6x6 / Hand Born Swag <3

The rules:
--Go to your sixth picture folder and pick the sixth picture
--Pray you remember the details
--Tag five others

I mainly use photobucket, so off I go.

And I got this one!
It's Rocky. Snoozin it up. We thought it was too damn cute since he was laying his head on the pillow. He's ridiculous like that.

Now for my swag! :)
Pretty notecards with art on the front! I didn't grab the guy's business card, so I don't know if he has a webpage or not. Poopie. :(
I got these glorious journals from Recover Your Thoughts. The left one is mine and the one on the right is for Wolf. Whoo! I love them. They're made from old books and even have a few pages from the old books mixed with the blank journal pages. Makes me feel creative! :)
A Relax Pax! I snagged it up for my dad because of his bad back and because it's golf! And he'll love it because it's microwavable and freezable!I grabbed this from Charming Co. I grabbed it for Misty since Rocky tore up the one she has now. He loves to chew up the ones with the straps. And I bought this from the same stand:
Dog treat mix! You just add the water, honey and an apple and then bake them. And you got a cute little cookie cutter as well! My dogs will lurve it!
Not an Airplane. I had to buy this. The lead singer was playing and singing outside of one of the shops. And he was fun and had a really good voice. And it was only 5 bucks. So I had to get it!
And this is one of my favorite finds (the other faves were the journals, for sure!). It's a picture of birds decoupaged onto a glass bubble and placed on a leather cord. I lurve lurve lurve it! :) It's from Chebang! All their stuff was really cool!

Some other stands that I liked but didn't see anything to buy/didn't have enough was dittyPop,

OrySaChi, Rain's Embellishments (fooking amazing skull earrings!), MAMACOW (nothing in the shop right now...), Original Bliss (The recycled magazine earrings are friggin awesome!), and the AMAZING My Wood Rose! They take wood shavings and make them into roses and then airbrush the colors onto the shavings. So they have a ton of different colors. They were really nice and I loved the idea.

So that's pretty much everything! Haha. :) Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! I'm actually looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. This 5 day weekend has made me into a slob! Lol.
I'll try and share knitting updates asap!

Destash your homes! +book meme

Ok, I've been sucked in. I'm a packrat. We all know this.
So I'm going to try and do this. I'll be posting up a list of everything that I throw away/donate so I can keep track of my progress. I'd urge anyone else to do this that would be interested in doing so.

We went to the Hand Born event today. I'll post pictures of the swag I snagged up next time. Whoo!

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. ((I'm marking these in red since Blogger lacks a u button))
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – A.S. Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

So 13/100 read. Haha. That doesn't mean I don't read. I just don't normally read these books.
At least it's still better then 6!

Best f*cking quote ever!

Really. I love this quote.

God is either dead, or he despises us.

'Tis an excerpt from The Feast of Love.
Which frankly I thought was an amazing book.
Not usually the type of book that I can get all into.
But it drew me in because it shows the different faces of love.
Through many different people in many different situations. Get it?
Haha.

Anyways, we just finished watching the movie. Which wasn't nearly as stellar as the book.
But that was to be expected. :]

I'm insanely grateful that I wound up not being laid off along with the 30 people that they did let go at my work. It really sucked and made me sad to see my friends have to go, but there's not much I can do about it right now. And everyone knows I need the monies.
So yea. Very stressful day.

Now I'm off to rest up a bit for knitting group. Whoo~

Friday Fill-ins! :]
1. The last band I saw live was Noah and the Whale / Datarock / Matt Costa.
2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is pretending to be a vegetarian.
3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is not going to happen.
4. Thoughts of being happy again fill my head.
5. I wish I could wear nice clothes.
6. Bagpipes are amazing.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to working, tomorrow my plans include going to Turlock to house sit and maybe watch football and Sunday, I want to sleep!

I Canz Be Hobo?! +Detour for WENDY!

Really. I think I'd like to bum around. Not work and just travel and do crafts and have a good time.
I think that would suit me.

Wendy from my knitting group apparently decided to snoop and read my blog and made a comment about me never sharing our super pictures from Detour! So I'm going to post those up now for her. Hahaha! :] 30 pictures coming your way!

PRE DETOUR

These were pictures taken the Friday before the Detour Festival.

ON THE CAR TRIP:
This was just on the way. I love pictures of the road. Don't ask why. Reminds me of Lord of the Rings.
"The road goes ever on and on..." :] /nerdiness

Grungy picture of me. Haha! We were still a little out of it and running on pure adrenaline from the excitement of the Festival.

Miss driver Jenn-a-benn!

The road-trip essentials for us. Music, GPS and cigs. And crotches. Haha.

I epically fail at taking pictures like this. We tried 15 times before I even got this one in. Ha!

I adore this picture. Don't ask why. Just accept the fact!

Heading into the horrid grapevine of doom!

I took a shitload of just random scenery along the grapevine. It looked mighty pretty, let me tell you!

ARRIVED AT LA:
Jenn was dorking around the hotel room while we were waiting to go steal Gmo!


We picked up Gmo and gave him the Wonder Woman art that Andrea had made for him. He looooved it! :]

We then went out for Japanese food which made Jose really jealous since he couldn't be there. It was super yum. Jenn and I got the bento box.

Cute, no? We then decided that since the night was young we should go to a bar. Then that quickly changed to going to a night club. So Gmo's friend recommended Circus Disco since I only had jeans and t's.

Behold the splendor of male gogo dancers! Haha. They were awesome. We drank and had good fun and got out on the floor and shook our asses. Couldn't have been better. We stole Gmo to our hotel and he stayed there with us until the next morning when we had the festival!

AT DETOUR

These are the worth-while pictures that we snagged up from the festival! Yay! :]

DRIVING THERE:
Jenn-a-benn!
Gmo!

RANDOM:
A pic that Gmo shot of Jenn and I having a smoke while checking out the Datarock CD I snagged after hearing them play. They are love.
And this was Jenn in front of the autograph/Virgin Records booth I believe.

NOAH AND THE WHALE:

They're fairly well-known for their song 5 Years Time. Which I found them when this was one of the 3 only songs that they had on their myspace page. I knew them back in the day. Haha. But my favorites are now Rocks and Daggers, Mary, and Do What You Do. They're amazing. You should check them out.
He was our favorite. :]
The hard-core lead singer.
Jenn and I got a shot with them at their autograph section where they narked on me for the spelling of my name, stating that Americans ruin everything. Haha. They're fun!

MATT COSTA/NAHEED:

He's frankly amazing. He writes songs that you can really understand and relate to. And he's just all-in-all a fun guy! I'd never heard of him before, but Jenn had introduced me to his music when I found out Noah and the Whale would be playing there and it was official that I would be going with her. He's frequently in the background on my blog. Haha!

He's been ending all of his performances with a gorgeous acoustic version of a song that no one knows because it's not on his cds yet. It's really beautiful though. It's called "Will I Lie In Your Arms" I think. There's youtube videos with it. Give it a listen!
"Gave up love and got venom back" le sigh~
Matt Costa and Naheed from LA Ink with some random guy and his box. :] They were so fun! Jenn gave Naheed her necklace that she'd made (the bird one) because she'd liked it. So they're all buddies now. And Matt bought everyone pizza because it was taking so long to get to signing for everyone because he was actually talking to everyone and not just signing. It was great.
Jenn with them.
Me with them.

So all-in-all it was a fucking amazing time. I wouldn't change anything about it.
And if you care to, Matt Costa, Noah and the Whale, and Datarock are all awesome, so check them out.
I believe we plan to go next year, even if we don't know anyone who's playing. It was just too damn fun!

So there you go Wendy! :] Hope you liked!

Wow, really?!

4-days weekends are lovely. :)
It was super nice to be able to go to knitting group and not have to keep an eye on the clock.
I really wish that I can just delve far enough into crafts to make a living and not have to actually go to work anymore.
How lovely that would be!

1. Please feel free to use the bathroom.
2. When I fart I can't help sniffing it occasionally. I have to be able to alert defcon5 if need be.
3. My favorite thing to cook is steak. I hear I make it yummy.
4. Knitting is something I can't get enough of. Really. More time to knit would be lovely.
5. That's the thing I love most about not having to work.
6. Idiot drivers always makes me think to myself, what the heck?
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to speed for shots, tomorrow my plans include a yard sale and Sunday, I want to eat babies!

Yup. More random shit then anyone ever needed to know! :)

I wish that I had more crap to put in this right now. But I'm booooring.
So have some pictures of the rainy day and shut your face.
Much love!

Fry-day!

Ah, my little man. I love him so. Friday Fill-ins and then it's off to work. Poop.
And I'm out of cigs. Sucks.

1. My blueprint for success includes Nothing. Don't kid yourself. I'm not successful. :D
2. A butterfinger was the last candy I ate.
3. The best facial moisturizer I've ever used is the Mary Kay one. It doesn't leave my face all oily.
4. Knitting can be good therapy.
5. I'd like to tell you about the fact that I have issues.
6. Creativity is my strongest characteristic.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to work, tomorrow my plans include maybe watching the guys play and Sunday, I want to knit!

Hello, sleepless night!

It's not that fun. I'm just sayin'.

Look at this.
This is how the sky has looked the past few days on the way to work. It looks like a flippin' painting. Embiggen it and you'll see it more. It's really pretty.

I wound up just re-doing the Zombies pulse warmer.
I needed something easy to do at knitting group one day and I decided that it was small enough and easy enough for me at the time.

Speaking of knitting group, that's been going really well. We're getting along and having fun knitting and drinking our coffee. I'm glad that I finally managed to get the group together and going. It's awesome shit. I've been having so much fun and laughing so much. It's just what I needed at the moment. It feels good.

I'm still super poor at the moment. No joke. This was my dinner at work the other day.
And the only reason there was sugar involved was because one of the guys handed it off to me.
The good thing about it is that I'm losing weight, though. Sh. It's a good thing. I promise.

Anyways, I'm off to keep myself distracted so I don't pass out. Have a good day, everyone!