So I must seem like such a movie junkie lately. Maybe I am, but in my defense I found this one on TV tonight. This movie has to be one of my favorite Christmas movies, along with the Year Without a Santa Claus, Rudolph, the ballet performing the Nutcracker…so that’s a lot, but I watch them at least once each year. It’s practically tradition. I swear movies aren’t the only part of my Christmas traditions. Haha.
I’ve been relatively busy these past couple of weeks, getting together Christmas presents and getting involved in various little side projects. After three years of talk, I finally got the materials to crochet my own scarf. I was given a film camera after talking with a coworker. It’s a 1979 Olympus OM10. It is absolutely fantastic! I haven’t actually taken any pictures with it yet, but I already have fallen in love it. It’s old, and it is just beautiful to me. Hopefully this camera will just be the beginning in my adventure with film photography.
I have also gotten involved in gardening. As shown in Design*Sponge, planting paper whites in the winter is a relatively popular thing during the winter time. A coworker at the art gallery actually suggested this to me a few weeks before I found it here, and supplied me with some bulbs and vases for family members as Christmas presents (I have made some very nice friends recently!). After putting together the presents, I wound up with a few extra bulbs and put together one for myself. It really is very simple.
- Just purchase the bulbs either from a gardening or general hardware store (like Home Depot), or from a very generous friend!
- Then find any sort of container, fill with gravel, and firmly place the bulb in the gravel. Place a little more gravel around it.
- Fill the container with water until it just touches the bulb. Too much and it’ll make the bulb moldy. Too little and it won’t grow. After that, you’re done!
Just maintain the appropriate water level and watch your little paper white grow. Two side notes: I use a clear container, as my friend suggested, so that way you can actually see the roots growing down. Second, I filled my gravel only halfway. Because the paper whites apparently grow very tall (I was told 10 inches), and because of that they can lean over. Planting it only halfway up the container will provide the future stems some support.
So on top of all that, I was accepted to GWU (which is very excited, and yet scary at the same time!), and so I’m trying to figure out what to do to register for classes, applying for a new job, and maintaining everything I was doing before. And yet, I still seem to maintain my sanity. With all these art projects, I’m able to get a little alone time during my crazy schedule.
