Are You Staring At My Tube? Tshirt.

Now available for owning and then staring, here.

I designed and had these tshirts screen printed last year before Muntedkowhai came into existence. I wanted to do something that was both art and science but found the process not as "hands on" as I would like. Sure I designed the image but that was it. I enjoy the creation of something much more spontaneous and always changing, thus Muntedkowhai was perfect. However, I do think there should be more art based science hand made things out for market. Not just those "SCIENCE IS AWESOME" tshirts. I like tshirts without words, an image that link us together. When I was in college, I had, for a split second wanted to be a biology text book illustrator. Oh how silly of me. Now they have super duper hi tech photographs. Doh!


A microcentrifuge tube (also known more by brand, the eppendorf tube) is used as a vessel for liquids up to 1ml or a bit more. It is capped and then put into a micro centrifuge which spins at various high speends to pellet or bring down cells to the bottom so that you can seperate cells from the liquid they were sitting in.

Munted Musers

Bestill my geeky heart. Nothing beats awesome wearable geek wear but Sakurako Shimizu takes it to another level. Michelle from Kingdom of Style introduced her readers to this Brooklyn based artist and this is how it goes:

You say something. Computer records it. Soundwaves get lasered out.

From top left to right: Yawn brooch, I Do wedding bands (when asked by priest if you do, you could just do what the teenagers of Captain Planet do, look at each other, right arm extended with I Do rings facing upward and go "I DO!" and the priest will go "Captain Planet, he's our hero.." Sorry totally off track, WOW brooch and a giggle necklace.

Seriously Serious about 2009

Nothing beats being in a rut then making goals for the new year and being inspired to accomplish them. Since the beginning of December, Muntedkowhai had enjoyed constant sales and now I'm coming off that high and a day without sales= woe me! I know, I'm totally ranting and shouldn't be. Why I should put all that energy into creating new designs, I mean, I have new vintage buttons and charms and chains to work with now! Alright, rant stops here!!

I will divide my goals and put them into categories that are most important to me:

*Love

Eat my words at the end of 2009. If words are eaten, I'll be single.

*Muntedkowhai

Be one of Etsy's featured seller or be featured in a printed magazine!

*Science

Practice science in all honesty and cut no corners. Publish that Myeloid Derived Suppressor cells paper.

*The bank

Save save save save save save!!!!!!!!! Specifically, save over $5000 for rainy days.





This year besides going to PokPok for dinner with the olds, I don't really feel the urge to go drink and celebrate. It's kinda sad but I've got work the next day and I have so very much to do for Muntedkowhai that a whole day hung over seems to be quite wasted. (No puns intended!) The least I can do is dress for the last day for 2008 which is why I'm wearing this little number to work:

2008 just ended so very very quickly!
(Plum military dress from UO)



Celebrate safely everyone and Happy New Year!

Guilt

Eep! I did not go into work today because of all the "Artic blast" hype the Portland News was throwing around. Actually, I lied. I did not go in because I'm not feeling the lab right now, it has been frustrating and my boss is totally stressed with churning out this experiment out even though it does not work. It wears down your brainz when you keep on at things that do not work the way you want it to. It does not help that he is not wanting to buy the correct reagents to do the work efficiently but settles for cheaper solutions. I have been feeling quite inadequate in the science arena since we hit this giant stop in our experiments and it has made me very apathetic to its results. Which is bad! I'm beginning to loose interest in it. Bad bad bad. Thus it made me feel super guilty for not going in today. My dream occupation is part time science and part time Muntedkowhai. Oooo I hope that happens soon!



I was going to shop online for my family and close friends today with allll the free time but boy there is just not enough hours in one day. So now that I'm sitting down to blog, I have found AWESOME things for me but I'm not on the list. Hmmm. I hear you have to get presents for yourself out of the way before you get that "giving" feeling. Since alot of my loved ones read my blog, I will not post what I'll be giving them. I still have:

Dad (He is a golf nut so in theory this would be an easy one!)
Step dad (Mum and I already know what to get him, a TOMTOM!)
Val (My sister is not tooo hard, she is a pastry cook and loves all things active)
Aaron (He is a bit of a difficult one to buy for. Yes you mister.)

I'm keeping my list short this year for reasons that will be revealed after Christmas, however here is what I found while I was supposedly shopping for the 4 other people:

A vintage woollen dress from DewberryVintage's Etsy shop
With black tights this would be SUPER warm and cute. Hello!

These urban nature fusion decorations from Layerbylayer are genius and tickles my visual taste!

They are filled with boss, beeswax or dirt. Office makeover!! (via Modish)

"Baby, I'm home" photograph by Couragemylove
:( This photograph makes me sad and happy at the same time.
(Aaron and I have less than a month until our Borneo holiday!!!)
Red perforated Italian leather gloves from Forzieri
Now that the weather has turned icy and my fingerless gloves are useless, these beautiful red leather gloves calls my name! (Perforated leather gloves always remind me of blonde ladies in vintage cars)

Vegan Golf ball soap from Dugshop
Golf related presents are always the "go to" for my father. He's a golf nut.

Nerdy animal flash cards from Courtneymcornett's Etsy store
I am getting clucky! However, it also comes with nerdiness.

Time to head back to the crochet hook, if you have not done so you should enter into the Bliss giveaway. Traci has very kindly and graciously helped me host my first Muntedkowhai giveaway ever, to enter go here. A winner will be picked this Friday, 19th.

Yeah... so I'm bored at work

Fin De Semana!

Rejoice! Two whole days of crafting!! (That is, if I don't have a huge hang over from tonight's Halloween party.) I'm even considering not drinking that much so I could have a sick free weekend! Boy, I'm getting old. I do, however have to come up with a costume and since I'm a tight wad, I'm going to do things the old fashion way: free and other man's trash.

That's right. Everyone knows that science labs are homes to treasure troves of insanely sturdy and new cardboard boxes from all those vials that we order and biotech companies package them into boxes 5000x their size. This I kid you not. Along with free great boxes, I have colourful tapes to use and discarded plastic sheets and boxes that the science world does not recycle. (At least not in our lab anyways) So before 10pm tonight, I have to come up with something scary that can be made from the above ingredients. Get that brain a churning!


This weekend, I want to, gulp, make a purchase. Not cords or buttons or anything for Muntedkowhai but for me, ME!! As you know, I must have done something horrible in my past life to not be able to find any decent jeans in this lifetime. I hate hate wearing jeans but love the idea of wearing them. It just seems so impossible. Everywhere I look online, I see jeans that is covalently bonded to the models arse or at stores I'd see jeans that are so unflattering, I might as well wear diapers. So wheres the inbetween? Can't a girl get some non tight, non inhale and button type of jeans? Can't there be a somewhat loose fitted jeans that also makes you look sexy?!

J.crew! Their pants always fit me really well but I have never tried on their jeans. This weekend, I'm going to go into a Jcrew store and try me on some denim.


Muntedkowhai:

Around 2 nights ago, Dana contacted me through Etsy. She's in Hong Kong but grew up in Scotland(what an interesting demograph!) and wanted to ask if I could custom make a piece for her using her grandmothers jade. She even sent me close up photos of the jade and I was so excited to get this challenge!
Dana wanted to use this piece in my store as a base:
Without the button and with her jade in the middle, somehow. It was hard to propose a logistic way of tackling it online and I understood how weary one would be to send an heirloom to a complete stranger! However, after a few conversation exchanges, I think we're both comfortable with the idea and the jade is now in the mail on it's way to Portland, Oregon. Dana sounds like a really neat gal! It's amazing how people can find you and I'm glad she did because I think this project will be quite interesting. Eastern jade meets Venetian lace patterns! Awesome!


Next Thursday, I'll be off to Vegas to meet up with Anna and possibly the world's greatest mormon, Adam. I have realised that the people I love alot has names starting with A: Aaron, Anna, ok well maybe not. That's it.