...and on the sixth day of Christmas I apologize for missing yesterday's post and wish you all the happiest of years! May 2013 bring you what you need.
This year, rather than spend a couple of hours typing all my best wishes to my dear friends, family and colleagues, I will enjoy an afternoon with my favorite person in the world. Go turn the wii on, sister!
To all those special people in my life, all the best!!! 2013 already sounds thrilling doesn't it? So many plans ahead, and sooooo many resolutions soon to come!
And, as anticipated... I am bringing you my favorite iPad App of all time: Paper 53.
It is free with limited access to its features, but it is more than enough to get a good idea of what it is about. After that you may end up spending 5,99 Eur for the basic pack plus 1,79 Eur for the color pallet. After that... Imagination unleashed. Paint, sketch, write, color... Unlimited possibilities.
It offers five different tools (see the pic below) and seven basic colors which can be turned in any color imaginable. I LOVE IT! Best 7,78 Eur best spent ever (not like that time I spent 7,99 Eur buying an ebook I already had in hard cover cause I mistook it with another...)
I used Nostalgio to make these collages btw, as every other collages I post here (also very recommendable).
And this is my magna opus so far... I wanted to make these oranges, but my laptop cannot keep the original iPad colors (humpf), so they will have to be two very round tomatoes...
Aren't they cute!
By popular request (in my democracy of two people), I am also sharing the full version of the forest shown above:
But it is the fourth day of Christmas and I should give you two more calling birds (apps, sorry).
So I got the artistic side of SiL, and now the fun:
One is free and provides endless fun at parties and other gatherings, the other quite expensive, but totally worth it if it allows you to watch Doctor Who and Torchwood on your way to work...
By the way, I wrote the first draft of this post in the Blogger app for iPad, and it was ok until I tried to integrate the pics in the post... Not sure whether the app would go in my recommendations list.
Please Blogger people, keep working on it. Thanks.
Hope you find this interesting!! Enjoy!
Such is Life
P.D.: Blogger app rocks, it was me that did not understand it while writing... Still needs improvement though.
Yesterday I gave you one webcomic today... Two videos!! Just because I am that generous.
As usual, surfing the net searching for fun stuff to show you I came across this video, and guess what? It turns out there are more that one or two Lego Star Wars Christmas Specials in Youtube!
This first video is the special for 2012, but there are many many more!
The second video... I am not sure whether I want to show you or not, I am torn between... No I am... This is confusing, I am not sure whether I like this video or not cause I am totally in shock and did not know it existed!
Baby Chewbacca is somewhat disturbing.
I take no responsibility if your respect for the Star Wars Universe diminishes after watching this.
I am still trying to get over it.
After the Advent Calendar fiasco all that I can do is wish you a very merry and extraordinary Christmas!!
Of course I could also say I may try to compensate you for the dreadful lack of attention paid to the blog in the last few weeks but it would be a bit of a lie. Master Yoda says "do or do not, but do not try", so i will stay with the "do not" part. Better surprise you with a post than disappoint you with the lack of one!
Oh, the holidays, what a magnificent time. I still remember that not so long ago, Christmas meant exams, exams, exams, and study, study, study (and my mother repeating that word non-stop). At that time I looked for any excuse not to study, and in that search for excuses I found web comics!
Boy, some of the things I found were awesome, but with time, some of the ones I followed finished, and some others started to bore me (specially considering I finished my studies more than three years ago and I have not had the need to waste my time since then - not that I had that time to waste either-)
So on the first day of Christmas I give you the only web comic that has kept my attention and faith for the last four years:
And the work week starts and my purpose goes to hell with it...
Days 3 to 6 come with a gap, so I hope my sis is cooperative and sends the missing picture.
Now that I see this pictures I realize this looks like some simple crafting work, but by the time I had done gift bags 1-6 I was exhausted!
So to fill up this four day gap I decided it might be a good idea to go back to one of my classic posts! TV goodness yay!
2012 has brought me four fantastic discoveries which I am more than happy to share with you, they are freaky, they are girly and they are awesome!!
So I am taking this opportunity to thank Anuska for suggesting some of this, for making me keep my faith in David Tennant (who proved better than Matt Smith despite the powerful tandem he makes with Amy Pond)...
And here you have the shows that have made me rethink my TV shows ranking:
5.- Here comes a silly family show that kept me stuck to the screen during the first season (still have not had time to watch season 2), but that Beauty and the Beast episode was plain awesome:
4.- It is dark and disturbing, and the characters are all emotionally crippled and wrong, but what a show. Thanks to my iPad I am learning to love BBC shows, and this has to be one of its best shows of late. John Luther you rock.
3.- Moving on from one Belle to other belles, I love the southern groove of this show, and the boy next door (you just have to love him). Nice clothes, nice music, the right amount of drama, and a Gilmorish aftertaste. Hart of Dixie is one show for bad days.
2.- And now for the top two! Outside the government, beyond the police... Torchwood has caught me. And season three was one of those that keeps you watching until 2 am and you don't care.
1.- Finally, a classic of old, a show that reinvents itself every few seasons, I could say sooooo many things about it, about that blue box... All I will say is this: Trust him, he is the Doctor.
Any shows for 2013 you may want to share?
I am thirsty for ideas!!
Such is Life.
PS: I am decorating my Christmas tree on Saturday and I feel giddy, Sis!!
Day 2 comes accompanied by this cuteness of a picture, also with the though that I just got my fit in the biggest puddle of mud that ever existed.
Now I have to post everyday. Again.
So this is going to work like a post-athon, only I hope my sister will collaborate this time and send me a picture of each day's little gift (at least the good ones ;P).
In addition, I promise to post something fun too.
You may or may not remember this post: 21 days for Christmas from last year, well, this year I am going for something different...
Now that I am a proud owner of the best place ever (and not because I say it) this year I went for home decor instead of Christmas lights, which would not please my neighbours at all.
In my permanent search for inspiration I found this video. Judging is all up to you.
Yeah it's nine minutes long, but you get it by the second minute.
The downside of being so excited about Christmas this year is that I have had to wait almost a month to show you this:
The 2012 supercrafted awesomestest Advent Calendar!!
Not to be enjoyed by me, because I am such a good sister.
Just between my first and second visit to Stockholm I decided to make my own advent calendar for my sister and her boyfriend. So I bought all the materials and started working on it. And it was a looooooong process, washitape and stamps, twine and numbers and... Oh sh*t, 22 gifts to include in it.
22 and I am broke, still paying for my bed, the living room and now my super awesome blinds made to measure blinds.
Day 1: A crippled cow.
It is not my fault that it lost a horn, and by the time I realised it was too late to fix it!
So friggin excited about Christmas I have managed to get all my family to tape a videoclip, just as the Kesler family, only with a lot more sense of humour and a lot less self conciousness.
I don't know if I am infringing any intellectual property rights if I post their video, so check it up yourselves in Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJvrOezu3Q
You will never get to see the result of my first incursion at video directing, and video producing, but I guarantee that those who see it love it!
More to come tomorrow if my sister is nice enough to send me a picture!!
