This is a tag book I made for my best friend Shannon. She started reading Elsie Flannigan’s blog and fell in love with a tag book of hers, so I thought I would make her one as a gift to thank her for seven years of friendship so far! TFL… I had a lot of fun making this; I consider each tag to be a mini work of art (well I got a little bored at the end!) but I am very proud of how this turned out 
my layout for Shell’s Mini-Challenge #4 and also Aimee’s Challenge #4 (Sketch 3). Cannot get this stinkin’ song out of my head… but the words remind me of what happens when I look in the mirror. Lots of first time stuff on this one – Primas, transparency, ghost letters… I know I didn’t follow the sketch exactly but the paper was too cool along the right edge to cover up with the pics. I’m not tremendously happy w/ the result, but it’s all I had to work with while I’m vacationing in DC… that was probably the biggest challenge – using ONLY the materials I brought with me!! I LOVE THAT PP, it’s so awesome!!
Journaling is chorus and first verse of “Through Glass” by Stone Sour.
SUPPLIES:
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* Patterned Paper – Creative Imaginations, Paper Pizazz, DCWV “Glitter Stack”
* Specialty Paper – silver vellum, transparency
* Magic Mesh (silver)
* Ribbon – American Crafts, Offray
* Flowers – Prima, Wal-Mart
* Alphas – Making Memories, Heidi Swapp
* Brads – Making Memories
* Rub-ons – Daisy D’s
* Mirrors – Offray
* White Ink – Stamp it Up
You really need to check this guy out:
I have laughed and laughed over his blog… I’m sure you will too. Nothing special, just his take on life and daily happenings… but it’s hilarious. I almost peed my pants reading the latest stories about Subway croissants and squirrel cliffhangers…. Nuff said.
GO NOW! Don’t waste any more time… you will thank me later!
Jay Barnes:
http://shmivejournal.livejournal.com/
http://bigmixup.com/
My buddy Mel over at Scrapbook.com posted this on her blog there… thought it was too funny to pass up on sharing!!!
You don’t even have to be a mother to enjoy this one…
Brian invited his mother over for dinner. During the course of the meal, Brian’s mother couldn’t help but notice how beautiful Brian’s roommate, Jennifer, was. Suspicious of a relationship between Brian and Jennifer, this had only made her more curious.
Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Brian and Jennifer than met the eye. Reading his mom’s thoughts, Brian volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you Jennifer and I are just roommates.”
About a week later, Jennifer came to Brian saying, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don’t suppose she took it, do you?” Brian said, “Well, I doubt it, but I’ll send her an e-mail just to be sure.” So he sat down and wrote:
Dear Mom:
I’m not saying that you “did” take the gravy ladle from the house, I’m not saying that you “did not” take the gravy ladle, but the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.
Love, Brian
Several days later, Brian received an email back from his mother that read:
Son:
I’m not saying that you “do” sleep with Jennifer, I’m not saying that you “do not” sleep with Jennifer, but the fact remains that if Jennifer was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now.
Love, Mom
THE MORAL OF THE STORY: NEVER LIE TO YOUR MOTHER!!
NOW… before you all go gettin’ all skeptical on me, I want you to know that I TRIED THIS. AND IT WORKS. Well, not maybe on the level they displayed on the video here, and without the music, but it did work.
This neat trick is the result of “soap-driven convection”, or the fluid movement of heated particles within the milk when it’s surface tension is weakened by another substance like a surfactant (soap) or an alcohol. Think of it like a soap bubble – what you are seeing when you see a soap bubble is actually water that has had its surface tension decreased so much that it expands to a bigger surface area. All of the moving colored swirls you see in a soap bubble are the surfactant working its magic, and when the surfactant has successfully moved through every particle of water, the bubble will break back into water droplets. This is exactly what is happening here, with the milk.
The #1 reason why my experiment did not end up like this one: I used cold milk, right out of the fridge. I saw an effect similar to this, but at a much slower rate, and with less dramatic of a result. If performing this experiment on your own, you would be best to use room temperature milk or milk that has been heated a little; the more heat the more energy, and the more energy, the more movement!
The #2 cause for my experiment’s differing reaction was that I used a lot more milk than I should have – one site I researched (after the fact) suggested using about 1/2” of milk in the bottom of a pie pan. I used about 3/4” of milk in a 6” round Tupperware. So certainly, with the higher volume of milk, there is a lot more to move around and a lot more area to cover!
Now what you have is a large pie plate (I would use a clear one) with approximately 1/2” of room-temp. milk in it. I also read that adding Isopropyl alcohol (90% is better than 70%) will help “speed things up” – just a drop of it will weaken the surface tension of the milk up even more, maybe the catalyst behind the above video’s rapid “effect”. The alcohol will eventually evaporate, so more will have to be added as it wears off.
Now, take some food coloring. I didn’t have eight colors; only four, so I had to work with that. I put 2 drops of each, red/yellow/green/blue, in that order clockwise around the outermost edge of the milk. You will notice the food coloring beginning to spread, but not nearly as much as it would had you dropped it into water. The milk is much heavier than water, and the food coloring will stay on top of it, which is the genius behind the whole operation here. Next, take your dish soap – I don’t think it particularly matters what kind – and add it to the plate of milk. You can do this by adding a few drops to the center of the plate, or add a dab to the tip of a Q-tip or toothpick and dip it into the center of the milk. DO NOT STIR – just be patient. You should start seeing the effect almost immediately.
The food coloring particles are basically water, and are lighter than the milk particles, so they “float” on top of the milk. When the soap begins to break down the surface tension of the milk and increase its surface “area” the food coloring goes with it. It will continue to move until all the soap particles have bonded with fatty particles in the milk and the surface tension is restored.
Definitely something fun, simple and cheap to entertain your kids for a while! You probably even have what you need to perform this one lying around your house right now… and if you’re really clever, you’ll have them believing that you are magic[al]!! It is also suggested to try this trick using different variables: warmer/colder milk, different fat contents (2%, whole, skim, etc.), and more/less soap or milk are all things you could try with this experiment.
Additional resources for Milk-Soap Driven Convection:
who does this?
While I was on a mission for other things this evening, I stumbled across this. After LAUGHING MY ASS OFF for a while, I decided to share it here… because it was too funny to not share. Thanks a bunch to Jay Barnes for the content!!! And if you’re looking to laugh for a while, you should definitely read the rest of his blog! He’s a funny, funny guy!!
Anyway, onto the Cadbury Cake. Jay writes:
Experiment:
Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results.
Hypothesis:
THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME
CLICK HERE TO GO TO JAY’S BLOG AND SEE THE REST OF HIS RESEARCH!
For more Jay, check out his LiveJournal at Shmivejournal.livejournal.com, or his “best of” website at bigmixup.com.
just playin’ around in Photoshop…
I know this is something that has been done recently, Lil Davis Designs “Rockstar” Rub-ons are actually what inspired me to do this design. I am going to print it out on transparency, I think, so where the text it white it will actually be clear – like a rub on. I think I am going to try to redo it…
‘Ello, Poppets!! The trailer has been released!!
I sure hope I don’t get sued by Disney for posting this… had the hardest time finding a copy of it to put up here. Every one on YouTube was deleted for “copyright infringement” as requested by Walt Disney Pictures. Apparently they don’t like free advertising.
I am so excited about this film! I love Pirates, I love Jack Sparrow, I love Orlando Bloom… May 25th is the release date! It looks so awesome! I have heard through speculation from a recent interview with Johnny Depp that there may be more Pirates movies coming – at least, if Johnny has his way there will be. He said that it will be a dark, depressing day in his life when he has to close the door on Captain Jack – but that he will keep the costume and occasionally wear it around the house to entertain his kids.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End – on IMDb
My friend Liz over at SB.com turned me onto this fascination…
This is a study of human anatomy that is being conducted and its results displayed to the public by a German anatomist, Gunther von Hagens. He is also the creator of the “plastination” technology used on these specimens, which is the implementation of reactive polymers to preserve living tissue. With plastination, von Hagens has been able to “freeze frame” moments in time with an eerie reality – statues of people with their skins removed, exposing muscle tissues and vital organs – with all the benefits of hands-on health education.
Which is exactly what Dr. von Hagens hopes to accomplish with his seemingly morbid displays. He has spent many years modeling and forming actual human skeletons and tissues to provide real-life models of these things which most people would never get to observe otherwise in the first-person. Not to worry, though, everyone at his parties is legit – all of his display specimens have been consensually donated by their former owners prior to their death. Not to say that Dr. von Hagens has not used the corpses of inmates and other derelicts in his laboratory practices; only that his public work reflects those who gave their bodies to science after death to further be able to fully serve society.
You can see a teen performing a skateboard trick, a man carrying his own skin, a pregnant woman with 8-month fetus, people in various sporting positions (like soccer, basketball, archer, etc.) and even a few artful reflections in the man on horseback, winged man, the chess player, or the prayer with his heart in his hands. In conjunction with the statues, there are also many other glass-cased displays containing smaller focuses.
There are currently three travelling collections of Body Worlds touring the U.S. More information is available on the Body Worlds website – www.bodyworlds.com
decided to go dark… i have had blonde hair for many years, and felt like after i quit coaching i needed a new “me”. so here it is, nerdy glasses and all… my “dark hair photoshoot!”
