My birthday was last week!
Takeya Iced Tea Maker - I've been wanting this all summer. I'm a tea junkie, and sometimes you just can't stand to drink hot tea in the summer!
Cool Jewels from Fred - A beautiful ice-cube mold in the shape of gems. Filling them with different flavours of juice or coloured water would be fun.
A squid or nautilus necklace from noadi on etsy - I'm slowly working on my collection of cephalopod jewellery. So far I've got a sunburst cuttlefish from noadi, and a pewter octopus from a local-ish jeweller.
Tentacle Tee Dress - Speaking of cephalopods, I love this dress on ThinkGeek.
Kitchenaid Architect Stand Mixer in Candy Apple Red - A girl can dream, can't she?
All dreaming aside, though, the gifts I got this birthday were wonderful (two lovely dinners, an octopus art print, amber earrings, a bottle of sparkling Pinot Grigio...) so I'm not complaining.
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Friday, 5 August 2011
Some vacation photos
The vacation I mentioned awhile back was a week-long cruise to Alaska to celebrate my father's 60th. My family went together (Mom, Dad, sister, and me), with my mother and father in their own room and my sister and I in another. We managed to not get into any fights, surprisingly enough!
This is where we first made port, in Icy Strait Point. It was a tiny little settlement that was devastated by fire in 1944, but it seems to have bounced back mostly since.
What do I get excited about? Seaweed, apparently. This is one of many photos of seaweed that I took. Specifically, I was excited about the fact that the same species of seaweed grow in Alaska that grow back home, but their colouration is different (I had a theory about accessory pigments showing through more, but I've no idea if it's right or not).
The next day we sailed by the Hubbard Glacier, which was absolutely stunning. We had gorgeous weather, and it was so clear that the water was glassy.
Next stop: Juneau. I loved this boot outside of the Nature Gift Shop on top of Mount Roberts.
These signs were around posted around the tram that took us up to the top of Mount Roberts.
The next place we went to was Ketchikan. Yes, I went snorkeling. In Alaska. And fyi, it is freakishly difficult to get clear underwater photos, even when your fluorescent flippers aren't casting a yellow aura throughout the entire shot.
I love moon jellies. They're lovely and they have a really interesting life cycle. I was glad to find out that they wouldn't sting, or at least not significantly, so I was comfortable in letting it get close so I could get a good photo of it. This was the largest one I saw, and it was maybe the size of a softball.
This jelly, however, would sting, so taking photos of them were punctuated by me flailing to get away when they strayed too near. This is a Lion's Mane jelly, and apparently their stings are about as bad as a bee sting.
More seaweed. Swimming through a kelp forest was enchanting, and I loved the way this photo turned out - they almost look like two people talking.
This is where we first made port, in Icy Strait Point. It was a tiny little settlement that was devastated by fire in 1944, but it seems to have bounced back mostly since.
What do I get excited about? Seaweed, apparently. This is one of many photos of seaweed that I took. Specifically, I was excited about the fact that the same species of seaweed grow in Alaska that grow back home, but their colouration is different (I had a theory about accessory pigments showing through more, but I've no idea if it's right or not).
The next day we sailed by the Hubbard Glacier, which was absolutely stunning. We had gorgeous weather, and it was so clear that the water was glassy.
Next stop: Juneau. I loved this boot outside of the Nature Gift Shop on top of Mount Roberts.
These signs were around posted around the tram that took us up to the top of Mount Roberts.
The next place we went to was Ketchikan. Yes, I went snorkeling. In Alaska. And fyi, it is freakishly difficult to get clear underwater photos, even when your fluorescent flippers aren't casting a yellow aura throughout the entire shot.
I love moon jellies. They're lovely and they have a really interesting life cycle. I was glad to find out that they wouldn't sting, or at least not significantly, so I was comfortable in letting it get close so I could get a good photo of it. This was the largest one I saw, and it was maybe the size of a softball.
This jelly, however, would sting, so taking photos of them were punctuated by me flailing to get away when they strayed too near. This is a Lion's Mane jelly, and apparently their stings are about as bad as a bee sting.
More seaweed. Swimming through a kelp forest was enchanting, and I loved the way this photo turned out - they almost look like two people talking.
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