy:

Floating houses.

A German craft site.

I didn't even know it was possible to transfer images to material using gel. That could be very useful information.

Van Gogh tilt-shift:



Have you seen the Guggenheim's YouTube video contest entries? I like this one:



Mormon:

Elder Scott is a watercolor artist. I really like this one:



CNN on Elizabeth Smart and Mormon missions.


Literary:

Stories under 25 words. That's talent.

An autobiographical book of someone who has face blindness.

Allan Metcalf's OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word. NPR story here.

Hear e.e. cummings read one of his poems.


Yes, I Love Technology:

Interesting Google Street View images.

Yay for CERN and progress in the area of antimatter!

Use CraigsEasy to search Craigslist on one page, with pictures.

Funny Windows errors.

My mom really needs this website to find her lost phone: http://www.icantfindmyphone.com/

Replica of King Tut's mummy:



Random:

Imagine being welcomed somewhere like this:





Do you remember this banjo-playing turtle?



Weird scholarships.

The European approach to safe sex slide show (seems more helpful to me--Americans might actually avoid the high numbers of unwed mothers in poverty and conservative married women with Good Girl Syndrome).

The two pig-hat pictures in this post make me so happy.

Grandmas and Photo Booth:




Two bombs from WWII were found in Leipzig! Luckily no one was hurt.

Healthiest foods under $1.

If I were a mom, I'd want this stroller. I wonder if you can make the baby face the other way?



Hilarious conversation with the automated IKEA customer service rep, Anna. "I do love talking to modest people." (The main site, Bachelor of the Arts, is worth looking at, too, with its witty essays.)

Maurice Sendak and the boy who ate it.

Running away:

Azure Ray's "November"

Beautiful. Thanks, Hannah:



So I'm waiting for this test to end
So these lighter days can soon begin
I'll be alone but maybe more carefree
Like a kite that floats so effortlessly
I was afraid to be alone
Now I'm scared that's how I'd like to be
All these faces none the same
How can there be so many personalities
So many lifeless empty hands
So many hearts in great demand
And now my sorrow seems so far away
Until I'm taken by these bolts of pain
But I turn them off and tuck them away
'til these rainy days that make them stay
And then I'll cry so hard to these sad songs
And the words still ring, once here now gone
And they echo through my head everyday
And I dont think they'll ever go away
Just like thinking of your childhood home
But we cant go back we're on our own
Oh,
But I'm about to give this one more shot
And find it in myself
I'll find it in myself
So were speeding towards that time of year
To the day that marks that you're not here
And i think I'll want to be alone
So please understand if I don't answer the phone
I'll just sit and stare at my deep blue walls
Until I can see nothing at all
Only particles some fast some slow
All my eyes can see is all I know
Oh,
But I'm about to give this one more shot
And find it in myself
I'll find it in myself
Doo doo doo(x9)

For the Beauty of the Earth

One of my favorite hymns. Happy Thanksgiving.

Proof That I'm Not the Only One Who Goes a Little Crazy When Studying for a Test

Good luck on your test today, Heidi. (And don't be mad at me for posting this. And happy birthday to Amy.)



You know you've gotten burned out and done crazy things, too. Just admit it.

Citizen Cope's "Sideways"

"Sideways"

You know it ain't easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There's no words to describe it
In French or in English
Well, diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away.

Thanks, Amy.

Requested: Educational Paradigm Shift

I think I've posted one of these brilliant sketch videos before (whoops, I had the wrong video in that previous post). I watched this one and just wanted to say that his words totally echoed with me? I feel that I'm a smart enough person, but that the education system was so much jumping through hoops that I don't often get around to realizing my true creative potential . . . I just hope I can find some solutions for my only children some day. Obviously it's going to take more than just one person.

Weekend News

My quilling was featured on DesignMom.

The Church Handbook is online. At least, part II is.

My Christmas Tree Paper Quilling

Remember when I posted about how I had discovered quilling and love it?

Well, I started trying it out last December, so I decided to do something Christmas-y. With Yulia Brodskaya's G2 Thrifty Christmas Tree as an inspiration, I included the words "Jesus is Born" using a large font that I traced on some paper. From there, I had no pattern. I just used toothpicks, glue, a paper cutter, colorful paper, scissors, and round things for curling. It took me almost a whole year to finish this thing (who knew quilling takes so long?), but I think it turned out beautifully, and after so much work, I just had to frame it! What do you think?




Some details:






And the finished, framed work in all its glory (I had spacers put in to keep it from being smashed):




You can see it in person at my mom's holiday craft boutique (this Wednesday through Saturday, 11-8), where I'm selling mini Scherenschnitte cards and calendar envelopes. If you like my quilling, please leave a comment and/or tell your friends about it. Thanks. :)

Publicity for Mom's Boutique

It's that time of year--the time when I tell everyone in the Salt Lake area who can appreciate cutesy crafts about my mom and Charla's yearly boutique. They've been doing some giveaways (to be picked up at the boutique) at the boutique blog and I promise you, not being a huge boutique-goer myself, their boutique is quality. (Plus, I'm selling a few things myself.)

So go here to enter giveaways and then show up at Charla's house for the actual boutique next week. You can also find their boutique on Facebook here.

Call Me Evil

I have no intention of voting. Whatsoever. Though Mormons are encouraged to "be involved" and "do their research," I

1. find that most of the info to be found is biased.
2. think no one can predict how politicians will react in different situations.
3. hate the drama of politics.

I heard a dude say recently that he votes for the most evil candidates so that they will bring the Second Coming faster. Maybe he was joking. Maybe not. Weird.

Anyway, maybe next year.