It is duck season and so ducks have been visiting. Feeding them a variety of grains including oats (which they love, also peas, also together, lettuce… not so much) and just as it got dark last night I was doing some tidying in my workroom (yay prep for…
Most Influential Emotions on Social Networks Revealed | MIT Technology Review
Anger spreads faster and more broadly than joy, say computer scientists who have analysed sentiment on the Chinese Twitter-like service Weibo.Sadly – to me at least – not surprising.
From the MIT Technology Review.
🙁 And thus why the 10 second/breath rule is something I try to live by. Though when it comes to online responses I try, try mind, to actually have a 10 hour rule. And then 10 dasy and so forth.
Posting from my desktop as my WP app seems to not be happy. The camera icon can’t be clicked in any orientation of the screen except sometimes vertically but generally I wind up scrolling or clicking another ico next to it. It was always tricky but with…
M 98 widow, aka the Mess Maker
I started the day well with a tidy workspace and even tidied after remaking the barrel base and top…
Looks not quite right…
But yes that is both halves of the bikini under layers of stretch velour. Hopefully very little…
someone asked me to write a tutorial for them, so here you go
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How I feel when ever anyone asks me how to make Alien headpieces. Really. Good work comes from making lots and lots of other work. Much of it will be crap, or fail at some point but you have to do that so you gain muscle and mental memory to be able to later on just do things as if by magic.
I can pleat like the wind. I can pattern like the wind but I have like… 20 years of that. Ditto with sculpting- 30 years. I have never not made things since childhood. It wasn’t a passtime when I was bored of dolls or adventures outside. It was my main focus.
Can’t teach anything to by pass all that just to meet a deadline.
The Potoo bird always looks like it just saw something horrifying. [via]
That’s not a bird. That is a Muppet. Sam the Eagle’s stoner cousin or something.
The Soft Pompadour and Psyche Knot.
From Girls Own Paper and Woman’s magazine, 1911.Text instructions here.
That’s me! Finally someone blogging the actual address! Thank you!
Also I have plans (hah!) of getting an A3 bed scanner to be able to more safely scan my books 🙂 And I can get them on my site properly- these have been online since what… 2000-02? So that means with my very old Agfa scanner. Wow.
There are so many nifty fashion plates in these Girl’s Own books. And I have managed to read a few of the serials published. I also happen to have the annuals that cover a change in the editor. The magaine shifted focus quite dramatically. My 1907-08 books are much more focused on pretty frocks vs later where it was more practical. Also knitting and crochet patterns galore.
This is a video of a cat playing the theremin. This concludes “things that make Natalie extraordinarily happy” for today.
Can’t.. not.. share…. AIEEEEE!!! Totally lost on my Mr Poopoo as he is totally deaf. I so need a theremin. They are so cool. Oh hey, relevant:
http://www.ted.com/talks/pamelia_kurstin_plays_the_theremin.html
But that itty bitty red one above, so cute. And possibly affordable? Also an instrument just made for totally borked hands… hmmmmm. My neighbours are gonna love hearing the Star Trek theme played very badly if so.