I was meandering the internet in search of pin-up girls, because I'm working on a pin-up inspired project for school, and I found these Jetson-esque pin-ups by Bill Randall.
Going where no scantily-dressed space explorer has gone before. Heehee, I think they are fantastic.
Has anyone else noticed that the number of amusing internet things that they find is directly proportional to the number of school projects they should be working on?
The past few weeks have been ridiculously busy, and it's only going to get more hectic for the next three weeks. As a result, it's 11:53 p.m. and I'm writing a midterm paper that's due tomorrow at 5 p.m. Oh, good. Here's what I've been trying to avoid:
And I've been doing pretty well! Instead...
...I made a little bishop's hat for my finger out of quilted outerwear fabric.
IS IT SPRING BREAK YET?!?!?!
There are hundreds more of these beautiful photos here.
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Old Dinkie Dino virtual pet! I used to get these all the time, but this little guy was having some issues. The Dinkie Dinos are notoriously glitchy to start with, but they're so cute that I can't resist restarting them every few years. After a battle with a stripped screw over the battery compartment and some nerve-wracking button-removal and circuit-cleaning, he's up and running.
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I finally got a new phone. I've had my razr for two and a half years, and while it has served admirably, it was getting a little weird in its old age. For instance, it would insist that it was charging while not actually plugged into anything, and I started receiving text messages and phone calls exactly twelve hours after they were originally supposed to go through. Also, people would sometimes see it and go, "Ohhhh, a Razr! I used to have one of those!" Time for something new.
[/caption]I decided on the Blackberry Curve for a bunch of reasons. It wasn't outrageously expensive, but it does all the things I wanted, like helping me get directions when I inevitably get lost in Lower Manhattan (Does anyone actually know their way around down there? It's like a labyrinth.). It's also way more convenient than lugging my Macbook around or running up to my dorm room to check my email if I'm expecting something.
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Lastly, I'm restarting the book "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. It's basically a course in nurturing your creativity. I first started it when I was in an English class called Creative Imagination. My professor was fantastic (you can find her blog here ) but I just didn't have time to keep up with this book the way I wanted to. But I'll post about that as I go along. If anyone would like to do this along with me, or has questions about the book, feel free to leave me a comment and I'll answer anything. It'd be lovely to have someone to talk about this with.
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My dad listens to a lot of Elvis while cooking. I think this is my favorite song that's on regular rotation in our kitchen.
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
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I didn't have time to blog it before leaving for our lovely Disney trip, but I did a pretty big Etsy shop update! This one includes 14 pairs of button-bobbies. Here are a few of my favorites-- the photos are links to where the bobby pins can be purchased on Etsy.
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It's almost time for school-supply shopping!!! Notebooks and pens and pencils, oh my. Every year, I get very excited for those clean new notebooks and stacks of perfect index cards. Oh, I just love school supplies. When I get my new ones for the year, I'll be sure to share pictures. ✏♥
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The first thing we did was go see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I'd already heard that some significant changes had been made in the transition from the book to the movie, so I was prepared. But... eh, maybe I just love the books too much to see past them, but I thought that the translation to the screen was rather poorly done. Or, rather, to someone who hadn't read the books, it would be an fun, entertaining movie, with lots of action of both the dueling and kissing varieties. But Marissa and I concurred that for readers of the Harry Potter series, it was confusing as to why important things, like the origins of the various Horcruxes, and the whole mystery of who the Half-Blood Prince actually was, were given very little importance and screen-time, while scenes that did not occur in the book, and as far as I could tell had little to no relevance, like a dizzyingly-shot attack on the Burrow, were added. Overall, I would give it two and a half stars out of five.
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More and more crochet has been creeping into my life! Well, not so much creeping as bashing down the door and throwing a party. In any event, I have been prolific. I joined Ravelry, an online knit and crochet community, and a pattern search turned up a super-pretty headband pattern from CreativeYarn. She has a lot of really cute patterns, I'm going to make the red bow beret pretty soon, too. But anyway, I took some yarn and this crochet pattern to Marissa's house with me, and made 5 during my stay. 
This was the first one I made, and I later made 2 in black (one of which went to Marissa), one in eggplant purple, and one in yellow. It was a really fun, easy pattern, and a good way to transition into making something other than amigurumi. I made them mostly while watching Marissa play video games, which sounds lame, but I really, really like watching people play them. I am terrible at anything that involves a lot of complicated button-pushing combinations myself, so I enjoy getting the experience of the game without requiring any skills in that area.
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On Friday, my second day at Marissa's, we visited Knoebel's Amusement Park. It was incredibly fun! I'd never been there before, and I was very pleasantly surprised. There's no admission fee, just inexpensive tickets for rides. We went on the wooden roller coasters and water rides. There was much yelling and general hysteria. We also went in the Haunted Mansion. The plan was for both of us to yell ridiculous exclamations in our very convincing old lady voices.... however, one of us remembered what a complete baby she is about anything remotely scary and curled into a ball with her eyes closed and her hands over her ears from the moment we entered the ride to when we were outside again, and did not utter a sound the entire time. Here's a hint: it wasn't Marissa. The great thing about Knoebel's, though, is that it's a fairly small amusement park, so we were able to go in at 11:15 a.m., go on all the rides we wanted as many times as we wanted for about $13, and we were out by 2 p.m, and the longest line we waited in was maybe fifteen minutes. My personal favorite moment of the day was when we were riding this flume-type thing, except with less thrill-ride and more sit-in-a-boat-and-get-soaked, which was called the Sklooosh. It was our second time on it, and there were only two other kids with us in this, like, 12 person boat, and after we'd gone down the hill and been drenched, Marissa turned around to them and exclaimed, "Good Skloooshing!" We'll definitely be returning.
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Saturday, was the day I was scheduled to go home. We had something very important to accomplish before we could leave, though! Namely... Lord of the Rings cupcakes. Marissa had wanted to make cupcakes before I came to visit, then she had the idea of having them be in an LotR theme, and how could I say no to something like that? Without further ado...
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We got stuck in traffic on the way back to the town where I live (not to mention that we missed our exit twice), and therefore had to find a way to pass the time. For about half an hour, this consisted of playing Highway I Spy, where one of us would yell, "I spy something... GREEN!" The other would ask," Is it the GRASS?!" "YES!!!" And so on, about the sky, any car passing us, signs, the yellow lines on the highway... Marissa and I found this incredibly amusing; I think anyone else in the car would have killed us after about the first ten minutes. We did get bored eventually, though, and we needed a new game. So, it was time for the ever-popular "Kill, Marry, Shputz." No, the original last word is not 'shputz.' But neither of us are a big fan of the word it stands for, and... who could pass up the opportunity to say 'shputz' over and over? For those of you who don't know, this is a game where three individuals are chosen, and then the two players have to choose which of the people (in our case men... or at least males, as some of them did not actually exist) they would kill, which they would marry, and which they would.... shputz. Here are a few of the more amusing rounds of the game. The letters stand for each action.
Potentials Julie's Answer Marissa's Answer
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I think I'm going to try to start blogging every day, or every other day, so that I don't do these massive twice-a-month blogs. I still have crochet projects, sewing stuff, music reviews ,and general what's-going-on-in-my-life stuff, but it's going to wait until next time so this doesn't turn into an intimidatingly large entry. But, in case you want up to the minute information on my life, I've joined Twitter. I'm at http://twitter.com/julie_rose_sews. It's really exciting, I think today I tweeted about cat-sitting and having a peanut butter and jelly for lunch. But my background on my page is super-cute.
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Next time: crochet projects, new etsy favorites, handmade dorm decor, and more!
