dune_drd asked to see:

The place where you do your crafting!

Ta da!



Lookit me and my fancypants panoramic photomagraphy! You really an get an app for everything on the iPhone. (You will need to click through to Flickr to see it full sized.)

One of the advantages of having a slightly bigger home is that you don't have to work on the living room floor now. I have a wall of the spare room dedicated to my hobbies. The desk was £20 from IKEA (yes it's a kids one, but it does me fine), the shelving is recycled from the drinks 'cabinet' in the old house and every shelf of that bookcase has four rows of books on it. The little metal filing cabinet was a £25 bargain from IKEA and all the storage boxes are full of beads.

All my 'dangerous' stuff (like my torches and safety pickle) are on the converted spice racks on the left hand side.

The desk is set up for resin work in the picture ad you can see the stuff that's setting on the table, soon to be on sale on the internet. (I just need a name for my shop. Pah.)

The red picture on the wall is of Ex-Cheddar's feet when she was about 3 months old. Her first craft piece. And there's a bunch of morbid_spark's crocheted grapes in the picture too

All my glass cutting kit is on top of the bookcase along with my first fascinator, which, even if I do say so myself, looked awesome. (I must and a wedding photo to show it off.)

I have a lot of stuff. :/

spiralsheep asked to see

Your doormat or the first thing a visitor to your home would see (temporary items, e.g. toys abandoned by ex-Cheddar, count for the purpose of a photo).

This is my front door. We have a couple of silver birches round by us so there's always a lot of dead leaves getting blown into the corner of the porch. I've not gotten around to cleaning them up yet. The red watering can was left by the old owners but it's very useful for watering the flowers out the front.

(If you want to request a photo the original post is here.)

Ask me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you're interested in/curious about. It can be anything from the house I live in to my favorite shoes. Leave your choice here as a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and posting them as an entry.

Shamelessly stolen from pontisbright and others on my flist:

( book chatting behind the cut! )

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

How do your reading habits stack up? [bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish]

( my book list )

So 40 of those I've read.

A challenge to watch 500 episodes of TV shows in one year. The only rule is that if you watch a certain episode more than once in a year you can only list it again if you haven't already listed it for that month.

Now, I'm only going to count TV shows that I actually watch. Having repeats of QI or Animal Cops playing in the background while I'm on the computer won't count as I not watching them, just using them as white noise.

TV
( January )

( February )
Watched so far:

Films
( Big Film list under the book )
Watched so far: 12

Books (Fiction only)
( Big Book list under the cut )
Read so far: 14

ElJay was apparently hit by a DDoS attack this week.

I have seen pictures of Ewan McGregor in Angel's and Demons. Oh my word. :D He may be enough to tempt me to sit through a Tom Hanks film (I'm still of the opinon that Viggo Mortensen would be much better as Langdon.)

I heard Jack White and Alicia Keys' Bond!song today. It is absolutely awful. The only good thing about it is the very very start before the singing and the last minute and a half is atrocious. I'm a bit miffed that I'm going to have to sit through it when I see the film next week.

You really can buy anything theses days: Hello Kitty wedding dresses and evening gowns anyone?

After the lulz of yesterday's pet Halloween costumes: how about dressing up the kids?

And I'm reminded why I think Russell Brand is a bit of a cock. It's interesting to note that there were initially only 180-odd complaints. It's only escalated into 27,000 thanks to all the news coverage. And most of them probably never even heard the phone messages, either when it aired or on Listen Again. *headdesks* Andrew Sachs is a complete gent though.

Our justice system prove that even though you've left people brain damaged you won't get punished, instead you'll be released from prison three months into your sentence. (Mind you most prisons now are even more cushy than my house. Free Xbox's? or Playstations? Food and accomadation all paid for. It's no wonder a percentage of out prison population can't wait to get back inside.) [/Daily Mail rant] (And I'm not just mouthing off there, my friends works in a prison and is highly annoyed that the inmates have so much nice stuff.)

Oh, and for the record I don't mind Loud Twitter posts on my flist. Although I have a Twitter I don't follow anyone on it so it's nice and easy to have Twitter posts on my flist. And if I don't want to read them I just scroll. I really don't get the vitriol about them. *shrugs* In fact, I'm pretty much in agreement with those on my flist who have been saying that the rants about Twitter are more annoying that the Twitter posts themselves.

Just had a text from a family member: "OMG! The One Show has just spoilt Little Dorrit for me, damn them all the hell!" Bless. Do we still spoiler cut for 100+ yr old novels?

Come on Weather Gods, bring me the mooted 3 inches of snow so I don't need to go to work tomorrow. Please?

And a meme to finish (via persiflage_1):
If you are reading this, post a picture of a cat in your journal. (Your cat, a lolcat, or someone else's cat. But preferably yours, if possible.)
( Guess who's behind the cut! )

Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favourite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favourite icon.

Film meme pinched shamlessly from alawston

Empire's 500 best movies list, underline the ones you've seen.
( massssssssive list behind the cut! )

In other news:

• via rj_anderson: find animals in the Tube route map


• More disturbingly, the Telegraph reports on a heron eating a little bunny. With photos. The bunny is not impressed by this turn of events.


• Ironbridge Gorge is breaking the world famous Iron Bridge


• One of my neighbours is in the local news with a unique way of trying to find a job. It's rather depressing that I don't even recognise him. My road's not that long.


• Some haunting photos of the area around Chernobyl

Yay! Prison Break's on in a bit!

Oh No Hands, you've become such a sellout. You were the LOLest of LOLcats and you're reduced to appearing on the front of a birthday card. Bad form No Hands, bad form.