WIP: are you sitting down?

Well, are you?  Because this is going to blow your socks off!

Alright, enough of being a giant nerd, but what I'm trying to get at here is how happy I am with my Sailor Purples Shawl.  After a mini roadblock last week, I managed to get around to dyeing some yarn and have started adding stripes.  Now, the original intent was to have a bunch of different purples, but what I got from dyeing was some purple, but also pink and burgundy.  Still, I think it's looking pretty rad (I mean look at how that that yarn in the second stripe is working up!), but it will probably need a new name.  It's measuring 48 cm now. 

Only nominal progress on Finn (as a few of you guessed correctly last week) so no photos, but I am pleased to report that I have FINISHED all the motifs for Blissful Flowers, but only have the following dirty picture for you.  Now I just need to add fringe and block!  Do I add the fringe before blocking?  I think I will because the yarn is a bit kinky.

Check out that edging bro.  Masterful.

Still listening to The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, and nearly finished re-watching Sherlock season 2.  I'm really enjoying both.  The book is quite amusing, Sherlock is all 'don't worry Watson, you can't help being stupid' while at the same time always reiterating how much he values his friendship a la 'that's my Watson'. 

I know how much y'all like gifs.  This took me ages to find (via)

Tangentially, check this tumblr for pwning Sherlock fanart!!!!

-Linking to-

WIP Wednesday (Tami's Amis)

WIP Wednesday (Ambassador Crochet)

Yarn Along (Small Things)

Keep Calm and Craft On {Crafting on} (Frontier Dreams)

What you doing Wednesday (SusanD1408 Crochet Addict)
Hookin on Hump Day (My Merry Messy Life)

ETA:   Also a WIP is the look of the ol' bloggie.  I've mad a few small changes, you like?

Caturday XVI

Welcome again to Caturday, the day I dedicate to The Kitten and her cuteness, and invite you to do the same with your kitties!

The Kitten had her yearly vaccination this week.  I don't know if this happens with your kitty, but The Kitten just gets so sad for a couple of days after.  I compare it to a person with the flu, all she wants to do is sleep, and she only gets up for the bathroom.  It's so sad!  Luckily she's bouncing back now and making up for lost time by being extra cute.

RAWR

Today, Cats on TV.  In a comment on last week's post, Ashely mentioned a TV show I had not heard of before: My Cat From Hell.  I immediately hunted it down, and wow, A and I were intantly hooked.  This fellow, a cat behavioralist, or as I think of him, a cat whisperer, comes into people's homes and helps them with their problem felines.  And not just any problems - no - some of these kitties are feral - you can't pet them, you can't approach them.  Very sad.  Anyways, with a few little tricks, Mr Galaxy (yeah, that's his name.  As an aside, I like how 90% of the people who meet him are all like, 'oh he wasn't what I was expecting') sets the kitties straight and they turn into beautiful affectionate cats!  Amazing!  I had tears a few times just because the cat guardians didn't know what else to do, knowing that if they wouldn't be able to rehome their furbabies as they were just too vicious. 

One of the things A and I love about this show is all the things recommended to do with your cat we already do!!   Play with your cat?  check.  Make sure your cat has her own space?  Check.  Don't be rough with your cat?  Check/Duh.  Best cat guardians ever!   

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WIP: roadblock

How annoying when you cant keep working on something because you need to do something else before you can move on.  Work on my Sailor Purples Shawl has been stalled right now because my purple yarn is not working for me.  I pulled this yarn out of a 200g bag of remnants I picked up from BWM containing mostly white, and some purple lace weight yarn.  Unfortunately it's a wee bit too thin for my liking.  I'm going to have to work with the yarn doubled, and I just haven't had time to rewind it.  Plus I wanted to dye the white remnants into other shades of purple, and arrange the order of all the purples into the most appealling pattern.  So, this shawl is on temporary hiatus.


Yarn, Y U So skinny?

I needed a new train project, and because I have three niecicles, but have thus far only made two hats, niecicle numero three needed a hat.  So, I cast on a Lindsay Hat.  True, I could have chosen something a bit more complicated (because of my awesome knitting skillz), but I really like my train projects to be easy peasy Japanesey.  I like the way this hat has a rolled turny-uppy bit (brim?? :P) so it doesnt matter if it's a bit long. 

Also diggin' the poolin'

Oh, and I started one more thing.  What could it be?

I've been rewatching Sherlock (which is, like, one of the bestest shows ever), and in the special features on the blu-ray Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss (I am such a crappy fangirl, I didn't even know Gatiss was Mycroft.  doi) talk about adapting the books into the show.  I was inspired to check em out.  I managed to find an audiobook of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.  I realised I should have started with one of the first novels (omg there's one called A Study in Scarlet) or something, but this book is still good because it contains an assortment of cases in bite sized pieces (around 40 mins each) so you get a bit of flavour for what Sherlock is all about.  I'm quite enjoying it!  It's fun listening for all the bits Moffat/Gatiss picked out and put into the show. 

MF could not get any cuter. (via)

-Linking to-

WIP Wednesday (Tami's Amis)

WIP Wednesday (Ambassador Crochet)

Yarn Along (Small Things)

Keep Calm and Craft On {Crafting on} (Frontier Dreams)

What you doing Wednesday (SusanD1408 Crochet Addict)
Hookin on Hump Day (My Merry Messy Life)

NPH

As if I didn't already love NPH enough, he's gone and done this:

Your fist has touched my heart.

I knew about this episode for so so long, and it did not disappoint!  The perfect amount of cuteness and silliness.  LOL @ Ice King!  (How awesome is Adventure Time btw?  I just love it.  It's my current fave cartoon.  How awesome are cartoons btw....?)

I love that whatever NPH is in these days, he sings!  Even in HIMYM (which I am pretty addicted to... I must say)! (He is also a magician, which is doubly awesome)

I'm very sad that Doogie Howser is not available on DVD.  *shakes fist at DVD gods for not providing me with additional NPH goodies to watch*

Cute lil baby NPH anyone?

And of course, there's Dr Horrible.  I. Love. Dr. Horrible.  I've seen it more times than I probably should admit.  There are too many reasons why Dr Horrible is awesome.  The music, Nathan Fillion, Joss Whedon, Bad Horse.... it goes on.  Check it out if you haven't already.

via (this picture is not representative of Dr Horrible, but NPH is so totally cute here)

And, I found out recently, that he was in RENT.  My absolute all time favorite musical.  I've listened to the soundtrack so many times, it's just lovely music.

So anyways... NPH is awesome. 

Generally, I'm pretty addicted to TV and movies.  I like awesome things that aren't too serious, take the piss out of itself/themself or their genre, and is just fun.  When it comes to my entertainment, I really don't like to think too much.

Any suggestions for me?

Sisters

My littlest sister J is pretty cool.  Today she sent me an email saying: "K [our other sister] sent me a picture of herself doing the roger explosion wink the other day. It made me laugh lots."

Her email made me laugh.  The memory of Roger Explosion made me laugh.  I am such a huge Shaun Micallef fan (Who isn't??).  Roger Explosion is the epitome of comedy.  The makeup.  The fudged lines.  The wink, of course the wink.

Hello ladies.

If you aren't familiar with Shaun Micallef, or indeed Roger Explosion, do yourself a favour and get over to Youtube now.

Only to be shown in prisons.

Also on the topic of my sister, I bought her this today because she's a super duper fan of skeletons:

Thank you GoddessOfJewelry!