Groovy spoon

spoon wall design concept and implementation (the art work) www.celestekorthasestudio.com 323 707 3815

norweigen ski hats

these are the hats I've knitted this winter and gave for christmas some of my twitter friends have asked about my knitting so i uploaded to blog. enjoy

@celestestudio

Crazy glue

@IQXS this is my gordon setter CG... crazy glue

stained concrete floors

ssstast

twitter for christmas @@@

what if...

you could twitter for christmas? 

are you a little short of $$$ this year and want to do something, make something, be thoughtful and helpful? why not twitter for christmas.

lets say you have a friend who love cooking and recepies , you find a name not yet taken, fill out the info very basicly and make an avatar that looks like cookbooks and a twitter background that looks like food. you then follow cooks who commonly post recepies and good value on gormet products...make a password your friend can change and had it over in a christmas card

Just don't use the persons name

or

1 photographers follow camera mfgs and other photographers

2 travel follow travel bloggers , cruise ships airlines and peeps they follow

3 artists follow art magazines, art museums other artists, artwalks organizations

4 positive thinking "quotes" follow the best quote ers on twitter so there's a steady positive roll of good stuff

5 etsy people enough said easy to find very nice crowd any arty crafter would love to read and see what people are making.

6 internet marketers. perrhaps you have an employment challenged friend or reletive that does not know where to start in this social media world. if you can't find a job find work. follow the affiliate marketers, let your friend see what's out there

7gardening follow seed companies, other gardeners green sites

8eco friendly ...green windmill sites, green coaches eco everything.

9web design follow these guys. amazing stuff

10sports teams follow people who follow the same sports team

these are just some basic ideas. you're creativity will take you way farther than this. I think you could follow about 200 people who are current active twitterers and you would have a timely lively thoughtful gift

@celestestudio

cash for clunkers

cash for clunkers

sounds pretty good... let's get the big gas guzzling fat cat cars off the road and get everybody into sensible efficient small cars... and lets help them do it.

except wait wait... um did they turn in the range rovers , and hummers, the suberbans and escalades? toyota land cruisers and lexus, nissan ... no... \no that's not how it went

they turned in 2 million:

1 ford explorer

2 ford f150

3jeep grand cherokee

4 jeep cherokee

5 dodge caravan

for 

1ford fiesta

2toyota corolla

3honda civic

4toyota prius

5 toyota camray

so wait...we turn in AMERICAN CARS to sieze the engines and render them undrivable and get the people to buy foreign cars... (oh there was a ford fiesta in the mix,)

did we bale out the AMERICAN car companies for this?

did anyone do the math?

oh we don't teach math in school... we teach self esteem, I keep forgetting. I'm kinda interested in the self esteem of a man who trades in his ford f150 pickup for a ford fiesta this weekend. I wonder his self esteem when he pulls into the jobsite monday morning is a wimp car that can't carry a tool , saw, lumber, bags of soil garden tools... oh wait we are in a recession and he doesn't work and won't be able to pay for the car long and it will be repossessed ... so why am I  even worried about the shortage of used cars. 

I look at the list of cars that are turned in and  I want to cry. these are not the enemy, these are not the gas guzzling offenders. these are the blue collar working man cars and work trucks of america.

I drive a chrysler town and country minivan. it has 267,000 proud miles. I usually have 1 person beside my self and often 3. I carry tools, paint scaffolding, ladders on top, art, equipment, concrete stain, sprayers, sealers, myself and a couple workers. The miles I drive are divided between 2 or 3 people. i do favors for people, i deliver art to shows for my associate when he has an art show, I pick up furniture on the road and recycle it. I get 22 miles to the gallon... and if you figure in the fact that I've kept a ton and a half out of landfill, given several mechanics a little work over the years, i've done more good than harm.

We are in the most severe recession since the great depression, i would dare to guess that some people who were forclosed on, lost jobs and work, also lost cars and could really use something serviceable and useful to buy inexpensively, a beater, starter car, in AA we car them newcomer cars... WE HAVE JUST SIEZED THE ENGINES ON 2 MILLION OF THEM, RENDERING THEM UN DRIVABLE. they poured liquid glass in the engines.

how many parts are wasted because of this?

waste waste waste...shameful!!!

Mechanics are going to see a huge slump in work, do we bale them out next?

I have nothing against any of these cars that people are buying for the right person. . I've been an advocate of efficient cars all along. most of the soccer moms driving along with a big tahoe should be ashamed, a smaller crossover would be a far better choice. these aren't the people who traded in. A ford f150 pickup? even an old beat up one has more value than new fiesta to a contractor or working man.

so

I'm mixed up again, are we to reduce reuse recycle? or waste? dump and squander our resources

bigger photos of yogurt shop

I've added some yogurt shop photos that are larger the ones i sent out yesterday were from phone. thanks the DarrellMorrison for pointing it out.