Louella’s Sweater

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Ali

I was so lame and forgot to get a picture of Louella’s sweater before I gave it away. And now it FITS her, so she was so nice to model it for me last night.

She makes a pretty good model, no?

It’s good to sometimes see that the things you make actually fit real babies. Sometimes my proportions are all off, since I don’t have a baby to gauge things by, I don’t always know what works…

I just am totally in love with the top.

I’m just so glad to see that it will actually get some use from a real live baby! And a cute one, at that!

Purple and White later tonight.

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Ali

I don’t normally get this much done at a craft night.

But it’s coming together nicely! I can’t believe that I knit this in five separate pieces and without even trying the stripes lined up perfectly! I have no idea how in the world that happened.

I kind of forgot buttonholes until I was already halfway done with the 2nd front half. Soo… guess this one is going to have toggle buttons or something? I haven’t quite gotten that far. So, now all I need is to block it, weave in the 10,000 loose ends (Stripes! Why do I even knit in stripes! It makes SO many more ends to weave in!), figure out buttons! And then it’ll be done!

Purple And White

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Ali

So I am aware that this doesn’t look like anything right now.

But later tonight, oh, it’ll be something.

Paul is crafty, too.

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Ali

Yesterday Paul got some fabric markers and decided to draw on the back of one of his sweatshirts.

(Paul drawing)

(Preliminary sketching)

(Outlining the sketch, right. Original, left)

(Paul wearing the finished product)

Pretty cool, no? He wanted to have a hoodie that had the Grumpy Joe Vandal on it. Joe Vandal is the U of I mascot, and apparently back in the day (I’m not sure how long ago) the logo had a grumpy Joe Vandal on it, but you can’t find it anywhere so he decided to just make one!

Succulent Garden

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Ali

Since I don’t have room for a garden (And we were moving right when we should have already had plants in the ground) I opted for a cute little porch garden, which is completely portable. I’ve been collecting succulents when I see them at the store or at the farmers market, and now I’ve got a pretty good little collection!

(Succulent Garden, front stoop)

I got this guy at the farmers market this morning to add to my collection.

Facelift and Saturday Stuff

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Ali

I gave the blog a little facelift! I was kind of bored of the really clean setup I had before. The only thing is that I can’t get rid of the huge fonted “KNITTYBUTTON” right at the top. It’s the only thing I don’t really like about this one, but otherwise I’m pretty fond of how it turned out. What do you think?

In other news:

(Farmers Market Peaches)

(Farmers Market Heirloom Tomatoes)

(Farmers Market Blueberries)

But my very, very favorite from today were these beauties!

(Crazy huge sunflowers)

(Shaggy sunflower in Kombucha bottle)

(Shaggy sunflower in milkglass vase)

(Sunflower trio)

I just can’t get enough of these sunflowers. I wish I had more of them to spread the joy around the house. Does anyone (Mom?) know what variety those are? I can’t ever remember seeing crazy ones like that before!

Icky thumb

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Ali

I am getting ready to say goodbye to my fingernail… it’s going to fall off pretty soon.

It doesn’t hurt much anymore, but I am afraid that once the fingernail falls off it might be really tender! I am kind of a wimp, so I am trying to keep it on as long as possible. I’m afraid to play my guitar or do too much with my hand for fear I will accidentally hit it and knock it off.

A new sweater and other things

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Ali

I started this new sweater on Thursday. I am excited about it, you’ll know why when I’m done.

It’s purple and cream. I love purple and cream!

Also, I got a jade plant to go into my succulent garden on the front stoop.

I haven’t potted it yet, but I’ll get around to it one of these days. But I can’t spend any more time outside right now because of this:

No, it’s not cloudy. Nope, it’s not foggy. It’s smoke and dust. It’s disgusting. And it makes it extremely hard to breath for me.

Anyway, we’re trying to keep indoors and keep the air clean inside our humble abode.

The Accidental Awesome Dinner

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Ali

Tonight’s dinner was a thrown together mish mash of what we had on the fridge.

I had an onion, tomatoes, eggplant and cucumber. I chopped them all up into bite size pieces and tossed them into the oven for 20 minutes, then tossed them all into a pan and let it all simmer for about 20 more minutes and then added a bit of cream cheese.

I served with quinoa, delish.

It was a tasty, tasty, tasty dinner.

The veggies can be substituted with just about anything you’ve got in your fridge, as long as you’ve got tomatoes. The quinoa could be substituted with rice, cous cous, pasta, whatevs.