Knitting-Sushi in AZ

Feedback from Mars

Thu, 15 May 2008 05:36:37 -0800

Its me! Mars, here!

I arrived yesterday all the way from LA-- what a trip in the Fed Ex box - you can see me pre journey at my LA home base:)
I am settling in nicely in my new home and had to pose for few pics before my new mom, Amy finds a final display spot for me in Amyville headquarters. I like my new home. Amy made sure to have a little taste of LA-home waiting for me...Sprinkles cupcakes-- the new store opened in Scottsdale when Mr. Mark and Amy were in Hawaii. Amy stood in line 20 minutes for these cupcakes. I love cupcakes- especially the red velvet ones!

Though I haven't seen the animals upclose (nor do I care too)- I peeked that this one (they call her coco chanel, I think) played in my fed ex box before Mr. Mark took it out to the recycling bin.- what savages.

until next time this Mars...signing out!

LOST and found

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:14:30 -0800

We just returned from a quick island getaway to Oahu- and here is the view from our hotel on Waikiki we left behind

Inbetween boogie boarding, swimming, shopping, and eating...we squeezed in a 5 hour LOST tour-- here are a couple highlights-- warning for the hard core LOSTies--- but I have included episode shots for reference (from abc.com)

Season 1-- Amy (Shannon) hears the french woman's distress call on radio hill (ka'a'awa valley) will Mark (Sayid) listens in

Season 4 -- The Tempest hatch- is Cooper Battery-- a revamped movie museum

and the final scene of that episode (the other woman) shows Juliet and Jack kissing outside the tempest entrance

We hit over 20 LOST filming scenes and have a ton of great pics- also got some great Jurassic Park and Godzilla movie shots too, most of our tour was on private property offroading in a hummer-- so fun!

Aloha!

oh my...what's that?

Mon, 5 May 2008 19:10:22 -0800

yes a rare oddity like the local fair carnival freakshow... A FINISHED OBJECT! Yes its my first Lace project--- check out infancy details here

Its blocked and ready for packing in my carryon bag

Anyone contemplating this pattern.... go for it! I really enjoyed knitting the motifs :)

TCB Ninjas

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:04:38 -0800

Taking Care of Business ...and who doesn't love ninjas? So when I saw these blind box pocket ninjas, I had to grab a few.

I was seriously hoping to get the Business Ninja-- check out the cell phone and tie! (text from ninjatown web site) Here's to fighting a case of the MONDAYS!

Business Ninja
The daily grind has this office ninja downing gallons of green tea by noon. When his pager isn’t blowing up, his cell is, and when that’s not going off, his blackberry is making sounds like a robot about to explode. Even with the stress, he likes the money and the cookies it buys him, not to mention the joy he gets from increasing Wee Ninja efficiency.

Motto
"Not right now, I have a very important conference call to make!"

KHAN!

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:37:36 -0800

Thank you for all the wonderful Birthday wishes! This year my goal was to make my Birthday last for an entire week :)

I totally forgot about this watch... my very first one I got for Christmas 1979 from my Uncle Ron and Aunt Beckie. Check it out, in true 70s/80s fashion it has my name on it, I thought in first grade this was the coolest thing...nearly 30 years later I still think its pretty cool! and it still works, though it doesn't keep the best track of time...how prophetic :)

To add to my collection of childhood memories, I was able to pick up this box set of all 6 original crew Star Trek movies...including my favorite one... Wrath of Khan (Star Trek II)! Hearing the SHAT yell KHAN! is one of the most memorable lines in cinema. I am a huge William Shatner fan! Its hard to believe that first film came out in 1979. I can remeber going to the movies around Christmas time of 1979 with my dad to see the first movie...and at the time I didn't think it was as cool as Star Wars. As an adult, I love Star Trek and remember watching reruns Sunday evenings growing up--- it was on right before the Muppet Show.

Today.

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 06:26:06 -0800

35 diamonds for 35 years.

WTF?

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:27:32 -0800

Did you ever just have one of those days? Please hide your children from ranting Amy.

I feel giving a hint of our vacation in May gave it the JINX! Our trip in May is for a quick visit and relax in Hawaii (Oahu island). One of my coworkers told me this news this morning...WTF!?! You know we still havent gotten an email from ATA!-- but we found another flight today whew, that was close, DELTA don't fail us now.

Later this morning, I then see this crap I am very sensitive to my fellow indie crafters creative genius. one word...karma.

And to top it off, a lovely unplanned trip to the dentist-- blahhhhh! (high point is due to my jaw issue, I have been eating soup--- swimsuit season bonus!)

This pic I have had saved in my archive for years sums up my attitude today. I swear this was the look on my face for most of today.

Its time for lace.

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:09:26 -0800

For almost 5 years I have been avoiding ANY knit projects with a lace or pattern repeat... its a phobia and I have failed MANY attemps...

After searching for a swim sarong here - I thought, hell I can make something better than that with yarn from the stash (which means $0 dollars spent today :) )

I decided to try my had at the Ogee Lace Skirt from the summer 07 issue of Interweave Knits I am using a cotton/acrylic/viscose mystery fiber I have had for years--- its like a tweedy cotton with little nubs of color. My goal is to have this ready for an upcoming trip in May. I am really enjoying this pattern-- no crazy 8 row repeats, instead following a chart with 29 row motifs.

Russian Tea Room

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:47:47 -0800

I have always admired Matryoshka dolls-- though I don't own one (yet) I have fallen in love with this little Russian Tea set from the Kawaii Kitchen line of re-ment...oh re-ment. I am scheming ways to display my growing collection. Picture on the right is for scale.

And Stephanie (thanks Steph and congrats on the Spin Off feature!) share this post with me today! how cool is that! Foodies Unite!

Elaine's replacement cake

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:09:26 -0800

For all those Seinfeld fans....

In the FROGGER episode, Elaine replaced an antique collectible cake from the 1937 wedding of King Edward VIII that she had eaten with an Entenmann's cake. This cake tasted just as I imagined (wonderful!) when she was dancing around in circles in Peterman's office.