Craftyminx

Mean Girls

Ok I'm doing it... I'm going to post pictures of me dressed like a ho. I am only posting this because I made the costume, not because I want to show off my thunder thighs.

I had a lot of fun hand stitching most of this costume. I'm a little sad that the corset is too big, but it worked out well in the end.

I love Halloween and sparkley fake eyelashes! And yes my hair is big because it's full of secrets.

Labels: costume, Halloween, life

Drunken knitting?

Never underestimate the power of four knitters with pointy sticks and booze at the ready.

I spent some time celebrating a certain someone's birthday tonight.

Yes we really did knit in a bar.

the end.

Labels: Knitting in Public

Story time...

So tonight was a fun filled night of class, meeting a new friend, and going shopping for Halloween costumes. My friend is going to be a mouse ("duh") at our Mean Girls party so we were on a mission for mouse ears and a sultry outfit for her to wear. We found most of the costume at Target, the greatest place on earth. She still needed ears. We left in a mad dash to make it to the Halloween store on time, but that didn't work out, they closed at 9.

On the way back to her place we passed a Christie's Toy Box that had a "we have costumes" sign up. We decided if anyone would have animal ears and slutty clothes it would be Christie's. They did not have ears, but we overheard the funniest and weirdest conversation ever. When we walked in there was a couple in the store with us looking at costumes. I didn't pay any attention to them because you expect couples to be this this store together. But then I heard the girl say "I want this one dad," as she held up one of their costumes. And I kid you not her dad said "well, I don't know it's quite revealing... ok. But you are not wearing it to school!" Whoa!!! It took everything in me to keep from saying "dude, you took your daughter to a sex toy store to buy a costume and you're griping that its too revealing??" Seriously, who does that? Who takes their High School daughter into a store that sells vibrators and porn and expects them to find a costume that isn't going to be revealing? The costumes really weren't that bad and I saw worse ones in the Halloween store, but oh my I was flabbergasted.

Oh and to top my night of fun off, I broke myself at target.

Yeah I totally kicked the corner of the tampon trash can while trying to flush the toilet with my foot. Smooth operator...that's me. It's already swelling and turning purple. I'm not going to be able to wear shoes tomorrow. Owie :(

Labels: life

Oh yeah!

This is the smile of a girl who has finished her assignment that is due tomorrow (yes, before midnight even) and is going out with her friends and then to work out. This will be the first time in forever that I've been able to work out two days in a row.

It is also the smile of a girl who is 98% done with her costume for Friday.

Now let's just hope that I can keep the smile before the end of the week. I do have other assignments to think of ya know.

Labels: life

the long awaited "what I've been doing" post

Firstly, here's the corset. It's a bad pic, I'll get some better ones with my full costume. I'm going to be a cat at the mean girls party. I still have to make my skirt a little less skanky.

I used the Mccall's costumes pattern 4107. This one is view E. I would like to eventually make view B. We lengthened it by 4 inches so I had to remove the boning from the back, because it was hitting my butt and making the back bunch up weirdly. I hand stitched all the lace on last night. crazy.

I'm still working on clue 2 for the secret of the stole. Last week was a bad school week so I didn't get a lot of knitting done. I have another bad week this week and a paper due on Halloween, so that may be put on hold for awhile. It was stupid of me to join a KAL during my first semester of grad school. I'm a fast knitter when I have time though, so I'm pretty sure I can catch up fairly quickly.

I'm also working on the hemlock ring blanket. This is a Christmas present. I am loving this pattern. Its a fairly mindless knit, so I was able to work on it at stitching group on Saturday.

I made pumpkin muffins with cream cheese icing for my stitching group on Saturday. They were amazing!

I will share the recipe since I already have it typed out :) The muffins are actually a bread recipe, but I just scooped them into muffin pans and baked them for 25 minutes. This is the recipe that my mom has used for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure where it came from, but everyone loves it.

Pumpkin Bread

2 1/3 C Sugar
2/3 C Oil
4 Eggs, beaten
2 C canned pumpkin (1 Ib can)
2/3 C Water

Sift
3 1/3 C Flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp pumpkin spice

2/3 C nuts, finely chopped
2/3 C raisins (soaked in boiling water for 1 minute, drained & dried) raisins are optional

Mix first five ingredients in a large bowl. Sift dry ingredients together; add raisins and nuts. Add to pumpkin mixture and mix until well blended. Grease and flour (4) 1 - lb coffee cans or 2 regular loaf pans. Fill halfway with batter. Bake in preheated 350 degrees oven for 1 hour 15 minutes
Using small mini loaf pans bake for 25 minutes.

Cream Cheese Icing
2 8oz pkgs cream cheese (softened)
2 sticks (1/2 c.) butter (softened)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar (plus up to a 1/2 cup)

In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until creamy. Mix in the vanilla, then gradually stir in the powdered sugar. If piping onto muffins, add more powdered sugar to make it the right consistency. Store in the refrigerator after use.

I also went yarn shopping on Saturday! That made me super happy. See my new acquisitions on my flickr page.

Ok I hope this is was a fulfilling post, since my next week and a half is going to be crazy. I'm not sure when I'll post next. If I get free time, I'm more likely to knit instead of post. Even if I should use that time to clean. ;) I have tons of presents to start knitting. Why does Christmas always seem to sneak up on me?

Labels: cupcakes, food, knitting, recipe, sewing, yarn

Making a corset

That's what I'll be doing for the next two days. My mom is on her way here now. I called her this morning and said that I needed my mommy. There's no way I can sew it without her. I don't know enough. It would be scary. I'll do a real post later, I have wips to share too. yay!

Labels: sewing

Anthropologie Stitch

A new all stitched catalog!!! Woot! I know how many knitters love to dissect Anthropologie's yummy goods and thought I would share. I'm really excited about this. There are some amazingly beautiful pieces. I hope they are mailing them. I love to have their mailed catalogs on my coffee table. :)

And I thought this week would be better, HA

I figured life would get better after my midterm -- it didn't. Now I have two assignments to do this week and a paper due at the end of October. Its not like I thought grad school would be easy or anything, I just didn't think of how I was going to have to add it on to everything else in my life. Working full time, trying to get odd crafting projects finished, doing freelance work for people, Christmas knitting(!), cleaning my house, buying groceries AND now 6 credit hours of grad school!!! How do mom's manage life? Seriously, I have major respect for people that have children. I can't even manage to remember when my bills are due. Thankfully I'm pretty organized. My ical is scary to look at, but at least everything is on it (color-coded and alarms set if needed). Recently, I've just decided I can get more done if I don't sleep. The only problem with that is that I am not a morning person and it causes me to be uber cranky in the morning when I only get 5 hours of sleep the previous night. Oh well, I'm done complaining. Here are some pictures.

Yarn I got from Beth last weekend:

Pretty pretty stuff! Neither picture gives the yarn justice. The lace weight is drool worthy with the many subtle shades of color that are in the orange.

My secret of the stole clue 1.

I finished it Thursday night. I started clue 2 Sunday. I am liking it so far!

Part of one of my costumes. This one's for our "girl world" costume party. I'm not sure what I'm doing for work yet.

My friends and I are major Mean Girls fans and thought it would be fun to dress slutty. haha I'm sure that will be a fun party to post a pic of later. Maybe ;)

See that cute little pink coin purse hanging on my key rack? That is what I bought at the Girlie show. Maybe I will have time to take a proper picture of it later. Its a coin purse key chain from motokitty. Its hot pink sparkley vinyl! I LOVE it! I've admired her bags for awhile and really wanted to buy one at the show, but alas, they were all too small for me. I like huge mom bags and while she has pretty big bags, I just wasn't feeling them :(. But the coin purse, yes, totally me. Its the only thing I ended up buying. I had plans to buy more on Saturday, but we didn't end up making out there. My best friend was in town and we went to get her hair done at a beauty school where she was given the slowest student in the world. Oh well. At least I got to go Friday and grabbed business cards from everyone I loved!

Labels: knitting, life, yarn