Fin is happy when he has a piece of gingerbread in hand.
Aren’t we all?
2012 Winter Festival Tree
Via Flickr:
Our cardboard tree for christmas / winter festival 2012. Cut in one night, assembled on another.
Cardboard boxes salvaged from the hospital’s IT dept, who were obviously upgrading the entire department, judging by the boxes they were throwing out.
Festive coloured binder clips from Staples. Holds 2 pieces of cardboard together to make up for the fold in each piece.
2 circular cardboard struts provide further stability.
Snowflake lights from IKEA (2011).
Yet to be done: cover the free advertising for HP using paper snowflakes, and attempt to hang ornaments from binder clips.
Christmas Street Advent Calendar
Via Flickr:
Our advent calendar this year comes courtesy of Mr Printables.
The boxes are pretty small, and just the right size for a few chocolate coins. The tall ones are perfect for mini kitkats and other leftover sweets (aka candy) from Halloween.
Singapura
Patriotic Photo Tuesday1
Singapore-shaped pancake by framboise, on Flickr
In honour of Singapore’s National Day2, I present to you… a pancake in the shape of the Island of Singapore3!
1 Not really. I’m not cut out to be patriotic, nationalist or any such proud-to-be-a-member-of-anything type of person. WAY too cynical for that…
2 9th of August. Get ready to sing and cringe simultaneously.
3 You thought I was kidding? No, really, look4:
4 Even the dimple in the middle of the pancake looks like MacRichie and Seletar reservoirs combined.
Hoop de Loop
Fruity Os
Random Photo Tuesday
fruity Os by framboise, on Flickr
Fruity Os from Trader Joe’s, one of several food shops we will miss if/when we leave LA.
Don’t fall in
Random Photo Tuesday
Said the mammoth to the saber tooth tiger, one second too late…
Accelerando
Random Photo Tuesday
Fin (14.5 months) composed this still life shot of Charlie Stross’s Accelerando, his box of wipes, bananas and my breakfast plate just for you.
Goats!
Lincoln Park Zoo
Dear wonderful people of Chicago who fund the Lincoln Park Zoo,
You have our heartfelt gratitude for the daily de-cranking that your wonderful, and FREE, zoo afforded our crankasaurus1.
Finlaggan was largely unimpressed by the
bear,
and other colourful, exotic animals.
Not for him, these creatures that populate his books. No, Mr FLW was all about the goats. Yes, goats2.
Goats that go Meh…
Other goats that go Meh…
And more goats that go Meh, and eat the roof of the shed.
So, dear wonderful people of Chicago who fund the marvellously free Lincoln Park Zoo, don’t you think your money was well-spent?
So long, and thanks for all the goats!
Love,
P, D, and F
xoxox
1 Maybe he’s teething. Or maybe it was jetlag. Or maybe it’s the early onset of the terrible two. Whatever it is, Mr FLW is getting cantankerous.
2 For about a week after that, all animals were goats, including birds. Excepts ducks. Ducks are different. They are a whole different Kingdom. Possibly Ducksgoquackia.
akatsuki ra-ra-ra 