Month: January 2009

So there it is. It’s for my boss’ charity event, and she requests formal full-length gowns, but, I also wanted something I’d be able to wear more than once (I’m not really a full-length kinda gal). Any suggestions about accessorizing and styling are completely welcome. That’s just how I have my hair today, and then I threw on pearls at the last second but am not married to the idea. I don’t really want to buy new shoes, so I’ll just have to stick with what I have around the house! I am thinking I may try my clip-in hair extensions for this night, but I don’t know yet. I DO need to touch up my roots, tho! Wish I were brave enough to do that myself at home! Earlier this morning, I was doing this: And that’s what I’ll be doing more of right now, and maybe take a “break” to work on my taxes. I’m really into rosettes right now!

This is a sketch for one of the Valentine’s Day scarves I’m working on. It’s a fluffy pink super thick cowl that looks like a cake! Here it is in progress. This yarn is AMAZING. It’s 100% wool, so it’s a teeny tiny bit scratchy, but it’s still really soft and fluffy and gorgeous. I am a big fan. I’ve had 4 balls of this for a couple years. I bought it to make a cotton candy scarf which I never made, but now I am really excited to be using it!!! YARNSQUEE! This is also the first time I’ve worked with cable stitches. It’s REALLY thick and bulky. I imagine that cable work with knitting is a lot more delicate. Sometimes I wish I could do both! I can sorta knit, but I’m really really super duper slow at it. Here are some pics of the breakfy that Hairy cooked over the weekend. He called it a Deconstructed Scramble: Finally, last week, I had coffee with a few friends, and also my first potential crochet student!! He brought this in a box: He is of course EDIBLE and was housed in a paper castle. Cool, eh? Anyway, I’m hustling to bring you a really cool shop and eBay update by Feb 1, but I also have to finish doing my taxes! Ew! Also, I’ve been signing my life away on paper to hopefully bring you some fun news in the not too distant future…… Now I have to go walk the dogs before we go to dinner with my family for New Year’s. Gung hay!

Our new mattress arrived yesterday morning! I have been on a futon for about 10 years. I don’t like soft squishy beds, and I hate when you can feel someone else move on a springy mattress. But my futon was getting really uncomfortable, so it was time to graduate and get a grown-up bed. It’s a firm mattress with a pillow top. IT IS HUGE!!!!!!! Like really super big!!! The futon was really low-profile and this monster is SUPER TALL. Bibi can’t really get on and off of it, and I will miss my morning puppy snuggles until we figure out a new arrangement upstairs in the loft. Today we popped into a few stores to check out bed frames. We really liked some at this one store in our neighborhood, but they only came in queen sizes, and our mattress is a full. I hope hope HOPE we do not run into this problem over and over again. I really don’t like the look of plain wooden bed frames and I hope we still have choices! We’ll see!! Here’s a pic of my yarn stash that somebody requested. Of course, the stash is changing all the time, but there’s the general set up. Since this pic when I first moved into this loft last year, we’ve had to put a small fence around the yarn because Bibi has begun to pull it off shelves and mess with it. If you’ve ever seen the movie “The Ugly Dachshund and you recall the yarn scene…..our house has ended up that way a few times before we had to gate off the goods! Today I hope to finish up a Valentine’s day scarf and maybe go see Revolutionary Road.

I don’t know where time goes these days. I get really depressed about not being productive and therefore having no money, and then I don’t feel like taking pictures or posting blog entries. I’ll try to turn all of that around! Gearing up for a Valentine’s-themed post has been fun, but sometimes I think that updating my shop becomes this huge boogie man!! Like I need to make a kabillion things before an update so I don’t waste anybody’s time. I have to work on fine-tuning my posting schedule! After V-Day, I look forward to making things with no holiday theme :P. I have many fun ideas, like waffle cowls, and spaghetti n meatball circle scarves! And making a bunch of cupcake berets for y’all! Here’s a shot of Bibi’s foot in Bunny’s face. Don’t forget to visit IEatYuckyStuff if you haven’t seen the latest video post: MUSHROOM PATE’ + VERY HARD BAGUETTE.

Above is a picture of some dumpling things I helped pinch. Yeah. I’ll pinch yo dumplinz! Clearly I am not very good at it, but at least they kept the insides inside which is the point, right? Inside was mock duck, carrots, and some other Asiany Viet things that Hairy mixed up (I didn’t actually cook anything). I am a very lucky (and fat) girl. Hairy is classically trained in culinary kung fu. When I was little, I once asked my mom if she could teach me to cook, or if she would let me throw some shizz in a pan and and then eat it. She was always kind of hesitant (or maybe busy?), and I remember cooking something once (I think it was like lettuce, beef, and salt in a skillet) and I think that sort of set up my relationship with cooking, which is to say, I don’t have one. So as fate would have it, I now live with somebody who cooks everything under the sun, East, West, whatevs! I’m like, “I wanna eat blankety blank,” and then blankety blank is created in our very own kitchen. I have been hoarding my photos of Hairy’s food for a bit, and now I’m just going to unload. Enjoy! (You can also click on all the pics to make them bigger if you want!) Steak Sammiches Butternut (I think) Soup Lamb Chops Little Apple n Pear Pot Pies with Berry Goo Monk Fish

scooter, originally uploaded by TWiNKiE CHAN. I am pretty sure I’ve blogged about PillowPillowPillow before, but I just got my Scooter in and had to share once more!!! Scooter is PillowPillowPillow creator Aaron’s super cute pup turned art pillow. I always wanted a weinerdog, and now I have one!!!! In my PPP package I also got news that our very own BIBI will be a pillow!!! YAY!!!! Aaron sent me a graphic of Bibi and it is SO CUTE YOU WILL DIE!!!! But I will save it as a surprise for whenever the pillow is actually available, and you too will be able to own a Bibi!!! Or, you can always send in a pic of your own pooch or kitty to be in the running for pillowfication!

(p.s. for those in the medical profession, I did say “nitrates” instead of “nitrites. Oops. Doh.)

Horsepillz!, originally uploaded by TWiNKiE CHAN. Help! I have pill-taking phobia. I don’t want to eat this.

Photo 18, originally uploaded by TWiNKiE CHAN. 5/8″ curling iron is a bit toooooo small…… At first I was afraid, but then, I embraced it.

pink pink, originally uploaded by TWiNKiE CHAN. I noticed that I was gathering photos of pink things, so I decided to purge a little! Today I’m Loyal-Army-ed-out. Pretzel tee and Pink Hoodie. The hoodie doesn’t look all that exciting in the pic, but it has cute buttons and a little yoke that are subtle touches but very sweet. Also shown is my new pink owl mug!! Go to Target and check out all their cute Valentine’s day housewares stuffs. I wanted to buy the entire display! And finally, I wanted to share with you my love for cranberry capsules. They are filled with cranberry juice concentrate powder. You can either just take the capsules, or open them and use the powder to make a tea! I hate taking pills, so I’ve been drinking the cranberry “tea” (3 capsules’ worth in a cup of hot water). You have to drink it while it’s hot. When it’s cold, it’s NASTY (powdery)!! I find that if I am starting to feel the early stages of a ….uhh…. UTI….(sorry, squeamish boys!)…. that I can fight it off without Cipro by drinking a LOT of water ALL the time and drinking 3 cups of cranberry tea a day with food. Obvs if you get worse or if it sticks around for a few days, please call your doctor! Don’t get a kidney infection! There’s your random bladder-related tip for the day ;).

I decided to do occasional round ups of fun stuff to share cute or funny or weird stuff that I find and/or love! 1. Artist Nouar now has an etsy shop open where you can buy some prints! 2. Check out some of Jon Lajoie’s funny music videos on YouTube. Ganked from Gala Darling’s tweet. 3. Super cute Sweet Tooth Tunic at ModCloth.com 4. Um, I canNOT believe this amazing dress is STILL available at I’mYourPresent. What’s wrong with you people!? 5. Totally amazing Chanel cake made by DebbieDoesCakes on Flickr. She is amazing! Go drool! 6. Cute green playsuit made by LooseTeeth on etsy! 7. Uh, have you seen anything CUTER?!!! Adorable plush box of Valentine’s chocolates from MyPaperCrane.com. She only made 10 sets! 8. Check out really cute prints by primpedpaperie on etsy.

So Manda, Hairy, and I spent NYE in Lake Tahoe with my bro bro and his friends. My bro organized the whole thing, and I still owe him a check (which I had in my purse the whole time)! Here’s my wicked video montage!!! We drove up on Wednesday night, and it took ten thousand years due to traffic. Then we got dressed to go to the casino Mont Bleu. We were going to be walking a mile in the snow, so none of us really went dressy or supercute. We wanted to be WARM! Here is Manda in her 70s top and HUGE glasses! And then Hairy in her big glasses. There’s me in the big glasses, altho not my favorite pic! Here’s me and Manda inside the really dorky convention room at Mont Bleu. And the three of us hating the long line for the bar! Not many more pictures from the rest of that night. We went into the club “Blu” for the NYE countdown, but it was really smushy in there, so then we went to the Pure Lounge to hang out a bit. Then we hit the slot machines and ate some food at 3 in the morning. The next day, we woke up late, and went to frolic in the snow! Manda bought us surprise matching hats!!!!! I love mine and would wear it all the time except it smashes my hair and I look really bad with smashed hair. Mando jumping pics! We found this abandoned snow man and decided to adopt him. Here’s Manda’s snow angel: Manda ended up making her own snow man, SnowManda. After frolicking, we got cookies at the Nestle shop, and then ate pizza ordered from Pizza Hut. There was an hour-plus wait at the places we tried to eat at, so we gave up!!!! Then Manda stayed in to read, and Hairy and I walked to the movie theater to watch The Day The Earth Stood Still. The next day, it was SNOWING!! We ate inside this funny little lodgey/chalet place called Heidi’s for breakfast and then we started the long, trafficky, snowy, trek home. At one point, Manda and I were dying to pee, and we ended up stopping at a place that said CAFE, but there was actually no cafe, and only a sled rental place. We paid $10 to pretend to be customers so we could use the bathroom instead of the portapotty outiside. On the way home, we stopped at SIZZLER in Sacramento for dinner, because we thought it would be funny. ENDLESS SALAD BAR, FTW. Happy New Year!!!! This should be an interesting one. (for Hairy’s re-cap of the weekend, go to his blog entry.