Current guests are Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black), Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen) and Kellan Lutz (Emmet Cullen).

The Quilting Bee is:

The Quilting Bee is an interactive online pixel club and friendship clique with members of all ages from all over the world.

Couldn’t of explained it better myself…

The Quilting Bee to me is a fun and friendly environment where I can chat to new and interesting people via the Q*Bee forum known as the Bee*bee*s as well as through the internal email (bee*mail) the club has. One of the best things about the Q*Bee are the activities you can get involved in and the awards you can win. The current activity at the Q*Bee is the Christmas card sawp (which I still need to make cards for—woops) but my all time favourite (so far) was the Halloween goo party which was held in 2007 and was the first activity I took part in—I was a new*bee back then.
Here’s the goo I created:

I now have been in the Q*Bee little over a year and I’m so glad I decided to join—like many others though I put it off for ages as I thought the club would of been elitist but it’s far from it and I’m a better pixeller because of it! Though I’m still learning.

If your thinking of joining I say go for it! You won’t regret it and don’t forget to come and trade with me when you have.
To join click the bee*utiful button below:

I’ve finished my present wrapping—they’re all displayed nicely in little gift bags ready to hand out on Xmas eve (maybe before), if only I was more organised with card writing and decorating.
How far are you with your preparations for Christmas?

Kim x

• The white header “Chimmyville”—I think maybe looks out of place? Took Aisling’s advice (see comment) and lowered the opacity
• The navigation—centralise it maybe? Centralised!
• Customised forms?

Let me know any feedback you have.

Kim x

P.S. Christmas shopping is finished!

Kim x

I have also been to others but those are the main two I’m loving at the moment. As well as these two websites I also find myself stalking Jem’s website, I rarely comment though—just lurk.

What blogs/websites are you loving lately?

Kim x

P.S. I’m nearly done with the whole Christmas shopping thing, only have four people left to go! Now, if only I was that organised with cards.

Quite a bit has happened this last week:

• Halloween—I did decorate the house, with my dad. It looked really good and we had a really good evening… Some idiot smashed our pumpkin though!
• Saw 5—Still not seen it and still not sure if I want too… Anyone seen it? Is it any good?
• Quantum of Solace—Saw it Sunday night with Mark. I liked it although I though it lacked any real storyline. It was the action alone that kept me entertained.
• Nearly finished my Christmas shopping! I’ve never been this organised Christmas-wise.
• Work was hectic last week—busy, busy, busy and I was in charge.
• Planning next week—I have it off.

Well, from that list it doesn’t really look like a lot happened. Does it? It sure felt like I had a busy non-stop week and weekend though. (Maybe because I don’t usually work on Saturday’s).

Has anyone else been up to much?

Kim x

Edit: Stupid rain ruined my week off.

Has anyone seen Saw 5? Is it any good? As I’m having mixed feelings about whether I want to see it or not as I don’t want it to spoil the Saw series for me… Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Is anyone doing anything for Halloween? Dressing up? I unfortunately will be working on the actual day as well as the Saturday too. No late night for me then. It’ll probably be the first year I don’t anything—it sucks! Halloween is one of my favourite holidays. I’ll likely still decorate the house though.

Have a good week
Kim x

On another note it was my 1 year Bee*versity (anniversary) at the Q*Bee yesterday!

Enjoy your week’s everyone.
Kim x

Hermy had her first molt, i.e. the shedding of her old skin (since she’s been with me), three days ago. It was really fascinating to watch and having finished her molt she is now quite a lot bigger and a gorgeous orange-y colour.

Here are a couple of pictures of Hermy and/or her molt (shed skin). At the moment it looks like I have two tarantulas in the tank instead of one:

(Sorry if you have trouble making Hermy out on them—I didn’t want to use the flash).

Kim x

Hope everyone has a good week (what’s left of it) and a good weekend.
Kim x

P.S. I’ve started my Christmas shopping already… Too early.

I’m feeling really un-inspired sight wise lately—aside from the things I’ve procrastinated about for so long and should really get around to doing. I just don’t have the time, what with work and everything. But, I do have some holiday coming up (Oct 11^th for a week and Nov 8^th for a week) so maybe I’ll feel motivated.

Kim x
P.S. I’m enjoying driving on my own!

<?PHP
include(”cutenews/show_news.php);
?>

to place Cutenews on your website/weblog (I think it was in the read me file). I believe they also use templates too. Most of the layouts I came across were either celebrity or neopets related. Some people were even charging for the service.

Is this a new thing? Or has anyone else seen them?

Kim x

Edit// Also, have a new skin up… I’m not 100% finished customising it yet but I’m liking what I’ve got so far. It was inspired by the sunset I am currently watching. \

Haha! Buy one get one free! Does that mean you buy one foot and get the other one free? Hahahahahaa!

Yes, of course that’s what it means—because you usually walk out of the shop with only one foot when you buy them, don’t you? Isn’t your joke clever. I hear that joke at least ten times everyday and it’s really bugging me… It makes them look like they can’t read too, as the poster clear says (and I quote) “Buy one pair of shoes and get the cheapest pair free.

In other “news”, I’ve seen a couple of movies (Hellboy and Hellboy 2 to be exact), have been watching a lot of Scrubs, went to Pizza Hut with Mark, had an indoor picnic (also with Mark), put up a new skin and made a load of new link buttons. Not too much then.

Hope everyone has a good week.
Kim x

Please bear with me while I change my coding to point to the new address as opposed to http://kimmyc.cjb.net or http://www.chimmykins-numbangel.co.uk may take a while (have you seen how many pages this site has?) I hope to have everything ready in a few days though… With a new skin to come.

Enjoy your weekend everyone
Kim x

1. I customized Bellabiblio for movies.
2. I added both my movie and book reviews to my writing section.
3. Added a couple of baking recipes, more to come.
4. Added a twitter “feed”.
5. New skin

I also have made some more free*bees for The Q*Bee.

Kim x

You may remember I said I was taking the week of 4^th-9^th August off work? I did, but I didn’t get up to a lot:

• Saw Space Chimps and National Treasure 2
• Cooked spaghetti and German meatballs with Mark
• Went to Cadbury’s World! Yum, free chocolate… 4 bags of buttons, 2 Curly Wurly’s, 2 dairy milk bars. Mark also decided to buy the 5kg bar of dairy milk from the shop there!
• Did some jobs for Mark’s nan…
• Went to Thorpe Park! Finally got to go on Stealth! 205ft in air, 0-80mph in about 2 seconds! I loved it.
• Shopped
• Saw Wall*E! Very cute movie
• Saw Devil Wears Prada

So that was my week in a very short bullet-y list, so as not to make this entry too long.

Last night I went to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars with Mark. Thoughts? Pretty good story line (I felt that that you needed to see the tv show (Clone Wars) to understand a lot of what was going on—which I hadn’t), awesome animation, recommend to any Star Wars fans.

Hope everyone is enjoying there Summer.
Kim x

As for the other actors they all did an amazing job I especially loved Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent), Michael Caine (Alfred) and Gary Oldman (Detective Gordon) they helped make the movie what it is. As for Christian Bale I think he is the best Batman so far, I have more empathy for this Batman than I did for any of the others.

In short I loved this movie, however I could feel it dragging a bit in some parts and could really tell it was going on for 2 and a half-ish hours. =/ But, I loved it nonetheless.

Space Chimps, National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets and things

Aside from seeing The Dark Knight I have also seen two other movies recently, Space Chimps and National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets.

Space Chimps was watchable but one I’d more likely recommend you watch on DVD, it had it’s funny moments but I was left thinking for a lot of it “What were they smoking when they made this!?” The plot seemed to make sense and then made none at all—very hit and miss but again I say watchable. National Treasure 2 on the other hand was very good, Nicholas Cage was as funny as he was in the last previous film and it lived up to my expectations of it. As sequels go I think it was as good as (if not better than) the first one.

I have the next coming week (4^th—9^th) off work, I’ve booked it as holiday. I’m not sure what I will be doing with it yet though… Any ideas?

Kim x