Wacky iPod Shuffle Wednesdays

Wow!

::blinks::

Wednesdays rock around really, really quickly :)

Here's your helping for today:

1. Hip Hip Hooray - Sneaky Sound System
2. Let It Be - The Beatles
3. Vogue - Madonna
4. Summer Rain - Belinda Carlisle
5. You've Lost That Loving Feeling - The Righteous Brothers
6. You're So Vain - Chocolate Starfish
7. Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
8. Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver (anyone else remember doing this song at singing in primary school?)
9. Penny Lane - The Beatles
10. One of Us - ABBA

Hmmm, a bit Beatles heavy today. Not that that's a bad thing!!

Baby's been a bad, bad blogger...

::sigh::

Sorry about the lack of meaningful posts.

I feel quite bad for my readers (if I actually have any - and if I don't it only serves me right for not posting regularly). The only real excuse at the moment is that life has been a bit crazy busy, what with starting my new job etc, etc, etc.

Just as an indication of how frantic things have been, last week I had two after-work 'presentations' to attend, swimming lessons on Monday, the Foxtel Lap Fundraising Event on Friday morning, cinema Saturday morning to see 'The Women' with my cool aunt for her birthday, Black Tie Ball to attend for work on Saturday evening, Pink Triathlon on Sunday morning, collapse with exhaustion on couch Sunday afternoon and back to swimming again yesterday afternoon.

Eep. No wonder I feel a bit tired and rundown, and my slightly sore throat is not really helping matters.

Well! Enough of the pity party ;)

Here's some proof that I have actually been doing things of a crafty nature (apologies in advance for the photo-heavy post - but hey, I haven't really been posting at all, so if you want it to continue, best you stop ur b!tching!!!)

First cab off the rank is a knitting needle cozy I whipped up about two weekends ago. Have wanted one for yonks but could never find one that wasn't in nanna fabric. Not that I have anything against nanna's, it's just I'm a tad young for that!!

I didn't work from a pattern, just kind of worked out how wide and long it would need to be and then marked out where the seams for the needle pockets had to be, according to the sizes of the needles. I did forget to insert the ribbon tie into the hem before I top-stitched, but I solved that by sewing it onto the front after I lightly quilted around the pattern and it has worked out just fine!!

I also finished my first big swap on Swap-Bot. Theme was 'A to Z Whimsy' swap, and I had to send to a lovely lady in the US, who has four super cute little boys. I didn't get a photo of all the stuff unwrapped, but this one is of the items all parcelled up and ready to go! I made a Fimo xylophone for the letter 'X', had buttons, a handmade pincushion, lollies, stickers, scented erasers and goodness knows what else in there!!!

Next is a selection of fabulous crocheted doilies I got from the OP shop for the princely sum of $4.80. Good lo'!!!! Their fabulousness knows no bounds. I fear I am becoming a trifle obsessed with lacy doilies...altho' this is not necessarily a bad thing!

I think this one is my favourite...

And finally, my fabric binge continues! Best of all is that Spotlight had quilting and craft fabrics on special (end of line apparently) for $8.00 and $3.00 a metre! Insanity. I don't have pics of all of the great fabrics I picked up on special (bwahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!) but trust me when I say that they were awesome!!! I now have far more fabric than one person probably needs :)

The fabric in these photos came from Etsy, all the way from Japan from kimonoreincarnate. And they rawk!!!! I especially love love love the teensy hedgehog peg clip that perfectly matches the fabric!! Loves!!

Even the parcel was cool! No standard sticky tape for the uber-cute Japanese - this masking tape has a cute pattern on it! I am soooooo jealous!

Wacky iPod Shuffle Wednesdays

La, la, lalalalalaaaaaaa, dum-de-deeeeeeeee..

That's about as close to me singing as you want to get! Despite my most bestest wishes, I sound like a skinned cat when I sing. I think it is best for everyone if I limit it to quiet little "la-la-la's" :)

The list for today...

1. Piece of my heart - Janis Joplin
2. Jump around - House of Pain
3. Long Day - Matchbox 20
4. Help Yourself - Tom Jones
5. 1999 - Prince
6. Lost - The Badloves
7. Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
8. Good Times - Jimmy Barnes with INXS
9. Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley (this one is getting played at my future wedding. If I ever get married...!!)
10. Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith

::Phew::

Nothing too embarrassing there (not like last week...)

How good are...

...cupcakes.

Vanilla cupcakes.

With choc-cherry frosting.

Or better yet,White Chocolate Buttercream.

::drools::

Made 'em meself ;)

Diagnosis: Delicious!

Wacky iPod Shuffle Wednesdays

Geez - I've been a bad blogger...no crafty updates.

Ooops!!

Do not despair dear reader (if there are any of you out there - raise your hand and wave...) more updates will be forthcoming over the next few days.

But anyhoo....guess what day it is?

That's right! Wednesday!! Which means its time for ::drumroll pleez::

WACKY IPOD SHUFFLE WEDNESDAYS (and the crowd goes wiiiiiiilllllllldddddd.....)

1. Here Comes The Rain Again - Eurythmics
2. Eight Days A Week - The Beatles (one of my all time fave songs)
3. Angels - Robbie Williams
4. Just Hold On - The Basics
5. Annie's Song - John Denver (anyone else learn this on the recorder at school?)
6. Orange Crush - R.E.M
7. Burn For You - John Farnham *blushing*
8. French Kissin' In the USA - Blondie
9. Come Out and Play - The Offspring
10. Sexy Eyes - Whigfield

Wow! Lucky The Offspring were in there, otherwise it was all going to be a trifle 'easy-listening-pop' ...

;)

New job...Days 1 and 2

So I started my new job yesterday.

It's.....different ;)

Different because where I was working was a large open plan office, with heaps of other chicks (yeah, that's right CHICKS!!) and lots of interaction between everyone.

My new desk is in a small 'pod' with four cubicles - only three of which are occupied - where we all have our backs to each other.

Instead of open plan, we have 7 foot high walls surrounding us - with an opening at the top, so that you can hear everyone around us...but can't see them.

::sigh::

Any the other occupants are two guys.

::sigh::

It's just not the same.

They don't really get the gossip. The talk about shoes. The talk about clothes. The whining about Mr WKDN. The quirky news articles I like to share with my co-workers. They don't understand my need for my George Clooney and Daniel Craig ::drool:: pictures. There's no sharing of sweet, sugary snacks in the afternoons, nor 3pm smut talk.

I suspect that they would not notice if I had my head shaved.

::sigh::

Oh well. I'll get used to it. I suppose. Eventually.

::sigh::

Wacky iPod Shuffle Wednesdays

So, I have very umm, eclectic music taste. Eclectic would be the polite way to put it!

In the vein of www.noappropriatebehavior.blogspot.com 's devotion to music (I heart how the blog post titles are song lyrics and although I could never pretend to even remember most song lyrics, I tewtelly dig it!!), each Wednesday I will post a selection of 10 random songs that appear on my iPod when it's on shuffle. Obvy, there will be some duplication from time to time, so, because this is MY blog, I will use my discretion to substitute any previously mentioned song for the next song.

Without any further ado (::drumroll::):

1. Fire Water Burn - Bloodhound Gang
2. Dirrty - Christina Aguilera
3. Who the F**k is Alice - Torpedos
4. You're So Good To Me - The Beach Boys
5. Rock The Boat - The Hues Corporation
6. Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye) - Cold Chisel
7. She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze (cringes slightly...)
8. Head Over Heels - ABBA
9. Complicated - Avril Levigne
10. The Rose - Bette Midler

Yeah.

Eclectic.

Busy as a bee ......bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

Whew!!

::wipes sweat from brow::

I had a HUGE sewing weekend. Started off Saturday with a 70km round trip. Just. To. Get. Some. Yarn.

Yep, seems that the yarn I was using for my afghan blanket is a Lincraft proprietary brand. There is now only one Lincraft store in the Perth metro area. In Whitfords. Which is approximately 30 kilometres from my place.

::Sigh::

So I set out on my intrepid journey, thinking that I would be super sneaky and pop into two other craft / fabric chain stores on my way home. Ones in different suburbs than I would usually go to. Northern suburbs (I'm a SOR - South of the River - gal). So, all is going well. I get what I need from Lincraft, and set out back onto the freeway to Osborne Park / Innaloo (stop yer sniggering...it's pronounced as it looks and it is a real suburb. For the people from the US of A who are unaware, a 'loo' is a bathroom. That's right In-A-Loo...or In-A-Bathroom if that works for you).

Anyhoo, I CANNOT FIND THE STORES I AM LOOKING FOR!!! One appears to have been razed to the ground and is now a construction site, but the other...::poof::... gone. WTF??!?

::rolls eyes::

So after circling the block three times, I throw in the towel and head back SOR to safe and familiar suburbs where I know where the stores are. Success!!

No pics of my spoils as MR WKDN is away visiting his family for a family reunion, and hence has taken 'HIS' camera with him. Pfft.

But, I got my yarn...plus more contrasting yarn...plus a cable needle...plus some fabric for more Sergei's (Sergei's recipients older sister has put in a special request. We'll see what Santa can manage, shall we!!)...plus some letter stamps...plus a zipper...plus the extra fabric for the MIL's bag...plus some cool Moda Sock monkey fabrics...plus a couple of stray fat quarters. That is all ;)

Well, I sewed and sewed and sewed....and then sewed some more! Broke one needle and two nails ::sigh:: oh well, that's what you get.

I made a small bird stuffie as a gift for a work friend (from www.spoolsewing.com), one large and one small bags WITH ZIPPERS!!! (from www.dragoknit.blogspot.com) I should just point out that this is an EXCELLENT tutorial. I only had to refer to it for the first bag I made. For the second I did it from memory. That is how simple and easy to understand the tute is. I finished the MIL's bag. It turned out quite a bit larger than I was imagining, but I am still quite pleased with it (she's only a little lady and she could near on use the bag as a pup tent, but I figure with 7 grandkids and another on the way she's gonna need a big bag!!). No pattern for the bag as I just made it up as I went, but it did have a crewel embroidery panel I did myself a few years ago as the front panel.

Then onto the papercrafts for birthday cards to go with the gifts I'm preparing for the October-birthday-a-thon we are experiencing here.

Plus I knitted about 6 afghan squares. Which, whilst it might not sound like much, I do have RSI so have to take things real careful (it's a bummer when a work inflicted injury takes such a toll on your leisure time...), so 6 whole squares is quite an achievement!!

Wow. That is a LOT of stuff (for me anyway) as well as getting in a short run on Sunday, grocery shopping on Saturday, cleaning, washing, dishes, general household maintenance etc and a swim on Sunday.

I'm exhausted all over again just thinking about it ;)

ZOMG! October birthdays = crazitime...

Good lo'....

What the heck is it about birthdays in my & MR WKDN's families in October.

We've got (count 'em) my aunt (1), Mr WKDN's Mum (2), Nephew (3), my niece (4), Mr WKDN's godson (5), my friend (6) and, and, I'm sure there's at least one other one in there...maybe another of Mr WKDN's nieces?

So 7. Approximately.

::wipes sweat from brow::

I am going to be ker-azy busy making stuff for gifts.

I've already sorted a set of fabric coasters for my aunt (which are finished); a tote bag for the MIL (partially finished - I ran out of fabric...); you've met Sergei who will go to the nephew and of course Sadie the monkey and her clothes for my niece.

Hmmmm, who does that leave? My friend; the godson and the remaining niece. And to finish the tote bag. Eeeep.

::wanders off muttering about cold autumn nights spawning springtime babies...::