"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."--Dr. Seuss

I hate being sort of sick.  You aren’t sick enough to stay home from work, but you are sick enough to feel like crap.  I’ve been sort of sick for over a week.  Instead of blogging or crafting, I’ve been sitting around every night after work wearing my stretchy pants and watching The Wonder Years and The Jersey Shore on my DVR.  Now that I’ve explained my blogging absence I can talk about the little bit of clarity I had in between Kevin Arnold and GTL. 

One of my most favorite blogs is called Dude Craft.  I’m always so inspired by the posts.  From nerdy needle points to toothpick art, you just never know what you are going to get from this blog.  Over the weekend I ran across this post with a link to the finalists in the Say Something Poster Project:

Say Something Poster Project

I think this poster project is so unbelievably cool.  Trying to find the right visual and phrase to motivate teens is super hard.  I spend a lot of my days trying to do this exact same thing in a totally different way.  They are a tough crowd to reach which is why I’m so inspired by this project.  I was looking at some of the entries and thinking this thirty year old teenager needs some motivation like this, too.  My favorite one didn’t make it to the top ten which is a little disappointing.  It said something along the lines of a little weird is a lot awesome.  If I had to write a definition of me that would so be it.  No doubt.        

Craft Blog Link of the Week #5

This week’s craft blog link of the week just so happens to coincide with a conversation I had with someone a few days ago about something I secretly love:  cassette tapes.  I love the way they sound, caught somewhere in the middle of the pop and crackle of records and the digital clarity of CDs.  I love the click of the button as I hit play on my Sony tape player.  I love the whirring noise of rewind and fast-forward.  I have a box full of them, which I have dutifully carted from dorms to apartments to houses since going off to college many years ago.  I even drove a car until 2006 with a tape player in it.  And if I hadn’t been so concerned with the likelihood of it spontaneously combusting (the car not the tape player), this girl would probably still be cruising around town listening to her tapes.

Obviously, it was a pleasant surprise when I came across this little craft project:

Make a Casette Tape Lamp



My tapes are strictly for listening.  I couldn’t possibly risk ruining a single one of them.  They are my musical memories, after all.  However, I would imagine there are quite a few of you who might be ready to let go of their not-so-beloved cassettes.  This would be a nifty way to repurpose them.  I’m thinking that when I finally get around to throwing an 80s prom party this would make a too cute decoration.