I haven’t made origami for a long while so I sat down this morning and made an origami rose from the rose pattern on this site (at the time of writing, it appears to be temporarily down). The rose measures to be about 4.5cm (almost two inches) by 4.5cm. It was tricky, sometimes a little confusing but it’s very doable. I don’t have green paper so I didn’t make the stem. Still, I think it’s rather pretty. :P
I crocheted a mushroom container. :3
I’ve added a page in toybox to more information about the pattern as well as my edits to it here. My mum has told me to make a few more to give to various family members… ah well more practice for me. :P I’m afraid I’ve almost run out of good things to crochet. I’ve been pattern hunting but many of the clothing like sweaters and stuff just don’t appeal to me. I’m thinking of starting to learn how to knit but eeep it looks so intimidating. O_O
Anyway about web 2.0 particular the “styles” of web-design that it has fostered. I don’t particularly like it. There, I’ve said it. At first when web 2.0 layouts starting popping up, I really liked the whole “shiny” look that many of them had. I like how it looked so sleek, how all the buttons and stuff are rounded and pleasing on the eye. I especially like the use of bright colours on black backgrounds.
But you know what, it’s starting to suck because it’s EVERYWHERE. Good for you that you know how to use gradients to go from white to “insert bright colour”, encase it with a border with round edging. Good for you that you can use the default many-corner stars shape thing in Photoshop to create that sticker look: for example here (upper right corner) and here (middle). A bunch of people did amusing web-2.0fied versions of big brands.
So yes. While web2.0 is cute, gives things a more “streamlined” look, ultimately because everyone makes the same looks, it so easily makes a site lose any personality. Even if it’s readable and all that, I can’t help but give it a big mental stamp saying “trendy!” on it. It makes a site not memorable in any way, at least in terms of layouts.
My family bought a digital camera a few days ago (hooray post-Christmas sales!) and I’ve basically yoinked it and have been playing with it since. Today I’ve been cleaning out my bookcase because I have too many books and the previous arrangement (in alphabetical order according to author’s names) simply didn’t work out anymore. Being the absolutely nerd that I am, I thought I’d give you guys a glimpse of what I have hoarded over the years. This is my bookcase:
My room, though relatively big, doesn’t have much in it. My bookcase is the grandest thing I have in my room and reaches almost the ceiling and is made from solid wood (my uncle found it somewhere and hauled it to my house). Besides my computer, the only precious things I have in my room are my books. Here’s a rather rambly guide to my dear bookcase (and books!).
(Mostly cross-posted from LJ)
Merry Christmas! I’m looking forward to watching Happy Feet when it comes out!! :D And to make this post not so meaningless, here’s a picture of the crocheted bag I finished yesterday night:
I’m pretty happy with it, since it’s the first major thing I’ve crocheted. It took me too bloody long to complete, at several times I had to unravel the whole thing and start from the beginning. The top and bottom bits that look scraggly are actually shell patterns that didn’t turn out at all when the photo was taken with the crappy camera on my phone. The book on the top-right is where I got the pattern from (I bought the book for AU$12 though the price tag said $34.95! :D). It took exactly two balls of yarn to make. Stephanie made a much nicer looking bag from the same pattern I believe, but ah well I’m still just a beginner n00b. :P
Tim bought me My Fair Lady as a Christmas present a little while ago and gosh I do love that movie! The music numbers are all so catchy and Mr. Higgins is the most delightfully witty character ever! And Audrey Hepburn is absolutely stunning in the movie too (she’s so pretty but I definitely prefer her in this role than the one in Breakfast at Tiffany).
First up, some housekeeping. Spin has been updated after months of neglect. Enjoy downloading stuff. I’ve added a new page (finally!) to the “About” section, just something I wrote at work about what I envision to be my home when one day move out. I hope to update the other sections more later.
Now to the content of this post! I cleared the photos out from my phone in a desperate, last-minute bout of procrastinating from impending essays that need to be written, and here’s a few worth talking about. These are all taken from my crappy camera phone as I don’t have a digital camera, so excuse the crappy quality.
For some reason I already found these two uploaded, so I’m not sure whether I’ve talked about them or not… well anyway the is an “origami tower” I folded a few months ago. It now houses my beads and beading wires/threads. I have the pdf somewhere on my computer, I’ll upload that when I find it. Useful to store small, light things.
I call this my Patch o’ Progress, aka what I’ve been doing to practice my stitches. You can see the progession from single sitches on the bottom to doubles at the top. Lots of missing stitches as I fumbled along, but it’s better now. My mum says that I should stop wasting yarn and just get on with making something useful so it seems to be the end for PoP. =/
This was my WTF of the day on 25th May this year. I was at the shopping centre and I saw this Asian lady sitting with a trolley with only a big sign saying “Say NO to Communism” on it. O_o
The last photo is kinda gross so I put it behind a cut. I’m currently in a huge amount of pain cos of an ulcer I have on the inner part of my lip, thanks a lot, braces! >:( I’ve got a picture to prove it and everything!
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