Vogeltjes op de achtergrond

I’ve been fiddling with the photo-booth on my mac, a table lamp and a standing lamp. Except for resizing I have not adjusted anything in the pictures posted here. Perhaps later on I will try out more with a couple of them but for now this is partly to show you how much can be done with just the stuff I already mentioned.

They’re all portraits! Some are just plain funny, some are attempts at doing something interesting artsy-fartsy and some are just plain vanity shots (every girl needs those!) I’ve tried to come up with personality descriptions and names for each of them.

Oh and at some point I had a little beauty-spa thing going on at home that ended with me putting on my newly bought fair-trade  and animal-testing free make up. It explains the hair in a tight bundle-pictures, usually my hair is in the chaotic version. And normally I wear glasses, yes.

Check out some of my faces, and you’re welcome to laugh, I did too

Lisa took some

Mathilde doesn't think it's that funny

Hanna acts surprised

Here's Johnny

Shirley desperately tries to make up for her name with pictures of her posing with a serious face

yes... err one of the artsy fartsy ones

Linda has a hard time waking up from her bad dreams

This is the actual me in comic-fairyland

Catherine does not approve

Lando

Herbert has a peanutbrain.

Basil, Herberts brother, slightly more intelligent.

Daphne

Hannelore

Kate

Erica doesn't completely understand

Victoria auditions for a remake of the House of wax.

Rose came with Victoria. Has a drinking problem.

Ruth only does profound theatre.

Therese, the eternal understudy

Miko, sugarhigh office assistant. Secretly kisses frogs hoping to find her prince charming.

Fred. Everyone tries to avoid sitting across of him during lunch, though he's an adorable chap with an everlasting good mood.

Samantha, librarian. Owns a collection of vintage vibrators.

Tessa, without glasses. A girl who actually believed she's not beautiful.

This should make up for the lack of pictures of me in the past.

What's that over there?

For one of my online friends I’ve made a thingybob. When he’s lost for words it’s his ‘fillerup’ word. Many use terms like ‘wassisname’ ‘watchamacallit’ ‘the thingy’. He says: The thingybob.

Hey that looks cute

It looks a bit like one of those things.... like errh.. a thingybob... you know what I mean

Here’s my thingybob for you!
I made it myself, from an amigurimi pattern I found online (thank you Sarah)

Hmm, it's getting close now...

Other words for placeholder names: schnerdly, zwobbel (dutch), frob, Alice and Bob (when lost for names), Woop woop (australian placeholder to use instead of an actual place: they live out Woop Woop somewhere)

Oh no! it's .. it is a thingybob!

When searching for more thingybobs on the web Google asked me if I wasn’t looking for ‘thingumybob‘. It’s a song written by “McCartney/Lennon” performed by the Black Dyke Mills Band released on the Apple label. Note, the B-side is ‘Yellow submarine’.

Oh joy! I’ve found a website that explains with some video tutorials the simple basics of Amigurumi, small crochetted toys and animals.

My adhd is going overload on this…. I came upon the idea of crochetting animals because a woman yarnbombed bumblebees with the schoolkids she teaches. And of course this ends up with me visiting numerous websites with Amigurumi patterns. And these all need to stay open okay, because I forget to use the ‘bookmark all these tabs’ for later review option, and they all have nice examples, and I might make use of this color pattern or that tutorial of how to do a magic ring and Ooooh! this one is cute! I’m going to make this one! So five minutes later I am sitting with yarn, crochethook and tongue in cheek. Already a hundred other small animals to make after this one have passed through my brain, while only being on row 3 of single crochets of the first bodypart….

Muis

So here’s the one that I made. To have some idea of ‘but I didn’t do nothing!’ after a day of again not finishing the resume I needed written half a year ago, I turn to craftwork. The 5-minute break from actually writing the resume (I planned on only 1 ear) ends up being two ears, a nose and a tail.

This other typical thing is that I started to make a bunny from the example on the previously mentioned website. However… my bunny became a mouse. Actually that wasn’t my fault. That was all because my cat, called Muis (mouse in dutch) was drawn to the finished head/body-part I had lying about yesterday. She saw this soft little ball of yarn lying on the arm of the couch and just couldn’t resist. This is quite unusual for her and I was very enthousiastic she finally liked a toy. This made me think about playing with her and the toy and probably needing a string to hold on to while the toy dangles in front of Muis being all sorts of taunting and flaunting. Hence I thought of making a tail and … then my slow, oh so slow brain thought ‘hey? why not make it a mouse?’

The next one will be a dead bunny on a rope I think. Because I don’t always want to make cute stuff. And because it’s such a juxtaposition. Also, I found 2 dead babybunnies in the park this year already. After that, it will be a bird. Because of course I need to make a bird!

I yarnbombed a tree!I know it was supposed to be a bench in the park but the half finished project just lay there in my room. So trying to live up to the new motto of ‘there’s no time like now’ I went out with the project, a ball of extra thread, a pair of scissors and a needle. It would never get finished anyway and I was making too big a thing out of the endresult. Abandoning the crippling perfectionism!

Luister

I went for the first tree I came across with a good big diameter and I put it up. Further up some people past. They were runners and they were too busy sweating and puffing to take notice. Some people around here are uptight enough to start asking annoying questions and be judgemental. Even about something like this!

I wonder how long it will stay up. There’s the chance of some humorless people thinking it nonsense and taking it off. Or the chance of the ‘hanging youth’ that think it’s funny to vandalise, which would be funny because I think this would count as vandalism as well. Or maybe, which would be the nicest one, some birds want to use the loose pieces of thread for nests. Though I think the time of building those is over.

vogeltjes

If it still is there after one night and day I think the chances are getting better of it hanging there for a longer time.

The words on it are ‘luister – vogeltjes fluisteren’. Translated: ’listen – birds are whispering’. There’s a bit of apun thought because taking away some letters of the last word would make ‘fluiten’ which is the actual verb for whistling. Which is what birds do.

birdie

I enjoyed doing this. I advice others to try something like this too!