The mood I am in keeps getting worse. I'm horrible to be around. I'm just negative and I have no patience at all. To top it all off, I was really excited about the clothes I ordered this week. I finally decided that I dress like a slob and that I really need to change my wardrobe. I excidedly ordered some clothes online and while the vast majority fit, they just aren't what I want. I did score a nice casual hot pink linen shirt from lands end, which I know would look nice, layered over a camisole with jeans and sandals this summer. I also got an oatmeal colored cardigan that's really nice and comfortable - MINUS bulk. That's my problem. Every now and then I do buy nice clothes but I buy them sizes and sizes too large and they look frumpy. Let's see, what else.. I got a mens (smaller sized) weather washed sweatshirt in a light orange color. It's not tight but it is fitted and it looks good. I bought two bras which fit fine I guess. I bought 2 linen skirts, they're supposed to be kind of light and airy, A line, cut on a bias, etc. I hate them so far. They're too long, the material is too heavy. These are supposed to be summery and they're not. I bought a linen dress for summertime - it's black and sleeveless. I hate it too and it's too small in the chest and too big around the waist. I bought a really comfortable sage green A line casual dress, hate it too. It's too big. Now I can't wait for my second package to come. I am so bitter.
I'm still depressed. and pissed. and sad. I'm also really really tired and really hungry but it's so late that I don't want to actually eat a meal even though I hardly had anything to eat today ( a snack-sized bag of pretzels and water.) I am so hungry though. Maybe I'll eat something. I can't sleep because I had a bad day and it put me in a bad mood. We had the crappiest model ever for drawing. I had to erase my entire drawing near completion TWO times. Not because of anything I was doing wrong - because the kid was a spazz and couldn't sit still.
After that I had no motivation the be creative at all and I just kept sketching a design for my design class and erasing and looking for new ideas, basically wasting 2 or 3 hours and ending up with absolutely nothing.
Then I had my race/gender class. That class depresses me and pisses me off for several reasons.
I ordered yarn for my brothers hat. They emailed me and said it was backordered. So now I have to wait two weeks.
I hate the 'blue present' I'm making. There's something about it I just don't like. I'm thinking about ripping it out and starting new.
I'm kind of depressed. I guess kind of isn't quite how I should describe it. It's more like I'm really depressed. Unfortunately this is the kind of thing that I have no intentions of talking about on here. It's one of those things that I just have to deal with alone. Everything is just confusing right now.
In lighter news, Devan found some markers and wrote all over my dining room floor while I was ordering some clothes online today. It wasn't a big deal because it was washable. It was more funny than anything else. I ordered some nice clothes today because I've come to the conclusion that I'm a damned slob and I need to respect myself more (in all aspects of my life, not just my appearance.) So the first step to respecting myself more is, I guess, to look more respectable. I always feel like CRAP because I LOOK LIKE CRAP. So I solved that issue (hopefully!) by ordering a few nice dresses and some nice shirts and skirts and stuff. I hope it all fits or I will be destroyed.
Jon's in bed. I should be too, because I have school all day tomorrow (for real this time - 10:50am -9:30pm)
and it's most likely going to suck. I haven't really been doing all of my sketching that I'm supposed to do for my life drawing class. I did some sketches (4 to be exact) over the weekend and I should honestly have like 20 sketches in there and I don't. I should have 4 still lives (yea that's right) and I just hate doing them so I haven't done them yet. I'll probably lie and say that I did them on larger paper and that I left it at home. I've already got that lie worked out. Everything else is done (except I haven't been reading my seperate book for my race/gend. class. But I'm pretty proud of how much I got done this week. I had a LOT of homework.
I finished the first section of my blue knitting project. I kind of screwed up the binding off part because the directions seemed stupid, so I just measured it out and did it my own way instead of the complicated way the pattern said. I hope this doesn't cause problems down the road. I tried to read ahead to see if it would but it doesn't SEEM like it.
I am such a liar. About 3 minutes after I typed my last entry, I drove over and picked up my yarn. It's totally crazy, look:
It's a huge crazy heap of yarn that keeps getting tangled, it wasn't tangled when I bought it but I am just being lazy the way I am winding it (by the way that's about a 200 yd ball there, so that tells you how much yarn it is. It's an aran wt. 100% wool yarn and I love it and I have no idea what I'm doing with it so far. I was thinking about dying it something pretty but maybe I'll use this in the color it is, and buy more yarn and dye it.
This morning I went to a National Issues forum on Property tax. I love going to forums, but I hate going because I always get so pissed off. My main concerns about the property tax had to do with gender issues. For example, with raised property taxes, our already outlandish property taxes make it impossible if say, a husband and wife get divorced, for the husband (or wife) whatever the case may be, to remain in the county or state that they're accustomed to living in. I also brought up the point to my sociology/anthropology professor about something ridiculous that i've witnessed first hand. As a single mother, I do my best to get really good grades, so that I can better myself and get a good job when I join the workforce. And if something bad happens, say, to Jon, or if we were to break up, It wouldn't be the end of my world and I'd have options. I've maintained dean's list for every semester I've been in this school and I've recieved Federal Grants to achieve that. However, this past Fall semester I could NOT get a state grant no matter how hard I tried, even though the financial aid officers and the president of financial aid at my school all said there is absolutely no reason why the state isn't giving me this grant. When I called to check on the grant again, I was told "The state gives single mothers a really hard time, don't take it personally." It's really depressing and unsettling and so were many of the other facts that were brought to my attention during the forum.
An annoying statistic I got from the forum was that the 7.1% of the average, middle class taxpayers income (bergen cty) goes to school taxes. In some of the more affluent counties around the state, 1/5 of 1% of the taxpayer's income goes toward school taxes. I can't stand the way this works but I have work to do now so I can't really get deeper into it.
Jon just called and said he'll be at work for another few hours. It's already 6pm on Saturday evening and apparently I'm spending it alone (well, with devan) and I've got SO much homework to do and not enough time to do it. I tried really hard to get the bulk of it done yesterday but Devan was having a BAD day I guess, and she wouldn't let me do anything by myself.
I'm purposely not picking up my yarn from Jon's parents house. I have like 8 different projects I'm working on. 9 when the yarn I ordered for the hat my brother wants arrives. I had to rip out a little of my present project because for some reason I thought it was supposed to be 15 '' from the bottom instead of 20 1/2 '' when I was supposed to start binding off.
Devan's giving me a hard time today. Not really doing what I'm telling her to do. I'm trying to get the bulk of my assignments done today so I have more time on the weekend for myself. It's not working out that way. I've gotten 1 and a half of another done.
I was supposed to go to the store and then I realized triple coupons aren't starting til tomorrow. I need to get a couple things anyways though. So maybe I'll do that tonight, get dinner for me and Dev, and come home and chill for awhile before I start doing more homework.
I changed the index page of my website. I hate it but I don't have time to fix it or take it down. Well I really do have time but I don't want to. I was up until almost 4am thinking about yet another knitting project. I didn't start it yet, of course, because I don't have time. I am so tired and I have to leave for class at 11.
I've washed my hands about 8 times since dinner last night and they still smell like food. I hate that. I have a mirror propped up on my desk for self portraits for my color class. It's really destracting because I keep looking at myself and making sexy faces at myself.
Hey maybe my yarn will come today?!that would be sweet.
Today was a long day. I woke up early and kind of napped on the couch for awhile, and then I got up and got myself and Devan ready to go. Once ready, I sat downstairs and worked the first 2'' on the first block of my afghan. Here's what it's like so far:
I am omitting the bobbles from the cables because to be totally honest I don't really like bobbles all that much. I don't like making them and I don't like the way they look so out they go.
I finally had my race/gend/class/cult class tonight. It was ok. I don't really like it when professors are all over the place. I like it when they stick to their topic, but when there are too many morons in the class going "So one time this happened to me and blah blah..." and then the whole class gets off topic and we can't even remember where we were. I hate that a lot. It makes the doodling start and my mind starts to wander. Tonight I drew a very intricate curly wig with no head attached on the side of my notes.
In design we critiqued our work. I'm happy to say no one mentioned gdub's wrinkles (they were too dark, as I tried to make them out of $ symbols but it ended up not working out and I never fixed it. Then we did our stupid gradiant scale. I am so sick of them I could throw up. I'll probably be doing another one in color tomorrow afternoon. I still have to finish my color wheel but I'm going to pretend I forgot it because you know, i get the point. I don't feel like messing around with it anymore.
The person I bought my aran yarn for has finally contacted me to let me know it has shipped. I hope it gets here soon. I have no idea why since I won't be using it for months and months but I guess I kind of like hoarding yarn.
By the way, I forgot to mention that the writing in the background of the bush pic is actually a comprehensive list of US Constitutional amendments Bush promised to protect and defend to the best of his ability(Jan 20, 2001) and went on to ignore or defy (even on the very day he made that oath, when he declared that religion would have an honored place in our plans and laws - which deliberately goes against the 1st amendment.) There's plenty more but I wrote it out once already and have no intentions of writing or typing it out again. Google is amazing. Use it if you're interested.
Awesome! I thought I had class tomorrow morning and I don't. I'm relieved because I didn't do any of my sketches and I didn't catch up on my still lifes (or is it lives? I don't know why this is perplexing me so.) So I was all upset all day long because I was working on my design project, which is pretty much done and I am not sure I like it. My mom said George W. Bush's mouth looked a little 'stroke-y' and that my friend Dusty said it looks more like Bush Sr. Basically the gyst of the project is making implied lines without making actual lines. Ok? So ok here's a peek:
I was delighted when I found out I don't have class tomorrow because that meant I could knit all night. Have I knit at all tonight? No. Well, not really. I did two rows of my blue project (the secret present.) I wanted to start on the Rogue hoodie since I bought the pattern last night. But really, do I have time to finish it before it's hot outside? No. So I'm restraining myself. Besides I have 2 sweaters to finish for Devan, her DB dress I want to give her for her birthday (like she'll really appreciate it) and 2 presents. Oh yea and the socks I started the week after christmas. I should pin all this stuff up on my pegboard (get it, haha) to discourage me from starting new stuff. Jon's mom came over and glanced at my stash of yarn and mentioned that I had enough to start a shop. Ah well that's exactly what I'd like to do someday - I can't explain it but seeing the huge mound of yarn over my head makes me really happy. Lame? You bet!
I'm updating my beloved web journal from my new 'workspace'. I finished painting it on Friday evening and I stained the table top. I made quite a bit of progress on one of my projects. It's hard to explain but maybe I'll scan it if I end up being happy with how it turns out.
I got my Great American Aran Afghan book in the mail on Saturday. I started one of the squares and screwed it up 2 or 3 times so I quit for the night. I figure I should probably work on it when I am not dozing off.
I have so much homework and it's my own fault. I haven't done any reading for my race/gender class and my class is tomorrow night. I have a really long day tomorrow. I will be at school from 10:30 til 9:30 at night. Maybe I'll get coffee between classes or something.
I bought the Rogue pattern finally and If I could just get my computer to not crap out on me for 10 minutes while I print the thing out, I'd start it. It's probably actually a blessing because the last thing i need with all these looming deadlines is a distraction.
Jon took Devan with him to the store, and I'm supposed to be catching up on homework. It might not look like I am, updating my journal and listening to music, but I really am. I'm listening to Harry Nilsson, and I'm looking at images, trying to get some inspiration. I have an idea but I kind of need to feel it. That sounds dumb, I'm sure.
I have a lot of artwork to finish. I wait til the last minute all the time for the grueling analytical stuff and it ends up turning out like crap. I need to focus.
School is over for the week. Today, er now it's yesterday, I had my color class and it was sooo boring I couldn't wait for it to be over. I hate the tedious mixing colors and figuring out what color is made when you mix red and orange. and then when you mix that color with white or with black. It's really really amazing isn't it? Yea, so that's what I did today.
This morning I had to wheel myself into the bathroom on jon's desk chair and spend an hour staring at myself in the mirror doing my self portrait, only to have the professor not even bother to look at them. I know I should have done it anyways, but I would have preferred to maybe eat breakfast instead of busting ass to get that done. Yea, I also know I should have done it probably last week instead of an hour before class.
After class I went and picked Devan up at Gockey & Dee's. My ring was there !! -Jon's grandmother gave me this really beautiful ring and I love it so much and I wish it were my wedding ring. Is that weird ... Since it was a gift that wasn't from Jon? The band is platinum, at least that's what it says on the band. It's got 16 small diamonds around it and a pearl in the middle. I believe it's also an antique. She did tell me that I think, but I was just so tickled by the idea of getting a nice peice of jewelry that I think I zoned out. I just worry about banging the pearl on things because I'm not very good at being gentle and lady like. So yes, I love this ring. The picture doesn't do it justice because it's just beautiful.
On to knitting. I stayed at Jon's grandmother's about 15 minutes too long looking at quilting and knitting magazines and books, because when I arrived home I found that my package was being held hostage at the post office and it closed 5 minutes before I got there. Darnit. On the other hand, I am really excited about my package !! I can start my 2 gift projects right after I pick it up from the post office at 8:30 in the morning. Maybe I'll go there now and camp out and storm the building when they open. Or maybe not.
Devan's dress is slow going. It's such thin yarn it's like working with that crochet thread Dee makes doilies out of. It takes a lonnng time and it's a lot of stitches in each row - and my needles are crap. They're walmart boye (?) needles and they're aluminum but they feel sticky plus they're size 3 and really long. I wish I had time to go get other needles for this but I don't. By the way, I'm NOT knocking those Boye needles. Call me crazy but my absolute favorite needles to knit with are boye #8 st needles. the only thing about them that's different is I think they're old. They're heavier than the ones they make now. Smooth like butta and they're not long and awkward. They're actually the perfect length and they're smooth but not slippery.
I feel like the living dead. I have a feeling I'll be throwing a period party someday this week. Which is what I do every month, and what I'll continue to do every month until I get married. Then I'll mourn every month when I get it. ok. Bye. Ps. I hate my laptop!
I'm having problems with my laptop. The screen flickers and dies. Also, whenever I pick it up from the bottom it shocks me. Pleasant, right?! I want a mac because I'm always mesmerized by them at the store. But in reality I probably want another plain old laptop like the one I've got, only not as stupid as this one.
Today was a pretty good day. I didn't get coffee this morning because my stomache was funny, and I thought that would probably mean i was going to have a bad day. Nope! In my drawing class this cute boy named Ian came over to me and tapped my shoulder and said "your drawing is beautiful!" At the end of class my professor pulled me aside and told me the same thing and then he said I ought to take his sculpting class because I might enjoy it. I told him I planned to take it but I could not afford any more materials for awhile. So apparently this is why they're called Starving Artists, eh?
Well I cast on my 127 stitches and am about 1 1/2 " and one set of decreases into Devan's dress. I absolutely love this yarn. I only have one gripe - It's kind of snaggy when you're working it. It doesn't look snaggy at all - It's really smooth and really soft. I really love it (Debbie Bliss gets 2 thumbs up from me).
Before my class (12:15pm) I have to do a self portrait on 18x24 paper and a color wheel (zzZZzzzZ). I really liked my classes today. I know I said that already. After drawing, my design professor came in and I talked to her for awhile and helped her set up. She's pretty nice but unfortunately this class is so basic that it's BORING and the professor is like *shocked* at how good I draw - and I don't mean that in a concieted way, I just mean it's a basic class and not for serious artists. However, it's mandatory and relaxing so I don't care.Did you notice how I'm suddenly a ' serious artist ' I don't know when that happened?!??!
My yarn hasn't shipped as of yet. It's making me sad because every other time I have ordered yarn people have been so accomodating! Like shipping that same afternoon and it arrives 2 days later.
Well I'm watching letterman and knitting now, since I'm not doing my self portrait til tomorrow morning.
I was up late last night doing a project for my design class. I don't really like the final result, and I'm hoping I misunderstood the directions (1st part in sketchbooks, then choose 12 designs for 2nd part - I'm hoping we are choosing in class and that it's not actually due) and I'm hoping that I can do it over. Some of the designs are pretty nice and some others just look like thrown together - because they were, unfortunately.
I've got 2 classes today. I'm so tiredddd. I'll be at school from 10:50 til 5:45.
In Knitting News: My Debbie Bliss yarn arrived yesterday and I have no #3 st needles. All I have are dpn's so I went ahead and swatched it with the dpns. I love the yarn, but my gauge is 1 stitch off - 24 sts = 5'' rather than 25. I think I'll do another one just to be sure before I go to smaller needles. I really don't want to be working with #2's and #1's.
Still no word on my ebay auction yarn or my elann yarn. Oh did I forget to mention the elann yarn? I ordered the yarn for the 2 presents I'm making. It was really cheap. I'm excited : )
I'm in a bad mood. I'm kind of mad at Jon but I'm more mad at myself. I'm also mad that I'm so poor right now. Why couldn't I have a cheaper hobby, like watching television or uhh...brushing my hair or something? Or cleaning my house. That's a good one.
I have a huge list of knitting I need to do.
This is what Devan's dress will look like, only not the same color. I've already bought the yarn for it, so It's going to be done first.
I'm making this for myself. I bought the yarn last night on ebay for, what I hope was a steal. I say hope, because I've never bought from this person before, it's not a brand name, and it was super cheap. I might hold off on making this - I might start the bottom in the round and then let it sit for awhile, until maybe summertime so it's ready for next fall? I've got a lot on my plate right now with school and my friends wedding and with life in general.
There's also a pattern that I've been trying to locate reasonably priced yarn for. The yarn is Goddess Yarns emmanuella - which IS reasonably priced. However, the pattern requires 24 balls of yarn. At $5 a pop, this pattern gets reaaaally expensive. The recipient of this gift (it's a gift for someone special - can't say who, or it would be ruined) IS DEFINITELY worth the money, but the problem is that I don't have the money : (
Another project I've been thinking about is the Great American Aran Afghan. (another gift for another special person).
All of these along with the Debbie Bliss pattern from Interweave Knits (from Sunday's post)... It makes me tired just thinking about it. And with that, I'm off to bed
So you want to see the the FO? Since I designed it myself, I guess I can name it too. Something creative. How about Casey's Sweater. Sounds good to me, here's the pic:
Today I went to Michael's, in search of some fixitave so I can do some of my homework for my art classes. Of course they didn't have any. I also noticed that their art bins were about 20 dollars more expensive than the one I have, and that their sketchbooks are at least 10 dollars more than the ones I bought wednesday from Dick Blick. So I ended up buying some pencil sharpeners and 16 balls of yarn (they were 97 cents each). I got some Sugar & Cream and some Lion Brand Jiffy. I started working with it today, thinking of maybe knitting myself a sweater, but I don't really like it.
I've been waiting patiently for my Debbie Bliss yarn to arrive. I want to start this dress for Devan before she's too big to wear it. I'm also waiting for the spring Interweave Knits to arrive because I desperately want to knit this:
It's made with Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Super Chunky, which means I will only make it if I can find it on clearance for at least 60% off. No, I won't be holding my breath. Maybe I'll be swatching to find a suitable substitute - I'm not really a cashmere kind of girl, but I want that sweater.
I recently signed up for a livejournal. my user name is tengomiedo (hahahh katie). I was intending to use it for a knitting blog, its what all the young folks are doing these days... But unfortunately Bloggers been a pain in the butt for a few days so I started just talking and posting pictures. The same ones i've been posting here.
I've been wanting to take a nap but 'what about bob' is over and I can't. That's not his real name, you see. That's what I secretly call him because I think it's funny.
I'm almost done with little casey's sweater.
My classes are cool and I spent 400 dollars on art supplies and now we are hurting because our toilet has been running since july so we have a huge water bill and now Jon wants me to get ajob. perish the thought!
Let me tell you about how the last few days have gone, shall I ?
This weather has been crazy. Last week I only had 1 class and about 20 minutes of another class and everything else was cancelled because of the weather. This week I went to my drawing class, drew some boobies, and was sent home at noon (2:30 is when the class officially ends). See, I live in Vernon. If you don't know, Vernon is the home of Hidden Valley and Mountain Creek (intrawest ski resort junk) and is full of mountains and windy roads. I just so happen to be perched on the side of one of those mountains. While it's all nice and pretty in the spring, summer, and fall, it's not so nice in the winter when I've got to put my car in 3rd gear and plow through the snow and ice up the mountain. Anyways, back to my story. So I was sent home at noon -- before I left I said something like "I have a class after this, I have no idea if I should stay or not" and my professor said, and I quote, "oh it's definitely cancelled." And you can guess how this story ends - my design class was not cancelled. Now it's been 2 weeks in a row (I might have forgotten to mention at some point that the first week I sat in what I thought was the correct art studio waiting for people to show up (there were a few others waiting with me) and no one ever did. Turns out they were next door and the room assignment had changed. Well we had plenty of reasons to assume that no one was coming to class, I mean the weather was horrible and hardly anyone was showing up to anything so ...what can I say?
This week my class wasn't cancelled and I missed it - until it was dismissed 45 minutes early. I talked to my prof. and explained what happened though, so it's no big deal.
So anyways, today was my color class and I really really enjoyed it even though we didn't do anything yet. I'm excited about everything even though my art supplies for this semester totals to about 400 dollars. probably more when all is said and done.
I'm almost finished with Casey's dog sweater. I think it's hilarious, but aren't dog sweaters pretty hilarious anyways? This one is orange and hot pink. She already has an orange sweater but I don't know I just felt like making a new one. I designed this one myself so some of my measurements are off. Who cares, right? Here's a pic.. I should be done soon.
I went to the library today and checked out The Baby Knits Book by Debbie Bliss, and after thumbing through it for awhile I decided to order some clearance priced Debbie Bliss wool/cotton to make this beautiful eyelet dress with a ribbon threaded through the collar, and a cardigan with decorative little sleeves. These will be made for Devan, but I'm not going to just do like I normally do and say "oh screw it" when there's a mistake. I will rip the hell out of these projects until they're absolutely perfect. I guess I just can't justify spending money on good yarn unless what I'm making is going to be perfect and is going to be packed away in tissue paper and saved for my next daughter - if I ever have one, or for Devan's children if she has any.
I was THISCLOSE to buying about 13 skeins of Tahki Soho Bulky Tweed tonight to make myself a sweater, and you know a couple extra just cuz i like having extra yarn to play around with.
I am having a horrible time on my diet this time - I am hungry all the time and all i want to do is sit and read or knit or look at magazines or cook or EAT CHINESE FOOD or COOKIES - which is probably bad when you're on a diet. Sarah's wedding is only 4 or so months away and I have to be HOT HOT HOT! (hey it's sarah's birthday today! Let's wish Sarah a happy birthday. I already did but you can too, if you know her and you know her e-mail. I'm sure she wouldn't appreciate me giving it out to strangers.)
I checked out 2 other books from the library that I don't want or need. The Universal Yarn Finder - boring, not helpful, no pictures. and The Knitter's stash. I want this book called Pipsqueak which is patterns for kids up to 10 years old - there's a sweater with intarsia dasies all over it that I desperately want to make but something tells me it's all Rowan yarn which is great and all but it's too expensive and I hate Rowan for some inexplicable reason. Maybe it's because a 50g ball of yarn costs $16.50... or maybe it's because the biggie print sheds all over my entire body when I knit with it - and then have to rip it out because it always looks like ASS. or maybe it's because the cotton chenielle is so tempermental that you have to baby each and every stitch in order to not have it break about a thousand times in one tiny petal washcloth project (from Weekend Knitting - actually calls for Crystal Palace cotton chenielle, but my yarn store didn't have that. Isn't THAT convenient?) this whole entry is just dumb and i sincerely apologize to everyone.
(Nov 19)
I've been asked to make a Christmas wish list, so here it is. Click on
Santa to view it!
(Dec 11)
I am unable to sleep, so I took time to make the blog archives work. of course, images that were on old yahoo server do not work anymore (read: anything before April 2005) so you'll have to use your imagination. Check the sidebar for a link if you're interested.
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(Nov 22)
There. I finally did it. Now go buy me stuff:)
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(Nov 7)Take note of the changes along the right sidebar. I've been reading blogs, and that, of course, means joining knitalongs!
However my next task (which will be my next announcement)
is to create a holiday wishlist, as there have been several people asking for one.
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(Aug 6) Hi guys, How cute is this: I have a new little niece!! Bryan and Mandie's little girl was born last Sunday (I think)
and in the spirit of utter ridiculousness, I give you, Madelyn dancing.
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(June
1) Here is a little picture. Obviously, these are BF5 lyrics.
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(May
23) Sup dudes? I was kinda bored last night, so I made a picture.
again. only tell me if you like it. I have a fragile ego.
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(May
14) Going through a wave of depression. Don't feel like
doing anything except artwork. Here are a couple
pictures I made. You may have seen them, since they're
meant for my websites. If you've seen them as background
images, excuse the tiling, I'm fixing it when I feel
like it.
if you like them, let me know. if you don't, keep it to
yourself.
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(April 28) Ok... I've been on hiatus. Bear with me and
my broken links and pictures while I move all my junk
around.
Life is good and I'm glad my site is working again.
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(Jan 11) Due to real life
pals/family complaining about how little real life
content there is in this journal, I'm going to make a
real effort to include that stuff, and not just knitting
stuff. I hope this pleases you guys.
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(Jan 10) Today is the
anniversary of my Grampa's death. We still miss you so
much.
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(Jan 4) Congratulations
Michael & Tiffany!!
Welcome to the family,
Tif!
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(Dec 30) Just two quick
notes today:
1. We've got another
completed Casey's Coat.
click to see Vito!
2. I'll be out of town
for about 3 weeks. My brother, Mike, is getting married!
After that I'm going to be house sitting for my mom
while she is out of town. This will not have an affect
on you or my blogging, I just felt like sharing.
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(Dec 2) My brother has
been making me some pretty cool knitting charts. I think
they're mighty awesome and I'm trying to figure out a
project I can use them for. They're pdf files, except
the first one (which is actually not his design, it's
the work of someone on myspace.com) so go ahead and have
at them. If he makes many more charts, I'll disable the
links and offer the chart patterns for a small fee via
paypal, because, after all, it is his art work and he
deserves compensation!
click the images to view full sized charts: 2nd & 3rd images ?2004 R. Wuebker
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(Nov 28)My little sister is a knittin' fool. We shopped
all over for some good needles for her. She's been using
these kids plastic-y needles that I find to be really
uncomfortable and annoying. We tried some aluminum
needles but they were too slick and long. We finally
settled on some Clover Bamboo needles and from what I
have heard, she likes them the best. She's working on a
lavender scarf. I'll have my mom take a pic so I can
post it here.
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(Nov 28) I'm back! Christmas Knitting and yarn stash
enhancement is in full effect in this house. There's a
new(?) Knitting/Fabric store in the town my mom lives
in. It's called Sew Krazy. image is property of sew-krazy.com
They are currently squeezed in a tiny location just
chock full of amazing stuff! They have a whole shelf of
Kaffe Fasset fabrics, which you know I loved. They
had lots of yarn by Rowan and Brown Sheep. They didn't
have any Debbie Bliss. The shop is working on expanding
in a new location, equipped with a beautiful fireplace
(My mom and I peeked through a hole in the door) and
it's HUGE. This place was great and there's a cafe
called Muddy Waters next door. So this place will be
perfect to sit down, relax, drink coffee, and knit by
the fireplace when I go out to visit for 3 weeks in
January. The building is also really beautiful and
contains many other interesting shops. Check it out if
you're ever nearby.
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(Nov 18)Last year for Christmas, Mr. Handsome gave me an
EZ Stir. If you haven't got a clue what an easy-stir
is, (consider yourself lucky) it's a device that
attaches to your pots and pans and stirs your sauces for
you! Ingenious! I have still not taken the EZ Stir out
of its package. This year, I thought I'd make it easy on
my husband and anyone else who wishes to shower me with
gifts.
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(Nov 17)Looking for unique cards to send out this
Holiday season?
Check out
Loobylu
and Darling
Studio for some fabulous and unique holiday cards.
