but no finished object, so instead here is a work in progress.
(I may have sped up the gif ever so slightly)
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Stuck in my head – two door cinema club
Do other people’s music tastes change seasonally?
Every year I make a summer playlist. Somehow I have a special significance placed on finding a song that defines summer.
Quite often it also ties into trying to pick who’s going to take out triple j’s Hottest 100.
So I’ve started making my 2013 summer playlist and its really dancey.
(Or dancey by my definition).
I’m sure that as we get closer to summer and it becomes more than 10 songs, the genre will become less pronounced but this is the leading contender for my summer song.
(And not just because of the name)
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All fun and games in the circus
About 4 weeks ago I had a disturbing conversation with my Father.
It was my Bloke’s birthday so we were going out for dinner that night. My parents were wanting to get him a present, and they wanted to make sure that we were free on a certain night.
Of course my mind went into over drive, wondering what they could possible buy us tickets for that we wouldn’t already have tickets for.
My bloke hates musicals with a passion, he even dislikes the musical episodes of his favourite tv shows, so I was hoping it was nothing like that.
And we have just bought season tickets to the Scorchers and our 5 day test match tickets, so sporting tickets were out of the question.
So I was very much perplexed and left wondering what they could possibly have bought us tickets to.
Well it was tickets to the circus! The Great Moscow Circus was in town, and so on Saturday night we went along.
We both had such an enjoyable time.
There was clowns, knife throwing, acrobats, trampolining, and even little horses (which I was very conflicted about. They’re so cute! But they’re trained animals!).
The grand finale was 5 motorbikes in a tiny enclosed space. I know enough physics to know how they stayed up there, but still! It was impressive.
We would never have gone to the circus ordinarily but I’m glad that we did.
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stuck in my head – ms mr
You know when the fates align, when even though it feels like all you’ve done for the last 2 weeks is, go to work, come home, look at the mess that surrounds you, decide that knitting is a better way to spend your time rather than cleaning or cooking or being an adult about things, get hungry, cook something uninspiring, knit some more, sleep, wake up tired, go to work, repeat, and somehow a song manages to find its way into your head and you wonder where it’s been all this time?
Well between this post by and the laneway lineup, the universe has told me to listen to this band.
[Sidenote – i’m so bummed that Of Monsters And Men are only playing the east coast. I blame living in the most isolated capital city in the world.]
Suddenly after not having heard this song before, I can sing almost every word and it is stuck in my head constantly.
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Not my usual knitting post
It’s a different kind of finished object.
An edible finished object.
A strawberry to be precise. Grown by my green thumbed bloke, eaten by me.
My bloke doesn’t even like strawberries, but he grows them for me.
It was a bit of sweetness to start a Friday in what has been a very long week. 
(I did have a massive long post which I wrote one sleepless night this week, but lets just leave it at, it’s been a long week and I’m grateful it’s the weekend coming up)
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Worst photos ever.
It has been a headless chook week. As in I’ve been doing a very good impression of a headless chicken.
My grand plan to knit a pair of slippers for my mums birthday (tomorrow) didn’t go according to plan. I have two soles, and I thought I was right on track to just finish off the one remaining top until I realised the one top that I had, wasn’t to the pattern.
It was so off I couldn’t make it work.
So instead of just finishing the slippers on Wednesday (ready for birthday tea Thursday) I was frogging one slipper top and searching Ravelry for another idea.
Which ended up being a mug cozy.
And as I’ve been so disorganized this week I took photos after I have it to my mum.
So here’s to a long weekend to chase the headless chook blues.
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Stuck in my head – alt j
I can’t get enough of this song.
This is just magic. They’re album is magic too. Triangles are my favourite shape.
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I have nothing original to say today, so please enjoy drooling over Ravelry patterns.
Before I show you these incredible patterns, these truly awesome finds, I just want to say I’m sorry.
- I’m sorry that I’ve given you stuff to add to your Ravelry favorites
- Because favoriting leads to queuing
- And queuing leads to yarn buying
- And yarn buying leads to casting on
- And casting on leads to neglect of housework, children, spouses, and all the other UFOs languishing in your project bag
Really, truly, I apologize. From bottom of my fibrous little heart. I couldn’t feel more culpable for enabling you, my dear readers, in your fiber addiction. I might have to buy some yarn, just to get over it.
Gorgeous textured shawls
I’ve got a thing for these layered, interesting shawls. I love the color combinations and the almost quilted or embroidered look they have. Scrumptious.
Cozy cardigans (some sassy)
In the process of searching for the right pattern to use for my stashed Black…
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The cardigan is finished!
I am pleased as punch!
I made something and it fits.
Of course I finished it last night very late and so I have some very poor photos to show for it, but I’ve finished my first garment!!!
The pattern was really easy! I would imagine not all cardigans are so easy, particularly ones with sleeves, but I would recommend lady Kina to any knitter who wants to knit a cardigan.
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A day at the cricket
It should be no secret that I love cricket.
Test cricket will always be my favourite, but with the twenty20 world cup on at the moment, and season tickets to the Perth Scorchers acquired, I do enjoy the shorter forms of the game.
And the Ryobi Cup kicked off WA’s first game for the season, and even though we didn’t win (and we’re not looking likely to win our Sheffield Shield game that’s in progress), it still makes me feel like summer and international tests are just around the corner. Which is always exciting.
These are photos taken with my new camera. It’s not quite a dslr but it’s a step up from my phone and the free GE point and shoot I won some time ago.
I’ve been using it for a little while now, but I still have a lot to learn. But I think these photos turned out pretty ok.
(and my camera is pink!!!)
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polka-dots & sparkles 