You guys. I am so pumped to post this!! My friend and crochet-helper Marissa has FIIIIIINNNNAAALLLLLY put up her new Etsy shop!!!!!!!

You’ll be sad if you don’t check it out.

When I vended at the New People/Bazaar Bizarre event, I displayed some of her items on my table, and I ended up buying a pin :).

I have one that looks kinda like this one:

but they are all one of a kind, so no two alike!

Here is a video clip of Bibi and I playing tuggy the other day.

She especially likes to invite you to play tuggy when you are your most busy.

Also, while I was working tonight, Love and Other Disasters came on the tube, and I saw My Dream Jacket!!!!! Does anybody know anything about this coat??!??!

Doing some taxes today (yeah I waited till the last minute…) so here’s some fun stuff I rounded up!!!

(p.s. I broke down and started a Formspring page thingie for people to ask me questions, anonymously if desired!

Click on the images to go to their pages!

This weekend my big project has been to do all my California sales tax stuffs and also take photos for the book, so I took about ten bazillion (okay, more like 800) the past two nights and have been editing them as I go.

My goals for 2010 were to get better at knitting and to learn how to sew on a sewing machine.

But I need to make my two other goals: actually learn about photography and my camera, and actually learn how to photoshop properly!!!

I basically just wing everything and make it up as I go, but I’m starting to get really sensitive about how shoddy my work is, so I need to work on those skills when I have more time!

For now, since a lot of you probably don’t follow me on Twitter or see my TwitPics, I’ll dump some Photobooth pics on you. Every now and again while I’m working, I’ll take a random snap or two on the webcam! Please note, these are all usually taken well past 4am, 5am, or even 6am!

Yes, Bibi does help with work by simply oozing cuteness and wrinkles. And she does have a tiny booboo on her forehead. When I take her to my parents’ house to run around in the yard, she likes to dart in and out of the bushes and doesn’t care if it rips up her head!! We joke about needing to get her a special outdoor helmet….

Okay, this is when I was showing Candace my teeth because she didn’t think they were crooked. The she said this look was bad-ass cuz it looked like the Avatar angry face. AHAAHHHAHHA.

Okay, my goal for the book photos was to wear a different outfit for every item I had to shoot, and have that outfit actually coordinate or look okay with that item. It was kinda hard, and I just ended up snapping photos of several items with each outfit. I thought a long time about what to shoot my Bomb Pop scarf in….and ultimately I decided to try to evoke summertime and popsicles by wearing a bathing suit. I NEVER WEAR A BATHING SUIT. I don’t like the sun and I don’t intend to hang out in it. Plus I have become really big-thighed and I am embarrassed to show anything above my shins in public. Sooo, I also put on shorts. Bathing suit with cut-out sides + shorts = MUFFIN TOP CITY!!!!! I swear, the actual photos don’t look this scary, but I was really scared of my own self at the time. This was probably at like 5:30 in the morning after having already shoot a couple hundred other photos.

Ummm ok, Hairy took this next one with his phone. I LOVE this dress, and it looks totally fine when it’s on me, but I can’t for the life of me get it off myself. It’s like it suctions on like a second skin or something. I ran upstairs to ask Hairy for help, cuz this was as far as I could go!!! After he showed me the pic, I told him he wasn’t allowed to post it anywhere cuz it was so embarassing and my belly is all over the place, but after 24 hrs, now I just think it’s funny!

And finally, after burning your eyes out with the above picture, I will leave you with an actually cute outfit. HAhahha. This was mere minutes after I was in the bathing suit.

So, I’ve been shooting photos for my book of crochet patterns. They are due on Monday! There are clothes and scarves and accesories all over the place right now!!!!

I’m still not sure which pictures I’ll use, but I thought I would share just one, mostly because of the clothes.

Scarf: me
Dress: Dainty June
Headband: Num Num Kawaii

Posting this photo has brought up a problem again I’ve had for a long time.

Ever since I got my MacBook Pro, my photos always look less vibrant when I email them to other people or post them to Flickr. I never had this problem before when I edited photos on PCs. I have brought this problem up before, but there haven’t been any real solutions yet. It kind of bums me out, because I edit my photos nice and vibrant on my computer, only to have them muted when I send them out or post them, which makes me pretty sure that they would be muted then in my book! Booo!!!! I’ve futzed with the color profiles before, but it doesn’t really seem to help.

If anybody has any new thoughts on this mater, I’m all ears!

OK, just kidding.

Lady GoodForYou let me know that Firefox is known for muting your photo colors, so when I opened up my Flickr page in Safari, it looked fine!! Derrr!!!!!!!