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sleepyfeet aka hanna(bear) is a 25.91 year old girl, has been a member since July 17, 2006, has scored 3,344 submissions, giving an average score of 2.32, helping 62 designs get printed.

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Oct 31 '08 by sleepyfeet
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Best Halloween Ever :)

Well I didn't go partying or anything but I had an awesome day.

First I had to go to Georgetown to get my blood drawn. Ok, that wasn't fun but I pretended a vampire was feeding off my arm in the spirit of Halloween.

Then I wandered around DC (ok, I was lost for a lot of the time) and when I was going to the metro station by bus, I noticed a used bookstore and a bunch of people in front. So I impulsively got off and omg really cheap awesome books! So I got six books.

The books were heavy so I decided to ride the bus to my mom's deli since I didn't want to walk and drag the books home. So I got some food (free) from the deli and we went coat shopping. The coat I wear is like 6 years old and shrunk because my mom had it dry cleaned. :( So my mom bought me a coat.

I came home and found a package. I thought it was something I ordered but it was really from Kate! (ladykat)

She sent me beads to make jewelry with! Some are from Senegal! Thank you so much Kate!! :) I'll take pictures when I make things from the beads!

Then I made fried marbles

and I am watching TV and working on my 3D Design project.

That was long but my day was pretty awesome. Yours?

Chipmnk on Oct 31 '08 at 10:50pm

How do fried marbles taste?

Jellyes on Oct 31 '08 at 10:50pm

that sounds awesome! Getting gifts in the mail is like Christmas morning.

and you MADE those marbles? your talents are far greater than any of mine. haha.

my day...school and work. but then...BACONTACO-WEEN!!!

overall an AMAZING night.

Jellyes on Oct 31 '08 at 10:51pm

fried marbles must be a good source of essential minerals! like zinc or something. or glass.

Jellyes on Oct 31 '08 at 10:52pm

I don't think they're a registered food in a weight watchers diet though.

sleepyfeet on Oct 31 '08 at 10:54pm

really smooth, tasteless, and round. like a hard candy with no taste that never melts!

nah, they're real simple to make! I need to find colored marbles to fry though. I'm going to make necklaces with them.:) Sounds like a pretty fun night! :D

sleepyfeet on Oct 31 '08 at 11:29pm

Oh I got 4 art books, a book on azaleas to use in another potential book clock, and these two suuuuper old books that were bound with real leather. don't know what to do with them yet but they were too awesome to pass up!

bhoomika on Nov 01 '08 at 12:44am

sweet! I like the fried marbles !

coffeecandle on Nov 01 '08 at 12:57am

wow, i never knew you coould fry marbles... So what, you fry them and they come out all cool and crazy and oily :P?

sleepyfeet on Nov 01 '08 at 7:54pm

bump because i see kate was on the blogs!

yeah you can fry or bake them but basically you have to heat them up and then plunge them into cold water and they crack on the inside and look awesome.

whisper in water on Nov 01 '08 at 7:59pm

OMG you've met Steve?!

I'm jealous of you getting a new coat. I want a new coat.

sonmi on Nov 01 '08 at 8:01pm

fried marbles! that looks awesome

myteemo on Nov 01 '08 at 8:08pm

I discovered an awesome used book store the other day too. Yay for used book stores!

sleepyfeet on Nov 01 '08 at 8:29pm

haha Deanna, yeah like twice!

yeah sonmi, I can't stop looking at them. so shiny!

awesome! is it in Georgetown too?

chelly on Nov 01 '08 at 9:03pm

yay! take pics of the books and put them in "love your covers" please and thanks!

how do the marbles not shatter? how do you make jewelry out of them?

i was thinking about how you had bought the magazine envelopes and am wondering if it is possible to make them out of the covers of magazines since they are tougher. i'm also doing a bit of research of nice things to make out of magazines because i have a HUGE stack of craptastic ones and recycling them would be a hassle. i thought about seeing if making hotplates or something. OH and i saw a cute way to make beads out of magazines that made me think it was something you would enjoy.

um

hi

sorry for the ramble

yay for gifts (already commented in your flickr i think)

HorrorFan on Nov 01 '08 at 9:26pm

Wow, fried marbles.

That amazes me on so many levels.

Of course you could not pass up the leather bound books.

Leather bound books are so rad!

myteemo on Nov 02 '08 at 7:18am

Nah, it's in Old Town Alexandria. I'll have to check the one out in Georgetown next time I'm there.

ladykat on Nov 02 '08 at 11:46am

Yay, you got it! I think the glass beads I got in Senegal were actually made there, I was less sure about the wood ones, though.

ladykat on Nov 02 '08 at 11:46am

Also, I love how the fried marbles look!

sleepyfeet on Nov 02 '08 at 11:47am

chelly, it probably is possible to and they'd be all eco-friendly! I think with the magazine pages, you could probably somehow combine a few pages or stick it to a sturdier paper. the only question is of course how to achieve that without making the magazine paper all wrinkly. :/

Are they like paper beads? They're fun! I'm experimenting with/selling paper chip beads/necklaces and I tried some magazine pages but they weren't strong enough; probably have to double or triple them up. hm.

I will take pictures and add to the group! All I know is that when glass goes from a really hot place (oven, frying pan) to cold (ice water), it cracks from the inside out. Or my favorite explanation...magic!

HorrorFan

yes, they're so awesome! they're actually teeny and old-looking but i can't stop touching them. :P

Monicaooh cool! I found out that the shop actually has two locations and one's sort of near my school. I'll have to explore, yay! :)

sleepyfeet on Nov 02 '08 at 11:48am

oh yay Kate! That's awesome! :D The beads are sooo pretty and I have no school Tuesday so I hope I can try to make some jewelry out of them.

chelly on Nov 02 '08 at 8:46pm

the magazine jewelry that i saw used a varnish instead of glue. maybe that made it sturdier? have you ever checked out instructables.com? i love it; found it through etsy.

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