things I learned from tie dye

So ya know, it’s not like I’m trying to find time to knit and spin and hang with my friends AND work two jobs so what did I do? I went and bought a tie dye kit (ok technically it was a tye dye kit not tie dye but whatever lol) and some shirts.

First thing I learned was that no matter how good of an idea it seems, one should not tie dye in their small apartment bathroom. No, everything is NOT covered in dye but there’s not much room and my back kinda hurts and a hose would *totally* have been beneficial!

Second thing I learned was to always wear gloves. Even if it is 24 hrs later

Third thing I learned is that I needed to put more dye all over and less in one spot.

Overall I’m not totally unhappy with the results. But I’m not super thrilled with them either. I’d like to do it again and try some different ideas.

So without further ado here’s my shirts:

before:

after:

before:

after:

and lastly my “boyfriend beater” (they’re wife beaters for boys and boyfriend beaters for the girls) that’ll probably end up as a sleep shirt:

before:

after:

til next time my sweets…

it snowed!

only took til 3/1  but we finally got some snow this winter:

sit down!

Twice in two days baby! And yes today’s post is as exciting as yesterday’s 😀

Got this from Jadielady

 

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)

2. Put it on shuffle

3. Press play

4. For the first question, type the song that’s playing

5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE

6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…just type it in man!

 

 

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE

 

(I’m using all my songs that are on my ipod, which are mostly ones that I like at least enough to want to hear… I’m not risking what could be found in my 11,494 item library as a whole) – I went with songs in my ipod too- N

Generally these are just plain weird but there may be a few that kind of fit.

 

Opening Credits:

ring of fire – Johnny Cash

 

Waking up:

The Outside – Taylor Swift

 

First Day of School:

Pretty Penny – Stone Temple Pilots

 

Falling in Love:

Home – Michael Buble

 

Losing Virginity:

I love Rock N Roll – Joan Jett

 

Fight Song:

Corona Con Lima – Gary P Nunn

 

Break Up:

Hey Baby – No Doubt

 

Prom:

Memphis Soul Song – Uncle Kracker

 

Life:

Daisy- Stone Temple Pilots

 

Mental Breakdown:

Devil Without a Cause – Kid Rock

 

Driving:

All This Love – The Lost Trailers

 

Flashback:

Hey Baby – The Lost Trailers (and I swear I hit fwd twice and it’s on shuffle)

 

Getting Back Together:

Kick My Ass – Big & Rich

 

Wedding:

Genevieve – Sugarland

 

Birth of Child:

Summer of Love – The Lost Trailers

 

Final Battle:

Take me as I am – Sugarland

 

Death Scene:

Somebody’s Gotta Feel this – Kid Rock

 

Funeral Song:

Who’s your Daddy – Toby Keith

 

End Credits:

Amen – Kid Rock

need a new name?

1.YOUR REAL NAME:

Nikki (that’s all you’re getting 😉 )

 

2.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME:  (mother and fathers middle name)

Jean Arthur

 

3.NASCAR NAME:  (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad)

Gilbert Arthur

 

4.STAR WARS NAME:  (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)

Hedni

 

5.DETECTIVE NAME:  (favorite color, favorite animal)

Purple cat

 

6.SOAP OPERA NAME:  (middle name, town where you were born)

Ashley Roanoke

 

7.SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add “THE” to the beginning)

the green tea

 

8.FLY NAME:  (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)

Nick (really?!? LMAO) 

 

9.STREET NAME:  (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)

Cherry Garcia Chocolate Chip (of all the times I wanted to tye WTF, this one wins out) 

 

10.SKANK NAME: (1st pet’s name, street you grew up on)

Pepper Northview (cuz I’m not a boy and not using Bartholamew… ok edited because I can’t read. not a pet’s name but 1st pet’s name. Probably Patch Northview. He’s the first I knew but there was Blackberry Michael who we had when I was just a wee thing… so Blackberry Michael Northview??)

 

11.GANGSTA NAME:  (first 3 letters of first name plus ‘izzle’)

Nikizzle

 

12.YOUR GOTH NAME:  (black, and the name of one of your pets)

Black Pepper! ROFLMFAO (or Black Bartholamew… it does have more alliteration and is not quite as silly since it is supposed to be Goth and all…)

 

13. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav candy)

Blue M&Ms… 

 

I have the weirdest names…

Welcome, 2009!

No resolutions here. No great year wrap up (and yeah some of it has to do with the fact that I blogged so little in 2008 🙂 ) but I’m ready for ’09! 

I’ve been blessed with good jobs, good friends and crazy kitties (and as always my loving family). I’m just gonna keep on keepin’ on. 

I did sign up for the plurkcraft365 group on flickr. Take a picture everyday of yourself, pets or crafts and post it. I made sure I wouldn’t have to hang my head in shame and leave plurk if I failed before I signed up. So far though I’m 2 for 2. I’m thinking if I can take a picture of myself sometime at the beginning of the month each month it should be interesting to see. 

I think I need to do better tags on those photos. Well, all my photos really but those especially… 

Well, that’s the blogging for today! 

I guess I should leave you with a picture. Here’s a not so great picture of me with a friend’s Flemish Giant Rabbit- Diesel. (I call him Diesel Bunny but you have to say the bunny part with a really deep voice!)

oh and yeah, he’s not so fond of being held. I was rescuing the fiber room from him!

hello?

hello hello hello hello….

Wow, that’s some wicket echo!! Sorry for the long absence. I just lost track of time and wrapped up in plurk and apparently had very little to say. 

I’m going to hopefully blog more. Maybe about knitting, maybe about life and other things. I’m not going to promise anything other than that I’m still here and doing just fine! 🙂 

Hope everyone had a good holiday and that the new year brings love, light and happiness. 

 

*honk shu... honkshuu...*

still behind…

But I’m going to jump ahead to show you what my secret pal sent me:

How great is all of that?? I lurve me some purple and it’s just saturated in purple. That merino/tencil roving? It’s so soft I want to sit it on my desk as a pet!

That Envirosax (evnirosack?) is going straight into the glove box of:

My New Car!! (Did you hear that in “game show announcer voice”? cuz that’s how I said it…)

It’s my very first NEW car! A 2009 Nissan Versa and I love her very much. I’ll miss my truck but the newness and the gas efficiency and the reliability of new car are important to me. Plus look at all this room to bring home the fibery good all safe and sound and protected from the weather:

Hopefully this weekend I can do a birthday wrap up and show off a real life Knitting Finished Item!!

ack!

OK, so I’m so far behind in my SP12 questions!!

I haven’t entered any knitting into a fair/festival although if one was close I’d consider it. Probably wouldn’t do it though since I don’t think my knitting is THAT good, ya know? I mean it’s good and pretty but it’s not perfect and I like that…

My favorite hot summer dinner is: Grilled steak and a salad or potato… and a cold beer or sweet tea…

My favorite place to knit is my sofa. I’ve got all my notions and whatnot right there. I can sit “properly” or stretch out with my legs on the sofa. Usually I have a cat with me and in the winter, I have two cats hogging up the fleece blankie so it’s extra cozy!

OK. lastly and most recently the knitting style/Olympic event. I have NO clue on this one… None. At all, whatsoever!!

I’m 6 rows away from finishing the Baby Surprise Jacket!! It was no where near as hard as I thought… although I still have to figure out how to fold it up! Pictures will follow when it’s done. It’s quite pretty if I do say so myself…

And lastly my “spinning assistant” wants to thank everyone for your comments! She does actually sleep on or near the wheel a lot and it was just so funny to see her curl up while I was still trying to spin!

Hopefully later in the week, (or this weekend since today is Thursday! WHERE did the week go!?!) I’ll do a rundown of my lovely birthday this week!)

Weekly update 8/3/08

I’m a week behind and am terribly sorry! One of my good friend’s father died last Friday and I just didn’t have it in me to blog. I was going to get caught up in the week and didn’t. So here I am today.

I finished both of my squares for a blanket the group is making and started knitting the Baby Surprise Jacket (again! BSJ v1 took a trip to the frog pond after too much talking while knitting then the “fix” I tried to implement made it 5x worse!). I’ve still got my clapotis on the needles as well as my Hourglass sweater.

Yesterday I tried spinning and it was rolling right along until my ever faithful assistant came to help me:

Please note the arms under the treadle:

Hopefully I’ll have some actual knitting to show you next time!

weekly update 7-20-08

I am woefully behind in posting this week and am sorry… it’s been one of those kinds of weeks that you never hope to repeat!

Let’s get that all out of the way then I’ll do my SP12 question of the week and update you on my knitting.

We first found out that a son of one of our knit group girls was horribly burned in an accident. This being after fire claimed the home twice of one of our other girls… So we’re planning on how to help them and rehoming their rescue bunnies and other critters when we get the awful news that another of our knit group girls husband was burned in a grilling incident. Both are at special burn hospitals in the region.

Other than working I’ve been trying to help with that this week. However one of my cohorts and I have organized a raffle. (<- ravelry link) We’ve scored a couple Ravelry tote bags, some fabulous yarn and are working on other prizes. Please follow the link if you’re on Ravelry and email me if you’re not and you’re interested. I’ll send you all of the information. If nothing else, can you please keep these good people and their families in your thoughts and prayers? 

Now, onto the not so bad stuff… 

SP12 – Questions #6
What is your favorite type of project to take along on holiday/vacation?

Hmm, quick and mindless! Socks, dishrags and the like. I did take my clapotis once with me. That was nice. 

If you’d like to share a story…Tell us about a time that you packed too much knitting or were stranded without knitting.

OK, it’s not a funny story per-se but my knitting was! My uncle passed away last summer and we were driving to Savannah for his memorial service. My mom said “make sure you take your knitting, I’m sure there will be down time”. Well, duh! I take my knitting everywhere but she was stressed so of course I just said “yes ma’am, I was planning on it”. So I go up to her house and we’re packing the car and she asks me what all I packed (she so goes into “Mom” mode when she’s stressed). So I start listing the clothes in my one bag and she said ok, what’s in that one- pointing to my backpack. I said, my knitting. I had my clapotis, socks on the needles, back up sock yarn, yarn for my chevron scarf I never knitted, and many many balls of kitchen cotton. Oh, and we were only gone 3 days. And I only got in a hour or two total of knitting time I’d say! Overpack? Me? Nah…. 

As far as my TdF knitting, haven’t done it 😦 I hope I get more knitting time in next week… I kinda miss it!

Oh and my monkey socks? Frogged. Totally and completely…

So this isn’t a totally pictureless post here’s my friend Laura’s new bunny she adopted from our friend: