Feminist Friday: International Women's Day!

'International Women's Day'

Happy International Women's Day! This treasury celebrates the accomplishments of some astounding women; it also features work from awesome lady Etsyans! Women featured in this treasury include:

• Rosa Parks
• Sally Ride
• Frida Kahlo
• Harriet Tubman
• Adele
• Janis Joplin
• Rosalind Franklin
• Ada Lovelace
• Mata Hari
• Charlotte Brontë
• Maya Angelou

Why not celebrate by taking a moment to Google one of these famous ladies and learning more about her life and accomplishments?

Artloversart $350	serendipitycre... $15	ARTDECADENCE $30	WelshDragonDes... $14
trilobiteglass... $75	LolaEdwina $10	WeirdAndTwiste... $52	Cymraes $12
mediagraffitis... $30	meganlee $18	minouette $34	organicmountai... $9.99
etheldora $55	IntellectualDi... $12	JezebelCharms $40	OfRoyaltyShop $1.6

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Winning!

Mom's Basement member Michelle just wrapped up a giveaway to celebrate 100 sales (congratulations!) and who has two thumbs and won? This girl!

It was hard to pick a ring, though, because she has lots of excellent stuff. I LOVE the cross-stitched and embroidered rings, they look so unique. They are definitely conversation starters.

Kawaii Cross Stitched Gimbap Ring by FunWithNeedles

While I'm still not a fan of straight-up kim (the black seaweed you use to wrap gimbap), I have become a grudging fan of gimbap. But this guy is just too cute to eat!

Embroidered Metroid Ring by FunWithNeedles

I'm not a fan of the FPS genre. I just can't get spatially immersed enough to be able navigate the world and always end up running off a cliff or over/under-jumping. Nonetheless, Metroid has a special place in my heart because SEAMUS!

Cross Stitched Dalek Ring by FunWithNeedles

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

Ultimately, though, I had to go with her miniature Companion Cube. Now I can take it with me wherever I go!

Cross Stitched Companion Cube Ring by FunWithNeedles

But rings aren't the only things Michelle has. If your walls are blank, she has most excellent pop-culture inspired cross stitches. I hope she gets around to selling patterns, because I want to try a hand at making one myself. I'm a big fan of the "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?" one in particular. Crafty Lawyer Mom used to cross-stitch way back when I was single digits in age, and she even taught me how. Somewhere there is the Last Project she's not yet finished that I remember helping her on.

Easter Aftermath!

I got to spend Easter with many of my expat friends. We had a huge picnic near the Han river and painted some hard-boiled goodness. Here's my project, an entry in Mom's Basement's Easter egg contest:

The eyes are actually origami stickers that we repurposed for egg-decorating. There were so many other good ones, I wish I had pictures of them all!

It's also Friday the 13th today. Somewhat in the vein of Friday the 13th, the next movie in my queue is a Korean horror/thriller movie called "I Saw The Devil." While it doesn't feature Jason Voorhees or Camp Crystal Lake (obviously), it still looks to be all kinds of creepy. Think I might have a night in to watch this one.

Winter is Coming? No, Easter is Coming!

And so is Mom's Basement's Easter Egg contest!

Submit a photo of your geeky Easter egg(s), and the winner (determined by vote) gets a whole grab bag of geeky goodies! Even without the temptation of prizes, I just love the idea of geeky Easter eggs. My friends and I are having an Easter picnic this Sunday, complete with egg-dying and egg-decorating supplies, why not geek it up? So far I'm thinking:

• A Star Wars set
• A Star Trek: The Original Series set
• A Doom Patrol set
• Batman
• Famous scientists and nerds (Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Alan Turing are at the top of my list so far)
• Appropriate use of brown eggs, so prevalent here in Korea: Neil deGrasse Tyson in the scientists set, Lando Calrissian in Star Wars, Ultimate Nick Fury, Joshua Clay in Doom Patrol, Lt. Uhura in Star Trek...

How are you going to decorate your Easter eggs this year?

More information about the contest (and the prizes) can be found here.