live long and crochet

Stuck for ideas for your favourite geek/nerd/yarn bomber?

 

 

Search no more.

You can buy them the book, or you can knit it yourself!

 

Wouldnt they love some hand knitted hobbit socks complete with foot-hair?

Or a Princess Leia...um... I hesitate to call this a hat. Hairpiece? Toupe?

 

I dont remember Catwoman EVER wearing this though...

 

trash and treasure

Ever come across a book that was so bad, you weren't sure if it was meant to be a joke? Pommie Sarah did, and thought it needed sharing on this blog.

 

She was so right.

 

 

Here it is! UPCYCLING! Where you can 'create beautiful things with stuff you already have'!

 

For example. Collected many of those little hotel soaps...?

 

 

Make a necklace!

 

Bored of your conventional old geographical globe..?



Add some 3D realism with plastic animals!

 

Too many old pots and pans...?

 



Your visitors will love this right in the middle of your loungeroom.

 

Safety pins?

 

 

Like 'shiney embroidery'!

 

And I cant think of anything I'd rather do with old cushion stuffing,

 

 

...than suspend it above my head.

 

Also apparently, old art can be joujzed up with just a bit of glitter glue!

 

 

Holy Martha Stewart! If only museums knew art restoration was SO EASY!

 

But my favourite is the amount of time dedicated to those un-sung decorating gems - PLASTIC $2 HOBO BAGS.

 

 

 



i dont know what it says.

...and I'm not sure it matters. Can you judge a book by its cover? Not sure, but this one's got a pretty good disguise...

judgement day

Look I have to draw your attention to www.judgeabook.blogspot.com.au for their outstanding contribution to the discovery of WTF books.

I mean with such gems as...

...you can see my argument here, right? I mean this is A1-quality weirdness. Bravo.

come up here and take a bow

awfullibrarybooks.net !!!

This is a truly worthy find! I mean, owl-headed naked women and breast balloons: What more could you ask for?

2012 eclectic reader challenge: september - sci fi

Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Wow. Simultaneously the most intriguing premise and the most frustrating book I've ever read.
Dick explores the idea that there is no such thing as coincidence, and that the 'higher power' in control is a government organization. I don't read a lot of sci fi, but the ideas and possibilities here had me hooked.
But - it just ENDS! This book has the most I unsatisfying ending I have ever encountered! It leaves so much unsaid, so much unexplored! I got to the end, and glanced at the floor in case pages had fallen out! LOL Makes me curious to see how they ended the movie!

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2012 eclectic reader challenge: june - non fiction

Pole to Pole: One Man, 20 Million Steps by Pat Farmer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I don't know how you could read this book and not be humbled and inspired by Pat Farmer. Love or hate his politics, this is a man who is willing to LITERALLY go to the ends of the earth to help people he'll never see in countries that have next to nothing. The sacrifice, the pain, the money, the wear and tear on his body, and his focus and determination to succeed despite all this left me feeling in awe.
The memoir is a little repetitive, but I think it is honestly written, and reflects the day-to-day raw grind of the run that wasn't shown in the media releases. I loved this, and it made me just wanna put my running shoes on and head out the door.

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more aussie than an outdated stereotype

I wish I'd known about this book on Australia Day! (And all those countless other days!) All that time I was sitting around thinking: "I wanna make a cake... I want it to be patriotic, but not obvious. I want it to say "Australia", but not in a modern, artistic, or indeed even obviously edible way...?" 

Behold!

Because I know y'all have always wanted to make an edible

...VICTA mower...

...Tuckerbox (Of course u cant eat the dog! Because that'd be weird.)...

...Akubra...

...Caravan! (I dont know how many times I've wanted to make a caravan cake...)...

...Meat pie with patriotic sauce! (Imagine! An edible meat pie!)...

...Billy (complete with gumleaf and soggy tea bag accessories)...

...Hills Hoist! (What? You can only eat the patch of lawn?! Disappointing!)...

...Weber-Que! (You call those sausages 'done'? That's not nearly enough charcoal for a true Aussie barbie! And where's the proverbial 'shrimp'?)...

But seriously, all joking aside, there are some cute Aussie animal cakes in this book - just look at this sweet little spearmint-leaf salt water croc!!! OMG he's ADORABLE!!! 

"C'mere! C'mere, you cute little...naaaw look at that: he's gnawing my leg off! Aww! Look he's doing a cheeky little death-roll and dragging me under the surface! Squee! Someone get the camera!!!"

wild and wilder

I've posted on the art of "Teapot Adornment" before, but this book brings it to a whole new level!

I mean, some of these are no longer recognisable as teapots!

However: As "Teapot camoflage" I reckon they'd be great! You could hide your teapot in:

A rockpool!

A bowl of coloured popcorn!

A medieval reenactment of a royal court!

But just incase those designs aren't wild enough for ya, there's always:

what happens at the bookmobile on the weekend?

Well, we don't drive on the weekends, but I have a feeling something goes on... I mean, I cant believe my magical bookTARDIS would just sit quietly and behave itself for 2 days!

No way.

I reckon the people at Type Bookstore have a pretty good idea of what books get up to when no one's around ;)