Favorite things!

Hello all, I've been plenty busy with work and school and all, so the favorite things have been piling up like nobody's business. So here's a few, maybe I'll post more later. Tada!

1. This delish bird ceramic tea set! See it in the Flikr photostream here.

2. The best Escher I've seen yet! Crabs!! Lots and lots of crabs!! See this and other wonderful collections of art here, at Thypott Art.com.

3. How to dehybernate. Via Cute Overload.

Just a taste of my internet findings for now! I spend far too much time surfing the web... I should be stitching! I've got loads and loads of patterns to get started in on! I'm also super excited for my super fantastic basement I'll be starting to nest in come the end of June. A whole space to myself! I'm going to have a sewing table and a film cutting table and a drawing table and EVERY OTHER KIND OF TABLE IMAGINABLE. There are also going to be plants, a lot of plants. And my projectors are going to be on stands. I cannot wait!! Gwee!

Tata for now.

Mother's Day flower

My mom came to visit for my film interview on the 7th and it was pretty close to Mothers Day, so I made her this felt flower, which I then pinned onto a large planter that I filled with dahlias, bacopa, marigolds and this weird cascading yellow leafed plant. I neglected to take a photo of it because she arrived an hour earlier than I expected her to and things were... shall we say, rushed. Haha.

Creature 001's departure!

And away he goes to his new home in Canmore!!

I made a little name tag to go with him, and I think I'll need to continue this trend, because I love it! I have SO many more creatures planned! It's going to be a blast making them!

Today is Tuesday!

Hey everyone! Just some updates, I suppose. Did some shopping and some sewing the past few days. Today there was some thunder, some sunshine, some pouring rain. Good ol' Vancouver!

This swell fellow here is up on my Etsy site!

Favorite thing of the week! Octopus!!

This video of this cheeky camera-stealing octopus is my favorite thing of the week!!


octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it (while it's Recording) from Victor Huang on Vimeo.


Awesome!

EDIT: oh my goodness. adorable. My SECOND favorite thing of the week.

Shark Shark!

Yay! It's a hammerhead shark! This little guy is for Mary, who's birthday it is on Saturday and who's christmas present got lost in the mail. I think he's pretty cute. I really like how his eyes turned out!!

Favorite thing of the week!

I'm still inindated with papers and exams, so no real news to report. Except for this photograph of a tortoise hatchling:

D'awwwww!! Please check out this Daily Mail article to see this tortoise beginning life as well as some other adorable egg born critters!

In other news, check out this mind boggling article at The National Geographic Society about one of the many sea dwelling animals affected by by-catch, sea turtles! Common commercial fishing techniques such as long-lining prove fatal to many animals not intended to be caught, but become ensnared in nets and hooks, only to have their bodies tossed back into the sea when the line is drawn back in.

In less depressing news, after the (not so surprising) news of CITES being unable to pass the proposal to help protect sharks, the UK set up a marine reserve around the Chagos Islands, the largest yet! Read the BBC article here.

I hope everyone had a great Easter! Lots of chocolate? I sure had my share.