black christmas

i can't believe how difficult it is just to buy regular old black crochet cotton in central london. i ended up having to pay £5 a ball for the 'silky' stuff at john lewis and i/m hoping that it will workup into some lovely black snowflakes to put on our bright pink xmas tree!

and a big word of warning to anyone who goes shopping down oxford street - their credit card system has been fucked since last weekend, so take cash...

world aids day 2009

i took the time tonight, after working late and while waiting for my tesco man to bring 12bottles of my favourite dry cava (it was on special - 3 for £10) for xmas.nye...anyway, i took the time tonight to crochet a red ribbon. i sat there and really thought about it and wished i'd done more to support world aids day this year. i'd like to start planning a project now to culminate next december 1st, but not sure exactly what just yet. i'm thinking that maybe i could get my stitch and bitch groups to all come together for the night - each do a square, then auction off a blanket?

but would anyone want a blanket of red ribbons squares...
maybe a better idea would be to all make afghans and only use one red ribbon square per project and auction them all off. or just take on the project meself and create something all on my own.
hmmm...

i've been moved and i don't want to lose this desire to do something and create something, and earn some £££ for a good cause.

any ideas?

venus and mars are alright tonight...

watching the US version of life on mars on the sofa with harvey keitel, just had my first day out of the house in over 2 weeks and it was strange. my fever was up this morning and fell again once the panadol kicked in, but the alien nostril hurt even worse when the codienies wore off...ouch, especially when i sneeze. doclady is happy with the progress though so that is good!

and i've managed to lay out all my om squares and have sooo many pinks that i need to make ALOT of other colours to pad out - but still keep them all warm bases. will make a nice wallhanging/afghan/rug...eventually!

hot water!

well i've now finished almost all the hotwater bottle coxies that are assigned xmas presents.
just talked to my best scandofamily sister seienstyle and her and her electric boy bf are coming over on dec. 15th for our friend samppa's wedding so i think i'll make one for her as well for the cold stockholm nights that she is alone when mr christell is off on tour...

and damn samppa - i was thinking that if we were going to sneak in some paper work it would be that week too. a good idea as everyone will be in town, but don't want to clash too much!

bloody xmas

finally feeling a bit better...still really burning up with fever from the abcess on my rib, but i can move around a bit more! the doclady bandaged it up for me last night and told me to leave it, but i'd already bled through within 3 hours. luckily for me, she trusts me to take care of it myself because of all the body modification that i've done to myself in the past...just wish i could get an immune system so i can do more!!!

until then i'll have to satisfy myself with crocheting designs instead...
finished the jolly roger hot water bottle cozy for the new lil bro-in-law and have started on a nice aum version for my blondeboy. using nice bright blue and a deep fuschia with a bit of varigated thrown in. will be nice for him to take when he is off working away. altho hopefully he'll be getting some london jobs when cardiff finishes as i really really want him here at home to cuddle.

ok - now back to the christmas crochet.
have decided instead of crocheted sushi for the pink tree that i'm going to make black snowflakes for it this year...which means no matter how threadbare the poor thing is getting its going to have to last a couple more seasons!!!

luckiest lady

trying to make myself spend more time sitting up today, as work is freakin out that i am still off and probbly wont be back in this week, and almost the whole weekend was spent flat out in bed - not in a fun way, well not all of it anyway...*wink*...the blondeboy cuddles definitely made me feel better. and he bought special lush foot cream and gave me some lovely reflexology - not bad for someone that hated feet before he got together with me! i have definitely trained mister very well, lol. and darn he does love me...

and blondeboy can cook!
he made the most amazing vegan sunday roast dinner for us last night. mashed swede and everything. yes, my mister blondetoyboy made me yummy scrummy mashed swede to make me feel better. i know he is half italian, and yes i know he has cheffed, but any resemblence to the cooking of the former fiance ends right the f*ck there. because this was definitely the tastiest meal ever cooked for me.

how lucky am i?
and he's giving me his lovely vintage 70s smoked glass dining table for the new kitchen that 'm hating so that i'll hate it even less...reckon the wooden cupboards won't look quite so pedestrian and a bit more swinging wrong once we have the space bubble decor down the end. can i just say now - this table is NOT to be used for scat. thanks!

anyway.
as i am tryin to spend more time sitting up, despite the pain anytime i change position or reach for anything, i've managed in my codeine haze to finish my daughter's xmas pressie hot water bottle cozy, and start a skull and crossbones one for the new lil bro in law. they're good quick projects that can be finished in a couple painkiller sessions...lol. and hopefully look better than the monstrosity that is the pair of mismatched fingerless gloves!

yes, i was very. sick.

ps: loving this designer's stuff!
and can't wait for seienstyle to finish making things out of the book so i can have it...

quickie

quick quick update while the pain meds are working!
and can i just say i never realised how good a HUGE ibuprofen is...

...i actually managed to quickly whip up some mismatched fingerless gloves for myself while the painkillers were kicking in last night, but haven't felt well enough to do the freeform embellishments on the righthand yet.

but at least next time i headout to the docs i'll be cozy.

alien cyst thing

haven't been able to crochet for days - got an alien infected sebum cyst growing on my ribcage and it's now about the size of my hand! so can only sit up for a few minutes at a time as it hurts too much...am taking penicillin to try and dry it up but it's not kicked in yet i'm sure. going to go back to the doctor when they open up as i need to be checked again - my fever is high high high and i want more painkillers.

the morphine patches are for tattooing not medical purposes! lol...

ok back to lying down.

freakfirl

i got some of our team assistant's blonde hair yesterday!!! there was a bit of her hair flicking out weirdly so i offered to fix it - and lopped it off....with her blessing of course...!

i'm not that much of a freak, please.
(well i might do it to my blondeboy)

ca't wait to incorporate it into a nice bit of crochet!

voodoo you do

i have just gone a whole weekend without crochet.
u know what it's like if you have ever had to write an anthropology paper!
but i did get to deliver the mister blondeboy his colourful noro kureyon scarf with my dreadlocks as fringe...and i think he loves it. it looks great on him, i was wearing it last week but it clashes too damn much with my bright orangey hair.

running on empty!

not updated in awhile again as still running busy busy constantly.

making some purple and white jolly roger crocheted flags for pirate night at the ship tonight.

been wearing my black human hair scarf, and it goes great with my new red hair!!!

long time wrong time

i"m not too sure about the silk/alpaca/human hair scarf now...it seems too long.

but am going to keep working on it - need to get some seed beeds to crochet into the fringy bits.

and more noro for the blondeboy's scarf.

details details

life is still getting in the way of my crafting...dammit! spent the weekend with my fishie friend and my blonde loverboy down in bristol and only managed to create one aum square - but its so lovely in its pink and blue brightness!

then last night i finally got to spend a bit of time using up the latest ball of noro kureyon on the loverboy's new scarf...they colourway is still going to beautifully work with using my old red dreads as fringe!

i do wonder if i should feel sorry for the new loverboy though - we are already talkin' about WHEN we live together, not IF. and he's goin' to have to deal with piles of crocheted afghans and amigurumis and plates of yarny sushi everywhere.

luckily he so far does not seem put off at all and finds my fake reindeer heads quite cute...i think alot of it has to do with the fact that he is a hands on craftsperson for a living - being a restorative and artisic plasterer he appreciates he detail in things.

and i may take string and clothes, but he takes dust and makes buildings!

loving it!

tooo much on and not enough time - i'm literally jonesing to keep working on my latest human hair scarf project - its supposed to be for the new blondeboy but he's already worried about the glint in my eye! its out of noro kureyon and the trim will be some of my old dreadlocks - i can't wait to finish it...

it's my second human hair creation and i've already had alot of interest - and as i can't grow hair/dreadlocks very quickly i reckon £1k is a good asking price. so far no one has coughed when i've quoted it - and not bad considering that woman is selling a crocheted plate of (very flat) fish and chips at libery for a bout £600.

absolute bargain!

so why the heck am i so busy?
well new blondeboy mostly and our 6 day weekends, lol - he came to visit and stayed from thursday to tuesday and it was absolutely heaven. 24/7 with only one wobble but that was more daughter induced than lover...phew.

and this whole university thing.
i'm loving it and it's interesting but really slow going...next week we start on the gender stuff so i'll take in a pile of books - included in the pile will be ones that i've edited/written...do you think i can get written off for the gender section maybe???

and finally - my flat!!!
i ordered the new bathroom yesterday, and re-designed my kitchen to match, and they can start on monday - so in 2 weeks i should have a kitchen i'm not ashamed of...but it means i need to clear 20 years of comics and crochet patterns out of the cupboards TONIGHT.

because i want to get the heckout of london as soon as i deliver this new web product tomoro night! we've only been apart 2 days but i miss him horridly - and he's perfect for me as he's a craftsperson for a living - think white trash sex bomb gaudi and that is him! and he layed in bed watching me crochet for hours on sunday morning...and kept telling me how hot i am - he obviously has a hooker fetish.

when life gets in the way.

life is so getting in the way of my crafting!

there is no way i'll have time to go to kniterati this week even though i'm loving the book nudge that we are reading - i can feel it making me smarter i swear, but i've got to go get my face acid washed again to reveal new more youthful skin now i'm fucking a 28 yr old...o wait did i say fucking? its actually a WHOLE lot more, and he loves me. wow.

and i have time to read anymore 'fun' books right now as i have my reading list for to become a very very smart social anthropologist!

and he's coming to london to see me on thursday so i have to train on wednesday which means no knit blub club at all this week. but might make it to fanny minka's shoreditch stitch and bitch this saturday...i'll drag the blonde boy along - i'm easing him in slowly after the last one got all crochet skilledz.

breathe.

up up and away

i am going away and i've not packed any crochet - at all.

i'm not travelling as light as the other weekend as wanted to bring the white boots that i bought last time i was there...and i need my 50s style one piece bathing suit for the sauna!

so this is strange.

but i did add more human hair fringe to my scarf last night!

out of towner

my life is such a rush now - even more so than it was before. and i was bad THEN. now tis worse - but i'm loving being out of london and out of the house every other weekend. especially as it means hanging out in bristol's yarn shop...and in a fancy bed made of jungle vines. it also means less time for hooking, and making sure i have little mobile project that don't take up much room as i like travelling light!

which means unless the weather really turns this weekend, i won't be taking the new yummy black silk and alpaca and human hair scarf i've been working on...damn it's beautiful - i cn't wait to get it photographed properly to show you all. i've used my old hair as the black human hair fringes and it is lush...i even worked on it a bit more when i got home from movida last night, and i can't wait until there is time to make more more more. in the meantime i'll be carrying around and continuing to make bright coloured aums.

while drinking cider on boats.