Animation: Use Less Plastic

A wonderful animation via the fantastic (and very inspirational) Do Lectures blog:

Use Less Plastic from TakePart on Vimeo.

Inspiration: Dia De Los Muertos

(because Halloween is soooo last month. There is a lovely 'about' the Day of the Dead festival here)

This animation is just wonderful...

¡Viva Calaca! Day of the Dead from Ritxi Ostáriz on Vimeo.

See more at http://www.vivacalaca.com/eng/

Here is some more Day of the Dead inspiration from Etsy:

This fantastic lamp from Crafty Chica. I really want to make something similar to this for the new house, I have already found a red lamp base in my local hospice shop.

Beautiful skulls for your muffins from Mates & Rubbish


This amazing laptop skin from Beepart



And these utterly gorgeous tiny wire skulls by Raw Bone Studio I would love to make these in to a mobile, so their shadows would dance around the room.

And my own little creation - my Day of the Dead skull is a painted Margarita bottle. Pictured here with Zoltan the Magnificent, our balcony garden gnome, who is painted on an old Limoncello bottle.

And if that's not enough skulls for you, check out the amazing 'A Skull A Day' blog, which contains artistic skulls, natural skulls and accidental skulls everyday. It's one of my favourites.

(PS. this isn't a sponsored post, just a collection of things I really like and have found on the interweb. Sorry if my Spanish is awful.)

(PPS. Yesterday I had a rather extraordinary amount of hits on my little part of the doubleudoubleudoubleu. I am absolutely made up and say a massive hi to everyone that is passing by. Thank you for taking the time! x)

(PPSS. I've kind of given up on that 30day favourite things thing. To get to the point, it was boring me, so I'm sure it was probably was boring you too. BUT I have just signed up to a lovely new challenge that involves outfits. Yippee! Watch this space... x)

(PPPSS. Sorry Texans x)

Mad Men Yourself

We all love the 1950s Mad Men look, but sometimes we haven't quite got the wardrobe to achieve it, right? Never fear. I saw this on the ever-gorgeous Bleubird Vintage and had to try it out for myself...

http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/

This is my Mad Men alter ego (I have to get this frock in real life. And that cocktail).

And this debonair gentleman is the Aussie. Isn't he adorable?

If you give this a go yourself, please send me a link, I'd love to see them.

Hope you are having a good weekend x

Consoul

(a wonderful short animation - twelve minutes long but please stick with it, it's just brilliant)