Pottery!

This post is long overdue. I found the pictures to the pottery we made from the Snake Kiln post. They had a DIY make your own pottery on the wheel thing, so we all tried it. AND I SOOO WANT TO DO IT AGAIN, so I've decided I will take pottery lessons when I have the chance.

The feeling of that cold, wet clay shaping and spinning through your fingers is a rather spiritual one for me.

I had too much fun

all the little bowl thingers we made! I made the two bowls on
the far left + the plate.  

The plate I made. There aren't any close ups of the bowls..

Later, they fired the clay and painted it for us! Then, they sent them to my cousins and they actually look real good. I'll see if I can get pics of them.

Lord Nibbler

For the past few weeks I have been working on this stuffed animal of Lord Nibbler, from the show, Futurama. I followed this pattern on Ravelry by Elizabeth Jarvis for anyone who's interested/has a Ravelry account. 

Basically Lord Nibbler was found on the planet, Vergon 6 by the delivery crew. He is and acts rather adorably as the crew's pet, even though he is able to speak and is quite intelligent. As Earth's ambassador from his home planet, he has saved Earth a few times, but erased people's memories so that they don't remember and still treat him as a cute creature. 

He will eat ANYTHING. Viciously.

He also excretes dark matter, which weighs a ten thousand pounds and can be used to power the space ship. 

Well that's the basic introduction to the little feller. Here is my knitting of him! 

before he was born

before the cords were cut

Lord Nibbler on his throne

eating yarn

And today I gave him to my very good friend! :)

TP

Guess what everybody? I'm feeling a lot better.

..and I also revived my love for naan. Also Malai Kofta is amazing too.

These pictures are from websites, but just so you know, my friend and I will make a store with all the good things in the world-- naan, ice cream and yarn. -- THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE FUTURE. LOOK OUT FOR "ALL THE GOOD THINGS IN THE WORLD" STORE NEAR YOU! 

and I also found out that TP stands for toilet paper!!!

This picture is also from a website, but wow..

I am wise no longer

Ok, lame wisdom teeth removal joke, but I am wise no longer as of today. You may actually believe that I was not wise in the first place. I think the only thing I've ever said that was perceived to be wise, was not intentionally so.

After final reviews (for anyone that doesn't know, final review week is the most horrible time in the world. Spend 20 or more hours a day on one project, drawings and model for a week.. you know you'll be screwed up internally)

Student 1: Yay!! Final is over!! It feels so great! Like the sun came out.
Me: ha ha. no. YOU came out to the sun! The sun was always there. (referring to spending 20+ hours in dark computer labs)
Student 2 took this very metaphorically and hence it sounded very wise
Me: *surprised* ohh yeah, wise.

Well I've been living off of blender food. Not sure exactly what goes in, but it's purdy healthy if it comes from my mother. I know I had chicken soup at one point and this delicious purple soy milkshake type thing. And I've mostly been sleeping.


I saw this ice packing superhero today too...

Origami Shelter

Something of more substance than my last post..

I saw this come up on my Google Reader! Since I've been playing around with some origami, I found this design to be intriguing.

Many origami designs can be pressed, flatly before you make it come to life. This design uses that principle to help people in disaster situations by allowing large quantities of it to be shipped around, efficiently!

This picture came from here. Please click for more interesting
images! 

We're Making Loud Music

Oh Michelle Branch, how I miss thee!!!

That is all.

Humpback Rock

On my last day in Charlottesville, my good friend and I went to Humpback Rock for a quick hike before going home. It's located about 40 min away from Charlottesville on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The parkway itself has some nice views of the Shennendoah. Here is some info on the hike if anyone's interested in going. It was a pretty steep one mile hike uphill and we had to stop a few times before getting there. Though I think going down was worse for me.

The trail is well shaded and since we went in the morning, it was nice and cool.

There were a lot of cute families on the hike and we also a dad taking his two (2 or 3 or 4 year old) sons on the hike. I saw them and was thinking.. Ah, if these kids can do it, so can I! But then a few yards up the trail, one of the kids started crying and the dad carried him all the way up the mountain.

We also saw a group of volunteers fixing up the stairs along the way! Sounds like it'd be pretty cool to join them.

There were 3 or 4 milli or centi ? pedes on the way!

looked like a rusty piece of metal at first! 

at the top.. first you see the sky between these rocks

then you climb the rocks and the land below slowly appears

the view! 

a mysterious tree with striped bark. 

meadow by parking lot 

don't forget to click on the photo for a larger view!