Month: December 2011

Happiest of new years

Posted by – 31/12/2011

I wanted to wish my loyal friends and readers a safe, happy and most importantly healthy new year. This cake will be demolished after supper (roasted lemon chicken, roasted Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, boiled mini potatoes). With cake it’s the taste that counts, right?

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I embarrassed myself twice last night. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so quick to blush. Both happened at the movie theatre where my boss and I were to see the new Mission Impossible movie. If you were considering it, it’s pretty good. Of course all I can think about is Tom’s one giant tooth and his Xenu inspired $10million bunker he had built at his home in Telluride. Ok, so the embarrassment: the theatre was sold out and we got second row seats at the side of the theatre. No one sat in front of us until the very last minute when a couple mid twenties dudes came along and one said “I wonder why no one has sat here, what is wrong with these seats?” and I cleverly said “oh, we peed on them.” Then laughed like a maniac while dudes just stared at me and politely chuckled. Which spurred me into saying “JUST KIDDING!”.

Luckily the previews started quickly after that but I think I must have been still feeling stupid because I almost did pee on my seat I was laughing so hard at The Dictator. I re watched that preview when I got home and it wasn’t as funny the second time.

You can’t take me anywhere.

Traveller

Posted by – 07/12/2011

Long time no blog, sorry. My writing juices runneth low of late. I blame George R.R. Martin and his incredible books. Never in my life have I ever-I mean it, ever-read any fantasy books or period books. These are both and I’m somehow completely absorbed. I’m only 121 pages into the second book, A Clash of Kings, and loving it. And yes, I saw the HBO series, hello, Sean Bean!

And we have done some traveling. I don’t have a camera so I can’t post anything. I have tan lines, that’s about it. Well, that and I love Mexico, I plan on living there some day.

In crafting news, I finally figured out what to do with all those vintage sheet squares I cut with no plan: a traveller! Yes, I realize I didn’t put it together using traditional techniques, but I do think I’m close enough. It looks very perky and girly me. I won’t talk about how strip piecing nearly drove me bananas, my stitch ripper got a workout.

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Shannon’s camera did something weird with the focus and colour and I have no real way to correct that, sorry. The centre square is pink, as are the murkier looking solid squares interspersed with white squares. The back will be pieced, naturally, which is what I’m in the middle of figuring out.

In personal news, way too personal news, I got a pad stuck in my hair last night. A sign, perhaps, that it is time for a hair cut.