My bottlecaps

(as usual lately, click for bigger pics)

So far we got

Busch:




Budweiser:




Bud Select:




Redbridge:




Labatt Blue:




Landshark:





Also thinking of going to a local "brew your own beer" store to see if they have plain bottle caps in stock (I've found them online already, so if I can't find them then it's all good) I'm just thinking that parents might not want to buy their kid my "Hannah Montana pendant" if it's on the back of a Budweiser cap.

We're also gonna start splurging once a week on "good" beer so that I can get more awesome bottle caps for my future bottlecap art. Cuz not only am I gonnado inside the cap art, but i'm thinking I can make magnets and stuff as well.

So those of you who drink awesome things that are capped .... please save me your caps and I will love you forever!!!!!

xoxoxo

ao glad I have a laptop

I was watching last night's "Ugly Betty" episode just now and a part came up that just struck a major chord with me. It was a short 5 second moment ... a line that Betty Suarez said to Gio while they are chaperoning the school dance.

Gio is looking around the room telling Betty that the kids at the dance are just like the people she knows in her everyday life. He points out a boy with his arms around 2 girls "There's Daniel" he says. A mean-spirited blonde girl is picking on someone and "There's Amanda" He tells her that she was the kid who didn't have any fun in junior high and she proceeds to list all the activities she was part of, like yearbook and multi cultural club and tells him that she had plenty of fun.

That's when Gio finds "Betty" in the crowd of kids. A lone girl sitting on the bleachers writing in a notebook. He turns to Betty and says "She's probably covering the dance for the schoo newspaper" And Betty turns to him and says, "No, she's waiting for someone to ask her to dance."

It absolutely made me pause the show and pick up the laptop. Because that girl was also me.

I spent so much of my high school life behind a notebook. I kept a journal of one form or another since 1986. (Side note I just found page 1 of the very first entry I ever made into my journal. It's still hard to read. Perhaps someday I'll share it.)

My point is not the journal however. It is that I hid behind it. That everywhere I went I used my journal to cover up the fact that I really just wanted people to talk to me but I was too shy to make the first move. So I wrote instead and hoped against hope that someone would come over and "ask me to dance" and consequently give me a reason to set that notebook down and live.

I'm not saying I didn't live. But I sucked at interactions with people. I really did. I look back at it now and I'm sometimes amazed that i had friends at all. Thankfully, the friends I did make were quality and most are still friends of mine 20 years later.

I wonder sometimes tho what life would have been like if I wouldn't have been so afraid to interact with people. If I would have joined in conversations at the end of classes instead of pulling out my notebook to jot down my thoughts and hide away in. If I had been able to ask someone to dance instead of constantly waiting for someone to ask me.

BEERINGS!!!!!

Combine beer and earrings and what do you get?

presenting BEERINGS!!!!!




courtesy of the awesomely crafty banshee!!!!!

(click on the pic to see them bigger)

Finished Tawashi

Click on the pictars to see them bigger (they will open in a new window).

The following are the tawashi I've made with cotton. The square-ish one measures approximately 5" x 4.5" The star is 6" from point to point. The heart is 6" wide and 4" from point to top of the rounded section and the spiral circle is 3"












And this is the only set i have made out of acrylic yarn so far





I still really don't have much of a clue as to what I'm gonna charge for these.

I was thinking $10 a set for the cotton ones and maybe $8 a set for the acrylic ones? is that too expensive do you think? and for etsy it would only be about $3 for shipping per set.

And bonus pictar of the newest baby-ghan I have that I"im gonna also put up tomorrow. It measures approx. 25" x 30"

Yummy cerveza

Wow I'm feeling chatty!!!

Just finished watching "I Am Legend"

I know lots of people don't like Will Smith, but I do. I can't help it. Even crazy scientology and being best friends with crazy Tom Cruise can't change my mind.

SO ... I have never seen any of the other versions nor have I read the book that it was based upon. So I had no idea what to expect. I did watch it with hubby who has seen the other versions tho. He thought it was an excellent blend of the 2.

I loved it.I will admit I started getting just a little sick of his day to day activities, but it totally paid off in a huge climactic turn which made me cry (not the end .... altho the end was fabulous!)

And on the TV tip I'm totally not surprised on the eliminations on Dancing With The Stars and American Idol this week. Should make for awesome episodes next week. Also looking extremely forward to LOST this week.

And can I just say that the Doctor's new assistant on Doctor Who is driving me absolutely batty and annoying the h3LL outta me!?! Wouldn't be surprised if they bring Rose back .... after all didn't we just see her? (was it last week or the week before ... i get confuzzled)

OH! and we finally got rid of our Orange bondo Bonne!!! YAY!!!! It is no longer taking up room in our driveway. I'll be the neighbors will be ecstatic when they notice!

AND!!! We're heading up to Somewhere tomorrow night for gayraoke!! I'm hoping to sing something from Rent ^_^

Time to work on a couple more tawashi, watch tonight's Boston Legal, and then hit the hay!
xoxox

My newest endeavour!

so I've been talking about doing this for awhile now, but we finally got some supplies and I'm gonna be making bottlecap jewelry! I'm so excited!!!

Basically I'll take a bottlecap and slightly flatten it out with a rubber hammer, put down a pictar I've sized and printed out and fill it with clear resin to protect it, then punch a hole in the top edge and attach a jump ring and then either hang it from a ball chain or a cord (might let people choose which they prefer cuz the price is equivelent) or earring hooks.

I also got a resin mold so that I could make my own resin pieces. I'm specifically thinking of just having pictars that I surround in the resin .... I can make them all different shapes so i wouldn't be limited to circles that can fit in a bottlecap.

I'm so excited!!!!

and tomorrow I plan on getting the tawashi that I've finished so far listed on etsy ... sneak peek here of course cuz you all is cool like that!

I LOVE BEING CRAFTY!!!!!

Noodle soup

Joel is my hero!!!

I felt like an idiot, but Joel totally walked me thru resetting the router and modem and setting up the connection and he was awesome and I love him for being so patient and helping me out!!!

no more herky jerky internet connections! And no more scamming off the neighbor's intermittent and unreliable wireless connection!!! WOOOOOO!!!!

now all I need to do is figure out why the CD rom isn't opening up on the puter downstairs and we'll be golden all the way around!!!!

*does happy dance*

full of frustration

warning this could be techincal and boring

I am so close to giving up but I've already spent 2 days trying to get this router thing to work. altho I finally had a breakthrough today by finally getting the laptop to recognize the wireless card. Seems the puter just didn't want to recognize the drivers so I had to shove them in it's face.

I worked on getting the router to work today for awhile and finally caved in and called tech support and they had me do the usual ... unplug the modem and router and turn off the puter and then replug and reboot. It was something I had already done .... in the same order they told me to .... and it only worked for a little bit before I would have to do it again.

So it worked, and with the notebook card finally recognized I was able to freely surf without wires. SO EXCITING!!!! i was able to sit out side on the deck in the sun and relax as I totally wasted time.

This lasted a little more than an hour when suddenly everywhere I tried to surf led me to a stupid dsl help page.

and now I can't connect again to the internet with the modem connected to the router. I've googled and done what they suggested and still nothing. I'm at my wit's end.

bonus tho i have discovered that somewhere around me there in fact is someone with a wireless router that I am currently connecting to on my laptop.so even tho my router isn't working I am still roaming around free of wires ^_^

which then leads me to this (just kinda thinking aloud) since I found a connection that's nearby do i just try and sell the router and mooch? and hope whoever is the source doesn't block me (if they can do that) and just hardwire the connection from puter to modem? I also wanted to add the puter we have downstairs in the basement. i have a usb wireless adaptor that came with the router that (once i figure out why the CD drive isn't working) i can install on that puter and wirelessly connect from there. I know it sounds like overkill having 3 puters to sure the interwebz ... but it would be nice. and I don't really want to network them .... just have them all interwebz ready.

I'm kinda pissed at myself for not being able to get the wireless card recognized until today and therefore not knowing about the other wireless connection. We wouldn't have had to buy the router.

But then i think it might be a good thing to have the router. If i can ever get the damn thing to work. I'm seriously pissed at myself for not being able to get the router to work on my own. I'm smarter than this. I just can't figure it out.

I don't know. I need feedback. And help to install the damn thing.

Fwd:

Me chilling on the deck w/ the laptop.

sometimes people are stupid

had an argument with people at the local watering hole tonight. People there were discussing gas prices and things to "fix" the situation. I know I shouldn't have butted in but I couldn't help myself.

One of them had a brilliant idea that everyone should just not go to work for a week so that they wouldn't be spending money on gas and then the prices would go down. ummmm yea sure.

I explained there would be people willing to go to that job anyway and perhaps in place of whomever isn't going. They called me a scab worker (even tho we weren't talking about union jobs at all) and the barmaid said that if i crossed a picket line I should be prepared to die.

seriously wtf!?!

so anyway, the topic then went to the "gas out" days that they have. You know, you get the emails every once in awhile about how you shouldn't buy gas on "this certain day" to make the gas companies feel the sting. again, great in theory i suppose. But it never works. People buy gas the day before or the day after if they participate in the gas out at all.

Of course the barmaid is all "well i knew 50 people that didn't buy gas on that day this year" well that's all well and good but 50 people isn't gonna make an impact. I mean, I'm all for organizing and protesting and all, but let's be realistic. These "gas out"s are NOT the answer.

So I tried to explain exactly what I just said ... that people buy before or after the gas out date and therefore there isn't any change in what places are selling in the grand scheme of things. Another thing they didn't want to hear.

(Just now in researching the "gas out" (which started in 1999) i found it amusing that people this year weren't even agreeing on the actual day it should happen. The barmaid said it was on May 2nd, but I read a thread that it was scheduled for May 15th and there's a video up on youtube that says it's supposed to be sometime in June 2008. How are you supposed to make a palpable impact if you don't do it on the same damn day?)

So then the barmaid says "well it's not about the sales, it's about organizing people and showing them that we can organize and try to make a change"

what?

seriously the whole point of organizing is to facilitate change, at least I always thought so. So what if you show that 50 people got the email and didn't buy gas on a certain day. If the fact that they did this doesn't result in a lowering of prices or something else along those lines, what good is it?

The whole "gas out" idea annoys me anyway. Like I said people will just buy the same amount on a different day. Hell I get phone calls from my mom "remember you're not supposed to buy gas tomorrow so make sure you haved enough tonight" which imho defeats the purpose.

(i hate those spammy emails anyway. "if you fwd this email Microsoft will give you $25" ... "kid is dying of cancer and the red cross will donate $1 for every person that reads this email" ... "send this sappy story to 500 people and a genie will appear and give you 3 wishes" ... you know the kind. And I'm the asshole person that will google it and send out the link to snopes that tells you it isn't true. And yet somehow I keep getting the same damn emails year after year)

So anyway, after saying my piece, I finally shut up and I know people are hating me right about then. And I really don't care at that point. Those people prolly already hated me I just finally gave them reason.