rain rain go away...

i want to be renegade renegade today!

so i am now toying with the idea of tying my smaller crocheted garlands to the inside of an umbrella and just standing around on brick lane selling my wares that way.  

i'm also wondering if i could add this somehow to a raqis tanoura costume - hiding the crochet under the skirts and lifting layer by layer to reveal crocheted halloween and day of the dead skull items...

still. probably. not. best. for. the. rain.

but just imagine a combination of:

CROCHETED PIRATE BUNTING and long flowing layered skirts!!

also guess i should look into getting a proper indoor stall...ho hum. doesn't feel quite as fun or punk rock.

look at me, posting more than once a week - but i am about to burst with happiness as i got to meet up with the cutest hooker ever yesterday - the talented twinkie chan!!

it was a wonderful afternoon, hosted by the crochet girlie at atfotf - with cupcakes and crochet and making new friends. i have even wrangled the girls from her publisher to start coming along to our sitchups in the clock house on leather lane.

then i came home, and spent some time cruising on the internet - watching the aftermath of the march yesterday unfold on twitter, and looking at more ways to get involved with the relief efforts for japan. so far i have done/plan/thought about the following ways to help:

1. set up a donation link to shelter box for anyone wishing to buy me a birthday present. i'd love 100 of my internet friends and family to donate at least $10 (£6) to this charity that supplies emergency shelter - because if we did that would be $1k...

2. charting an afghan square to create a whole crocheted blanket to auction off for donation to the japanese red cross.

3. start making squares for the 'crochet a rainbow' effort to distribute blankets across the tsunami area of japan. am going to get a date in the diary soon to get my usual stitchers together to make squares one night (with beer of course kids do not worry!!!)

i'm not sure why this disaster has upset me so. maybe it is the memory of katrina and how helpless i felt while my dad's family were back south taking in tons of strangers and maxing out there credit cards to help others. yes, i do come from good stock...my family wouldn't take any help paying off their cards and instead asked people to donate to the salvation army "because they are the charity that stayed when the tv crews left".

yes, i do come from good stock. guess i better do some shit to prove it!

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!

finished!

i've finished my mom's shrug and started an airplane!
but i also need to do my xmas crochet...luckily the latest lion brand newsletter has the perfect crocheted bauble for the pink tree.

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...

ooo...daddy!

happy father's day out there to all the daddies!
it's been a strange weekend around here as my mister has been away working...
so i've had alot of time for training and practising - hard gym session yesterday then yoga yoga yoga today - now i've started tribal, i need as much yoga in my life as possible...the rest of the time i've spend working on a lovely crocheted hip scarf out fo the gedifra amara shiny shiny chocolate yarn. i love this yarn - it is totally my favourite, but i really really wish that i'd bought beads with much bigger holes...reckon i'm giving up on these and will just get on with hand fringing.

which is not any easier as i'm healing my new crochet tattoo!!!!
damien voodoo did such an awesome job, it is definitely the best illustration of a crochet hook i have ever seen - i'm so happy that held out and had him do it for me. i'm back to see him in a couple weeks to start planning the rest of the tattoo - based on the crocheted yarn bombing flowers that i make and leave everywhere...like a yarny gretel, lol!

foolishness begins

omg... it's my birthday on thursday...yes, that is why i have the april fool tattoo...and work just got me the most amaxingly tasty vegan cake! and a really pretty card with a pinup on it, and inside the card, a drawing of the crocheted (traditional) cock and balls....every card has to have a set.

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!!!

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!

feeling the bone

so feeling a bit better today - managed to create a crocheted dog bone as a housewarming present for my friend seienstyle that i'll be staying with in stockholm this weekend- its sooo cute and bright red!

last week

well there won't be anymore bake camps for me.

i really can't face going back and sitting with all the settled down girlie girls again.

especially now that things have gotten sooo messed up.

not really been crafting much the last week or so.

did the race for life with the iknit team and can now add almost £200 to their almost £4k.

i crocheted all the way round the track, but ripped it out the next day as it was too wonky...so have slowly been building it back up.

but nothing else.

i want to make a lovely lacey scarf out of the 2ply that i got from all the fun of the fair the other day, but i can't bring myself to wind it up off the hank by meself.  this fucking messed up relationship thing really really sucks.

will take with me to stockholm in a couple weeks - who knows, it might end up as hair extensions!!!