house cat (happy new home)

i moved five months ago. i love my new home.

view from below:


curious, but lovable neighborhood cat:



never-ending weeding:



glorious cactus-skunk-coyote-beast-filled canyon:


one happy roommate:


one furry occasional houseguest:


dominoes for days:

fumble mumble

one drawing a week. that's the deal.

i moved into a house and i have lots of free time, but all i spend it on is staring at the walls. not. any. more.

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happy birthday to me.
best birthday weekend. the willy wonka party i always dreamed of and...



AND




ly and alex wrote not one, but TWO songs about ME! (this is not good for my already over-inflated ego!)

a francoise kind of day

blackbird

//where's the rest of it?//

windsor knots

Look Mom, I can make ties now!

thanks, purl bee!

the whole world (in my hands)

What to do with an outdated globe? (I'm pretty sure the U.S.S.R. is no longer in existence, right?) Turn it into a chalkboard, duh! I think I've finally given myself the butt-whooping I needed to start getting crafty again.

The interweb wows me again with its infinite wisdom and guidance, with a few tweaks.


Covering round things with flat things is pretty impossible, involving five parts headache and one part genius.


It's like picking off that scab you've had on your knee for a week!









All done. Now I can write stupid notes to myself like "Do your laundry." and "Don't be an idiot." Mission accomplished.

Note to those who care: if you ever intend on doing this yourself (DTY, heh), don't do what I did. Forget the contact paper. Forget the chalkboard spraypaint. Don't get impatient and instead wait for the paintable stuff to be in the store, it will make your life so much easier, I promise!

partyin' partyin'

this weekend i helped throw my sister a surprise birfday party. she's old.
a party is an excuse to order all of your favorite foods and craft. mini-craft.

tissue paper + string = streamers for days.





i ordered the tastiest marble cake (with chocolate chip surprises inside)!



did i mention i also got her a pinata?

darling embroidery

probably the best thing i ever made. proof of how crafty i once was... and maybe can one day become again? high school kim wasn't the only kim who could mindlessly stitch away, right? right.



i'm pretty sure this bag earned me my college job more so than any skills i may have (or not) had, and i am not ashamed at all.



my boyfriend embroiders too. i win, he's the best.

one million stitches (in progress)

i've been working on this cross stitch for the past five years, not that it should take anybody that long, but because i tend to forget about every project i start or want to start. follow through is something i greatly lack.

i found it tucked away in my closet a few days ago, and decided that instead of mindlessly staring at the netflix tube all day, i would keep my fingers moving making little tiny xxxxxxxxxxxxxx's until i got bored. or finished. whichever comes first.

i think i like the underside just as much as the front.

eventually i'll finish, maybe in another five years, five months, or, hell, five days?!

cross stitching is hours of pleasure, interrupted by years of sheer monotony.