My mom is a hooked-rug rockstar

My mom is amazing. I’ve known this. But here is proof of her prowess and awesomeness: a hooked rug made for me from wool scraps (“that wool there is from a suit your great aunt made for your grandmother” *boggle*) and depicting my favorite things: stars and oak trees and the great outdoors. (sorry, WoW; [...]

It’s time to close my browser again

Sad. I just keep those tabs open until I can deal with them. Well, this beats bookmarking. Blogs with images, ftw!
Um, whiskey peanut fudge? Yes, please. Havecakewilltravel.com, I love you.

I must be hungry. These biscuits* look great!

*all hand-held bread items are biscuits to me.
Stuff to make… eventually.
A trashcan made [...]

Anti-Valentine’s Day

I’m seeing this more and more lately. Well, good for all of us, bucking the system and telling Hallmark where they can shove it. Of course, they’ll come out with a card for that, too, I’m sure.
Meantime, allow me to wax nostalgaic about my friend Matt’s parties where he used to request no [...]

Nimcraft lives!

Woot!  Wow + crafts sweeps the web.  But I knew that.  I mean, come on.  Geek Craft on Flickr has all sorts of gamer geek crafts.  There is a whole WoW knitters group, and also a gamer group, on Ravelry.  You see all sorts of game nuances and homages in the refashion sites.  Yay, [...]

Boba Fett? Boba Fett! Where?

Star. Wars. Charts.
I’m going to save these to my computer somewhere, as I am dubious of the longevity of any angelfire site. No offense, it’s just where I get a lot of dead ends. I think the internet may actually reach the event horizon there.

http://www.angelfire.com/space2/swcharts/

Creepy in a good way. I think.

Huh. Now this is interesting, and finally a craft I will leave to the artist.
It’s definitely thought-provoking. I think she’s just having fun (this pic is of a bracelet called “giggles”, so it’s pretty tame). Some comments are that this is “sick”, but I don’t know. I mean, if you think [...]

Millennium Falcon cat bed

I love geekcrafters. So effing much. This plain rules. Heh, and as I’m posting this, the Star Wars theme started playing in my randomized shuffle. Yay, synchronicity!