vagueGirl

I love etsy.

Here’s my new favorite seller:  Lost Mitten.  A lot of their items are made out of those silly kid bead things you melt with an iron to fuse together – no, not those aquadots that kids were eating and having seizures from – the fun ones that are supposed to be non-toxic.  And they even make fun buttons and knitwear – their shop is like one I might create in the future, though I’d be much heavier on the knit and crochet-side.

Take a look!

I must say that the above Pac-man Coaster set is my fave of what I’ve seen from Lost Mitten so far.

Here are a couple more:
For those that remember what mix tapes were: Lost Mitten’s Pink Cassette Tape Business Card holder
For those that spent their childhood attached to their NES:  Lost Mitten’s NES Controller Business Card holder

Cheers!

~vG

p.s., if I want to open an etsy shop does this mean that someday I might be evil-good, too?  muah ha ha

I’m going to have to see this movie…
Just because of this poster (lit up kind) we saw coming out of “Burn After Reading” (which was another incredibly funny, quirkily truthful, and subtley dark Coen brothers film that everyone should see, now):

It made me stop in midstep, point, stare and giggle like crazy.  Tee hee hee!

Okee.  I’m tryin’!

I made this shawlette a while back but didn’t know who would be the recipient.  Found out today (yesterday) who that would be.

Grandma D (boyfriend’s grandma)    I think she really appreciated it (she is a knitter – er, used to knit and has been thinking of getting back into it – perhaps I will turn her on to ravelry!) and will actually use it (shock!).

I suck at images right now.  I’ll figure it out.

Oh, and I used my boyfriend’s phone camera to take these because I can’t find my digital… bad when you’re in the middle of moving!!!!

Free Pattern (may need to sign up with Knitting Daily)

cheers!

Hmmm…

Somehow I don’t think this blog thing will ever work out for me, but as I told my boyfriend before, I do think that if it were my job or a part of my work/job/money-making endeavour, that I’d find the time to do it regularly.  I do know that there are folks out there that are waaaaaaay better at keeping up with their blogs all the while feeding multiple children, keeping hubby happy, working at a j-o-b, knitting/crocheting/scrapping/crafting/spinning/dyeing up a storm, and finding time to eat and sleep.  They’re just better than me!!!  ;P

But I’m-a-gonna do my best.

I’ve joined a group at ravelry called The Traveling Scarves.  I’m so excited about starting that I think I’ve begun my scarf already:

More pics later!  Gotta run.

(eta:  finally fixed the silly pic.  grrr)

(eta – again!:  Link to free pattern for this “Meandering Rib Scarf” Notes: you may need to sign up with Lion Brand Yarn for this and I only used 1 to 1.5 repeats of pattern for what I needed)