Dainty Kitty

Weekend Recap

At some point this weekend I really did start a post - a whole three or four paragraphs, actually - but I hit the wrong key and...gone.  I have bad blogluck.  My goal for the week is to pick up a wireless adapter so I can use my own damned computer.

This weekend was a brilliant combination of alone time, girl time and email time.   Ginny and I did a bit of shopping on Friday night - it's been ages since I went clothes shopping with a girl who wasn't my mom. 

Then we hit a rummage sale Saturday morning where I came home with loads of crochet and knitting magazines from the forties and fifties as well as some fabric and hooks.  I'll have to take pictures at some point because some of the styles in the magazines are crazy.  I have to admit, though, I did find a couple of things I wanted to make that fit with the whole seventies kitsch thing I want going on in my next pad.  Groovy. 

And lots and lots of emailing with Matt.  :-)

I got my hair did right before Ginny, Lisa and I went out of our Thursday girls night so here's a gratuitous faux-hawk shot:

And Ginny has a terribly terrific shot of Tom - a man at the bar I chatted with and then I took pity on and invited back to our table after he wistfully glanced that way and said, "You guys are sitting over there, right?" 

I need to take some advice from Pam Beasley: "I have decided that I'm going to be more honest. I'm gonna start telling people what I want, directly. So, look out world, 'cuz 'ol Pamy is gettin' what she wants. And, don't call me Pamy."

And no, you can't come back to our table.  It was kind of funny, though.

Sigh, I fear that I have moved to SquareSpace and lost my blogging mojo.  I'm kind of not feeling it for some reason and it's kind if a struggle to come up with things to post about.  Sigh. Weird.

Fun Flickr Game

One more post this morning!

Found via a wonderful blog I recently discovered, A Pillow Monster a Day.

Here is how you play:

• type your answer to each question below into Flickr Search
• using only the first page, pick an image
• copy and paste each of the URLs for the image into fd's mosaic maker

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in your life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your Flickr Name.

 

1. Roses for Emily! 2. Dance 3. Red Flower 4. Frog 5. Actor 6. love you water. i miss you diet coke 7. things in life are free 8. Meltdown 9. Antique 10. Family 11. yawn 12. bertha-final

Here's what's really funny about this: when I posted my little retrospective, my friend Bertha of Karma Kitties commented that she'd participated in the first round of Back Tack as well.  I'm 95% sure we hadn't met on LJ yet so it was funny to type in my Flickr name (daintykitty of course) for this meme and see her project pop up.  They had mistakenly posted that her finished products were going to me! 

2005: A Retrospective

I spent a little bit of time organzing some files on my office computer this morning and came across a slew of photos I'd kind of forgotten about.  They're from when I was digital camera-less and borrowing a co-worker's to sneak (really lousy) shots.  I had my hands in all kinds of crafts then.  I was sewing more and had just learned to knit.  I can't believe I've only been knitting for three years.

I'll start my little retrospective with my very first scarf.  I must have picked up a dozen extra stitches by the time I got to the end of it!  I think I wore it twice but, even though it's pretty hideous, I'll never get rid of it.

A couple of scarves later I made this for Debbie's dog Roxanne for Valentine's Day.  She couldn't wear it until it lost the scent of me because I, for some reason, really excited her. 

For the same Valentine's Day I made a bunch of little Sculpey devils named Boris and sold them to a coworker.  My first real sale!  I hated making the same thing over and over so I really haven't made anything to sell since (except for some bunnies for the same coworker).

2005 was the only time I participated in A Month of Softies (that's the old school, non-Flickr link).  It was a Self Portrait of the Artist as a Child theme.  The tiny fingers were a bitch to turn.

I'm quite a bit happier with this doll I made for Mom that same year.  I think this is one of my very favorite projects and I've been meaning to make one for myself ever since. 

Before I get into more sewing, here's a matchbox shrine I made to, ahem, Elvis Costello.  Can't you see I could be, I could be your spooky girlfriend?

That lyric still stands true for me!

Here are a couple of bags I made.  I still carry both of them once in awhile.  I made a few of the Dainty Kitty ones to sell at a jewelry show at a friend's house.  I didn't sell even one at the show but she bought all three after.  I had big aspirations for that show - I even bought a display trunk - and was going to make several sized bags as well as some embroidered buttons (because I was into that craft,too) but...I got bored. 

I especially love the Strawberry Bag but it got snagged on something last year and I'm going to need to do some repair work before I can use it again.  That's the business card Big gave me when we very first met peeking out of the pocket.  It showed off the pockets of several projects around that time even though moving to Columbus was partially to get away from memories of him.  Believe it or not, I still have that freaking card.  It's in the drawer of a little spice cabinet which was packed up last night.  Kind of sad but...the memory of the night he gave me the card is still a very sweet one. 

And I'm a sentimental pack rat. 

2005 was also the very first round of Back Tack.  It looks like it's been a defunt project for a little over a year now but it was a lot of fun and I'm glad I got to play the first time around.  It's particularly special to me because it's how I met my friend Delly.  You sent fabric and other notions to one partipant who then made a sewing case (at least) for another participant.  Delly sent me the goodies I used to make these as well as the sewing case that I never really got a good photo of. 

So anyway, that's a little glimpse of Dainty Kitty three years ago.  It was kind of fun to recall some of those projects.  :-)

Too Tired to Post

Instead you get two rather poor photos of my dining room that I took a few weeks ago.  First, my martini glass collection and favorite wall in my apartment.  Second, a little arrangement I put together years ago.  I pulled the crate out of my neighbor's trash - it's one my very favorite trash treasures. 

Leaf Peeping: Everyone's Doing It

Cox Arboretum - Dayton, Ohio - October 21st, 2007

And a purposely over-saturated photo of me that I kind of like.   

Picnik

I found a new toy (even though it's been around for ages, I'm sure).  Picnik - for editing photos and doing lots of cool things to them.  This is a photo of my brother and I last Thanksgiving in Charleston, South Carolina.  I never liked it but now that I've "Lomo-ish"ed it, it's more appealing.  Neither of us look very happy for some reason.  We were, I'm sure, though....

I'm wearing my favorite five dollar Target Halloween t-shirt.  A little trivia: Wanda Sykes (as Barb) wore one on an episode of The New Adventures of the Old Christine.  I always buy one or two Halloween shirts per year and they already have them out but I don't remember being wowed by any this year. 

Hmm, things are pretty boring around here.  Crocheting is getting in the way of keeping a clean house, though.  I'm neglecting all kinds of things as I finish the monkey from the Mr. Funky book as well as a scarf I started the other night.  Egads, crocheting is so easy and satisfying.  I borrowed the first two seasons of News Radio from the library and have been happily crocheting as I remember just how good that show really was. I have two knitting projects - the Booga Bag and the fingerless mittens that have totally been set aside.  I glance at them as I dig through my tote bag but haven't picked either of them up for a long time.  I do want to finish the bag before I leave for Florida at the end of the month, though. 

A rep just brought me a piping hot piece of pepperoni pizza from Flying Pizza (yum) so I think I'm going to take a moment to enjoy it before it gets cold....

 

A Glimpse of Things Other Than Cats That Live in My Home

After the AleFest, Jake and I stopped at the grocery store for an onion and vanilla ice cream (onion for him, ice cream for me to go with the delicious oatmeal cookies he'd bought at Trader Joe's earlier in the week).  As we passed a cart of discounted plants and flowers,  I had to stop. 

I came home with a Cyclamen ($2.99) which I transplanted (pot on sale at Lowes for $2.99) as a thank you for my parents who treated us to pizza and salad at Dewey's (in fact I'm warming up leftovers right now) and a mini rose bush ($2) for myself.  I'm not sure if the rosebush will bloom anymore - I can't find any buds on it - but it was too pretty to pass up for a mere two bucks.  The daisies and the lovely Muppet looking yellow flower are what remains of the birthday flowers I received from the office (Season Three Sept 4th - woot!).  Daisies are my favorite flower for for many reasons - the fact that they continue to hold their color and live for weeks is just one of them. 

I also came home with a new pet, aptly named Wednesday.  Who can pass up a Venus Flytrap for only two dollars?  Not me! I transplanted her into a cute blood red pot I also got on sale for $1.99. You're supposed to pot them in soil made for African Violets so I'll have to make another stop for a bag of that and a mister (as in the type that softly sprays water, not the type that means a new boyfriend) as you're supposed to keep the soil damp.  Last year I had a plant (named Gomez) which had leaves that would curl up when you touched them.  Gomez was totally awesome but, unfortunately, he didn't last long.  I'm not sure if it was the transplanting, where I had him in the room or the fact that I couldn't stop touching the leaves every time I walked by that killed him.  So I'm really going to try harder with my second vaguely creepy plant.  My apartment is pretty bug free so I'm also resisting the urge to go outside and find a few to feed to Wednesday because...well, that's kind of gross.

Ahem, Wednesday is also quite a lush and spends all of her time hanging out at the bar.  It's a bit embarrassing really. 

And I leave you with a quote from Henry David Thoreau...and my yucca plant.   

AleFest 2007

1. Jake & Emily Take One, 2. Unfinished Object, 3. AleFest 2007, 4. Dad with Beer, 5. Jake & Emily Take Two, 6. AleFest 2007, 7. Jake vs. The Invisible Boyfriend, 8. Black & Tan, 9. Jake & Emily Take Three

Tuesday: Lunch at the Park

Squirrel was none too happy with me today but he was so close and so cute…I had to go get my camera. I’ve started leaving my camera in the car when I go to the park for lunch…otherwise I’d have a million photos of trees, squirrels, robins and frogs – photos that are really only special to me.

The pond is full and the frogs have disappeared but the fish are more active. Yesterday I was entertained by tiny fish, an orange koi who would have nothing to do with my scraps of bread and a giant carp that swooped up like a whale to grab the larger pieces with his fat pink lips. Today I watched this squirrel and finished eating early so I could just walk around, trying to find the woodpecker I’ve seen a few times or maybe the cardinal who sat in a nearby tree for awhile and watched me eat with his head cocked, beady eye fixed in my direction.

Instead I found an inch worm.

Color Week - Purple & Blue