Empress says...

If you're hot stuff and you know it clap your hands, stomp your feet and take a picture with your cell phone. Seriously I know you guys are the "ish" or if anything simply creative. You can draw a pic, take a pic of a body part (not necessarily yours hee hee), take a pic of a sexy place, etc. I'd love to see what people will come up with so... DO IT NOW! You may win a prize.... Click link to enter 3rdward.com/sexcells .

Here are a few sites I frequent to learn how to do a number of things. If you know of any others, please send them my way. Wiki's How To This site even tells you how to deal with a difficult person AND how to take a panoramic picture (maybe of the same person that acted the fool after you kicked their @$$?). Tech Knitting This knitter should get an award for all the work that is put into this site! Trick Life This site has a few interesting how to's that may come in handy one day. Make Use Of All kinds of stuff. Whew!

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness. - Emo Philips

"Can it be that it was all so simple then?" was the chorus of a Wu-Tang song that made me think of how much I miss the old school. I miss the music, the clothes, the way of life and most of all the graff. I was greatly influenced by the characters back in the day. Letters are cool but a well drawn (or sprayed) character adds just the right touch to a piece. Graff was legible too then for the most part. Even with the colourful fills I could read the letters and know who's work it was and crew they rep. I remember back in the 80's looking at works by Dondi (in main picture above), Bode (lizard character below), Kev, Doze just to name a few, and it inspired me to be creative. Although most of the time I spent drawing as a kid was in class or at home when I was suppose to be doing homework, it gave me the chance to express myself. I needed to be creative, to get it out of my system and onto paper. I later discovered the fascination with bombing and tagging thanks to the...

Last month I moved and it was truly an eye opener. It made me realize that not only am I a compulsive yarn shopper, I have managed to accumulate enough to run a business out of the trunk of my car. Seriously. I moved 6 garbage bags and 3 five gallon containers of good ol' yarn. *Sigh* I'm finding it hard to part with some of it...heck MOST of it. Especially the soft cottons and warm merino wools. My all time favourite out of the crap load of yarn is any of the Noro yarns and Prime Alpaca. If I ever hit the lottery, I will buy tons of it for a blanket. It is amazingly soft and luscious. A simply scarf would be nice but a full sweater would be even better. I probably wouldn't take it off except to "catch a fresh" also known as a shower =) Nonetheless, I will have to part with some of the good stuff in order to save money. Gotta love a good recession! What does this mean for your? It means my loss is your gain. And what a gain it will be!!! I have yarn from all over...

After coming home from hanging out with my roomie and her best buds, I ran to the "wash room" and was in a hurry to take care of business. I have a bad habit of leaving my phone in my back pocket so of course it went straight into the "bowl". Within seconds I reacted and grabbed it *eeeeeewwwww*. Thoroughly washed my hands, dried off the phone and tried to figure out what to do next. I blow dried it with cold air and then used air can which I use for my keyboard with great care. I'm sure that just moved the water around instead of out of the phone. I frantically searched forums after forum for a suggestion on what to do since my warranty has expired. UGH! Everyone basically said "you're screwed". Thank God for lifelines. I called my dad; the self taught tech guru. He said "I'll do some research and get back to you." He called me later and gave me the most brilliant idea next to picking apart the phone. He found a forum where people su...

So much has changed in the past year. I've been away from arts and crafts for too long! I'm ready to get back into the swing of things. With more time on my hands, I have no excuse to not induldge in the things that make me happy. I bought canvases, brushes and acrylics to start painting. I've never been much of a "painter" per say, but I have completed 2 so far and I LOVE IT!!! I haven't thought about selling them yet since I'm fairly new to the world of painting on canvases but I may considerate in the near future. I've been greatly inspired by very talented people who I probably would have never met if I didn't escape my previoius life. I feel liberated. I feel creative. I feel ALIVE! My creative spirit has beem dormant for a few years and it's been painfully. I almost lost myself while becoming the person someone else tried to mold me into. Sad, I know. Nonetheless, I am back! I feel the urge to knit and crochet and actually finish projects...