a current work in progress which i am sharing only as a buffer from the next images...
here are a couple of shots of the giant cockroaches we saw in the jungle. why am i sharing them with you? last night i had a dream that baby powder attracts them and someone had poured it all of our apartment which was therefore swarming with bugs! eek. then, in attempt to get rid of them i got powder all over myself. followed by cockroaches. and then i woke up.
Icky dream. Icky icky!
Posted by: sarah | March 15, 2007 at 12:30 PM
oh that is an awful dream....
Posted by: lisa s | March 15, 2007 at 02:44 PM
....I would rather have them in dreams than alive.....
Posted by: Britt-Arnhild | March 15, 2007 at 02:57 PM
oh, those roaches don't seem as bad as the NYC apt. variety - do they fly?
i think they have flying cockroaches in Asia.
Posted by: Tricia | March 15, 2007 at 03:07 PM
They don;t look that scary to me,I love your work in progress and can;t wait to see what it's like all finished.It's cute!!!xoxo
Posted by: Desirée | March 15, 2007 at 03:45 PM
That's a cockroach?
Well, at least they make them pretty down your way.
Risa, you might want to consider laying off the bugs for a wee while. They seem to be messing with your head.
Posted by: Shula | March 15, 2007 at 07:44 PM
Not a nig fan of cockroaches. There was in our hotel room and it flew!
Posted by: Rachael | March 15, 2007 at 09:16 PM
Oh my. Not a pleasant dream at all. Keep that baby powder away.
Posted by: Sonya | March 16, 2007 at 01:04 AM
Hello! Very nice blog you have, I accidently discovered here...:)
Greetings from Finland!
Posted by: Kirsi/Itkupilli | March 16, 2007 at 01:59 AM
what a horrible dream, poor you!!!!
Who is that with the cockroach on their hand? they are very brave!!
Posted by: stilettoheights | March 16, 2007 at 06:16 AM
Oh, that makes the creepy critters that sneak into my apartment look positively tiny. Thanks for the photos - I now feel much better about New York roaches.
Posted by: annulla | March 16, 2007 at 07:02 AM
Thanks for the buffering :) your work is lovely, and the bug dream? -Eeek!
Posted by: cruststation | March 16, 2007 at 11:54 AM
This must be the week for bug dreams! I dreamt that I had a white worm the diameter of a man's thumb and as long as my index finger sticking out of a hole in the skin of my neck - it was gross! I can appreciate bugs...but at a distance or in photos!
:^)
Tiffany*
Posted by: Tiffany | March 16, 2007 at 01:19 PM
Oh my God Risa, when I was down there, the house I was stying in the garage was made of marble, and it was the season for those big flying roaches and I freaked out when I saw the whole garage floor filled with them, it looked like a horror movie, no really I had to ask one of the guys to put their jacket over me and run me in the house. I was so scared. (lol)
Posted by: brenda | March 16, 2007 at 06:45 PM
your buffer pic does balance out the cockroach pics.
oh not a nice dream.
Posted by: jessica | March 17, 2007 at 05:34 PM
Amazing, amazing! Those golden wings!
My cockroaches are black and glossy but never so handsome...
Posted by: gracia | March 18, 2007 at 02:07 AM
Oh my, I'm soooooo terrified of cockroaches and moths. I once saw a movie in which a cockroach climbed into a mans ear in the jungle one night. Anyway it stayed in there and he went mad from it moving around in his ear and brain... I know it's unlikely that it will happen to me, or that it can even happen at all, but that rational thought doesn't seem to help me.
Now I'm a little worried that your scary dream will transcend into my dream as well.....
Posted by: louise | March 18, 2007 at 06:45 AM
Hee! When I came back from the jungle I started having big buggy dreams too. Except mine just involved one black beetle, the size of a dinner plate.
Fun stuff.
Posted by: mleak | March 19, 2007 at 12:05 PM