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My Saturday involved doing my kitchen chores while singing along to loud 80s Bon Jovi and then an evening of TV entertainment which involved Strictly, awe-inspiring record-breaking Grand Prix Final figure skating*, and Red2 (I want to be Helen Mirren when I grow up).

*I really don't understand why figure skating isn't more popular, what they are doing on ice these days is fantastic. Mind you, it doesn't help that it never gets any coverage on the UK media because we are crap at it these days.
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Back from holiday, had a lovely time, filled with coastal walks, castles, Roman sites, and paddling (we had 3 days of proper summer weather). And wildlife and not quite getting trampled by cows (yes, there's a story there, the moral of which is never assume a footpath marked on a map will actually be usable if you're in England). There will be a proper update with photos but LJ was down for *hours* earlier and now it's bed time so you'll have to wait.

In other news, I watched Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this evening - my, that's one trippy film...
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army is fab! I enjoyed it even more than the original. The visuals are fantastic, I love Del Toro's aesthetic, and it's thoroughly entertaining - very funny but also quite touching in places.

Swam another 40 lengths on Saturday and then went to a BBQ in the evening, which was good fun and involved catching up with some people I haven't seen in a while. And spent yesterday pottering around being domestic, including discovering that it is now possible to recycle plastics locally.

The weather can't make up it's mind at the moment. It's gone decidedly autumnal and the nights have really dropped in recently but after being cold and slightly damp all weekend, we have lovely sunshine again today and I had to change when I got back from town because I was too hot in a jumper and knee highs with my cotton skirt. Still, I have funky new stripey tights for when it is actually cool enough to wear them :)

Am not overly impressed with the world today though, as I had grand plans for achieving lots of stuff but my stomach is playing up and I don't really feel like doing much, which is doubly annoying today because it's T'ai Chi this evening and I don't want to miss it again :( I hope I'm not coming down with something again, I was sneezing at the swimming pool on Saturday and my throat has been sore since yesterday...
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is complete drivel, moderately entertaining drivel, but drivel nonetheless. There are some gorgeous 1940s evening dresses among the costumes though (I've been spending too much time on [livejournal.com profile] stylishly_yours!) and Michelle Yeoh is good. The plot reminded me of one of those roleplaying game advertures where the GM is desperate for the PCs to succeed so keeps coming up with more and more obstacles between the villain and his ultimate triumph to give them yet another opportunity to beat him.

Hellboy 2 looks rather shiny indeed though - Lucius Malfoy look-alike evil elves FTW!
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On Friday night, the Boy took me to see Stardust. I love the book to pieces and was really looking forward to seeing it, knowing that Neil Gaiman had been closely involved with it, and I wasn't disappointed. It's quite different to the book in places, but the changes work for the different medium, and it's beautifully done. I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend it - Robert Deniro's camp sky pirate is not to be missed and Claire Danes is brilliant as Yvaine. And it's very funny in places, as well as being a classic quest story and a love story. All good :)

Saturday was mostly spent flat wrangling, and I'm really appreciating having a clean and almost tidy flat ;) Then peeps came round for dinner and we had Irish stew and a yummy fruit salad (cantalope melon, satsuma, apple, pomegranate, fresh fig and grapes in orange juice), and played Puerto Rico, which was good fun.

Yesterday was grey and miserable so we mostly pottered around doing shopping and more flat stuff, and catching up on the TV I had recorded on Thursday and Friday evening. I did manage to get a lovely grape velvet skirt in TKMaxx though, so I do actually have a choice of dressy skirts to wear for occasions this winter.

Today, dawned grey and miserable again so I gave in and put the heating on because I was washing my hair, but it's brightened up a bit now. This may be my favourite time of the year, but I do have to remember to get out in the daylight enough or it really doesn't agree with me. Still, lots of exciting things to look forward to over the next few months - meeting up with [livejournal.com profile] thebirdwoman on Friday and hopefully catching up with some old friends who have moved down South later that evening, Samhain (must make up my costume for the party this weekend!), going down to my parents' in November for my Dad's 60th birthday, Yule, Christmas, Hogmanay... *beams in anticipation* And the Boy has to book his holidays for next year this week too so this lunchtime we have been plotting trips away for our birthdays (May and July), and late September again. Vancouver is on hold for the moment, but we are planning Stratford for David Tennant in Hamlet, and to meet up with some of my old uni mates, Northumberland, the Boy's homeland, and the Lakes again :)

Jul. 16th, 2007 03:33 pm
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Stardust is on at the Edinburgh Film Festival on August 21st and 23rd and I think it isn't on general release over here until October. Anyone want to come? I rather fancy it :) Tickets are £7.95 but you get a 15% discount for a party of 7 or more...
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Bird song on the radio makes for a very entertainly confused kitty :)

Have watched the latest Bond film (Casino Royale) and Shaun of the Dead recently - Bond entertained me and both my parents (no mean feat) and I really enjoyed Shaun... despite my famous dislike of ick in films, which tells you something about the quality of the writing - great fun.

Am reading great Victoriana - Sally Lockhart books by Phillip Pullman; highly recommended if you like tales of dashing adventure and scheming evil villians, with a good dash of authentic period darkness. And Watchmen, which is grim and... well, we'll see.

Made it to T'ai Chi last night (much needed) and have achieved work (yay!), although still much to do, for tomorrow (boo!)
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So in summary:

PotC 3 - so-so
Dr Who The Family of Blood - bloody brilliant
weather - mostly yuk
strawberry perry - yummy
me - not overly impressed with the universe, in desparate need of exercise and getting some work done!
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On Friday, Jakob and I met up and practiced T'ai Chi in the park - I'm gradually getting the 37 and 44 move form versions into my head as two seperate entities, and we did Animals too - ahhh animals ;) Also, there was comic borrowing:

Strangers in Paradise - the 2nd to last issue EVAR. I'm not going to squee at great length, but everyone should read this, despite its faults (and i admit it has them), at its best it's one of those fantastic character stories that really has something to say about what it means to be human, and to love. Also, I *sooo* identify with Francine's journey these days...

Buffy season 8 - ohhh shiny! Joss Whedon is writing it himself at the moment, although I think only the first story arc (oh and the last apparently, if all goes to plan) and so far (I've read the first 3 issues) it's rather fine and the art work is good too. If you are missing the TV show (who isn't???) then I highly recommend checking this out! I can see certain peeps may have the fantasy dream image from the beginning of issue 3 burned into their imaginations for sometime to come ;)

Am also reading Joss Whedon's run of X-men - Astonishing X-men, which is rather good, although I've been a bit lost more recently as characters i'm not familiar with (not having read any other runs of the comic) have been showing up, and now I've missed an issue or two, and his new (to him) Marvel comic Runaways, which is about a group of supervillians' kids on the run, and is very funny indeed!

Speaking of Marvel - went to see Spiderman 3 last night. Enjoyed it in general, it was good but not fanastic, but was worth the £4.50 especially since the trailers were Pirates 3 (shiny, shiny, shiny!!), Shrek 3 (shiny!), Transformers (hmmmm...), and Harry Potter 5 (shiny, shiny, shiny!), and therefore would only have been improved if we'd got Stardust too. I was particularly entertained by how hopeless he is with women, and the obligatory 'black suit = brooding on gothic cathedral spire'. And that Saturday Night Fever-esque strutting down the street scene was soo cringeworthily funny I nearly cried. Overall, pretty entertaining I thought.

And of course the other cathedral and sound weapon featuring thing this week was the latest episode of Dr Who. I missed the first episode of this series but have seen all the others and while I've yet to be really grabbed by any of the new stories, I'm liking the less-manic post-Rose Doctor, and continue to be amused by their Whedon-esque ability to mix pop culture references - this week's mix of everything from Eliot to This is Spinal Tap was particularly notable. It was probably my favourite so far along with the Shakespeare episode. And the trailer for the rest of the season looked somewhat shiny - ummmm Captain Jack ;)

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Am remembering why I don't buy new shoes very often - made the mistake of wearing them for the first time with just fishnets rather than socks, and now have two painfully raw heels just from popping into town :(

But, so I'm not just coming here to moan about basically self-inflicted ouchiness:

Looky here - new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix trailer for those of you who hadn't noticed yet. Shiny!

Dinner time...
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Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - At World's End trailer here for anyone who hadn't noticed yet
alithea: (Rainbow River (made by hollycore))
The Lodger is away until tomorrow so I've had the flat to myself all weekend. Saturday, there was general pottering and discovering that i can watch season 1 of Babylon 5 on my temporarily free Teleport TV service, which doesn't make up for the loss of BSG and will probably result in me being sorely tempted to invest in the 4 seasons on DVD (don't talk to me about season 5 - I've seen Neil Gaiman's episode and wondered at how fantastic it would have been had it featured Ivanova and allowed them to bring back Talia, and that is all), but has pacified me slightly, as it's amazing how fondly you can look back on it's early weaknesses and the dreadfulness of Sinclair, after you have totally fallen in love with it at it's best. I also made bolognase, 'cos I had a sudden craving and haven't made it for ages, and killer chocolate 'brownies' as my donation for Sunday, when I went over to [livejournal.com profile] mcwoof's for a delicious roast dinner.

The eclipse on Saturday night was rather fine, although looked more grey with a hint of dirty browny orange, than red to me. It was interesting how much more spherical the moon looked when not all shiny and bright, like a bubble hanging in the sky...

Sunday, we watched The Brothers Grimm after dinner, which was quite entertaining but a bizarre combination of very silly and really rather dark, which somehow didn't quite work.

And now it's Monday, I have a pile of house work to do which I neglected over the weekend, on top of work work, so I better get on with something useful!
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Had an annoying headache on Friday, not quite enough of a migraine for taking pills and heading to my bed, but enough of one that going to Tescos in the evening was a big mistake as the excessive fluorescent lighting was painful :(

Weekend made up for it though. Saturday was very spring-like, milder than it has been, and lovely and sunny and clear. Cadged a lift up to Camperdown with the Lodger who was taking his bike out, and had a very enjoyable walk around Templeton Woods and up to Clatto reservoir. There were lovely clumps of snow drops and the trees are just starting to bud. Saw Tree Creepers in the woods but only signs of squirrels, was probably a few too many people about to actually see the reds. Was soo nice to be out in the sunshine and fresh air in the countryside (it's on the edge of the city with just fields and farms out the back, so aside from being able to hear the road until you get to the far end, it's more or less in the countryside), must really make the effort more often, it felt like home...

Yesterday, Lodger was up a ladder in the bathroom removing the infamous Dundee Black Mould while I pottered around tidying and cleaning. I cooked us Spanish-style butternut squash stew for dinner and we watched the final results show of So You Think You Can Dance and then V For Vendetta 'cos Lodger hadn't seen it and I bought it on DVD a while ago and hadn't got around to watching it yet. Still a very fine film.

All in all, a good weekend. Company is agreeing with me.
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Gizmo was fine all day yesterday so i gave her chunkies for tea and this morning she was sick again *sigh* I can't work out whether these new chunkies don't suit or whether she was just randomly a bit ill, after all this morning was one of her typical I'll-throw-up-the-remains-of-my-last-meal-and-then-scoff-my-breakfast-like-nothing-has-happened incidents, rather than the throwing up and making a mess in her box and actually seeming like she feels ill of earlier in the week... Dry biscuits for now I think. Of course, the fretting is probably displacement fretting but at least I'm not having kittens over next week's trip to Brussels.

Weather is scarily windy. I need to put the rubbish out but i'm afraid to go and look at the roof 'cos i think I might have lost a tile or two yesterday. Good job I gave up on my window boxes!

Anyway, slides for meeting next week are sorted and emailed off, and washing up, putting out rubbish and shifting recycling beckons. Didn't leave the house yesterday due to awful weather so must do better today. And it's obviously put me in a strange mood 'cos I left a very dodgy comment* on a friends LJ and then ran away (before you start thinking there is gossip in the offing, it was regarding the promo shots for Pirates 3 which are here for your enjoyment)

*Which may have alluded to my slight blades fetish and appreciation of Elizabeth dressed as a warrior woman... Possibly, maybe...
alithea: (V ideas (made by garinungkadol))
Saturday was history day - Alex came over and we went to Pictavia, the Pict information centre at Brechin Castle. T'was interesting but mostly consisted of us picking holes in the information boards. I would love to know where they got their evidence from for the board about Pictish paganism, I suspect they mostly made it up but maybe I'll get around to attempting some research at some point. Also, the pro-Christian bias was most entertaining, especially since pre-Roman christianity was probably pretty unrecognisable to modern Christians, but apparently the coming of christianity allowed for a better system of hereditary kingship and allowed their society to advance and flourish, in a way which their traditional pagan system supposedly didn't. Hmmmm *sceptical face* I'd have liked to see some evidence of this, beyond an assumption that any christian system is obviously inherently superior! Then we went to Edzell Castle, which was intersting and less controversial :)
Also I bought mead, a candle holder and a late harvest/winter garland thingy. And saw the freakiest christmas decorations ever - fake stuffed animals and a Christmas tree which was like one of those toilet roll holder dollies, it had a head, torso and arms and then the tree part as a skirt and was about 6' tall!!

Watched the new Robin Hood in the evening. It didn't even try to be historical, half the cast have trendy haircuts and designer stubble, the first 'wench' to appear looked like her makeup had been applied with a trowel, and it had silly kungfu-esque combat and bizarre camera work, and was generally very silly. And apparently set to get sillier with Marian (no Maid anymore) becoming some kind of masked vigilante superhero. Okaaayyy. Think I'll be sticking with Robin of Sherwood thanks very much! The new series of Strictly Come Dancing started well though so at least there is something worth watching.

Yesterday, I pratted around doing naff all and then watched My Summmer of Love, which was good, in a strange sort of way, and just showed that playing games with people is a Very Bad Plan, especially if they are delusional or madly in love with you!

Today, Work, and this evening T'ai Chi, finally! And I should go out while the sun is still shining 'cos yesterday it had gone all grey again by the time I thought to move :(
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I can't post pictures 'cos my paid account has expired and i can't get LJ to accept my debit card details to renew it and i don't know why because it worked last year :( And the number of times i attempted to get it to work better not make the bank cancel my card thinking someone was trying to use it fraudulently, 'else I'll be really annoyed, and also very much inconvenienced :( Maybe I should phone the bank and check...

I'm stuck in a major rut at the moment, i can't seem to achieve anything and it's making me really frustrated :( I can't believe over half the year is gone; it's Lammas on Tuesday, the first harvest festival, so I'm supposed to be starting to enjoy the fruits of my years labour, and instead I have naff-all to show for myself. So much for my 2006 revolution :(

Sitting here, staring at this isn't going to help unless i'm working though so I'll take my grumpy self off elsewhere...

Oh, one non-moaning thing to report; watched the recent film of Pride and Prejudice last night, expecting to maybe not enjoy it that much given the BBC version was somewhat definitive, and actually really enjoyed it! Very well done, some cunning little cinematography tricks, and very well acted. And I correctly identified the outside of Pemberley as Chatsworth :) Although, i thought they also filmed on the Roaches (like the BBC version, only *NOT* claiming to be in Derbyshire (my pet peeve with that version, Derbyshire are always trying to make out the Roaches are not in Staffordshire when they clearly are!) only the Peak District) but it seems that they didn't after all...
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Pirates 2 was sooo shiny spoilers )

It feels like Friday 'cos i was out last night. But Spacey goodness tonight in the shape of Exile and hopefully appropriate weather for hill walking on Saturday...

Hmm, I definately need a Pirates icon!
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Having a good natter to my marvellous Mum on her birthday and having her love her pressie - good
Charity shop shopping in Broughty Ferry - good
New celtic dragon pendant - good
Yummy Italian lunch - good
Spending time with [livejournal.com profile] mcwoof - good
Watching the last episode of Dr. Who - good (but the last series was still better)
Watching T in the Park on BBCi/BBC3 from the comfort of my living room - good (yes, i'm getting old, but I did *try* to get tickets)

Falling in love with absolutely gorgeous reclaimed wood 6 seater extendable dinning set in Gillies' sale - very, very bad, 'cos it's still nearly £900 and I'd buy it *if* I knew I was still going to have a job next year... But that's like, 2 1/2 months mortage! (Ye Gods, I am getting old if I'm measuring the cost of things like that!)

But hey, Mirrormask at the DCA tomorrow and Pirates... in the next few days too :)

...and not only does it feature Johnny Depp in a frock coat, but this time, we get Keira in one too, sword fighting no less... *swoon*
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I read V for Vendetta - I really enjoyed it, I'm just torn at the moment as to whether spoiler )

It'll be interested to see what they do with the film, apparently Hugo Weaving is playing V and Natalie Portman, Evey.

Also, i should read Watchmen.
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Felt like death warmed up yesterday but did manage a quick potter around town with [livejournal.com profile] mcwoof to buy an eclectic bunch of stuff:

CDs - Alanis Morrisette the Collection, Tori Amos Little Earthquakes and The best of Runrig Long Distance

Books - The Stations of the Sun: a History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton and V for Vendetta

And two rolls of rice paper and a box of coloured ink sticks.

Also forgot to mention that I've watched Kung Fu Hustle (wacky, wacky film) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (very good - I wanna dye my hair blue and work in a book shop now ;))

I sooo need to get my eyes tested!

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Filmic Blog post: Ghost(face)s of Times Past? : Review of Scre4m

This is one of the more popular posts from my personal blog. Although, perhaps, more Media Studies than Visual Culture focused, I always intersect the two in my teaching anyway.

Ghost(face)s of Times Past? : Review of Scre4m

Scre4m. 2011. Director: Wes Craven. Writer: Kevin Williamson.
Ten years on from Scream 3 and Scream 4’s references to post-modernism are as novel as protagonist Sydney Prescott’s dress sense, only I’m not sure there is any intended irony with the latter. Scream continues to be drolly self-aware of the horror genre, anchoring itself in readily available postmodern discourse concerning the end of cultural innovation, the saturation of the mass media and the deliberate blurring of the real, the unreal and the hyperreal. The film tries to update the types of cultural media with which young people engage in a 21st century postmodern era – such as twitter, blogging, apps and youtube – and it does this fairly aptly, if not a little clumsily. But the problem with postmodernism is that you can’t really move on from it. So a sequel which is trying to evolve from its purposefully postmodern predecessor is a lost cause; a ghost from the past which is no longer able to scare anyone.

Having said that, watching it was an entertaining experience. It still managed to make me jump/laugh, whilst the narrative and story arcs succeeded in being unpredictable enough and the dialogue was smart. When the person behind the increasingly violent ghostface reveals themselves, they provide a monologue on their motive, referencing celebrity adulation and home-grown journalism, suggesting that it is no longer possible to be famous for anything unless it relates to engineered real-hyper-violent titillation existing in cyberspace. ‘Sick is the new sane’ and ‘I don’t need friends, I need fans’ are lines articulated sassily and robotically by the killer whilst they [no killer spoilers] replay to their final victim a recording of one of their previous murders, ready for posting on the internet. Despite this voyeurism being a new aspect of the ghostface killings, a reference is made just scenes before to Powell’s 1959 ‘Peeping Tom,’ reinforcing Scream’s reflexivity regarding its (or Williamson’s) capacity for postmodernist, premeditated rehashing.

In some ways the world has moved on in the past decade. When Scream first hit the box office, email was a recent phenomenon which had not really caught on outside of business. By Scream 3, teens were communicating via email, sometimes by wap on their mobile phones, but facebook and youtube were yet to be conceptualised. The inclusion of objects of new social media in the latest Scream script, remain just that; objects; devices which enrich and update plot development, accessories to the crime. They do not really work to progress or alter the Scream Franchise’s original thematic USP of being self-referential, Slasher satire. Ghostface is still ghostface; an indexical metaphor for the empty yet manipulative motivations of mass cultural production. It doesn’t matter who is behind the mask; it could be any of the characters, the fact is its presence is determined, unavoidable and readily reproducible.

I wonder if I enjoyed it because it was aimed at my generation – of people who followed the first three instalments – whilst studying at university the kinds of sociological issues and cultural tropes which the films sought to innovatively consider. The main characters played by Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox (Arquette) were Hollywood spectacles for our generation having appeared in landmark TV classics such as Party of Five and Friends. Yet where the guy who played bohemian Charlie in Party of Five (Matthew Fox) reinvented himself as a hunky hero in Lost several years later, Neve and Courtney largely play the same parts in Scream a decade on. Yet, they’re no longer the focal point hotties. And perhaps, this is a feminist issue. The film will no doubt help launch a few new silky skinned stars, whether they’re actually watched by their generational equivalent audiences, here, or not. It’d be interesting to study how this sequel, and in fact all of the Screams, are digested by today’s teens. Is Scream 4’s sole intention to provoke laughs, only more cryptically than the Scream trilogy’s spoof successors did (e.g. Scary movie)? And if so, is Ghostface’s premise correct, that people are now only satisfied to watch slasher-snuff viewable in real-time on their i-phones? The saturated news coverage concerning the question of Bin Laden’s photographed corpse perhaps backs their point. Either way, the media is still the message, and our awareness of this, doesn’t seem to alter its plight.

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Groups across the world declared that the outcome of the UN Climate Conference in Lima had ‘no justice.’

In a statement signed by organisations from across the world, and led by social movements in the South said:

“What we have seen in Lima is another in a series of yearly decisions that weaken international climate rules, failing people and the planet.”

Friends of the Earth EWNI’s International Climate Campaigner Asad Rehman said:

With all that the high drama of an 11th hour text involves, developed and developing countries will no doubt wave through this weak and ineffectual text hoping to save face at this COP and convince themselves that they can improve things next year. It would be far more honest if they simply rejected this text and reconvened an emergency meeting that matches the urgency of the crisis. The planet and the poorest people in the world require more than an empty political statements that contains lots of the right sounding words but very little in actual concrete commitments. That should be the only judge of if this is a successful outcome.

“The only thing these talks will achieve is to reduce the chances of a fair and effective agreement to tackle climate change in Paris next year.

“With the world speeding towards catastrophic climate change, wealthy industrialised nations who have contributed most to our polluted atmosphere must take the lead in tackling this threat.

”The next 12 months are crucial – failure to act will have a devastating impact on us all.”

Meena Raman, Third World Network:

‘This outcome took a long drawn out fight and the end result still is so far from what people need. This bodes badly for what is possible out of Paris given the sheer lack of responsibility that the rich developed countries are prepared to take.”

Lidy Nacpil, Jubilee South Asia Pacific:

“The concrete demand was to set out how we would increase emission reductions from now until 2020, and set long term climate targets to make sure we limit temperature increase to below 1.5°C.

What has happened in Lima is that the world has said it wants to bury its head in the sand and not look at the weak and unjust 2020 climate targets again. Make no mistake, not revisiting our 2020 targets is to set us on track for 4C of warming and risk many more storms like that which hit our homes in the Philippines this week. Lima has failed the people of the world, Paris must not ignore the urgency of crisis or its agreement will not be worth the paper it is written on.”

Harjeet Singh, ActionAid International said:

“This text provides nothing meaningful on finance, loss and damage, and pre-2020 action. Any country that has the interests of its people at heart should reject this text. We see weak and unjust climate targets from rich industrialised targets and the result of those will be unimaginable devastation from climate impacts. Adaptation to that climate change will be impossible and the people who are least responsible for causing that climate change must receive compensation for their loss and damage. That loss and damage was not given distinct political recognition in the text here in Lima suggests that the Paris deal will be quick to forget the rights and needs of the world’s poor.”

Azeb Girmai, from LDC-Watch said:

“LDCs fought for recognition of the loss and damage we are suffering from climate change but the powerful trod on our proposals and ignored our rights. Loss and damage is distinct from adaptation, with distinct issues that need attention – we cannot ignore it or hide under adaptation. This heralds further devastating climate storms and dark clouds for Paris.”

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22 Dec

red dress: (gift from Adrien) Down East Basics, under tee: Forever 21, tights: Target, shoes: thrifted, barrettes: gift from Shannon

What I wore on Sunday.   Sorry my camera is so ancient (and when it was new, it was pretty cheap) and faulty.

Anyway, not sure how much blogging I’ll be doing this week.  We’ll see.  Although with my sisters around it will be easier to find someone to take pictures (and I, in turn, can take pictures of them).

I think my blogging resolution for next year will be to try and take more pictures outdoors.  Even though it’s freezing and there’s several inches of snow on the ground.  I’ve seen plenty of other bloggers do it so no excuses!

Anyway, hope everyone enjoys their holidays, and at least gets a day off!

5 Responses to “Festive”

  1. caffeinerd December 22, 2009 at 5:59 pm #

    Ooh very festive and beautiful dress! Jealous of the hair, too (I am seriously lacking hair skills). And that’s one of my resolutions, too…am actually posting a snow-outside one ASAP but want to do many more! Love others’ scenic shots.

    • Megan December 23, 2009 at 11:11 pm #

      thanks! I do, too… just wish I had a slightly better camera… hey, while I’m wishing, I wish I had a professional photographer, too.

  2. Shannon December 22, 2009 at 8:26 pm #

    wait, what? I gave you those? when?

    • Megan December 23, 2009 at 11:12 pm #

      forever ago!! I admired them at the Temecula mall or something and you bought them for me for Christmas or something a little later. That’s so funny you don’t remember. But it’s true. It’s true, it’s funny and true.

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Snow-Globe Soap

By Brenda Ponnay

Stuff their stockings with something they can wash their hands with!
By Brenda Ponnay

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What’s cuter than a button, small enough to fit in a stocking, won’t rot your teeth and leaves you squeaky clean? A mini snow-globe soap, of course! Here’s a super-fun craft you can whip up in an afternoon. It’s quick, it’s easy and it hardly makes any mess! I’d say it’s just about as easy as making a batch of homemade popsicles except you get to melt things in the microwave.

First you’ll need some wee little toys, small enough to fit inside an ice-cube tray. I found some tiny plastic reindeer, some snowflake-shaped buttons and a few mini ornaments that did the trick. I meant to find some of those cute little plastic snowmen that bakeries sometimes stick in holiday cupcakes but I never managed to run any of those down. Really anything that strikes your fancy and will fit into the ice cube tray will work for your mini snow-globe soap.

Next you’ll need to run to your nearest craft store for a brick of clear glycerine, some soap dye in blue, some soap scent (I chose peppermint because that’s what Christmas smells like to me) and some soap glitter. From your kitchen you’ll need the microwave, a dish to melt and pour things in (my Fiestaware gravy boat worked marvelously but a glass measuring cup would be fine too), a potato peeler, a cheese grater and a spoon for stirring. You’ll also need a bar of white soap.

This is technically just “melt and pour” soap so it might be considered cheating to some hard-core soap enthusiasts but I’m not about to mess with lye or distilling vodka when I’ve got a small child acting as my personal assistant. Melt and pour is plenty homemade by our standards. Especially since I get to choose what shape the soap takes and what fun toys I put inside them.

fresh cut glycerine cubes
First you’ll cut up the glycerine into 1-inch chunks. Then microwave them on high for about 40 seconds. After that, microwave in 10 second intervals (stirring in between) until your soap is a nice gloppy liquid.

After your soap is melted you can add your blue dye, scent and glitter. I added two drops of blue to get this winter sky color. Just like food-coloring, it’s always best to err on the not-putting-enough-color-in side than the oh-no-I’ve-put-too-much side. You can always add more dye. Much harder to get it out.

melting the glycerine cubes
Don’t be fooled by the picture above. It might look like ice cubes floating in Anartica but it is actually very hot. Not as hot as you might think though. I was afraid that this project would be too dangerous for my nearly-three-year-old but the soap actually cools quite quickly and as long as I kept her away from me while I was pouring, she was perfectly fine. In fact she helped me choose which toys to put in each ice cube block and she added the snow curls that would later become the snow globe floor. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Pour your glycerin mixture into each section of the ice cube tray leaving about a quarter inch at the top. You will need this space later to add the snow floor and another layer of glycerine to seal the snow floor to the rest of the globe.

sprinking snow like white cheddar
After you’ve poured the glycerine, let it cool just enough to form a thin skin on the top. It doesn’t take long. Maybe a minute, maybe a few seconds. I didn’t time it. I was too busy grating my snow to really pay attention. Then situate your toy in each ice cube block by poking it with a toothpick or pin. As it hardens it will be easier to manipulate so your toy is standing up straight and not floating dead at the top. Just make sure they are upside down because the “top” will be the “bottom” when you are done.

topped with soap shavings
After all your toys are arranged, you can add your snow. We made our soap snow by peeling off curls from a regular bar of white bath soap. I also made some smaller snow shavings by grating it with a cheese grater. Soap is really easy to manipulate. I expect kids of all ages will get a kick out of this part.

When you sprinkle the snow on top, make sure to leave spaces that you can later fill in with a cap of glycerine. I made the mistake of packing the snow a little too tightly on a few of my cubes and they later fell apart because the snow shavings were not melted and there was nothing to hold them to the top part of the snow globe. Of course you could melt opaque white soap instead of using curls for snow but I sort of liked my shavings. They look really pretty in the end. Once you’ve added the snow shavings, top each cube off with a little more glycerine.

meanwhile at the soap factory...
Next you’ll pop it in the freezer for about twenty minutes or until the cubes are cool to touch from the underside of the ice cube tray (be sure to check the middle). Then you just up-end them like you would ice cubes and your little wee snow globes will be sitting pretty, all ready to be packaged!

like jello! but not.
I used a small paring knife to shave off some of the irregularities on the bottom but that was purely aesthetic. Once you wrap them, they look almost good enough to eat. Which reminds me, make sure your kids know that these are not candy. Unless of course you want to teach them a lesson about what happens when they say naughty words but that’s another blog post for a different website.
Snow Globe Soap!
You can wrap these any old way you want, but I chose clear cling wrap because I wanted my cool little glistening gems to show through the wrapping. I printed up some home made labels and tied them up with string. Now they will be perfect for mailing off to those distant relatives, stashing inside of stockings and saving for that bath time that needs a little something special.

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Brenda Ponnay
About the Author

Brenda Ponnay

Brenda Ponnay is a stealthy secret agent who juggles parenthood to her adorable daughter by day and freelance graphic design/illustration by night. Whether it’s painting, baking, drawing, mak...

Brenda Ponnay is a stealthy secret agent who juggles parenthood to her adorable daughter by day and freelance graphic design/illustration by night. Whether it’s painting, baking, drawing, making castles out of cardboard boxes or just doing the laundry with flair, Brenda Ponnay has learned that what really makes her happy is being creative every single day.

You can read about all her crazy adventures on her personal blog: Secret Agent Josephine.

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  • So cute and looks like fun for a kid to help with!

  • JennyL

    What a great idea! I would love to try this sometime.

  • bluejayecrafts

    I can’t wait to try this. We are having our fifth snow day leading into a long Christmas school break. Bring on the projects. This one should even keep the teen-agers busy.

  • Squeee! I love this idea! I might have to pull an all-nighter after all… (which honestly, with all this teething and nursing? I’m pretty much doing that every night. *sigh*).

  • cc

    So cool!

  • Jennie

    What a great idea. It’s great for kids gift giving and fun to do with them. I love it and would love to receive one.

  • Stephanie

    What a charming idea! & it looks like so much fun. I can’t wait to try this out, my little sister will love it!
    Thank you for sharing this with us, Brenda.
    (Stumble users, thumbs up!)

  • amy

    love me some SAJ and this project!

  • These are SO CUTE!

  • Rachel

    Oooh wow. I was going to make cookies for my friends this year but after this post I am definately making these instead!
    (thumbs up on su) 🙂

  • This is a great idea. My kids and I made soap a number of years ago but nothing this cute. Thanks for your ideas.

  • This project is a great idea! I can’t wait to try it with my family! I posted a link on my blog: Crafty Mama Living

  • Heidi

    Wow! I’m saving this idea for next year (already made this year’s homemade gifts). It’s such a neat idea. Thanks for sharing!

  • So very cute! I picked this as an editor’s pick on kirtsy. 🙂

  • sara

    maybe my ice cube trays are abnormally small, but i can’t find little toys to fit in them and have enough room for a snow floor? where did you get your little animals?

  • Jenn

    I tried these tonight. Mine didn’t come out so well. =( For some reason, all my glitter settled to the bottom (top) and they had a very cloudy look. How do you keep the glitter distributed evenly?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t wait to try this. I don’t think I will get around to it for Christmas, but I think it would make a nice take home gift for a kids birthday party. Thanks for sharing… San

  • So cuuuute! I think I’m going to make some 🙂

  • Charleen

    These are absolutely adorable!
    I love that you include your gorgeous girl in the craft! How Fun! I really enjoy any homemade, sensible craft that is kid-friendly. I am going to get an early start on handmade gifts for next year. Thanks for the inspiration!!!!!!!!

  • Found this on kirtsy–adorable!!

  • Hi Sara and Jenn, I’ve been thinking about your questions.
    Regarding the toys, I had this project on my mind for a while. I actually had seen a little tiny plastic deer at my mom’s house and that’s what inspired me. So I searched all over the internet for more small plastic toys. I bought more deer like the one my mom had on Etsy at a shop called Snew. She has all kinds of small vintage plastic toys. These days toy manufacturers are so afraid of children swallowing things they don’t make anything smaller than your elbow. But we did use some toys from a gum ball machine (small alien you can see it in my flickr feed) and some mini ornaments. I really wanted those cupcake topper snowman that you can order over the internet but I wasn’t able to track down in any stores near me.
    Regarding the glitter: I may have had beginner’s luck. I’ve never made soap before but adding the glitter didn’t give me any trouble. Did you use soap glitter? My glitter was very fine like powder (probably so it’s okay to wash your face with). I imagine if the glitter was a problem, you could probably add it later to the cubes instead of when it is still very liquid. You could add a pinch to each cube and stir it with a toothpick after it was congealed a bit and then add the toy on top. You’ll have to act fast though because you want to have your snow sealed in before the cube hardens too much.
    I hope that helps!

  • very nice… it’s looks so cute

  • Wow, these are fantastic. Would you mind if I linked to your post for a Fun Activity to do with your Child section I have on my website?
    Can’t wait to make my own,

  • These are fantastic. Seriously the cutest thing I’ve seen so far this year. I hope it’s alright that I posted a link on my blog. Merry Christmas.

  • I love this idea. I hope that I can get out to the craft store tomorrow.

  • Andrea Roberts

    you rock the house with your crafty ideas. I may try to make this for a non-holiday gift…perhaps go to the dollar store and see if they have any bags of small toys or animals and use those, or make a mini-fish tank maybe by using a candy fishy? hmm, wonder if that would work or if it would just melt? I’d probably try to use a fun tropical scent like coconut or something. Thanks for the great idea. My 3 year old and I will give it a whirl this January!

  • This is a cute soap idea. There is something special about home made soap.

  • Adorable! I must must remember this for next year! Thank you so much!

  • I’m 21 but surely I would have as much fun as a 3-year-old 😀
    What an amazing idea <3

  • Sajjad Haider Jafri

    Its really nice idea for gift .. and we can add more inputs to make it more creative.. with different moulds and coulors and toys… Thank you very much for this cool idea

  • Very cool.

  • wow i realy like this its nice and when it comes down to home made i say yes help keep it alive 🙂

  • Those are so cute and creative. I will definitely give them a thumbs up on Stumbleupon.

  • amy

    Soo cute! Soap is on my handmade to do list…and this is adorable! 🙂

  • These are amazing! I really want to try it out with my kids but will have to get over my craft phobia first. Seriously, crafts always go wrong for me.

  • I made them!
    I’ll be adding more detailed photos tomorrow, when there’s more light.
    I have tiny ice cube trays and I used “Merry Minis” ornaments I found at Michael’s. Bonus: They were 70% off, so I got 4-packs for 38 cents.
    I also added essential peppermint oil instead of soap scent since I already had it on hand.
    Such a fun project! Even my husband, whom I forced to “do something with me” enjoyed it.

  • chloex314

    You should sell these on ETSY. They are awesome!

  • Boltanna

    Aww, That is so cute. I’m so gonna try to make one Hopefully I can get to a craft store.

  • I’m sure that my baby will like this. Thanks for post

  • suziwollman

    I am going to try this in my pre-school class in January… We will be studying snow and ice! TFS!

  • This is a very cool project. I can’t wait to try it myself, I am sure my kids will go crazy over it.

  • Yesi

    This is such a wonderful idea– and clearly great for the family! I’m definitely going to prepare these for new years gifts for the kids!! Thank you!

  • Very cool, I’ll have to send my wife this way. Those definitely are great stocking stuffers

  • lindsay

    I just put them in the freezer! Such a great idea. I used enough glitter to make it interesting but hopefully not too much. Also i used probably too much scent, but it should be ok. 😉 The glitter did settle to the bottom (or top if you look at it when done) but i’m not sure if all of the glitter did this or just a majority. It was soap glitter from michaels… hrm. So not sure, but hopefully it will turn out well. I found a ton of mini ornaments there so i just cut off the hanging parts and put them in there. Thanks for this idea 🙂

  • Abby

    This is such a cute idea! I’m always looking for crafty gifts for friends and family, and this is just perfect!
    You could also get those little ice cube trays that are shaped like stuff (I’ve seen guitars and fruits and veggies at Kitchen Kapers) and do this wonderful idea!
    I can’t wait for Valentines day to make soap for all my friends!!!

  • denise

    so cool” great idea, love it. thank you.

  • Cat

    Loved the soap! I took your idea and made Jello snow globes! Thanks for the inspiration! Merry Christmas!

  • Kay

    OMG! my mom loves this stuff! i should show it to her because she is always looking for new Xmas crafts!

  • Yeah, very cool project 😉

  • Gracie H.

    How cute! I wish I would’ve found this before the holidays..:) And what an adorable lil girl!

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  • Deb

    These look fun. I had a student give me homemade soap and she put a peppermint candy in the middle instead of the animal.

  • Dan

    What a nice gift…a fresh flower can added to it ..I hope for Valentines!

  • Dan

    Interesting gift item for all occasions…

  • Samantha G

    I love stuff like this. I did find you through stumble upon. This is cool

  • So Simple but innovative idea must say.

  • I LOVE these. I made soaps with little toys in them for my cousin when she was younger, but these are delightful for everyone! Where in the world did you find such tiny reindeer?
    Absolutely fantastic. Thanks so much!

  • Laura in NH

    I don’t ‘do crafts’, but want to as I have a very interested 4 y.o. SO! That being said, this looks like something even I could handle. Thank you for the clear directions and warnings – and of course, awesome clear photos!

  • Awesome and so pretty! Love it!

  • These would be great as a gift for my grandchildren. I think it would make them WANT to wash their hands so they could get to the center. And it’s art….love it!

  • cool and cute pics..

  • Amie

    Not only did i give this s thumbs up from stumble upon im adding it to my favourites, definately doing this for christmas next year 😀 xx

  • May

    Oh, these are cute! I really want to try this. Melt and pour, that’s fine for me too.

  • sian

    brilliant idea !!!

  • Skye

    Found you through Stumble. This was a great Idea! <3’s and I can’t wait to try it out!

  • This is a great idea. I’m definately going to keep this in mind for Christmas. Thanks for sharing!

  • Tori

    I found you through Stumble – Love this idea!!!

  • Darbi

    I love this idea!!!! Its not christmas time, but I think it would make wonderful anytime gifts! Thank you

  • Debbie

    These are cute! I’ll have to do this next Christmas for my nieces and nephews!

  • Denise

    Even though it’s June, I’m gonna try these–maybe even with toys from an upcoming b-day party theme or something? Or maybe put a quarter or something in it? That would motivate the kids to scrub longer! Would the hot soap ruin the coin?
    As far as the snowglobe soaps, I noticed in the picture a silver ribbon/cord tied and placed in each cube, but I know these aren’t gonna be upside down ornaments, so I was wondering if I missed a step or what the ribbons were for? Thanks!
    GREAT ideas all around!
    Denise in St Louis
    Brenda says: Actually the little cord you see is from some of the miniature toys being small ornaments to begin with. I cut them off after they were positioned. I don’t think warm soap would ruin a coin but then I’m not really up on my chemical properties of soap and coins.

  • shannon

    i stumbled onto this…AWESOME im bookmarking it

  • What a lovely idea. They look so lovely when you wrap them.

  • This is brillant! I’m doing this for the soaps in my guest bathroom.

  • Nicole

    That is so awesome! Something for a christmas treat for my 4 year old daughters preschool class! She will be so proud to hand them out. Oooooh and a halloween treat, valentines, easter, spring, summer, let’s face it 4 year olds need alot of soap! Thanks for being so awesome!

  • belinda

    love this idea! so far have loved everything on your page. will use this for our 4h crafts group. be great for valentines with heart inside or mother’s day with buttons or bows inside. i could go on and on. thanks

  • Kim

    This is just the cutest stocking stuffer I have ever seen. I can just imagine my lil grandkids washing their hands like crazy so they can get to the toy inside…it’s a win, win situation! Thanks for sharing!

  • Awesome! I am going to make these as stocking stuffers for the kids this year!

  • I have to do this. It’s adorable.
    Great, one more thing to do this Christmas season!

  • wendy

    I just tried making these and they came out WAY cloudy…so that you can’t see the toy I put in the middle! Can you tell me what I did wrong? I really had to keep heat and re-heat the glycerine a lot to keep it liquidy enough to pour. Please help…because I SOOOOO want to give these as gifts to my daughter’s friends. Thanks!
    Hi Wendy,
    I’m not an expert on soap making. I might have just gotten lucky but I don’t remember re-heating my glycerine much. I wonder if that is what did it. I googled your question and found this link:
    It recommends not reheating the glycerine more than 4 or 5 times. I’m sorry!
    I hope that helps!

  • Monica

    We’re planning on making this tonight but I’m not sure how much glycerine to use. We have a 5 lb. block of it. How much did you use?
    Hi Monica,
    Hmmm! I don’t remember! I think I bought a brick at Michael’s and used about half of it. That doesn’t really help you I bet. I’m so sorry! It’s been a year and my memories are foggy. –Brenda

  • HI – Making these with my son’s first grade class tomorrow. Think it’s okay to use a SMIDGE of blue food coloring? Or maybe liquid watercolor…couldn’t find soap dye!

  • Such a cute idea! My kids will love doing this, next year anyway ;). Thanks for sharing.

  • goodlistener

    This is a great tutorial! Your pictures and text make this project really clear and easy to understand. Thanks for posting this! (Found you on StumbleUpon and gave you a thumbs up!)

  • Oh good! I never realized that making glycerin soap could be so easy! What a wonderful tutorial. Thank you so much, my skin rejoices! Thumbs up!

  • Great gift and a fun project. They really turned out fun looking. I love the little dear.

  • Stephanie

    I just finished making these. They look adorable! I bought WAY too much glycerin. I only used about a pound. I found the soap dye and tiny ornaments on Amazon. Thanks for the tutorial!

  • Ella Mccarthy

    Amazing! This method is perfect for Christmas. I am going to sow it to my daughter. I am sure she will love it. Thank you so much for sharing it. Greetings!

  • Those are so cool. Can’t wait to try making them with the kids!


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New ‘Beauty and the Beast’ TV Spot Features More of Emma Watson Singing as Belle

During tonight’s 74th Annual Golden Globes, Disney dropped a new TV spot for the upcoming live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast featuring more of Emma Watson singing as Belle and it sounds absolutely fantastic. I truly believe Alan Menken is going to outdo his original score for the animated classic with the new version he has made for this remake.

Beauty and the Beast hits theaters March 17, 2017.

The film stars Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, Josh Gad as Le Fou, Ewan McGregor as Lumière, Sir Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, Kevin Kline as Belle’s father Maurice, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette, with a script penned by Evan Spiliotopoulos and Stephen Chbosky, directed by Bill Condor.

In this live-action re-imagining of the fairy tale, a young woman (Emma Watson) takes her father’s place as prisoner in a beast’s castle, only to fall in love with her beastly captor (Dan Stevens), who turns out to be a prince.

Author: Michael Mistroff

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Quick Previews: Conference USA

Our conference quick previews are just quick predictions for the all-conference teams and the conference standings. If you came here looking for a deep analysis on each team, you’ve came to the wrong place. We’re too lazy to do that 🙂

This conference has cost probably millions of people lots of money the last 2 seasons. Two years ago, 14 seeded UAB upset the third seeded Iowa State Cyclones, who were playing extraordinary basketball and were a popular Final Four pick. Then last March, 15 seeded Middle Tennessee State upset maybe the most popular national champion pick in #2 Michigan State. Maybe it’s time to start giving the C-USA champion a better seed than 14 or 15 in the tournament? This season, the two favorites in the league are they two recent bracket-busters. UAB, who won 26 games and the regular season conference title last year, returns four starters. The Blazers are good enough to potentially jump into the Top 25 at some point this season. Middle Tennessee State, on the other hand, returns just two starters from last season, but those two Returners were their best players. Giddy Potts and Reggie Upshaw combine to make the most dynamic guard-big duo in the league. Outside of these two teams, look for Marshall to potentially challenge for the top league spot. The Thundering Herd return four starters from last year’s third place team, although they did lose James Kelly (20.1 PPG, 9.8 RPG). But it would be a big surprise if it isn’t UAB or Middle Tennessee representing the conference come March. And if you see if one of their names on the bracket, I’d think twice about that match-up.

C-USA Projected Standings

(Records from 2015-2016 season)

1. UAB: 26-7 (16-2)

2. Middle Tennessee State: 25-10 (13-5)

3. Marshall: 17-16 (12-6)

4. Louisiana Tech: 23-10 (12-6)

5. Old Dominion: 25-13 (12-6)

6. Western Kentucky: 18-16 (8-10)

7. North Texas: 12-20 (7-11)

8. Rice: 12-20 (7-11)

9. Florida Atlantic: 8-25 (5-13)

10. UTEP: 19-14 (10-8)

11. Charlotte: 14-19 (9-9)

12. UTSA: 5-27 (3-15)

13. FIU: 13-19 (7-11)

14. Southern Miss: 8-21 (5-13)

First Team All C-USA

(Stats from 2015-2016 season)

Giddy Potts, MTSU (14.9 PPG, 5.4 RPG) PLAYER OF THE YEAR

William Lee, UAB (10.6 PPG, 6.2 RPG)

Marcus Evans, Rice (21.4 PPG, 2.2 SPG)

Erik McCree, Louisiana Tech (16.2 PPG, 7.4 RPG)

Job Elmore, Marshall (15.2 PPG, 5.8 APG)

NCAA Tournament Bid: UAB

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LOL Yourself!

     If it wasn’t for the witticisms I encounter in my room on a nightly basis, I’m not sure how I’d survive in this business. Take this, for example. Someone enters my room with the following comment, naturally intended to stroke my 42–year-old ego; “you dont look old enough for this site lol”. It’s a good thing then that I’m not trying to pass myself off as an 18 year old. Whew! Thanks for the heads-up there, Einstein!

     I’m at an age right now where I am really happy in my own skin. Looking ahead to my 40’s was far scarier then, when I was young and dumb enough to fear it, than it is now that I’ve arrived there. This is, indeed a good example of how we should look to other challenges in life; as something that is much easier once you’re past the initial stages of worry and fear. It’s never as bad when you get there, as you thought it would be. Back to that comment. When blurting out a sarcastic remark, isn’t the whole point to exaggerate, build something up to more than what it is or bring it down to a ridiculous level? Just my thoughts, which bring me to another thought; one person seems to be of the impression that age is a major concern with me and his silly spewings would have any impact whatsoever on my confidence. Appears to me that this is the same person who has been harrassing me for a year. He likes to use words like “bitch” and “old”, as adjectives in his well thought out one-liners. Far be it for him to string together a sentence that implies the same thing. How mature. Go ahead, tell me everything you know. I have 10 seconds.

Why couldn’t my stalker be more intelligent? Why must I have to deal with a complete idiot? I’d like to be able to use a quote like this on him: “You speak unskilfully: or, if your knowledge be more, it is much darkened in your malice.”, except, its meaning would fail to register in his pea-sized brain and perhaps he would take it as a compliment. I can’t win!


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Poker Player Persona … or Peyras?

Interestingly enough, he deleted all of his rude posts to me, like they never existed. The screenshot below shows the screenshot I took prior to him deleting those tweets. He’s become so predictable, I actually foresaw that coming. It’s obvious this is you, Peyras. Has your stench all over it. Just like the role you played as ChrisRo3034 in this attack  a few months ago (and with several other aliases and member handles on Streamate).

I screenshot everything. Don’t think that after all these years of being harassed by you, Peyras, I would let you continue to get away with it. You are not getting away with this. Have your fun with it. Remember, what you do will always come back to you, especially when you fuck with someone’s livelihood. You are responsible, no matter where the orders originate because there is no fucking way you’re doing this on your own, without pay. Through your insults, jabs, overall behavior, I have a damn good idea where this is all coming from. The more I read, the more it becomes clear. Don’t forget, this is the internet and you’re a huge coward. I have only text to go on at the moment, but IPs can be traced (even spoofed ones) and so can cell phones, which is another part of your game. Think good and hard about what you’re doing because the more you continue, the deeper hole you are digging for yourself in the long run. You are going to get caught and you will pay for what you’ve done to me, so will Streamate, for allowing it.


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Kirsten Scarcelli, Holistic Health Coach at Nourish Yourself Now

“A friend of mine highly recommended Amber. Now I would like to do the same. Beginning with our very first conversation, Amber has been the consummate professional, while at the same time personal and very approachable.

What brought me to Amber, was my goal to rebuild my website and blog. I was very trepidatious about the aspect of all the “tech stuff” involved. Amber was with me, every step of the way, taking care of a lot of “behind the scenes” operations. Her instructions were always very precise and clear and I had no problem implementing her directives. Communications were excellent; whenever I had email questions, Amber’s response and follow up were most immediate.

In addition it was Amber’s enthusiasm and excitement she shared about creating a new site that made it all the more a pleasure to work with her. I highly recommend Amber.”


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Voting for President

I have yet to hear one voter who is taking pleasure in the 2016 presidential election. Most will be glad when it is over. I avoid election articles in our newspaper, and I skip every Facebook post having to do with politics. It was while walking to the creek near our polling place that I saw a bunch of election signs. I don’t know why I looked at them, but I saw a set of three red and white signs that thrilled me.

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What about you? Would you vote for Forest Gump for president? He certainly knew how to run.

15 thoughts on “Voting for President

  1. Best election post yet!! You hit a home run on this one Anne. I have a tough time listening to the news lately because of all of it……I do, however, love those three signs. My dad used to tell us that sometimes you need to find the humor and laugh or you will cry. I think he might be right.

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Friday, February 5, 2016

Lisa Gawlas: The Original Earth Impregnating ALL
Open and Ready on the New Expanded Earth!!

There's a lot of symbols and mentions in here that trigger a lot of inner codices in me. The bubbles (spheres) the current "soap bubble realm" we inhabit, and the "New Earth". There's even a reference to Shambala which is something that has come onto my plate via the curious "Chinese" messages that came thru Denice (I'll be posting more on what we know about that shortly).

 I haven't posted much from Lisa Gawlas, but I know she's popular among many of my blog readers. If you haven't read her stuff follow the link to her blog for some interesting metaphysical insights as to what is happening. She's quite accurately reading the quantum field at this time. -AK

The Original Earth Impregnating ALL Open and Ready on the New Expanded Earth!!
 by Lisa Gawlas

Reunion Island… gotta love the name, image and fusion of today’s sharing!!

I knew something big must have been underfoot when half way thru my blog on the 2nd, my brain crashed.  Hell it was only 6am and I had only been up for 2 hours, it didn’t matter, the rest of the day I was akin to quicksand.  When I woke up yesterday and sat down to share, nothing came out.  Even the things I knew I hadn’t shared yet went rolling back deep in my mind to the unfindable zone.

Fine!!  I’ll start catching up on emails, a very daunting task!!

However, before I get into the wonders of yesterday on the field, I want to start this out with a precious soul who has signed up with me to assist her with meditation, navigating and harvesting information that would help her find her footing and her passion in this new world from the inside out.

I gave her the meditation class to start working with, helping to see and hear and experience. What she shared is from class three, building your personal soul gym, in which we started with 5 very specific rooms to see and understand beyond your self.  She went from I can’t to freakin rock star rather quickly and I want to share the email she sent me the other day, to give not only hope to all of you working within, but excitement too.  It actually all does fit into what I seen and understood in yesterday’s series of readings:

You asked me to tell you what I get in meditation about how to use the genesis cells so here it is.
In meditation I went into the bioengineering room and asked for more information on getting and using genesis cells.  I then, at your recommendation, opened a new room off of it called genesis cell room.  It contained a lot of balls about 4” in diameter.  The balls were mostly white but there were a few red and a few yellow too. I remember starting to see them when we talked on Friday.  As I was attracted to the balls individually, I’d take it in my hand and squish it into my body.  I squished them in wherever I wanted to be new again; my face, eyes, belly etc. etc.  I continued squishing them in and feeling their energy throughout the day.  Their energy was especially strong if I focused on them while also touching myself, like when I put cream on my face and lotion on my arms and legs.  I also get I can activate them when I exercise and a muscle feels uncomfortable.  I can just send their energy into it.
Then in meditation this morning, I got that my next step is to take these changes into the discarding room and let go of all the old cells that are not serving me in the way that I want and fill the space they leave with genesis cells.  Next, walk into the new attire room and allow the energy of that room to help me activate them.  When I focus on them I only feel them in the right side of my brain, but if I put my hands on my face, belly, arms, legs, etc. I can feel them where ever I touch while focusing on them.
While writing this my “guys” are telling me that then I need to go to the library room and learn more about them and how to use them.  Also, to go to the viewing room and see myself in this more alive body.  Here I started to write renewed body and my team said no, not renewed and they finally allowed “more alive”.  I am not sure that fully describes it so I’ll keep searching for the right words to describe the changes. I sense I will eventually end up in the special talent room finding out how to implement these new cells in my healing or new special talent. I am already starting to see the “work” people should be doing that will make their heart sing.
For me this is pretty exciting stuff and exactly what I wanted!  Feel free to try it and share if you want.
Much love and appreciation for your help,
I will come back to that “more alive” expression in a bit.  How all this really started to drop into place on my 2 hour round trip drive to the dentist yesterday.

My first reading of the day, holy frustrated excitement batman.  With everything within me, I so wish I could show you in the true light of my vision, how extraordinary the field of light is now, sadly, you are still stuck with my words.  Dammit!

The air itself was not clear but instead carried a golden/bronze hue to it.  Directly in the center of her field was a line, maybe like a magnetic pole or something that went from the ground upwards about 10-15 feet (always going to the scale of my vision) and then this line started to open up like a V.  In the center part of the V opening, the clarity of airspace, I am not even sure how to describe it.  The golden/bronze stayed to the outside of the V and inside it was like High Def on steroids, clearer and sharper than any vision I had ever experienced, in life or in the field.

Clear across the field, in the west area, a well-lit planet was rising, because of the shading on the planet I assumed it was the moon, but I don’t want to make any assumptions especially when we had such a shift from the 1st of February.  I didn’t hear a sound from the field, and let me tell you, I was begging for audio.  I could see this imagery, I could feel it to my core, but I didn’t understand what I was seeing and what it meant to my lady.

What the hell is that V-shaped opening mean?  What does that moon or planet mean… heyyyy… help some ladies out here please!!

A good 15 minutes into begging for understanding one of her team members showed up standing directly just on the outside of my back door.  She had an interesting attire on, a turban on her head and a simple dress on her body, both matching in muted down colors that blended so perfectly that at first glance it looked like the colors were one, not three.  But as I stared a hole into her, waiting for her to say something… anything, I realized the colors of her attire were white, pink and lavender, but again, blended so well that at first glance it looked like a single color.

She did help us understand what we were seeing, but in no way like I am familiar with.  I hear, I get packages of knowing, I get all kinds of ways spirit talks to us, but nothing ever like this.  I am not even sure the first thing she said, well, didn’t say… I became aware of like tiny bubble in the upper left side of my kitchen, in my house, that seemed to burst and in their bursting released words and feelings so fast they were coming out of my mouth before I had time to even realize what was said or felt or however the hell that worked out.  It was kinda kewl and incredibly different.  She kept referring herself as an “Old African Housewife.”  Huh??  I realized she has no discerning skin at all. Within her clothes she was a beautiful energy Being.  I was looking to see is black or white or what… none of it.  Nor was that important either.  It had nothing to do with what she referred to herself as.

I eventually understood that the V thing was the full on opening, the full on alignment with the core of the earth, what we are now calling the “original earth.”  The magnetic pole that eventually formed a V was the opening of many of the dimensions that until now (this information I got from another reading yesterday) were never presented to us incarnate Beings.  They were very specifically hidden away, unviewable, inaccessible so not a single molecule of what we now refer to as “soap-bubble land” could taint them.  Keeping in mind, soap-bubble land is what many think of as our fall from grace, but we didn’t fall anywhere, we purposely created alternate dimensions to house the density of duality, the negative spectrum of duality so we can play and learn in that diversity.

I find it interesting that we have created the story that heaven is above us, hell is below us and we were always at the mid section, choosing.  Choosing the higher frequencies or lower ones.
Anywayz, back to my lady’s Old African Housewife.  When I asked her about the word “Old” I instantly seen [saw -AK] the old/original earth.  She was indeed talking about coming from there.  Let me leave the rest of her name here for now, because I would not understand Africa until my car ride, I still have no real idea what she means by housewife, but I know for sure, its now what we think.

The Old African Housewife is rather good at sign language, what wasn’t bursting forth in bubbles in my kitchen she was using her hand to affirm what i was feeling.  The planet in the west is indeed the full moon of February.  I had to crack up when she affirmed this by putting her index finger to her nose then pointing back to me.  Why wasn’t a yes good enough??

As my next lady in the field would affirm even more… the theme of the day was “sign language.” Not so much the kind we think of for the deaf, but not that far off either.  We MUST pay attention to the signs, the living signs all around us, in trust and without fear of any sort.

My second lady had a strange bubble fountain coming out of her center of creation.  A shit ton of muted pastel colored bubbles rising from a single point in the ground and blasting upwards, in a wider V formation and as these bubbles spread out, they also vanished from my field of vision.

Again, in a series of odd sign language and non verbal communication, I understood (eventually) that there was now a complete open and fully working pipeline from the core, which is now the original earth that is releasing what spirit is referring to as the original molecules of life from that pristine earth, the true garden of eden, untainted in any way from the trips into soap-bubble land.
Altho i asked time and time again why are the colors muted, almost like their true and full energy is being held back, no one told us at all.  Smirky spirit smiles is all I get!!

So it came time for my lady to ask a question, even as the words were coming out of her mouth, a ton of hands appeared from west to north, just outside the energy field of my lady’s created reality, applauding.  My lady had just broken up with a guy who was knee-deep in soap-bubble land and obviously she got an ovation for the decision!!  More sign language!!  Only there were no body’s that I could see, just a lot of clapping hands, from about 3 inches of the forearm, the wrist and hands, all in this golden/bronzy hue.

As she and I was talking, suddenly they (her team) [this is an interesting intersection of the "team" of guides Lisa Gawless speaks of and the teams of guides,  spoken of in James Redfield's book The Secret of Shambala, its not accidental IMO... -AK] inserted an additional visual that really really surprised me.  Her bubble fountain was spewing steady as all this other information showed up.  I could see a lava oozing volcano about 10 feet north of her center (future) and it was suspended about 3 feet from the ground she lives upon.  Imagine my surprise when she said she lives an hour or so drive from Mount hood. She mentioned the increase in seismic activity taking place there.  If I am remembering these names correctly today, she is about 5 hours from Mt Rainier.

Suddenly i remembered the dream I had last year about the activity underground and the eruption of the volcanos in that area.  Thru our conversation spirit noted that the way the energies flow to everyone is thru the active volcano.  Those of us on the new earth can access the energy without the eruption, but accessing it still does, on purpose, shift all the dimensions beneath us and the earth shakes, the lava spills to seed everyone.

Pay attention to the SIGNS.  No fear, not trying to stop anything because it wouldn’t work anywayz. Try and squeeze a lady in labor legs together, that baby is coming one way or another!!  LIFE is unstoppable!!

So then my third lady, this is where my first lady’s visuals became clearer in understanding.  This precious soul had like a magnetic tube that I could not see, just felt the energy off, from the ground to about 10-15 feet above the ground, creating pastel sheets of swathy energy.  Her team explained these are dimensions that have been hidden from humanity that she not only now has access to, but must go into and bring forth the sacred information from there to the masses (us.)  Her team color coded the swaths to show more than one dimension and this pipeline that I knew was there but I could not see it what she will use to place herself within the dimensions.

I am going to jump to my last lady (I am running out of time and still have a ton to share.)  My lady was in Australia, a day ahead of us and before we even connected on Skype, I could see a shit ton of bubble, clear and various size bubbles blowing into my house.  What the hell??  Even when we connected, it actually intensified.  Streaming in from the field thru my window and infiltrating my kitchen about 3 feet in, then disappearing from my field of vision.

The pure molecules of the original earth are now impregnating the dimensions within our space with new life.  They (her team) kept everything clear so I would not try and understand what was being impregnated and where.  Instead they showed a larger view of her field of life and all these sections that just kept reminding me of the deepest honeycomb bee hive ever seen, and one bubble would go in and fertilize the section.

Let me give you something that may trip your mind up like it does mine (why should i be the only one lol.)  When we look around ourself, our world, we, on purpose see air, clear air.  It would be way too disorienting if we seen something like this:

Every intersection in that image would represent a dimension.  What my team is calling interdimensional space.  When we go higher in the realm of earth, then we start accessing the multidimensions.  All of it together, uncountable.  So I beg of you, if you think 5th dimension, 12th dimension, numbers at all… stop it!!  Without even realizing it, you limit yourself.

However, there are frequencies, octaves that are higher than others, that is the key to accessing other spectacular dimensions.  You job is to vibrate at those octaves, in which case many associate the 5th dimension with Self Realization, love, mastery… trust me, if you are on the new earth, you are already there!!  Now its time to put on the explorer’s hat and well, explore new sights, sounds, communication and ways of living so fully, more alive on earth than ever before.

So my beautiful Aussie lady gave us a heads up.  This impregnation started on February 3rd, is embedding your/our entire field of created reality in all the various dimensions that will open to life experienced and her team showed us her Saturday, our Friday when a new skin (and I seen it like a peachy colored skin or membrane or something) happens.  I rescheduled her cuz that’s about as much I could understand.

Now to my amazing car ride to the dentist.  Of course, I had my second listening of the audio book “My Life After Death” from a young man (20) who committed suicide and found a wonderful spirit translator (Jamie Butler) to write this book thru.  So the entire book is his first person perspective of how spirit and us incarnated, interact and what all he is capable of doing here in the vast dimensions of earth.  It was perfect background music for my processing.

The first thing I was thinking of was my lady in Washington state and that volcano.  Suddenly my own memory was taken back to when I was in the Salvation Army homeless shelter in 2001.  I had just come off a week long spiritual strike (I was pissed to be in a homeless shelter and refused to meditate lol, I am so human lol) and I was in the bath and suddenly, I was standing in a lava flow that was up to my ankles.  In my meditation I could feel the heat of the lava, the landscape completely unfamiliar to my eyes… to this day, I never understood why I had that experience… until yesterday.

When I got out of that meditation I had 1st and 2nd degree burns on my foot and ankle but ONLY on my right foot.  The rest of me, including my left foot, completely fine.  I did find out later that day or days later, at that very moment a volcano erupted in the Congo.  Africa. The point of origin for the seeding of new, conscious, living spirit in biology.  There was no ego as we have now back then.  Old African Housewife ties in here… I have no clue how, but I know she does.

I also remember the guardians that sang and shared and stood guard at the top of the mesa when I first moved in here.  Just about all of them having human incarnates here, now.  We spent the first few years linking them back up to you, consciously.  Obviously, very well done.  There are not as many up there now, they’ve come Home within YOU!!

The Guardians of Shambala.  Waiting eternity’s for our arrival and welcome.  Parts of our soul energies protecting the original earth and her secrets with loving heart and firm conviction.  Now merged back into living biology called… US!!  WE truly Are Here!!

Then came one of my favorite franchises, The Twilight Series.  Edward the vampire of Light, he twinkled in the sunlight like a thousand diamonds. Spirit.  Jacob, the native american shapeshifter.

Bella, torn between the two and loving them both each in their own way.  But who can resist a man who twinkles in the sunlight?? LOL!

I was given the image of Bella turning into a vampire (scene clip below, fast forward to about 2:35 on the time stamp) and the pain of changes taking place within her body.  You and I have been undergoing these changes for a long while.  The fusion of spirit and biology now completed (for most of us, some are still in process.)

Just like in the Twilight series, those reborn all have their own unique super powers they are born with.  Us too!!  They all have enhanced vision and hearing, us too!!  I realized so fully yesterday, my infatuation with the Twilight series was about our own transformation… and equally, waiting for the Edward to enter my world, or a Jacob.

I also want to share the clip of how Bella goes from looking ragged as hell to stunningly healthy and beautiful… the restoration.

We have, by complete free will and dedication, FUSED spirit and biology together as one.  We ALL have our own unique super powers, and even in Twilight, Bella had to practice, perfect using hers, us too!!  Even on the other side of the veil, as described in detail by Erik Medhus (see referenced book above) at the soul level, we must practice perfecting what we are capable of and going beyond that, if we desire.

Well, I know there is sooo much more, but my tap was just shut off lol.  So I will let you digest this as I get ready for another bizarre and exciting day in the field.  God, I love you all so much.  Thank you for giving me, giving us ALL the gift of understanding thru You!!
Big big impregnable ((((HUGZ)))) of wonder and excitement to ALL!!

Lisa Gawlas

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