sosocrafty

five months...

i miss you, kid.

shadow boxes made for mel and tony for christmas 2008. i love how they turned out.

cd cases!

so much fun and so easy to make. just felt, buttons, and some thread in pretty colors. these definitely took longer than i expected, but i love the finished product.

starting the new year with the clap...

i remember seeing the pattern for the clapotis while perusing knitty.com in 2004. it really didn’t catch my attention much. then after seeing it come up again and again on ravelry, it just annoyed me. i couldn’t comprehend how almost 10k people had been sucked into the pattern.

then one day, perusing favorited projects on ravelry, i found one knit up in the most gorgeous yarn and decided maybe the pattern really was ok. 

on new year’s eve, my mom mentioned to me that a group she’s part of on ravelry had decided to do a clapotis knit-a-long. she was joining and planned to use some beautiful wollmeise she’d received from a birthday swap. she said i should make one too, and mentioned that the artyarns merino 4 i’d received for my birthday from jen would be perfect.

i caved. 

and so it began…

more than halfway through, i’m in love. the pattern is interesting and i’m getting a certain satisfaction out of purposely dropping stitches. i find myself knitting past when i really feel like stopping for the night just so i can drop one more stitch.

i already have a second clapotis planned with some gorgeous wollmeise my mom got me today. 

so. stoked.

this year, i'll watch them all...

AFI’s 100 Years 100 Movies — 10th Anniversay Edition

*1    Citizen Kane
*2    The Godfather
 3    Casablanca
 4    Raging Bull
*5    Singin’ in the Rain
*6    Gone with the Wind
 7    Lawrence of Arabia
*8    Schindler’s List
*9    Vertigo
*10  Wizard of Oz
 11  City Lights
 12  The Searchers
 13  Star Wars
*14  Psycho
 15  2001: A Space Odyssey
 16  Sunset Blvd.
*17  The Graduate
 18  The General
 19  On the Waterfront
*20  It’s a Wonderful Life
 21  Chinatown
*22  Some Like it Hot
*23  The Grapes of Wrath
*24  E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
*25  To Kill a Mockingbird
*26  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
 27  High Noon
*28  All About Eve
 29  Double Indemnity
 30  Apocalypse Now
 31  The Maltese Falcon
*32  The Godfather Part II 
 33  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
*34  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
*35  Annie Hall
 36  Bridge on the River Kwai
 37  The Best Years of our Lives
 38  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
 39  Dr. Strangelove
*40  The Sound of Music
*41  King Kong
*42  Bonnie and Clyde
 43  Midnight Cowboy
 44  The Philadelphia Story
 45  Shane
 46  It Happened One Night
*47  A Streetcar Named Desire
*48  Rear Window
 49  Intolerance
 50  Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
*51  West Side Story
*52  Taxi Driver 
 53  The Deer Hunter
 54  M*A*S*H
*55  North by Northwest
 56  Jaws
 57  Rocky
 58  The Gold Rush
 59  Nashville
 60  Duck Soup
 61  Sullivan’s Travels
 62  American Graffiti
 63  Cabaret
 64  Network
*65  The African Queen
 66  Raiders of the Lost Ark
 67  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 68  Unforgiven
 69  Tootsie
 70  A Clockwork Orange
*71  Saving Private Ryan
*72  The Shawshank Redemption
 73  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
*74  The Silence of the Lambs
 75  In the Heat of the Night
*76  Forrest Gump
 77  All the President’s Men
 78  Modern Times
 79  The Wild Bunch
 80  The Apartment
 81  Spartacus
 82  Sunrise
*83  Titanic
 84  Easy Rider
 85  A Night at the Opera
*86  Platoon
 87  12 Angry Men
 88  Bringing Up Baby
*89  The Sixth Sense
 90  Swing Time
 91  Sophie’s Choice
*92  Goodfellas
 93  The French Connection
*94  Pulp Fiction 
 95  The Last Picture Show
*96  Do the Right Thing
*97  Blade Runner
 98  Yankee Doodle Dandy
*99  Toy Story
 100  Ben-Hur

new year's resolutions: a list.

because it’s that time of year.

and because i can.

1. buy a bike

2. take more photos (of everything and everyone)

3. eat less junk food

4. providence!

5. budget budget budget

6. find a more suitable job—no more retail

i’m sure i’ll think of more…

so this is the new year, and i don't feel any different...

So in an attempt to keep track of all my craftiness, this blog has been born. With any luck, it’ll help motivate me to finish more projects. With even more luck, it’ll end up spilling over into an etsy account which is something I’ve thought about for years now. We’ll see…

Here’s to a more productive 2009!