busy bee

so it's been busy busy for me since valentine's day.
busy visiting friends, working, drinking vodka, and having horrid migrainey flu.
i cannot wait to havce a nice steam tomoro at the gym!

and this is a little something that i made while home on the sofa sick sick sick:
she is a dead mommy bee...based on the pattern by ana, but enhanced alot - to the point i wonder when it becomes an homage, as i changed the antenna, the face, body, and wings...so basically tweaked it all, and love the way it turned out.

i'm finding that i'm really tweaking her patterns alot lately (again) i love ana's amigurumis and find they are such an inspiration...big props to her!!!

mama stitch and fish

yes - i know this photo was taken yesterday and i still had my pink xmas tree up. i wanted to actually leave it up til valentine's day like i have in previous years, but took it down this evening. but only because i scored a pale pink feather and fibre optic tree in the sales that is even more perfect for valentine's day!!! so now i need to crochet some hearts to go on it!

well, to be truthful, o dear - really truthful - i have NOT been crocheting up a storm at all. tis really only the last couple days that i have been finishing off some amigurumi presents for utah family that i promised when i saw them all back home last october! 2 fishes and a plane and a turtle all need to be posted soon...now just got to find some lunch hour time to post them!

but it probably will not be tomorrow, because i'll be getting some anti-inflammatory rx's filled so i can get my left hip back to normal before tribal bellydance on wednesday night. an old kick/thai boxing injury has reared its ugly head and set off a bad bout of bursitis that i pray dies down sooner rather than later. last time i had it i had to give up my daily run - which is also the same time i started getting ALOT curvier.

so guess i better coutneract the less movement again with less food - and more exercising of the crochet muscles!

so what has everyone else been up to?

blue xmas

i've been making blue sparkly crocheted ornaments for my pink tree...

...everytime i look at them they make me smile as they REALLY do look like amigurumi butt plugs!

heart shaped box with tassels!

life is still manic but may be opening up a bit so i can talk about it this weekend...we'll see! in the meantime i've not been doing much crafting but i did find this lovely interesting link for all you crafty geeks out there! its a geeky hacked sewing machine...

and last night i was summoned to coco de mer in covent garden to see/listen/catch up with the amazingly sex positive feminist susie bright - who is also a keen dressmaker! she was wearing a really lovely dress that she made herself that had ruching up the front - i want one. maybe if i ever do make it to see her when i'm visiting back home i'll get her to help me whip one up *wink*

so tonight i'm looking forward to a quiet night in. i've got susie's new dark erotic anthology 'bitten' to read, and i am still creating crocheted tassels for my freeform project (which has got superbly de-railed now) and also belly dancing costumes!

oh! and i've had some mega belly dancing/training epiphanies this last week - don't understand why it took me over 20 yrs to get it. my body has always been really lopsided, okay not bad like my dear friend roz kaveney's (i am sooo angry at the NHS!) that i saw last night, but my hourglass is more curvy on one side then the other...so while struggling to do the bellydancing move 'the ami' on my left side, it finally fucking hit me.

my god damn double uterus heart shaped box carrying my pregnancy on the left side of my body only and having c-section probably has impacted on the ability to do a belly roll from my right side (fine side) under and to my left oblique. duh!!!!! so now i'm working extra hard and re-engaging those muscles - so am practising my undulations as i crochet.

how's that for multi-tasking til the shit really hits the fan this weekend?

flower power!

so you all know how i've just kinda been spinning my wheels treading whatever, water or something...waiting til i have the yarn needed to finish all my projects, or the stuffing to make more rabbits and piranha flowers and other amigurumi. and i'm off to canterbury this weekend (but i'm not allowed to order unicorns on room service) and gonna hang out with my mildly diverting mater who used to be the most amazing home economics teacher!

i've been warned that she's not going to know what to make of me, so what is she going to think when i resurrect the spring yarn bombing project that my fishie sister and i started last year? crocheted flowers to attach to bushes to get the springtime feel early! and i have found this great pattern - slightly 3D and still firm enough to tie to bare little twigs...thank you so much salihan crafts for making this available free online - you have no idea how many flower patterns i went through before i found the perfect one.