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On a Crafty Note:

What better way to start the day (Unintentional rhyme) than with chocolate puffed rice?

Apparently my DM decided the only way to get us kids to eat the boring white rice crispies was to mix them with the chocoate, cocoa crispies. It worked. I like it! And, chocolate cherios make regular cherios worth eating too!

My entry for the Plush You contest is going well. After a brainstorming session with a friend we decided a fairy with wings so it could hover above the snow and beat all the competition would be cute. So I cast on last night with some handspun purple wool and made this;

Which turned into this;

Which turned into this;

It's basically big enough to fit a small 6 or 7 year old. Then I felted it for a full run in the washer, about a half hour. There really was no too felted, because I had no plans for what was felted enough and what wasn't.

This is what came out;

I took it out and started shaping it and all of a sudden it screamed Rabbit/Mouse. I am not obsessed with Alice in Wonderland I swear, okay maybe a little, but how cute would a a certain never-on-time bunny, with a giant pocketwatch, be in a skiing competion? He could enter by accident because he was in such a rush.

The question is though, is he a rabit or a mouse?

I also have to decide to do with this;

I bought it at the green bean thinking Stanley Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada ("Give me a full ballerina skirt and I'm in") but I haven't done anything with it in a month. The gastly bottom puff must come off, clearly, and it's way, way to sheer to wear on it's own. Maybe I cut off the poufe, ruche the sides and call it pretty? *headdesk*

Epic Awesomeness ^^

Someone is giving away their kiln, free of charge, and I'm going to look at it today. I'm so excited, seriously. This opportunity amazes me. It comes with a bajillion molds and books, so I'd be set. I'd love to get back into pottery, it's been a while.

I'm seeing it at 2 O'Clock, I'm so EXCITED!!!

On a Personal Note:

I'm just a very, very happy camper right now. Everything is working out!

Still reading FireBirds, but I'm not really reading anything...

Listening to: Give you Hell, The all American Rejects.

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Hot'N'Cold, Katy Perry

Plush You Olympic contest!

See here!

My Catergory is Skiing, and I think I'm going to do a knit stuffie. I'm not sure...

Pictures to come!

First real blog post

Today I've just decided to cover things on a list-like ...um, form. That way I'll try not to forget things.

On a crafty Note;

First of all, it's a Tuesday, which means I have absolutley nohing to do, which is nice. Yesterday I taught my class on knitting with the local homeschool group, which is nice but scares the shizz out of me, basically. I mean homeschoolers in general are very nice, they're polite and they follow instructuons, that's not what scares me, the fact the one of them is 7 does. To be clear a seven year old has very little fine motor skills, and watching her knit almost pains me. Oh well, roll with the punches I guess? This week they're making a drop stitch scarf, so I'm hoping there will be no major dissasters to deal with through email. Hoping.

Second, I've lost my sweater. It's just gone all of a sudden and I'm worried. I had just finished the collar and sarted the shoulders/yoke and it dissapeared. Therefore I have no progress pics to post, except for one of my yarn. Which is sad, because I quite like it. The yarn is Knit Picks merino style in hollyberry, and I swear, the sheep it came from wa packed with lanolin, that's the only explanation I have, because knitting with it turns my hands all gummy.

Thirdly, the aphgan I'm knitting for Ashley is going at a snails pace, and it's all my fault. Honestly, I could make it in a week, it's on #35s! But my hands are hot, the yarn is war and the needles are massive. I feel like I'm doing construction with them. So far I'm doing 16 stitches, with 10 stitch cables and 3 stitch borders.

I like it, just not working with it so much.

Fourths are we on? just some random recent craft photo's

So I took an altoids tin, covered it with some fun paper and made a mini scrapbook of some of the theatre I've done up until last year. It's very cozy and I can take it with me places (Like to show off at rehearsals. Speaking of rehearsals I got a call back for Cinderella, for the parts of the Queen, the step-mum and the step-sisters. I'm uber excited because the boy will be in it too. Yay for time together, yes?)

Reallt terrible picture, but it's a cowl woven out of silk scraps. The weave is very nice, but it sheds like crazy, something I hadn't expected. I'm definitley going to try this again though. Maybe making tubes out of the silk instead of leaving raw edges.

On a personal Note;

What's been going on in my life? Cinderella call backs that I mentioned above will be interesting. I'm really a crappy singer so I have no idea how I managed to get not one, but three call backs. Maybe it as because I was the only one who brought a resume, or maybe the directors deaf...

Tommorow I have biology, and seriously, I'm starting to really loath my Bio teacher. It's not that she's mean or anything, she's just unorganized and it drives me crazy. Blarg, I don't even want to talk about her. At all.

Instead of fencing though I'm going to the community dinner, which used to seriously scare me, but now it's catered so *sigh*. But I am missing fencing practice, I'm more dissapointed than usual about this because someone I met at Cinderella audtions might have come, and an old friend I ran into at the movies might have come. Hm. I'm hoping both wait until nex week at least, then I don't sound like a major flake.

Current book:

Firebirds Rising, edited by Sharyn November

A fabulous anthology, mostly YA, that I've read before. Good enough to read over and over and over though. My favorite story is Hives, just far enough in the future to suit my tastes, but not about aliens.

Current song:

Kelsey, by Metro Station.

Finally a Cyrus I actually like!

Things about me

1. I'm a knitter
2. I'm a fencer
3. I'm a writer
4. I'm a new blogger =)
5. I live in Florida
6. I want to live in Australia, which I miss!
7. I fence foil, mainly, but dabble in sabre.
8. Epee is evil
9. I only say that because of the epee fencers I know
10. Who aren't actually evil.

11. My new years resolution is to knit 12 sweaters/large projects
12. I dislike socks
13. I just think life is too short to knit them!
14. At least, the small ones on small neddled, I don't mind big gauge socks.
15. My biggest project was an afghan, but it was on size 35's...and isn't finished
16. I'm not a slow knitter, but I get slow near the ned of a project, I can see the end in sight
17. But then I get bored, or frustrated, or confused
18. And frog it
19 I have a frogging complex
20. Or so I've been told, I think I'm just a perfectionist.

21. The bf, whom I'm jst going to call bf, is a fencer too
22. The sisters, Thing one and two, are as well.