get comfy - its a long one!

if i was in a wheelchair, i could crochet as i was pushed around!

i had this thought when i was walking from my 2nd tattoo meet down to have a pot of tea at shop/do/drink/whatever...which is awesome because it shares the very very nice toilets downstairs with the adult book/sex shop next door. if i didn't already have drawers of 'toys' i'd have side-tracked, but what i really really need is 4-ply! so sounds like a trip to nest is needed - next saturday...

think saturdays are now going to be my girlie stitch days.

so my weeks will be kinda like this:
sunday - tribal/bfatclubff
monday - gym
tuesday - rest
wednesday - tribal fusion/orange wednesdays
thursday - fat club
friday - family home evening usually
saturday - girls girls girls!!! long legs and burgundy lips...girls,girls, girls
dancin' down on Sunset Strip...

which actually makes me try to remember if i ever have crocheted on sunset strip? i'd love to yarnbomb hollywood when i'm back home. this year i reckon i'll keep making the bunting for int'l yarnbomb day - which is exactly a week after i am hostessing the adorable ms. marmitelover's underground craftiversity at her brunch club...please do come along if you can - there will be teacup candle making as well as yummy food! and i'll be teaching crochet too.

and as well as a bit of a teaching gig for ms martmite, which really is more hostessy, which means i really really need a new outfit - especially as i've now lost 20lbs in the last month! but as i'm still losing i will leave it until right before the craftiversity to buy something...although thinking, one of my pretty lacy petticoats will probably be perfect for the day!

ooo, i should crochet some accessories to go with the outfit...but after my little blip yesterday, i definitely got my groove back and worked my perfectly manicured fingernails to the bone yesterday, even working into then night as i didn't go to the bellydance event last night...so i started with resurrecting my all black freeform shawl project, which got sooo many compliments while i was working on it at tea yesterday - especially from the interweave girlies, who may be using my ff clue giving skills at some point! (interesting...)

then i got home, and made a nice placemat for the sitting room table out of some lovely cottony papery twine i got at the poundstore on caledonia rd by the tattoo shop jolie rouge. i'm going to make more but it was a bit tough on my wrist so i'm limiting myself to one a day = last night's was a square, i think tonight's will be 3 flowers joined in a triangle.

then...i decided to make a BIG tote bag out of some of the skully squares that i'd made for my assface bald ex's blanket - it will be perfect to carry scarves and yoga mat, etc when i'm travelling for bellydance workshops! so i've started crocheting together the very very multi-coloured squares with a dark dark soft tweedy charcoal DK.

...and breathe!

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...

girlfriends

i had a really really lovely night last night watching a few of my worlds collide...
i'd been stressing a bit about where to take alpaca for her birthday!
but goddess was blessing me yesterday.

after a big meeting i went to take my clients to a bar on st john's square called the priory.
but twas closed!

i noticed a new rene pierre baby foot table just inside the door and mentioned it to the girl turning us away = then realised we knew each other from cafe kick! she invited me back later that night for their private party and i mentioned that it would be great to bring my birthday girlfriend - gerit (the lovely girl who sorted everything for us) asked if i needed and table - never did i think that she would give us the private area with posh dining table all laid out for a birthday dinner!

so me, mr iknit, and my best designer reirabbit enjoyed the free vodka cocktails while we waited for everyone else...reirabbit just so happens to be another knitter and has her own stitch and bitch down in crystal palace i want to try...but not before i drag her to iknit for a drink or two! so that is my next week sorted then - next wednesday at iknit and next thursday for codemaddy...

...what is this you ask?
well we met up with some brilliant east end guys about my age lastnight and had a blast.
so spending next thursday with them again trying to steal trays.
its. a. long. story. and. you. had. to. be. there.