Interest & Icon Meme
Comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list and 3 icons for you to explain. Gacked from amandarex. These are the ones she asked me to explain.
Interests:
Icons:
When I entered the Dr. Who fandom I discovered the fabulous writing
of wendymr. She did a story with lines of W. B. Yeats poetry at the top. It was the only poetry I'd liked since A. A. Milne, so I thought I'd read more. The lines in the icon are from "The Stolen Child" and the watercolor is by Kenneth Webb. It's a marvelous fantasy daydream of mine. Rather a lot like Bridge to Terebithia - which is rather a lot like I was as a child (crummy school life but marvelous imagination).
This is just a beautiful combination of my two favorite fandoms Harry Potter & Doctor Who. And, it's amazing how many people I know in one who also like the other, as well. Too fun. Book 7 is such a mixed blessing. I'm anxious for it and dreading it at the same time.
I love, LOVE period films and classic novels. It's my favorite kind of reading. I'm a mushy romantic at heart and frequently go all goopy over 'how we fell in love, got married' kind of stories/films. LH prefers the kind of movie that explodes. Periodically, though, we manage to find a happy medium. Though I'm at a loss to remember which one I was thinking of. I was just distracted by a particularly funny line on The Vicar of Dibley.
Interests:
- beading - When I was a missionary, we taught an older graduate student who was very interested in her native american heritage. She taught me how to bead on a loom. Actually, she taught me how to make a loom and then bead from it. That was 14 years ago. I use my beading skills all the time. Several years ago I jazzed up some cheap 'indian' costumes for my daughters so they could be One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians for Halloween. I have a lot of fun beading for jewelry and clothing embellishment. Last summer I got embellished a neighbor's dress with beadwork and embroidery in exchange for a summer's worth of lawn mowing from her. It was brilliant not to have to mow my lawn in last summer's wretched heat.
- jane austen - The first book I read when I came home from my mission was Pride & Prejudice. I was instantly hooked. I re-read Austen annually. Pride & Prejudice is my favorite, then Emma. One of my daughters is named for Austen. Of course, Colin Firth is the consumate Mr. Darcy. I've not seen anyone else portray him better. The same with Kate Beckinsdale's Emma. Don't even talk to me about Gwenyth Paltrow and her awful accent (not to mention the silly little plot error written into the screenplay).
- photography - Several years ago I began scrapbooking digitally. Shortly after that I outgrew the capacity of my camera to take the type of pictures I wanted to take. LH gave me a beautiful new camera for Valentine's Day that year and I've fancied myself a portrait photographer ever since. That fancy's been rather shaken this year. The shots/environments I've been photographing for my articles are very difficult to get and the resulting product has been decidedly awful. Guess I'll need to take a class.
Icons:
When I entered the Dr. Who fandom I discovered the fabulous writing
of wendymr. She did a story with lines of W. B. Yeats poetry at the top. It was the only poetry I'd liked since A. A. Milne, so I thought I'd read more. The lines in the icon are from "The Stolen Child" and the watercolor is by Kenneth Webb. It's a marvelous fantasy daydream of mine. Rather a lot like Bridge to Terebithia - which is rather a lot like I was as a child (crummy school life but marvelous imagination).
This is just a beautiful combination of my two favorite fandoms Harry Potter & Doctor Who. And, it's amazing how many people I know in one who also like the other, as well. Too fun. Book 7 is such a mixed blessing. I'm anxious for it and dreading it at the same time.
I love, LOVE period films and classic novels. It's my favorite kind of reading. I'm a mushy romantic at heart and frequently go all goopy over 'how we fell in love, got married' kind of stories/films. LH prefers the kind of movie that explodes. Periodically, though, we manage to find a happy medium. Though I'm at a loss to remember which one I was thinking of. I was just distracted by a particularly funny line on The Vicar of Dibley.