Friday’s Feast.

February 29, 2008 | 4 Comments

Appetizer:
Who was the last person you hugged?

Jerry… Agent J… The Hubby… The Big Kahuna.

(He likes it when I call him that.) :wink:

Soup:
Share a beauty or grooming trick or tip with us.

Two of my favorites:

When my hair is having a total static fly-away freak out, I bend over at the waist, shake my hair and rub a dryer sheet all over it. Stand up and brush it out. Voila! No more static head.

Also, sometimes a princess gets a slight blemish – (the term big honkin’ zit shall not be used in this kingdom!) – and dabbing a little pure lemon juice on it will usually smite the evil aberration overnight.

Salad:
What does the color yellow make you think of?

Main Course:
If you were to make your living as a photographer, what subject would your pictures revolve around?

Naked people – but not nude people. There is a difference, you know. The world of visual art is filled with photographs of posed and idealized nudes. I want NAKED. Gnarly, natural, NAKED.

Dessert:
What was the longest book you ever read?

The longest novel was Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Excellent book, of course, but when it’s assigned to you in high school Literature class you want to cry the moment you see how thick it is. How I ever got through it, I will never know.

Now, being an art history student for a decade (and a teacher of the subject for a while) I’ve read quite a few brutally thick and heavy art books from beginning to end. When I was teaching, I sometimes felt a twinge of empathetic pain when I’d assign a 50 page chapter on a Friday afternoon, promising a quiz on the following Monday.

Sometimes. Heh. :grin:

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Thursday’s Pretties… a work in progress.

February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

I’m getting a lot of pretty new gemstones in over the next few weeks – and I am really excited about that. Nothing like new supplies to get the creative juices flowing.

Right now I am working on putting together a new piece and I wanted to share some of the options I am considering. Let me know what you think.

Here is the focal pendant. It’s sterling silver and just a little under 1 1/2 inches wide. The words (from a love sonnet… ~swoon~) are etched into the front and oxidized; the back of the pendant is shiny.

Next, I am going to thread it onto a hand-dyed, artisan sewn silk ribbon (which feels soooo delightful against your skin!) and finish the ends with a sterling fastener of some sort.

The final touch will be the addition of a small accent gemstone – ruby, topaz, citrine, iolite, etc. – near the top of the pendant. I’ll decide which kind once I choose the color of the silk ribbon. (Sometimes I like a contrasting one, sometimes a matching one.)

So far the components alone cost $25+, but it’s going to be a very special item so the investment is worth it to me. I am going to price the finished piece at $80, regardless of the price of the gemstone I decide upon – making this an affordable luxury for many Infinitepink jewelry collectors. Now I can’t wait until the silk ties arrive so I can finally put it all together!

Please feel free to add your suggestions on silk colors and gemstone combinations. I’d love to have your input. Then, stay tuned for the presentation of the finished results, which will be posted in an upcoming entry.

In case you’re wondering, this is the sonnet the words were taken from. A meticulously crafted piece by John Donne.

Love’s Growth

I scarce believe my love to be so pure
As I had thought it was,
Because it doth endure
Vicissitude, and season, as the grass ;
Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore
My love was infinite, if spring make it more.

But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow
With more, not only be no quintessence,
But mix’d of all stuffs, vexing soul, or sense,
And of the sun his active vigour borrow,
Love’s not so pure, and abstract as they use
To say, which have no mistress but their Muse ;
But as all else, being elemented too,
Love sometimes would contemplate, sometimes do.

And yet no greater, but more eminent,
Love by the spring is grown ;
As in the firmament
Stars by the sun are not enlarged, but shown,
Gentle love deeds, as blossoms on a bough,
From love’s awakened root do bud out now.

If, as in water stirr’d more circles be
Produced by one, love such additions take,
Those like so many spheres but one heaven make,
For they are all concentric unto thee ;
And though each spring do add to love new heat,
As princes do in times of action get
New taxes, and remit them not in peace,
No winter shall abate this spring’s increase.

~John Donne

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Be sweet to one another, my kittens!

~ XoOXoxx

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WTF Wednesday… AHHAHahaa

February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

Washington DC, 7 years after Bill Clinton left town…

Yet another reason not to allow the Clintons back in the Washington Beltway. The inbreeding level will reach full saturation within another decade. Ahahaha!

(Many thanks to my best friend, JL, for sending this to me. He always knows how to tickle my funny bone!)

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In other news, it is sunny today. The enormous mountains of snow are melting. We now have a lake in our backyard.

No trespassing, fishing or sailing without permission from Lake Thurow management, please.

:roll:

Posted by Christine | Filed Under Celebrity Bitchslap!, Funny Ha Ha, WTF Wednesday