ethriell

I think I may have inhaled too much of the bleach fumes from cleaning my bathroom. Aggghhh.

Also, I've decided that all I want for christmas is a Kindle 2. Yes, I read.

I, for one brief and insane moment, downed the kindle idea for a PSP and the Dissidia game that's soon to come out for said console.
Watching the demos made me realize that, although it's really pretty, I don't play those kinds of games. The Player vs. Player, combat, hack'em-slash-em type, I mean.

So. Ultimate christmas present, THE KINDLE 2!

I sold one the other day. I'm pretty happy about this.

So! I've got 1 new cell phone case, and 1 old one to sell. Starting at $20, I think it's fair. Why?
They're knit up in one day, but that's a whole day's work. Granted, I enjoy doing it.

I'm also going to be working on a pattern to sell. Wish me luck.

Here are some pics of recent projects:


One finished crazy critter.                                                               The start of another one.


Open mouth.


Phone out of case.                                                                          With head pulled back.

And now for Cosmos:



My first cellphone case. Made from Baby Alpaca wool. The button is actually black, despite what the shine may indicate.

So, tell me what you think?

...the most sickening of stereotypes.

Pat and I have set our wedding date. We will be getting married on October 17th 2008, 3pm at whatever location we can decide on. It's either 4H park or Babcock State Park. I'm making a list of family and friends I want to invite so expect to get one soon. OOOOOO! I'm so happy!!!!!

So I'm too excited to really say much, but I did a quick fucked up sketch of a creature just to show off the ease with which I can sketch on The Gimp. I used the regular pencil tool and then the smudge tool to smooth out the shading. Woot!

Hehe. The images were photos of the first time I ever attempted fair isle.

As was discovered by Libbet yesterday, I had to scale the banners to the requirements. I checked several places and it seems as if the limit for a banner is 468x60..... damn it. Anyway, I redid them.





Now for the tiny versions for badges:

[01:08 AM] Nate: OMFG, TELL ME THE NAMES OF EVERY NEW PERSON YOU MET TODAY, GO!
[01:08 AM] Ethriell: i mets no one
[01:08 AM] Nate: not even in your imagination?
[01:09 AM] Ethriell: no not really, i've been working on banners all day long
[01:09 AM] Nate: bananers?
[01:09 AM] Nate: you can't work on those
[01:09 AM] Ethriell: my knitting group has a website under another website and they wanted a banner to represent us
[01:09 AM] Ethriell: sure i can, i make awesome banana bread
[01:09 AM] Ethriell: with peanut butter too
[01:10 AM] Nate: the banana says "HULLO, WE KNITS"
[01:10 AM] Nate: you should make me some of that banner bread, it smells delicious
[01:10 AM] Nate: i want to just rub the peanut butter all over my body, oh lord
[01:11 AM] Nate: jesus woman, why do you have to turn even the simplest thing like banana bread into some sick iunuendo?
[01:12 AM] Ethriell: lol
[01:12 AM] Nate: your knitting club has a website?
[01:12 AM] Nate: this sounds like more than a simple knitting club
[01:12 AM] Nate: you all have plans of global domination
[01:13 AM] Nate: WELL GODDAMNIT I WON'T HAVE IT, MY UNICYCLE ORGANIZATION WITH THWART YOUR EVIL SCHEME
[01:14 AM] Ethriell: the fuck...
[01:14 AM] Ethriell: lol
[01:14 AM] Nate: i'm onto you
[01:14 AM] Nate: sweaters with mind controlling threads
[01:15 AM] Nate: they latch onto the victim's nerves
[01:15 AM] Nate: i'll just get out a massive dryer and set that bitch on high heat, for major shrinkage
[01:16 AM] Nate: oh, btw, WHERMYBLUBSAT

The first set of banners I made I'm not sure were very good, but I definately like these two.




I thought about adding a little border to these. Tell me what you think!

If you're curious about the others:







The problem I had with these is that they were too big and maybe just a bit too dark for our wildly mirthful group. That, and it's really hard to draw nice flowing lines for yarn on a freaking mouse.

Something I'm lusting after hardcore! I must needs have!
Why? Because I discovered that I CAN'T REALLY DRAW WITH A MOUSE and I would like to do some work on Chris's card backs using The Gimp, Paintshop, and what have ya.
Screw porn, screw games, screw a good many things because as of now it's at the top of my list of things I need to buy.

My latest design does indeed involve working in the round doing knit 4, p4 ribbing. I'm planning on some color changing, cool looking glitter pattern like thing as I work my way up through the tank, but I still haven't decided if I want to do increases and decreases for shaping or if I should make one large tube. Murf. I'll put a pic up of what's in my notebook as far as sketched out design goes. For now, here's what I have so far.

My tank:

I'm also doing a shrug. It's not of my own design, but I did take the liberty of changing the middle part to seed stitch rather than the mock ribbing. It's going to be awesome.

My shrug:

Are you seeing a theme here? Blues and greens, oh my!

I'm finding it kind of funny that every other random journal I stumble upon talks about creative blockage. Anyone have a giant plunger?!

Seriously though, sometimes it's nice to know that you're not the only one feeling that way. Then again, I'm thinking it's a bit scarey to think so many people are having issues along that vein. Like,
apocalypse scarey. O.o

Alright. It's been a little too long since I've posted, but I have something to share with my fellow knitting pals. On Ravelry there's a group dedicated to the secret swapping of stuff... with guidelines for the gifting. I read that there's a $20 dollar minimum spendage and there must be at least 1 skein of yarn along with something you've knitted yourself. I think it's a rather awesome idea, and you get something in return as well. There's a sign up going on right now, so if you happen by "Swap on a Budget" group, check out their forums and such.

Other than that little tidbit, nothing else has really been going on. Pat's arm is healing pretty well but he still suffers a bit. I'm painting... actually painting. OH and drawing! How about that?! Also, I've made awesome grilled double cheese and fried ham sammiches for dinner tonight. Hope all is well with everyone else.

Ananova  reports this disturbing semen moisturizer... don't ask what made me look for semen moisturizer.

And something else.... here.

  If there's anyone available, could someone please take me to work tomorrow? I usually get there at 8 am. It's fine if no one's available. I kinda need to take care of Pat anyway. 

Well, Pat's parents came in to help us move this weekend. They helped pack up a few more boxes, clean a little and then chill out the next day until yesterday. Yesterday we moved into our new apartment in 5 hours with the help of Don, Gian, Maribell, Libbet, Sanchez , Manar, and Pat's parents which was amazing really. Thank you everyone! Especially Libbet and Manar for helping unpack!

Now, there's a little bit of good news. Here's the bad news. Whilst driving from one apartment to the other Pat fell off the back of Gian's truck and now he has 3 breaks in his elbow. Bah for broken arm. Right now he's just wrapped up from bicep to his fingertips, but sometime next week he's got to see an orthopedic surgeon to determine whether he just needs a cast or if he should have surgery.

On the plus side, he gets to stay home for a week... just in immense pain, and much moaning and groaning without all the happy fun stuff. (sigh).