Tipping points for the Pointy tips

Artist Dalton Ghetti's tiny sculptures carved out of the fragile tips of pencils, go to Inhabitat  for the full gallery
點擊圖片看看他其餘彫刻品

I have always admire craftsman, they have this superior concentration that can only be fine tune with time and their talent and skill.
Imagine myself and a craftsman in a staring contest...staring at an object for hours.... I would certainly get board fairly quickly...but I bet he would be able to generate lots of info and ideas, of what the object is, and what it could become in his hands.
It takes a totally different mind set....
With curiosity, observations imaginations, love, Passion and maybe a little stubbornness too. And they make magic happen...when they are in their zone.

迷你藝術品既細致又神乎奇技!!
讓人驚訝的彫刻品， 原來只是用盡了的鉛筆， 藝術家Dalton Ghetti 的迷你藝術品既細致又神乎奇技, 巴西藝術家度頓工作時完全不用放大鏡，而工具只有三款，剃刀，縫針，及彫刻刀.
怕就是現在不用佩帶眼鏡…也許日後會有需要吧？
但怎樣把幾乎丟棄的東西變成藝術品，這可是個好例子！

The Good List

Do you have a list? My guess is yes you do....and not only one.
List is good.....its easy to find what you need or try to remember in a glance, it helps your brain to file away what is important to your logics and memories, it gives clear indication of what the priority is, I personally like list....it helps, until I made too many...Hahaha...
oh here is one more...and a good one! Let's share! 
http://greencitizen.com/blog/?p=53

Its a Wrap!!

Does it always have to be wrapping papers and ribbons? hm....may be not. How about a big leaf and a few twigs.....

Gets "Creative" and "Green" with gifts wrapping........ohoo... everyone will want one from you then....?

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20101127/GPG04/11270487/Personalize-your-gifts-with-unique-wrapping

Tangled up in blues?

           Hey! all you green warriors out there, I know that celebrating the holidays and keeping it real and green is high on the agenda. In San Francisco, we are kind of lucky to have the options and systems worked out by the city, to halp us do a better job. but what about the occasional plastic bag that still slipped into our home? Here is a list on how to put them into good use rather than tossing it into landfills right away

http://globalclimateissues.com/11/green-tip-recycle-your-plastic-bags/

and how about the # of the plastic, that don't shows on your Blue Cart?? such as #5??

well, now we have this "Gimme 5" program

http://www.preserveproducts.com/recycling/gimme5locations.html

It is not child's play

Being a Mom is is serious business,  not just talking about taking care and feeding the little rug rats, but keeping them out of harms way is often the most tricky  part of bringing up kids.

Eco-friendly modern mom author Paige Wolf's new book Spit That Out:  The Overly Informed Parent’s Guide to Raising Children in the Age of Environmental Guilt, offered experts advices for everyday moms on how to keep your family and the plant safe.
Especially when the Holidays is just around the corner, here is a list of what you can do when picking out stocking stuffers...or Green toys.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1LoMbW/www.inhabitots.com/2010/11/19/when-toys-seem-like-no-fun-green-mom-sanity-tips-for-safe-play//r:f

Cute Green Design

What a cute idea - a home designed to share
I love birds, if you love them too, then this might be what you are looking for

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6eYyGl/inhabitat.com/2010/11/02/clay-birdhouse-shingles-turn-your-roof-into-a-roost//r:f

New & Old

           We all love new gadgets, especially the more powder it give us, the more reasons to give up the old one, even that so call "old gadget" is barely pass its second birthday within our possession.
With the speed of the technology, and the increasing number of things we try to squeeze into our daily schedule, the change of heart is kind of understandable, and forgivable?( a self manifested reason for my guilty conscious)
So when this action seems to be inevitable, the least we can do is to make sure we don't just stop there, that the process should be more like an arrangement for a pet to be adopted, and to help our old love to continue on its wheel of life...the following article provided some options.....
http://techlifes.net/2010/10/going-green-how-to-recycle-or-donate-your-cell-phone/