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I framed this print today. I found this image I loved and printed it onto thin cotton fabric using my ink jet printer, and made a mat using fabric and ribbon. My father custom made the frame for me years ago and when I tired of the needle work that was in it, I decided to make up my own mat because they're expensive to have cut to size at the framing shop where I live.



I'm placing a tutorial on how to make the mat out of fabric and ribbon ( under the cut. )

I finished knitting a pure wool sweater right in time for the heat of summer!



( More photos here )

There is no way that this isn't going to be one of these kids happiest memories of driving to school with their dad.

The toddler in the car seat melts my heart and makes me laugh at the same time because it's evident that he knows some of the words, but you just know that he makes up the ones he doesn't know to keep up with his older sisters.

I picture him singing stuff like,

"I'm just a pooh bear, I need to pee pee.
He's just a pooh bear, from a poe la lee lee.
Spare him his wife from dis monster wee wee."

I love how he added an extra 'Oh yeah!' by mistake, and hearing the tick of the turn signal at the end of the video was absolutely perfect.

The next time I'm behind a car with a blinking light, instead of being annoyed that they have no intention of turning, I'm going to choose to believe that they're blasting classic rock and singing along.

When you start tripping over the blogs of women who eat their own placenta, well, it's just time to get off the internet.

And stay off.

I am posting more of stuff I've made and less of stuff I've been doing and really, which is worse?

Anyway.


Here's stuff I made:





Jute is becoming as versatile to me as duct tape is to Red Green. I can think of one whole person who will get that reference but I don't think he's paying very much attention to LJ anymore.

Is anyone?

Random stuff I think about at 2:00 AM or thereabouts.

If you are in a restaurant that serves you food in a quantity that is smaller than a golf ball, your bill is going to be ridiculous - count on it. They get away with this only because the name of the restaurant starts with 'Chez' or 'Le'. Nobody there speaks French - count on that too.

If you think that a two year old child would not be left ignored and dying on a street in China after being run over by a truck, then a car - you'd be wrong.

Stories like that of a two year old child being left on a street to die after being run over by a truck, then a car - make me hate people so much. So damn much. This is why I gave up listening to news.

Even though you do everything you can think of to avoid hearing news, the most horrific of the whole shitpile of it will still get through.

Oracle is ruining the life of someone I care about a whole lot and for that, I wish them financial ruin. Also, if I could make it happen, I would force everyone who had anything to do with the creation of this shitty product to spend eternity chained to their desk using a keyboard which has had all the keys switched around, unmarked, and they would have to work with a blindfold. Also, their phone would never stop ringing with screaming customers demanding that they want it NOW, like it used to be - before you switched to Oracle.

I'm glad I have cats.

I know that these things are easily faked and who knows which are real and which are staged, but holy smokes, some of these just slay my face off.

Go ahead and try to tell me that you are not going to buy the book.


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I love everything about this guy, this cat, this music, this accent, this story.

While cleaning out the workshop yesterday I discovered an old toolbox my Dad would have made over thirty and maybe even over forty years ago. It sat neglected behind the furnace full of rusty nails. I hauled it out and cleaned it up thinking I could definitely find a better home for it. I have!



I found an old advertisement for grain at The Graphics Fairy and applied it using CitraSolv which I didn't realize could be used to transfer images to wood. It totally can!



In other news, while drying my hair the other day, the extension cord literally blew apart and sparked like mad and sounded like gunshots were fired and it tried to kill me to death.

In addition to having my yard excavated to change the pipes, I am thinking we might need some major electrical attention because I've got some weird crap of the electrical variety going on around here.