Saturday, July 4, 2009

While I really really like you I have to do this....

I stayed home today and didn't go to any parties...the shop is closed and I'm alone with my dog.
I made 2 necklaces and worked on other things too.
I really like to go to parties and I like to go out to eat and drink and I love spending time with my family a lot !
But none of those things get work done....and making stuff is what I do.....
here's what I did today...(well some of it !) and then 2 pics from the camping trip to Ft.Flagler....
the park ranger who checked us in was K. Shurely.
you betcha!

The first necklace is of random pretty charms....mostly hearts...this is from my vast collection of stuff...and they are both on etsy now.

The second one is a big apple..thing...I combined it with a piece that looks kinda like an eye.....apple of my eye......
it was inspired by a woman I saw in Seattle a few weeks ago.......she had long shiny hair, a black tshirt tucked in her faded jeans. Simple leather sandals and a stunning statement piece of jewelry...a long necklace with a large metal pendant....similar to this, but not this....She looked cool, collected and perfectly put together.




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The first pic is going across the Hood Canal bridge and then the view from campspot 7...it took us an hour to remember how to put up our tent (it's huge!)
but finally we did it then we walked on the beach......it was 2 days of Heaven, and I am more sure than ever of the next place I want to live...not in Tacoma.
...It feels great to be able to actually create something ...to have skills...and recycle and save something from the great mountains of crap...
Of course these are skills that the US culture doesn't appreciate....yet!



USA and groovy movies and Happy Birthday Aleks !!!

I love the movies ! and I love this link to rotten tomatoes that gives you 50 movies about the 50 states that make up America...and since this is the US of A's birthday...

(and my oldest granddaughter!)...here it is.

Each movie features a sweet or daring or scary and exciting vignette about a state...what creates the culture.....Because though we are all Americans by birth or design, we are not interchangeable....
Diversity !

Singles (click the full cast and crew for some funny surprises!)
was chosen to represent Washington...well fine. Everyone is looking for love and we're still talking about good public transportation......in 1992 the Mayor of Singles/Seattle TOM SKERRIT ! dismissed the Great Train with Coffee Idea....ha ha .....now for 120 billion trillion dollars...I guess we get it now......

yeah, 1992...let's do some math....17 years ago. Seattle and the Northwest .you are slow. That's your culture. But not slow in the good way. Sorry.

Here's a cover of Lucinda Williams' Metal Firecracker by Bright Eyes ..Conor Oberst...



Blow something up and be safe!