Upcycles bottle capes belly dancing belt

http://tabistry.blogspot.com/2008/06/beer-bellydancing-belts.html

Upcycled Altoid Tin

http://steampunkworkshop.com/ipod.shtml

Do you believe in life after death?

I do believe in life after death. The thought of all that I have gathered in experience just disappearing would make me feel like life had no meaning and that would just depress me. Though I am open to the idea that finding meaning is just a coping skill and something that our brains are crazy good at. I am not sure what happens after death but I do enjoy pondering all of the possibilities. One of my theories is that we are recycled like the water. Sometimes an individual drop...sometimes one with the sea...its all very cyclical. I also imagine it's a lot like the movie What Dreams May Come with Robyn Williams. One small little trick Jesus and the Egyptian were trying to let us in on, is that if your heart is heavy it will sink when you return to the source. Yeah...I am sure there are some true sins out there but most of us just get weighed down by our own guilt over things that are not really sins at all. Most religious institutions have made being human a sin. They have created a lot of guilty heavy hearts. In my book to get in the way of someones enlightenment like that is more likely a sin then masturbating. Point being if your heart weighs light, then the other side is pretty sweat. Sometime I call the other side Manifestationland. To prepare for Manifestationland I feel it is helpful to try to remember who and what I am and to practice focusing on love, as to not spiral downward into a hellish head trips. In this existence you have things like friends, Prozac, and a shared reality to pull your head out of hell. What if there you only have your own consciousness to rely on (scary I know).

I don't know...maybe, on the other side we throw all our experiences into the big God melting pot, then get mind wiped, and then sent out again to collect more data. Or perhaps I get to keep what I have learned, keep myself, keep evolving, til I am a demi god/dess, or til I realize I am God/dess it's self. (A friend who studies Tibetan Buddhism told me that in his belief a God is as far away from escaping the incarnation wheel as an ant, that is why being a human is so special, it is the only form that can escape out of the incarnation wheel).

My thoughts on death have definitely been influenced by Jesus, Egypt, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Theosophy, Sylvia Brown, and my friends. Also Carolyn Miss who says that "archetypes are more ancient then matter itself" and my husband who says "beware of the sharks right after you die" and "that if you make it pass the sharks you are most likely destine to be food for the God you worship". This essay could just be one big selfish rant, that stems from my ego's quest to live forever and to know all there is to know. Is it not this kind of thinking that separates man from monkey? Sometime I think go back to your trees monkey man, be happy with your bananas. Then I think... hhhmmm...it's our destiny to live amongst the stars (I want my own spaceship). Do gorillas worry about this shit? What about gorillas on mushrooms...I digress. Anywho, one of my fears is... and what I would almost bet my money on...is that it will just be more of the same. Just like growing up...a lot more responsibility but a lot more of the same. Maybe because we can do a lot more damage then the apes we have a lot more to answer for. I just hope the aliens don't come back and say "What...we told you to take care of the garden". And we'll say "whoops...we though you said do with this place as you please and believe in the correct god". Whooo... and in true Anaspaceship form we have zeewwee off into a different subject. Next time on Anaspaceship's mind "What will the aliens say when they get here?"...don dan don daaaaaa

Ask me anything

"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting." - Kahlil Gibran

"All perception is a gamble."
-Anton Wilson

Magnolia is an ancient genus. Having evolved before bees appeared, the flowers developed to encourage pollination by beetles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia

" Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
-Walker Evans

Upcycled Greeting Cards

I am about to make my buisness cards and am considering this as an option. The first picture is from http://everydaytrash.com/2010/03/18/upcycling-your-card/ and the second picture is from http://etsytrashion.blogspot.com/2010/03/diy-and-recycled-business-cards.html .

Upcycled Rubber Stamp Holder

http://atticrat.blogspot.com/2009/07/repurposed-rubber-stamp-holder.html
Check out Attirat's blog for great upcycling ideas. If you like this idea and want to make one of your very own, check out my etsy store at http://www.etsy.com/shop/Anaspaceship. I just posted a vintage rubber stamp holder.

formspring.me

Be gentle though it is my first time.... Ask me anything http://formspring.me/anaspaceship

Upcycled Soda Tabs

http://www.etsy.com/shop/WholeGreyn

Upcycled Soda Tabs

http://www.etsy.com/shop/sjroemer

Upcycled Dirt Wall

Graffiti done on a dirty wall with a pressure washer. Love.

Upcycled Skate Boards

Book Sculpture by Brian Dettmer

http://gilbertmusings.wordpress.com/category/art/

Upcycled Christmas Balls

http://www.instructables.com/id/A-garden-inside-a-ball/

Upcycled Hats

Mod Podge Rocks: Shrine for your loved one.

Upcycled Belt

http://blog.sustainablog.org/six-creative-upcycling-projects/

http://www.makingarrangementsblog.com/

http://www.ecouterre.com/10622/7-offbeat-eco-fashion-accessories-made-from-upcycled-circuit-boards/circuit-board-boxers/

http://downandoutchic.blogspot.com.search/label/plates

http://downandoutchic.blogspot.com/search/label/plates

I am going to make one that says "Things I love...cacao, benevolent aliens, bonobos, bellydancing, tribal jelwery, pomegranstes, mermaids, smart people, humbows, bare branches...anything nude really, starry skys, twinkling eyes, ancient languages, Sumer..."

The planet Uranus's (pronounced Jurenes) name comes from Ouranos the Greek God of the sky. Ouranos is the husband of Gaia and were the ancestors of most Greek gods.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/theogony.htm

I am calling for a wholesale transformation of cultural patterns worldwide so that the human civilization is triumphant in surviving and evolving. We urgently need to change our economy to live within its environmental budget.-Post this in your name anywhere you can!

Wooden statuette of a woman holding metal snakes
Dynasty XIII (1786-1633 BCE)
The combination of snake wands and the lioness head is seen in a wooden statuette of woman with movable arms found in 1896 by James Edward Quibell in a cache of magical objects in a tomb dating to Dynasty XIII (1786-1633 BCE) discovered under the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II (1290-1224 BCE), at Thebes. The statuette, which holds a metal snake-wand in each hand, is thought to represent a female sau, a type of magician, who could supply magical protection (the Egyptian verb sa means "to protect") both by making charms and amulets, and by using spoken and written charms.

Nobody knows who this woman or goddess really is though there is much speculation as to her statues and spiritual preferences. They call her the Minoan Snake Goddess of Knossos, Crete from 1600 BCE. When you look at her you see a wide-eye woman with a cat sitting on her head, two serpents, great breasts, good posture and a fantastic dress. She is by far one my favorite statues from antiquity even thought her archetypal attributes are a mystery. Personally as I gaze upon her I see The Summerian Goddess Inanna. She was a dominate Goddess of fertility whose young male consort's annual death and rebirth symbolized the decay and regrowth of vegetation. Her name was changed from region to region and as time past, but the story repeats its self again and again in perhistory religions. Others are reminded of the Egyptian goddess Weret-hekau who was often seen as the cobra rising from the head of the Pharaoh. Her principal tasks were to protect the creator sun god and to act as foster-mother to the pharaohs. Symbolically for me this nameless Goddess represents a time when female spiritual wisdom and serpent magic were revered.

There is much speculation that the Minoans lived in a matrilineal society before Indo-European intruders brought them heavily patriarchal and patrilineal social structures. Though there is a lack of circumstantial evidence to support the ideas of a purely matrarical society. I do however believe there was a time before the sons Abraham began their wars against each other. When a girl had a better chance to rule a kingdom then she dose now.

Our above Goddess appears to come from a time when the patriarch had not yet demonized breasts, snakes, magic and woman. Frankly the whole thing just makes me want to belly dance topless with snakes. All hail the Serpent Breast Lady, I know I do.

Life is whim-whamsical....

whim then Wham... whim then Wham

- anaspaceship 2010

Why do we need money?

Image form http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/story/sto_set.html

I am broke…I take that back…it is much more manifestically correct to say that I am on a fix budget. That being the case I cannot help but ask myself "Why do I need money?". I mean apart from the obvious eat or a starve scenario. I guess the question really is, "When did this whole money thing come into vogue?". Who came up with this great idea that keeps me feeling like I am just about to fall off the end of an economic treadmill that has got it‘s knob turned up to aerobic. Once again we can blame the Sumerians. I am not going to blame them for the current speed of the economic treadmill but they did come up with the most ancient form of money we know of called the Shekel. The term came into use around 3000 BC in Mesopotamia and was a reference to a specific mass of barley. It was a unit of currency and a unit of weight just like the British pound. Laws about money came into effect around 2050 BC in the land of Ur (Codex of Ur-Nammu) but were solidified into the laws that we would be more familiar with by 1760 BC in the form of The Code of Hammurabi. The money meme spread like wild fire from there. Still today the images on our dollar reflect it’s ancient ancestors; the eagle, the unfinished pyramid, and the eye. If you want to go in to that more go to http://thestygianport.blogspot.com/.

Why do I need money? I don’t know if I have really answer that for myself . Before money there was barter with strangers and enemies. Other then that non-monetary societies relied on gift economics. Gift economic... I like the sound of that. Maybe we could revive the concept of gift economics. SPREAD THE MEME!!!! Well even though I am no richer in the pocket after all this bla bla bloging I must say I am feeling richer in the mind. I now realize my dollar stands on the back of giants (greedy alien Sumerian giants perhaps but giants none the less). The roots of cash are ancient and the need for it is probably not going away in the near future. So feel free to post any ideas on how I can get more money or how I can get over my need for it. I am open to either but until then I will be wishing I could pay my mortgage with love. -Anaspaceship 2010

Sumer

Sumerian Star Chart From 3300 BC

Why is a minute 60 seconds?

Why are there 60 minute in hour, 12 hours in a day/night, or 60 seconds in a minute? We can thank the ancient Sumerians, from the 3rd millennium BC, for being the first recorded civilization to have a numeral system with sixty as the base. In a word they invented sexagesimal (base 60). Though the people of Sumer (today Iraq) claim the knowledge was not invented by them but rather taught to them by their gods the Anunnaki. However base 60 came into the consciousness of humans it has remain incredibly useful to humanity. The Sumerians sexagesary numeral system was passed on to the Babylonians and then to world. Today we still use there wisdom in measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates. Spin around and do a 360. Feel that …now to get a even better feel for their numbers check out the site http://easycalculation.com/funny/numerals/sumerian.php , to see how they wrote fractions go to http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/Numbers.html , and to see how they wrote numbers larger then sixty http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/Bignums.html . Sixty is the smallest number divisible by every number from 1 to 6. Also the number 60 has 12 factors (1,2,3,4,5,6,10, 12,15, 20, 30, 60), making many fractions of sexagesimal simple. Think of all the ways you can evenly divide up an hour. I came up with today’s question because my daughter is studying Babylon in her 5th grade class but what I learn most from the question of the day is that sexagesimal is my new favorite word. It’s big, it’s smart, and it’s kinky. Say it with me …sex·a·ges·i·mal. Now I dare you to use it in a sentence today. -Anaspaceship

Egypt

It's some thing to think about. Reincarnation perhaps? Akhenaten reigned durnig the last time our solar system lined up with the center of our galaxy.

Nefertiti

Blue Lotus

Nefertiti is giving the blue lotus to Akhenaten.

Perhap it has hallucinogenic properties

that makes the pharohs starwalkers.

-anaspaceship 2010

I believe that perhaps we are

part ape and part alien.

Yet I know we are still fully divine.

-anaspaceship 2010