Craftyminx

woot mail!

I got my peepy yarn and it is awesome! I balled it up before I took pictures, so yeah I'll just take a picture when I finish the cowl.

I also got my moos! I'll take pictures of those once I get the stickers in. I love mail :)

Tomorrow is the party! It is a reverse drag party. How'd you guess Beth? haha I'll take a lot of pictures. I can't wait to show off my dress that I altered to drag perfection.

Labels: costume, mail

Theme Party

I'm going to another theme party this weekend. I've been practicing my make-up... Can you guess the theme?

P.S. Don't worry, I didn't shave my eyebrows. Maybe I'll show a tutorial on how to make them disappear sometime. OOh or a video ;)

Labels: costume

oops I did it again...

Peepy Yarn closeup
Originally uploaded by Material Whirled

My itchy online shopping finger started at it this morning. Bright and early this morning this yarn beckoned me and I had to buy it. I'm going to make a cowl out of it and wear it all easter season because I am that awesome. I can't wait for it to get here!

Get this thing off my needles!

Does anyone have an irrational need to get knitted items off their needles as fast as possible? I feel, as a knitter, that it is my God given job to finish a project as soon as I can after I have started it. I'm not sure why I do this, but I will knit far too long and not take enough breaks just so I can finish something. This sweater is becoming the bane of my existence. I was fine with the back. The two front pieces didn't bother me. I started becoming more annoyed with the sleeves. I tried knitting them both at the same time and that ended as soon as the 5 inches of ribbing was knit. The second sleeve felt like a second sock, but I did finish it. Now, this where I keep asking myself... "Why in the hell did you decide you HAD to make a hoodie?" If you had made any other simple sweater pattern you would be done by now. But no I had to drive myself crazy and add a hood that I am still 3 inches away from being finished with... and the ribbing around the front(!) don't get me started. I'm sure there will be copious amounts of cursing coming out of my mouth when that begins. Geez. I think I really love knitting hats and crocheting granny squares. Those may be my knitting calling in life. yeah... I'll stick with the hats. :)

Labels: knitting

better

I am feeling much better! I'm going to work again and trying get caught back up with school. I'm knitting the hood onto my sweater now then it's just button bands and seaming and I will be finished! The weather hasn't been cold here so I've been slowing down on it. They are threatening snow again soon, but this weekend was temperate and they said it would be icy. The weather lies.

Labels: knitting, life

sweater update

I have a back, two sides, and ribbing for two sleeves plus a little more on one sleeve done. I'm knitting as fast as I can. I have a pretty big paper due on the 20th so I'm determined to finish this thing today. haha I may not be able to move my arms tomorrow.

update 10:40pm -- Almost finished with one sleeve. I lost some focus today. I was forced to leave the house for a few hours so I could have dinner with the lovely Beth. Good times. It was nice to leave the apartment for a little bit even though I can't really breathe now. hmmm Good thing I'm going to the doctor again tomorrow. Apparently there is some kind of legal thing at work that says you have to have a doctor's note to return after you've been gone for more than 5 days. So yeah I have to prove that I'm not typhoid Mary to be able to go back to work. Oh joy.

Labels: knitting

I should really disable paypal...

Unless someone wants to send me some money. haha I got something else in the mail today. Something I completely forgot buying. Yeah I'm that sad. I bought this apron pattern a couple of weeks ago and I am sooo excited that I got it!! Not that I plan on sewing it up anytime soon. I have a sweater to finish people! It was just nice to get surprise mail. And she sent me a moo card. My first one! And then that started it... I remembered that I wanted to make some moos a long time ago and my pictures weren't good enough to use (because of the old camera), so I bought some of those. And then I threw some stickers in on top of it. Yeah I know, bad Dana!

So yeah, I should really leave the house soon. I'm still sick btw. I went to the doctor today and she gave me antibiotics and some steroids for the asthma that has been kicking my ass. So now I'll want to eat everything in sight. But, at least I will be able to live again. My boss told me not to come back to work until Monday. I'm kind of glad because they've been redoing the roof and all I need is to be around an awesome tar aroma filled environment. I'll just continue to breathe my somewhat clean apartment air, thanks.

I have the back finished the the front left side almost finished on the sweater. I'm determined to finish by Saturday or Sunday. Snow is in the forecast. Maybe I'll stop sweating by then. I've been so hot from this stupid sickness. I haven't wanted to wear anything but tank tops and pajama pants. Oh well... I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day. I spent mine with a couple of my favorite boys.

Labels: aprons, knitting, life

Happy Valentine's Day... And stuff

Looky Looky!!! I won a contest :) Dabbled's Anti-Valentine's day contest to be exact. I entered my magnets and picture frame. You have no idea how happy this makes me! I'm really not a big fan of the day, so to win an anti-valentine's day contest makes me smile. The other entry that won was a plush poisoned tea. Very nice. And go take a look at the other entries because they are all awesome.

Gypsy received his picture frame on Monday and he's been getting quite the chuckle out of it.
My other friends enjoyed their magnets with bitch and slut proudly displayed in candy. What can I say? I'm a classy lady.

Labels: valentine's Day

Mail Time!

I already told you this part... my yarn came in and I started my sweater. Here are pictures...

It looks small but my gauge is dead on and it's measuring up right, so I don't know. I think it will work out in the end. I probably just think I'm bigger than I actually am.

And today I got these in the mail!

I love them. Another purchase from dear old Urban Outfitters. They were backordered and not supposed to be here until the 26th, but I got them just in time for V-day. Not that I will be doing anything but coughing all day, going to the doctor, and trying to drag myself to class tomorrow evening for Valentine's day. Eh. I'm not a big fan of the holiday anyways. I'm sure if you look at back posts in February you will read all types of rants. P.S. Don't you love how my mother is an enabler with Hello Kitty? I do!

I did some knitting during my weekend of death.
I re-knit the too-big orange BR hat into this,

I swear it fits better, there is no way I will be photographed in the state I am currently in.

and I made me a hat to match the one I gave away last week. It was too cute not to make one for me.

Ok I'm going to go disrupt class discussion now with my hack of phlegmy nastiness. Yeah it is that great, I swear.

Labels: cheap yarn, hello kitty, knitting, mail

not so bad... or so I thought

I thought I was getting better, but nope. My body was just tricking me. I can't get into the doctor until Thursday and I'm using vacation days at work because I ran out of sick leave after the last upper respiratory infection. Oh joy, some vacation this is! I guess I'll just continue to fight it and hope that I end up getting better on my own and pray that my coworkers don't flog me when I get back.

Do any of you have weird cravings when your sick? I guess I wouldn't call them cravings, but maybe abnormal pickyness. When I'm sick I only want scrambled eggs and toast with butter. Seriously. For the past 5 days I've only eaten eggs and toast, oh and the 2 kinds of panera soup that my mom got me (I won't ever turn down panera). When I start feeling sick I stock up because I know I won't make it out of the house for a few days to get supplies. Here's a fun tally for you...
Days sick - 5
Boxes of kleenex- 4
loaves of wheat bread- 2
sticks of butter- 1
eggs - 13
bottles of water - a lot. I'm getting plenty of fluids.
Quarts of orange juice- 1

Ok now that I've shared what a complete freak I am... I got more mail! My yarn came in yesterday and I've already started my central park hoodie. It was hard to finish an assignment I had last night since I wanted to knit and my brain was fuzzy and didn't want to do work, but I got it finished and cast on for the back of my sweater. Now I'm about half way through with the back. Yay!

Labels: knitting, life