Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That (SHARK WEEK!)
Personal Musings from a Mac
That’s right! My very own MacBook that was purchased on Saturday, the 28th of June! I’m thoroughly in love with it and am having a great time finding out everything there is to know about it. It’s hands down the best birthday present I’ve ever gotten (even though, yes, I’ve loved all the others!). When I’m not on it, mother is. She’s already dubbed it “McSassy”, because it “always has something to say” about whatever she’s doing on it.
I’ve found a wonderful sushi/vietnamese/japanese/chinese place that’s right by my school. I’ve eaten there for lunch the past two days and I plan to be eating there a lot more in the future. They have all I could want! Udon, low mein, fried rice, and best of all GREAT sushi! The eel there is absolutely fantastic, which is perfect since it’s my favorite.
I’m making some pretty good friends in my japanese class and I’m hoping Roman-san will be able to pass to join Cheryl-san and me next semester. I have just a week and two days left of this semester and then we will be saying “sayonara” to Zaidi-sensei. I’m going to have to look for her a thank-you card before the week it out. I really want her to know how much I appreciate her coming all this way to teach us. She drives an hour and a half just to be at our class.
And now I’m distracted by the greatness of Monty Python. I really was going to say more, but the Black Knight is great!
75 – 300mm of Love~!
I’m still exhausted, but I swear I’m about to bust! I love being crafty, especially when it’s got to do with photography and/or loom knitting. I get kind of silly. I have lots of pictures to share and could barely contain myself I was so excited.
You see, I bought a new 75 – 300mm lens today. I had the money, so it was my birthday present to me. Hopefully along with a new Mac laptop and maybe an edition of photoshop if I can bring myself to spend that much money on one program…
And today I started on Rio’s scarf today. (sorry, it’s just too weird to call her Brandy. *shudder*) It looks amazing!!! I’m so in love with the colors and the pattern. They just work so perfectly together, it’s beautiful. However, there will be no pictures yet since I don’t want to spoil the surprise.
Unfortunately, I suddenly don’t have time to upload my photos, so that will have to be next time. Chow Chow.
Sleepless In Transit
So… it’s 4AM and I can’t sleep. At 3:50AM, I woke up after a horrible dream — about zombies, yes, zombies. They were overrunning my mawmaw’s house, for some reason. We had just gotten back from visiting my cousin who just got married and I had agreed to make them both scarves for christmas/late wedding present… and mawmaw and I were talking in the kitchen. She was kind of calm and was angry at me as she explained something to do with zombies while they were trying to sneak attack us from both sides of the kitchen O_o
Then it got kind of like.. whack-a-mole. She handed me this.. leg of something, frozen (even though she pulled it from the cabinet, not the freezer) and I was bashing them over the head one at a time as they tried to sneak or rush around the corners. I know, it’s weird. And then! Apparently, after it was over, someone was using my myspace or something to make horrible posts about us and our family, blaming us or making it look like I was taking blame for some of that stuff. I have no clue how that fits in… And apparently, Tiffany (the dog) got zombified, someone wacked her over the head, but felt bad when she was staggering around and hurt (and maybe didn’t know she was a zombie) and I think she bit us and zombied us all… I don’t know, that part is fuzzy since it’s when I woke up.
Annnd in other, more crafty news, I finished Joanna’s scarf while I was away on ‘vacation’ for a week at my sisters. All I have to do is add fringe, which I was hoping to do tomorrow after errand running. We’ll see now – thanks, zombies. But this is good news, because it means I can start on Brandy’s! I’m nervous about that one, but I don’t see any reason it should turn out badly. I don’t have pictures, but JoJo’s scarf is just like the other two, but ravenclaw blue with the grey/silver from the slytherin one. And Becka has ‘commissioned’ me to make her a hufflepuff one, too. Man, a lot of people like some hogwarts scarves…
Messes and Successes
I’ve been very busy lately. Preparing for a trip this next week and knitting (or trying to) up a storm. I hope to get lots more done by the end of this week!
For starters, I finished up my second (third, really) hogwarts scarf — in silver/grey and green this time! It came out beautifully, if I do say so myself. I’m very proud of it. I was finished with it before I even realized it! It only took about, oh, three days like the last one. But it seemed to just fly by. Perhaps it was all that TV I was watching while I was making it. I’ve rediscovered the discovery channel! Woo!
I also attempted my first mitten! I am saddened to say it came out a little lumpy and too thin. However, I’m proud of my deformed little mitten, as it is my first and I can only learn from its… lumpiness. That being said, it will never be a gift to anyone, poor mitten…
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- Fringe! Oh, look at the fringe!
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- Together as they should be!
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- Very thin. You can see my hand through it.
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- That wouldn’t do very well in colder climates…
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- Like I said, lumpy. And not very well put together.
Which House Are You?
To start things off, let me say that I don’t expect this ‘blog’ to be anything great or even noteworthy. But a good friend of mine just began one as a way to relieve some of her stress by writing out her thoughts and feelings. Okay… so I’m not really the huggy, let’s talk about everything type, but I figured… hey a blog can be good for other ways of expression too! Right?
Thus, this is the first post for Spool’s Gold — which will probably be about a great many things. The first and foremost would be my new passion for loom knitting. I’m just not hand-eye coordinated enough to handle anything pointy, I believe. My looms are plastic and sturdy and fairly me-proof, which I’m in love with. I don’t break them, they don’t break me… We live a happy existence together.
For christmas, I believe, I got a set of the round Knifty Knitter looms from my ex-boyfriend’s mother. She was a great old gal. Raised goats and chickens, made her own soap, just got a pair of bulls to raise up for slaughter… And giver of the knifty knitter. If you’ve never heard of them before, you can go to provocraft.com (who makes them) and check them out!
I did a couple of projects at first, a lot of web browsing when one hat unravelled and the other was too short and too thin. Then I discovered a pattern for the loom I have for two variations of the hogwarts scarves. Yay! My good friend Joanna is HP crazed and I knew it would be the perfect gift for her! Little did I know what I was getting myself into…
I was worried it would be too thin, like the hat, so I doubled up on the yarn. It came out very thick, which wasn’t so bad, but it was also very wide (used the green loom, for the authenic movie look) When I wrapped it around my neck to test it, I almost felt like it was choking me. I suppose a little further north, that might be okay, but it was really just too warm for Texas weather. Not only that, but I messed up right at the very end and then ran out of yarn to fix it with. So I called it a lost cause, had a few very frustrated moments, and got right to work on another one for my older sister (who is scarf crazed and loves the HP movies).
I started three days ago, using the same type of yarn in red and gold as opposed to Jo’s blue and grey. I didn’t double wrap this time, so I didn’t run out of yarn. And I made the bars of accent color more narrow than my first (failed!) attempt. It came out beautifully!! I just finished putting the fringe on early this morning. The first side was a little wonky, as I’d never fringed anything before, but the second came out rather nice. I’m very proud of my first completed project — a Harry Potter Hogwarts house scarf, gryffindor to be exact.
At the moment, I’m off to Wally World (wal-mart) to get more yarn and some cat litter and then I’ll return home to begin making another one! Merry Christmas, family!
To find the pattern used, please visit: http://auntiesuzanne.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-not-to-make-hogwarts-scarf.html
