Inspiration for the circus burlesque show this October.
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I’ve been wanting to make a plush two-headed cow like this for years…or possibly a goat.
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Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”
Spectacular.
I’ve fluctuated between a size 8-16 my whole life, the women I’m attracted to look more like the left two models, and I neither want to be nor fuck the model on the right(she may be a lovely person, but ultra-thin just isn’t my thing). However, the media brainwashing has gotten to me and even when I was a size 8(which on my 5’ frame put me at about the size 12 above) I felt disgusting. Now that I’ve bounced back up to a 12, I’d give anything to be that 8 again. Self acceptance is a hard hard road for young women.
(Source: only4today)
Hay-on-Wye, a town of books.
It is the home of the largest secondhand bookstore in the world. Every available building is full of books, and every year this flourishing enterprise attracts visitors from all corners of the globe.
The man responsible for turning Hay into a Mecca for the bibliophile is the self-proclaimed king of Hay, Richard booth. When Booth started his first secondhand bookstore there in 1961, Hay was a picturesque but dying town of fewer than 2,000 people. The town had gradually declined along with the local farming economy, and many of its businesses had closed. Booth began began to pack the many empty buildings with books. In due course he filled up the old workhouse, a chapel, a movie theater, and even Hay Castle.As estimated 8 ½ miles of book shelving wend their way through Hay-on-Wye’s unusual bookstore. The Booth Empire boasts an enviable turnover of more than a million books a year. Unlike most dealers in old books, Booth has never specialized in one subject. He buys books in bulk-entire private libraries whenever possible-in the belief that no book is worthless, that “someone in the world wants it.” Price is low and there is something for everyone, the casual browser and the collector of rare books alike.
I think I know where we’re honeymooning now…
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Hexipuffs! For the Beekeeper’s Quilt.
