books, picspam, mini bottles

[nid_dabeille]

I got a book today - Naval Surgeon: The Voyages of Dr. Edward H. Cree, Royal Navy, as Related in His Private Journals, 1837-1856.  It's full of his own journal entries and watercolors.  It was dirt cheap on amazon.

Oh, cionaudha, I also got Regeneration.  But I won't start until I'm done with Adm. Byrd.  ARGH and I haven't finished Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death yet either!

And in other book news, I'm really fond of my Moby Dick popup book.  Sounds silly, I know, but the popups are amazing!  So I've prepared a picspam.  I'm too tired to type about it, but a picture is worth a thousand words.

Also, I made little gold capped crystal bottles to go in Stephen's dressing case.

Hand holding a telescope


My favorite part - you can look through the telescope...


...to see this:



And now for something completely different:  bottles.

Comments

[shipotl.livejournal.com]

Those popups are amazing, as are your little treasures. I bet you go around looking at small items thinking how to utilize them best.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yes, I totally do. :D I did when I was little as well, always loving when things from the big world looked like something tiny for my dollhouse.

[meg-mucklebones.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome pop-up book! I have never seen one that extravagant before!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Yes it is! There are actually several such elaborate books out there now. Last year I got my nieces an amazing Cinderella (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1416905014/sr=8-1/qid=1202518645/ref=dp_otherviews_0/002-9828891-1630451?ie=UTF8&s=books&img=0&qid=1202518645&sr=8-1) book with a big carriage that pops up with horses, and amazing dancing people in the ballrooms.

[meg-mucklebones.livejournal.com]

Wow! That one is very nice as well! Nothing like the pop-up books I had as a child.

[intervain.livejournal.com]

the pop-up book's incredible!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, isn't it?? So incredible and impressive!

[luisadeza.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an amazing popup! :D
And I like your tiny little bottles, they look a bit like the ones my mum used to keep sweets in.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I like the way they turned out too, so fancy. They're a love present for Stephen, even though he'll probably just put little bones or beetles in them instead of the usual vanity items.

I just got another Stereophonics CD, the Sex, Language, whatever it's called, Other. I like it but I haven't gotten used to it enough to have a favorite, or to even really remember any of the songs except the first one. I keep on singing in a high voice, "Superman in an aeroplane!"

[luisadeza.livejournal.com]

Aww, but he loves his little beetles and bones, doesn't he? It would just show that he cherishes your present. ;)

I can never remember the right order of that title, I just call it LSVO, it's easier to remember. XD
I'd say that's my second favourite album, but I couldn't pick a favourite either... maybe `Pedalpusher´, just because the "Puuuuushhh!" amuses me.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

VIOLENCE, that was the other word. :D

And which album has "Have a nice day"? How many albums do they have anyway?

I don't even know the names of the songs because I've been listening to it in the car exclusively, and didn't look at the list of titles as I was driving.

[luisadeza.livejournal.com]

`Have A Nice Day´ is on Just Enough Education To Perform (JEEP).
They have 6 albums out now:
- Word Gets Around
- Performance & Cocktails
- Just Enough Education To Perform
- You Gotta Go There To Come Back
- Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
- Pull The Pin

I was pretty disappointed by the last album though. But, you know, other people like it...

[slightly-o.livejournal.com]

Actually, I saw that book a few weeks ago and was blown away-I'm glad I'm not the only one. && the wee bottles are just making my day. Miniatures are amazing.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well you obviously have good taste. :D And thank you! I love miniatures.

[weeboopiper.livejournal.com]

The Cree book is wonderful. I use a ship from one of his paintings as the wallpaper on my phone.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Oh good! I haven't started reading it yet, just glanced through it (in a very tired state yesterday). I was wondering if you knew it - and wondering if you were probably the one who recommended it in the first place. I randomly found it in my amazon shopping cart where I had saved it ages ago, and didn't even remember it, but it was so cheap that I just decided to go ahead and get it.

I'm glad to see you around!

[weeboopiper.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks! I've been around. Just a lot of work and nothing to say.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Ah, me too, but I've been saying plenty of nothing anyway. ;D

OH! I was reading in 'The Letter of Marque' how the medicine chest was built into the ship, and I didn't understand what that meant - would it be like a built-in cabinet or closet?

"The Surprise had begun life as the French Unite', and her medicine-chest, which was built into her, had its massive door hung on pintles in the French manner and an exceedingly powerful man could lift it straight off its hinges."

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Cool book. I briefly toyed with the idea of trying something with pop-ups when I was trying to figure out what to do with my shadow boxes, but then got distracted by rolling marbles instead...

Love those crystal bottles.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is a cool book! Popups are so fascinating to me. I can understand the concepts of making 3-dimensional things from flat pieces of paper, but making them MOVE and fold flat again in one smooth motion would be the really hard part, I think.

Thanks!