Archive for January, 2009

back to basics

Hoop class tonight totally blew.  I was looking forward to it all week, and I think I managed to convince myself that it wasn’t going to be far harder than what I was used to in the first set of classes.  I felt so completely feeble.  And lethargic.  I couldn’t get comfortable in my hoop […]

diy hula hoops (canadian style, part two)

step one
Originally uploaded by snowzilla

I recently posted about my adventures in finding the right kind of tubing for diy hula hoops. After having several friends ask me how to do it, I did a very short photo tutorial - and by short, I mean six photos. I really didn’t see the point in reinventing the […]

hula hoop collection

This is only a fraction of the collection I’ve amassed (although 3 in this picture are for other people).  I think I have a problem.

I had a hard time parting with that purple one today.  It was for a coworker’s daughter.   The one in the back row - the green-on-green hoop, is my first.  […]

growing up star wars

As a kid, I was completely and totally in love with Mark Hamel’s Luke Skywalker character from Star Wars.  I thought Princess Leia’s buns really were made out of cinamon rolls.  I cried when that little Ewok died during Return of the Jedi.  And that’s why I find it kind of sad that I don’t […]

led hoop!

Thanks to the smart little geniuses at Prodmod, I made my first LED hoop yesterday!  I ordered the kit from them shortly before Christmas, as a distraction from all of the nuttiness that Christmas was throwing at me, and I finally got around to buying the tubing yesterday.  I have to give huge thumbs up […]