i have created a monster...or at least anothr hookr!!

birthday suit

tonight at knitclub was so lovely - not been to an iknit evenin in ages and it was so lovely to catch up with everyone and make new friends again, but also to teach my friend jo the birthday girl! she is an amazingly quick learner and her crochettension was perfecto...such a pleasure to watch her churning out stitches. i've created another happyhooker! and i've convinced all the girls to bring our crochet out to the charlotte street hotel tomoro night...posh cocktails stitch and birthday bitch.

busy bee

busy busy busy
work work work
now need play play play!!!

and today i needed beer beer beer!
so i took my lovely girlie designer reirabbit to the dovetail bar for a leffe.
while we were talking, about burlesque and stuff and it turned out she's a stitch and bitcher too! so she's coming to iknit with me next week...but first tomoro night i'll be headin there with my friend jo roach. she's really interested in the geeky links with knitting/crochet/technology and doin a film on it - so her first step is coming to iknit with me tomoro to meet everyone and learn to crochet!

then saturday after i get my eyebrows tattooed, we are all yarnbombing the tunnel...

it's finally hitting me

conflict weakens, while harmony empowers.

those were the words of wisdom from my harper's july horoscope.
and its true and i try every morning to wake up empowered but the loneliness is finally hitting me...

...so another week/another blog post...another session on the sofa with my daughter -
we have a lovely bottle of pink pinot grigio- probably about the only thing italian i can stand in my life anymore! altho it will wear off - i was the same when it went sour with the gorgeous half greek/nigerian and couldn't eat mezsze for ages, and the same when Pink Floyd my huge goldfish died - that was when i went pure vegan...i couldn't face sushi.

my vegan is slipping more and more...it definitely was the fake egg that i bought for bake camp that did it - buying something so wrong didn't seem right - so still keeping to what i call urban vegan, and huting out good organic local free-range dairy products if i'm gonna have them - rather than fake fake fake. altho saying that i guess i'm now the equivalent of those single men that eat whatever can be bought at the 24hr garage - as i'm living off humus (lucky i do greek now, lol) from the corner store - luckily they have a latelicense and sell pink wine til 1am!

sorrry - i've just realised that i've not written anything about crochet or craft or even trashiness.
but i did spend yesterday up on my roof crocheting more oms.
i've always found crochet meditative, even more so making these...

for every ying there is a yang

the interwebs is lovely isn't it?
it brought me ravelry...and a way to find many many many crochet patterns!
it's also brought my yummy old parisian ex back into my life after many many many years.
and i'm hoping he still has the photos he took of all the crocheted dresses i was designing back in the later 80s.

the interwebs can also suck.
if i din't work in the industry i'd not have wasted the last 2 years of my life with someone i met at a job interview and i would't be angry and 46.

oki...back to chanting while i keep crocheting in pretty bright colours...

for august 1st

spent some time this morning gathering crocheted bits and bobs for yarnbombing the tunnel.
so far i have a bag which contains
an ohm
2 pieces of big black shawl type lace
a starfish
and other bits

i need to remember to get the bag flowers from my cupboard at work!

fuck love

alix was great spinning on the plinth last night!

and i've now got quite a few ohms...they are definitely the new skulls

kniterati

went to the kniterati book club the other night - its the first time i've actually managed to finish a book club book ever...well, not ever but in recent history. i really enjoyed the book 'restless' and really want to read everything else by the authour william boyd. but this month's read is alan alda's biography which i wouldn't have chosen myself but am looking forward to reading it nonetheless.

and it's worth it just to go to the group!
i really really cherish the time there with my new dear friends.
and hopefully we will be having a mad time this saturday night together.
the again on monday night as alix will be on the plinth....

back from ibiza

managed to crochet ohms.

but the dogbone that i made was very well received by my friend neil's dog scratch!

i was in town late one night and left it in their big gold door knocker as a secret admirer present and when they came down in the morning doggie scratch went made...so neil could tell that it was left by someone that they knew well as my scent was all over it. then when i saw them she stayed at my feet the whole time.

aw...i already miss them.

do have to say that spending time drinking red wine with neil was more healing and therapeutic than any relationship counselling session that i had here in london with alla - even with her russian accent. he made me realise that i deserve so much better, and that i should no longer give a fuck at all...but most importantly he talked me out of giving up.

however the outcome is i am really starting to hate my x rafrasilecs.

if he ca't be bothered to talk to me about breaking the engagement then what can i do?