Dancing rabbits

I love this poem. I had to share.

CASSEL ROAD by Sandra Maddux-Creech

Look…
the rabbits actually danced
on their hind legs
in the smoky moonlight
all about the black fields
and gray gravel road
staring us down
in the trail of our headlights
How dare we come there?

I swear
we drove backward
for two miles

Found here.

I watched some more movies lately. Its the perfect entertainment while folding origami stars or other mindless craft-related activities.

The Painted Veil was so good! Pretty pretty scenery. And Edward Norton and Naomi Watts smoldered onscreen. I liked it a great deal.

I also watched Volver which I'd been looking forward too. It didn't blow me away but I liked it. Penelope Cruz was spunky and really good in the role. And the actress who played her sister was good.

The Squid and the Whale has been on my list for a very long time. I liked it. It felt very honest and real and the kids were terrific in this one.

Now I cannot wait for Deadwood Season three to come out. I'm hooked! The characters are intriguing and its a great mix of brutal and funny. Love love love Swearingen and Doc and Jane and Dan - and almost everyone really. If you haven''t watched these, you shoudl do so. And stick with it even when it starts out so horribly dark and violent. You end up rooting for the most unexpected characters.

This blog is getting a little heavily skewed towards book and movie reviews. I promise I do have projects in the works! Pottery class is on hiatus until mid-June so all my half-finished projects are on hold. But I'm working on a painting that I'm so very proud of. It should be done this weekend. No clue what I'll work on next. Maybe more felt things.

Two Good Ones and a Stinker

I've been in a fit of reading and movie watching lately. (And crafting but nothing finished enough to show yet). Love love loved this book:

The writing was so lyrical and delicious. At first it seemed like it was paced too slowly to hold my attention, but I got sucked in by the language and the pacing was perfect for the story.


And I watched Wuthering Heights so I could compare it to the book. It only told half the story and it did bend things to make the two main characters more likeable, but I liked it. Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon are amazing in this. And stunning to look at.

This one I didn't like. Quirky but not that interesting in the end. I'm sad that I wasted my time on it.

Oh and I read this quote somewhere and loved it. I had to share.

"I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits." – Kelly Link

New Painting and ATC cards

Here's my last painting. I like it enough to possibly keep. Its rather large.




And new ATCs. I need to figure out how to get better pictures of these without using a scanner (cause I hate using scanners).

Dog days

Dog days
Originally uploaded by lincoln_loggers.

Have I mentioned that I have the freakin cutest dog ever? Cause I do.

I didn't take this shot, my hubby did. I love it.

Meez too!

Copying Jamie again. Here's my Meez:

I love this lady's style. Kinda old school, almost rockabilly-ish. Without the cig, of course.


Found via The Sartorialist.