Beaded Snarry!

Whooooooooo! Well, THAT was fun. ;)
Each row is 90 beads long and the whole thing is 62 rows down. About 12 hours of just beading. (Meaning, not including sorting the beads by colour and tweaking the reference. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, and certainly learned a lot. The next one will be better. (I hope.)


The pics are of it still on the loom, because I put a bead of glue on each string before I take it off, to stop and string slippage. It should photograph better once I remove it. In total it's just a hair under 6x6 inches, and over 5500 beads!
( Pics or it didn't happen. )

Sorry for the giant pics! My compter (or lj) wouldn't let me upload images, so I had to do it via tinypic.

Movie recc's and a request for your ideas.

First off: My son Harry (9 yo) has been having a blast seeing 'old' movies that i really enjoyed when they originally came out. Most have been mid 80's and 90's flicks, like Back to the Future (all three) Jurasic Park (all three!) Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure (not nearly as entertaining some 26 years later, sadly ...) The Mummy, Original Star Wars, ToS Trek movies, Independence Day, all the Indianna Jones movies, Stand by Me, Fifth Element etc. Oh, just remembered: Ghost Busters and Spiderman. Please don't recc the Batman movies. I hated them all with a passion. ;)


Anyhoo, any suggestions? He tends to like ones with action. (duh! he's a boy!) while his brother prefers humour. My only limits are ... not TOO much graphic violence/sex/drugs. Swears are fine. The type of violent but not TOO violent flicks above are fine. (gotta say, the Mummy was pretty damn violent. More than I recall.)

He wants to see Die Hard, but I"m thinking it's too violent. Of course, I thought Bill and Ted had drug use in it, but the staff at Blockbuster assured me it didn't, and they were right! funny how we (mis)remember stuff eh?.

SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED. Today, we're going to pick up Teen Wolf. :D Man, I had such a thing for Micheal J Fox. (and I still do!)


Thing two: After getting my brain around the beadwork thing, I really want to try something bigger. Any suggestions/ideas about things I could get that come in an array of colours, that don't cost too much? I've seen things done with spools of thread that are cool, but thread is like, $2-3 bucks per spool. If this art 'instillation' has 100 to 1500 'pixels' I just couldn't afford that AT ALL.

Paint samples is the only other thing I can think of where you get an entrie spectrum of colour, but I'm positive there's lots more out there.

THANKS IN ADVANCE MY LOVELY FLISTIES!! <3