Quote of the week

Two days ago was International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrrrrr, mateys!
I'm not a very good pirate because that's about all I know, shiver me timbers! I'm going to let a very popular pirate take the word instead. Come on, Jack!

Elizabeth and Jack have been thrown off the Black Pearl. They make it to the same island that Jack has been trapped on before and when Elizabeth asks him how he escaped he has to admit that rum runners used to come there who haven't been here for a long time, though, as there are still plenty of rum bottles left in a secret hiding spot.
When he wakes up the next morning - most definitely with a hangover - he sees Elizabeth burning all the rum as a huge signal that will be seen from afar. Some of the palms are already on fire.

Jack: No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You've burned all the food, the shade, the rum!
Elizabeth: Yes! The rum is gone!
Jack: Why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth: One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me. Do you really think there is even the slightest chance they won't see it?
Jack: But why is the rum gone?!

People do have different priorities ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, USA, 2003

Khepri

I'll make it short. I knew about the scarab beetle pushing the sun, I knew the image of the scarab with the open wings, but I didn't know about Khepri.
Khepri is the Egyptian god associated with the scarab beetle. He was believed to push the sun across the sky and he was the one to bring up the sun again after the night was over.
Like I said, I made it short, very short.

Well, someone mentioned Khepri to me after seeing one of my pendants with a wire knit web all around the stone and inspired me to try this version.

Of course it is very stylized and you don't see the inspiration behind it without being told, but it's only the first one. I might get myself a scarab focal for the next one.

This pendant can be found in my DaWanda shop now.

Quote of the week

Today's post is in honor of my very own (I'm gonna pay for that) alien at work.
Have you ever wondered if the people you work with are aliens? No matter if you work at a post office, a hotel, a library or the local pool?
Maybe you are just completely clueless because you have been neuralized. Maybe you should check your wardrobe for a black suit. Whatever you do, take a close look ....

Agent J: "Why do you think you're so comfortable here? Just about everybody who works in a post office is an alien."

You have been warned.

Men in Black II, USA, 2002

A new HeatherCat or The moustache

I can almost hear you. "Wait. You told us HeatherCats don't have whiskers, and now what ... there's one with a whole moustache?"

Yup, there is, a very fine moustache even, obviously well cared for.

Heather was inspired by someone famous when she created this design for a stamp. Can you tell who it was?

****cat (no spoilers) in this silver and black version will be in my Zibbet shop soon, of course in the HeatherCats section.

Ride, boldly ride ...

... to the end of the rainbow, ride, boldly ride, till you find El Dorado.

From the first time I saw this cabochon online, I had the song in my head. I love that movie although I'm not really that big a Western movie fan. I always have to sing along, too.
Had this been a bigger cab, who knows, there might be a horse there now or tumbleweeds or John Wayne. As I didn't want to cover most of the cab, though, I had to do with the sun and a cactus that I worked on with my pliers to make it look prickly.

You can find the pendant in my DaWanda shop.
Now excuse me while I'll sing the El Dorado song to Ponder once again. His eyes go all big and I don't even want to know what he's thinking .........

Quote of the week

I'm going to go the easy way today. First of all I like the movie and I always liked that particular scene and the quote.
It will not be very original, either, because so many people already paid their tribute with this quote, a tribute to a great actor. I'm talking about Robin Williams of course. He will be missed.

"O Captain! My Captain!"

Dead Poets Society, USA, 1989