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A Big Thank You and An Even Bigger Apology 2007-10-10 17:15:00 I want to thank all the wonderful artists who have created something for Blog Action Day. More on that tomorrow.And a profound apology for not keeping up (especially after nudging everybody into action kind of hard). All the artwork that I have received will show up on the website, promise, cross my heart, and hope to ... uh... trip and fall - and with the proper acknowledgements and links to your various sites (and info about purchase too for those who chose that). I've just been a little overwhelmed by other stuff around here at Casa Insanity. Hopefully, things have started calming down, and I can create web pages that will upload correctly. Read more:Thank
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Random Thoughts and Irreality Bites 2007-10-09 11:13:00 My blogger friend Andi has posted this video clip on her blog. It has nothing to do with art, but everything to do with beauty - more accurately, the contemporary twisted perception of it.http://thethinksithink.blogspot.com/2007/10/real-beauty.htmlWhether you are a mother or a father with young girls, a young woman yourself, or neither, don't think that the crassness of the beauty/fashion/diet industry doesn't affect you personally. It does, if only because it reflects the desperation of a society gone mad with the obscenity of greed and the perversion of reality. More on this subject later. Maybe. Read more:Random
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Le New Look 2007-10-05 11:06:00 Maraya GalleriesStill working on updating our website. It's taking forever, but once I finished designing the logo, I decided to go ahead and just upload a few pages at a time, instead of finishing the whole website. I'll be talking about the changes here and would love some feedback as we go along.For now, I'm still waiting for participation in the Blog Action Day artwork project - So far, only Neda and Alfonso have submitted their collages (you can see them in the home page slides). Que pasa, people? Saving the earth is not inspiring you to come up with something? or, gulp... not worth your time? Time is running out - hurry up, vamos, allez, yalla, andare, пойтиJ'ai decidé de telecharger le "new look" de notre site, Maraya Galleries, sans avoir tout fini. Trop de travail à faire - je ferais tous les changements petit à petit. J'aimerais bien discuter des étapes à entreprendre pour en faire un site agréable à visiter, et donc, j'apprècierais énormément tous commen
Walk, Walk, Walking/Un Kilomètre à Pied 2007-10-03 09:31:00 Remember: Wednesdays* are International Walk To School Days.(Learn more here)Let's shrink that hole in the ozone layer, shall we? N'oubliez Pas:Tous les mercredis*, c'est la Journée internationale pour Marchons vers l’école (Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici) Faisons notre part pour assainir l'air que nous respirons* Bon, d'accord, ce n'est pas chaque mercredi, mais pourquoi ne pas le faire quand même?Oh, all right, it's not every Wednesday, but why not make it so? Read more:Walking
Bobbie's Who Da Man Tag! 2007-10-02 20:19:00 A girl's best friend, Cookie design by H. Audi - Cocoa & CoHow do you like this gorgeous cookie, designed by Hala Audi for her Valentine's day customers at Cocoa & Co.? I think it's a perfect illustration for this post. As if you needed to know more about my exciting life :-P1. Who is your man? Zan's Da Man, better known to you guys as artEzan2. How long have you been together? Over half our lives3. How long dated? Many years!4. How old is your man? His next birthday is in a few days, I’ll ask5. Who eats more? Depends on whether there’s chocolate in it or not6. Who said "I love you" first? Uhhh….7. Who is taller? Him8. Who sings better? ♪He was a singer in a baannd, obladi-oblada ♫9. Who is smarter? D’oh…10. Whose temper is worse? Hehehe…11. Who does the laundry? Hahahahaahha….12. Who takes out the garbage? ….oh, stop, my ribs are hurting…13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? The cat14. Who pays the bills? He brings home the bacon, I forget to d
More Blog Action Day 2007-10-15 14:34:00 Blog Action
Day Exhibit at Maraya GalleriesI've added all the information I had about the various artists and contributors to this wonderful page, including links to websites if applicable. If there are any corrections to be made, please let me know about them (hope I didn't get any of the countries wrong).By the end of the day, I hope to have also finished the links to the larger images, so viewers can click on each piece and get a more detailed look.Suggestions? Comments? Criticism? All are welcome, please let me know what you think
BLOG ACTION DAY IS TODAY! 2007-10-14 23:31:00 I've posted all the brilliant contributions at Maraya (still need to add a few hyperlinks and some text, please do not freak out if yours is missing, it will all get done before the 15th is technically over). I am too pooped to write anymore (it's past midnight my time) but I'll be back in the morning (or the afternoon).I am so proud of this collective work - you guys are the coolest on the planet.Here's my measly contribution - needs work, but it's food for thought at least.
Don't Just Sit There, BUY NOTHING! 2007-11-18 08:59:00 Here's something we can all not do: buy stuff! How brilliant is this? For one day (23rd of November in Canada and the US; 24th of November internationally), BUY NOTHING. Don't go to the mall, don't fill up your car, don't pick up a cup of coffee on the way to work, and don't get groceries on the way home. Use what you have at home or do without. It won't be hard, I promise. In fact, you will feel hugely contented and smugly superior (you're allowed this one time). Or maybe you will just feel like your neighbour down the block feels every day - the one who has no choice but to buy nothing because she has nothing.So please, buy nothing on that November day (and any other day you choose). But do think about what it means to live in an overfed, overpampered, overstimulated society. Talk about it with your children, your friends, your coworkers.Don't you love this? All you have to do is NOTHING, and bam! you've done something!Une idée de génie - Pendant une seule journée en nove
I Must Remember This... 2007-11-27 09:04:00 ♪A kiss isn't just a kissWhen it's from my chi-ildThis is my bliss, my apple pieAs time goes by...♪Oh well, better a lame attempt at rhyming than nothing at all... My apologies to Dooley Wilson (and the lyricist).I really wanted to try this new houndstoothy pattern on something -I scanned a wood cut-out I'm using on a crafty project (new scanner, yay!) and fiddled with it on Photoshop. I love this pattern, it's timeless - even though it reminds me of our ... shudder... school uniforms growing up. In French, it's called pied-de-poule = chicken feet...Speaking of crafty projects, I'm getting a few ideas together for some DYI holiday presents (including the one above). Keep your fingers crossed, folks - or better yet, figure out how to add a couple of hours to my day so I can get these things done BEFORE the holidays... Read more:Remember
Early Christmas Present For All Of You 2007-12-04 10:06:00 Peace Doves, Digitized Drawing - Copyright-free, Rima Koleilat-Barrage, 2007This is my Christmas
present for all my friends, bloggers and others. This is one present we're allowed to unwrap and use early, yay!I drew this peace dove to illustrate my new motto, which you can see on the upper right hand corner on this page. I am offering these 3 different versions of the same image to anyone who would like to use them - on a blog, for non-commercial holiday cards, for artwork, or any other (non-commercial) good use. So feel free to copy it and use it well!How's that for another DYI?... well, except that you have to come up with the "dyi" part yourself, hehe... Read more:Early
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Cool Glass Beads 2007-12-02 11:35:00 Here's my first idea for small DYI presents for this holiday season*: Another glass bead project. I love these little glass beads that are found in craft stores or dollar stores, usually with the floral supplies. And I love micro-glass beads even more - I actually found my little collection at a very good dollar store that has a wicked craft/scrapbooking section (don't tell anyone, but I even buy tiny canvases from there too - and funky paper and plain frames and boxes). It's a lot of fun to create personalized magnets with them (I had a post about the how-to a few months ago, so I won't go over too much technical detail). This time, instead of just using pictures to glue on the underside, I decided to try some more dimensional designs on the surface. I used Tacky Glue to make swirls or lines on the surface of the glass bead, then dipped it in the micro-glass bead container - easy peasy! You can also use ModPodge or plain white glue - they all dry clear and give an excellent result Read more:Glass
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Laughter Being the Best Medicine 2007-12-06 09:54:00 If you've been around this blog long enough, you've probably read about my friend and niece-in-law Hala's latest bout with leukemia. Since she never does anything half-a**ly, like her fantastic catering service Cocoa & Co, Hala launched a hilarious, witty, poignant and inspiring blog entitled "Halakemia" - a lebano-franco-english diary of her journey to recovery. Inspired by Barb's last fun portrait of Hala, this is my take on Hala's latest baldie-portrait challenge. There's still time to join in the fun, and you can send Hala* or me your fun creations, you have until Sunday. Next week, all the portraits will be displayed on a "wall" in my gallery. Love and laughter, faith and strength: This is what I think of when I think of you, darling Hala, you tough cookie you. *Hala's email address is on her blog Read more:Medicine
Not Too Late for DIY Redux 2007-12-17 16:23:00 This one's for all you skeptics out there, who do not believe that something can be home-made (or home-assembled) and compete with store-bought "stuff".Here is one of my small gifts, comprising of:A cute mug (from Michaels- cost: around $3 with coupon and tax)A cellophane bag with a silver twisty and filled with my Chai concoction (cost: around $0.50)A printed recipe (no real cost)Assorted gift-wrap trimmings (cost: around $0.10)Grand total: $3.60. It did take me a while to get it done - the tea prep, the wrapping, etc..., but I think it looks nicer than a lot of similar things I've seen around the stores. So? Not too bad, eh? Read more:Redux
Nepotistic Announcement 2008-03-11 08:16:00 Publicity Shot for Nadine's ExhibitionWas I complaining about the snow in Ontario? It's much worse in Québec. I know because I'm spending the week in Montréal, and this city, usually able to weather (hah!) winter storms without batting an eye, is now impossible to navigate - on foot (normally a great pleasure), by bus (always running and on time) or on four wheels (a nightmare at any given time). It's aggravating, really. I was so looking forward to walk-abouts in my beloved downtown streets, but it's too much of a hassle with the kids and, strangely, shopping underground is not their idea of fun. Darn. Now we just have to luxuriate indoors until we head out to the museum to catch the sizzling hot exhibition there. More on that tomorrow.I've received this email from my friend Nadine who Read more:Announcement
Book? What Book? 2008-02-12 14:49:00 Thank you , dear Frances for tagging me. Here are the rules for this not-a-meme-book-meme.Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)Find Page 123.Find the first 5 sentences.Post the next 3 sentences.Tag 5 people.I wish I had cheated, because this is what I have for you today, honest to goodness:"What am I going to do?'I expect you'll whip through these in no time!' she says gaily. 'The ironing board's just there', she adds with a nod."from Sophie Kinsella's The Undomestic Goddess. What? Did you actually expect me to have A Dissertation on the Dialectic of Neo-Hegelian Nihilism? Don't worry, I didn't pay for it - I picked up a copy at the library because it was on display near the check-out. I haven't started this faschinating book yet, but it was the nearest 123-plus-pag
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