Established in 2002
In 2002 David Best came up with the idea to make the above Beadmobile after being asked by the Germany’s Essen Motor to create an art car for the event. It took over 100 people, mostly passers by and school children, to help glue the thousands (possibly millions) of beads supplied by Fire Mountain Gems and Beads onto the car.
Beadman: “What’s that I hear… a beader in trouble…?”
Tigertail: “Yes, I think it is beadman.”
Beadman: “To the beadmobile tigertail!”
Via Bead and Button – Issue 60.
I saw something, a shadow on my roof, which looked oddly like a hot water bottle. It moved. I jumped up and cowered in the corner of my room looking around for the hot water bottle shadow to emerge once again, nothing. I ran towards my door, far cry style, ducking just in case the hot water bottle shadow was planning an attack. I turned the light on and looked around, again nothing. My heart was racing. I walked into the kitchen and it finally hit me…
“What the hell am I doing? I’m looking for a fucking shadow shaped like a hot water bottle in my room, that’s what I’m doing!”
I went back to bed, confused about what had just happened and very scared of hot water bottles. Earlier I had taken the shoe forgetting medication again. I had been in pain all weekend and was frustrated by lack of sleep, so it seemed like a good idea at the time. I really should stop myself from proceeding with something after thinking “seems like a good idea”, because in the past, it never turns out to be a good idea.
I know that I wasn’t dreaming when I scanned my room for hot water bottle shapes, the jewellery boards which I knocked over were proof of that. I must have been hallucinating beforehand though, imagining some hot water bottle shadow in my sleep. I hope I was hallucinating, because otherwise there’s some weird fucking creature lose in my room.
I am so never taking the shoe forgetting medication again.
About a week ago I got Gmail (Thanks to Pam). My thoughts?
I like the look of Gmail, it’s very clean and there are no ‘buy this kitten now and get another one free’ banner ads which tend to distract you. I don’t even mind the text ads (which I’ve started using at kitta.net a few day ago, I too have sold out just like Sergio).
And they weren’t lying when they said it’s fast, I wasn’t sure if the first few emails I set were actaully sent, due to its fastness. It also seems to refresh the window if left open. I’m pretty sure Hotmail or Yahoo don’t do this (I could be wrong though, so don’t hurt me with sharp objects) and it’s a nice feature.
I’m not sure how it goes with spam, since I’ve received none so far, the “Hooray, no spam here!” message not only makes me laugh, but also sigh in relief.
The spell check is pretty damn good, although I’d like to see an option where the user could choose other languages, it keeps telling me to spell colour as ‘color’ and jewellery as ‘jewelry’.
Well, that’s my thoughts on Gmail so far. Feel free to email me so I can beta some more, I haven’t received many emails yet and I’d like to test it out a bit more. My address is:
nikitak [at] gmail.com
(Note: I do not, repeat DO NOT, have any Gmail invites yet, so please don’t ask me for one. If and when I do receive any invites they will be given to family and friends who’ve been bugging me for the last week about them.)
I only noticed something odd today, which was that the bit of paper that covers the sticky part on Libra sanitary pads now comes with some facts on it…
I can just imagine the meeting at Libra…
The boss: “Ok people, we need to come up with something new, so the ladies will buy our products, any ideas?”
Jill, the only female in management: “We could make a commercial that pisses them off, thus making them remember us.”
The boss: “No, we need to think bigger people.”
Craig: “What about re-designing the packets once again, maybe we could find out a way to make an invisible case, so when it falls out of their bags there will be no embarrassment. We all know how the ladies hate tampon incidents.”
The boss: “We tried that last year, the test subjects couldn’t find the case once they dropped it.”
Ben: “I know! Why don’t we put silly little facts on the bit of paper that covers the sticky part?”
The boss: “Fantastic idea Ben, we could call it ‘odd spot’, it would be a hit with the ladies!”
Ben gets a raise and I write a blog entry about sanitary pads.
A few days ago I was sitting at the kitchen table chatting with my friend Candy, the topic of conversation was the type of guy I should date…
Candy: “I know the type of guy who’d be perfect for you.”
Nikita: “Oh here we go…”
Candy: “He’d be tall, have brown hair and wear a suit, oh and he’d also be Irish.”
I give her a look, a ‘what the hell are you on?’ look.
Nikita: “He sounds like a wanker.”
She laughs and she tries to correct herself, but then I start laughing, she places her head in her hands and mumbles something which I can’t make out.
So according to my friend, a tall Irish man in a suit is the way to go. I, on the other hand, think she’s nuts and really needs a holiday. But it got me thinking, what would the perfect guy for me be like? So I made a list…
(Note: It’s not that I don’t like men who wear suits or Irish men, suits look fantastic and Irish men are funny and cute. It’s just those two things together are a bit odd. I mean, could you imagine an Irish man wearing a suit all the time? It would be totally wankerish.)
Anyone that makes their own jewellery knows one thing, that one thing is that trying to take a good picture of your creations can be a bitch. I was looking around some forums when I saw a post by a woman who said she uses a scanner and a black piece of material on top of the jewellery to get some decent images. I had tried the scanning method before, with a white sheet of paper, but didn’t get good results. So I was a bit hesitant, yet since I had some spare black fabric and not much to do a few nights ago, I decided to give it a go anyway. Amazingly, I got some pretty good results and I’ve added the pictures to the jewellery section.
The only problem is you can only use this method for flat jewellery; any piece that uses large lampwork type beads tends to become quite blurry, as you can see in the image below.
Oh well, when I get a better camera I’ll be able to take some good shots of all my pieces that use lampwork beads.
I’ve been trying to come up with a name for my jewellery collection for over a week now. I’ve asked friends, forum members and I’ve even asked Harry (to which he just gave me a ‘you know I can’t talk’ look).
Some of the names people have suggested so far are:
If you have any ideas please leave a comment, otherwise I’m looking at “_________ jewellery” as a name. Which is so not cool.
On yet another shopping trip, where I overheard some girls having a conversations. It was not about innocent milkshakes this time, and they were about 13 to 14 years old…
Girl #1: “OMG, look at this skirt.”
Girl #2: “That’s like hot!”
Girl #3: “It’s so skanky.”
Girl #1: “Duh, skankwear is cool.”
Girl #2: “Oh yeah, skankwear is soooo cool.”
Nikita: *tries hard not to laugh*
Girl #3: “It’s like a Paris Hilton.”
Girl #2: “OMG, she’s soooo hot!”
If I ever have a daughter, I hope she never lets the words “Skankwear is cool” come out of her mouth, and if they do, there will be 500 lines of “Skankwear is so not cool!” coming her way (I’d so be a lines type mum).
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