Showing posts with label My Little Pony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Little Pony. Show all posts

Friday, November 29, 2013

I Want A Salt Lamp

I've wanted a salt lamp for a while now, they're just so pretty. I love their rich, radiant, warm sunset/sunrise tones. Some of the larger lamps are incredibly expensive, but I found some smaller, more affordable lamps on Home Depot's website. Salt is so incredibly powerful and versatile, I'd love to experience working with such a large, unbroken specimen. I would like to make something clear: there is no tradition of working with these salt lamps. I just think they're neat.

By the way, magically, salt is salt is salt. There is no "best" or "most powerful" kind of salt. If you want to buy some fancy salts to cook with, by all means. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you need anything more than the salt in your kitchen.

On to the cool lamps!

This little guy plugs right into a USB drive:


This one looks like a bowl of hot coals:


Oooh, this one is also an oil warmer. I've used an oil warmer before when I absolutely could not burn incense and I was very pleased with the results.



Do you die? How amazing this one?! It looks like a crystal ball (well, I guess it technically is) or a planet.


Last, how incredible are these candle holders?

(Sneaky, they cloned the image to make it look like you will get an identical pair.)


I think I need this Pinkie Pie nightlight too:


You know, speaking of My Little Pony, the spirits really know how to speak my language! Recently I've been receiving several dreams where the characters appear as symbols. For example, the other night I received a warning about false friends which included an image of a cartoon snake moving flatly through glass (snake in the glass... snake in the grass... clever) and fake MLP toys! With each of the main characters representing one of the "Elements of Friendship" (Loyalty, Honesty, Generosity, Kindness, Laughter, and Magic), they are perfect dream symbols.

If you've never seen the show, definitely check it out! It's smart, funny, charming, and even touching and inspiring. I'm so glad that a) little girls have this wonderful, empowering show as an antidote to the usual cotton-candy princess dreck that gets pushed on them, and b) it has been able to transcend gender lines and capture a rather large male audience. Bronies 4 life!

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Offtopic: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Season 4 and Doctor Who 50th Aniversary Special! Yeah!

I am just a big kid and I am shamelessly obsessed with MLP:FiM. Today (11/23) the long-awaited Season 4 begins with a 2 part episode. Last we left the Mane Six, Twilight had just become a princess and alicorn and there was some weirdness with the Equestria Girls movie. The teaser trailers have me really excited, it looks like Discord will have a significant part, at least in the season opening. I just love Discord. For those of you not familiar with the show, Discord is a character who is an homage to Star Trek's Q (<3) and even voiced by John De Lancie. I will totally be curled up with my Pinkie Pie plush while watching!

Me as a pony.

After ponies I will be restlessly awaiting DOCTOR WHO'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL! I just know I'm going to need a box of tissues, Doctor Who is so powerful and moving and that's one of the many things I love about it. I've done my best to avoid reading anything online about the special because I don't want anything spoiled.
 
Yes, this Saturday is shaping up to be a wonderful, lazy couch potato day :D