It’s Color Week here over at Knittybutton. Feel free to join in the fun. Every day I am going to post a picture(s) of something that is the specific color for that day. The more the merrier, so please join me, even if you don’t do it all week long. Pretty please?
Monday- Pink
Tuesday – Orange
Wednesday- Blue
Thursday-Yellow
Friday -Your personal favorite color
Here is my start:
RED = Anger 1. Are you currently mad at someone? Nope!
2. Which of your family members has the worst temper? Why would I put something like that on the ol’ www?
3. Have you ever thrown something at anyone? Not that I can remember. I’m kind of passive when I’m angry.
4. Does your face turn red when you’re angry? My face turns red, well, let’s see… always?
5. When you’re mad, do you prefer to stare angrily or yell? I just get quiet and feel like I’m about to cry, then I shut up and leave before I cry.
ORANGE = Excitement
1. Has anyone ever thrown a surprise party for you? Yes, but my dearest best friend told me that they were, right before we went, because they know I HATE suprises.
2. Do you get easily excited? Yeah.
3. What’s something that you’re most excited about? Going to Europe in March, but even more so, getting married in June!
4. If you won a million dollars, what would be your first thought? Buy a house and pay for Paul to finish school!
5. If you could have anything right now, what would it be? Well, I’d like to be in Moscow…?
YELLOW = Self Discovery
1. Name: Ali
2. Birthday: May 6th
3. What’s your main goal in life? Love the Lord my God with all my heart and soul and mind and be a good wife.
4. Do you want to have children? Absolutely. Lots.
5. When do you want to die? Before I get too old, but not until I live a good ‘n full life.
GREEN = Opinions
1. Are you against gay marriage? Yeah
2. Lower the drinking age? I think it’s a little silly, but I guess they have to make the age at some point… but 21 seems weird.
BLUE = Love
1. Do you love someone? Yes!
2. Do you believe in love at first sight? Yes, but it’s slightly more complicated than that.
PURPLE = Q & A 1.How many beds did you lay in today? Just my own.
2.What color shirt are you wearing? Green and white
3.Name one thing that you do every day. Drink coffee (yikes)
4.How much cash do you have on you right now? Hehe, about 50 cents!
5.Look to your left. What’s there? My printer and a stack of papers that I should be entering into the computer and my notebook of prebilling information.
6.What’s the last piece of clothing you borrowed? Well, I borrowed a veil from my friend Mary, does that count? It’s my ‘something borrowed’.
7.What website(s) do you visit most during the day? Gmail, various insurance/preauthorization websites, medical coding websites, not very exciting.
8.Do you have plants in your room? Nope, no sunlight, no sunlight.
9.Does anything hurt on your body right now? My head because of my migraines, and my back, well, because it usually hurts.
10.What city was your last taxicab ride in? I’ve never, ever ridden in a cab.
11.Do you own a picture phone? Nope, I’m old school like that.
12.Recent time you were really upset? Last night when I was throwing up because of my migraine. Like Erika said on hers, I was sitting on the bathroom floor crying. So sad.
PINK = Last
1.Person you saw: A patient’s wife. Not terribly exciting.
2. Movie watched in cinema: Oh, heh… uh… don’t judge me, Bride Wars.
3. Song you just listened to? Fleet Foxes, White Winter Hymnal (oh yes. So good.)
4. Person you talked on the phone with: Paul
GREY = Today
1. What are you doing right now? I’m workin’.. or something
2. What are you doing tonight? Hot date with Autumn to go to a concert downtown, David Bazan! So excited.
3. What are you going to eat? Well I haven’t eaten anything yet, maybe I’ll eat some of my cheese that I have here at work. Or a granola bar.
BROWN = Tomorrow
1. Is: Saturday and Seattle day! EMP and Buffalo Exchange and University District!
2. Goal: Have fun and avoid another migraine
3. Are you going to laugh? Most likely, because I’ll be hanging out with Charissa and Autumn. I usually laugh with them, and we’ll probably pull out some ABBA songs and some hot dance moves.
Can I just say wedding planning is so fun, and that Martha Stewart is my hero?
Planning is all coming together nicely and we’re nearly done with the reception decorations. The sanctuary will be pretty simple, mostly because there will be a whole lot of people up at the front with the large wedding party we’re having, so not a lot of point in that because it will just be hidden!
Also, mywedding.com is pretty fun, too. I’m finding it harder to finish up at work now that I’ve officially put in my notice for the end of May, especially with a possible trip to Europe on the horizon! I know this has nothing to do with crafts, but I think this blog might end up veering away from that. We’ll see!
I need to start some baby projects for little baby Chuck Skrivan. Any ideas for gender neutral (at least for right now) baby stuffs?
So, I made a totally awesome blanket for my dearest, and shipped it off and now it’s in Idaho and I forgot to take any pictures of it. But it really was an awesome blanket. Since then I’ve picked up a few projects that somehow worked their way to the bottom of my crafting box (well, the bottom ONE of my crafting boxes.. I’ve got several at the moment, way too many 1/2 finished projects!)
This blanket is teaching me patience, perserverance and humility.
I’m using some scrumptious merino-wool blend yarn that’s soft as can be, and really nice to work with. It feels good in your hands. Unfortunately, due to it’s silky nature it shows EVERY little mistake. And if you know me, you know that I tend to just keep going instead of taking it out and re-doing it. Not so with this blanket. If you mess up it SHOWS!
I am not entirely sure how big it’s going to be, because it’s kind of tiresome to work on, but I still have at least 4 skeins of it in my craft bag, and I’ll just use it all up and however big it is, that’s how big it’s going to stay!
Have a great weekend!
Heidi got me a drop spindle for Christmas, and I learned how to make yarn!
It’s pretty hard at first, but once you get going you get the hang of it.
My mom made me a knitting basket! It is so amazing.
I got TWO needle holders for Christmas and I filled BOTH of them up!
If you’d like to take a look at our wedding website, you can click this link here. It’s not entirely completed yet, as I don’t have all the wedding party in there. However, you should still take a look around because it’s pretty fun!
Yay!
So I wanted to share more of my felting fun with everyone:
Unfelted – felted once- felted twice, just so you can gauge how much they actually shrink. Speaking of shrinking, let me tell you a little story about a purse I tried to make…
So I made one large strip: (With a few stripes for good measure)
Then made an even longer skinny strip for a strap:
And then out of the wash came THIS:
And simply put, it just looks ridiculous with that long of a strap. So now I’ll just call it a ‘clutch’ and who knows what I’ll do with it. Any takers?
Good news is that the craft sale was totally awesome and we sold quite a bit of stuff.
Oh and I made more coasters:
And also a tiny little box to put my bobby-pin buttons in.
Alright, I think that’s enough photo’s for now! I’ll let you know if there’s anymore pertinent crafting information I have left off. But for now, that’s all.
I tried my first experiment with felting, and I must say that it went really well. I got some more wool at JoAnn’s tonight and I plan on making more for our craft sale on Saturday. Yep, we’re having a craft sale, if you want details just let me know and I can tell you when and where! It’ll be awesome though.
After the first round of felting and shaping
The corners
I did a little stitch work on the front because it was kind of boring, then I threw it in the wash again to felt once more.
A few of the coasters after felting-round 1
The basket after being felted. And it fits 8 little coasters just perfect!
The coasters after felting- round 2
Some more coasters prior to felting
After two washes they’ll be about 1/2 that size, which I realize you can’t tell how big those are, but they’re about as big as my hand.
And also, I got engaged! Yay and hooray.
bling!
Knittybutton 