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Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Don’t touch that dial! It’s time for Fast-Topic-Changing Friday…with your host, Strawberry Shortcake.
One expects verypink to be a bit pink and girlie, right? Well, this week it’s double the long eyelashes, hair bows, and mani/pedis. Because…
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Suddenly there are equal numbers of boys and girls in this house.
This is Mia, a girl I’m fostering for Basenji Rescue.
Before I even brought her home, we stopped at the pet store so that I could deck her out in a pink collar and leash.
She’s so petite and delicate looking next to my manly-men dogs.
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Isn’t she fit and spry for a 9-year-old? She already has my boy dogs wrapped around her little…umm…finger. She’s a sweet thing, and we’ll find a good home for her.
(This is not going to turn out like my last fostering situation.)
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This is me, as Strawberry Shortcake.
Not really. This is the beginnings of a French Market Bag. I’m making a sample for a class I have coming up in June.
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Abe had some fun with the yarn when I very foolishly left it within his reach for about ONE SECOND.
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I really can’t blame Abe for liking yarn. I like yarn, too. I just wish he would show his affection for it differently. Maybe he could just smell it, like I do.
Photo taken by Alexander.
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Ike is a Master Chillaxer.
Have a great weekend!
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The people are real. The cases are real. The rulings are final. This is Fast-Topic-Changing Friday!
If you didn’t get that, it only means that you don’t watch Judge Judy.
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Off the needles – another One Skein Wonder, but with some modifications. Like, two skeins.
I added sleeves to this one, and used 2×2 ribbing instead of seed stitch.
The sweater is cute, but I had a tough time with the photo session.
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Here it is, minus one grumpy model.
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For your yarn porn viewing pleasure…
Say it ain’t so.
It’s mostly Stacy’s fault, but I have STASH. And it’s growing.
I had better get knitting.
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A quick plug for a talented friend…Melissa has a new Etsy shop called Sew Bendy where she sells her awesome hand-sewn bags. Perfect for knitting or whatever.
Not only do I love these bags, but I love seeing Melissa so passionate about what she’s doing. Her passion totally shows in her work. Go look!
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I’ve had a goal this year to catch up on old movies I haven’t seen. I was doing okay on my own, then I happened to make friends with a guy who is a serious smartypants about movies. Now I have help.
I saw this one yesterday on his advice. Loved it.
btw…Ted Turner and your Movies Classics Channel? Yeah, you do me right.
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Speaking of old movies, here’s Ike, doing his best to look like Bambi.
Have a great weekend!
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Fast-topic-changing? Not today. There has been one constant topic all week. It starts with a “d”, ends with a “g”, and has a bunch of badness in the middle.
I’ve had custody of all four dogs this week.
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Little Lou…
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Manly Gus…
This is a yoga pose called “peeing dog”.
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Handsome Abe….
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And Ike.
Besides knitting and teaching classes, this is what I did this week.
You can imagine, I was BUSY. And terribly happy.
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I still managed my self-portraits.
Now that I’ve found this cinder block wall, I want to marry it and take a photo in front of it every day. Unfortunately, it’s already seeing someone and has only agreed to keep me as a fondle puppet.
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Kill! Kill!
Have a great weekend!
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Did someone say fast-topic-changing Friday? Okay.
It’s been a while since I’ve done this…almost a year, in fact. The text below was run through free translation software into Portuguese, then translated again back into English.
Here we go…
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The Abe acted strangely a day. It acted ridiculous, then I supposed to be fair in an arrangement. Later, I found my eyeglasses of sun in the quintal, gnawed and broken-down.
They are ruined, but look happy, does not do they?
Near subject…!
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It look what did I do! This is the Cord Gazes Shawl, a free standard of knitty. I high recomendo this standard. Very funny it knit.
It is actually called the “Lace Ribbon Scarf”.
Near subject…!
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This week in my project of self-portrait I did an “Impudent Knitting Stunts” series. This it is called “Blindfolded Clear Island”.
Geez…you’re going to have to go to flickr if you want to know what I really said.
Near subject…!
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Canine macros of face! The Ike all, camera? Yes, please!
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Abe? Not really so lively about the idea.
Have a big weekend and a Mother happy Day!
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
We now join the fast-topic-changing Friday, already in progress.
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Stacy entered me in the Interweave Knits poetry contest on the sly…
And I won second place! I’m pleasantly shocked and amazed.
The winners will be announced on Knitting Daily sometime soon.
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Playground rules at an Austin restaurant.
What are the gypsies going to do with all of those bad children?
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A little knit I finished up this morning…the One Skein Wonder. I’m teaching a class on it this month, so this is the sample.
This is also my self-portrait for today.
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This little thing can actually be a useful piece of clothing in Texas right now, since so many places over-do it with the air conditioning.
One word: Malabrigo. Yeah.
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Is it a holey tank top? A slutty camisole?
No…
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It’s a mesh market bag, knit with corn fiber.
Paper or plastic, ma’am? Neither! I got me a corn bag!
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Anne Boleyn after her visit to the farmer’s market.
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Silly Munky.
Have a great weekend!
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