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i'm too sleepy to come up with a title. i suppose that's what happens with 8am classes and reading all of, "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War." it was a valentines present from KidTerror and it was chosen very well, i suspect it took me around 5 hours of solid reading to finish it. i would have managed to accomplish this in one sitting had i been able to ignore all obligations but i'm pretty pleased the time it took me and how awesome the book turned out to be. most people would probably find it frightening and strange but i was fascinated with the realistic depiction of zombies. it was refreshing and very engaging. i'll definitely re-read it.

this past weekend was wonderfully spent with KidTerror and we remained fairly sequestered in our house which always makes the weekend more enjoyable. we had a valentines day early where i received a TON of chocolates and a hilarious and sweet card:

 

if you find the awesome nature of this card incomprehensible then by all means look up "hentai."

the card was and still is my favorite part about this valentines day because to me it says alot about KidTerror and why i love him. he's a quirky, funny, clever, and caring man that i feel privileged to have in my life. i know it's cheesy but i really think we have a 'forever love' and i look forward to experiencing it with him for as long as i can.

i also dyed some silk hankies, although i think i might need to dye more. any thoughts?

although they aren't really my colors i like the way they blend and it was fun to paint the hankies.

 

i love my grumpy dolls, too bad Panda's eyes were too wonky to photograph him....

what happened to being warm?

i miss being warm so much.....

i have random pictures to share!

some of the yarn i dyed with hope, i really like the bright colors. it reminds me of candy and spring.

some of that yarn in action, notice how a ssk is in the wrong spot, ugh.

my purse/catch all bag, i bought it around x-mas and i really love it.

Hazel's new outfit! I really like it and wish that i could find cute fabric like that (the fabric is imported from Japan, it has little alice in wonderland themed cards on it!)

a finished knit! it's just a simple garter stitch headband but i recently found out that it works well as a cowl or neck-warmer.

i also did some online shopping today and i bought some cute stuff. i bought four dresses from urban outfitters and i'm looking forward to them coming in the mail.

i would one-day like to have many everyday dresses in my wardrobe so it was pretty exciting to pick these few up. with this being said, it was a wee bit pricy but if the fit is good i won't be bothered by that.

other news.....i had a sit down talk about my engagement ring with KidTerror. while i think the ring is pretty i finally broke the news to him that i don't think it fits my personality or style. true to form, Kid Terror was very understanding and sweet about the whole thing! he's pretty much perfect to me and i was really happy to get that secret off my chest since it had been sitting there like a large cat since last june! as far as my ring style, i like antique rings and also like colored stones. i don't think that there should be any 'set' design or guidelines for an engagement ring. i'm just really happy that i can look for something that looks like me and my personality, fits my tiny finger (i didn't think it was little but i now know that 4.5 is indeed small), makes me happy when i see it, and reminds me how much i'm in love with KidTerror.....

pleasant sunday

i just got back from dropping hopey-dopey (my sister) back home and we had a pretty good day. we did some artsy stuff with watercolors:

dyed doll wigs and yarn:

oh and we may have irritated KidTerror just a bit.....

........meh..........

if there was a hell mine would consist of forever waiting to get off from work. that's what i'm currently doing right now and it sucks the big one. so i decided to blog to distract myself from the prospect of booze, knitting, and KidTerror, all lovely things that await me at home.

i really like my flocke. i don't know much about how i'm going to style her yet but so far i know, she won't be a pants-wearing girl. hair length and color as well as eye color are all up in the air as of now, as well as a name. i ramble on about my dolls too much....

my art paper is done, as of 11:02 this evening. it wasn't really hard to write but it seemed tedious since i thought that writing was more or less out of the question this semester. it is comforting to know that this is the only thing that i'll have to write though......

i'm ready to begin the weekend. my plans include cleaning my house, picking up my area (where i keep my dolls, books, art supplies, and knitting/crocheting supplies), watching a movie or two, finishing my knitted hat (no pattern to speak of, but i will post it when it's done), doing my taxes if i get my forms in, and possibly grabbing my sister and taking her out for a bit. it's all pretty dull but it's my plan and i'm pretty pleased with it. oh i also forgot to mention that i might dye some yarn and start some socks, but that's only if i feel super crafty.

i hope KidTerror and i don't get on each other's nerves this weekend...we've had 4 snow-days so we've been cooped up for a while. i enjoyed the snow days since i had a chance to catch up on my laundry but once the pipes in my kitchen froze i was pretty much over it. KidTerror enjoyed the time off from classes the whole time but i imagine it is awesome if you can keep yourself entertained. i lack that capacity at times so after i wasn't able to clean all i wanted i became pissed off....

i bought some silk hankies last night, and i am very excited about them. i have limited experience in different fibers so 100% silk is a pretty big thing for me. i'm looking forward to the sheen of the fiber and seeing how it takes dye. i may save them for a rainy day once i get them since i have a lot of other dyeing projects.

oh another note for this weekend, i get to paint flocke's face! i think once i do this a name will come naturally and then a rough idea of her personality, but until then she's just a blank canvas that i get to ponder about....

little pieces of happiness

i feel better today but i think that's largely due to the fact that it's friday and that i'm rested. i don't have much to ramble on about but i do have some pictures that i'd like to share.

my engagement ring ^^, it's still not sized but it's really pretty and it means i'm another step closer to being hitched to KidTerror, yay!

some hello kitty stuff from my backpack, i don't think there's enough *tee hee* on the left is a compact and the right hand side has a little tin with mints (both gifts from KidTerror). i just thought that they were something cute to post.

and since i already shared some hello kitty love here's some tokidoki for you. i really love the little candle guy, he's a candidate for a tattoo, although i would make the flame green and possibly make the skull a kitty skull so it would be more personalized.

here's one of my newest acquisitions from sallys. i had been wanting some neon colors to round out my nail polish spectrum and i'm pretty happy with these. the only things that i'm a little meh with is that the polish requires alot of coats to be opaque and it's not a high gloss polish. other than that the colors are pretty keen, my nail are the green at the moment .

and here's a teaser pic of some knitting and a ball of yarn i've dyed. it's two strands of lace weight combined for a thin fingering weight yarn. it's nice to have some knitting around.

here are some pots that i did in an art class about a year ago. i had left them in the kiln room and since my prof was doing a clean-up there i thought that i should rescue them. i love them both and they are were really fun the make, i like the one on the left the most but the other one is also quite charming. i'm going to try and get them glazed this semester but i don't want to take away from the patterns...hmmm we'll see ^^

that's all for today. i'm waiting on doll parts and ready for the weekend...

heh heh heh yarn

i bought some bare yarn from knit picks, 3 sock blanks and 2 superwash worsted skeins.

i never like to buy colored yarn, because once i realized i could dye it myself i never wanted to do anything else (funny how my yarn dyeing and my hair coloring is similar).

i can't wait til my order comes in! although KidTerror may not enjoy me doing yet another crazy thing with highly concentrated pigments ^^"

excited <3

*tsk tsk*

i was thinking about how i claim to be a knitter, and sadly realized that i hardly ever knit anymore. i only note it with sadness because it's something i find really relaxing and enjoyable as well as useful. i also re-visited the yarnharlot and it made me even more sad, i used to keep up with every post she put up and i don't think that i ever visited it this past year.

in fact i can't really remember the last time i finished a project...(although i am very close to finishing a scarf)...i also don't visit ravelry often, and the last time i did i didn't do much besides look at my inbox and then log back out again.

i imagine this absence from the knitting world can be largely attributed to my lack of free-time, my full-time job, and my ever growing obsession with my dolls, not to mention that the local yarn availability leaves much to be desired (i'm looking at you flying needle, you bunch of quilting old biddies! ha ha ha i won't even get started on your overpriced are supplies!).

all this random talk about knitting is due to the fact that i really want to get back in that hobby. with all the stress that i'm dealing with this semester and the constant stress of work, i want to reclaim a little bit of my sanity and i think that knitting would be a wonderful outlet to do so.

so to cut this short, i'm going to go buy some yarn on the internet <3 <3 <3