Starghan Baby Blanket

So, while looking for the perfect baby shower present for Carla, I found this pattern, and fell in love. There are lots that have been made and pictures posted - here are the two of the first that caught my attention:

Mind you, I am still not the best at following a pattern exactly, so about the fifth row or so of mine I deviated from yarndiva's pattern some.

The yarn is from Hobby Lobby, and is seventy something percent bamboo - and I adore it, as does Carla. Must get more!

<---- detail of my star center

The Finished Starghan

The ever gorgeous Carla, featuring starghan over baby bump :)

Whimsy + More Makeovers

Ha! A drink to suit my mood:

Unbalanced Banshee

1 oz Triple Sec

1 oz Green Chartreuse

1 oz Ruby Red Squirt

Serve in a Champagne flute. Add a handful of Gummi Bears.
And no less amusing for being made by a generator.
Perhaps I can drink my Unbalanced Banshee in Blogburnwhimper on Bland, Derbyshire. I mean, the trip to England is bound to cheer me up, right? Maybe not. See, I have a problem:

My personality problem is "I'm a severely depressed queen-bee with bipolar tendencies!".
Take What's YOUR Problem? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

Maybe what I really need is another makeover....

Here I am, as is...

Glasses and Dark Hair, flashback to high school (tho I didn't have the cool streaks)
Strawberry Blonde, part deux
The future - Luckily, my family really does go pure white

If I could, it would be blue hair tomorrow!

Okay, see, Jenny did it, and Krissie, and Lani, and I just had to play too! Go here to play - You do have to join / login. (pause to notice that all three also tried on a variety of blue hair...)
Okay, so this was a great way to kill my poor me blues. Thanks to the Generator Blog and Jenny, Krissie, and Lani.

TMI Tuesday #143 - School Days Edition

I haven't been to bed yet - that means it's still Tuesday, right?

1. What were you known as in HS (Jock, Princess, Geek) Nerd? Wallflower?
2. What were you really? Nerd? Wallflower? Eccentric?
3. If you could go back and tell your 16 year old self one thing, what would it be? You are beautiful. You are a great writer. You are a great artist. Follow your bliss. You are enough, you have enough. Carla is one of the coolest people on the planet (hey, I know that now, but if I'm altering history, I may as well meet her sooner!) Oh - and it's called endometriosis, doctor-all-women-go-through-this-kind-if-pain. Asshole.
4. If you could erase one moment from your school days what would it be? The day James committed suicide.
5. Who did you not date (or more) that you wish you did? LOL - I dated two guys the whole time I was in high school , but I was crazy about many many more. I'm sorry I didn't believe in myself back then, and didn't date any of the others.

Bonus (as in optional): If you went to prom, describe your outfit: Teal and black, shorter in the front, satin and lace and ribbon, and crazy poofy sleeves as big as my head. In all seriousness, I am extremely sad to not have any surviving photos!

Oh - and it was Act One of Dr. Horrible day - and I still can't get the website to open. Too much traffic apparently, and I don't have iTunes, so I can't do it that way. Wah!

Joss Whedon is My Master

You can buy a t-shirt that says that, and I keep thinking I might as well buy one and make sure everyone knows that about me up front. Except I rarely wear t-shirts, and have to wear the dratted uniform five days out of seven, and I know the boss would not approve.
In service to my new master, I think everyone should know about his upcoming project: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Really, I am bouncing with excitement - and the first episode comes out July 15th.
One of the stars is Nathan Fillion, whom I first despised in Buffy the Vampire Season Seven as Caleb, representative of the First Evil. Oddly, part of the reason I initially hated him was because he was called Caleb. I will probably always be funny about that name. Then, the character was a psychotic, sadistic misogynist who liked to hold forth on the evils of women in general. (Mind you, I thought he was a brilliant villain to oppose Buffy.) I was a little hesitant about Firefly, partially because it was canceled after only one season and I would barely get a taste of the universe, partly because one of the central characters was Nathan Fillion. Ultimately, I was glad that I watched it, and the minute I finished Firefly I had to go buy Serenity. Anyway, Nathan is an amazing flexible actor - I loved him as much as Captain Malcolm Reynolds as I hated him as Caleb the asshole preacher. (I think the point of no return on the Joss worship came in there somewhere, too. Nah, it was way before that.)
Anyway, just something I'm looking forward to and wanted to share.

My Novel in Wordle

This has kept me entertained for a little while tonight... http://wordle.net/

It's been facinating to see what happens when I put my entire novel into the cloud. And then, I had to post just the sex scenes :D

In all seriousness, Wordly has the potential to be a serious tool for better writing - I clearly use certain words too much (especially slightly, apparently). Also, I had two drafts, which I thought I had condensed into one until I went to make a cloud of my sex scenes, and couldn't find my favorite one - which had somehow never gotten merged into the right file. 

 

Online Makeover Fun

Hey, I'd be the first to admit that I'm easily amused... and I'm surprised that I really like the strawberry blonde hair. The original looks a little odd because I had to remove my sunglasses from the top of my forehead, and erase most of my wild hair lol. So, if you're bored, and like to do crazy things to your face (or other people's, you can choose to play with famous people too) head over to taaz.com and have a little fun. To my great disappointment, I couldn't give myself blue hair :(

Edible Decorations

So, I bought a new book and just had to try out a whole bunch of fun cupcake decorations. They were a big hit at work, and several other people have went out and bought the book. (It's Hello, Cupcake! by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson - and it's both wonderful and easy)





After that practice run, I made two garden cakes for my mom for mother's day - mad props to my neighbor Kim, who came up with the first pumpkin.