Sparkles and Sticks

Can Vampires Use IPhones?

So I read this really funny post the other day, and it got me thinking...

Can vampires use iphones?

Check this cool thing out too, while you're at it.

: D

If only I had an extra $60 dollars laying around.  And an extra two hours a day.  And infinite energy. And aplethora of friends and family who actually like recieving handmade gifts.  And... well, you get the idea.

Elsiecake, aka Elsie Flannigan, is one of my artistic heroes.  She inspires me everyday in both her creative expression and her conviction in following her dreams.

Yesterday, she announced her first ever online classs.  It lasts for six weeks and she sends out five tutorials each week.  In other words, there are thirty tutorials (some written, some video, all with oodles of photos).  That works out to $2 a tutorial.  Soooo cheap when you look at it that way!  I don't know how she managed to offer this online session at such a low price.  And if you have thirty people to give Christmas gifts to?  $60.  Plus the cost of supplies, which doesn't look too extravagent, based on the photos above.  In fact, I bet most crafty chicas already have a lot of this stuff hanging around.

Have I sold you yet?  Go here to sign up.  And tell Elsie I sent you and she should let me participate for free because of all the promo I've done here (just kidding!).

Happy Crafting! : )

Edward Cullen Had Competition

His name is Bill Compton, and he is on every Sunday night on HBO.

Yum.

Multiple Choice Nightmare

A week or so I go, i found myself in a position that is always a tad difficult to be in.  I was in Wales (no, that's not the hard part).  My waiter had discovered that I was American.  His eyes lit up a little, and not in the way that younger guys do when they hear your accent and immediately start picturing you walking around in Daisy Dukes gear.  No, the light in his eyes was much more frightening.

"So, do you think that the financial crisis will be solved in one year, or will it take longer than that?" he asked before he would let me see my bill. 

This wasn't a simple inquiry.  He asked it as a question, to be sure.  But it was like a mulitiple choice question on a pop quiz in math class (which is pretty much my worst nightmare).  And he had a cheat sheet.  Or worse yet, the teachers guide.

"Oh, I have no idea."  I said.  I really didn't.  Numbers terrify me.  I can't even balance my own bank account properly, how am I supposed to fix my country's economy?

This was not the right answer.  And then I got a lecture on how I shouldn't vote in the presidential election if I didn't know the answer to that question.

The financial crisis is important, don't get me wrong.  But there are lots of other important issues in the election too.  Issues I am more likely to be able to understand and articulate responses to.

He ended up giving us the bill in the end.  My boyfriend figured out the tip for us. 

(I wasn't kidding when I said I was no good at math).

Today, I came across something that I think is a great solution to the financial crisis.

At least, it's the answer I am going to give someone if I am ever asked again.

Maybe then they will leave me alone.

'Cause all you people are vampires..."

So, I am currently knee deep in my "vampire fascination phase."  It started two months ago when I spent warm summer evenings drinking red wine and reading the Twilight books on my back porch deep into dusk.  It detoured slightly as I read about political and familial werewolf drama on trains around the UK, and came back around to make me feel like I was wandering the world alone for eternity (when all I was really doing was drinking lattes and flipping pages in a Starbucks).  Now I am listening to an Artic Monkeys song that accuses everyone around them of being vampires, reading essays about the Twilight books, getting ready to read the Sookie Stackhouse books, and trying to figure out how to watch old episodes of True Blood online without giving my laptop some kind of manky virus.  (and re-reading the Twilight books and planning my vampire Halloween costume, if I am going to really expose my obsession here!)

So, my question is this... does anyone have any suggestions for some new vampire material?  There is a lot of stuff out there, and I am not sure how to wade through it.  I do expect that many suggestions will include some type of gore and/or sex (they are two elements that go hand in hand with vampires) but I don't want to get to involved in anything uber gorey and uber sexy "just for the sake of it."  In other words, I want the good stuff.  The stuff that people can argue out of the "genre" mold.  Movies, books, tv shows, music... I am ready to embark on my personal little vampire study adventure.

Any suggestions?