Ack! Frustrated!

Okay, I'll just preface this blog with the statement that yes, you may think I'm spitting in the face of a good thing, and if you were in my position you'd not complain.  But I promise you, you would.

Anyway.  I'm loving this new pattern, but I have - yet again - completely underestimated the freakish size of my breasts, and as such, the apron bib I've spent the last 2 1/2 days crafting to perfection is not just a pretty piles of scraps.  I even fancy cut those bibs to get the chickens in the middle!!

Thankfully, the pattern called for easily 50% more material than was actually needed, so I can go back and recraft the top piece.  I thought about adding a piece across the middle to make it more modest, but the shape is still all wrong.  I want to keep my work cloths clean while I cook, and look cute doing it.  Not like I just exploded into a kids apron.

Anyway, the skirt portion looks totally adorable, and hopefully I have enough bias take to redo the top.  I don't have much time off in the next week, so we'll just see what happens.

In other news:  look at these beautiful flowers that Richard sent me!  I think they look quite nice with the tulips MaryAlice brought in.

extra time off? how about some crafts?

so, i was inadvertantly given 3 days off this week, and 3 next week - while nervous about getting my hours and making quota, I'm excited about the new craft priject I'm working on:

New apron!

I finished cutting all the pieces last night, and tomorrow I begin assembly.  I enlarged the bib pieces, but, sadly, not enough for my particular assests, so I'll likely add a faux shirt piece under with my contrasting material.

I'll trybto get some pics uo tomorrow!

Ho ho! Winter brings out the crafty in me!

Check these sick napkin rings I created! 

I originally bought this material for an apron, but since fell out of love with the pattern, but I think they make cute napkins!

What UFO's?

okay, I'm undertaking the project of the century.  In order to fully realize my crafty self in my new abode, I'm going to have to come face to face with a little skeleton I keep in the closet.

Yeah.  It's time to dig out all the damn supplies, make a giant mess, re-organize and finally *gulp* finish those UFO's.

As you can see I've gathered some of the nearly finished projects together to be finished, as they are, tonight.

Then, after moving all my needles and notions out of the box with the yarn.  I come to suspect that my lack of fiber and fiber tool segregation is the reason for all my knot related woes.  Even after I sort and re-ball everything, and put it away, they miraculously find every d*mn crochet needle and knot themselves into wild, hair pulling designs after only a few months in the closet.

NO MORE.

I have Christmas crafts to attend to d*mnit, and I need my sh*t to be ready at a moments pull.

Wish me luck.. I've heard stories of those brave souls who've attempted to reclaim the disarray of their stash before and never been seen or heard from again.

New silly pics!

here's a silly picture of me that they photoshoped at Powells!

 

Aww calendar winner for the ElPaso 2010 neato places calendar!!!

day 36 of the bleeding earth - who's fault is it really?

Who did this? BP? Obama? Santa Clause?

NO

People, take action, get a bike, let your taxes go to pay for public transit and sidewalks. WALK to the market. Demand the existence of a market that's walking distance to you. Commit to having one, two, or three days a week in which you will not use your car.

BP is drilling for oil because we as a people demand oil. This oil spill is not someone elses fault or problem. It it ours.

Individuals are the largest polluters on the planet - we wash toxic cleaners down the drain, we toss batteries and mercury bulbs into landfills, we use paper and disposable everything. And we DEMAND oil.

Please peeps, this is not a small thing. This is our ocean, our planet, our future. This may be the largest ecological disaster of our time, and it is time to take responsibility for our actions.

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Pledge to yourself, god, to the future generations that you will actively change your habits to be less self serving and remember that the illusion of separateness is just that. An illusion. We are all together on this.