no rules, just happy crafting
I love working with Fiskars tools, and the people I get to interact with each week. Such fun. To kick off National Scrapbook day here’s a FUN prize pack of goodies from Fiskars.
Yes, that’s an upper crest border punch… and they’re more awesome in person than I can begin to explain! Leave a comment here to win these goodies- a winner will be drawn 5/4/09!
Just FYI for full disclosure here- I’m not an employee of Fiskars, but I do work with them and love it! 🙂
seems more INTERNATIONAL, but since NSD = national scrapbook day I’ll just say that.
happy, happy day for our hobby.
I’ll be working on some stuff here at home for Big Picture, and I’ll be back in a short while with a prize or three. I just have to figure out WHAT, and then post pics!!!
to the land flu hit.
miss E is suffering from cold/flu (kind of a combo- though I lean towards flu on this bad boy) as of yesterday late afternoon…
… and I think dot, dot, dot says it all. I got maybe 3hrs sleep last night and am starting to feel strain.
I’ll be back. When my brain is clear for writing and I can gather thoughts without being interrupted…
We’ve all been there- I’ve got a clog in the creative process. A lump ‘o gunk at the opening of the glue bottle. A backed up sink. The ideas are there, but they can’t get out. Very frustrating indeed!
I think it’s probably time to heed my own advice and work on something else, but I can’t quite bring myself to put this away.
It’s been on the desk 2 days now and I have spent an insane amount of time just getting it here. I want this page finished (I have the journaling in my head…) but I can’t take the next step.
I’m slow like molasses on a cold day.
What’s a girl to do? I have a couple creativity un-blocker ideas that I’ll share with you later today (after I try them)…
I liked the Twilight series quite a bit. Do I think Bella is one weak & lame heroine through 80% of the story? YEAH. Does Edward and his sleep watching/all knowing attitude creep me out at times? YEAH. Should somebody smack Rosalie good ASAP? FOR SURE. Ah but the story, the description, the intricate weaving of characters and story lines… it’s awesome.
In other words, I appreciated the story telling and world S.M. built very much… but don’t call me a fangirl. I don’t think Edward is the hottest romance hero – not even top 10. So… I decided to NOT see the movie. I just find the leading man sooo unattractive. blech. Then I needed a new Netflix film and felt like mocking… so I got it.
Here’s the deal: it’s darn good. I sat down with this ready to mock… and instead I liked it. Everyone is EXACTLY as I pictured them, everything about Forks EXACTLY as I imagined. (Except Jasper & Rosalie… what’s up with them? He’s supposed to be a Civil War soldier and she the prettiest thing ever? nah.) Very rarely does a movie version capture the world as it was in my minds eye as reading. So that was really cool. I also appreciated how you NEEDED to watch every movement, reaction, and facial expression. Not just that, but the acting and filming was such that it was intense without being made for TV mock-tastic drama.
Mocking? The only thing – and it had me in tears laughing- was the crazy chimes ringing when Edward was in the sun. I don’t recall being told he sparkles and chimes as if a jewel in the cave of the 7dwarfs. That was a bad move. My only other complaints were that they didn’t have Edward do his talk about twilight (tie in to title… c’mon!) and they didn’t explain the meadow as a special place for Edward.
In other words, as book turned movie goes… it was good. I’d watch the next one, especially since (spoiler!!) I want to see how they do werewolves. I really want to see that.
I maintain that Edward/Robert is not a hottie – but that was my opinion in the book version as well so it fits.