Day 76: Great Glorious Gobs of Greeny Goodness

St. Patrick's Day is my favorite holiday of the year. There's a penalty for not wearing green (my favorite color), I get to have corned beef and cabbage and purple potatoes (possibly my favorite meal, especially when I only get it once a year), and there's no gift-giving trauma. Plus, it's the official holiday of my kitty, Guinness.

So here's my little homage to green.

I shamelessly (or shamefully) stole all these images from the internet without giving any credit to the people who took these superb photos. For that, I apologize. But apparently I don't care enough to go back and find the sources.

I have seriously entertained the notion of writing an entire book on the topic of Green - what it symbolizes, represents, etc. Maybe my passion for the color is a little over the top. 

Day 75: Paper Wallet Flower Thing

Today is very low-impact creativity. I got this design from a website and printed, cut, and folded.











Apparently it's based on a leather folding wallet design from some culture, but I clearly didn't pay enough attention.

It may be fun to make these with more interesting designs, or with printed or textured paper. But I have a hard time seeing it being used as a wallet.


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Day 74: Beware the Ides of March!

March is the best month. It's in like a lion (an awesome animal), and out like a lamb (not such an exciting animal, but weather-wise it's cool). It has Pi Day and the Ides of March and St. Patrick's Day and the beginning of Spring and my birthday and my Spring Break and its signature color is green, the best color in the world. And this year it has my new apartment. So much goodness crammed into 31 little days.

Anyway, here's what I made for today.

And here's the whole passage this quote is from, in case you're not a nerd who has it memorized:

(The setting is Caesar's funeral, after the betrayal and stabbing and unkindest cut of all, and Marc Antony is speaking.)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. (Act III, Scene ii, Lines 74-77)

And here's one last little tidbit to share with you on this beautiful Ides of March:

(Source: http://www.someecards.com/2011/03/09/historys-most-pivotal-auto-correct-fails-someecards)

Day 73: Happy Pi Day, Nerds

Today is the nerdiest holiday in the history of nerdy holidays, so I naturally have to celebrate. Here's what I made in honor of Pi Day.

It could be significantly more visually appealing and chock full of nerdity if I had my laptop with Photoshop. Also, if I had my laptop, I could have printed it out and done something interesting with it. But alas, Laptop is still in the hospital and Printer doesn't like to play with Loaner Laptop, so I had to make do.

So to compensate, here's a little bonus nugget I found on the Internets:

Day 72: Silly Time with the Life-Size Zoo

The library has a series of books featuring life-size photographs of animals (or parts of animals). They're fascinating and disturbing. Here are some pictures of our time together.

Cheetah!



Alligator!



Zebra!



Tiger!



Giraffe!



Elephant!



Lion!



Sea Lion!



Anteater!



Gorilla!



Hippo!



In related news, Guinness is about the size of a panda's face.




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Day 71: What Melleny Wants, Vol. 1

I went to Ikea today to start getting a few things I'll need for my new apartment (like dishes, glasses, and a toilet brush). It has sparked the WANT in me, so here's a sampling of a few of the things I think would be nifty to have in my apartment. There are a billion more, but my page was full, so this is it for Volume 1.

Donations are happily accepted. =)

Day 70: The Grape Cod

What can you mix with grape vodka? What can't you mix with grape vodka?



The Grape Cod is like a Cape Cod, but with grape vodka instead of regular vodka. Technically, it should have a lime wedge garnish.

Grape Cod
1 part 3 Olives Purple grape vodka
2 parts Cranberry juice

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