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August 01, 2005
the weekend
sooooo....i'm not really a computer person on the weekend. i mean, sometimes i'm on it, but mostly i see this as bulk time to work on knitting or beading or sewing or cooking or whatever ... not to mention that this weekend was feeling particularly sombre to me b/c of friday morning. i haven't slept too well for the past couple of nights. i've been up since about 3:30am this morning. did all the picts and this post...life's gonna be HARD around 3:30pm today...feel for me about that time, wouldja?
friday night isaac came over. we ate some dinner, watched some firefly, and walked around the corner to see the mall. my friend adam plays drums for this band, and they are SUPER GOOD! they played a couple new songs and i liked them. i also really like the music adam makes on his own. i read that he's going to be playing that stuff out somewhere. hopefully it's on a thursday to saturday kinda night, so i can go! speaking of going, the mall was the first band to play, and then it got real crowded, which made me want to go home. nathalie and damon came over(isaac decided to go home too), and we watched one more episode of firefly. i'm telling you, it's the only thing really worth not watching lotr for...
i was supposed to do more work on setting up the store, but i kinda didn't. lygia's coming over tonight, and we're gonna get the last of the picts shot w/my digi. hopefully everything will be up by thursday...hopefully i just couldn't pull myself away from the stuff i was making. i can't show you either of the knitted items, b/c they're both gifts. i designed and knitted a thank-you to anthony for helping me out with this site and everything(which i will post later, cuz i think it came out rad), and i finished more than HALF of lygia's christmas present. and it's just august 1st today! for those of you who don't dwell in a handmade gift/knitting world, i don't really knit, bead, sew, or generally make anything for myself between august 1st and january 31st. this time is devoted to gift making. this is part of the reason i friggin love christmas. i've already been in that mindset for about 4 months before anyone else is there; of course i'm excited!
i CAN show you the beaded stuff i made this weekend. i wound up getting one of those THINGAMAJIGs last weekend, and i was really compulsive about playing with it on saturday. i do have the sterling wire, nylon hammer, and steel brick for when i've improved. seems a world away at the moment. here's the first things that came out well enough to show. the rest was just plain curled wires, many of which were wonky. apparently there's some trick to doing this and making the wires come out even. i'm still working out where to put the posts, as i had inserted them from the bottom of the jig initially and found myself thinking it all seemed so inefficient. of course, in the end, it was me... anywho, i eventually made these:
i had another new experience in beading, as well. i actually made a bracelet from one of those beading magazines, and followed a PATTERN. this is actually much more difficult than it would seem. i am proud that my finished bracelet looked alot like the one in the magazine. by that i mean, i used different color stones, and a different toggle clasp, but the formation of the beads are the way they look in the magazine picture. it was an interesting experiment!
i also worked out these two necklaces. this one is made of chinese crystals with sterling findings:
and this necklace was originally a bracelet, that i turned into a necklace. i like how the glass is a jade color. i was also moved to provide this necklace with 14k gold findings. i rarely use gold, and have very little in my stash. yet, here i was, digging it and having at....
it was a very productive, yet odd weekend. i feel like things have changed, on a very deep level, and i'm not really sure how. i'm even kinda happy to be going to work today, if only to get that comforting feeling of sameness...
Posted by Meagen at August 1, 2005 04:44 AM