Ahhh, another weekend recap. I’ve just finished reading a ton of them in my reader so I thought I’d keep the trend going and add mine!
On Friday I went to an open studio session for silversmithing and managed to finish 2 projects that I had started a few weeks earlier. I’ll do a separate post with photos soon! It was a fun night though. It was my first open session so I didn’t know this, but all the gals that go regularly bring munchies, so while our pieces were stewing in the pickle we could chow down! The owner of the studio even brought in an old-skool popcorn maker and made us sweet kettle corn. Yumm!
The highlight of the evening however was when the owner asked us if we’d like to show our pieces at an upcoming art/craft show. Wahoo! She said that since we’re all advanced students now she wants to show off our work to help build interest in her classes. I’m ok with that! So the studio will have a booth at the show, and 10 or more pieces of our work will be on display. In exchange we can sell some of our stuff (don’t worry—mine will NOT be for sale!) and we also get a Friday of unsupervised studio time for free, to finish up anything else we need to do. I’d say that’s a good deal!
I still have to finish a ring my friend commissioned, as well as a necklace for my granny, so this extra time will be a big help.
The remainder of the weekend I just sort of farted around the house, cleaning and such. I went out to a mall to try and get some holiday shopping, but it was so chaotic (and I was treated like a criminal in one of my regular stores!) that I left as soon as I could, with a pounding headache and sore feet. Hrumpf. I think I’ll stick to the little shops on Queen for my gifts, now.
On Sunday my mommy came for a visit! I made some stew in the crock pot (yummm!!) and we went to see the movie Precious.
I tweeted about this movie when I got back and I just want to clear some things up! This was a sad, horrific, depressing movie! It was terrible!
Now, it wasn’t terrible like, say, Spice World was a bad movie. It was just… so powerful, and it revealed the evil underbelly of society which to be honest I would rather be ignorant of. The girl, Precious leads such a horrible life, through no fault of her own and it is an incredibly hard movie to watch. Heatbreaking, moving, horrifying. Being brought up as an upper-middle-class white suburban girl I just couldn’t believe the trials that poor Precious had to go through. It was just terrible. My mom left in tears and I was just dumbstruck by the end of it.
I’m not sure if I would recommend watching it. I mean, it was good in the sense that it had a story and was filmed well and was (I suppose?) realistic, but I found it quite traumatic to watch. But then again if people watch it and understand what these poor people go through, maybe they will be more apt to help them in the future? I don’t know. I have mixed feelings.
Changing the subject, I’ve started to get my items together for xmas gifts and had some fun wrapping this weekend! I took some pretty pictures so I’ll share them in another post.
I just wanted to end on a light note!
2 responses to “Jewellery, Precious & the weekend”
I don't know – honestly, I think it's a little silly to tell someone not to see a movie just because it's depressing. Schlinder's List was depressing as FUCK, but I think without actually being shown something like that, most people don't fully grasp how bad the Holocaust really was. You know?
And I'm not sure if it's the same way in Canada, but at least here in America a lot of people have this weird mindset that everyone starts out on equal footing. Supposedly, we're all born with equal lots in life, and if you don't become the next billionare whatever, then it's just because you didn't work hard enough. People like to ignore the fact that we are very much not on equal footing from birth. I think seeing something that points that out would be good for a lot of people.
I watched Slumdog Millionaire and Boys Don't Cry this week, and feel exactly the same way! I don't regret watching them though, I'm glad I did. Michelle's right, people need to really see and understand just how bad life is for some people, and how sick and wrong certain things are. That being said….I'm not planning to watch BDC ever again – it's ingrained in my brain.