I have been such a bad blogger, I’m sorry. In my defense… well I don’t have one. But knitting has been happening and I’m kind of close to being done with some things. Maybe. Depends on how slackery I get. Although I don’t feel like I’m being slackery because I feel like I’m reading books but then I don’t have any books to prove my point because I am a slow reader. So when I say I’ve been reading books, what I mean is I have been reading one very intense book. Called Cloud Atlas. Which, if you come to my library you will see that it’s on the recommended reading list for summer.
Anyways, here are some pictures that I finally got off of my phone and wanted to share with yous alls.
Last week I taught my friend Heather how to knit. Look at how much fun she’s having! Although I’m pretty sure that she already knew, otherwise she’s one of those genius people who catches on at light speed.
Speaking of Heather, sometimes during lunch we go to the Cupcakery and make some cupcakes. This one I was proud of because I didn’t go completely overboard with it:
Aaaand because you come here for the yarn and not the cupcakes (well maybe you come for the cupcakes too because cupacakes ROCK!) here is a picture from a trip John and I took to Medina:
This is a yarn shop called Studio Knit and it was a lot of fun to check out.
Personally I feel compelled to watch anything related to Cheri Oteri. (Yeah… Cheri Oteri- it definitely has nothing to do with me listening to Futuresex/Lovesounds right now and my love for JT’s sweet sweet ‘fro. You can’t make me forget the ‘fro JT!) Okay, you caught me, I’m also weak for The Rock.
Dang it Dwayne! You are a pimp.
Also, I really don’t recommend this movie for sane people. Or people who laugh at appropriate things. Because I’ll tell you, I was rolling with laughter and John just sat there deadpan. Stoic. I’m telling you, mountains move more than he did during the whole movie. In the end, I really can’t tell you anything funny about the movie.
Something that is funny though…
*beep beep Ritchie!*
I took some pictures of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade that we’re apparently really proud of around here. Toots there actually goes to John’s church.
What have I been up to knitting-wise?
Oh Baldy.
I pulled Baldy out the other day and finished him up… except for the eyes. I have big googly eyes but they just don’t look right! I can’t figure out what I’m going to do with him. So right now he’s sitting on the computer that John (and I) built trying to stare me down to finish him. Man, I’m glad I only gave that turtle so much power over me.
I threw these on the needles the other day:
Oh, how did the cupcake get there? Guess I better eat it.
They’ll probably get set aside for my new project though… more about that in the next post!
Oh man, it’s seriously already time for the Pumpkin Show, or you might also know it as the “Greatest Free Show On Earth”…? How did it get here so fast? I still have a partially inflated felted pumpkin that I need to finish and a bunch of pumpkin charms that I need to turn into, uh, I have no idea what. (Honestly, just the fact that there are pumpkin charms out there in the world was enough for me to buy them.)
I met with some new knitters tonight. The ladies from WestSideColumbusKnitting, who were all very friendly. My progress on the sweater for Crazy Aunt Purl’s contest before meeting them was this:
Little cat vest, with eyes already glowing with hatred and disdain. Oh, I love my kitty!
However, at the end of the meeting I had attached the sleeves. Which led to full blown cat torture.
I love crafting. Mostly because it’s the only thing I can think of, off the top of my head, where talking about needles and acquiring them is totally acceptable. I just got a set of DPNs in the mail today from eBay. I also got an interchangeable Boye circular set not too long ago from eBay too. I don’t have good thrifting/garage sale luck that everyone else seems to have. (I know, you really feel bad for me right?)
The little guy on the right there is supposed to be Blooper (from Mario) although he just looks like any old squid. Hmmm…. I knit him up on a whim for my swap partner. I also made them a Toad keychain. I’m still feeling like my craft collection for them is kind of weak so far, hopefully I’ll come up with something else.
Also, as if this post couldn’t get any more random. I went to the Cupcakery today.
In my attempt to get familiar with Dublin, I stopped in at the cupcakery and got a pumpkin caramel cupcak, which I designed myself with cream cheese and Halloween themed doodads. (See how the pumpkin theme came back around? I’m grasping at relevance here, work with me.)
Yeah. Cupcakes. Honestly, I do all this for the children, really.
This week has been pretty crazy. We found a place to live! Although, it’s another apartment. We decided that since everyone lists their house in the Spring, we’d better wait until Spring and try to get a house then. Because we’re throwing our money away with this renting stuff.
In other news, in an attempt to be healthy I made a fruit and veggie bowl this week:
I know, delicious right? Apples, cherries, grapes, tomatoes and carrots. Couldn’t get any better and it’s already pretty much gone. We’ve been pretty good around here about being healthy this summer. Playing tennis, eating fruits and veggies… uh. Other stuff maybe? Not really. Okay! I can’t fake it.
This is also what (really) happened this week- I busted out the awesome cake stand Ronanda got me and it housed some mini cupcakes. They thought they were safe from me in their swirly protective insulator:
(cupcake forcefield)
THEY WERE NOT! I know, you’re wondering, that cake stand is amazing, does it have other uses? I’m glad you asked. It also doubles as a punch bowl. Oh yeah! Now I just have to come up with a reason to need a punch bowl.
Also, at the beginning of the week I was on a mission. The mission was to find some magical unicorn fairy vacuum bags. Meaning, they are hard to find. (Let this be a warning to you, buying a cheap vacuum sounds like a good idea, until you have to find the vacuum bags to go with it.) I ended up at IGA, since I knew they had the bags before. I was very excited about finally getting everything in our place clean so we could move it to another equally clean place. Or something. Why am I telling you this incredibly boring story about vacuum bags, as elusive as they may be?
Welll. The thing is, people think Columbus is probably the most boring place in the world to live. While it’s not the most boring place, it’s certainly boring. However, stuff does happen. Like the other day, there was this house:
Yeah, 70 years together! A lawn full of cows like it’s nothing. I actually kind of envy these people with their cow lawn, but that’s another story. I just hope the couple got married when they were like five years old because 70 years- a long time.
I was also driving and I took this video:
I know, I shouldn’t be recording horrible digital camera videos while in the car. But I swear, I’m a good driver and when I started moving I turned the camera off and that’s why you probably can’t exactly tell what’s going on. I was just driving home and BAM a parade of horses down the street, escorted by the cops.
What exactly did the horses do that the cops had to escort them, I’m wondering. Also, why in the hell are there horses going down the middle of the freaking street???
Anyways, vacuum bags. All of this stuff that I’ve just posted is pretty standard fare for a week in Columbus. Still, I was most creeped out and wondering What the… when I went in to get these bags. First of all, I couldn’t find them. I was in the cleaning aisle when there was suddenly a bright light. What just happened? I looked over to my right and a guy was standing there with a digital camera. Did he just take a picture of me looking perplexed about vacuum bags? If so, did he at least get my good side? Do I have a good side? Either way, then FLASH, he took another picture and I realized, no, he’s not taking pictures of people in the store, he’s taking pictures of cat food.
Why? Why cat food? It was a beautiful display but really… cat food?
I’ll end this post on a high note though:
Also:
(all pictures can be clicked on to be made LIFE SIZE.)
We decided that since everyone lists their house in the Spring, we’d better wait until Spring and try to get a house then. Because we’re throwing our money away with this renting stuff.
