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Tsotsi Multiple Winner at EIFF Awards Ceremony
The 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival drew to an official close with today's Awards Ceremony, held at the Caledonian Hilton. The biggest award winner of the day was clearly Tsotsi, the ...
The 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival drew to an official close with today's Awards Ceremony, held at the Caledonian Hilton.
The biggest award winner of the day was clearly Tsotsi, the South African gang drama, which walked away with both the Standard Life Audience Award, and The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film, which is sponsored by the UK Film Council.Producer Peter Fudakowski, on accepting the first award, said he was "particularly grateful to Edinburgh for discovering us," and sent a "big thank you to Scottish audiences for voting us number one." When Fudakowski was called up to receive The Michael Powell Award, he seemed briefly overwhelmed at the good news.
"I am clearly flabbergasted," he said. "This is the greatest honour."
Michael Kuhn, chair of The Michael Powell Award jury also gave a Special Commendation to director Josh Appignanesi for Song of Songs.
"There was a lot of jury deliberation about it," Kuhn said. "The director is to be commended for the wonderful artistic qualities of the film."
The Guardian New Directors Award went to Mike Mills for Thumbsucker. Actor and Michael Powell jury member Alessandro Nivola read a statement from Mills, whose music videos have previously screened in the Festival's Mirrorball programme.
"This is one of the best days… imagine me eating this up like a starving man," Mills said in his statement. "It means a lot to me to win an award from a festival that has been watching me from the beginning."
The Kodak UK Film Council Award for the Best British Short Film went to Hibernation, written and directed by John Williams. Judged by an international jury, the award carries a prize of £1000, and £1000 worth of Kodak film stock.
Autobiographical Scene Number 6882, by Ruben Östlund walked away with the European Film Academy Short Film 2005 – Prix UIP, an award celebrating work by both established, and up and coming filmmakers.
The McLaren Award for New British Animation was claimed by Elizabeth Hobbs' The True Story of Sawney Beane. Named after Stirling born, Glasgow School of Art trained artist Norman McLaren, an artistic pioneer in his own right, the award celebrates creativity in the field of animation.
The Saltire Society Award for Short Scottish Documentary went to Arts: The Catalyst, The Craigmillar Story directed by Simon Hinds. Now in its fourth year, this award is given to first or second time filmmakers of Scottish short documentaries.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Ink Spots is a year old today!
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Keep driving on with your good works and words. If I may ask, then I would like for y'all to provide a thread this next year on your thoughts and feelings on working in Washington, DC. That world, the really BIG FOB, is so far removed from what I know. I'm curious to how y'all handled it all.
Happy 4th of July. My hope for this year is that our neighbors will give a bit more concern to their Responsibilities as Citizens over their individual rights.
Again, keep on trucking. I found y'all through some powerful comments at SWJ and a Schmedlap recommendation, and I plan on staying.- PositrollJuly 2, 2010 at 5:57 AM
Joyeux anniversaire, joyeux anniversaire,
joyeux anniversaire, taches d'huiles, joyeux anniversaire!
Un bisou sur ta joue, une fleur sur ton coeur, un sourir pour te dire, joyeux anniversaire!
Now if THAT doesn't win hearts and minds, I don't know what possibly could ... Now be honest Gulliver: there is no way I've elevated the debate anywhere.
But I still like hanging out here.
Happy 4th InkSpotters. You know I love this place.
(The Adams Morgan story is funny. I've been there precisely once, and oddly enough, while on a resident "field trip" to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. That was back in the 90s. That's a strange town. Interesting, but strange :) )

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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
I can't wait to get home.
The visit has been fantastic, and quite honestly, Maude and her family are family to me. Maude knows me better than just about anyone. It's easy, it's comfortable, and we've had a lot of fun.
But I miss the shit out of my husband.
It's funny to realize, you know, because I rarely miss people on a daily basis.
I grew up leaving and leaving and leaving. And it's not that I never missed people, but they were few and far between, and often limited to specific moments and situations or once a large span of time had passed. Even boyfriends I dearly loved.
But the general missing, the feeling of a huge, gaping lack, this is not my norm on a trip.
And this time, that's how it is. While it's only been a week, it just feels like too long and too far. And while I'm having fun, I realize it would be that much better if Nick were here too.
I want him in my life. Every day.
As an adult, I kept moving and moving, because nowhere was really home. I had this certainty that I would find home in a person, rather than a place. And I kept waiting for that to happen.
And just as I'd given up believing it would, it finally did.
Nick felt like home immediately, and although I've not questioned it, this trip confirms for me that he is, he really is.
It's hit me hard how tremendous it is, after so many physically and emotionally peripatetic years, to have a home. And to know absolutely and firmly that whatever the geography, he's not going anywhere, and neither am I.
I'd follow him to the ends of the earth, if it really came down to it. I've never been with anyone that I could actually say that about.
Seriously. If he had some huge, unrelenting, uncompromising desire to move somewhere like, I don't know, a chicken farm in Wisconsin or Ulan Bator, I'd go.
Of course, if he's reading this, it's worth mentioning that the time we spent there would likely be nothing short of living hell, and thus really not all that worth it.
But I'd go.
So, assuming best case scenario: the plane actually makes it across the ocean, I arrive safe and sound at Dulles, get picked up by one or both parents, and am home in time for dinner with my favorite husband, then I'll see you all tomorrow.
Hugs to all.
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Your "favorite" husband? How the non-favorite feels about that? ;-)
I totally understand what you mean by "home" in a person. I feel like that now, for a boyfriend I've only known for 4 months, but I've never been so sure of anything, never felt so comfortable and at ease as I do with him.Over on my "Blog o' Angst & Teeth Gnashing", I've been whining on the regular about the fact that I have a "what the fuck is home now?"... "am I really me any more?" ... etc panic attack daily.
Your post settled a bit of today's panic that was brewing inside of me. So thank you for that.
Get home safely!That sounds so perfect, and I'm so happy for you guys! I remember how hard it was to go somewhere without John the first time, and how it really drove home for me that I didn't want to be without him. Distance makes the heart grown fonder, eh? Have a safe trip home, and tell Nick when you get there!!
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Glad to hear you had a wonderful trip and spent some time with a friend. I currently live in FL, but my family is in NY. I will be visiting up there in 2 weeks and spending about 4 days catching up with old friends and attending a birthday party for a relative.
I go every year, sometimes my husband goes as well, but this time it's just me. He's my home, my everything and I love missing him and then coming home, he always misses me as well. It's a wonderful feeling, and after 21 years of being together I hope I always feel that way.
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25.5.10In the small town of Seaside Florida you will find more than just peace and tranquility Seaside is a coastal community whose way of life is easy and simple, with less motorways and more walkways. It was founded in 1981 and is a pioneer of the movement New Urbanism, a concept which makes small communities self sufficient, by making everything within walking distance. When the owners of this home first visited, they new instantly they wanted to live here. But the strict community guidelines for building meant they had to get a little creative on the floor plan. The house is built on 3 floors and the layout is upside down.
Designed entirely by architect Robert A. M. Stern Architects, the home features bedrooms on the lower level, and more common living spaces upwards. This would allow for spectacular ocean and town views. The home has several terraces that are designed more like rooms, where the family occupies most. It's obvious the architect was thinking upwards because every ceiling is also dressed to perfection. From trim to panels to paint, there is no surface left untreated. The full story was featured in Architectural Digest, April 2008, and more photos can be viewed online at Robert A M Stern Architects.
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OMG I also instantly want to live here!
What an amazing place. There is so much beauty here I find it hard to know where to start so let me summarise and say that love ALL of it!! From the out-of-this-world floors, to the ceiling, the light, the soft colours to the amazing terrace and view.. Mama Mia, I am in heaven!!
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Mitt Romney was clinging to a perilously thin lead yesterday in Iowa, which kicks off the Republican nominating process with caucus voting tomorrow, but possibly only by virtue of the conservatives in the state dividing over which of his rivals they would rather see challenge President Barack Obama.
A final poll conducted by the Des Moines Register newspaper over four days last week showed the former Massachusetts governor winning 24 per cent of likely caucus votes while Ron Paul, the staunch libertarian beloved of many college-age males, took 22 per cent. That put them in a statistical dead heat.
But Rick Santorum, a hero among many social conservatives, was showing signs of a late spurt. While he registered 15 per cent over the four-day period, polling from the final two days going into the weekend saw him overtaking Paul and nipping at Romney's heels.
The race in Iowa, which sees Republicans assemble in school gyms, town halls and even private sitting rooms to tick the box of the candidate they like the most, has still not settled down, with a remarkable 41 per cent saying they are undecided, perhaps echoing a narrative familiar by now: while many know Mr Romney may have the best chance of toppling Mr Obama, they just can't warm to him.
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Hi all,
I'm looking for a hotel in New York between 24-27 March with easy access to JFK and LaGuardia airports and also the tourist sites but one that's suitable for me and my 11 year old lad.
The main part of the challenege is to find one under $100 per night including breakfast and free WiFi.
Am I expecting the impossible?
Thanks in advance.
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"Am I expecting the impossible? "
Legitimate hotels in NYC (and frankly most big cites) are never less than $100 per night. There are some places close to that (but add tax and maybe food and wifi costs) as a special only for for January,the least busy time of the year. March is average busy time and midweek rates are higher since many people travel on business then.
Airport hotels are somewhat cheaper than in Manhattan but they won't be equally accessible to both and won't be convenient to Manhattan. -
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I'm afraid your budget is very low - even for March.
And while both JFK and LGA are in Queens - they're at opposite ends of the county. And each one is the best part of an hour from central Manhattan - where most of the sights are.
You definitely do NOT want to stay near an airport - those hotels do not have easy access to the city (more than an hour each way) and are typically next to major highways without any access to services unless yuo have a car.
You really want to stay in Manhattan.
If you can share one double bed (the standard in most NYC hotel rooms) you can bid on Priceline and might get something in your range - but don;t bid lower than 3* - since some places they list just are not where you would want to stay. If you do this - you really need to research how this works.
If you want a room with 2 beds this is typically a larger, more expensive room. You might find something if you check out the various discount websites - but the deals may not be listed for your dates yet.
Typically very inexpensive are the Jane (but I think shared baths) and the Pod Hotel has some rooms with bunk beds.
One alternative is to get a hotel in Long Island City. As long s it is near the subway you can be in Manhattan in about 15 minutes. But these are often mixed use areas (auto body shops and small warehouses among some residences and budget motels) and services can be limited. I believe Town and Country Inns is in a decent location. -
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Pretty much so.
There are a few options on Hotwire at under $125 (that aren't airport locations) but they are 2star hotels and only a 70% approval rating. But if you really want to go, they would be doable. -
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When you look at the web sites check the addresses carefully.
They sometime list hotels in Jersey as being only a couple of miles from Times Square - but they neglect to say that 2 of the miles are the Hudson River - and it can take an hour or more to travel those few miles. -
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Long Island City will offer the least expensive options, but even there,under $100/night will be impossible atbthat time, especially if you need 2 beds. The Country Inn &Suites, the Quality Inn, the Comfort Inn are all near the subway and include breakfast and wifi. I dont know what you'd define as child friendly.
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If you asking about the best area for a kid that age I would stay on the upper west side - near Central Park, Museum of Nat'l Hist/Planetarium and tons of kid friendly restaurants (of every ethnicity and often modest prices).
However I don;t think there's a chance of getting anyplace decent (do NOT book Riverside Towers - it's a dump) for less than $200 per night. -
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If you can pay $200 you can stay at the Hotel Newton on the UWS. You're in between Riverside Park and Central Park, which is great for kids. There's a nice children's playground at Riverside Park, about 3 blocks away. That would be a good option - if $200 is doable for you.
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I'm sorry. I just realized I mis-read. Your child is 11 years old, not 1 year old. My apologies.
It's still a good location but forget the info about the hippo garden. -
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Wow, thanks for all the replies.
I didn't realise NY was so expensive compared to cities in the UK. I'll try looking in LI City. -
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NYC is about as expensive as London (in fact I find hotels in London more expensive than NYC for anything decent - the last time I saw a room there for $100 was about 20 years ago.)
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I agree. 22 years ago I booked something in the $100 range in London and it was nasty. I can't believe we slept there. We did cancel the other nights and moved on
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Try Country Inn and Suites Long Island City. That's typically the cheapest hotel there and is definitely the most convenient for subway access. A room for your dates is $119 per night (before tax, which will add about $20). Breakfast and Wi-Fi are included.
Just be aware, however, that Long Island City is not really that convenient to JFK. If you want to save money, take the Air Train ($5 per person) to the subway station in Jamaica; then hop on the E train ($2.50 for one ride, or you can buy a Metrocard for a cheaper package of rides). Then get off the E Queen's Plaza subway station.
To or from LGA on a budget, take the N/Q Train to Astoria Blvd. and then transfer to the M60 bus (follow the signs). The subway to bus transfer is free with a Metrocard.
Of course, the subway is difficult if you have a lot of luggage. A taxi to Long Island City from JFK will cost at least $60. A taxi to LGA from there, however, is less than $20. -
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What does everyone think to the Comfort Inn?
Hotel seems okay, but what about the area?
It seems everwhere I look people say the areas in Long Island City aren't very good.
I also looked at the Ravel, but comments are made on that area too. -
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"So $120 is a more realistic budget figure then?"
Not really as the rate is 120 plus about another 30 in taxes. And that's one hotel that may or may not be available or have the rate or room type you want for the exact days
Think $150 -$175 for absolute minumum. $200 might get you something more centrally located, but still a budget hotel(and that would be a bargain price in London!) -
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For a good basic hotel that is clean, offers free breakfasts and convenient to the subway I like the LaQuinta in Manhattan. It's $171/night for your stay.
There are two other LQ options -
$72 in Queens/Long Island City
$103.50 in Brooklyn
Read the reviews on tripadvisor.com. The other two options are about a 15 minute subway ride into the city. I'd prefer to pay the $171 and stay in Manhattan. -
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There's nothing wrong with Long Isand City. It's a fairly unattractive area but safe. Lots of traffic onto the Queensborough Bridge. No restaurants, though some delis and fast food by the subway. The reason I recommend the Country Inn and Suites is because its just a block from the subway and next to an upscale apartment building. There's nothing wrong with the Comfort Inn or the area, but its a block further from the subway and by a arage if I recall. Taxes are also very easy by the Country Inn, which is across the street from a taxi garage.
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Thanks for all your help, having never been before I find it all very confusing.
I'll let you know what I find or where I end up booking, I've got a few more days hunting yet. -
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You could try looking at Tingo.com for hotel listings. Its owned by trip advisor.
Do not stay at the airport hotels in NYC. Too much time will be spent traveling to and from the sites in Manhattan on a daily basis.
Long Island City is OK, and there quite a few newer hotels right near the subway. Cheaper than Manhattan if you cannot find a decent hotel at the price you want to pay. But as others have said if you are paying $100 a night you are in a dump. You want a safe place for yourself and your child. -
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Check out the Affinia hotels.. they have a 3 day sale right now for stays through march 31 .. starting at $129 a night ..in Manhattan
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Hi Maxima,
Thanks for the pointer but I don't seem to be able to see the Affinia offer? -
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Just put in your dates and see what privy cels come up. It's possible that thus sale is already over.
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Looks like these rates are already sold out. You might try emailing the affinia group - to see if they have any special deals - but for prices this outrageously low you need to jump on them immediately.
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Managed to book a hotel for the last night at LaGuardia for less than $90 I think it was at the Comfort Inn. Reviews seem okay.
Two more nights to sort out. -
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Not what I would recommend, Do look into how you would have to get to this hotel via public transit (may be a trekand not easy in the evening).
Check out hopstop.com to find out how to get there via public transit. And make sure it has a free shuttle to LGA - or getting to the airport can be a tedious, lengthy process, -
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Ah, they do a free transfer to and from the airport. If we have any issues its only a few minutes in a taxi.
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zak1976, it's certainly your decision, but I think it's going to prove a very annoying one for you. You're going to have to check out of your previous hotel around 11am and will not be able to check into your new hotel until 3. So you have to go all the way out to LGA, drop off luggage (or store it at your old hotel). There's really no easy and direct subway/bus service to the Comfort Inn at LGA. You can get there, but it is a log slog and a difficult one. I've actually been there, and it took me over an hour to get there from Manhattan.
It's actually not that difficult to get to LGA from Manhattan if you don't mind taking your luggage on a crowded city bus. You take the N/Q train to Astoria Blvd., walk downstairs and hop on the M60 bus that takes you to the airport in about 15 minutes. I can do that trip to or from my office in 30 to 40 minutes (my office is at 55th/Broadway) and have several times. It is considerably easier and faster to do this trip than to get to the Comfort Inn by subway and bus. It's even difficult to find the bus once you exit the train in Jackson Heights.
I hope you will reconsider, but I understand if you will not. -
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Oh ... and by the way, you will NOT be able to get a taxi easily from the Comfort Inn LGA to the airport. Yellow taxis simply don't visit outer borough hotels. You have to call for a car service, which is more expensive and might take 15 or 20 minutes to arrive. Just FYI.
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Unfortunately the LaGuardia hotel is booked so I'm just going to have to worry about that one now.
Anyway, main choice seems to be between the Edison and Comfort Inn Long Island. Price is nearly identical at £150 for either, the Comfort Inn offers breakfast though.
The comfort Inn seems to offer the easier travel options to the airports though. -
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NYC gets more than 50 million visitors per year - and good hotel deals are rare. the longer you wait the higher the prices will be as those who move quickly take the best deals.
I really don;t think you have time to keep dithering - but should reserve now something that can be cancelled if you find something better. -
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Zak ... Book something ... Anything ASAP. Prices are only going up the closer to your time of travel. You can always change later if you find something better.
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I would book the Edison. The hotel cafe is pretty inexpensive for breakfast. Its in the theater district, and you can walk to a lot of places. And you won't have to spend time just getting into and out of Manhattan.
Doug is right.. book right away and then look for a better deal. and do not stay at the comfort inn la guardia unless you want to hear planes flying over head and well yes, the Flushing area does have problems with human trafficking.
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The Ultimate Waxed Suede Tutorial
This tutorial is a little different than what we've done in the past since we're actually going to be using our Heavy Duty Fabric Wax on sueded leather. Truth be told, suede is one of my favorite things to wax because it's going to add a ton of character while also improving on function by making them waterproof. Before we get down to the waxing, it's important to highlight some things about suede that make it different from other types of leather.
During processing, thick cowhides are typically sliced down to three "splits", consisting of top-grain, interior, and underside. While the first two splits are processed into leather that's finished to be all smooth and shiny, the underside split is what's used to make our suede. Just like our own skin, the outer layers of cowhide are tougher than the new skin underneath, which is why these layers are usually used to make firmer, more rigid leathers. In contrast, the underside layer used to make suede has a lot more flexibility, making it ideal for when comfort is a priority. Think of it this way, a black motorcycle jacket made with top-grain leather is usually going to weigh a ton and be really stiff before it's broken in, while a suede jacket is going to be relatively light and flexible right from the start. In addition to all this, suedes have varying degrees of "nap" (the little hairs that stick out from the leather). The length of the nap depends on how it's processed and is usually a good indicator of quality. A really short nap is going to be more expensive, but will have a great 'velvety' appearance.
For this tutorial, we'll be waxing a pair of suede 1883 Wolverine Men's Chukkas.
Applying our Heavy Duty Fabric Wax to suede is relatively straight forward project, however I've thrown in a couple of optional steps depending on what look you want to achieve. From start to finish this project took about 30 minutes, and used up about 3/4 of one of our Regular Size Otter Wax bars.
I'd say the suede has a medium nap, but the top part of the boot seems to be made with slightly higher grade. It doesn't really matter though, since the wax we'll be applying is going to lay all of those leather fibers down. One of the things I really like about finishing suede with our wax is how it will take on the appearance of a smooth patent leather, but there's still some degree of texture left, giving it a much more natural look. Wolverine lists the color as Crepe, but they're almost a medium brown. Once waxed, they will darken up considerably.
Step 1:Remove the laces. |
Step 2:Stuff boot with crumpled paper so that everything is supported evenly. I wouldn't advise using a shoe horn since it won't support the top half of the boot. |
Step 3:Make sure that the suede is free of any dirt, dust, or debris. A horsehair brush does a great job and is gentle on the leather (Brushes available here). |
Step 4:Start rubbing the wax onto the suede. Use a little bit of pressure while rubbing the bar back and forth to create friction. This helps soften the wax and makes is spread out easier. |
Step 5:Start by applying the wax to one part of the boot at a time. Once it's been applied to a medium size area, smooth it out with your fingers to create an even coating. |
Step 6:Use the edges of the bar to reach difficult areas. |
Step 7:Thoroughly coat the seams. |
Step 8:To help spread the wax faster, use a heat gun to warm up the end of the bar. When the wax gets shiny from melting, apply directly to the leather. Use caution to prevent burning either yourself or the leather. Always use on the lowest setting. |
Step 9:When using a heat gun to help spread the wax, you're going to end up with a pretty heavy coating of wax. At this point, you might be wondering what you've gotten yourself into. Everything is going to be just fine once we move on to the next step. |
Step 10:To create an even coloration, melt the wax into the suede. The wax will get shiny for a second and then absorb into the suede as the pores open up from the heat. |
Note:If you like the idea of a more matte finish, you can stop at this point. Skip to step 12 to see how to to clean everything up and get rid of any leftover wax left in those hard to reach spots. |
Step 11:If you want the suede to have a little bit of a shine to it you can add another layer of wax. Apply the wax directly to the leather without using any heat. |
Step 12:Use a wooden smoothing tool (available here) or similar item to remove any spots of leftover wax. You can also smooth out any areas that might be slightly uneven. |
Step 13:Apply pressure and use the flat side of the tool to remove wax from seams. This helps push the wax into the seam for a better seal and removes excess wax that might have clumped around the threads. |
Before & After.Here's the before-and-after of the waxed suede chukka boot. As time passes, these will develop a great patina on the pressure points (toe, heel, and sides) that will give a little extra shine to the front and sides of the boot. |
Final ResultThe finished Wolverine Chukka waxed with Otter Wax. |
Field TestingReapply was as often as necessary or desired. |
I love it best idea for water proof shoes.
Nicely done! Any plans on a tutorial for waxed wool fabric ? I've had some success using just beeswax but am wondering if a wax/oil recipe like your product would make it easier or better.
Unlike leathers, you need to saturate rather than coat the fabric to coat the fibres then go through a bit of a removal process to keep the fabric flexible. I'd love to get your input. Thanks!
Great tutorial! One thing I would add for a finishing option is the use of a smooth-wood leather burnisher (using a wooden Dremel bit) that really gets the wax into the leather, prevents crease marks from wear and adds to the finished sheen. Not only that, a Dremel tool with a $5 cocobolo wood bit will makes the burnishing quick and painless.
thank you so much I will be trying this on a pair of suede boots to make them waterproof and to give them that look as well I will let you know how it goes and take pictures thanks again!!


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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Where things stand
It's surprising and lovely that some of you have asked me to keep posting on this blog and I very much wish to do so. I have been posting occasionally at Open Salon with a more quotidian focus, but I have wanted to maintain this blog for posts about end of life issues. And there's the rub, although I hope I can push myself through the block.
Having lost my job doing palliative care, I have lost a great deal more. Perhaps more than I want to admit to myself. And in the interim since that loss and today, I have turned over another decade, I am now 60 years old. There are two paths I might follow here to explain my situation.
On the one hand, I am working again as a nurse practitioner at Planned Parenthood. I have learned a few interesting things about young people, and have even blogged about it. The best thing I can say about my current employment situation is that I am very grateful to have a job. However (and this is only me, only my feeling, keep in mind) the work feels meaningless. If I stretch, I admit to myself that I provide needed services, a sounding board, consul and advice, and appropriate medical care to women and men in that phase of life we call "the childbearing years." I provide care to people who are mostly young and sexually active. The problems that accrue from choices about sexuality are in my face literally. A sixteen year old with herpes. A bisexual man whose wife is pregnant. Genital warts. Abortion. Women on hormones, women with hot flashes, women with weight gain and depression from birth control methods. Men considering vasectomy, men with HIV infection. It's not an unfamiliar world, I worked for many years in women's health and HIV care. So I have to face why this work has so little meaning for me now.
Leaving that aside for a moment (perhaps for another decade), I feel very fortunate to still have a role in end of life care, as a volunteer with Compassion and Choices. As a client services volunteer, I am assigned clients who wish to pursue their right to hasten their deaths using the death with dignity legislation passed in Washington a year ago. I am their companion through the process, helping them to talk about their end of life concerns, end of life tasks, guiding them through the understandably cumbersome requirements of the law, steps towards obtaining a lethal dose of barbiturates, to use or not as they choose, and attending them at the time of death, if they request. I have attended several hastened deaths now, and have had many conversations with people facing death and their choices.
Choice is certainly a common theme here. The right to control our sexuality, our reproduction, the birth process, the death process. It's all cut from the same cloth, right? I think so, it feels so to me. Yet it is still death that is calling me. Not living, but dying. I am not interested in sex these days, for many years now, living alone happily and feeling that the loss of sex is just another loss along the road. The road towards death. I heard someone on the radio talk about our human prospects for immortality and I thought, Feh!
Morbid, huh? I do think that's what I don't like about the job. Too much about living and the concerns of living, while I am so much more comfortable dwelling in the concerns about aging, bodily disintegration and disability, preparing for death, dying, mourning loss, understanding life from this perspective. Understanding death as a part of life. An appropriate concern. A useful paradigm for my life as it is now.
Well, that's where I am, grateful for a job, yet wanting to go back to my home at the end of the road. So many people work in jobs that don't suit their longings. So many people have lost jobs in the past few years, many never to work again. To be hired at 60 is almost remarkable. I never fail at being grateful.
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I think life is about many things, but most notably loss. I think you and I may share particular perspectives and experiences in this regard.
My own professional loss was so traumatic that I'm not sure when/how it'll settle with me. It wasn't the kind of gentle waving goodbye I would want with any loss as it was the sense of someone else ripping something away from me, then casting me out - which may be how loss is mostly experienced.
Ugh - that sure sounds like self-pity, doesn't it? So be it. It certainly does suck.
Anyway, I guess one of the things that really draws me to the experience of death is the sense that it's really, really important.
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I loved and was really interested in the characters. I read it quickly. It was a pleasure to read. But the story was disappointing. It wasn't grand and big and life-affirming, like a I like. It was about failure and depression and self-doubt. But it still has some warmth and humor to it. This novel has been compared to Jonathan Franzen's stuff, which I hate reading. If Chad Harbach admires Franzen then that explains the bleakness. But I wish he didn't. Because this is almost the great and beautiful kind of book that I love. I think Harbach and Franzen think beautiful and uplifting is corny and old fashioned. Jonathan Franzen is dead inside but there's hope for Harbach. I don't have to read books with happy endings. But I like the overall message to be that love or hard work or goodness prevails. I just like to read about that.
It's a rated R book, just so you know. And it talks a lot about baseball, which Chad Harbach manages to make you care about. Overall, a good book. I was just disappointed because I started to think it might be a great book—one of my favorites. It's not.
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This is interesting. I wanted it so badly to end well, and I kind of feel like it sort of did. It wasn't ideal, but it was realistic, maybe? I couldn't put it down either, and I believe I told my husband at one point that it was "epic" and I don't usually say crap like that. Or probably I do but I specifically remember this instance.
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by Gary Layton
Illinois District 11 Representative Debbie Halvorson is running full-tilt into the 2010 November election. Unfortunately for her, she's running full-tilt into the brick wall that is Adam Kinzinger. With his wildly popular support from area Tea Party groups to his landslide Primary victory, over 60% of the vote, you would think he is definitely an opponent to contend with.
Surprisingly though, very little has been heard from the Halvorson camp concerning her opponent. The average voter may assume she's just running a 'clean' campaign and that may be the case, however it's also possible that she just can't find anything negative to say about her competition.
Adam Kinzinger is not the entrenched Politician that defines the heart of the problems in Congress today. He's young, at age 31, but not too young (think JFK, not Doogie Howser). He is not, however, new to politics, having been a McLean County board member for 5 years as well as having a Bachelor's Degree from Illinois State University in Political Science.
He was a US Air Force fighter pilot and war veteran with combat experience. He flew refueling jets and surveillance planes during the Iraq war.
He's been a huge supporter of Tea Parties, attending dozens of local events while Rep. Halvorson hasn't even shown up to ease the concerns of her constituents about all the new legislation, nor to defend her voting record to them.
He was the Wisconsin Red Cross's 'Hero of the Year' in 2007 for wrestling a knife-wielding man to the ground and disarming him. (The man had just cut a woman's throat outside of a bar across the street from where Kinzinger was walking with his girlfriend). He also received the US Air Force Airman's Medal and the National Guard's Valley Forge Cross for Heroism medal for that act.
Kinzinger aside, the real question the voters need to ask is whether or not Rep. Halvorson is meeting the needs of her constituents. The answer to that question is in her voting record.
Listed below are all the votes of importance (non-procedural types) that both she and Rep. Nancy Pelosi have voted on, as well as a short summary of the purpose of each Bill in layman's terms.
Bill # | Halverson | Pelosi | Bill Name and Explanation |
H AMDT 509 | N | N | Vote to Prohibit Federally Funded Abortion (taxpayer funded abortion) |
H J RES 3 | Y | N | Vote to Block releasing the remaining funds of Economic Stabilization Act |
HJR 45 | Y | Y | Bill to enact PAYGO rules (doesn't apply to Entitlements, only to discretionary spending) |
HR 1 | Y | Y | Stimulus Bill |
HR 11 | Y | Y | Vote for Employment Discrimination Amendments (allows lawsuits to be filed on 'alleged' incidents that date back years or even decades and extends the settlement for back pay for years) |
HR 1106 | Y | Y | Mortgage Restructuring in Bankruptcy (Grants bankruptcy judges extended powers to alter the terms of Private Sector mortgages) |
HR 12 | Y | Y | Vote for Employment Discrimination Amendments (removes limits on Punitive damages in lawsuits, i.e. 'the sky's the limt', removes limits on Class Action lawsuits) |
HR 1388 | Y | Y | Bill to establish Community Service Organizations and provide Funding for them (think ACORN), up to 5.7B over 6 years. |
HR 1913 | Y | Y | Expands Hate Crime Definitions based on Country of Origin, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation (i.e. Islam, Trans-sexuals, homosexuals, Cross-dressing, etc.) (NOTE: Opponents claim that in America, a crime is a crime, and that it shouldn't matter what the criminal was thinking, only that they pay for their crime. Who will monitor the 'thought police'?) |
HR 2 | Y | Y | Expand coverage of CHIP - Children's Health Insurance Program (This was the first version of what would eventually become Obama care. Also causes government to pay for the healthcare of even wealthy people.) |
HR 2346 | Y | Y | 2008/2009 Supplemental Appropriations (long title for a Bill that forces the Dept. of Defense to set a time-line for the removal of Troops in Iraq, which the Military said would undermine their Mission by giving the Terrorists the date that our troops would be leaving) |
HR 2454 | Y | Y | Energy Law Amendments - AKA Cap and Trade (Bill to make companies pay to trade credits to pollute. No limits on what the government can define as 'pollution', also doesn't prevent pollution, just lets the government charge for it, and allows companies to trade the rights to pollute between each other) |
HR 2647 | Y | Y | Bill to Authorize 680 Billion for the Dept. of Defense and security for the Dept. of Energy (was opposed by Republicans due to Hate Crime legislation that had been 'slipped' into it. See HR 1913 above for more info) |
HR 2751 | Y | Y | Cash for Clunkers Program (Billions spent to encourage people to buy new cars with taxpayer dollars. No limitations on what country those vehicles came from) |
HR 2847 | Y | Y | Jobs for Mainstreet Bill (150 Billion in Tarp funds spent on items designed to boost the economy and jobs. However, approx. 27B is slated for 'public sector' jobs which only increases our debt further. Also spends another 79B that goes to extending unemployment benefits another 6 months. Opponents claim the way to get people back to work is not to pay give them incentives to stay unemployed) |
HR 3221 | Y | Y | Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (This will force education institutes to switch from the FFEL loan system that has been used to great effect since 1965, to the newer DL loan system, that only a fraction of schools use. It will create 10 new government spending programs, and allow more federal control of the education sector. It will also raise interest rates on student loans) |
HR 3590 | Y | Y | Health Care and Insurance Law Amendments (makes changes to Obama care, including requiring people to buy medical insurance, forcing insurance companies to accept pre-existing conditions, and taxing employers that offer 'cadillac' health plans) |
HR 3962 | Y | Y | Obama care' (also reduces funding to Medicare - which many senior citizens use - to help fund Obama care) |
HR 4314 | N | Y | Increasing the National Public Debt Limit (let's Congress spend more money it doesn't have than they previously were doing anyway) |
HR 4872 | Y | Y | Health Care Reconciliation Act (Obama care, part 2) (This allows the federal government to take over the Student Loan industry from the private banks) |
S 181 | Y | Y | Employment Discrimination Law Amendments (Senate version of HR 12, see above) |
S 22 | Y | Y | Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (expands Federally Protected Land and Waters, also makes Bill Clinton's childhood home a National Site, transfer's land from State ownership to Federal ownership, and the main reason: puts new limitations on oil and gas exploration) |
We can't know how Adam Kinzinger will vote. We only know how he says he will vote. As a decorated 'Real American Hero', I'd like to take him at his word unless he proves otherwise.
On the other side of the aisle, as you can see from her voting record, it appears Rep. Halvorson is very in-tune with the voters in California. It's too bad she's not more 'in-tune' with the voters in District 11, but what can you expect from someone afraid to attend a town hall meeting or tea party in their own district.


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A preference as well, although it may save you some trouble later: foo() || die "bar"vs foo() or die "bar"The || is of higher precedence than or. Using or (at least in the action or die pattern) can help avoid some sneaky precedence bugs. Update: Added example below perl -e 'print 1 - 1 || die "hello"'vs perl -e 'print 1 - 1 or die "hello"'--MidLifeXis
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quote:Originally posted by Fledz He probably thinks you mean a defibrillator, not an ECG Also, fight me I know what an ECG is. I know what a defib is too. Would I want a shit-pan changer examining my readouts? Nope.
quote:Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay so, it turns out that you are a paki? haha! *points* Yes Jay, a ginger "Paki".
ouff, think of the smell.
quote:Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay ouff, think of the smell. Spicy milk.
quote:Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7 I know what an ECG is. I know what a defib is too. Would I want a shit-pan changer examining my readouts? Nope. Oh I get it, your mother is an inferior, uneducated, useless, housewife - therefore you think all women are unskilled at anything other than changing diapers/wiping asses. Makes sense. P.S. I'm sorry your mother didn't love you. edit: I'm also sorry you aren't part of the master race (I thought you were a chink, not a paki? Either way, that must suck).
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quote:Originally posted by Ygrene "Hal, for your next project, I need you to eat this ham sandwich." DIABOLICAL
quote:Originally posted by Miss Pie An ECG is pretty simple. If you do it a couple of times, maybe. You have no idea the kind of problems some of my colleagues have with reading them. Come to think of it, I'd better get to repeating it myself a bit.
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This has been one of those weeks where each day has felt like an alternate one (Thursday feeling like Friday, etc.), and dealing with a bout of insomnia isn't helping. Today is more of the same. After a great dinner last night with friends, I came home late and was so wired I couldn't go to sleep. (And going to bed at 11:30 p.m. felt like it was the middle of the afternoon - thanks to the coffee I'd had, and because I've been going to bed at 1:30 a.m. Forcing myself, really, because I'm just not tired.)
What I should have done last night was get up and read, but that wouldn't have helped because I'm on a streak of reading some amazing books this week. (Instead I tossed and turned, woke up at 4 a.m. this morning, then closed my eyes "for just a little bit" at 1 p.m. before intending to spend the afternoon packing boxes that are unwilling to pack themselves ... and woke up at 4:30 p.m.)
So, you'll probably be seeing me cruising around the interwebs sometime around midnight or 1 a.m. tonight.
Unless I am reading my current book, which would be Caitlin Shetterly's memoir Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home. I'm only 25 pages into this book, but it's one that I can identify with. Our circumstances are different than Caitlin's and her husband Dan, but similar in the sense that one of us (me) is among the current unemployment statistics and the housing crisis is dramatically affecting our ability to sell this house (and as a result, our savings).
The Husband and I are much, much luckier than most people - as Caitin also writes - but I can understand the emotions in the midst of phrases such as "...in our story of our lives falling apart while we tried to do whatever it took to take care of our son, our dog, and ourselves, we felt, essentially, flattened. Actually, it was worse than that: What we felt was that we could no longer dream. That was, possibly, the most dangerous aspect of what happened to us." (pg. 3)
So, yeah, this one is really resonating with me right now. Caitlin is feeling like my new best friend.
And speaking of books that resonated with me (and which was the perfect lead-in to my wonderful reunion with friends I hadn't seen for years), can I tell you how much I absolutely LOVED Michael Cunningham's novel By Nightfall? Loved this. Loved, loved, loved this. It's a Gatsby-esque and gorgeously written book about internal and external beauty, what happens to us when we feel that the beauty has gone out of our lives, and the ways in which our souls try to recapture our once-seemingly-eternal youth.
Through Cunningham's exquisitely rendered main character of Peter Harris, he makes us take an in-depth look at who we are as a person, how we relate to each other, and the questions we ask ourselves in the middle of the night as we sense our life becoming not what we anticipated. (Like me, the main character Peter has a touch of insomnia. Unlike me, he spends the wee small hours of the morning with a glass of vodka and a sleeping pill or two.)
There is so much I could tell you about By Nightfall, but you'll just have to wait for the review ... which is proving hard to write because, well, there's so much to tell you about this one. Suffice it to say that this will be among the best books I've read all year. (Hell, the last 40 pages contain some of the best emotionally tense writing I've read EVER. They're of the sort where you might find yourself, oh, say ... procrastinating putting off making dinner for your kids, for example. Not, you know, like I would know anything about that. And yes, my kids are well-fed and regularly so.)
Last Sunday I skipped the Salon because I didn't feel like I had anything of substance to say. What I would have said was probably how much I was loving Children and Fire by Ursula Hegi, who joins the aforementioned Michael Cunningham as one of my favorite authors. (To learn why she is, you need to read my review.)
Arrggh, Blogger just cut off the last paragraph of this post, which I just don't feel like recreating. I loved Children and Fire.
That is all.
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- Lisa said...
Our move was different from yours as well, but the unemployment/money aspects of the move have left me a bundle of mess. If you need to email, feel free to email me. I've been there (am there).
- July 17, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- unfinishedperson.com said...
I have the opposite of insomnia today. I'm up early and I don't know why...however, I don't think I'm going to turn to vodka and sleeping pills. It's a bit early to drink vodka.
- July 19, 2011 at 8:07 AM
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Accuse Christian Action Network of defamation over claims of terror training
(Washington Times) A Muslim group is accusing a Christian organization of defamation for publishing a book that accuses the Muslim collective of holding terrorist training in its enclaves.
The Christian Action Network refuses to back down, challenging Muslims of America Inc. to prove the allegations wrong in an upstate New York court.
The Muslim group has a community in Hancock, near Binghamton, N.Y., and others around the U.S. It calls the network's accusations deliberate and damaging lies.
Attorney Tahirah Amatul-Wadud said the Muslim group is seeking retractions and $18 million in damages, and a halt to further publication of network founder Martin Mawyer's 2012 book, "Twilight in America: the Untold Story of Terrorist Training Camps Inside America."


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Former chairman?
Yes, he's resigned his post at the Italian defence and aerospace group amid corruption allegations that saw his board strip him of most of his powers. They went to Giuseppi Orsi, who replaced Mr Guarguaglini in April as chief executive ofFinmeccanica, and with whom he has since clashed.
Only in Italy?
Indeed, though it should be said that Mr Guarguaglini denies all allegations against him and they have not been proved.
So what is he supposed to have done?
There have been several claims, but the latest allegation is that one division of the company, Selex, over-stated the value of contracts with the civil aviation agency, with the extra cash used to pay off politicians. Selex is run by one Marina Grossi, the wife of Mr Guarguaglini.
Oh dear. Are the authorities involved?
Italian prosecutors are investigating and there have already been a number of resignations at the company.
So the chairman had no choice but to go?
Italian politicians wanted him out, but Mr Guarguaglini had clung to the post, arguing that he was innocent until proven guilty. But Finmeccanica is a third-owned by the State and the board clearly felt it had to act.
An ignominious end then?
Sort of – particularly since he's been running the show for the best part of a decade. Still, the €4m pay-off ought to soften the blow – and he'll get another €1.5m in a year's time if he doesn't go on to work for a Finmeccanica competitor.


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'Simpsons' Cast Blinks in Salary Showdown With Fox (Exclusive)
It's high noon for The Simpsons and it appears the voice cast has blinked.
The group of lead actors is close to agreeing to a new deal to keep TV's longest running entertainment show on the air, according to a source.
PHOTOS: Meet the Cast of 'The Simpsons'
That includes Dan Castellaneta (Homer, Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, and others), Julie Kavner (Marge and others), Nancy Cartwright (Bart and others), Yeardley Smith (Lisa), Hank Azaria (Moe, Chief Wiggum and Apu), and Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner, and Ned Flanders, among others).
While the cast is ready to agree to a pay cut from the $400,000 per episode they have been making since 2008, the source said that is not as deep as the 45% reduction in salary that Fox has demanded, which would have meant they get about $250,000 an episode.
PHOTOS: Best and Worst TV Dads: 'Modern Family' and 'The Simpsons'
The show's top producers, according to reports, have already agreed to reduce their current compensation, but the big difference from the cast is that several of them have "back end" deals that pay them additional amounts based on profits from all the revenue sources related to the show – such as licensing, merchandising and syndication of reruns to local TV stations.
The cast has not been paid a cut of the back end profits, and is not expected to get any in this new contract. Harry Shearer put out a statement early Friday saying he would take a cut of as much as 70% in salary if the network provided a share of back end profits, but his statement adds that Fox has remained steadfast in its refusal to do so.
Clearly the cast wants the show to continue. It isn't a tremendous amount of work (most of them do other jobs as well), and it has been a great professional calling card for the 23 years the show has been on the air.
STORY: Analyst: Fox Could Get Around $750 Million in New Syndication Revenue After 'Simpsons' Cancellation
On Friday, Nancy Cartwright said in a statement about her desire to see the show continue: "Absolutely! "The Simpsons is a remarkable chronicle of our times. I've wanted to do this since I was 16! And I want to keep doing it until I am 86! Long live the Simpsons!"
This is the latest in a long history of salary squabbles between the network and the voice cast. The series went on in 1989, with the cast making about $30,000 per episode, and the first big battle took place in 1998 when Fox threatened to replace the cast. There were other tough negotiations in 2004 and 2008, when the actors got up to their current salary.
The difference now is that the show's ratings have continued to erode, along with those of most primetime shows. While it is still pulling enough viewers to deserve to remain on the air, the studio insists the deficit to make the animated shows has now risen to a point where it is unacceptable to them. That is why Fox has threatened to end the show if they can't make a deal.
STORY: 'Simpsons' Actor Harry Shearer Says He's Willing to Cut His Salary by 70 Percent
Of course Fox could also re-cast the voice actors with talent at a lower salary, but that would bring them a lot of bad public relations.
What we do know is that the Friday noon deadline set by the studio has now passed and neither Fox or the actors is saying anything. The actors and their representatives were in a long conference call Friday morning; but the answer to what it all means continues to be "D'oh?"


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Broadmead Foundation
Bachelor of Physical Education
University of Alberta
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Artistic Dance Scene
Jesse Dymianiw
Listen Louder Productions Ltd
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
~My New Terrarium Find~
I found this terrarium at a thrift store for 3 dollars.
I loved the shape of the glass.
It's so pretty with the reflection of the light on it.
A simple vase.
A cute glitter bird.
and one rose.
Just perfect...
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