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To make these hair clips, like this Christmas Androsia Fabric Flower Hair Barrette, I cut out a flower pattern in Androsia Fabric Scraps. Androsia is a hand batik fabric that the Bahamians make, and the only factory is located here on Androsia Island. After they sew clothes, they bag up their scraps and set them out for sale so they don't waste anything. I like to buy these scraps and use them for my projects, like these hair clips.
I pick a sea shell or sea glass that I have taken right of the shores here in the Bahamas, and glue it to the center of the flower to give it a nice tropical touch.
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art.
---Joanna Macy
Pyractomena larva using its anal appendage to groom the head. July 2013
joeCicero commented on bugguide.net, "it's a Pyractomena larva cleaning its head and cervix...but the degree of protraction of the head is beyond anything known for the family...it is known that firefly can protract to some degree, so that the head is completely out of the prothorax and the cervix shows as well, but it is not known that the cervix can be so long....this must correlate to the need for larvae to reach the deep interior of the helix of snailshells to get all the food out...find one feeding on a snail or give a snail with a deep helix to this one and watch to see what it can do to reach the core."
The spiral staircase of the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice.
The Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo is a small Venetian palace best known for its spectacular spiral staircase, decorated with a number of arches and visible from outside.
The palace and its staircase were built by the architect Giovanni Candi in 1499 for the noble Contarini family. The small steps used are known as snail stairs, hence the name of the palace (bovolo is Venetian for snail).
Woolen cottage just for Your household - gnomes or garden - fairies...
Snail family may be welcomed subtenant as well as the best fiend :-)
Waldorf inspired one-of-a-kind handmade toy intended for all the forever-young fairytale lovers.
Woolen parts are hand-felted combinating wett and needle felting of plant dyed natural woolfell.
One-roomed house of 4,75" (12cm) diameter and 6" (15cm) hight, antenna included 9" (23cm).
Added on May 7, 2009
Glück gehabt Bürschchen. Fast bin ich auf meinem Heimweg auf dich draufgestiegen.
Lucky guy. Nearly stepped on him on my way home.
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Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: Canon 100mm/f2.8L Macro IS
Focal Length: 100mm
ISO: 1600
Exposure: 1/125 sec at f / 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0EV
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☛☛☛ F L A T T R T H I S !
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The Snail Shell Assassin figure recently released, and I got mine in a few days ago. Like Figma, Snail Shell has a very competent body that they tweak and provide for use in developing figures for the assortment of interesting character designs.
So I don't know the official names or anything, but this figure basically has two forms - some strange hybrid cybernetic animal form, and of course, the expected Waifu in skintight jumpsuit form.
It's an interesting design aesthetic, though for an assassin she seems awfully under armed, featuring a knife and a Grapnel Gun. The sheath for the knife and the harness for the Grapnel Gun plug directly into her lower spine. The interesting thing is that the hands are only meant to hold the knife - the Grapnel Gun is directly deployed from her harness... or that's what I think, as there's no real instructons.
Grapnel Gun comes with a coiled wire as well as three different tips, one for use when the tip has not been fired, and two actual projectiles to use with the wire.
Assassin is a return to average height for one of their figures, as Milk T Girl was just really short, though to be fair she was also really cheap to buy.
The cyborg mode head features multiple joints for articulation in the neck, covered with a fabric piece to hid the joints. There's also a joint at the base of the head, so overall this giraffe necked sculpt is actually very articulated. Compared to the normal head, which features effectively no neck articulation and limited head tilt, this feels somewhat like a step back.
Articulation has generally not been an issue with Snail Shell figures, and this is no different. mainly lacking a waist and butterfly shoulder joints. I've never removed the legs of any of the other figures (but this one I have to in order to swap out the groin pieces, and I notied the the hip design actually features some robust designs to allow for increased range of let motion without relying on a pull down hip design. The tail is actually articulated, tough the connection looks so fragile I'm afraid to actually manipulate the piece too much.
As always, use of the base will increase your posing options, and the base has cavities for you to store you spare pieces.
The two face plates are functional, and I can only presume they look like the source art. I can say, however, they're solid in terms of looking anime in nature, though again I wonder if this is simply because art direction insisted. There seems to be more rouge around the eyes on the finished product compared to the prototypes, and this shows up on the photos.
Otherwise, Paint and Build wise, pretty much on par with other Snail Shell items. in case you weren't aware, that is basically Storm Collectibles level of quality that should be coming out from these sets. Some questionable design choices as i've outlined above, but overall the figure certainly holds together than product from other companies.
Lieber Alfred,
zu deinem Geburtstag wünsche ich dir von ganzem Herzen
alles Gute, Gesundheit, Glück, Zufriedenheit,
reichlich schöne und lustige Motive vor den vielen, alten Linsen,
dass du deinen göttlichen Humor behältst,
immer eine Zigarre griffbereit, ein gutes Buch und dazu
ein gutes Glas Wein vor dir hast - wenn dir danach ist - ,
deine Wünsche in Erfüllung gehen mögen
und du dich nun auf der Insel richtig wohl fühlst und verwöhnen lässt!
Ich hoffe, ich kann dir mit dem Bild ein Lächeln entlocken.
(Zu gern wüsste ich, was dir für dieses Bild wieder für ein fetziger Titel eingefallen wäre. Da bist du unschlagbar!)
Ich danke dir für deine Bilder und deine witzigen, humorvollen, geistreichen Kommentare, die mich immer sehr erfreuen, lieber Alfred! :-)
Lass dich feiern und erhole dich gut!
Herzliche Grüße
von Gaby
Found these four snail shells in our village's garden when I was doing a craft fair there, close together but not so neatly arranged. I have a real thing for spirals...
A snail shell that I found while walking down the boardwalk and put on the weatherbeaten railing. To me, it did look like spun gold in the early morning light!
An empty snail shell that I found in our side yard. I had noticed it there a day or two before, and I was happy that it was still in the same spot when I made the time to take a picture of it.
Detail of a portion of a miniature Japanese Fairy garden with a sedum, elfin Thyme, Hot and Spicy Oregano, String of Pearls, a rock, some lichen and some driftwood.
The Snail Shell Assassin figure recently released, and I got mine in a few days ago. Like Figma, Snail Shell has a very competent body that they tweak and provide for use in developing figures for the assortment of interesting character designs.
So I don't know the official names or anything, but this figure basically has two forms - some strange hybrid cybernetic animal form, and of course, the expected Waifu in skintight jumpsuit form.
It's an interesting design aesthetic, though for an assassin she seems awfully under armed, featuring a knife and a Grapnel Gun. The sheath for the knife and the harness for the Grapnel Gun plug directly into her lower spine. The interesting thing is that the hands are only meant to hold the knife - the Grapnel Gun is directly deployed from her harness... or that's what I think, as there's no real instructons.
Grapnel Gun comes with a coiled wire as well as three different tips, one for use when the tip has not been fired, and two actual projectiles to use with the wire.
Assassin is a return to average height for one of their figures, as Milk T Girl was just really short, though to be fair she was also really cheap to buy.
The cyborg mode head features multiple joints for articulation in the neck, covered with a fabric piece to hid the joints. There's also a joint at the base of the head, so overall this giraffe necked sculpt is actually very articulated. Compared to the normal head, which features effectively no neck articulation and limited head tilt, this feels somewhat like a step back.
Articulation has generally not been an issue with Snail Shell figures, and this is no different. mainly lacking a waist and butterfly shoulder joints. I've never removed the legs of any of the other figures (but this one I have to in order to swap out the groin pieces, and I notied the the hip design actually features some robust designs to allow for increased range of let motion without relying on a pull down hip design. The tail is actually articulated, tough the connection looks so fragile I'm afraid to actually manipulate the piece too much.
As always, use of the base will increase your posing options, and the base has cavities for you to store you spare pieces.
The two face plates are functional, and I can only presume they look like the source art. I can say, however, they're solid in terms of looking anime in nature, though again I wonder if this is simply because art direction insisted. There seems to be more rouge around the eyes on the finished product compared to the prototypes, and this shows up on the photos.
Otherwise, Paint and Build wise, pretty much on par with other Snail Shell items. in case you weren't aware, that is basically Storm Collectibles level of quality that should be coming out from these sets. Some questionable design choices as i've outlined above, but overall the figure certainly holds together than product from other companies.
Early fall I made my first terrarium. I decided to use moss as the only plant. I love moss. I don't know why I love moss, I just do.* I have never made a terrarium before. I collect rocks and bits of nature so this is one view. There are 2 miniature Chinese pottery pieces that I bought in Chicago's China Town, a bridge and a Temple. The rocks are supposed to represent mountains.
Sadly a flood somehow occured and the whole garden became mush. I was terribly busy and couldn't fix it for weeks. I lost lots of the moss (I got it from our back yard). It gave me an opportunity to re-landscape it and the Temple that had originally ended up to high is now in a better spot. However I lost a lot of the moss... Time, I hope, will help it to become pretty*...
An interestingly named area of Carrock Fell catching some sunlight as the rain clouds quickly drifted by.
"I have lived so long among people who do not understand me or sympathise with me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it."
Jane Welsh Carlyle
How unusual. An Osmia with a red abdomen. Very rare. Also as a cool aside. This one also nests in snail shells. Collected by Jelle Devalez on the Aegean islands of Greece. Pictures taken by Maggie Yuan. Shopping by Elizabeth Garcia.
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