Bunnies and Duckies

I think my cousin's family is slowly building a zoo.

We have three bunny rabbits. Two black and white ones like the one above and an all black one. The one above is cleaning itself like a cat! I didn't know they did that! The same one likes to lick your fingers when you go to pet it. They're adorable. There's one for each kid. The oldest, Luke, named his black bunny Shadow. The youngest, David (who I think is 3), named his black and white one Iron Man. Lily, the middle child, hasn't named hers but she wants to name it after a goddess of love. RH says there's a goddess named Easter and I thought, "So, the rabbit would be Easter Bunny?"

We also have 4 ducks. One is hiding. They're very cute... loud... and messy. Like me! Hahaha.

I want a bunny. But I want an angora rabbit. So I can spin spin yarn (I know. I'm so full of ideas). I've been reading a lot of memoirs and one I read mentioned keeping rabbits for their wool. And they're tame and sweet and can be litter box trained.

How can you not fall in love with a creature that looks like this? I think I would name it Wocket (I know that you can't really name something until you know they're personality but still...) because it looks like something out of a Seuss book!

What A Happy Family

I've taken to bringing wire and beads to play with at work (during lunch, thank you very much) and on my adventures with RH (usually when we wind up at Starbucks). That's how my happy dragonfly family was born. Mama Dragonfly came first with her pink beads. Next was Daddy Dragonfly and of course, because we all know how the birds and the bees work, The Twins were born shortly after.

I have plans for Mama and The Twins, but no plan yet for Daddy. Hmm... any ideas?

How Time Flies

Just a brief warning: There is a picture of a whole roasted pig in this post... If this grosses you out or it offends you, I'm sorry. It's part of my culture and it was yummy :)

Its been so long since I posted here. The past few weeks have been... fantastic and horrid at the same time. Work, life, love, family... all of these take up my time. Creation has to wait and I go crazy in the mean time. Sorry to all my friends and family who have had to deal with me being so insane.


In other news, there were two birthdays to celebrate the past few weeks. I turned 23 on the 23rd of August (YAY!) and my nephew turned 6 on the 29th. I went to the Santa Ana Zoo with RH for my birthday. Lots of monkeys (the guy above desperately wanted a spider that was crawling on that leaf. We watched him try and try to get it but he wasn't able to... ) and happiness.


We drove up to my hometown to celebrate my nephew's birthday. There was a MOUNTAIN of presents. And he said mine (The Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary, thank you very much) was his favorite. There was yummy food (mmm... roasted pig) and awesome people. It was nice seeing my brother's family and friends after being away for so long.

I'm going to make an effort to post more. I think about this blog and my blog friends everyday. I wish I had just a few more hours each day... I need to make those hours happen.

Live

Today, I want you to really live.

Yesterday, on my day off, I drew this. Its pencil, Prismacolor markers, and ink on bristol board. I had kind of a crappy day yesterday. Money problems (my main food for the past week has been potatoes) just won't go away. But, I just need to remember that life is meant to be lived. And that is what I intend to do. No matter what happens, I will live. I will deal with it and come out alive.

Today, I also intend to smile.

Fun at the Fair on Friday

I didn't post links on Friday because we went to the OC Fair. Not a terribly good excuse but karma paid me back by letting me forget my camera's battery at home. Oh, I remembered to charge my battery so I could post a nice blog about the fun fair but I left the battery on my bed. Sadness.

But the Boyfriend has a nifty smart phone with a camera! So I still got to take pictures! :D

Little chicks.

A baby piggy.

Llama!

This is a COW. NOT a BULL. Serious.

That little girl has GUTS!

Bonzai!

I have been loving eggplant lately. So I was fascinated by the plants.

Had some deep fried zucchini but I didn't take a picture of it. This made me want more! :P

A lemon.

A bread sculpture. How is that bread???

MMM. Looks yummy!

We split one these for lunch. They're HUGE!

The Boyfriend having dinner.

My dinner... several bites later.

A trip to the petting zoo before heading home.

Think Pink!

I was feeling kinda down when I finally got to making something with those buttons from the last post so I decided to make something totally pink to cheer myself up! How can anyone be mad at the color pink? The pink seed beads on this bracelet are not like any I've used before... they're matte! And I love the feel of them. I wire wrapped the ends because I didn't have copper cones and desperately wanted to see if I could make this bracelet work. And I'm very happy with the results. Came out almost as good as the image in my head!

Happy Saturday, all! :)

It was the next logical step...

I made buttons. Yep! I MADE buttons. I had some left over fabric from a favorite shirt. I've used it in projects before but had no idea how to use the rest. Well, after walking around JoAnns with the boyfriend and also visiting a few craft fairs, I decided I wanted to make cloth buttons! And last night the boyfriend showed up at work and surprised me with a button making pack! I made four buttons today :) Now... what will I do with them?