back hooking

have picked up the crochet again...
...and have had quite a fruitful month.
i've been making jubilee bunting, pirate flag bunting, baby things, and lots of little black skulls to make some sort of window decoration for my bedroom now the ex has finally moved all his shit out and the room is all mine mine mine (well except when the new boytoy is staying over)

here's some tasteful jubilee bunting...also good for fourth of julys!

who is going to iknit wednesday night???

so i found out for sure my friend nicole of blink is having a boy, and finished a project in time to take to her lovely baby shower, it was at a really nice pub that i'd love to go to again - except i can't walk there, so in reality will probably never go again. i took a photo of what i made, but the photos aren't very good so i'll wait til the mom sends me another before displaying here...but at least i finally found a use for some of those skully squares i made awhile back!

now i'm back to finishing up my mom's shrug, but really need another project i can carry around with me...hmmm. because i really really need something to bring with me tomorrow night to keep me occupied while waiting to meet my dead ex husband's birth mother. yup, she tracked me down about six months ago - and it's horridly upsetting that it was about a year after he passed.

she's in london this week for a wedding so i'm going to meet her down the southbank - then at least i'll be close to iknit if i need a bit of moral support afterwards. it's a strange place to be in as we were already separated when he died, but i still wish so much that he was still around just to see how my daughter ravenisis gets even more amazing - especially to hear her sing the blues. he'd be so proud of her too...

...so yea, a strange place.

just spent hours trying to find old photos for his mom and maybe only found twenty that aren't packed away so deep they need a miner's lamp to find. i'm going to try to find a little photo album to put them in tomorrow, something to make them a bit more special than a brown envelope.

so who wants to buy me a beer this time tomorrow night?

new job/new convert

so i started my new job at blue barracuda yesterday and already am trading crochet lessons for fresh baked brownie goodness! my lovely office manager lucy has wanted to learn for ages - so we start next monday...and lucky for me my new place is just opposite the age concern charity shop where i buy my £1 a ball bright coloured acrylic...

...which is all the better to make baby toys with!
i've got to make a quick baby shower gift but don't know the sex of the baby yet so it'll be bright bright bright instead maybe...figure i can knock up one of those 12 pointed celestial stars in time - fingers crossed.

and i've pretty much finished my mom's shrug - just need to put the side seams in!

just back and just married

yup.

sorry went off radar a bit again.

still a bit jetlagged as got in from LAX last night and straight to work today and have my usual tribal fusion bellydance class with the awesome kim tonight. yikes!

while back home i crocheted alot - finished the heart baby blanket for amaya, a cozy for my new vaio netbook, and a shrug for my sis in law. attended my parents' 50th wedding anniversary and had my own halloween wedding. plus walked around on the beach and went to knott's scary farm!

will regale you with many photos once they are uploaded/available!

but i will warn ya'll that i drained a whole battery on just documenting all the handmade items around my parents' house - some as old as a three generations, from my great grandma, and still being used...

baby bear...

so now i've been making baby bear cub hats - completely out of season, but am working out the sizing for bigger sizes than the pattern covers. i've given a size 6-12 mos to my director to try out on one of his twins, and then will meet up with my ex boss on thursday to drop off the 12-18 mos size on my way to relationship therapy...and if i'm in any shape to do it afterwards i will come out and drink margaritas with the iknitters.

if not, then you know next week for sure as its trans night at the pub across the street!

sunday nutroast day?

i really really really don't know what to do and whatever i do is wrong. he's my best friend and my life and i feel horrid and useless, so bad that even the vicodin isn't helping anymore. i'm trying so hard just to get on with things and keep myself busy with gym and crafty bits and have even started accepting dreadlock hair appointments again (ssshhh!) but still the tears are starting to slip out, thank little baby jesus for lancome waterproof blue mascara.

o and nothing went to plan yesterday!
my daughter and i both had womanly monthly pains so she put off moving into her new studio flat. john bloody lewis refused to deliver my new mirrored bedroom furniture up to the 4th floor.
no one in the mood to go to trader vic's for mai tais so we ended up at strada with their lovely fizzy pink...BRUT DI PINOT NERO ROSÉ, Ruggeri Veneto, yum!

so not a total loss. just wish i was meeting my lovely fiance today for sunday lunch.

need nutroast. maybe that would make things all better?
not that i have an appetite. stress diet means i'm back wearing my jeans with ease.