Catching up with some Random Cell Pics!

Happy 1 Year Blogoversary to ME!

• Hi ya. Today marks my 1 year Blogoversary. Woweeee, only a year?...has felt like more for some reason. And not that THAT is a bad thing. ;) Don't you love the cake pic I found above...ooooo, I definitely would love to have a cake like that around...even just to stare at because it's so awesome! ^_^

• Anyways, I haven't been around much to blog (have you noticed?)...cuz things have been a little hectic. I'm hoping I can write more (because of course I want to!) once I'm on a lil' break from work at the end of the month. I've missed my bloggy friends, though I'm happy some of you are on FaceBook. That is SO great!

• Well, just wanted to say HI and BIG THANKS for following my blog, commenting on the things I show you through my Looking-Glass, and for just being there. You are some great friends & followers. Hope we can stay in touch for a while through here. And jeez, blogging has definitely helped me in so many ways. Can't think of NOT having my blog at this point! Big HUGS to you all on this special day. Take care~
  

Enjoy your holiday!

• Hi friends. How are you? I'm good. Of course I haven't forgotten about my blog or YOU, just been a bit busy. So just wanted to say hope you enjoy your holiday and if you have time off (yay, that I do, and I need it!) enjoy that as well. Will any of you be going out on Black Friday for any BIG sales (so so early in the morning)? Jeez, I've seen that some sales start as early as 3 AM, yikes! I usually like to go later in the afternoon/evening...if I do go...which is a maybe.

• After working 3 Black Friday's at Toys R Us, there's nooooo way I would go out...unless maybe Dunnys were half off or something awesome like that, lol. Ok, my CD has ended so I should get going too. I really do miss you my dear bloggy friends...and I give thanks to you today for all your sweet comments, thoughtful concern, and BLOG love year round! You all rock, but you know that already. ;)

• Take care & blog at ya later. (OH and my 1 year Blogoversary is coming up soon. On the 2nd of December. I'll do my best to do a post that day...I mean it's such a special day, I shouldn't even say I would only try! Oh and Blogoversary cards/letters/gifts are wonderfully welcome! ^_^) Ciao! {Don't ask me why but I like to say "Ciao!" now.}

Cellar Door (for cult film art show)

I made this (Cellar Door) for an upcoming art show which is all about cult films. This piece was inspired from one of my fave films, Donnie Darko. I still have to put hinges on the door but other than that, it's finished. Sooo, what does "Cellar Door" mean? Well, I guess it's anyone's guess...and this is my interpretation of it. Hope you dig it! Take care.~




On the back of the cellar door...




What you see when you open Cellar Door. Yesssss....it's a collage of Frank & Donnie. And many of you know I love collages so it wasn't a hard decision to make. Plus some of my fave quotes from the film too!

Yes, the back is bigger than the front but it's ok. I want to put the door kinda in the middle of the back (aka: the collage). I'll post a pic of the finished piece when the time comes. :)

The 3 Alice posters combined, SWEET!!!

Yup all three posters connect to make one big (gorgeous) poster/banner. I am sooooo going to get this when it comes out...and I would assume they will sell the whole image above rather than three separate posters. Yet either way, I want it! And many of you know that I've been excited for this film for a long long time. So to see this is truly wonderful! :) I tried putting this banner as big as possible but it's still coming up not-so-big...but I if you click on it, it'll get bigger. So please do or you'll be missing out! Take care friends and hope your week is going well.~

Poems by Alice Walker

• Every time

you

die

you

live

differently.

• The end

is coming

yesterday

it was

here

too.

• Those

who remember

have

been touched

by us.

• The dead

do not

have

long

to wait

for birth.

• We do not

know

anything

think

of that.

• Virginia

was

right

to be

insane.

• Fearless

lie down

beside me

I cannot

bite emptiness.

• Why not

choose?

• Do not

cling

to being

lost.

• Who taught us

to ask

for

that

which

makes

us

weep?

• You will

long

for

me

and

I am

inside.

• Take a

risk-

grow old.

• When we die

the

ocean

of

Life

closes

over

us.

• We are

protected

by

nothing

but

our

thoughts.

• Believe in

no God

that

does not

believe

in you.

• Do not

repeat

everything

you've

learned.

• I am not

so

easily

killed

as

you

thought:

So firmly

am I

a part

of

you.

• We must

dream

our

way

out

of this.

• These poems were some of many out of a book called A Poem Traveled Down My Arm by Alice Walker. I really enjoyed this book of poetry. Check it out sometime if you can.
• Enjoy your weekend~

Want to see what Heidi won?

Then, please click HERE to see her post from today. Heidi is a blog author and also a follower of my blog who recently won my Blogoversary prizepack. Thanks again to Heidi for the great questions and for posting pics! Take care all~

Mike would be mad...

...if he knew I was doing this post. He would say "Why bother!?!" But I don't care...I have feelings and I think it's important to express them...and maybe some people won't agree but hey, that's fine. This is my blog afterall and I can do what I want! So there! :P

OK, this is what just happened. I was reading something on Yahoo or AOL about the new (atleast I believe it is) Marilyn Manson video "Running to the Edge of the World." And there's a lot of speculation/controversy on it I guess. So what I got out of the article was that he did this music video, a girl is in it who looks very very VERY similar to his past girlfriend (Evan Rachel Wood), and basically she gets extremely beat up by him. At the end...like the last 2 minutes. So you just see him singing into the camera for 4 minutes (zzzz...and the point is what?) and then this crazy violence involving a girl...a woman.

And so we watched it and I knew what my reaction would be during and after it from the article. I hated it. I don't understand what the reaction besides "WTF!?!" I'm supposed to have. I don't know if it's different for a guy or what but there's almost nothing I hate more than watching a woman get abused...be it in a film or video. I just don't like it and I don't find it "artsy" or meaningful most the times. Well, 95% of the time. It's just something I feel strongly about and honestly I lose respect for people when they choose to do something that I find very distasteful. I mean it's just ridiculous when you choose a girl who looks pretty freakin' identical to your past girlfriend. People can put the pieces together Marilyn, duhhhh!

Don't get me wrong, I think he's a good artist. I've actually been listening to my fave album by him, Golden Age of Grotesque, quite often lately. I read some comments on the YouTube page for the video and people went both ways...some said it was just not right while others said it's artistic, bla bla bla. And then Mike said something that actually did make sense while I was complaining about the video while watching it...he said "Well, Marilyn Manson shouldn't be singing ballads to begin with." LOL. That's true...he's gone very soft over the past several years (his more recent work has not been very impressive to Mike or me)...but then when he goes off the deep end, he REALLY gets insane.

I'm not even going to link the video here. I actually would not recommend it to anyone to watch. But if you're curious, go ahead...but be prepared to see some terrible violence. I don't care if it's "not real"...because that's really not the point in my eyes...the point is it's not funny, artistic, or amusing...and you look like an a$$hole and therefore you probably are if you have no other way to express your inner pain than to resort to that for the world to see. It's not entertainment whatsoever to me and it's insults me as a woman...again, I know it's fake but that is really not the point. I hate violence in any aspect but when it comes to a woman getting beat by a man, that's where I have serious issues.

Questions...thoughts...views???....please share and if you don't want me to post it, I won't (just tell me in your post cuz I do moderate 'em). I just really don't understand this bs and when it's a person I like, I get completely confused on how to think about their "art." Ahh....maybe I just really did not need to see something like that right before bed. Gets me in a frenzy...but on the plus side....Heidi should be receiving her prizepack any day now. And she'll be posting pics, yay! Can't wait to see if she likes the stuff.

Take care friends and followers.

Not so much a BIG announcement

Well, as some of you've seen in a previous post I said I had a BIG annoucement to make. Well, after much thinking I've decided something...and now it's really not that BIG of an announcement. (Which is a good thing, I think!) So here's the story...

• I was planning on just taking a "break" from blogging for a bit. Maybe a month or so...but as I said above, I've thought about it and have decided that I know I will want to post something or another so I still will be blogging...just not as much. (As I love my blog and you guys too much!) And I know I say that often, but I do really have matters to attend to...and I can't put them off. The main thing is a personal issue that I can't get into here, but it's o.k....I'm not getting sent to prison or anything ;) ...just have to do something that is going to take some time (much thought, ugh!) and effort.


• So for those of you who talk to me personally, you know through email or FaceBook, you may know what's up...and for those who don't, like I said, it's not the end of the world. Just a certain something that has to be taken care of. And if we speak through email, just know I may not be able to get back to you as quickly as before. BUT as for you FaceBook friends, you know I'm there pretty often, and we can chat from time to time of course! Don't be afraid to IM me. I'm usually doing nothing much besides pondering. ;)

• SOOOOoooo, in the meantime this week is Mike's week off from work (aka: vacation) so we'll be doing some stuff and just relaxing (although I do work my normal schedule still). I am also going to be part of another local art show, YAY!, taking place in December. I finished up one piece over the weekend and the other I'm still working on...and I'm unsure if that one will be in the show. We'll see. It's an art show that's theme is Cult Films, and I chose Nightmare Before Xmas. {The piece I did is called "Scary Teddy"-pictured above-and is a character, though a small part for him, in one of my fave films.}


• OK, that is all. Hope you're all doing well and be chatting with you later. ~XoX~

Check out this very sweet post

...which can be found HERE.

It's what Heidi wrote about on her blog about winning my Blogoversary Giveaway. Thanks Heidi! That was so sweet and thoughtful of her! She is going to post pics of her prizepack when she receives it too. So I will more than likely link you all over to her blog for that, cool!?!

Take care everyone & be chatting with you soon.~