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March 30, 2007

Friday Shuffle - The She's Crafty Edition

1. My back still hurts, but it's better. I think I might have misspoke yesterday when I said I was down in the back. I'm not actually sure what constitutes "down". This happens several times a year. I have a permanent knot of muscles in the middle of my back that grow progressively tighter and tighter during times of stress, or if I'm wearing a bra that doesn't fit correctly. I'm doing a little of both these days, so the knot has reached critical mass, thus throwing out the rest of my back. I'm pretty sure that if this knot ever completely unkinks, all of my limbs will fall off because this knot is obviously holding my entire world together. Massages help. So does Mineral Ice, even though it makes me scream like I'm being lit afire.

2. Remember how angelic Clara Jane looked last night? She spent the entirity of today making up for it. I've requested that Jeff Pudding come over with his dump truck to haul away toys.

3. We're grounded tomorrow. Our vehicle is spending the day in the shop. I hate being grounded. Even if I don't want to go anywhere, the idea that I can't makes me nuts.

4. In good news, today's Kristina's birthday! Go wish her a happy one. Why? Because she's the awesomest. So awesome that once, while we were rocking out hardcore to No Sleep Till Brooklyn, she suggested that we might have fun attending a Beastie Boys concert together, someday. She also suggested that such a concert might be enhanced by being viewed from the front row while wearing gorilla costumes.

Speaking of the Beastie Boys always makes me think of She's Crafty, which I tend to get stuck in my head while working on craft projects, even though that's totally not what the song's about, but right now it's making me think of crafty stuff.

I finished my Jaywalker socks a week ago:

It was appropriate to pose with Murphy, seeing how earlier in the evening, Murphy somehow managed to get the yarn attatched to the unfinished sock twisted around her body multiple times. She drug it around the house, trying to outrun it. Note how fearful she looks of the sock. Or of my foot, even though she's never once been kicked in all the years she's lived here. Dumb dog.

I'm making quick progress on my Tropicana sock in Colinette Jitterbug in Marble:

And speaking of other crafy gals, I met a bunch of them last week at the Chilicraft show. Since I love indie crafters, I'm going to give them all some free publicity. Go buy from them.

There's Allison, who makes awesome quilty-type housewares. But you know that. She organized the show, and she's my quilting pal.

And my pal Beqi. Have I told you how I met Beqi? She was at the coffeehouse, sewing and chasing her little son, and I knew she looked familiar. After staring at her for an hour, I finally realized why: I recognized the pinup girl tattoo on her arm. A few days earlier I'd been snooping around my friends' pages on MySpace. Allison is friends with Beqi. Beqi has a picture of her tattoo on her MySpace page. So I accosted her at the coffee bar and asked if she knew Allison. I admitted to recognizing her from MySpace and yet, she still hangs out with me, sometimes by choice. Amazing.

Anyway, Beqi makes fab clothes and accessories. Take a peek at the semi-sloshed photos on my Flickr badge from last weekend, and you'll notice the lovely Beqi-made necklace I'm wearing. Crafted from vintage pink rose beds. Actually, in one of the photos, I'm kind of wearing Beqi. She's not for sale, though.

I met Autumn from String Theory and her compadre Raquel. Autumn and Raquel both live near what I hope will soon be my new stomping grounds, which brings me no end of joy. Clara Jane will soon be sporting a snazzy t-shirt graced with one of Autumn's cool iron-on patches. It'll look great in reform school, at the rate that kid's going.

Speaking of that kid, she scored a sweet Pongo from Super Chick Studio, which I'm sure will get stolen by a far worse-behaved child at reform school. I've chosen to spare the Pongo from the Jeff Pudding Dump Truck Toy Hauling Service, just because I like it. In fact, I like it too much to send it to reform school with her. Let her take that damn Cabbage Patch Kid she's been hauling around all week.

Yes, tonight's entry is lame, just like my spinal muscles. Time to shuffle off to the couch to be as crafty as the combo of Alieve, chardonnay, and excessive amounts of brie will allow.

Posted by Robin at March 30, 2007 09:21 PM

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