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Yes, We Have No Bananas...

When I finished my article last night I sent it off to He Who Shall Not Be Named (the backstabber guy) and asked him to proof it for glaring scientific errors. I also sent it off to the client. So when I woke up, I had a nice email from HWSNBN with his shiny gold stamp of approval. Yah! Now all I have to do is check in with the client and make sure that she is happy and then I'm home free. God! I thought that this nightmare was never going to end! I woke up in the middle of the night with a crazed thought: I forgot to spell check the thing before I sent it off! Why can't I sleep like normal people?

So anyhow, I've decided to reward all of my faithful readers (Hey you two!) for sticking by my side and supporting me through this god-awful time. As a thank-you, I present you with a picture of the frozen banana that I bought at Disney Land. This is real. I was so embarrassed and every man in the park turned to stare at me while I ate the damn thing. I felt naked and dirty but gobbled it down anyways. It cost me $5. I wasn't going to throw it away! I knew that no one would believe me if I didn't take a picture, so while standing in line for the Haunted Mansion, Bruno took this photo. Enjoy!

Picture Time!

I tucked Bruno into bed and then opened up a bottle of wine. Nice. Then I put in my favorite movie (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and finished up my x-mas gifts. I can't tell you how many times I've watched that movie and I cry every single time. I love the whole thing about people not owning other people. Anyways, I've had a lot of wine and should just get to the grand finale.... The pictures!

Here are the fruits of my labor (aka the x-mas gifts)...

Here's the gift that I made for Bruno's friend...

And here's the sculpture pieces that I helped Bruno with last night...

Now I'm going to bed!

Bob, The Christmas Tree

Quick post here. The tree looks great with all of the decorations on it. The pictures that we took? Not so great. I'm going to take better ones later, but I have a ton of research to do right now. So, to give you a little (blurry) preview, I would like to introduce you to Bob, the christmas tree:

A Thanksgiving Picture Montage

More Snow Pics

Can you tell that I love taking pictures? I had to get outside to see if I could get some better shots. Here are the two that I like the most:

First Real Snow!!!

A few days ago we had our first snowflakes of the season, but today we have our first real snow. I awoke to a winter wonder land- sorta. When I looked out my bedroom window I saw the snow falling, but when I looked to the ground it looked like a nuclear winter. Everything has kind of an ashy gray pallor to it. Weird. Can you tell that I'm a child of the cold war era?

In honor of the first snow, I dusted off our trusty camera for another edition of "Gigi's Very Bad Pictures". Now, my picture taking abilities leave much to be desired, but now that I have photoshop I've entered a whole new level of bad picturedom. I now have the ability to make a bad picture worse by adjusting the saturation and hues... Instead of helping me out, I think that photoshop is hindering me. But, I'm a photoshop addict. (See my next post for more on that.)

Without further ado, my beautiful winter photos:

(These were all taken from my window. It's too cold to go outside, which would probably explain the quality...)

Let The Games Begin!

A few weeks ago I placed the hugest order with an online soap making supplier- the kind of order that is so huge that I expected my credit card to spontaneously combust when I hit "send order". And today, the order arrived! It feels like Christmas at my house today! Check out my loot:

Since my picture taking abilities suck so bad, you can't read any of the labels, but rest assured that I am now an at home chemist in my spare time. Who wants Mango Lotion???

Since I had the camera out already, I decided to take a picture of the shapes that I cut out for my niece’s cloth book. Aren't they pretty? I love the flowers and the cat the most. You can't really see the cloud because it's white and my table is yellow. I don't think that you're missing out on much though- it's a cloud.

I'm off to go mix up a batch of something- I haven't yet decided what to do first. Perhaps my next column? G-d, my job has definitely taken a back seat as of late.... Oh, if you see a massive explosion somewhere in the vicinity of the Detroit suburbs, something went terribly wrong...

Gigi's Very Bad Pictures

You've begged and pleaded and now you will be rewarded! Here is the FIRST EVER installment of "Gigi's Very Bad Pictures". Gather around and take a gander... These are some of the projects that I'm working on.

Fabric for Eye Pillows & Cosmetic Bags

Purse that I'm making for my friend's nine year old daughter for Christmas (Before)

The Purse (In Progress)

I'm going to attach a braided rope as the handle. I'm also still working on the coin purse. Can you tell that I pinned it together?