Finally, knitting guild pics

The website was finally updated and pictures of when I showed-and-told about the wing of the moth shawl I am knitting are there. So here are my projects, these were taken in Decemeber and I am still working on that shawl. I keep running out of yarn and having to spin more up! There is also a picture of the crew that were filming us for the public access channels.

Until next time...

Freaky Eye-Candy Friday Pic (on Saterday)

YOW!

HOT BED
HOT BED
HOT BED
Who turned the 'lectric blankie all the way up?

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Dyeing technique for the day: Coffee

Now I know what I can do with that coffee that has been sittin in the cubberd for three years...without wasting it by simply tossing it!

Coffee Dyeing

Materials Required:

• Coffee, either fresh or coffee grounds (You can get FREE coffee grounds from Starbucks who give them away in HUGE bags full of it)
• Water

Like Tea dyeing, this is a very simple way to dye fabric or fiber. Coffee will give shades of light tan and browns. A coffee vat is also nontoxic, and does not require special equipment.
coffee contains tannin, which acts as a natural mordant. A mordant is a substance that chemically interacts with the fiber surface and allows the color to stick to the fiber. Tannin is present in bark, oak galls, and tea of course. By heating the coffee in water, the tannin and brown coloring agents from the coffee go into solution in the dye vat. Then the tannin in the solution changes fiber surface so the brown coloring agents can penetrate the fibers that are being dyed.

Basic Technique:

Boil water, add coffee, or coffee grounds. Let simmer for a long time. A couple hours, over night, time isn't all that important.
Let the dye bath cool, then strain the dye liquid removing the coffee grounds, then add fabric or fiber.
Bring dye bath back to a simmer, and let simmer for a while. Turn the heat off, let the dye bath and fiber cool in the bath overnight.
Remove fiber, rinse in cool water, then let the fiber dry inside or out of the sun.
Done.

Tips for the novice dyer.

Make sure that the fiber or fabric to be dyed is thoroughly wet, and close in temperature to the dye vat. Quick changes in temperature can ruin some fabric, as can prolonged rapid boiling. Wool is particularly sensitive to heat changes, and the combination of heat, tannin and agitation (from a rapid boil) can turn wool fabric into felt.

Start by using equal weights of dye stuff and fabric or fiber should be used. Less coffee, or coffee grounds, will result in light tans, and beiges, while more coffee and greater time will give shades of dark brown.

Always use a nonreactive pots for dyeing. Stainless steel, glass, or enamel without any chips. Iron, copper, or aluminium will interact with the dye with unpredictable results.

Expriment, try combinations of fabric coffee and time, but most of all good luck and enjoy yourself!

Wax OR Shave

Okay this was too funny...had to post to the blog. I figured there'd be a lot of ladies who would read this then node...yep...the pain we suffer for a male dominated world. Humph!

 

 

Wax or Shave.....

All hair removal methods have tricked us with their promises of easy,
painless removal. The epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now.... The Wax!!

My night began as any other normal weekday night. Come home; fix dinner;
played with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my
mind for the next few hours; "Maybe I should pull the wax out of the
medicine cabinet?"

So I headed to the site of my demise; the bathroom. It was one of those cold
wax kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in
your hand and then they get warm and you peel them apart, press it to your
leg (or wherever else) and hair comes right off! No muss, no fuss. How hard
can it be? I mean, I'm no girly, girl, but am mechanically inclined enough
that I can figure it out.

*YA THINK!!!*

So I pull one of the thin strips out. It's two strips facing each together,
stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, I get out the hair dryer
and heat it to 1000 degrees. Cold wax my rear end (Oh, how this phrase
haunts me!). I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight
and pull.


OK... So it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this!!!
Hair removal no longer eludes me!! I am She-Ra, fighter of all wayward body
hair and smooth skin extraordinaire!! bsp;


With my next wax strip, I move "north". After checking on the kids, I sneak
back into the bathroom for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop
my panties and place one foot on the toilet.

Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of the
bikini line, covering the right half of my 'you know what' and stretching
down to the inside of my butt cheek (Yes, it was a long strip). I inhale
deeply and brace myself....

RRRRIIIIIIPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!

I'm Blind!!!!! Blinded from pain!!!!!!... OH DEAR GOD !!!!!!!!!!! Im making
noises that only dogs can hear ..

Vision slowly returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half of
the strip. S**T!!! Another deep breath and RRIIPP... Everything is swirly
and spotted . I cannot breath or speak - I have forgotten how .. Do I hear
crashing drums?????

Wait a few minutes and I'm back to normal (nearly) After all this I want to
see my trophy !!! - A wax covered strip with my hairy pelt that has caused
me so much pain, sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my
triumph over body hair.

I hold up the strip!

There's no hair on it!

Where is the hair?? WHERE IS THE WAX? Slowly I ease my head down, foot still
perched on the toilet. I see the hair... The hair that should be on the
strip. I touch. I am touching wax. S**T!!! I ! run my fingers over the most
sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair.

Then I make the next BIG mistake . . . . .

Remember, my foot is still propped up on the toilet. I know I need to do
something, so I put my foot down.

DAMN!!! I hear the slamming of the cell door.

Vagina? Sealed shut! Butt?? Sealed shut!!! I penguin walk around the
bathroom, trying to figure out what to do and think to myself, "Please don't
let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off."

Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand
into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax covered bits and the wax should
melt and I can gently wipe it off, right??

WRONG!!!!

I get in the tub - The water is slightly hotter than then that used to
torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit. Now, the
only thing worse that having your nether businesses glued together is having
them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub. In scalding hot
water!! (Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax)

So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub!!! God bless the man what
convinced me I should have a phone in the bathroom!!! I call my friend,
thinking surely she's waxed before and has come secret of how to get me
undone. It's a very good conversation starter, "So my butt and who-ha are
stuck to the bottom of the tub!

There is a slight pause.

She doesn't have a secret trick, but does try to hide the laughter from me.
She wants to know exactly where the wax is located.

"Are we talking buttock cheek or is it covering - you know - "Everywhere"
(cringe factor 20000 at this point) ?" She's laughing out loud by now... I
can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on
the side of the box. YEAH RIGHT!!!!!! I should be the 'butt' of someone
else's work-night jokes.

While we go through various solutions, I resort to scraping the wax off with
a razor. Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in
hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water, and then dry
shaving the sticky wax off!!!

By now, the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I slip
into glazed donut land. My friend is still talking with me and my hand
reaches towards the saving grace...

The lotion they give you to remove the excess wax.

What do I really have to lose at this point. I rub some on and OH MY
GOD!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids, scared the dickens out of my
friend, but I really don't care!!

"IT WORKS!! IT WORKS!!" I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she
hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice, to
my grief and despair...

THE HAIR IS STILL THERE... ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I shaved it off. Heck, I'm numb at this point.

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Swappers Blacklists, Blockbuster Rip-off

YEAY! I've got a new helper for the blacklists blog-Flaker Hater....how cute! We've added three new entries in direct relation to the mystery skien swap. A flaker, one with commitment issues, and one with Holier Than Thou Syndrom (HTT). HTT shows itselfs in these symptoms: a swapper who is never happy no matter how much you try to please them, a swapper who tries to tell hostess or others on list how they should act/post on list (eh, excuse me?!), a swapper that has the most lame-ass, childish complaints. I suppose you could compair these symptoms with Troll Syndrom because they are so much alike.

I canceled my Blockbuster online account after the date it renewed and I thought it would be no biggie. I would just use the next month already paid for right? WRONG. Blockbuster is trying to tell me that 15 DAYS before the cancel date (3.10.07) they will stop sending me movies. Ummm the 18.99 I paid is for 30 DAYS subscription, not flippin half of that. They are not answer or clarifying on this and are dodging the question by trying to offer me half of thier subscription prices for 6 months. I don't need them. They SUCK. I had CSI Miami season three in my queue for the entire two week trial and did not get a one of the series but got what I had UNDER those in my queue. So they tell me "if a shipment will take more than 2 business days to ship, it is skipped and the next and nearest available movie is shipped". Okay...so do those movies with a ship time of more than 2 days EVER ship?? They won't answer that one either. My local "total access" store has a lame selection of movies and only has CSI Miami season one. I am on season 4 through netflix. Netflix is faster, thier website loads faster, and they send what is ON TOP in my queue...whether or not it takes more than a couple days or not. If it does, then they tell me it's shipping from a location further away and will take a few days longer. I'm okay with that.

I am not kosher at all with Blockbuster trying to tell me I will only get HALF of the subscription I paid for and then trying to bait me into purchasing another membership plan, and then trying to tell me that they do not offer refunds or partial refunds. I'm sure the BBB will have something to say about that cause that is essentially THEFT. They are fuckin with the wrong consumer...this consumer knows better.

Until next time...

Yeah! Lime and Violet!

O O O O another lime and violet podcast! Time to sit, knit, and have a snorttin good time!

 

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Sore nose, stupid-poopy-baby-whiner-butts, Valentines

I dreamed last night that I was being chased, and then, when this pursuer cornered me...I took my defensive stance that I have learned and punched her. She fell down and I ran away. Very liberating to be able to face my fears in the dreamworld and defend myself...so long as it doesn't affect me...in waking life! I woke up with a sore nose...feeling like I had been punched!!! Did I punch myself? Owe...owe...owe....darned it!

OOOOoh save me! Save me from the poopy-baby-butt-whiners (As Jim Carry said in Bruce Almighty) that are whining at me....about the stupidest damned, god forsaken, childish things!! Are you an adult...or a whining poopy butt child? This, is why I had stopped hosting swaps before. Because there is always ONE (or more) who makes a mountain out of NOTHING!! The person bitching at me is the same one that earlier asked me to demand people edit thier posts because she is on dial up...now, I am being bitched at because her partner didn't LOOKED like, and didn't WRITE like she absolutley loved what she got in the swap! Then I get this email complaining about those things and then she has the nerve to try and tell me how to run the group/swap and how I should not have said I didn't see a problem...to her partner....who posted to the group....ABOUT the issues....that they apparently are somehow working out behind the scenes...because I really don't see a problem other than the child-like whining! HEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeelloooooooo! Really seems to me like a mountain out of another mole hill!

I need...a punching bag... *buh-buh-buh....baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayah!* Bash-boom-bang-kick-thrash-trash!

The BF told me this morning to be ready to leave when he gets home from work tonight....OOOOo me so curious! Why? I ask. It's a surprise...he says. EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee! I got him a rose and a card that said "Coffee and You..." on the inside "Two things I cannot live without." And it's so true! I love me coffee, always have! Mom let me drink Sanka coffee when I a teenager (because it was decaf). I have always loved the taste of coffee.

Until next time...

How to eat Fried Worms, The Movie

Well I saw the movie of the book that I could not stop reading when I was in school. It was in Middle School when I read it. I was researching worms at the time, and I cam across this book-checked it out, and could not put it down. The movie is a little different than the book as I though the kid had to eat one worm a day for ten days, and the bully tried to trick him into eating two by frying two together in some batter-but the heroine caught that trick and saved his booty. Good book, decent job on the movie too. At some parts of the movie I almsot GAGED cause it was majorly gross!

 

Today is the BF's B-day. I bought cake and icecream to celebrate when he gets home.

 

No takers on the Mohair...I fear I will be stuck with it. I will never buy from that place again. Humph! Guess I will clean a little bit at a time and spin it up and give it away. What was I thinkin! I should have bought Merino, not mohair!

 

Yep, well, back to knitting that project for the mystery skien swap!

 

C4G

 

I am speaking out for women's rights.
Will you join me?
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Leigh Scott's Dragon-BAD-BAD-BAD MOVIE!!!

OMG! Can you die of being talked to death from unending, boring dialog and bad acting?! *faint!* The title and DVD cover looked interesting but when we put it in we were greated with poor acting to worst degree, and NO ACTION. The back of the DVD says "The action of Reign of Fire, the adventrue of Lord of the Rings"....ummm...in what universe?! The moves and action are poorly executed as there is a noticable pause between moves that the actors make. Clearly rehursed. It's not supposed to look rehursed. The actors are unknowns who show little emotion, don't move naturally (nor act naturally as if they weren't actors) and sighed a lot...I hate sighing actors! The dialog is NEVER ENDING and BORING to boot. Good god...kill me now cause this movie is torture! I could not watch it all because I was bored out of my mind with the never ending, boring dialog-even while knitting I was bored! PUKE-CITY. And this is supposed to be the first in a trilogy...wow...good luck getting those other two done because I would not endorse them from a ten foot pole! I cannot bitch enough about how bad this movie is and what a dissapointment it is to have rented it in good faith....thinking it sounded good from the cover description. Riegn of Fire is 100 times more entertaining, and Lord of the Rings has 100 times better dialog. OH! And lets not forget about the traffic noise in the background of a story that is supposed to be set way back in the middle ages! And the bad cuts in the action scenes...and the bad acting...and the.....OOOOOOooooo *I die*. If you are lookin to rent it, and you liked Riegn of Fire or Lord of the Rings...SKIP IT! Not worth the DVD it is burned onto!

 

Until next time...

 

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Talking Cat

And now, we have a cute and cuddly intermission.

Free Hugs Campaign. Inspiring Story! (music by sick puppies)

This is quite the spirit lifter!