Scott Weaver: Incredible Toothpick Artist

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One man, 100,000 toothpicks, and 35 years: An incredible kinetic sculpture of San Francisco wood toothpicks sculpture San Francisco multiples

Scott Weaver is an artist, a toothpick artist? He started building toothpick sculptures at age 8. His first sculptures were mostly abstract and between 2’–4′ tall. In 1974, Scott started a new sculpture and added the Golden Gate Bridge and Lombard Street, which had a ping-pong ball roll through it. This is what started what is now Rolling Through the Bay.

“I have used different brands of toothpicks depending on what I am building.

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Charity Miles


Charity Miles

It is the beginning of the year and you know what that means… New Years resolutions. The majority of people’s resolutions involve getting active. They plan to be healthier, more fit, or at least try to walk a mile a day I try to to go to the gym, run, or do yoga about 4+ times per week and some days, it is really hard to get moving.

My motivation this year is Charity Miles. Read the whole post

My Blogging Year of 2012

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for Make Something Mondays.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 150,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

 

Thank you to everyone who has viewed, liked or commented on my blog. Read the whole post

DIY Watercolor Decor

DIY Watercolor DecorThis is a fun, relaxing DIY for Make Something Mondays. It is always nice to have something like this after the holidays. You can do this by yourself, with a friend, or even with your kids! Its like coloring in a coloring book but without restrictions. I hope you enjoy it!

 

 

DIY materials

 

Things You Will Need:
Brushes
Cup of water
Newspaper
Watercolors
Felt-tip Marker
Thesaurus pages

 

 

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Step 1:

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DIY Photo Coasters

I apologize for my lateness! With Christmas being tomorrow I was very caught up in family 🙂 here is my Make Something Mondays a little late. Happy Holidays!

wedding gift photo coasters

This is gift #4 in the Make Something Mondays holiday gift series!

My best friend got married last month so, for Christmas I am going to give her these photo coasters made with a few of her wedding photos. I picked out 4 gorgeous pictures, sized them to 4×4 inches, and cut them out. Read the whole post

Home Remedies

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I’ve been sick, joy. It’s going around and everyone I know has it. So i thought i would share my dad’s home remedy for a sore throat.

When i had a sore throat he made me hot lemonade. Sounds weird right? It tastes like crap. It is very tart and it is hard to drink a full cup but IT WORKS! It works really well. Within a few hours my throat is back to normal and I am good to go. Read the whole post

Cloud Formation Photography

I was googling cloud formations last night (don’t ask) and came across this awesome photography on matador. There are some amazing images on here and I wanted to share them. There are more details and many many more pictures on the actual post. Check it out!

1. Lenticular cloud, Mt. Fuji, Japan

Source unknown

2. Mammatus clouds, Ft. Worth, TX
3. Asperatus formation, Canterbury, New Zealand

Photo: wittap

4. Roll cloud hang glider, Queensland, Australia

Photo: Mark Watson

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An Interesting Day For Instagram

I’m sure that if you have been on the internet at all today you have heard about instagram’s updated policy. If not you can read about it here or I can catch you up. One small paragraph in the article said it all.

“If Instagram users continue to upload photos after January 16, 2013, and subsequently delete their account after the deadline, they may have granted Facebook an irrevocable right to sell those images in perpetuity. Read the whole post