Beaded Animals

These beaded animal figurines are handcrafted by talented disadvantaged bead-and-wire artists in the townships near Cape Town, South Africa. Making and selling them provides a livelihood for many entrepreneurial and creative South Africans, who would otherwise be destitute. Read more.....









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Eric Daigh - Push-Pin Portraits

Michigan based artist Eric Daigh creates these portraits by pushing thousands of coloured pins into a notice board.

Using only five colours in each picture , the 32-year-old artist holds the Guinness World Record for the biggest push pin mosaics.







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Frances Cooley

Artist, chocolatier, confectioner and proprietor Frances Cooley from Bristol, UK creates gorgeous chocolate shoes. These fabulous shoes are handcrafted and styled in the finest Belgian chocolate.






Chocolate Stilettos

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Lego Portraits

Fancy creating your own portrait out of Lego bricks?

The guys at Brixels, an Austrian company immortalized these celebrities' faces in hundreds of small 1 x 1 LEGO bricks.

Michael Jackson

B.A.

Marilyn Monroe

Mohammed Ali

Barack Obama

Marilyn Monroe

Michael Knight
You can create your own lego mosaic on www.brixels.net. Just upload an image and get your individual brick set for building a black and white lego portrait or have the guys at Brixels assemble for you. With Mother's Day just round the corner, this would be the perfect gift.

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Euphemisms and Idioms

Your squid just got fried!.

Conversing entirely in Cantonese is a struggle for me with my limited vocabulary of the Chinese language. And having a dialogue with my mom-in-law is the biggest challenge as she does not speak English.

Me: How's Grand Aunt?

Mom-in-law : Gone to sell salted eggs.

Me: I didn't know she is in the salted egg business.

My mom-in-law burst into laughter. OOPS! Dang those euphemisms! The Chinese language is full of them.

''Sell salted eggs" is the Cantonese euphemism for croaked, bite the dust, six feet under, kicked the bucket or pushing up daisies. You get the picture.

I didn't know what a camel-toe and the phrase "Aunt Flo is in town" were until I started blogging!

Here's a list for the verbally -challenged

1. Bat in the cave
Booger stuck in the nose

2. Step on a frog
To pass gas loudly

3. I’ve got the flags out
Having your period (Australia)

4.Burp the baby
Male masturbation

5. Up the duff
Unplanned pregnancy ( UK and Australia)

6. Pinch a loaf
Defaecate

7. Driving the porcelain bus
Puking (Australia)

9. Fried squid (Chinese)
Getting fired

Funny, but the Malays seem to have something against the chicken as you can see from the following idioms. Poor bird! Ayam is chicken in Malay.

1. Chicken scratch ( cakar ayam)
Bad handwriting

2. As warm as chicken poop ( hangat-hangat tahi ayam)
A short-lived interest (chicken poop cools as soon as it reaches the ground)

3. Mother hen (ibu ayam)
Prostitute

4. Like a chicken pooping chalk (seperti ayam berak kapur)
Looking pale when one is unwell.

And what's with the Yiddish and onions!!

1. He should grow like an onion with his head in the ground
Go take a hike

2. Onions should grow from your navel
An insult

3. Onion tears
Crocodile tears

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