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[Nov. 14th, 2010|03:38 pm] |
Need a dress pattern for your Monster High doll? Of course you do. I've made one and you will find it on Ravelry.
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| Boo! |
[Oct. 31st, 2010|05:20 pm] |
This sums up everything I hate about scary attractions. I hate being scared soooooo much. I would have been in tears or having a panic attack after about 30 seconds of this. That said, it's very very funny when it happens to someone else. Happy Halloween folks!
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[Oct. 14th, 2010|08:37 pm] |
Happy 70th Birthday Cliff! Here's a clip of Cliff as Groucho Marx, with Hank Marvin playing Carmen Miranda. I don't know why.
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| The Knitting & Stitching Show 2010 |
[Oct. 8th, 2010|07:33 pm] |
This! This is neither knitting or stitching! When did sticking wrapping paper on to large cardboard animals become acceptable as a hobby?
In less silly news, the bestest things were www.craftyribbons.com, a stall that sold lovely Japanese fabric who I can't find the details of, but will hunt down and get back to you, and the Quaker Tapestrys. |
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[Sep. 24th, 2010|07:50 pm] |
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The freaky ebay baby? It just unexpectedly arrived in the post as a gift from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) pesky33 and I have just been lying on the floor crying with laughter for the last hour. Then I went and found the other one and looked at them together and lay down on the floor and laughed some more.
They both look like they've been drinking blood. Naughty babies.
Showing you the gorgeous earrings she made me and telling you to go and check out her lovely website Life's Big Canvas and buy her million times awsome stuff doesn't even come close to repaying her for the joy I feel right now.
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[Sep. 13th, 2010|06:22 pm] |
There really is nothing more awesome than being by the coast on a windy day. |
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| Rhubarb |
[Sep. 12th, 2010|02:41 pm] |
I have a small rhubarb plant. I have a trowl. What do I do next?
Google seems to think I should bury the entire thing* but that seems rather excessive. It also thinks I should do this in spring, but what do I do with it till then?
And does harvesting the rhubarb kill it? Is it like chopping down a tree and then you have no more tree?
*roots, red stalks and the green leaves |
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[Sep. 8th, 2010|12:38 pm] |
We had a visit from a spider last night that was so big it even made Mr W go a bit pale. At one point during the terror that ensued, it leapt at us, legs flying everywhere, which was awful. And this was only an hour after we invented a game involving a big slug, a kitchen floor, a cardboard tube and screaming.
Today is all about covers of songs. I’m currently enjoying Vienna by Vic Reeves. What covers are you enjoying? |
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[Aug. 9th, 2010|07:34 pm] |
So I giggled on the crowded train home because I was thinking about the man who just phoned me before I left the office to tell me repeatedly that he was "doing a big job" on his restaurant. He was very proud.
Anyway, the giggle made my fellow commuters shift away which was most fortunate because I was no longer near The Scientist (probably a physicist and not a biologist) who did an experiment - drinking Irn-Bru, only he missed and poured it up his nose. There was a roar, a nasal geyser, an orange mist. Then silence, a small snort, and people angrily dripping.
And then I giggled again. |
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| Things you find when dismantling a wardrobe. |
[Jul. 20th, 2010|07:28 pm] |
Vintage wallpaper
Marbles
Also three make up brushes, two bits of lego, a box of coloured chalks, a green monopoly house, a small plastic dog and really rather a lot of dirty fluff. |
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[Jul. 5th, 2010|10:39 am] |
Once upon a time there was a terrifying piece of string. The string lurked in the kitchen drawer. It was an evil piece of string, the colour of unwashed underpants, frayed and shiny from being trussed and boiled with a thousand suet puddings. If you accidentally touched it, the only reasonable response was to scream.
And would you believe it, RYC have made an evil suet pudding string yarn, and I guess I was drawn to it because it reminded me of my childhood and only now that I've blocked the shawl and photographed it, have I realised I've knitted my suet pudding string nightmares. Equally cathartic and disturbing.
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[Jun. 10th, 2010|08:01 pm] |
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I've drawn Switzerland in the world cup sweepstake. Wiki claims they did reasonably well in 1934, 1934 AND 1954, so I'm optimistic that they will win for me this year. My language skills are not entirely up to reading their website, but I think it says that one of the Swiss players has 40 buttocks.
Last night I went to see a new musical called The Fantasticks, which has been panned by the critics and a few friends too. G and I both loved it, we both cried with joy in the first half and cried again later with sadness during the second half, but it was really really odd, and I concede that it's a dreadful show that was saved by a few really stellar performances from great actors.
Aparently it's rather famous and successful outside the UK and is popular with school groups which sounds dreadful as it was the actors which made it special, not the material. Neither of us can think of anyone we would reccomend it to. |
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| For the second time this month - Voting is Important |
[May. 30th, 2010|12:36 am] |
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I allocated my points as follows:
12. Russia (My notes say "tramp misery", clearly worth 12 points)
10. Romania (It was a mistake to try and dance while sitting at the piano, but great song and I thought the double piano was perhaps a bit of a tribute to the sadly overlooked British 1977 entry Rock Bottom.)
8. Germany (Good, but I didn't think it would win)
7. Albania (The happy woman wearing the Blake's 7 costume)
6. Denmark (I love Denmark, they always enter a really happy song and it's a nice place too. Normally they're in my top three, but not this year.)
5. Moldova (Punky pop and weirdo 80s dudes. Odd, but good.)
4. Bosnia & Herzegovina (Probably just my traditional "trousers" vote.)
3. Turkey (They had rock music! They had a robot! They should have been higher up my list!)
2. Ukrane (The scary girl wearing the dress covered in mince.)
1. Belarus (they were the least worst of the ones which were left.)
The British entry was actually really good for once, not that it was going to get any votes. Also 12 points to miss_newham for an excellent dinner and traditional costume, to several_bees for being a superb scoreboard hostess and having such enthusiastic backing dancers, to littlebun for her scene-stealing telephone voting and to ruudboy for a marvellous desert and Beyonce style choreogaphy. |
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[May. 15th, 2010|05:51 pm] |
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I have just had a two hour cycling lesson in the park and it was superb. Go London and it's well funded cycle tuition. Turns out remembering how to ride a bike is as easy as riding a bike. I started off feeling like some freaking-out jelly on a unicycle and ended the lesson as Sir Chris Hoy. Bring on the lycra babygrow and the pointy hat.
On the way home, everything seized up. Also I will be watching Doctor Who standing up. |
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[May. 2nd, 2010|07:51 pm] |
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Today linniekin escaped the evil advances of Alan Titchmarsh and came over and we made dolls clothes and hid cake which was yay.
Yesterday I hung out with miss_newham who told me everything about gardening and lives in a flat with a mysterious Cat-Flap To Nowhere in the downstairs loo. We went fabric shopping with atommickbrane which was excellent, although I think we should all have bought hedgehog fabric.
This weekend is so ace there's still another day of it! *dances*
I love this video.
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[Apr. 24th, 2010|09:58 pm] |
An hour ago I was going to blog that I will sleep like a log tonight because I've been sitting on the beach in Brighton all day and nothing is more tiring than sea air.
Then I watched Doctor Who and now I'm not going to sleep at all. AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH! |
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[Apr. 18th, 2010|10:57 am] |
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Wandering around Woolwich in the sunshine yesterday was marvellous. We went to Firepower, the Royal Artillery Museum which I unexpectedly enjoyed, given that it's full of canons and more canons and I'm not interested in canons.
From the name, I was concerned it was going to be a lowest-common-denominator themed attraction with scary bits, but actually it's a really cool proper museum and I'm now much better informed about canons and almost interested in them.
They are having a Sharpe themed weekend and Daragh O'Malley was there, along with various people dressed up as English and French soldiers. I didn't really understand the point of this, Daragh O'Malley was just standing about and I didn't really know if I could have gone up and said hi, and the solders were just wandering about admiring the stitching on each other's coats and at no point in the morning did they do anything interesting enough to photograph. I was expecting marching or a mock battle perhaps. Completely mystifying!
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[Apr. 10th, 2010|10:00 pm] |
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Gosh, summer suddenly! Hurrah! I went and had a lovely adventure in Twickenham.
First I visited Mrs Moon, the new yarn shop which is so sweet.
Then to Marble Hill House which was lovely but a bit dull. The house is very elegant but it didn't excite me very much. The interesting bits, like the ice house, grotto and kitchens were all closed off. There were no interesting textiles or particularly unique objects and the paintings didn't seem that relevant to the house or it's history.
It didn't help that all the blinds were down so it was impossible to apreciate the stunning view which is one of the best things about it.
I did like the fact that the top floor of the house was infested with ladybirds. Hundreds of ladybirds, many crawling all over a picture of a bee-eating bird. And there was a painting of Don Quixote washing his beard which made me laugh rather a lot as it was such a silly beard.
After that I pottered along by the river to Richmond in the sun and was so happy with the world for being warm and sunny that I stopped to duet with a moorhen. |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2010|08:46 pm] |
Matt Smith.
Total wincakes.
I've been watching a lot of old who recently, so the less RTD showy show felt much more canon and much less forced which I loved.
Season openers are never the best though, too many things to resolve and set up, so next week will be even better. (Like yesterday's Ashes to Ashes, I'm glad it's back but the first episode didn't grab me that much.)
My only criticism is that I'd like more Moffat and less Smith on confidential please. Oh and the new theme tune didn't give me goosebumps, or really sound like the theme tune. |
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| ArcelorMittal Orbit |
[Mar. 31st, 2010|03:09 pm] |
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The ArcelorMittal Orbit is very exciting. Clearly that's a silly name. What shall we call it? The Stratford Scribble?
And will it actually fly? |
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[Mar. 26th, 2010|07:00 pm] |
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Mummy Weasel and I had a big adventure today. We went to Bushy Park which was fabulous and full of lovely deer. It's a mysterious place - why are there big lumps of earth everywhere? Why do the ducks have blue beaks?
We wandered out and across the road and ended up in the gardens of Hampton Court Palace which were even more lovely. Then to Kingston for Nandos and shopping. Our legs and feet hurt from all the walking so we mostly just went round department stores testing the sofas. I finally found yarn the colour of Cliff Richard's face.
( Picspam )
Also we learned that it's a bad idea to sneeze in your hat as you're putting it on. |
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[Mar. 21st, 2010|09:20 pm] |
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It has taken me nearly two days to cut and tack 164 hexagons of patchwork. They are at that lovely stage where they are all neat and crinkly with the paper inside. Om nom patchwork nom.
It's probably going to take another two days to sew them all together. Then perhaps a fifth day to improvise a dress from them.
This project will probably get abandoned somewhere around the 4th day when I have stabbed my fingers to bits with pins and remember that improvised patchwork dresses are a very silly idea.
The patchwork will be left in a bag until 2210 when it will be in a quilts exhibition where some curator will have decided the random picture of Alastair Darling which is on the back of one of the newspaper hexagons is a picture of my sweetheart who has gone to sea which I have sewn in to the quilt as a romantic gesture. |
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[Mar. 10th, 2010|12:03 pm] |
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A bouncy young posh chap was excited by my knitting on the train. He told me his mum knits and asked me what I was knitting. There was a pause while we both looked at what was on my needles. I confirmed it was doll panties and he blushed as pink as a piggy balloon. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2010|10:53 am] |
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Some days it's nice to just feel the glee that comes from knowing that all my friends are talented, imaginative, creative, passionate about the things they are passionate about and willing to share and explain and squee about the things they love. Hurrah for everyone!
If you want to leave a comment telling me about something, anything, that currently rocks your world, I'd love to hear about it!
My world is currently being rocked by this song from Love Never Dies, finishing projects without casting any on and by tidy. I've thrown it all away and there's tidy everywhere! It's like living in a barn. |
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| Nice Birthday |
[Feb. 24th, 2010|07:28 pm] |
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I went to see two new galleries at the V&A today - the Medieval & Renaissance galleries and the Theatre galleries.
The Theatre galleries are absolutely beautiful - costumes, actors, tiny model sets, stories, all of it inspiring. Slightly too much space and not enough on display in some of the rooms for my liking, but I'll definitely be back to soak up more inspiration. (Although I only ever like a peak behind the scenes because I love the idea that what is on stage is actual magic)
I'm rather excited to discover that they are recording theatre shows for their archives. Currently you can only see them with an appointment, but hopefully one day they might show them more publicly or make them available - there's so much theatre I never get round to seeing. (Has anyone seen Enron? I gather it's brilliant.)
The Medieval & Renaissance Galleries are full of huge gold things from Venetian churches and tiny gold things from Venetian churches. It's all very lovely but also a recipe for overwhelmingness.
Sadly we ran out of feet before we made it to the new ceramics gallery. The old gallery worried me because ceramics in ancient cabinets which look like they're about to rot and collapse can only really lead to smashing and a new mosaic. Also it was like poking about in somebody's attic which was rather endearing. I really hope they've comissioned another preposterous new glass staircase for it, like the ones in the jewellery and glass galleries.
I can confirm that our national treasures are very well protected - I accidentally smacked my forehead on the solid glass of one of the cabinets and bounced off it with a loud donk.
Rounded off the afternoon with a little bit of shopping - fear my new tie-dyed jeggings. Tonight, sweet potato chips and NCIS. |
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[Feb. 13th, 2010|08:45 pm] |
The estate agent pulled up to the kerb and unfolded his tall body from a little G-Wiz car.
He looked at us. We looked at him.
He told us that they make him drive the car and it's absolutely not his. Then he said hello.
We offered to walk to the property we were viewing.
Following some comedy pushing, I was squeezed onto the back seat. Mr W wedged himself into the front seat. The estage agent snuggled in next to us in the drivers seat. We drove off very slowly down the road, seeing the world from a new angle as none of us could straighten our heads because there was no room.
Some women we passed pointed and laughed. |
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[Feb. 10th, 2010|12:47 pm] |
It occurred to me during CSI last night that they're not looking up criminal details in the database of AVIS the car rental company, they're actually saying AFIS which is a database of fingerprints. It always made perfect sense in my head that AVIS kept all the details of everyone they ever rented a car to, and that crims are always renting cars, so the records of AVIS was the logical place for the cops to be looking.
Today I am dressed like Paddington Bear's auntie.
It's lovely and sunny. I will get lunch and then prance. |
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| I making things |
[Feb. 6th, 2010|12:17 pm] |
Hot pink crochet shawl - super easy!
Hanuri - I love it but the yarn is fighting with the pattern.
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| Reasons why the opinionated woman on my train didn't enjoy the concert she went to this evening. |
[Jan. 21st, 2010|11:02 pm] |
1. The conductor had a big beard that made him look like Santa.
2. The conductor's mouth was hidden by his big moustache.
3. It said in the programme that the conductor had written 250 symphonies and she thought that was too many and they would all sound the same and it was sad he was wasting his time.
4. It said in the programme that the conductor was a lecturer of conducting which was ridiculous because she believes nobody learns to conduct.
5. All the way through the concert she kept picturing "the face of that horrid eel, that horrid, horrid eel". |
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[Jan. 19th, 2010|10:38 am] |
The musical ♥ Legally Blonde ♥ is so very pink, cheerful and happy. Also, I thought I knew how pink a dress could be. I was wrong, there's an extra mega pink which they used for Elle's dress which is more pink than any pink could be.
So much love. And Peter Davison squee! It's definitely in my top 5 musicals currently running in London list.
On the subject of things which are great, here is a lovely song about a Catastrophic Sheep:
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