Impulse buys

Caron Country in Soft Sunshine and Foliage


The Office, Season Four (my collection is complete mwahaha)


Regina Spektor~"Fidelity" from Begin to Hope. This song is so addicting. Play count is at 11 already 8|

This post is brought to you by summer and boredom. Next up is a discussion of art and the trials of lace, to please all you creative types. We're also overdue for some books, aren't we?

My current state of mind: presented in comic form

I have art classes galore scheduled for this summer. It's a good thing pencil stains come out easily (not so much for lead poisoning though
:P ).

Trading names

Been sick lately. Unfortunately, I don't have much creative content for you this time around (again), so we're going to do something else.

These are my friends:

Related by Delusion~drawn to photography and yarn, averse to pink. Home of an awesome blog title (she was so picky about it) :D

Thick Woolen Socks~the literary, the fangirly, and the knitty. Home of the best profile picture ever (art by guess who?) :D


Go check them out!

(The bad news is, now people in real life can find me on the web. Crap…?)

This is Radio Nowhere

*reappears*
No creative content this post around, but have some Bruce.

Yep, I was a lucky girl that got to go to the Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream concert! It was loud, crowded, and awesome :D







And because it's my favorite pic of the night, let's resize this one, shall we?

The playlist!
Badlands
Candy's Room
Outlaw Pete
Jackson Cage
She's The One
Working On A Dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
Youngstown
Good Lovin'
Like A Rolling Stone
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Waiting On A Sunny Day
The Promised Land
I'm On Fire
Kingdom Of Days
Lonesome Day
The Rising
Born To Run
Hard Times
Thunder Road
Land of Hope and Dreams
American Land
Glory Days
Mony Mony

Gotta go, gotta build a house of loooooove…

FO: Aquamarine Socks

Gee, it only took nine months!
To complete a project originally intended to be done in two weeks.
…

Totally worth it :D

A few short notes on the modifications:
Because this yarn is DK, the socks are thick. Since I'm not a person for high socks, I knit only one pattern repeat on the leg. I'm also not a fan of grafting toes, so I stole and modified this pattern for a toe knit in the round and gathered at the top. As a result, the foot pattern repeats only two and a half times, and my toe is nice and rounded instead of bluntly grafted.

Being sick=productive knitting

Time to rest now, ugh…

Hungry hungry cowl

Entrelac starts off slow, just a row of these curly little triangles hanging onto the needle for their lives.

And then it decides to EAT YOUR SOUL and gets HUGE AND THICK in the blink of an eye.

Studies show that entrelac may also forage for yarn. Keep your livestock safe. I've been lost already.

FO: Trompe-l'œil

What was I doing on the drive to Niagara? What else?

Vortex from the latest Knitty. Knit and finished in a day :D
Beware my flat hair.


Funny enough, in a last minute packing rush I stuffed the pattern printout, the needles, the leftover balck wool from my dad's hat, and a ball of random white yarn I found at the bottom of the basket with my stuff. I started knitting, but an hour into the trip I realized I was running out of white yarn fast, even though at the start the ball had been larger than the black wool!
There was a Jo-Ann in the shopping center where we stopped for drive-in lunch. My parents relented, I ripped back, and the day was saved with Paton's Classic Wool in Winter White xD

I highly recommend this pattern. The short row pattern is quick and easy to memorize, and who's doesn't love stripes?

Niagara

We're long overdue for a picspam, aren't we?
Behold, my first time outside the U.S. xD


What lovely weather we had on Day 1.


On the other hand, our hotel gave us cookies. Free cookies. Chocolate chip cookies. Warm chocolate chip cookies.

On Day 2, we started with Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

Rub the Lucky Buddha's belly ;)

Self-explanatory.

Looks painful.

Wall of Torture xP

I'm a little doubtful on this one…

Guess the medium, I dare ya.


Not a string player myself, but:

*snicker*

I'm, uh, not that skilled 8|

(We also stopped by Louis Tousson's Wax Museum, but those pictures are too dumb to post hehe ;P )

On the same day, we went up in the Skylon Tower.

Woo!

They had such ridiculously cheesy tourist pictures. I couldn't resist ;D

On Day 3 we drove north to a town called Niagara-On-The-Lake. Surrounded by vineyards, it's mostly beautiful old vacation houses that are empty for the season on Lake Ontario.

This was my favorite :)

The lake!


The town is quite lovely as well.


This store sold nothing but jams, jellies, and spreads!


They had an entire wall of tea packaged in these adorable boxes.

On our way, we passed by a (closed) Totem Pole and Woodcarving Park.

CHALLENGE: name as many totems as you can :D

And then there was this HUGE PAGODA in the middle of nowhere.

Sunset, y/y?


And finally, Day 4:




Now, I shall bid you au revoir for today, but just a warning:

;)