I am a sucker for packaging, and I think all everyday items, such as garbage cans, utensil holders, pencils, sandwich bags, you name it, should be cute or pleasing to the eye. I mean, why not? So, when I saw these cute household items at the store the other day, they quickly landed in my shopping cart:
Just over a week ago I noticed that our mail was coming later in the day. I thought maybe our regular mailman Dave was on vacation or something, but he is still gone! I don’t know if he up and retired on me or if his route was changed. I have been very disturbed over it. The replacement/fill-in guy is a KID, a mailboy if you will, and he shoves our mail WAY back into the box, and sometimes there are wet smudges on the mail, as if he has been sweating or dripping water onto it. I also convinced myself that because of HIM, I was not getting high-quality mail (I know it’s irrational, but some days mail is all I have, OKAY?).
Well today he rang the doorbell and very timidly handed me my mail. Actually, he practically dropped it at my feet and ran away. I think, though, that the Curse of the Bad Mail has been broken, cuz look at the lovely matcha dog plush I received:
I know I have been a little loopy for the skirts lately, but hey, it’s one way to get through my stash, right? I decided to try my hand at that skirt from the Japanese skirt book (Skirt a la Carte) I bought recently:
I tend not to show progress reports on my knitting projects, so it might not seem like I am knitting at all, but I assure you I am. Here’s proof: I finally finished my Nuthin’ but a T!
I found out about an impending garage sale of vintage decorator fabrics and was lucky enough to get a sneak peek. The hostess of the garage sale used to be an interior designer in Los Angeles, and she held onto all of her fabric samples. It became time to unload, and I was happy to help her!
The picture quality isn’t great, but check out these vintage Herman Miller pieces by Alexander Girard:
And the rest of the loot. Some of these are by Hasi Hester, a designer in LA. I had never heard of him, but I guess he was pretty well known during his heyday.
I got all this for $20! If there’s enough of that green Herman Miller, I might use it to redo an ottoman.
A while back Megan (yes, cancer-killing Megan) asked me if I could make her some haircutting capes (cuz she is a hairdresser). I immediately had visions of wildly colored, swirling capes, but then when I voiced my excitement, she said to me, “Black would be fine.” I DON’T THINK SO, MISSY.
Okay, so I DID buy some black nylon, too. You can’t tell from the photo, but the design is a bunch of lines of dots. Very cool! The cape wasn’t too bad to create, but it took a while, because I had to carefully make and pin on miles and miles of bias tape. The horror! Anyway, I hope she likes it, even if it isn’t black. Maybe she can use it on the more unruly clients.
Last year I made a skirt out of some circus fabric (I’d load the photo, but for some reason I am unable to do so). I loved the fabric, but the skirt was kind of frumpy and plain. So, last night I added a flounce!
I guess I am the indoor craftsperson, and Peter is the outdoor craftsperson. Look what he whipped up over the weekend:
No, I don’t wear short shorts like Daisy Duke, but I do wear daisy shorts!
Here’s an invitation for all you knitblunners out there (knitblogger + runner). The San Francisco Marathon is coming up on July 31, 2005, and a small group of us are planning to do the half-marathon. So far it’s a small group: Joanna, Becca, Rachael (though rumor has it she is trying to flake. DON’T LET HER), me, a couple of my college buddies. We’d love to have some more runners join us. Just think how much fun it will be! Breakfast afterwards (the race starts at 5:30am, so yes, we’ll be finished in time for breakfast), and hey, Artfibers is a SHORT WALK from the finish.
The race used to go over the Golden Gate Bridge, but they discontinued that several years ago. I was lucky enough to be able to run over the bridge a couple times, and it was cool. Well, the TRADITION IS BACK, so you should be tempted even more! And since I’m doing the half this year instead of the full, I will be half as smelly yet twice as perky. Now don’t you REALLY want to join us? You can even get a blackmail lovely photo taken of you!
