Projects!

School is out so craft materials are such a fun way for us to stay entertained. Here we are making tissue flowers out of leftover wrapping tissue and garbage bag twist ties!

Krazy Karma Bumper Magnet Now Available!

Since I recently re-posted my blog about bumper stickers, and because it's campaign season, the time of year to start sharing with the driving world your personal philosophies, I have finally at long last lovingly created the "Little Boy Peeing On A Little Boy" Yin Yang magnet!  Proudly display it! Drawn by hand and then transferred to my computer via camera phone! You can have an Ellie Wood original work of art for your very own.
Because it's mother's day and I am gonna go do something fun I haven't added t-shirts or anything else fun, and my "shop" is all messy and wonky, but go ahead, buy the magnet!  If you want more items let me know!
http://www.cafepress.com/karmakrazy.646370583

Gluten Free Beer - First Review

It has recently come to my attention that gluten may be extremely bad for me... I can't tell you how sad this news made me as pasta, bread, and beer are three of the reasons I get up in the morning.  So today I decided to try a gluten free beer and see if it was an adequate substitute.  Tonight's selection was New Planet's "Off The Grid Pale Ale".  Color is nice and clear sparkly.  The smell is a bit molassesy but good.  The taste, well, not so good.  The mouth feel is all wrong and the bitter hop flavor leaves a strange gunky after taste I can't quite describe.  I have to admit a bit of disappointment with the sorgum beer and the price is high at just over 9 dollars for a 4 pack.  In the future I will probably pass on this one, and my hope is that the other alternative beers made with rice and buckweat, or barley with extracted gluten taste more like the excellent craft beer I am used to.

Bumper Philosophy

This is one from the archives, every time we get around an election I start thinking about this... enjoy this was originally posted in April 2006

I am pondering this recent phenomenon in which people seem to find it necessary to plaster their personal philosophies on the bumpers of their vehicles. Yesterday I was driving to the mall when I was cut off by a large SUV. The back of this person's 40,000 dollar vehicle was plastered with flag slathered stickers and conservative rhetoric. I immediately thought to myself "well that figures".

My next thought was of the responsibility you are unknowingly placing on yourself when you place a bumper sticker on the back of your car. Your road etiquette is now very important to your particular cause. Be honest, when someone with a Jesus fish on their tailgate cuts you off, or speeds past you in a no passing zone, don't you find yourself just a little angry with all Christians? When you are stuck behind someone driving 10 miles an hour under the speed limit and that little boy peeing on a Ford logo is staring at you with that taunting mischievous grin, doesn't it kind of make you want to trade in your American made car for a Honda or a Toyota?

From now on I think it is very important that if you are going to shout your values out to every motorist who drives behind you, that you should drive courteously, you never know who you are going to push off the fence by stopping short and ramming your message into their front fender.

I have been thinking about what message I would like to have on the back fender of my car... I think it should be a Calvin peeing on a Calvin, in the shape of a yin yang... What goes around comes around so be very careful who you are pissing on.

Feeling Photoshoppy

It's been awhile since I dusted off the 'ol photoshop and just got creative. Here is something I did while I was talking on the phone today.

Pop-art-pup

Blogentine... Be Mine

Happy Valentine's Day meme lovers.
I made this Sad Keanu Valentine just for you.

A Return to the Banal

I know most of my posts have been political and/or #occupy related of late, and I felt it was time to take a break and get back to some random thinking... So, here was my train of thought in the shower yesterday...

I was conditioning my hair with my all-natural-no-dyes-or-fragrance-added-not-tested-on-animals-green-and-healthy conditioner, when I thought "So... finally I can learn what conditioner actually looks AND smells like in 'the raw'." What I found out was, surprisingly, Conditioner is WHITE and smells faintly of FLOWERS... Umm... so why do they add fragrance and color to it?

I think there is some kind of marketing miracle going on. Next time if they would like me to believe that it is actually "All Natural" I think it should be kind of brown and smell faintly of dirt and tree bark, maybe even have some kind of chunks.