Paul Walker cracks me up

I was watching "The Fast and Furious 2" the other night on USA, and watching him in this movie cracked me up because I think he is the WORST actor ever. This is totally subjective and I'm sure there are others that people think are just as worse if not more so, but oh my goodness Paul Walker is bad. Not a bad in a "this is ruining me for motion picture cinema 4 eva!", but in a "I can't keep a straight face while watching him" kind of way. He's just so wooden in his delivery and he was walking like he had a stick up his butt, which I think was supposed to pass as a strut, lol.

Don't get me wrong, he's nice to look at and I'm sure he's trying his best, but man oh man is he bad, lol.

Trouble recommending books

I'm in a swap where I make a list of 20 books I have read and would recommend to someone. I'm finding this surprisingly hard, especially the part where I defend my choices. It's not that I haven't read enough books, I have...maybe not as much as I would like, but I'm getting there...but looking at a list of books I have read on Goodreads.com, I notice that there is a large number of books that I'm just indifferent about. I don't hate them and I enjoyed them enough when I read them, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend them to someone else. Like "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", it's an alright book for what it is, but I'm not dying to get it out there for the masses to read.  Or the other problem, I read and liked it, but it was so massive and broad in its story, I didn't absorb it the first time around. Like "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I would actually recommend that one, but I have a hard time explaining exactly why. Doesn't help that it is has been a couple of years since I read it. :(

Out of 20 I have only gotten 15, and its taken me 2 weeks to come up with that list. I'm not worried about getting it done, just a little bothered about the content of what I am reading.

Made my first craft

It's nothing big, I just made a bookmark for a swap I'm doing. I'm incredibly nervous cause while I think it looks okay...I don't know what kind of quality the person receiving it is accustomed to. I put a lot of thought into it and I went by the likes and dislikes of my recipient, but gosh, I rarely put myself out there for criticism.

Anyways, I was gonna take a picture of it, but I forgot and I've already put it in the envelope and sealed it. Description: It's layered, a maroonish red backing, brown square, red ripped edged with design square, another brown square, and a red heart in the middle. I don't have a hole puncher at the moment, so I used a knife to make the whole and tied 3 red curly gift wrap ribbon to it.

I hope she likes it, cause I even last minute went out to look for one. Although I couldn't go far cause I didn't have a car, I looked and couldn't find anything I thought she would like. So like I said, I hope she likes it. (keeps fingers crossed)

Zentangling and other creative possibilities

Swap bot is a place I have been obsessed with for the last week. There are so many creative swaps with equally creative people participating and it makes my creative glands salivate, lol. So I bought some scrap-booking supplies today...either for actually scrap-booking or card making. I want to do both...but I've also been inspired to do collages...but today I saw a swap for zentangling, and I think, "what on earth is that?"...so I hop on to youtube (which is where I am currently getting my crafting education from, lol) and I learn that zentangling is just elaborate doodling...it can truly be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be.

Apparently it has become a big thing, and I can see why. I think I am gonna try my hand in that too. Don't know if it will be for the swap, but I will definitely be zentangling in the near future, lol.

This brings me to a wall with my swaps and crafts. I would love to make something according to someone else's preferences, to be for them...but I am so new and my past creative experience resembled something a 5 year old would make...and do better then me, lol. I don't want my partner to feel jipped when they have worked so hard and made something wonderful. I guess it's just practice practice practice.

BTW: Thank you Vicky for the wonderful card.

swap-bot :)

I just found the cutest website called swap-bot.com. Pretty much, if you like getting snail mail of any sort, then this is a site you can go to. You join swaps, get assigned a partner, and purchase and send your items or letters or whatever. I'm going to try it out. Gives me a good excuse to go to wal-mart or Target at the very least :)