Been busy, too buy to write, so to sum up the awesomeness… in no particular order.

I've made some serious money this week on 8 pincushions. Last week I had a bulk order for $120 for eyeball ones. Money is almost flying in my paypal account via Etsy. Awesome.

Did a logo and website for a pals band, they paid me ontime and with some extra for the logo I threw in for free. Awesome.

Got a retro logo project to do this weekend, already been paid for it. Awesome.

Went to the Kitchenaid factory store up in Greenville for a huge sidewalk sale with both moms and scored a bunch of accessories for more than half off. As I type this I am eating I cream I made with my mixer and the new ice cream maker for my mixer. How's the ice cream? Awesome.

I was the passenger when we left and was nagged into driving home while being pestered my Mr Man – and we got pulled over. Got out of a 15MPH over speeding ticket with a warning. Cop told him to stop bugging me. Awesome. (He didn't)

I've been asked to be on the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum's Nomination Committee for the National Design Awards 2008. Not joking, they found me online and ASKED ME. The committee is from all 50 states I guess i'm part of the Ohio contingent. Awesome.

Got a work-from-home web job for a chain of medical portal sites. I think it's a great match for my talents and the crew seems great. Part time for a little bit, then it will hopefully go full time. Awesome.

Some other folks have been inquiring about interviews as well and now I have to let them down gently. First time in a long time this many people have been interested in me. When it rains, it pours. Awesome.

Saw The Simpson's Movie. Awesome. 

The cover of the Pincushions book I'm in has changed, and my stuff is now on it! Awesome.

So today I actually watched an ep of Rachael Ray. Normally I watch Ellen which runs opposite of it here. What a mess.

First she wasgiving out "her" advice on how to keep children from acting out in a car or airplane while traveling. She has no kids. What they couldn't book some magazine expert, those guys will show up for anything.

Next she was demonstrating her 733t (joke) knife skills. Deplorable knife skills. I didn't have a cooking show and mine are WAY better. WAY. I certainly can out dice her any day.

Next she  did her lame cooking segment – she made a bacon cheeseburger for her dog. HER DOG. So she made it  of buttered toast, a bulgar wheat patty, bacon and cheese.  She said the bulgar wheat was because it was healthier than meat. Then she slathers it in bacon and cheese.

Bacon which is full of fat and salt and cheese with fat, dairy and salt, and more dairy and salt in the butter. Dairy and salt are not great for dogs. Not to mention wheat allergies are kinda common in dogs. besides that she's just fed her dog like 1000 calories most of it things they shouldn't eat. Why not just feed him a chocolate onion grape and raisin salad (all toxic to dogs btw, do NOT let them have any. Even a couple raisins have killed dogs, they don't know why).

Anyway so she cut this thing up that she spent so much time stacking just so and crams it into a dog dish and takes it over to her dog who someone is holding stage left on a leash. She offers the bowl out saying how much he "just LOVES" this dish. The dog sniffs and backs away from it. She sit is down and the dog shows NO interest. AT ALL.

Just an incredible show of repeated stupidity. I have no idea why she has a show.

And yes, I expect her fans to attack this post. Bring it on.

Weekly World News closing down. Last issue is August 3. 

I don't know if I can live in a world where Fox News has a place and the original fake news doesn't. At least WWN has a sense of humor. 

I heard once that they wrote the stories in big drunken pit sessions with the least drunk writer doing the typing. I hope that's true. I want that to be true. Any issue that made me laugh to look at would earn my $1.

Order your batboy shirts now. (WWN used to have an online store but no longer do, not that it  matters now the site is being shut down too.)

Maybe if enough people write the compnay maybe they'll keep it as an online publication… revolution!

So I watched the new GhostHunters tonight.

First off even though it was second, they did find something at the Henson studios on the heat camera, human size and shape, hovering three feet off the ground, and lots of sounds. Cool.

But it's the "Manson house" that has me totally awake now. Have I ever mentioned I was born ON THE DAY of the murders? Well I was- same day, same year, I think even the same hour time zones acounted for. 

Anyway as a result I've been fascinated about the case since I was kid. It was the freakiest thing I've ever seen. I'm not sure if want to save the show or erase it and never watch it again.

They did the Manson House (actually a newly built house 200 foot away, as close as you can get to it since the actual house was demolished years ago) and the Jim Henson Studios (Formerly the Charlie Chaplin studios).

They got some interesting communication answering questions across a meter with lights saying it was Jay Sebring (one of the murdered), which I'm not taking as face value being the nature of the equipment, but the captured EVPs are something else entirely.

They were of a woman pleading and another horrifically wailing are absolutely chilling. I got a cold shiver from head to toe. 

Now I can't sleep. Not sure I want to. Buh.

Giant Homer Simpson Freaks Out Countryside

Supposedly it's not a production company sanctioned thing, but they aren't denying it either. I think it's frelling brilliant. It's biodegradable landscaping paint, so it'll wash away. Here's a video of it being painted.

And back up the whiny train pagans, it's NOT ancient. There is a lot of evidence it dates merely to late 16th century and might have been a political cartoon of sorts poking fun at Oliver Cromwell. 

A couple years ago i did a mess of wacky romance bookcovers drawing inspiration from The World of Longmire's covers. Well the bug hit again. Here's a couple more I worked up.

See them all the previous ones here.

‘Farscape’ Returns as Web Series!
Beverly Hills, CA July 15, 2007 Continuing SCI FI’s commitment to providing viewers with a fully immersive, multi-platform entertainment experience, SCIFI.COM today announced a slate of online programming exclusive to SCI FI Pulse, the Channel’s popular broadband channel. With over 34 million streams since its launch in April 2006, SCI FI Pulse is dedicated to providing users a dynamic and highly original lineup of online content.

FARSCAPE WEB SERIES
It’s the return everyone’s been frelling waiting for! SCIFI.COM has ordered a 10-part webisode series based on the multi-award-winning Farscape, the fan and critical darling that has been widely recognized as one of the greatest sci-fi series in television history. Executive produced by Brian Henson and Robert Halmi, Jr., and produced by The Jim Henson Company, in association with RHI Entertainment, the series will revive and expand the beloved Farscape universe.

WOO HOOO!!!

Okay I doubted NBC buying the network a couple years ago would pay off much, but I’m liking some of the new changes and I’m LOVING this! I really am! I miss Farscape so much it’s not funny. First SciFi killed the show off for SG-1’s arrival, then they cast the lead two Farscape actors on SG-1 was like rubbing salt in the wound, then they cancel that show too!

The followup Farscape movie was nice, but this, this is great! WOOO!

:::HAPPY DANCE!:::

Other development news from SciFI on BSG and others…

15, count’em fifteen, spam emails in 5 minutes for “cheap” downloads of Adobe CS3. That beats Penis Pills record I think.

In other news I’m digging selling on Etsy. I think I’ve make about $300 just since the 21rst. On pincushions. Of all things. Holy hell that’s not even a bet a las Vegas bookie would take. Who knew the things I make during TV time would sell like something resembling hotcakes. My flaky ‘fame’ on flickr’s crafty boards didn’t hurt either I’m betting.

My eyeball pincushion tutorial on flickr has been Boing Boinged. Crap.

It’s something I made up for the book, it’s not totally in sequence as I shot it as I worked on a few of them. The set was made private passed set on flickr and was only accessible from a members-only page on my Medievalbeads site as a perk for my new members, of my new site who are mostly SCA wierdos. I’m not supposed to have it public,as it WILL be in the book, and well, now it’s really really public. WTF do I do? Expire the pass on flickr? Tell the book folks? Ask Boingboing to unboing me? Play dumb? The promo whore I am is excited to be boinged, but damn, can’t people ask first?

Boing picked it up off CRAFT, where the story is now seemingly broken.

Anyone got advice?

And I was given a copy of The Fuccons. I’m intrigued at the scary quality, but too scared to watch it.

Someone has made Huggable Urns.

Yup, Teddy bears you unzip and slip the plastic bag of your loved ones ashes into. Tres creepy! As if teddy bears with giant bows aren’t creepy enough.

To me that’s one step from having a underground skull gallery you divine wisdom and tactical advice from.

Respect yourself! Respect what you do! Tell pro bono piggies to hit the road!

(that’s pronounced “Bee-you-tee-ful” btw)

This guy needs to be given Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Dog of the Week award for cohones of highly polished drool worthy lucite. She got totally Pwned.

(link via dave)

Voting and movies are here

VOTE FOR OHIO! It's my hometown DAMN IT! DO IT! DO IT!

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My latest collection, originally uploaded by verybigjen.

The new neighborhood Kroger's sells about 12 saints in the 50-cent vending machines. They are all in spanish, to appeal to both the latino and dork marketshares obviously as I, an enormous white woman, find the need to buy one every trip.
FROM LEFT:
Saint Francis of the freakishly large hands
Saint Jude (I assume, it said "Judas" balancing things on his head for money
Jesus of the Heartburn
Angel Marc Twiddlethumbs – who spilled his soup on himself, again.

Shot this testing out my new photobox. (need more light!)

EDIT BTW: Want some of your own? I'll go in for some! God knows you could sell the rest.

$45 for 250

$50 for 250