Start of summer

This morning I went to the grocery store with the plan to have a start of summer meal. I got hamburger, corn, potato salad, and firecracker Popsicle. When I got home I made my hamburgers and cooked my corn. Then I put it all on a plate and dug in. I loved it.

Food links

Teriyaki burgers from White on Rice Couple

Mango puree from Coconut Raita

Brown sugar cake from Cafe Zupas

Chocolate angel food cake from Dine and Dish

Mango Kulfi, Indian Ice cream from Chef in You

Time

Time has been flying away from me this week. It seems that it is moving fast and I am at a stand still. I come home and before I know it is 10 or later. I can't seem to get anything done with this problem and projects just lay around my house.

Lazy day

Today was a lazy day. After sleeping in a little I just could seem to get worked up to do any thing. I finished my one book that I had started last night. After that I just laid around watching Hindi movies. They make me want to dance and go there. My friend is going to two weddings in December in India and invited me to go with her. I really want to, but my mom is thinking about us doing a trip in the fall so I don't think I will be able to do both.

from designldg on flickr

Life

Yesterday I got to spend some good guilty time with my two best friends, which has been hard to do the last four years with one of them living out of town and sometimes out of the country. First we drove around town looking for a place for my one friend. Then we went to feed my friends horse and try to catch bunnies. Then we made dinner and watched a movie while trying to do crafts. I worked on a new book for a while, but due to an eye problem I didn't get much sleep the night before and fell asleep. I was later woken up to some very weird late night shopping channel.

Busy

Been working on more book making this even and the time just seems to disappear when I do. I made covers for two books and have the paper fold, half with holes punched in them ready to make one book. Now I'm tired and going to go to bed, here are some sites for tonight.

woven rag rug on craft passion

peppermint body powder on associated content

hard candy jewels on chica and jo

birds on apartment therapy

The cookie tells me

I got two fortune cookies with dinner tonight and I get the same fortune with both of them. 'When you awaken tomorrow solutions to your problems will become clear.' I didn't know that I had problems, but if my two cookies tell me so I must. Maybe my problem is spending money. The last two days I have spent a lot of money. I got three books from the second hand store when I was just stopping there on my to another store. Then I spent more money at the art store on paper and bookmaking supplies. I got some nice fancy paper, a roll of heavy weight sketch paper, bees wax, and an awl. I have spent my evening making a book for my friend.

New things

1. cute sandals

2. two fun stamps

3. embossing powder and ink

Thing I have done today

1. a little cleaning

2. put together two mini books

3. shopping for above listed new things

4. playing with new stamps and embossing

Mini books

I really liked making my book yesterday and didn't want to stop so I made a mini book for my friend. It is about 2 x 3 inches big, just big enough for the violet stamp the is on the covers. It is so cute that I'm making more; one for my other friend, one for me, and one out of a trader joe's bag because it is a recycling project. I'm having lots of fun making books that I'm forgetting my other projects.

Book making

I have been wanting to make a book for awhile now and that is what I did today. I checked out Eco Books from the library a few months back and loved the coptic binding. However I didn't like the instructions in the book on how to do coptic stitch, it was written out with little pictures. This afternoon I searching and found a good picture tutorial on how to do coptic stitch.

Need a rest

After working the last 4 days strait I need a rest, so I'm so happy that I have tomorrow off. My plans on my day off are to go food shopping, cleaning, and working on my projects. I did some work on both of my projects today. I worked on the pillow in my drawing today and made two roses. I am also thinking of making one of the many recipes that I'm looking at one TasteSpotting.

Cooking

I must still be hungry because I just spent the last 10 minutes looking at food on the TasteSpotting and everything looked good. Most of my favorites from the site are desserts, but I'm trying to find more meal ideas. Here are a few of the ones that I liked today.

garlic cheese biscuits
pumpkin, garlic, and chili bread
teriyaki chicken strips
gingerspice bread
chocolate souffle cookies

Standstill

Things right now at my place are at a standstill. My drawing which I had great plans to work on this evening, just sits on my easel. It just keeps staring at me, wanting me to work on it. ry rose petals lay scattered on my floor. The cats are having great fun playing on them. Books and other craft items are just left around my living room. My coffee table is moved for floor space. It is all just sitting there waiting for me.

Light show

Today was a long day and then I went out with friends.

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo.

Drawing Time

I have been drawing some today, here is some of the evolution of it through the day. It is a long ago promised drawing for a friend. I just did the face, but I'm not to happy with it. There is not much more to do on the body and then I only have to do the background which I know is going to be messy because it is dark.

What I did today

I got some pretty new fabric to make turtles with. It took me a while to figure out which print and colors that I wanted to go with. There were three others that I was thinking about, but I can always go back and get mote.



I got triple A batteries for my new, very bright led flashlights.



I ran in to an old friend at the second hand bookstore while getting two new books, Four to Score and Jane Eyre. I finished Eat, Prey, Love so now I have to figure out which of my two books I want to start first.

The heat

My garden is being taken out by the heat. Yesterday they were doing ok and today I come home and they look sick. I gave them water and will keep an eye on them tomorrow. I hope they don't die like my lettuce did. I don't think moving them to the back porch would help any.

My hands hurt

Today I made seven roses using up the petals that I had already. After this I wanted a little crazy tracing and cutting out enough to make 18 more roses which will give me 3 dozen, not counting the two that my parents took. My hands are starting to hurt from all of the cutting and making of the roses.



I finally got my new book in the mail today, One Yard Wonders. Now I just need some fabric and to learn how to use my sewing machine. My other new book is Martha's Encyclopedia of Crafts.

Lost one the internet

Some times I fill over whelmed by all the project and the ideas of things that I want to do and make. I love the making of things, the creation out of nothing. Every new craft that I see is something that I want to try. Here are some new sites to look at:

Poppytalks with projects, ideas, food, and more.

The year of story I'm always envious of people who scrapbook, with all the writing and putting things together like the do. Here is one of the people that can do this.

Inklore a lovely print maker's site.

Give a man a stick

Art work by Jim Denevan

Today

1. Cleaned some more to get ready for my mom to come down.

2. Went and did a lot of shopping. Got two new dresses from Forever 21 and a new purse from Ross.

3. Ate way to much food for an early dinner.

What I did today

1. I worked a little more on my sock, but then took it out because it was not going right and re-did it. I am not to the heel turn.

2. After cleaning my the mess that my cats made of my petals and vacuuming the rug I got to work cutting out the rest of my petals for the 7 roses that I'm currently working on. I have put together 4 and a half of them.

3. I worked on cleaning up my room. No matter how much I tell myself to try to keep things clean I never can. I still have some work to do on it and them I have to try to get my closet all together.

4. Found a new blog that I like Alisa Burke.

Flowers

It looks like there is snow outside of my place, the trees in the courtyard have are losing all of there little yellow seeds everywhere. Inside my cats have made a mess of all of my petals that I was cutting out to make more roses. Here are some other flower ideas.



Carnations and other flowers on Chic Steals

Roses from DuhBe

Felt dahlia by Not Martha on Holidash

Missing Yoga

Reading Eat, Pray, Love is making me miss yoga, especially now that I'm reading the part where she is in India. Every few paragraphs and there is the yoga. I only did it for a few weeks after I go my mat, but I have always wanted to get back into it. I miss the stretching, bending, turn, balance, moving, and peacefulness of it. Going to have to add some yoga to my daily run. It would be a good rest for after the run.

Other things

1. My sock is coming along. My fingers are a little out a practice, but it's not so bad. I'm almost to the heal part.

2. My lettuce is dieing from the heat. The move to the side of the porch didn't help it so I moved it to the back porch that gets a lot less sun, but I think that it is to late to do any good. My plants on the inside are doing better thou. The ivy no longer had welting leafs.

3. I learn the afternoon that one of my good friends it going to be out of the country in South America for two months this summer and that she may move there later.

Need some water

Now that it is starting to warm up here I'm starting to worry about my planes. The soil is drying out way to fast now and my lettuce it starting to wilt. I moved it so it is now more by the house and hopefully will get less sun. My little plants that got from the wedding that are inside are not doing so well either. They need to be re-potted with better soil, but they so small that I don't have anything to put them in.



Also I have started knitting again. I figured that sock are are small and lite they would be a good summer project. So I'm knitting the mate to a sock that I have had finished for many months. The pattern is one of my favorites Firestarter.

My day

I went to the book store this afternoon and pick up two new books. First is Craft Inc. about turning crafting into a business. This had been a big thing with my mom lately every project that I do or show her is something that we could do and sell. Also I have been toying around in my head ideas of items to make and sell on Etsy. Second book is Blogging for Bliss, to help me with my blogging. When I was a freshmen in high school I had a web page that I was putting pictures, links, buttons, and what ever html thing that I wanted up there, but now its not just html there is this CSS thing and it all just seems so scary to me sometimes.



At Micheal's today I got excited about knitting and yard for the first time in a few months. With it getting hotter I have found to hard to think about knitting which always seems like a warm thing to me. When I saw the bright colors of the yarn thou I just couldn't walk away from it and the best thing they were on clearances for $1.45.



I set up my new phone today that is replacing my old one that the screens were going on it. Then I had to FedEx the old one back to Verizon, with was sad for me I get strangely attached to thing that I own.

New page

Added a new page, my reading list. I read many books and I have been meaning to start a list of the ones that I read. There have been times that I start reading a book and them find out that I have already read the book, a list would be a good way to know what I have read.

Oops

Some how I got my math wrong and really into making my roses that I ended up putting 12 extra petals on to the last 7 roses that I made. I didn't find this till I got done making them and wondering why I didn't have the right amount to petals to make the last 7 when I know that I cut out enough. Now I am going to have to go and cut out more petals.

Work

It will be hard going back to work after four restful day and having to work. I have been watching way to many Bollywood films on my time off. I have to start watching things that I don't need subtitles for.

Tweets

1. I'm thinking of getting a twitter account.

2. Now have a dozen coffee filter roses made.

3. Still tired from the wedding last night.

Going to a wedding

In honor of my friends wedding that I am going to this afternoon I'm doing today's blog on Indian wedding movies. A lot of the Indian movies that I watch have weddings in them, many because I like the comedy, romantic ones with all the sing. I love Indian weddings with their bright colors and flowers. So here are some of my favorites.

1. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge a classic film. Great story and I love the cheesiness of it being made in 1995. Also has one of the actors that I really like in it, Shahrukh Khan.



2. Humko Deewana Kar Gaye a great story about two people who meet when they are to marry someone else.



3. Marigold not really an Indian movie, but it is in English so I done have to watch it is subtitles and still get all the fun of a Bollywood movie. Also has another of my favorite actors, Salman Khan.