Oh UnHoly Night!

Being a non-xmasser, I don't decorate all Christmassy.

But I might actually consider this Xmas tree!

There's something mighty unholy about it...

Sort of like an upside-down cross means "I heart Satan!"

Me likey!

Take a Look. Click the Book!

I LOVE ordering books online, but I HATE not being able to browse & flip thru books when I'm ordering.

Amazon sometimes has "Look Inside," but you can't really browse TOO much (there's a limit to the flipping!)

That's why I was so excited to find Lookybook!

With mostly children's books (the best flippers), the site boasts:

We'll never replace an actual book in your hands, but we hope to show you new books and help you make informed choices for you and your kids.

I think it's brilliant!

Diana's Pink Haired Cameo!

Look for her cameo in the first shot 5 secs!

According to her email:
"yes i did see Gwar and my hair is now Fake-Blood Pink. "
I love gwar.

And if your one for the love of pigskins - watch the rest!
"5 Minute Drill!"

Woodlands in Your Own house!

They shall NEVER go outta style... NEVER!!!!

When we moved into our new digs, we uncovered some hannous wallpaper.

I aquired a hannous adversion to wallpaper after taking ripping, tearing, PLEADING to get it off!

My answer?
Photo WALL MURALS!!!

With cameos in stylish movies such as Pretty Persuasion,

and hot hotels like Jupiter in Portland,

how can you resist!?

The best LIST so Far!!!

You know I love lists, todays list is by far the best list I have found to date. I felt kind of bad for making our male readers ( I think we have a few) read several very vulva related articles and the 100th birthday of the bra. So here to make your day men is the list you have been waiting for... 10 Disturbing Fact about your genitals! Enjoy while you enlighten yourself on the topic of gonads.

The Tumble Weed Farm?

Todays most ridiculous News story comes to you from Southwest Kansas. Linda Katz wanted to teach herself how to build a website, so she made up a farm that sold tumbleweeds, something she sees everyday on her Kansas property. Little did she know that Americans buy anything. She grosses close to $40,000 a year now selling dead weeds. Clicky here to read the whole mind numbing story. I think I may start selling the dead moles my cat brings back from the woods, "The Murdered Mole Store" is now in business!

Happy Birthday E-Girl!!!

A very special Birthday Wish to my favorite co-worker on her special day! I baked a cake, with homemade frosting, got her a sweet present from Etsy, and hung up a poster I made myself all over the office. Let the celebration Begin!!!

Nosurprises Photoshop Illustrations

yeah, so I'm obviously a sucker for anything swirly ...

So when looking for good Uncle Sam pics,

I couldn't NOT post about Alessandro Pautasso's flickr account!

Check out the amazing use of Illustrator CS in his work for
deviantART and Edvard Munch reinvent!

More of stuff here:

Bellissimo!!!

How the world sees the US

I found a pretty interesting post in Postcrossing forum just now! One of the users is gathering opinions of the USA for an English class.

Since postcrossing is international,
EVERYONE in the world is answering!

These are the questions:

1. What do you feel is the image given to the American people world wide? Is it positive or negative? How do people feel about them? Please explain.

2. What would you feel is the image of the American government worldwide? Positive or negative? How do people feel about it? Please explain. Feel free to place any other comments about America as a whole in either question.The next few questions are about you so I can group individual responses.

3. Are you liberal, conservative, or something else?

4. What country are you from?

5. What age group are you in? (10-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 50+)

Check out the posting. Surprisingly it varies a lot by age & nationality

...Althought just about everyone hates Bush...can't imagine why!

1 Awesome ReTrO 1950's COMPLETE salon set

Holy Crap! Look what I found!
If I had this, I would play dress up everyday!

From their site:

Up for sale is an unbelievable entire beauty shop salon collection. One owner straight from an in home salon that started in the late 40's... Three stations with black porcelain sinks. All barber chairs, furniture, and many more things not pictured!!

@ Atomic Warehouse in York, PA

Happy 100th Birthday Bra, thanks for the support!

Yep thats right! It's time to celebrate the 100th birthday of our friend the bra. To all our male readers, sorry for the feminist overtone.

Angel Wings to die for

I bet those things weigh more than her.

Postcards?

My Fav! Looks like an old Bed Frame.

Sexy Marry Poppins?

In case you hadn't seen the Victoria's Secret x-mas Fashion show, here is a recap of the highlights. I am very impressed with the differn't angel wings they constructed this year. I could care less for the sexy outfits that they don't even sell in stores by the way, plus im not a size 00, oh yeah and for those of you who doubt this, there is such a size as 00. I like to refer to it as the translucent size, I am right between the normal size and the big mac attack size, for those of you who don't know thats a size 10, picture like about four of those models packed in to one person and half the height, I kid...I kid...

Mr. P's Product Placement

Yep, Still makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.
I found a whole array of Mr. P Products at Hot Flamingo!

P.S. I got the glasses set of Mr. P peeing for a friends birthday once.

Her boyfriend? NOT amused.

Custom Paper Dolls "Tutorial-ish"!

As you may/may not know there was a huge influx of my family down to Austin for this years turkey day. And my fabulously fantastic family hosts Mike & Ayse of Beef & Pie catered to 50 PEOPLE!

I'd heard for years how they throw the most creative parties. Even Martha Stewart would squeal with delight. Some highlights were Mike's home brewed beers and the deep fried turducken! And Ayse transformed their Austin backyard into a bedouin harem complete with pillows, low chairs & a fire pit!

So I took a loooooong hard thought for my hostess gift. What could you possible get 2 such creative types? Personalized gift you can't buy in stores!!!

Behold their own actual Paper Dolls!!

It was actually pretty easy...

- I got me some Tom Tierney Paper Dolls books through Amazon. He's got the best art and fantastic choices! I went with the Great Movie Dance Couples Paper Dolls (but the Dalai Lama & British Fashion Dolls were a close kitch second!)
- Scanned in the paper dolls I wanted

- Scanned in some photos

- Did some fancy Photoshop work (mostly Diffused Glow Filters to match the artwork)

- And Printed out the paper dolls with their new heads!

Viola! Instant Fabulousness!!!!

It was so fun I made some for all the cousins!

Above is one of my sis DiG as Marlene Dietrich!

Bacon T-Shirts and Gifts for your Bacon shopping Holiday Needs

Everyone knows Bacon rules, I found a website selling T-shirts that boast such slogans as: "TEAM BACON", "Bacon is Meat Candy", and "I put Bacon on my Bacon". mmmm Bacon salt, and meat curtain (it's not what you think) Enjoy! While your out shopping for Bacon gifts pick this up to wrap them up!

the Daily LIST

In case you were really super busy at work like me heres a nice LIST of useless facts. Did you know the dot on an "i" is called a title, yeah me neither. Oh and another favorite: Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

Table Settings!?

With Holiday dinners & stuff ... got me thinkin..

I didn't know, did you!?

If I'm ever to dine with the queen, I've got to get started!

I'm such a schlub.

shopocalypse?

What Would Jesus Buy?

thats the burning question on Rev. Billy Talen's mind, Dolled up in High Evangelical style (equal parts Jimmy Swaggart and Reverend Lovejoy), the blond pompadoured Reverend Billy crosses the country with his Church of Stop Shopping, from New York City to Disneyland, breathing brimstone about America's impending "shopocalypse." If the messenger is charismatic and funny, his message is deadly serious.

If there is such a thing as a shopapocalypse and shopping is evil im pretty sure that im the spawn of the devil. Oh yeah and to answer you question Billy, WWJB?
that's easy: Wine, a nice dremel, and some new sandals, duh!



thanks Newsweek for todays most ridiculous news story.

P.S.- Does this guy make some weird faces or what?

Little Pretty Dioramas!

These little beauts come from the magic of Lyndie Dourthe!
I've never even considered using little pillows and such for dioramas & as plant displays like our Kup Kup Land posting, but these photos make it seem so possible! (and non-kitty ruin-able!)

The website is all in french, but you can buy her stuff at Egg Mercantile (a british site).
I'm going home today to start my "Ornaments on Display as Art Rather than Religious Bruhaha!"
Take that Jesus!

Pilfering & Pillows

Clauss: Bertha:

Our next pilfering comes to you in the form of Sarah Young's DIY Pillow/Doll Making!

So I feel kinda bad about this, but alas.. Design Sponge had ANOTHER posting I had to repost! (She just finds the coolest things! I can't help it!)

And I've been seeing a couple "sew it yourself" pillows in various forms. And after the D*S Sarah Young Post, I thought I would share them 2 favs on Loopy Rocket! Behold above! Sarah Young's Bertha & the Clauss Stich-it-Kit at Egg Press

Bmore hits the City Guide Airwaves!

I'm so excited! Usually whenever anyone does a city guide of our beloved Bmore, it's all about the inner harbor. Yes... we all know it's quite lovely. They did a great job cleaning the area of any syringes and hobos, but does it have to be all we are about!?

Design Sponge says NO, there's MORE!! Not only is Design Sponge like my FAVORITE blog for good stuff, but they periodically make fantastic city guides for what people REALLY wanna see!

eating, shopping and all-around fun in the baltimore area

Beinvenidos! And hope we see you guys around town!

See the Baltimore City Guide here!

Things my Boss Says!

Our Boss, the topic: Our 21 year old assistant who is vacationing in Aruba.

Boss: You know Alice* is all in Aruba Right now, she isn't coming back you know, she's going all Natalie Holloway on us. Yeah and Kirt* wants her to get murdered.

*name changed to protect the innocent

Kirt: (is another guy we work with)

Alice: (our assistant)

Shopping Blunders

We always go shopping and run errands on our lunch break. What better way to spend the hour (or two) away from your desk than checking out the local duds at our fav shops. We tend to stick to Target, home depot, various vintage clothing stores and the good will, the mall, and the dollar tree. Normally we go threw the lanes of clothing racks trying to one up each other with who can find the most appalling article of clothing possible. I hit the Jackpot!!! Target has made a good impression on us lately, bringing in designers from around the world to style up their clothing lines. Something happened over the last month or two because boy have they let themselves go. I found These two coats only a few racks from each other. Now im no stylist to the stars, but im pretty sure one: You should never apply flannel designs to a vinyl trench coat, also two: while hounds tooth is the new it pattern, it should never be used with the color hot pink and cat vomit tan. I took a picture to illustrate the humanity we both endured, ENJOY!

Jumping Jiggowatts!

We found this at the local Target parking lot, I had to take a picture, why you ask? because deloreans are awesome!

Chuck Norris approves this message!

This is one of my favorite candidates for the upcoming election, The Huck and the Chuck both are looking out for our second amendment rights!

A letter from the Editor

Dear Readers,
It's me, Im the one in the Bobba Fett Costume (just joking), here to ask you all a big favor. Myself and the other contributer to this fantastic, amazing, witty, and artistic blog would like you to know that we know your out there. Thats right, theres this great tool called Google analytics, it lets us know that your reading and that many of you find us by google searching some very strange phrases. We know you travel from far and wide and that many of you even come from countries that don't speak English. Im here to ask you, our loyal and lovely readers that when you come, you should post a little comment to let us know what you think, because we care. When you are here visiting us from The United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Spain or even India that you drop us a little note. We here at Loopy Rocket work hard everyday to provide you with the best links, wittiest remarks and most artsy Posts. We couldn't do it without your support. So while your here in our proverbial bathrooms, please, please by all means leave us a floater. Once again we here at the Prestigious Loopy Rocket would like to hear from you, whoever you are.
Regards,
The Editor

This would have been myself and my husband had we thought of it first...

I don't normally post videos but I about fell off my chair watching this video, I LOVE IT!

5 Drinks bartenders hate to make... I know what IM ordering tonight!

So it doesn't really help that my two favorite drinks apart from the notorious Jager bomb are on this list (Mojito and Lemon Drop). My blogging partner might just be a former bartender so im expecting her to comment on whether of not this is true. Well here it is folks, its my favorite LIST of the day, go there to check out what annoying drinks you'll be ordering up later tonight.

Couldn't resist.....MUST POST! Yoda commands me!

Straight from Craft:

Artist Rama Hughes doesn't just limit his talents to works in paper and pen--check out this funny Yoda-themed pizza he created using broccoli, olives, cauliflower, green peppers and more. Brilliant! Link.

I just happen to know a certain someone that would LOVE to make this...Pretty sure it's pretty obvious! MUAHAHAHH!!!!

Happy Turkey Slaughter Day!

And may the tryptophan flow like wine!

I'm off to Austin, See ya'll in a couple of days!

If it's a woman than she needs a parafin treatment, BAD!

ummmm, ok so go to the Jones New York Website and look at this model picture, make sure to look at the enlarged picture and tell me if something seems out of place to you.

Take some freakin Airborne will ya!

Why is everyone in our office sick? Is this some scam I havn't quite figured out yet. Are the changing seasons really a dark cloud of viral germs that rain from the sky and infect everyone. I havn't gotten "sick" yet, I just called out sick for you know personal reasons (I needed to get some work around my house done). Or do I just have the immune system of a god. Can anyone explain the "sickness" to me.

Oh Barnaby!

I think this may be really old but I came across it in a GS and I am forever grateful. Please say hello to Barnaby Barford my new favorite sculptor. Barnaby Barford is an artist and designer based in London his work crosses and blurs the boundaries between art, craft and design

French Phrases Everyone Should Know

For Subjects such as General Chit-Chat

"Would you stop spitting on me while you're talking!"
"Voulez-vous cesser de me cracher dessus pendant que vous parlez!"
(voo - lay voo se - say de me cra - shay de - su pen - dan que voo parl - ay)

"Reality and you don't get on, do they?"
"Le réalité et toi, vous ne vous entendez pas, n'est-ce pas?"
(le ree - al - ee - tay eh twa voo ne voo zen - ten - day pah nes pah)

"You've got a face that would blow off manhole covers"
"T'as une tête a faire sauter les plaques d'egouts!"
(ta zoon tait a fair saw - teh leh plahk de - goo)

"You have a chive on your tooth."
"Vous avez de la ciboulette sur votre dent"
(voo za - vay de la see - boo - let ser votr den)

"As a child, was your cradle rocked too close to the wall?"
"On t'a bercé trop près du mur?"
(on ta ber - say troa pray du mer)

Helping Others

"What did your last slave die of?"
"De quoi est mort votre dernier esclave?"
(de kwa eh mor votr der - nee - er es - klahv)

"I'd help you, but I don't like you."
"Je vous aurais bien aide, mais je ne vous aime pas."
(zhe voo zaw - ray bien ai - de may zhe ne voo zaim - e pah)

"Stop bothering me!"
"Parle à mon cul, ma tête est malade"
(parl a mon cul, ma teht eh ma - lahd)

Eating Out

"This restaurant isn't as good as Mc.Donald's"
"Ce restaurant n'est pas aussi bon que le Mc.Donalds'
(se re - staw - ran neh pas o - si bon ke le mac don - alds)

"Did these fish die of radiation sickness?"
"Ces poissons, ils sont mort d'irradiation?"
(se pwu - son il sont mor di - ray - di - ay - shun)

Thank you to Yo Yo who I just swipped these all from.
I'll be sure to send you guys the milk I just squirted out my nose from laughing.

Brown + Blue + Math = Fantastic Art!

I dunno how they do it, but design*sponge has just found another love of mine...

Besides the fact that it's my favo colors, and I've got this wicked soft spot for geometric shapes and patterns...it's got that certain je ne sais pas!

Design Sponge had this to say:

Sometimes I get an artist crush and I’ve had a big one on Will Yackulic for a few years, though I am pretty sure he lives in my city and we’ve never met. I first discovered Will about three years ago when he had a show at The Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco. I love the flat, graphic nature of his work, and his ability to make such exquisite detail (as a painter I can vouch for the work involved) look so simple in his final pieces. Perhaps it is his simple, neutral palette or his use of text—not sure, but his work has captured my heart.

More of Will Yackulic here

Thanks, Family and Turducken...

I guess I not only felt the need to make at least one post today because I am bored but to also tilt the scale from my blog partner who must not have as much work as me today, giggle* I wanted to make a Thanksgiving post, a nice one. First off let me start with im not skinny. Now that I got that out of the way, Turducken is the most fascinating thing to me as far as holiday food goes. Gefilte fish I had for the first time in college at a friends Seder runs a close second. I want Turducken like no ones business, we always do a normal turkey and a few years we have had the deep fried turkey also, I can't complain. Theres something about wrapping meat in another kind of meat that just makes my day, that is why my motto, "Bacon makes everything better" rings so true. Now that I got the whole turducken thing off my chest, is there anyone out there who wants to have my husband and I over for dinner? ahh, didn't think so. My favorite part about the chaos we call "The Holidays" is family, I miss them so much all year so its nice to see everyone, in their finest duds with smiles on their faces, it warms my icy heart. Last on my blog list is to tell you all what im thankful for.

1. My husband ( he just rocks)
2. My Family (they also rock)
3. My friends (Bec, Manda a.k.a chesty Laroo, and E girl) you guys made my year awesome
4. My job (I am the only person I know who enjoys getting up early every morning to go)
5. Sweaters
6. Coffee (ginger-crack, oh I mean ginger bread lattes are back at starbucks)
7. Star Wars
8. Mo-Town
9. Football
10. The Internet

I encourage you all the make a list too, call it a character building exercise, and go!

Victorian Patterns for the techno punks!

Since, I'm always the sucker for curly, swirly things, my friend Lauren knew I would love these royalty free seamless wallpapers! And so I share the love with you!

I've only ever used iStock for photos. Who knew they were more than that, MUCH more!?

All found here!