Friday, July 24, 2009

put down the internet and make shit*


I'm serious. Take a day off the blogs this weekend and think up a do-it-yourself project your own damn self. I promise to do the same.

I might even mosey over to the library that's THREE BLOCKS AWAY, check out a novel and take it to the park.... The stifling heat in the bungalow tells me it's summer out there, but I have definitely not been taking advantage.

(Photo by Thobias Fäldt found here)

*with a nod to the wise words from theflashdance

19 comments:

  1. your on.

    i've been trying to dedicate one hour each day out of my new (unemployed!) schedule to make stuff. it's going to be a wedding crafting weekend.

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  2. have you settled on a title yet? murakami's good for summer reading, too - something light, like norwegian wood.

    on crafting, i'll be tie dyeing my silly dress and getting closer to finishing this. needlepoint: craft of champions (no, really).

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  3. you crack me up. and i agree. happy weekend!

    xo

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  4. PHEW. Dear Summer, what you thinking....You haven't arrived in Berlin yet. I am still pale in end July!
    And I am stuck in work. No weekend for Liv.
    WTF!?

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  5. seriously yo. sometimes i freaking hate the internet. and all technology. we're all so obsessed with hunting down brilliant ideas and imagery and yet never incorporate into our REAL LIVES. damn internet.

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  6. kiwi and i are going to try our hand at screen printing... seeing as i got him a yudu for his birthday in march and we have yet to use it!

    happy unplugging.

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  7. Me and the internet have a love/hate thing going on here.
    After seeing the bf complete our balcony chiwa litter box I want to make things with my hands rather than jpgs and html.

    Happy weekend.

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  8. walk a few blocks the other way & come to our garage sale!
    xox

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  9. also, can we declare this yr post's theme song? i like posts with theme songs.

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  10. couldn't agree more. every weekend is internet free for me. i spend one hour editing photos on sunday night, but that is the only time is sit in front of the computer all weekend. i'm on here all week!

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  11. Amen! I am ahem...currently not working also, so the Internets has become my friend! I have been trying to ween myself off a little...and taking lots and lots of walks!

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  12. Does it count that I'm going to spend my weekend making cocktails? Cocktails count, right?

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  13. MA, were you deliberately referencing Le Tigre? Aren't they from your old neck of the woods?

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  14. I did that and made a freaking waltz length veil this weekend and stamped 124 lollipops. I discovered the 3 blocks away library too.

    There is an inner Martha Stewart/reading bug inside many of us.

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  15. But I can do the internet in my underwear!

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  16. :) what did you choose?

    I made 2 cushion covers. does that count?

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