![Got any old sweaters? Too small sweaters? Ugly sweaters? “For $30, computer programmer-by-day and fashion-maven-by-night Gayane Avanian, and her son Haik Avanian, will take your old sweaters and reknit them into scarves, gloves, and hats.” [via.]
Check out their site here.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyju4pKiH61qzpvhao1_500.jpg)
Song of the day: “I Need A Dollar” by Aloe Blacc
![Canadian artist Mui-Ling Teh makes miniature works of origami, such as this boat, which was made from a 6×10mm piece of paper. Of her work, she wrote:
I began folding my series of miniature models around the beginning of April 2008. One day I took a random strip of paper and cut a square to fold a crane out of it. I was daydreaming so I wasn’t paying attention to how small the paper was. After completing the crane I realized it was rather tiny. This is the crane I present in my piece called Born from the Hand. I only used tweezers for the last few folds. The paper size must have been about 15×15mm. After I folded that crane I decided to try folding an even smaller crane, which I present in Born from Fingers and Born from the Pinky. I also began folding various other models in miniature form. As the pieces were gettting smaller or more complex. I needed to rely on tweezers more often. The smallest work I’ve created to date was Born from the Cell which was folded from a 3×3mm piece of trace paper. However when it gets that small it becomes very difficult to take a photo of; especially with a simple point and shoot camera. Normally I fold something at a size that can be photographed for a particular concept while still being impressively small.
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Canadian artist Mui-Ling Teh makes miniature works of origami, such as this boat, which was made from a 6×10mm piece of paper. Of her work, she wrote:
I began folding my series of miniature models around the beginning of April 2008. One day I took a random strip of paper and cut a square to fold a crane out of it. I was daydreaming so I wasn’t paying attention to how small the paper was. After completing the crane I realized it was rather tiny. This is the crane I present in my piece called Born from the Hand. I only used tweezers for the last few folds. The paper size must have been about 15×15mm. After I folded that crane I decided to try folding an even smaller crane, which I present in Born from Fingers and Born from the Pinky. I also began folding various other models in miniature form. As the pieces were gettting smaller or more complex. I needed to rely on tweezers more often. The smallest work I’ve created to date was Born from the Cell which was folded from a 3×3mm piece of trace paper. However when it gets that small it becomes very difficult to take a photo of; especially with a simple point and shoot camera. Normally I fold something at a size that can be photographed for a particular concept while still being impressively small.
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Webclock 
Site of the day.
“For every minute of the clock, a fragment of text is taken from a webpage which contains the current time, but from a different day and/or year in history.”
Basically, it’s the coolest web clock you’ve ever seen.
Lingerie Model Runs One Of World's Largest Drug Rings
An international arrest warrant has been issued for the 30-year-old, who is suspected of recruiting beautiful women and using them to move drugs to Europe and North America.
Many of these women are believed to be other lingerie and glamour models who compete in international beauty pageants, whom Valencia describes as “unsuspicious, beautiful angels”.
She is thought to be on the run somewhere in either Mexico or Argentina. Her drug syndicate was exposed in December last year after a 21-year-old blew the whistle after being caught with 55kg of cocaine at Buenos Aires airport.
Investigators believe the beauty pageant winner quit modelling and left her native Colombia for Argentina to set up the empire last year.
They tried to trace her via her Pomeranian lapdog but found it registered to a disused warehouse. Her drug runners were paid £1,300 to board flights from Colombia to Cancun, Mexico, with bags of cocaine every 24 hours, according to The Sun.
The drugs were then trafficked to Europe. Valencia was crowned Columbia’s “Queen of Coffee” in 2000 and is said to have split from a Mexican drug baron nicknamed The Monster to rival his empire. [via.]
Damn, lingerie models, drugs and an international search hunt? I wouldn’t be surprised if someone is making this into a movie as we speak.
I had no idea there were so many Kit Kats in the world! Quite envious. Check em’ all out here.
Song of the day: “Empty House” by Paper Route
Nora Roberts
Hey guys,
I apologize for the severe lack of posts as of late. I’ve been super sick and I’m only now slowly getting better. I promise to get things moving again soon.
xo,
Nat.
I’m officially obsessed with The Ricky Gervais Show. Go download the first episode for free on iTunes here. It’s magic. MAGIC.
