I wasn’t super excited by this song the first time I heard it, but by the end I thought I’d play it again, and then suddenly it was like opium or something. I just couldn’t stop listening… it’s really quite a hypnotic song. I don’t even know why. The lyrics are a bit silly, really, and her image is under fire as a pretentious rich kid trying to look like an artist instead of the next Rebecca Black (and her live performances are quite, quite bad). Whatever. I can’t seem to stop playing this song. It’s got such a weird melancholy, dreamy sound.

There ya go.

I really need to go to bed, but I finished this thing and figured it really deserved a post. Behold, my lego bracelet. What do you think?

My buddy came over last night and we had a jewelry party together- she made an amazingly cute bracelet and I made an amazingly cute necklace, and we are both now amazing for this. I’ve taken to using chain in my jewelry making these days because it’s so much more resilient than crimping beads on a wire. This project started when she and I got to talking about the lego jewelry I had just posted, and I had intended to post my newly crafted lego earrings or whatever, but instead this came out:

I went back and forth on whether I wanted the bead in the center on the bottom to be as big as it is, and my buddy voted on keeping it that way. This morning, however, I looked at it again and decided to switch it out. It hangs in more of a curve this way- with the heavier bead it hangs into a V-shape. I kind of can’t make up my mind which way I like better.

Isn’t the owl cute?

My childish nerd self ran headfirst into my costume jewelry addict self and invited my eternally-starting-new-projects self over to join the fun. I found this post on the Berry today and immediately knew in my heart that I needed to start a new unfinishable project: making lego jewelry! Ooooooh.

I’m absolutely beside myself about it. I’m giddy. I’ve got something wrong with me.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Hobbyists are really weird people. I just wish I had thought of to do this first.

This beautiful octopus was created by Canadian artistJason Nelson, a minimalist sculptor with an amazing collection.

He has a set of gorgeous handmade stone bowls here. Click here to browse his gallery and before you leave, vote for him in the Artists Wanted contest.

After my last (depressing) post (sorry to be so dreary), I thought I should probably lighten up a bit, so here is a bunch of totally brainless crap that you would only care about if you had nothing important going on in your life at all. Or if you wanted pretend like there’s nothing of consequence to occupy your braincells with.

• Kate Gosselin is promoting some new gig in a tacky dress. She’s got such a strange face- she’d be beautiful if she didn’t look like a brick disguised as a woman or something. Parent pimps make me so sick that I’m not sorry for being snarky at all, but really- that dress was designed for a hormonal fifteen year old who wants to look trashy. A few more inches in the hemline would really have been welcome.
• This is a cool list of movie monologues that I found on IMDB.
• The new Keifer Sutherland show looks pretty cool. Man, I watched a lotta his movies when I was a teen.
• Daniel Radcliffe, in exercising his skill of declaring things he probably shouldn’t declare, has announced the date of when he… um… considers his current relationship to have… um… commenced (10 minutes in). It’s pretty darn funny. I kind of hope she slapped him after the interview. Also, I think I talk too much about him, but I’m definitely seeing The Woman in Black when it comes out.
• I don’t get the appeal for Nikki Minaj. She just released a little ditty entitled “Stupid Hoe”. I could talk about her costumes, lyrics, and the silly voice she uses, but I won’t. Well, at least she goes around proudly anouncing that she never sold drugs to get ahead in her career. That’s good, at least. BTW, I linked to the song, but I’ve never listened to more than thirty seconds of it- I would not expect the rest of the song to be any better than the title, so click at your own risk.
• Oprah just graduated a buncha girls from her leadership academy. Good work, ladies. <3

I’m convinced that everyone is just trying to do what they think is right. How I wish we could all just start mentally saying that to one another. I feel like it would change so much for the better. This has been a very rough year in our church.

This morning I woke to a phone call from my friend in Virginia with the exciting message that our book has now gone live and is available for purchase. Right now, you can download it as an ebook through Amazon Kindle (although you don’t have to have a Kindle to be able to read it), but we will soon have paper copies of it available too.

How the Ladybug Got Her Spots is a story of a little red beetle who wanted to be special like the other bugs. It was illustrated by yours truly and written by my friend Caren when she was a kid in a set of stories for her younger brother. Some months back, she told me she thought they would make nice children’s books, and with some sketching and emailing back forth, and a lot of elbow grease, we finally completed it late last night.

Click here to get a copy for a buck, and please enjoy my first published children’s book!

and I’ll have an awesome robot warrior to help me.

This is one of theKRE-O Transformers Bumblebee sets. I got it for Christmas from my mom

Here he is, transformed into a car, hanging out with the Weasley’s Ford Anglia. Hedwig and Norbert have taken it for a drive.

I need to post, I have real stuff to post about, but I am running low on time. So this. Within Temptation is a Dutch instrumental goth band fronted by the lovely and talented Sharon den Adel. Their most recent album was produced in conjunction with a comic book series called The Unforgiving. Don’t think too hard about any of the lyrics in any of their songs, it totally ruins the effect. Just listen to the music. I love this album.