July = Food

I joined the NaBloPoMo ning for July since this month's theme seemed like something I could sink my teeth into (pun intended)

I is excited! Prepare for lots of recipe posts and eating posts. July is gonna be fun! Especially since I iz married to a chef.

xoxox

The afghan I'm gonna be working on

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I'm so excited! It's done in an off-white and in panels you crochet together when you're done. I love that it's 3 different patterns so I'm not gonna get bored doing it.

I'm starting this next week sometime.

Today I'm concentrating on the star afghan and removing rings without slicing myself silly again. And painting bottlecaps and waiting for them to dry. I'm telling you, like Tom Petty said, The waiting is the hardest part.

xoxox

The "I'm different" meme

The Challenge:

Post 5 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another!(2.b., 2.c., etc…) Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

1. I was a stripper (adult dancer kind...not home improvement kind).

2. attended Yale University (for one year).

3. Began reading when I was just shy of 2 years old.

4. used to go door to door with the Jehovah's Witnesses giving people Awake and Watchtower magazines.

5. Unknowingly dated 2 brothers, one right after the other.

(wow! i'm not very interesting at all)

I vant to suck your blood

Whose your Vampire personality? (images) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Dracula You are the smooth sexy cool Dracula. Patient and lustful. If you were any cooler youd be ice. Great style with a way of seducing those around you. And three brides who wouldn't want to be him. Dracula 100% Armand 92% Deacon Frost 67% Marius 67% Louis 67% Lestat 67% Blade 58% Spike 50% Angel 50% Akasha 42%

having way too much fun

I was removing rubber rings from bottlecaps until I sliced my thumb trying to remove a super hard one. (I'm gonna have to make a list of the ones easy to remove and the ones that suck and figure out how to work around the ones that suck so I don't slice my fingers again) FYI it's a billion times easier to boil caps in water, remove them one at a time with tongs, and use a sharp implement to remove the rings (altho I'm thinking tweezers might work but we don't have any in our house ... so I'm using the tiny knife on our wine tool) I was using the hot plate of the coffee maker originally, but that takes so long.

Anyway, I decided to look for and work on more graphics/pictars for bottlecaps. (thanks Gina!) I found some fabulous ones and I can't wait to get them posted! a couple Rose the Riveter, a few wonder woman (including the opening logo from the TV series) a couple cool cherry ones, a Gonzo symbol, Harley davidson, Mr. T, and a couple others i think. I printed them out and I'm waiting for them to completely dry.

I did get enough bottlecaps un-ringed to be able to paint a few so they can dry. Because I'm such a nit-picker, I'm painting the insides of each bottlecaps to match the outside. (i think I mentioned this before) Like Bud Light. The top is silver tinged and the inside is golden. (which happens to be the caps I was working on today) so after flattening and removing the rings, I set them up and spray painted the insides (of some of them) silver so that I can attach a silver coloured jump rings and silver coloured ball chain and then the cap can be reversible. Black would also work. I may do some of those tomorrow.

But the really fun part is finding and fixing the pictars so they fit and look decent (to me anyway) It is kinda time consuming (spent about 3 hours doing it today for about 10 pictars) but it's rewarding. and I love it!

I'm still working on my super secret bloggy project and I'm crocheting every nght. Working currently on that babyghan then some tawashi before I move onto the 2nd commissioned afghan (when I get the pattern...which hopefully will be in the next couple days)

oh! and I also got some books from the library yesterday. I can't seem to find my copy of House of Leaves (I know it's in my house somewhere...the damn pixies have hidden it on me I just know it) so I picked up "Even Cowgirls get the Blues" and "east of Eden" based on a tip from someone at the Box last week, the 2nd book after The Golden Compass and a book Kevin picked up called "The New Weird" which is like a collection of twisted sci fi and horror stories. He thought I might like it and I think I will.

Yea i feel like my brain is on overload. I'm trying to ration out my days so I have time to clean and bottlecap and crochet and pictar and blog and super secret blog and clean and of course eat and drink lots of water lol.

i hate my cats

we moved one of their litter boxes from the backroom to the basement. well apparently they decided that wasn't working for them and they made up a makeshift litter box behind some boxes in the room their litter box used to be in.

yea.

so now the room is closed off and we're going to try and clean it up and reclaim our room.
Bad bad kitties!!!

I love this bottlecap :)

These are the bottlecaps I'm currently working on. They will be finished in the next week. Like I said, this takes patience.

First in black

and now in gold

some other ones I've made (but not in both colours)

and currently the choices of bottle caps I have






I still have to take pictars of them in the silver bottlecaps for the listings.

All caps will be $5 and come with a waxed cotton adjustable cord. for $1 more you can get a ball chain necklace in either gold or silver tone. You will get choice of ball chain colour only if you order the black cuz I'm matching the chain to the cap. And if in the case of certain caps (i.e. bud light) where the inside doesn't match the outside metallic colour. I have been spray painting the inside to match. That way the necklace (and the jump ring) matches on both sides.

yay for etsy

My finished afghan arrived at it's destination yesterday and I got a message from the buyer today

The package arrived yesterday and the afghan was even more beautiful than I hoped! We had company in from out of town and everyone loved it. Thank you so much for doing such a beautiful job on it. I'm already thinking about the next one - I'll be in contact because I've got some questions that I don't have time to get into right now but after my company leaves tomorrow, I'll get back with you.

Have a great day!

And her feedback was extremely generous!

This was my first buying experience on Etsy and it was perfect. Seller kept me informed every step of the way on progress and shipment of order. Service and product were exceptional. I would not hesitate to recommend this seller and am actually already planning a second order!

I'm flying high on cloud 9 right now!!!

and I'm off to work on some bottlecaps and print out more pictars ^_^