Today I felt like another theme post, so here’s one close to my heart… Faeries!
I’ve been a faery kind of person for quite a while now, I just love the world of Faerie. I was surprised that there weren’t all that many faerie patterns on Ravelry, so I also included some gnome and pixie [...]
Archive for July, 2009
I saw something today that made me both sad and angry….
I was on a walk to the supermarket, and noticed that a house that had recently sold on my street seemed to be having some work done. That work just happened to be chopping down an oak tree that must have been around 70+ years [...]
I have recently ordered the cloak clasp necessary for my newest sewing creation, my faux fur cape.
A few weeks ago when my local craft store was having their annual 50% off fabric sale, I bought enough faux fur and satin to make and line a pretty little faux fur cape. I had initially wanted to [...]
Remember me talking about that yarn I bought to make up a nice jumper with? And that I didn’t like the colour so was going to swap it? Well I finally went back to the store yesterday and did just that!
I also realised that the needles suggested when working with this yarn were 3.5mm and [...]
There is a cat that is regularly featured on Cute Overload that my fiancé and I think is perhaps the cutest cat around.
This cat is named Maru (which is the Japanese word for circle or round, very apt for this cat) and he has some pretty exceptional proportions. His head is nigh-on a perfect [...]
Up coming films
Posted in Life on Jul 27th, 2009
I’ve noticed of late, a few films that I am rather looking forward to, which I’m going to talk about here.
Firstly, the one most imminent. I am really, really, looking forward to the new Pixar movie, Up. This just looks like such a sweet film, and I have always liked anything that Pixar has [...]
This is another of those ‘I bought myself a frustrating dilemma’ posts, but this one is about the yarn I bought from that huge sale the other week.
I bought myself five 100g skiens of a dusty rose pink (though I’m considering going back and swapping this for a set of white that was there) merino [...]
Cats getting fat
Posted in Life on Jul 24th, 2009
As I’ve mentioned before, I have two cats. A girl-cat who is eight and a half years old, and a boy-cat who is about four years old.
In recent months, I have noticed that the boy cat has been getting much, much heavier. There has always been this funny disparity between them were the girl [...]
The other day when I bought all that fabric, I had inadvertently left myself with a frustrating dilemma.
So, I have the faux fur and satin lining all ready to go, but what I need is a cloak clasp to use as a closure. When I asked my fiancé, he suggested that I get something [...]
Microknitting & Macroknitting
Posted in Life, Technology, knitting on Jul 22nd, 2009
I was looking over film posters that were for sale when I was at the cinema the other night, and noticed one by the name of Coraline. It looked interesting, from the poster, so I looked up the trailer on YouTube when I got home.
The film came out back in May, but apparently I missed [...]