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Sabato sera mi fermo per comprare le sigarette (bevano) e ci sono gruppi di ragazzi scalmanati, che saltano, che cantano, che corrono avanti e indietro…. nessuna festa, nessun addio al celibato ma Cristina del GF che prende un caffe’.

Veramente carina, la TV non le rende giustizia. E’ molto piu’ carina ‘live’ che in tv. Tacchi vertiginosi e sorriso aperto: mi è rimasta simpatica.

Ma bellino!!!

Make a Do-Si-Do Book

A do-si-do book, like the partner square dancing move, swings between 2 signatures. These books are like two books in one and are excellent for dual purposes, like drawings and notes, or double themes like opposites or pairs. Read on and you’ll be whipping up your own fine books in no time!

Materials & Tools:

• paper
• scissors
• linen thread
• needle
• bone folder
• awl
• pencil

Step 1:

Prepare two signatures and the covers. To make each signature, fold 5-10 sheets of paper in half and trim to size. Choose a sturdy paper or lightweight board to use as the cover. Cut the cover to be the same size as the height of the signatures and as wide as three times the width of one signature. Fold the cover into thirds using a bone folder, so it forms a Z shape.

Step 2:

Make a sample signature that is the same height and width as your signatures out of a single sheet of paper. Measure and mark the placement for 3 holes on the sample signature. You’ll use this as a guide for making holes in your signatures and covers. Put one signature into one of the folds of the Z shaped cover. Using a bookbinder’s awl and your sample signature as a guide, punch 3 holes through each signature and cover.

Step 3:

Pull the threaded needle through the center of the first signature, leaving a tail of thread a couple inches long inside the signature.

Step 4:

Push the needle through the top hole on the spine of your book.

Step 5:

Pull the needle through the bottom hole on the inside of your book, skipping over the center hole and thread tail.

Step 6:

Pull the needle through the center hole on the outside of the book.

Step 7:

When you pull the needle into the center of the book again, make sure that the needle and thread is on one side of the long center stitch and the thread tail is on the other. Remove the needle and trim the threads. Pull each thread taut to even out the tension of the stitching.

Step 8:

Tie a simple knot over the long center stitch.

Steps 9-16:
Repeat steps 1-8 on the second signature.

Step 17:

Ta da! Do a little dance and away you go! Fill you book with notes, drawings, secrets.

che peccato averla trovata solo ora, questa digi-card è stupenda!

Free Mothers Day Card!

Ho trovato questo articoletto su un blog…. chiaramente io ho comprato questo deodorante la settimana scorsa!

L’azienda Borotalco ama le collaborazioni creative e le collezioni, ne è un esempio “Love Therapy” di qualche anno fa! Ora si ritorna all’attacco con Hello Kitty Collection, due deodoranti da collezionare: Lovely Day e Sweet Night.

Il primo modello rosa è adatto per il giorno, grazie alla sua profumazione briosa e fresca, mentre il secondo nero è ideale per le serate romantiche, con una profumazione delicata e dolce. Per le appassionate, i due spray sono sicuramente da aggiungere alla collezione, inoltre in questo caso gli oggetti risultano anche utili, visto che si tratta di deodoranti, che si spera siano veramente 100% Fashion e 0% Alcool, ma su questo punto ho molti dubbi!

questo qui

In testa alle classifiche dei libri più venduti negli Usa in questo momento c’è un libro che parla di diete, o meglio di non-diete nell’ottica di accettare il proprio corpo così com’è. A due giorni di distanza dalla giornata internazionale della Non-dieta (No diet day), parliamo di Lessons from Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body.

Sarà il nuovo libro cult per venire a patti con la propria naturale fisicità, senza rincorrere i modelli estetici che la società si affanna ad imporci? Non si trovano ancora molte notizie in giro su questo libro, ma le poche che si trovano sono interessanti ed il titolo, che in attesa della versione italiana potremmo tradurre con “Lezioni dalla Grasso-sfera: smetti la dieta e dichiara tregua al tuo corpo”, è di per se tutto un programma.

La teoria che il libro esprime, già diffusa e professata da altri siti, è che si possa essere sani a qualsiasi taglia, quindi contraddicendo l’equazione: magro= sano, grasso=malato; così come la teoria che le diete facciano più male che bene.

Se ha senso pensare che ognuno è un caso a parte e che mens sana in corpore sano è un buon programma di dieta, il libro ovviamente andrebbe letto per intero per poterne discutere meglio. Le autrici, Kate Harding e Marianne Kirby scrivono su due blog, rispettivamente Shapely Prose e The Rotund, molto popolari all’interno della grasso-sfera, intendendo per grasso-sfera l’insieme di siti e blog in difesa dei diritti delle persone grasse e dell’idea che si può essere sani a qualsiasi taglia. Sono entrambe felicemente sovrappeso.

Per le donne, quotidianamente bombardate da modelli estetici di perfezione ma soprattutto per le giovani donne e le adolescenti, ancora più sensibili verso l’accettazione del proprio corpo, può essere interessante aprire gli occhi su un’altra prospettiva, sapere che non tutto il mondo ritiene che si debba aderire ad uno stampo preconfezionato dalla società ma ribadire l’unicità – e l’implicita bellezza – di ciascun corpo.

Credo che l’intento e il messaggio del libro sia in ogni caso importante, perchè fa capire che non tutte le donne che sono sovrappeso, dalle curve pronuciate, grassottelle o “rotondette” lo sono per sconfitta di una dieta non riuscita, bensì per scelta.

C’è chi sceglie di essere o restare grassa perchè non ha intenzione di mettersi a dieta solo per assomigliare il più possibile all’immaginario estetico femminile dominante (moda e pubblicità). C’è un altro modo al femminile di vivere la propria fisicità diversa dall’essere “velina”, e non credo che di questi tempi sia un messaggio da sottovalutare.

a work in progress.

1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk. 2. Write a letter to yourself in the future. 3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday. 4. Draw your dinner. 5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal. 6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street. 7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it. 8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them. 9. Spend a day drawing only red things. 10. Draw your bike. 11. Make a list of everything you buy in the next week. 12. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day. 13. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm) 14. Trace your footsteps with chalk. 15. Record an overheard conversation. 16. Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live. 17. Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favorite colors. 18. Draw your favorite tree. 19. Take 15 minutes to eat an orange. 20. Write a haiku. 21. Hang upside down for five minutes. 22. Hang found objects from tree branches. 23. Make a puppet. 24. Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature. 25. Read a book in one day. 26. Illustrate your grocery list. 27. Read a story out loud to a friend. 28. Write a letter to someone you admire. 29. Study the face of someone you do not like. 30. Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white). 31. Creat a museum of very small things. 32. List the smells in your neighborhood. 33. List 100 uses for a tin can. 34. Fill an entire page in your jounral with small circles. Color them in. 35. Give away something you love. 36. Choose an object, draw the side you can’t see. 37. List all of the places you’ve ever lived. 38. Describe your favourite room in detail. 39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine. 40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag. 41. Make a mini book based on the theme, “my grocery list”. 42. Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits. 43. Recall your favorite childhood game. 44. Put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them everyday (but not become deaf to them.) 45. Draw the same object every day for a week. 46. Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers. 47. Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit. 48. Make a useful item using only paper & tape. 49. Research a celebration or ritual from another culture. 50. Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen. 51. Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city. (photocopy it and give it to someone you like.) 52. Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hours. 53. Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other. 54. Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects. 55. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces. 56. Draw your garbage. 57. Do a morning collage. 58. List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.) 59. List ten things you would like to do every day. 60. Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal. 61. Trasform some garbage. 62. Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters. 63. Collect some ‘flat’ things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal. 64. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.) 65. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them. 66. Write a journal entry describing something “secret”. Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled. 67. Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries. 68. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing). 69. What were you thinking just now? write it down. 70. Do nothing. 71. Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list. 72. Create an image using dots. 73. Do 3 drawings at different speeds. 74. Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel. 75. Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life. 76. Draw the sun. 77. Create instructions for a simple everyday task. 78. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.) 79. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it. 80. Write a letter using an unconventional medium. 81. Draw one object for twenty minutes. 82. Combine two activities that have not been combined before. 83. Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.) 84. Write a list of all the things you do to escape. 85. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results. 86. Write an entry in code. 87. Make a painting using tools from the bathroom. 88. Work with a medium that is subtractive. 89. Write about or draw some of the doors in your life. 90. Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it. 91. Divise a journal entry using “layers”. 92. Divise an entry using “layers”. 93. Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.) 94. List 10 of your habits. 95. Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.

Vediamo se mi “smuovo” da questo stato di apatia continua, magari questo è un buon modo…..