winter_elf

day 17 → an art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)

Lookie what hotmarscube made for me!! My very own ceramic STARGATE!!!! Isn't it just the most awesomest thing? :) (the center is a mirror that's showing my ceiling in this pic) I asked hotmarscube for a Stargate when he was making these cool spaceships of clay. He's always been super talented with 3D sculpting, and his clay stuff has been very neat. So, I was like, hey, you can do spaceships - how about a stargate. And he did! He made me this for christmas and then surprised me :) I was waiting to post in the 'art piece' meme day and then had to take and upload the pic, so it took me longer.

day 13 → a fictional book

Oh my, the choices, the choices!

In His Majesty's Service by Naomi Novik. What's not to love? England! Dragon's! Napoleonic era! It's like she hit all my hot buttons in one novel! :)

day 14 → a non-fictional book

I don't actually read a lot of non-fiction. Hey wait - does the LOTR visual dictionary count? no? hmm..

This is one of the few I own. As Always, Jack: A Wartime Love Story by Emma Sweeney on Amazon. I actually read a review of it in a magazine my mom had, a very short blurb that sounded interesting. Interesting enough to check out at a book store. After much searching (because I only sorta remembered the info and didn't have the magazine to check), I was able to find it and I've since read it several times, tearing up each time. It's basically a romance told via letters written by a soldier to a girl from San Diego he met before being shipped off just after WWII. You only have the soldiers letters, and not the replies and this was lovingly laid out by the daughter he never got to meet.

I tried to save to upload a pic of the covers...... and that flash thing gets me every time. It's getting frustrating that I can't click on the pictures to save them. What, they'd rather be hotlinked??

day 06 → whatever tickles your fancy

CAT PICS! The world just needs more care pics :)

Eowyn


Kethry

day 04 → your favourite book

I'll have to go with The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien here.

day 02 → your favorite movie

ohhh... a hard one. I have a LOT of 'favorite' movies!

so would it be the one I saw the most in the theater? That would be LOTR:Fellowship - 13 times.

or the movie I have the most copies of - which would be Star Wars (4,5 & 6). We won't talk about my cursing for having to RE-BUY this all the time - from original VHS, to WS VHS to special edition VHS to DVD with both versions.... to DVD widescreen. *sigh*

I also own about 4 different copies of the original Stargate movie (with Kurt Russel) - VHS, DVD, then DVD 'special edition' to a special edition named something else which I thought they added more... and they keep doing that - renaming so I think it's something new.

I'm lucky I don't have a HD TV and a Blueray player. I can see re-getting ALL of these again.

Meme by way of zagzagael. She challenged her flist to this meme. I thought it looked like fun - and I'm going to start off the New Year by starting on this :) Join in if you'd like too!

( 31 Days Of Sharing )

The final day goes out with a bang - or I was having too much fun to make a post yesterday.

Hanging out with my bud songwood, hitting two bookstores, acquiring 7 books; the comic book store where I finally got my Stargate Magazine; lunch, a movie and finally dinner than back to her place to read our loot.

It was a great day.

Books: Jim Butcher's newest hardcover Turncoat - as well as my line number for his signing; a Supernatural fantasy and 5 romances. Lets see - a woman who talks to ghosts, a fantasy romance, a spy, a werewolf guy and a rake. Yep. The usual.

The movie: Duplicity - a little romantic spyish twister. It was cute and trippy and engaging and we enjoyed it.

Not working late, meeting up with friends for the evening, snuggling with kitties, catching Top Gear being silly on the TV. Lots of McShep smooching to read! :P

All in all pretty good day.

Happy things today:

My mom made me a yummy pasta & veggie casserole for dinner so I could just crawl home and heat up.

mcsmooch opens and promises lots of little kissing ficlets to read; and kassrachel posts Shore Leave