Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Inspiration: Buttons Buttons Buttons
So taken with this
The view today
Greetings from Little Mouse
I've had a wonderful life so far after just having been made recently (you may have heard a little about me here and here). Just a little background about me; I'm just a few weeks old and I'm stuffed with wool fleece and crocheted with thrifted cotton yarn. My eyes are light pink beads and have been pulled at in a way that they feel (and appear) loose, but I like them just the same. My nose is embellished with a few stitches of peachy-pink embroidery floss. My ears were stitched on in haste because a sweet (sleepy) young girl was in a hurry to see me with my new big ears before she could get ready for bed (great size btw, I can hear very well). I've been chewed on, stuffed into cardboard tubing, and thrown around by several young humans. At times, I lay on fuzzy light brown flooring (carpet?) while watching the flurry of activity that happens around me every day. I eat crumbs of delicous fresh food that gets spread around me often and carelessly (thankfully mostly organic food), but sometimes a huge loud machine comes around and consumes most of my bounty of deliciousness. I'm glad to report that I am often placed on a wooden table (by one of the humans) so that I can escape the wrath of the crumb-sucker. Thankfully, around mid-afternoon I nap, sweet sleep, so restful. Such a lovely life I have.
Yours,
Little Mouse
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Pagoda Hat, 1938
I think I'll try to make this pattern for a Pagoda Hat and I've got a nice moss green and white yarn that I could make it with. This yarn was a fabulous score about a month or so ago while thrifting during a 50% off sale. I got two super huge skeins of this yarn which looks like homespun wool yarn. The yarn isn't the softest but for outerwear it may work well. The "stiffness" of the yarn might also help support the structure of this style of hat. Off to start working on this. So excited!
**update: Started on this and realized my yarn does not work at all for this project. Looks like I'll have to get some crochet cotton for this hat.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Our indoor garden
Sadly, in a recent much needed decluttering of our ownables, a plastic crate that held files was moved and hence the second light to our garden was moved as well (this light used to clamp onto this crate). DH mentioned that the lack of second light source isn't helping our plant garden to grow as well. Hopefully we can put the second light back to enjoy a better pepper harvest.