Wednesday Weirdness.

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Alrighty folks. Time to embarrass myself yet again.

I fear vintage/retro clothing.

I love the look, I love the style.

But I always feel ridiculous.

I have owned quite a few lovely, lovely vintage things in the last few years, but every single one of them has ended up being donated to the Salvos because I just could not make myself wear them in public. The one exception to this is a dress my mother gave me that used to belong to my aunt. That is still in my closet, but also still unworn.

Even though I know pretty much no-one actually notices what i am wearing I am so scared of looking ridiculous, that I never wear things that I really, really love.

I am a stupid, stupid person.

13 Things Thursday.

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This weeks 13 Things is an anniversary edition. Nicholas and I have been together for 3 years, as of today. Which basically means I get to be all mushy about things I am grateful for about him, and you get to see semi embarrassing pictures of us. Mostly him. And some of the cats thrown in for good measure. Also, you get explanations.

  1. Taking out the garbage. Since we have lived together I have had to take out the garbage a grand total of once. It is awesome.
  2. Changing the cat litter. I am not good with gross stuff, so this job falls to Nicholas too. And I love him forever for it.
  3. Buying the soft drink. We go through a lot of soft drink at our house. Mostly coke zero. And he pretty much never forgets to buy it.
  4. Being a night person.
  5. Eating anything I cook. Seriously. We laid a few ground rules about foods he doesn;t like and went from there. He will whatever I cook for dinner, no matter what. Even the bad stuff.
  6. Loving our cats.
  7. Putting up with me. It is an achievement, yo.
  8. Being silly.
  9. Growing a beard. I like boys with facial hair, Nicholas likes girls with long hair. We made a deal. He grows a beard, I grow my hair. It works for us.
  10. Sorting out the technical stuff. I bought my current laptop because it is pink. Nicholas bought his laptop because it has good specs and was a great price. He is in charge of the things with wires in our house.
  11. Buying the games. I don’t play a huge amount of games, but any game I do want to play, you can bet your ass we own it. And that Nicholas was the one who bought it.
  12. Being patient.
  13. Barely teasing me about not being able to run and aim at the same time. I am terrible at playing video games. But I do enjoy it. And he is always very restrained about making fun of me. Well, to my face anyway.

 

The Book Challenge: Update.

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I have seriously dropped the ball since the last update. Only four new books finished, and only 1375 pages. I am waaay behind on the page count. So much so that I am not even going to worry about the page thing anymore. I will still count them, and add them up, but just for curiosities sake now, not because I want to make it to 30,000. I have found myself choosing book because of how long they are, and skipping books that aren’t long enough, simply to try and make the page count. But, no more. Now, I am simply trying to get to 100 new books.

On the good side, after finding it reaslly hard to get into The Hunger Games at first, I ended up finishing the series this month. Twice. Yeah, the second and third books are way, way better than the first. That’s another reason I am so behind on my book count. I just couldn’t help myself, I had to read them again. I may have become a tiny bit obsessed for a little while.

The numbers so far:

Book total: 32

Page total: 8777

Books read since last update: 4

Number of pages since last update: 1375

Most read author: Still Janet Evanovich.

13 Things Thursday.

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  1.  UK television.
  2. Chocolate brownies.
  3. Dry socks.
  4. Casserole dishes.
  5. New music.
  6. Hot chips.
  7. Pretty fonts.
  8. Photographs.
  9. Soft cotton shirts.
  10. Blankets.
  11. K-Mart.
  12. 87kms.
  13. Nail polish testers.

I finally bought myself new work shoes this week, after the sole fell off one of my old ones. Of course, they had had huge holes in them for a couple of weeks, but I have gotten pretty good at ignoring that when it happens. I hate having the break-in new shoes, but I love my feet not getting wet at work. It’s a fine balance.

Wednesday Weirdness.

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Soooo.. Another fortnight, another chance to embarrass myself in public.Yay! Although, this one isn’t so much embarrassing as not something you should follow my example of.

I never turn of my computers. Either of them. Unless I absolutely have to shut them down, to go on a flight or something, then I just don’t. I always have tonnes of web pages open, so shutting down my computer is a pain in the arse as far as that goes, but also because I tend to watch vidoes halfway through, then pause them and go back later, or have several photos open in photoshop which I am halfway through editing or some such.

Nicholas is always on my back about how it isn’t good for the computer, blah, blah, blah. But laziness wins out every time.

Easter bunnies.

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This marks the start of the catch up posts for The Sewing Challenge. They should be appearing over the next week or two, depending how quickly I take pictures of everything and get the posts written.

For easter I made some little bunny plushes for a few friends. I made the pattern in Photoshop with circles and ovals, printed it on freezer paper, ironed the freezer paper to the fabric and traced it on. I pinned and sewed the bunnies before I cut them out to make it easier on myself. What can I say? I like easy.

The pattern is super simple. Just a big circle for the body, a slightly smaller circle for the head, and two long-ish ovals for the ears. You could even make this in Word or Paint. The only reason I used Photoshop is because it was the program I had open at the time.

The most time-consuming part fo these little bunnies wasn’t the sewing, but the stuffing. It probably took me five minutes to trace, sew and cut each one, but it took me a good ten minutes to get them nice and evenly plump. I am not so good at stuffing. Stuffing things up, yes, but just plain stuffing, not so much.

The middle bunny is actually made from the same fabric as my wired headband from last week. I have had that fabric for probably two years by now? But it’s only a remnant, less than a metre long, which means I have had a hard time figuring out what to do with it. I love it so much, so I’m real happy it’s finally getting used. The yellow and white fabric is leftover from a picture I made to go over our bed, and the checked one is an old (clean) handkerchief.

Yay for stash busting!