Go forth and unleash your heart

Know who you are, by forgiving who you’re not.
Treasure your dreams…
& Never be dissatisfied with what you have.
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Random Floaty Thought Bits 2

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I think my cat, Garbage, is Bast the Cat Goddess of Egypt. I have a habit of sending Gregg random e-mails through the day, I sent him an e-mail proclaiming that Garbage must be Bast or Bast reincarnated…!

Bast, also known as Bastet, is a feline Goddess of ancient Egpyt. Meaning, “Devouring Lady” (from bas, to devour, with feminine ending).  She is said to be the daughter of Ra, the sun God. Bast represented the moon in its process of making a woman fruitful with a swelling womb. She was also Goddess of music, pleasure, perfume and dancing.

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I saw this awesome recipe for Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups, yummm!
This is on the edge of too tedious for my baking desires, but I’d love to try…

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Tutorial for sparkly lanterns made from coffee cans! I’d like to make these & solar LED’s in them, charge during the day & beautiful at night!

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I love this cup, saucer, pen, and journal set designed by Katarina Häl. I’m always writing everything down so I remember it later, this would be useful.

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Everything you need for a day at the office in a cute jar! 1 pound jar containing pins & paper clips, wooden peg, pencil, eraser, paper ruler, string, tag book made from found paper and an assortment of labels. Now all you need to do is some work! I think this make an awesome gift for someone with a new job!

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Neat write up about a guy who wrote an How to write Interactive Fiction for Twitter. – “Choose Your Own Adventure” on Twitter!

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I’m ready for Halloween.  Cooler temperatures, costumes, sweaters…
I love this wreath made from folded up old books & buttons!

…Okay, off to an Epic Thanks Tampa Bay 2010 meeting, the Changemaker voting is going on currently, please make sure to get your vote in!

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled program…

Surprise!!

Melissa at Oh my Darling is hosting a Surprise Ball exchange. It’s based on  “suprise balls” made my Gina Namkung.

I posted a few weeks ago about surprise balls made to look like bombs & in lieu of posting 500 images of cute surprise balls, go sign up here!! I signed up last week, & registration ends July 22nd. I’m really excited, I love little, cute trinkets. Let me know if you end up signing up! :) & I will make sure to show pictures when it’s all over!

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Amber & Me at #TMMUP Social Media Day

Okay. So my hair was flat. I was twenty minutes late to work, yesterday morning was crazy. The A/C was broken at work -It was 86 degrees from when I got there at 10am till 2pm. Everyone had left work till the repairmen had fixed the unit, but you know, one person has to stay to “watch over” the office or something. I had posted on twitter that I looked like a hot mess, people asked for pictures. I drew myself. (The coffee was made prior  -One sip & I had to stop drinking, too hot!)

Anyways, after work I headed over to Tampa Bay Brewing Company for the Social Media Day with Mashable Meetup. I met up with my friend Joe, and at the door, another good friend, Oz, saw we had been tweeting about it and joined us! Super stoked! After saying hi to a few people we headed to the bar, and got beer. I just asked for the wimpiest beer since I’m not much of a connoisseur. (Happy hour $4 + $1 tip = -$5) I had brought mini bottles of rum in my purse. I was trying to think smart! Anyways, diet coke is free & purse booze is some serious win.

Gregg showed up an hour or so later, I was so happy to be around everyone. I’m glad to have been able to spend time with Lee & Gil… & get to know them better finally! They are a super cute couple, & have great personalities. I am looking forward to seeing them again & going to concerts.  We went to Mema’s Alaskan Taco’s & got yummy food & then headed to the after-after party @ New World Brewery. Drank PBR (Thanks to Gregg, woot!) & told Joran that I’d win next week with foursquare. We bet $20. Joran is always the top out of all my foursquare friends, I’m going to have to be busy next week. It will help that I have a friend coming in town. Muhaha ;)

After that, a few of us party people got pizza (Yay Gregg!) & heckled passerby’s. Moved my car to the garage & we headed home.

That makes my 4 day total -$5.79. $14.21 left. I am going to the Tacobus tonight (Come out come out!) & to see Eclipse. (You know, support my husband’s acting career… RPatz) I’m going to go out on a limb & say I think I am going to fail. I think the movie’s $9 tickets is what will kill me. We shall see -I don’t do well with defeat!

I’ll leave you with another winning picture Tony decided to take:

Burn her!! Demon!!! LASER EYES!!!1one

ps. I’d like to take a photo like this with Gregg & hangout with Amber with umbrellas like this.

Crafting

Sometimes I worry that lurking the internet for crafts and following so many blogs (I am an addict; you have no idea!), that I lose my imagination and creativity along the way. I see items on the internet that I want to make! Then, I feel guilty for wanting to copy someones idea; when I could just by whatever they have crafted on Etsy. I want to support crafters! But, when the time comes, & I am lurking the aisles of Micheal’s, I just don’t… feel inspired. I’m thinking of other peoples amazing ideas.

Currently, I am decently “fluent” in:
- Sewing (Hand, Machine and Embroidery)
- Soap Making (Both Melt & Pour and Cold Process)
- Pottery (I am familiar with throwing clay & a wheel)
- Candle Making
- Quilting
- Pretty much all types of paper crafts (Origami, Decoupage, etc…)
- Resin inlays
- Wet Felting
- Stamp Carving
- Book Binding (v. novice! I can do little note pads and such, not amazing stuff like this)
- Knitting
- Crocheting

I would eventually like to:
- Build my own potter’s wheel, and kiln <3
- Earthenware
- Glass Fusing/Blowing
- Circut Bending
- Sterling Silver, everything. (Molds, Freeform…etc. )
- Precious Metal Clay
- Dry Felting

In Google Docs, I keep a crazy inspiration & links documents. Here is some stuff that I’ve been eyeing & inspiring me lately. All picture link to source!!

This week since Gregg’s been away on business, I have been cutting, braiding & sewing tee-shirts to make a braided rug for our place. I’m not sure where it will end up, but I’m thinking it would look cute on the patio! :) I have claimed the patio mine indirectly… with all the herbs/veggies/etc I am growing.

This is the idea of the rug I am making, just I chose to make it oval verse a circle. & mine has no colors, just black, white & grey.

What crafty bits have you been up to? Anything inspiring you lately? Any projects planned for this summer? Share!

I don’t talk to some of these people, and I was 30 pounds heavier, but this picture makes me happy. It was good times. Recently single I relied a lot on togetherness with close friends. /sniff sniff

I went to breakfast with Gregg at “The Wolf Den” in Wesley Chapel

I ate so much, it was delicious!

I wanted to share this amazing photo on the wall, you may recognize it. ;)

I made a New York mixxx
I hope you like it.
Made me miss it! Argh!

It’s an addiction!

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ryanokeefe:

Happiness in Business. [via]

thedailywhat:

Life-Altering Device of the Day: Sunghee Park’s “Health NUDGE” is a digital hall of mirrors designed to shame you into fitness by making you feel like lard-ass loser for even considering the gut-embiggening elevator over the tummy-shaping stairs.

As a person approaches this interactive signpost, a distorted figure of a fat person taking the elevator appears on one display, while the other one shows a fit and slim person taking the stairs. This passive measure is supposed to encourage people to keep healthy.

Up Next: Talking elevators that joke about being “over capacity” once you step inside.

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