Showing posts with label Fun things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fun things. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Sometimes it's not bad/smelly/scary/strange...


See? Every now and then we have fun around here. One of the best things we've found left behind by the old owners was a large cement container that we've now turned into our awesome fire pit*. (Don't ask to hear the story about how we had to move it to our chosen location -- lots of swearing and general bad behaviour, the usual when Trevor and I have to move something large and heavy.)

*We're not going to run out of anything to burn anytime soon. In fact, we should have that pit going 24 hours a day -- and after 2 years we might have the junk piles gone.

Now there's the money shot.

Minor (major?) baked potato incident. Not enough tin foil + in the fire too long = something that looks like a charbroiled brain.

Here's proof of our bounty around here-- freshly picked grapes and apples. We'd better get used to living off the land because once our bank account is bled dry by this house it's all we'll be eating.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Obsession: Tilt-shift photography

This shot was taken in Malta.

I've loved this style for a while, but haven't managed to put out the mucho $ for a tilt-shift lens.  Until that day, I can use this to transform my photos, which is just as fun!*
(*Seriously, I was giddy.)

At the old Popeye movie set in Malta.

A school in Monte Carlo.

Trevor in Northern Ireland.  (He looks like a plastic toy!)

Looking down on a view of Monaco.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

From paper to glass

On our trip to Seattle we drove a little further south to Tacoma and visited the Museum of Glass for an afternoon.  One ongoing project is the 'Kids Design Glass' where children spend some time drawing objects and ideas on paper, and one lucky kid gets chosen to have their drawing recreated in glass.  The museum makes one for the artist, and another for the museum (for an upcoming exhibit in October of all the pieces made).  

Here are my two favorites that we saw:


Thursday, February 26, 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Suckers at Anthropologie


One of the coolest things I saw this past weekend in Seattle: lollipops hung by their sticks from the ceiling at Anthropologie.  Beautiful!  

Monday, February 23, 2009

This song will make your week so much better

We've recently started playing 'Little Big Planet' (so much fun!) and while browsing in Anthropologie this weekend this song -- which is in the game -- began to play: