An update on life

I apologize again for the long absence. My mysterious illness was mono, which made the last two weeks of my undergraduate career quite hectic. In spite of that though, I managed to pass my classes and graduate. Commencement was very long and very hot, but I'm glad I did it. I wasn't involved in my school very much, just the classes, so this felt like a nice closure, to actually endure the ceremony.

After graduation I frantically started packing up my apt to move after five years of living in the same little studio. Without my cousin and friend I don't know what I would have done, they were a huge help, especially my cousin.

Last week I went to Albany, NY to visit my boyfriend Dave, which was a wonderfully relaxing trip once I got there. Both on the way there and the way back, however, my flights were delayed and I had to spend the night in DC. It was really a wonderful little vacation though, I'm so glad I went.

So here I am at Artfiberfest, down at Reed College in Portland, OR. It's been beautiful weather and the campus is great. Really fun! I didn't bring any yarn for vendor night however :/ Life has just been too chaotic lately. I look forward to seeing vendor night tonight though!

It's 4 am and I can't sleep

I can't sleep and I can't do much of anything else really either. It's such a joy being sick, especially at this time of my life, just weeks before I'm set to graduate from college. One thing I can say, though, is that being sick really makes you appreciate being healthy, and having energy, and being able to sleep, and having the ability to concentrate. I think I take these things for granted usually. Once I get healthier I am going to have so much to do to finish school, and such little time to do it in, it will be an interesting week or two. Not that I'm complaining. The fates saw fit that my last few weeks in school would be interesting, and I'll make it work. Now... off for some more futile efforts at sleep!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was quite fun last weekend. For most of the day we just sat around the table outside my parents house (it was a beautiful day) and mom dad and tiffany all journaled while I made this little guy:

He's made out of this wonderfully soft soy/cotton blend I found. It seems a little prone to pilling, but that's ok. He's only about 3 inches tall, and full of spunky personality! Don't let his pink body and girly eyelashes fool you! This is what I made for mom for mother's day:
It was a nice relaxing day full of creativity!

Amigurumi!

I was at the bookstore the other day and while I was idly browsing through the crafting section when I came across a book called Crobots! by Nelly Pailloux. What is this? I thought at I pulled it from the shelf. When I saw that it was a book of crocheted robots, I kind of freaked out. How ridiculously cute could a book possibly be? Needless to say I had to have it and a book called Creepy Cute Crochet by Christen Haden, which is full of tiny crocheted horror creatures. Well as soon as I got these books I've been crocheting like a fiend, hardly taking a break, and I'm completely obsessed with this craft known as Amigurumi now. If anyone has any recommendations on techniques and resources please let me know, I just started doing this a few days ago, and I have fairly limited expertise in crocheting in general (I'm a knitter at heart!) I'm also trying to figure out how much yarn I need for projects so I can start spinning and dying my own materials. I'll try and post pictures at some point.

Music... Again...

I think about music a lot, if you hadn't noticed. Today I was thinking about the degree to which people, at least people I know, use music tastes as an indicator of personality, or compatibility. For example, when two people meet and one asks the other what kind of music they listen to, that person forms opinions about the other based on their response. If they like the same music, then often people are surprised and take that to mean they are compatible. If they like different music, then opinions are formed, and that could be used later by either as a reason they are incompatible. Is music really a good measure of personality though? Certainly people have very strong opinions about music, but take for example a common occurance, where the first time a person hears a song they don't like it, but after repeated exposure for whatever reason they end up loving that song. The inverse can also happen, that the first time someone hears a song they love it, and after a while they never want to hear it again. Also, it might happen that a person lists, for example, rock as their favorite type of music, but they haven't been exposed to very many other kinds of music because that is what their family and friends like. These are just random thoughts on my mind.

Artfest 2009

Artfest had some unexpected guests :)


Some of the volunteers hanging out around the beach bonfire


Tiffany and Theo at the start of the journal party at the beach

I have returned

The past two weeks have been crazy, with Artfest and then a week of hanging out with friends from out of town (who also helped at Artfest!) so the blog got kind of pushed to the side. Artfest was a great success again, and I had the best birthday ever (thanks everyone!) Artfest also made me want to get back into spinnign again so hopefully I'll be posting about that soon. I'll try and get some pictures from artfest up soon!