Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Outfit post: new circle skirt!

This week I went to a fabric shop I hadn't been to before, looking for pom-pom trim for a project I was working on for a friend, only to come home with no pom-pom trim but instead with three metres of cotton printed with deep sea anglerfish. You know, because anglerfish are so ravishingly attractive.


Here is a thoroughly educational comic strip about the plight of the poor male anglerfish and his miniature gonads.

Anyway, I made it into a circle skirt! I've made it with a tie at the waist to accommodate my ever decreasing and expanding waistline. Here I am posing in the park with Scamp.


I matched it with this aquatic hairclip by Miss Tiki Designs, and made some new bitey goose friends, who were already so stuffed with bread thrown by the horrid children who flooded the park as soon as the sun came out, that they turned their beaks up at my meagre crusts.


Must remember to bring food that geese actually like next time, I'm sure bread is not good for them.

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

An Aquatic Adventure

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Blue Planet Aquarium in Cheshire. Here are a few pictures!

Thai Moon Jellyfish


Tropical marine fish


Big starfish!


Lovely puffer fish!


I loved this fish so much, I did not want to leave him. He was so friendly.


Clownfish tending her anemone


Aerospace Boyfriend in the tunnel o' sharks.


A rather large crab!


Bitey caimans


Lovely tomato frog... I love his expression.

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

New Fish Babies!

On Sunday, after a tip-off from my faithful geeky betta fish forum, we went to Leigh to have a look at some crowntail bettas (aka Siamese fighting fish, although of course they are kept apart so they can't get to each other or cause each other damage) they had in. I've had some bad luck with my fish in the last few months and lost a couple of very gorgeous and expensive males, so was happy to pick up these two pretty little fellows for less than £5 each.






The pink one is Clouseau and the orange one is Pumpkin! Both settled in well, eating and showing off to the other fish in the divided tank.