What do you get when you cross a dog and a lobster?

September 10, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

I want to prerequisite this by saying that I hate when people dress up their dogs. Dogs have fur, they don’t need anything else. Once I saw someone with a greyhound in a fur coat and suade booties, which is just ridiculous!

However, when I heard that Target had a lobster dog costume for Halloween I HAD to get one for my dog, Shechi, at the risk of terribly contradicting my beliefs about dogs in clothes. I literally put it on him for 30 seconds– just long enough to take a couple of pictures. You’ll never see me parading him around the street like this, but doesn’t he look hilarious?

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Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog.

August 20, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

My dog Shechi, aside from being the cutest dog in the world, also does an amazing Elvis impression. He has mastered the “Elvis lip curl”, he has beautiful eyes just like The King, and if I had a pair of blue seude shoes I’m sure he’d rip ‘em to shreds before you could count to one-two-three o’clock, four o’clock rock.

Anyhoozle, here are some pictures. As you can see, he practices a lot– even when he’s asleep! And if you’re looking for an Elvis impersonator for your next event, don’t hesitate to give me a call. Shechi does parties!

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Yes, I Collect Googles. (The Confessions of a Google Doodle Collector.)

August 14, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

When I was growing up I collected everything. I had shoeboxes filled with thousands upon thousands of postcards; I had a plastic grocery bag filled with cheap keychains; I had a giant can filled with hundreds of soda can pop tabs; My bed was covered with stuffed lions; and I kept every note slipped to me by a friend or crush through all of middle and high school stashed away in a secret hiding place.

These days I’ve given up on the postcards, the keychains, the pop tabs and the lions, and I’m too old to pass notes. However, I do still have one collection that’s become something of an obsession– I collect Googles. Each time Google puts up a special logo for the holidays, a famous birthday or some other commemorative event I control-click and save the logo into a “Googles” folder on my desktop. I can’t help it, they’re just so cool!

Inspired by today’s logo, created to honor the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted, the Danish chemist and physicist most famous for discovering that magnetic feilds can be induced by electric currents, I decided to put together a post of some of my favorite Google doodles for your viewing pleasure.

The first Google doodle that I saved, and the inspiration for my Google collection, was the Marc Chagall Google posted on July 7, 2008 in honor of Chagall’s birthday. Chagall is one of my favorite artists and when I saw this logo I just had to save it.

Just a few weeks later, on July 28, 2009, Google celebrated the birthday of Beatrix Potter. Beatrix Potter was an English author and illustrator best known for the book Peter Rabbit. The illustrations on this Google doodle took me straight back to my childhood and I added it to my collection!

Some of my most favorite Googles are those which, like the Chagall and Beatrix Potter doodles, pay tribute to artists and illustrators. The following are a few of my favorite artist and illustrator Googles:

René Magritte – November 20, 2008

Jackson Pollock – January 28, 2009

Mary Cassatt – May 21, 2009

Dr. Seuss – March 2, 2009

First Day of Spring – March 20, 2009 (Based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle)

I also really like when Google changes its logo to something that is almost completely unintelligable– no Gs, no Os, no L no E . . . But you can still tell, without a doubt, that it’s the Google logo. The following are a few of my favorite examples:

25 Years of Tetris – June 6, 2009

Samuel Morse, Morse Code – April 27, 2009

Moon Landing, July 20, 2009

The Google Doodles are created by Dennis Hwang, Google’s international webmaster. He creates about 50 doodles per year. You can view an archive of Hwang’s Google Doodles here.

Posted in Art, Totally Random | Tagged collection, Dennis Hwang, Google, Google Doodles, Google logo, logo, logos | 2 Comments »

The King of the Flock

May 8, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

So I’ve finally gotten around to making my first crochet beast! His name is King Woolly McSheeperton and he likes things such as grazing, saying “baaaahhh” and being a sheep in general. I made him from a pattern, which can be found in Cindy Crandall-Frazier’s book Single Crochet for Beginners.

He can’t see you because he doesn’t have any eyes, but you can see him, so here he is! Baaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!

Posted in Crafts, Crochet | Tagged cindy crandall-frazier, Crochet, sheep, single crochet for beginners | 8 Comments »

Tea Candle Stop Motion Animation

March 19, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

As not to bore you all to death with my recent obsession with crochet, here is a new stop motion animation!

Actually, it’s not so new… I made it nearly a year ago but just noticed that I never posted it anywhere, so here goes! Hope you like it!

I made it with a bunch of tea candles and got a bunch of wax all over the floor in the process. Don’t tell my landlord

Posted in Stop Motion Animation, Video | Tagged animation, candles, stop motion | 2 Comments »

I Can’t Stop Crocheting!

March 19, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

So I’ve made a second wallet and I’ve already started on a third– crochet is definitely addictive! I like it because you can do it while you watch TV, ride on the bus, sit and stare at the wall… it’s the lazy-man’s hobby

After I make a couple more wallets I plan to start making some more interesting things– maybe a sheep, maybe a pink elephant… you’ll just have to wait to find out!

In the meantime, here are some pictures of my new wallet:

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Super Cool Crochet Wallet Made by Moi!

March 16, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

So I’m still crocheting away!

I just made this beeee-oootiful crochet wallet for Bob Yarny McHook to carry all his change around in.

After I made it he told me that he actually doesn’t have any change because he is made of yarn, never leaves the house and has nothing to buy. I guess I’m okay with that. I can use it to carry around my change.

Here are a few pictures:

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Yarn is my new thing.

February 10, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

So I’ve decided to take up a new hobby– Crochet. I got a book, Single Crochet for Beginners by Cindy Crandall-Frazier, and I’m teaching myself in my spare time. Crochette is kind of like knitting but way cooler because you can make stuff with one hook instead of two needles. Sure, it’s a little hook but it still makes me feel a little bit cool and tough like a pirate, specifically Captain Hook. Ooh, maybe when I get really good at crocheting I can make a Captain Hook doll. Yeah!

Anyhow, I wanted to share with you my first two projects. The first is a triangular bean bag. It’s cool for a lot of reasons. It’s red, I can stick my needle and HOOK in it, I can throw it up in the air and clap as many times as I can before I catch it (9 so far!), and my dog Shechi seems to really want to eat the beans that are inside.

After the bean bag I made a little yarn guy. He has a hat and a scarf because I guess he’s cold and his name is Bob Yarny McHook. Here is a picture. I hope you like my first attempts at crochette!

Posted in Crafts, Crochet | Tagged cindy crandall-frazier, Crochet, hobby, knitting, single crochet for beginners, yarn | 1 Comment »

Probably the Best 10 Moustaches EVER!

February 4, 2009 by Megan O'Neill

If I had to choose a favorite type of facial hair it wouldn’t be the beard or the eyebrows, the goatee or the lashes. It would definitely have to be the moustache. Moustaches are super cool and there are so many different kinds. Hooray! I’ve scoured the Web for a few of the best moustaches on the planet and I narrowed it down to what I think are the top 10 greatest moustaches of all time (or at least on Google). Here they are!

Moustache #10: I like to imagine that this guy’s moustache continues for miles outside of the frame of the picture. How does he fit through the door?

Moustache #9: Believe it or not, this guy had to shave off his moustache by court order after attacking a teenager who yelled “Nice moustache. Where’d you get it?”