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?

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!

yarn.

well i finally did it.

i made it to cafe stitch at the wellcome institute today!
and i loved loved loved it.

there was a really nice group of women there and lovely apricot crumble and gree tea.
yum.

i dint take much yarn with me as i knew i was going to have to run off to the gym, but am thinking of moving my usual saturday training sessions to either earlier or later so i have lots of time to hang out as no one seems to show up til around noon. not that it matters, it's the type of place i might even go sit alone and have cake - and we all know how much i HATE to do anything alone.

in fact, this weekend has really been my first solo weekend in london for a long long long time.
i did get a bootie call around midnight - but i declined so its now tea at claridges with a lovely rockabilly man...think this one will just be a friend though as i'm still not sure what to do with the scandotoy and am still currently really hating my ex assface fiance....

and its 3:36 in the morning and i'm wide awake!