Green Toes.

   Okay, here I go with a post again... something kinda fun and updatey.  I know not a word but right now I really don't care that much. 

   I will be redoing my toes tomorrow but a little bit back I posted up about my green toes.  Well, here they are...

   Aren't they shiny and pretty.  I really like them they went very well with that pretty green shirt I got.  I would love to make my toes purple, a nice shiny purple but they very defiantly would not go with what I am going to wear.  So instead I am going to put on a wonderful pink color that I have worn before, the color I was wearing before I put this on...
 

    And that is what is happening in my life.

   The picture that I am doing for my FCF (Freely Creative Friday) is sketched in, being firmly penciled in and will be inked in and scanned and put up in the next few days.  Hopefully tomorrow night.  I do also have a short little storyish thing to go with it.  Kinda fun...

   Now off to finish drawing, remove nail polish, repaint the toes and may be watch a little A-Team. 
Sweet Beans!!!!

Freely Creative Fridays... who knew!

I am feeling creative so... by next week friday I will have the first of my Freely Creative Fridays posts up...

You might be asking yourself... "what is Freely Creative Fridays?" 

Well  I will tell you what Freely Creative Fridays are. 

It is a little push to myself... a prompt I am pulling out of, well you don't want to know where and createing something... don't really have a definition of what yet and posting it up here, and a couple other places.  I am also hoping that others will join me in this endevor.

So the first 'push' is this...

Dream a little dream...

I think I can work with that.

For further information on this little craziness I am undertaking go here T.F. Kit Speaks , this is my writing journal where random brain spurts happen.  It is also where sometimes my more private thoughts happen and I need to keep that stuff a little more under wraps.

Pretty birdies, squished birdies....

   Well here I am again... ready to chat away and talk about projects on the table.  I am still working on my mom's jacket... and it is slowly coming along.  I am having a little difficulty with the sleeve but I will get it, eventually.  And I am about to start a project of doll making.  I have the tools and I have the will, so there is going to be something coming of that here soon. 

   I however want to show everyone the weaving project I did a couple of months back.  I am working on another weaving project and will be getting that going soon but first my workshop project.  I have not made it into what I am going to make it into but I have it off the loom and it was well loved by the other weavers today when I stopped in and dropped something off to my Auntie at Threadbender. 

  When I started all I knew is that I wanted to weave cloth.  I had an idea but what came out was great too. 
   So I started out with this fabric...

   ...isn't it pretty with the blue birds and bright flowers. I mean really nice and bright.  I set up the warp (which is the part that goes on the loom) from a bright blue and a bright green thread. 
Next I cut the cloth into strips, but left about a half an inch or so at one end, so that I could line it up well enough.

   I stared to weave the strips through the warp and then send another yarn through the other way so that the blue that was the odd number threads on the warp were on top of the cloth and the green thread, that were the even number threads were on the bottom of the cloth when they were sent through.

   This is the other yarn, a fuzzy bright blue, yellow and green... quite fun..

 

   And this is pretty close to the cloth being done.  I think it turned out great...

   Now once I have the opportunity and the time I am going to make the beautiful fun fabric into a bag.  I don't know whom it will go to but it is going to be great.

Curent Project

Hey there... just a quick run by to let peeps know I am still working on stuff.  Fun knitting stuff and what not. 

So this is the originally going to be my mommy's 60th birthday present... but due to the fact that I just did not like what I was working with before this and finally found a yarn that I liked enough to finish with... it has become her belated 61st birthday present. 

It is going to be an Einstein Jacket from Sally Melville's Knit Stitch Book.  It is a sweater jacket based off of the sweater Einstein is famous for wearing. 

Anyway since the baby blanket was so necessary to finish this got put to the side.  All I have left to do is finish the sleeves (I am currently knitting the right one) and make up the color and put the buttons on.  It will be sooooo cool.

I however at the moment am looking for an active knitting group that I can make time for... my one I was going to is kinda going on hiatus.  *pout*  Any suggestions?

Little Ian will be wrapped in "Smiles in Peace with Love"

Okay, I am finally posting my nephew's Smiles in Peace with Love baby blanket.  I have it hanging downstairs drying after I washed it waiting for a folding and ribbon to wrap it up.  Then it is off to my brother's new home where my little newest nephew will be living.

It has taken me awhile to actually finish this blanket.  I found a free pattern on another blog that I watch and it inspired me to make a baby blanket. 

The Love a heart pattern, which I don't really have a clear picture of.

The Smiles

and finally The Peace 

So I knitted those three patterns up using a ball of each color and added filler squares...

... and found it was too small so I decided only about a week or so before the first baby shower that I was going to add a boarder.

The baby showers were a week apart and this was how far I was the day before the second baby shower.  So after three weeks.

So I sat and knitted for eight hours or more... and this is where I ended up before the baby shower...

I did finish it... it took me time but I did finish it and put it together and finally washed it.  I am very very happy... and soon it will go off to be used and loved on... and spit up on.  But first I will share so people can see it before the love is given.

So there you have it.  After a little over two months I finished, truly finished a project.  Now on to others... I am happy with it and I know that it will be loved, despite all the mistakes I know are there.

Busy Fun Days

   Hey there... I am still around and I am working on stuff, lots and lots of stuff.  I know I will have a few posts going up here over the next few days.  *hears the moans of complaint, and protest of wanting them now... pshaw*

   I can't help it I want to spread it out so you don't get too overwhelmed.  Besides today's post is a doozy about yesterday.

   I had fun yesterday.  Did not get a lot of work around the house accomplished but I had fun and found some stuff I like... and the most important I hung out with two great friends. 

   Well to start out I got up and did my morning stuff and Jess went and took care of her dog to the annual vet appointment, all shots and what not taken care off.  I did some work on the computer and then we were off.

   I had gotten a call the previous day from the yarn shop I frequent.  I had not picked up any of my yarn that I had put aside in a long time. There were circumstances yes, I was in for weaving and was not picking up for any of those projects, so I simply had not made it out in the week since I pulled my project off the loom and that was a week after the class was done, so they were justified to call me.

   Well we ran some errands in there too.  One to a fun little candle shop called Candle Experience checked out some things there.  Saw a really really cute purse there, but I don't really need another purse so I did not get it. (there is an ominous tone in the air though at that thought... I should have know it.)

   Then we stopped at WalMart to check on a price of a game... which they didn't have so we left there managing not to kill the people continuing to stop in the middle of the walkways blocking everything with their carts.  (really the baseball bat was just there officer I don't know how it came in contact with their heads)

   Next was the yarn shop... Threadbender.  I love that little yarn shop.  It has near everything I need and they have reasonable classes.  I picked up two balls of the yarn for my daddy's jacket and then we went home.

   From there I went and picked up Liz and we went out.  She wanted this cute little cake stand with strawberries on it.  I hope she puts up a picture because it was adorable.  It was an antique shop in Eastown, a very bohemian part of the town I live in.  We went and had dinner a Yesterdog, a great hot dog place.  (I love Kosher dogs)  Then wandered because it was a nice day and it got us out of the house.

   We ended up in this little consignment shop and well the ominous comment about not needing another purse bit me.  I found a shirt that fit and fits my style and near by the perfect purse to go with it.  So I bought it, and put it with a skirt that I have been looking for a shirt to go with.

   So this lovely sparkly green top cost me $8.  The light green sueadish purse cost me $4.  The velvet skirt cost me $12.  The boots that I will wear with it cost me $10.  (not sure about the nylons or tights yet)  But so far this great outfit has only cost me $34.   Amazing feeling.

   Then when I was cleaning out things in my closet working on getting laundry together I put together another outfit.  The only thing I need, besides accessories, is a little cami for underneath the shirt, it is really see through.

   The shoes that I would put with this are really cute too.  But I just wanted to share this with you.  I wanted to show off two cute little outfits that managed to work.  Anyway of and running, should go do laundry now.  Not a big fan of it but I do need clean cloths.

A little fuzzy in the head...

Well figures I would forget when my weaving class started.  I had hoped to have some images for you of that going up but well... I did not go and check when the workshop was on Saturday and the store was closed on Sunday (being Easter) so I went in the morning with my cup of coffee in hand to keep me awake and nope, it starts on Tuesday.  But that is okay, I need to pick up fabric anyway. 
So instead I bring you old pictures that I have finally uploaded to show people.  So bring on the bentos....

This was a look at the Day of the Dead.  I don't actually remember if it was the holiday or not but I think they look cool.  Rice balls in the shape of skulls with nori cut into appropriate shapes, cucumber flowers, cored out tomato with some type of stuffing (I don't remember) and cut up peaches.  Kinda neat don't ya think?

This was a look at boats on the sea.  The deviled egg boats with apple sliced sails, grape sky and deviled egg and carrot sun over a tuna fish on wheat sea with cheese fishes.  Was told to put more cheese the next time.

This was another exploration of deviled eggs Alien style.  I put sliced carrot for the eyes and the antenna sitting on top of pickle and ham with cream cheese wraps, hatching alien eggs (the grapes with carrot bits), and their staple food of brownies and finger jello.  One of my more creative attempts and was a lot of fun to do.

This however is my favorite, my peach bugs and crescent cocoons. A whole peach cut into fourths with a fourth of a Roma tomato and carrot antenna, chewing at a pile of chicken salad flowers and behind that the crescent cocoons.  It was fun... really really fun.

Any way, I need to be getting some sleep here soon.  Hopefully some more images will be coming up in the next few days.  One can hope, right?  Well enjoy these at least.