BLACKBERRYBEADS

I was told the other day (nicely, mind you) that I fill up my blog with lots of words…I know this.  I’m not proud of it, I should streamline my thoughts, but what you read is just what I’m thinking and I tend to be wordy in my thoughts…

So, I will try to get straight to the point so as not to bog you down.  I think you’ll like that…

I enjoyed the Super Bowl yesterday…I’m nearly finished with my Intarsia bag for Wed’s class.  I’ve been spending WAY too much time on Ravelry of late.  Its raining and we might have some wintery mix by Wed. Fun!

How’s that?

Congratulations To the New Orleans Saints!!!  That was a pretty good Super Bowl, it went by quickly, not a lot of penalties, it stayed pretty close for most of the game, and I was happy with either team winning, although I was pulling for the Saints just because they’ve never been, never won, and there were so many bad years for them in the past…

Drew Brees is an Austin kid, and I like seeing him win, because he wasn’t recruited locally by our ‘big time’ colleges, so he ended up at Purdue, had a good career there, was drafted to the Chargers, got hurt, and thought he might never get back on track.  NO loves him, he loves the town and now they are the World Champs…Yeehaw!!

For Christmas, I bought Brian a blu-ray DVD player that streams Netflix, Pandora, YouTube and Blockbuster movies…This morning he installed the cable necessary to access those features, and now we are able to stream movies on our Netflix queue, and I’m listening to my Pandora music channels…all my Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Smooth Jazz are coming through with the simple touch of a button…it is really quite groovy, indeed…I’ll be able to watch Poirot, and other movies while working, as well as just relax to music.  He chose to hook up the player in my office, and I wasn’t going to argue with that, so even tho it was a present for him, I’m actually the one using it…Oh technology, how you make my life more interesting and entertaining every day…

I finished my intarsia purse late last night, only to realize about 4:00am that I had seamed the edges incorrectly. I should have put right sides together and run the seam, instead I did wrong sides together so the seams are on the outside.  In the big scheme of things its no big deal.  I don’t really care, cause this was a learning project and I don’t think i’ll ever use the bag, it’ll just sit in a drawer like so many of my projects do.  But I am gonna finish the handle and probably just felt it here since i’ve done plenty of felting on my own and don’t need to felt it in class.  I am anxious to see how it turns out, but expectations are low.  I will probably make that Circle tote from Leigh Radford, since I’ve been wanting to make it for years, but after that, I think I’m done with intarsia…Its time consuming and I’d rather work on socks.

Yesterday the dog and I had a fun experience…We headed to the highschool around 9:00am for our walk, and while driving through the parking lot, I saw the entire shop class (all guys) were outside with little things in their hands…As I drove closer, I saw they had marshmallow guns and were shooting mini-marshmallows at one another.  I dunno if you ever watch Craig Ferguson, but last month he was shooting marshmallows at his studio audience with this little PVC gun…and I suspect someone in class saw this, and brought in the online plans for everyone to make their own.  It was hilarious to see all the zillions of marshmallows on the ground, and of course the truck got pelted, and the dog even took a few marshmallows (not that she ate them)…

Its a gorgeous, sunny, 60 degree day here…Winter is coming back later this week, but we are going to enjoy today for all it’s worth…I wanna go outside and play…And maybe knit a little later…I’m working on my intarsia bag for class on Wed.  We have to be done in order to felt it.  I’m knitting as fast as I can!

I finally got the beads shot, in the dark, dreary, wet porch…the lighting isn’t the best, but you get the idea…I posted them on Etsy so it could handle the shopping cart, believe me I don’t make more money using Etsy, I only use it as a convenience because otherwise I need to babysit my computer and I can’t always be at my computer to keep an eye on it…

You can find the beads on the right side column, as you probably know.  Or click the ‘Etsy’ banner on the left…

And I was playing around with my Spring Frit lentils and realized what they remind me of – hand painted sock yarn!!!  So, I made a few bracelets and they are available if you’d like one…Same price as the beads, just $65 a bracelet…I like how they turned out…(fit a 7 1/4″ wrist easily, of course)…