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true geek craft by matt
see? they are COOL!

And Some Crafty Stuff...and chatter

Gardeny crafty: made labels for the veggies out of a "Simply Limeade" bottle, then duct taped them to bamboo sticks. Not sure the tape will hold up but didn't really have another option right now.

Knitting: the HP shawl is on the back burner, i think I will start on it again soon. I have been knitting dishcloths 'cause they are easy and mindless.

Painting: I am actually painting something. Granted it's on a canvas about 2"x2",but painting nonetheless. If I finish it, I will post a pic.

Baking: I made banana bread waffles. Which is to say, I made banana bread batter, and then cooked it in a waffle iron ( not a Belgian one.) They are tasty and good, and easy to toast. I would recommend this, it's yummy and different, not a muffin and not a loaf. However, since one waffle is about a 1/2 cup of batter, I don;t recommend them AS waffles, for, you know, breakfast. That would be like eating a stack of large muffins! ugh. Needs no butter or syrup though i think it would be really good with ice cream...


I saw Pirates of the Caribbean on Friday. If you can do it, I recommend going to their late show opening weekend. Then you get to see the movie early, but no one likes the late show so it's not crowded. I saw Shrek this way too, highly enjoyable, if you don;t mind being up late anyway, Pirates is 3 hours or close to it, I got out at 2:30 am! eek.
Anyway, I liked it, it was fun.
I also saw night in the museum last night as a rental on the advice of several people. I don;t care for Ben Stiller much anymore, same old schlock. But people would say , oh but this is different, or you work in a museum, it's funny! (from other museum people.) Well, it was ok. It's a very fancy museum to only have two staff people and one security guard...=P and Capuchin monkeys are NOT FROM AFRICA, they are from SOUTH AMERICA!! How do they DO this stuff?! And get away with it? IT"S ABOUT A MUSEUM! Good gravy, if we had an exhibit about the Serengeti, and put capuchin monkeys in it, we would lose some creditability or something. It's almost as bad as calling apes monkeys.. ARARARAR... The monkey was obviously a key player but a chimp would work as well...that's why PIRATES had parrots and monkeys, they are from the new world and all trendy and stuff.. arrrrg. OHhhhhhh god did that bother me. =P It shouldn't, its a Hollywood silly comedy movie. but it DOES.
But it was ok.

OOoo!

Now it's a knitting bag... !
I added a bit to the tutorial page, but not an actual tutorial, I'd need to do this again to know what I'm talking about, this was all by the seat of my pants. I made it up as I went.

Like it?

Make it!

The Veiw from Here

Craftyness for today:
I have been a big fan of old window panes as art or decor for a long time. I have several of these things lying around waiting to be turned into objects of beauty and wonder. The main one, a 6 pane thing, I started painting on ages ago and have yet to get back to. It will have birches in the wind, 'cause I love birch trees and their delicate little leaves. But that's someday.
Today I pulled a glassless one out and used this paper I got at Art/Media (one of the places here to find lovely papers and stuff.) that I LOVE and tried to put it in the frame. It was unfriendly, but I got it in. I think I would much rather glue stuff onto glass next time. And I am not super happy with the little flower doodads that I painted. But 1) my paintbrushes are in very sad need of replacement and 2) I was to lazy to really put the effort into making them look better. They will do. But this project is definitely more craft than Art. The other piece will be a work of Art. Like many of my works of Art, it's definitely in the right place, unfinished, and in the closet.

Craftyness

Tank top, finally, a pic, here:















The Harry Potter shawl, looks more like a sparkly bat ray right now:












And cupcake and card making for volunteer apprication week at my work. We made 90 cupcakes and two kinds of buttercream and about the same amount of cards. Here are some I did today( We didn't get em all done last night.)












freezer full o' cupcakes:

get well

One of our volunteers is having heart trouble at work. One of my co-workers asked that I make a card for him. (I have done some graphic art for this coworker before.) And I said I would. This gentleman is a great man, who has done a whole lot of cool things in his life and I hope he gets well quickly and without trouble. He will be back in no time, I hope.
Anyway here is the graphic for the card.