Chiquita Chandelier

Wowee Wow wow, I saw this amazing chandlier on Craftivity this morning and was excited. I would hang it in my dining room with Mr. Jinx below for the ultimite effect. I do love me somes bananananananananas.

>Thrifty Dutch designer Anneke Jakobs has created something wonderfully ‘a-peeling’ with her recycled Chiquita Chandelier. Created while a student at the Utrecht School of Product Design, the eco-luxe chandelier consists of cut out banana shapes from ten Chiquita cartons that the designer rescued from the streets. All of the chandelier elements are secured with desktop paper fasteners. The chandelier is for subtle ambient lighting only, but we are most impressed by the designer’s creative use of castaway materials for an upscale, brand-subverting object.<

My Favorite Neighbor

Last night we watched this wonderful documentary on Mr. Rogers. He is a beautiful, wonderful man. I highly reccomended it, especially if you used to watch this show when you were a kid. I almost cried when he was reunited at an awards cermeony with a handicapped man who appeared on the show when he was a little boy and they sang together, "I like you just the way you are". It had been years since he's seen this little boy, and you could tell how delighted he was so see him again, and that Mr. Rogers really cared deeply about everybody. It's a little long, especially at the end when they included some uncut interviews and old documentaries, but it's great nonetheless. It's narrated by Michael Keaton, who apparently got his start working on the set of the show. Weird, but awesome. Did you know his mother knit all those sweaters? That is truly amazing.

Oh, Donna

I'm really proud of my newest recycled-record-journal. It's made from an old Donna Summer album, and it has 2 flaps for the cover, one with her die-cut with a great lumpy edge along the top of her 'fro, and a second one inside with her in an amazing white dress. The inside has swirly-twirly orange/brown/gold marbled paper, she's a super-hottie! I'm posting it on Etsy tonight.

Mouse Torture

David rigged up this toy for Elwood - it's a cardboard tube with one of his furry mice inside in the very middle tied with string. There's no way his tiny arms can reach all the way to the middle of the tube, so though he may try, he usually ends up fuitless, pushing the tube all around the living room with his head, eye pressed up inside the opening. When he exhausts himself doing this, he falls alseep still peering in with sad eyes, in love with the mouse.

October!

I've given the blog an October-Halloweenie makeover to be festive with the season. Will I get a pumpkin this year??? There's no where to keep it when you don't really have a porch and the outside of your building is a common area you can't keep anything in. I suppose it could be an indoor pumpkin, just for me. David-Michael is not so big on the holidays, but he usually humors me. He did get me a little tree last year for Christmas wich I loved very much, so maybe we can have baby pumpkins. The apartment has fallen into dirtiness as I've had no interest in cleaning lately, and I've let all my craziness accumulate around us. I know the urge to tidy will come and then I'll smite down the dirty and put the suffering on every surface, but for now, all I want to do is read blogs, read my books, draw pictures and play with my sewing machine.....

A Posting for the Tiny!

Here's another old journal entry, this one's for you, Tiny. Could it really be 6 years since then?

March 2001

Yesterday in Nick Taggart’s drawing and painting class, around hour 5 Jessie Bishop and I went crazy on the couch on the sixth floor, laughing hysterically. We stole the tiny clay grey shark hanging from the ceiling by it’s tail on a piece of wire. I almost started crying we were having so much fun. Jenny McLean walked by in amazement saying that shark had been hanging from the ceiling since she started school there four years ago. I broke it by accident, and we just kept laughing.

This weekend was David's 30th birthday - I took him out to Arnie Morton's Steakhouse downtown, it was so fancy and delicious. They do a visual presentation of the menu, and I was saddened by a lobster on a plate that turned out to be alive, it looked at me and I was sad.

On Sunday I went with Christine to see Across The Universe - it's directed by Julie Taymoor, which is why I wanted to see it. The story isn't amazing, but her visuals are, and the songs of couse are good, there was a Janis Joplin-like character I loved, and I had a good time watching it. I can't belive how many songs the Beatles wrote that are so great, and it's cool to see them evolving with the politics and conditions of their times.