Galaxy of Change Crochet Rug

October 26, 2015 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | Annabel Lee, CRAFT, Crochet |

Here are pictures of the finished  Galaxy of Change rug which I started here.  I did about 50  of the 103 rows in the pattern, plus 3 of a border which I made up.  I wanted to have points around the edge. Sadly, I am not a good enough photographer to capture the vibrancy of the colours of Bouvardia yarn in Lollypop.  I’s really weird and lovely. As I mentioned here, I was inspired to use Bouvardia by the beautiful work of Julie Salter of this Facebook group.  Look at her unfinished Galaxy of Change in Bouvardia Tokyo. But somehow mine…

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Harmony Crochet Bag

October 22, 2015 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | Annabel Lee, CRAFT, Crochet |

As All Annabels know, I am a fan of Lucy from Attic 24.  And I am not alone.  The colour-wise people at Crafternoon Treats who designed this beauty :-   Have now made a fat-bottomed bag using the Lucy’s harmony squares.  Isn’t it pretty!- I’m making my own and doing my best to use their muted colour palette.  Here is progress so far with some floral experimentation.   Now I need to block the square, gather it all up, crochet the top, add the lace and flowers and make the handle.  That’s all!!

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Mel Gibson’s Bum

October 21, 2015 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | FILM |

(photo of Mel by Alan Light)

The actress Arletty, when chastised over her wartime liaison with a German officer during the Nazi occupation of Paris, pointed out that “My heart is French but my arse is international.” For some reason, that mad old snarler Mel Gibson, wants us to look at his backside. He displays it for no apparent narrative reason in these films :- Bird on a Wire Tequila Sunrise Gallipoli Forever Young, and Several entries in the Lethal Weapon franchise. He managed to find a doubtful historical pretext in Braveheart, but TVC wonders if possibly he chose to do the film because it allowed him to…

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Black Mass

October 20, 2015 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | Drama Film, THUMBNAIL REVIEWS |

(Dir. Scott Cooper) (2015) Johnny Depp is good when he is serious (“Dead Man“, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, “Finding Neverland”, “Donnie Brasco”) and terrible when he is being silly (“Mortdecai”).  TVC suspects that he is good in this very serious would-be “Goodfellas“.  But it’s hard to say because the pale contact lenses and the weird comb-over skullcap which have been inflicted on him are too silly to allow the viewer to be sure of anything.  Similarly, Joel Edgerton’s brow keeps disappearing under his off-centre werewolf widow’s peak and Jesse Plemons (a plumped-up Todd from “Breaking Bad”) is hidden underneath a wild-man clown…

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A Passage to India

October 18, 2015 | Posted by Lesley Jakobsen | Drama Film, Fiction, THUMBNAIL REVIEWS |

(E. M. Forster) (1924) (Dir. David Lean) (1984) “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat” Thus Kipling’s famous ballad, which Forster, with a surgical pen, turns into a captivating novel that somehow fails to entirely succeed in nailing perfidious Albion, and which David Lean, with cameras, cement mixer and trowel, utterly fails to achieve much of anything.

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