I felt the earth move...

As always, without fail I get to February and start yelling at the outdoors. Mainly things along the lines of 'Oh can you just warm up a bit please!' and 'Alright, it's cold I get it, stop showing off!' By now I've just had enough of winter. Being bundled up in hats and scarves and gloves and ear muffs and coats and ponchos and wellington boots and vests and jumpers and tights since November is starting to grate a little. Now, I'm not asking for hot weather, Lord no. I've a whole litany of complaints about the hot weather too, just you wait. What I'm asking for is some light at the end of the tunnel. Preferably some light that will promote lots of lovely Vitamin D in my body, leading to much better skin. Which is whole 'nother raft of complaints. Well, as the outdoors seems to be plodding along with it's season at it's own rate I decided to inject some colour into my word through the medium of brooch and badge making. Hmm, diverse. I'm not entirely sure what on earth I'm going to do with these, but if there's anyone that thinks that they'd like one, let me know.

The first design is slightly South East Asian in it's shape, but very stylised. I think they're really fun, and I love the way the colours play with each other. My personal favourites are the red/white colour way, which is very Maltese. Probably why I like them.


This next one is from a fantastic brooch kit I bought on this 'ere tinkleweb. This website is yummy and I bought rather more that I should have. But I don't think you can have too much ricrac, yes? The design is a pansy and I love how they come together. You look at the petal pieces and just think 'How the Bejeesus does that work then?' Once you start playing with them, it all comes together. It's so fun.


The last badges were just me playing about with scraps whilst watching the most amazing documentary about nuclear fusion. 'Er, really?' I hear you ask, but yes really. It was presented by a rock star sort of physicist driving a bright red Mustang around California and saying complicated things and trying to make BIG ideas seem like normal size ideas. Such ideas were:

1. Temperature on the surface of the Sun: 6000 degrees Celsius
2. Temperature at the core of the Sun: 15 million degrees Celsius
3. The amount of energy released by the Sun in a single second could power the United States for 100 years
4. They can create stars in a lab.

Now, why this made me want to create badges I have no idea, but there it is. Maybe I could sense that it was probably something that Mr Brain-Box Physicist wasn't able to do, at least not without a lot of theorising, hypothesising, mathematicising and probably some cursing about felt/thread vectors. I however just jump right in, get the felt and the thread and go nuts.


Oh and just in case anyone was wondering, that's reading as in the verb, to read. Not the town in Berkshire. Which is not sexy. These went down very well with my coworkers and I think I may begin a range of '...is Sexy' and ' I heart ...' badges. A selection of dork like statements including

• Quantum Mechanics is Sexy
• Indexing is Sexy
• I heart Beethoven
• I heart Folk

All suggestions gratefully received. The more dork like the better.