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Friday Fun: Recycling Flipflops & Cast Reunions

05 Friday Oct 2012

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art, fun, recycling, recycling company, sillyness, sir ian mckellan, walk down memory lane

Aloha all, at last Friday is here again, and to get your weekend started, I came across this story from Voice of America. It’s about the Flipflop Recycling Company in Nairobi. They collect old flipflops, or as they are called here in Hawaii, slippahs, and turn them into art. Check out the video.

Here’s a fun walk down memory lane. Entertainment Magazine recently shot a series of Cast Reunions from “ET,” “Breaking Away,” “Melrose Place,” And “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”

And the best for last, who knew that the wonderful actor Sir Ian McKellan was a big Sir Mixalot fan? Here is is interpretation of “Baby Got Back.”

Have a great weekend everybody.

Friday Frivolity: Craft Disasters, Buddy Cole, and Billy Connolly

28 Friday Sep 2012

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crafts, creativity, humor

Hi Friends, another Friday is here and it’s time to relax. It’s been a big week for me, I’ve finished the latest version of my book (yippee) and now I’m in that phase where I just hate it (booo). So to kick that icky mood away, I wanted to share a couple of things that made me smile.

The first is a collection of “Craft Disaster” you know, when you start out a craft project and it just doesn’t come out the way you wanted it to? I kinda feel the same way about my book, but this too shall pass. But scroll through this gallery of craft ideas that just didn’t come out right.

And this has nothing to do with anything, other than I’ve been working with some wonderful new peeps from Canada: Lisa Hall Wilson, and Marcy Kennedy. (Hi ladies!) I’m such an ignorant American and don’t know much about Canada. This reminded me of a favorite Canadian import, “The Kids In the Hall,” and Scott Thompson’s character, Buddy Cole. Buddy was far a head of his time. Enjoy.

And while we’re at it, how about some fun from our favorite Scot, Billy Connoley:

Have a great weekend everyone, and thank you so much for stopping by.

Celbrating the Autumnal Equinox by Finishing What You Started

21 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Rachel Funk Heller in Goofball Nonsense, Grattitude, Writing

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Determination, fun, novel, writing

Hello Beautiful Blogosherians! I have some great news to report. You all may remember back in January, I conducted a personal experiment by challenging myself to write 8,000 words a day in ten days to write a first draft of my novel. I hit the wall on day six, and had about 50,000 words to work with. In the nine months since then, I have taken that big hunk of words, broken it into sections, using Scrivener, massaged it, re-wrote it, re-dreamed it, and as of today, I have 87,243 words. This version is finished!

This version, yes, now I have to export it out of Scrivener into Word, and in that process it will get another once over, then it will go to my lovely beta readers for their input and once they find all my mistakes, there will be another round of corrections. It feels like a never-ending process, so when there are big milestones, like today, I like to take a break and celebrate!

As it turns out, tomorrow happens to be the Autumnal Equinox, and I love celebrating the cooler days, and here in Hawaii it is the signal for the rainy season, and my parched yard is very thirsty and looking forward to some much needed rain. It is one of the two days in the year when the length of the day and the night are equal.

Which got my little brain thinking, what would be a great way to celebrate the day, and my accomplishment? Normally, I would go and buy myself a nice reward, like a brownie, or a hot fudge sundae, or a ginormous Cinnamon roll. But since I have given up sugar and wheat based carbs, those choices are off the list. What I have come up with is odd, but then, I am. It is a clip from the movie “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.” What, what, why? you ask? I will tell you. I love this scene with Gary Oldman playing Rosencrantz and Tim Roth as Guildenstern, playing a game of “questions” (1990 Written & Directed by the amazing Tom Stoppard).

Yes, fun with words, what a better way to celebrate the completion of a new draft. Have a great weekend all, and thank you so much for stopping by.

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