Guetta Girl: another weekend come and gone

« in the garden of the breadbox | Main | in which i learn a little bit more about sneaker culture »

August 22, 2005

another weekend come and gone

nothing really special happened over the weekend. in fact, i spent a lot of time at home. this was very good, although, as is likely to happen with me, i did get a buncha stuff done, practically none of it was on my responsibility-oriented TO DO list....

firstly, let me start off with the one social thing i did this weekend. i went and peeped THE MOST POWERFUL SOUND at the hayes valley market gallery. it was this awesome combination of sound and visual art. in the back was a room with bottles that had different amounts of liquid in them, and you could play them like a xylophone, HOW RAD IS THAT?!?!? here gigi's giving a listen in on someone's work...(sorry, didn't take notes...)

i'm proud to say that all the other picts i took are posted in the photogallery...STOKED. like it only took me forever, huh? LOL! don't care, i'm feeling pretty spiffy about it. anywho, the order might be backwards; still working on that learning curve...

speaking of things that have been forever and a day to be "dealt with", lemme acknowledge that i've had LOTS of encouragement to deal with the store, and i'm still slacking on that. i assure you that it's not from a lack of making stuff. in fact, lemme show you what i've been doing in the midst of my paypalstorementalblock state:

i saw these on kat's blog (pinku link to the right), and then had to make them. i'd always loved the idea of wearing flipflops, but the dealie between the toes has been a big(read painful) deterrant, so i thought i'd see if these socklettes would help any.....i'll let you know. i made mine outta the cascade fixation yarn, which i love so much.

i made a couple of single strand necklaces with the beads libby gave me. i'd never strung from temp strung beads before. i guess it was helpful/easier...which i guess is the point of having them strung? i asked one of the guys at general bead about that, and i think that's what they told me(these are seed beads i'm referring to here...)

i'd like to make a band with the blue ones, and a multi-strand necklace with the brown ones, eventually, but i made these just to get a feel and gave them to gigi. she was stoked.

i made this ring as a kinda prototype...

i got involved in using fixatives, and made this bracelet. this is my first time making something like this with glue and all. i got the ladybugs at octavia's haze, which is an art gallery that features glass. (don't worry joel, i asked the guys at general bead which glue was best for the project!)

then i made this necklace, mostly to use the octopus as a focal bead. it's kinda based on some stuff i made for needles and pens. (i don't have picts of that stuff yet, but i'll be bringing it down on friday.)
and of course i did some knitting;
so, after a lot of thinking, and some major fukups, i've frogged that rebecca sweater. the chart was too confusing for me at this point in time. instead i've decided that this

is far too wonky for a great many reasons. the uneven ribbing in the front being the most obvious, but the fact that the yarn was knit with the wrong size needles (mid-project, somehow, which i think is part of the over all problem with the sleeves), is just far too much for me to bare any longer