11 posts tagged “buy my stuff”
Three new scarves posted in my Etsy shop, more coming soon.
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
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My So Called Scarf (Heathcliff)
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
Cloud Around My Neck (Dark Denim Blue)
100% baby alpaca. sooooo soft...
Apprehension|Dread - 24"x30". Commissioned by Stepto.
The pictures I took of Dawn didn't turn out very well, but here is a low quality iPhone picture of a painting I completed on July 7. This canvas started its journey in January. I haven't settled on a name for this yet, I'm considering a couple options. This painting is also 24"x30" and will be available for purchase once it dries. It was 'painted' with palette knives instead of brushes, so the paint is very textural (which doesn't really come through in an iPhone photo).
I also finished another painting that I'll post photos of next week. And I've discovered that for the type of painting I'm doing, I can buy brushes at Home Depot instead of art supply stores for less $ and the same results. Which is good because I plan on doing a lot of painting this month and I hate washing brushes. The little brushes are easy, but I'm mostly working with 2" to 4" wide brushes and it takes forever to clean oil paint out of 8 of those. eeesh. I am a little lazier when it comes to soapy-soapy time with a $6 brush than I am with a $30 brush. It's not like I'm making any money at this so far.
My latest completed knitting project on Knytz, a consignment job I call Cloud Around My Neck that has a new home waiting in the midwest. 100% baby alpaca wool, it is super cozy soft and warm. mmmmmmmm. It is a good length too - double wrapped around my neck there. -->
this is what the geeksplosion was about.
but being a WWdN reader for many years (50,000 monkeys on 50,000 typewriters can't be wrong), I thought it would be entertaining to get a slightly more skeptical looking picture than the utter fangirldom one above.
Background:
Tuesday night was the Child’s Play charity dinner and silent auction, and at the last minute a free spare ticket fell in my lap. Anyway, Wil was super nice, a very normal geek guy (wish there were more of those at Black Hat and fewer Wannabe Rockstar Hackers). He twittered Tuesday that he was ‘in Seattle wearing his binary scarf so he was nerdy AND warm’. So when I ended up walking just a couple feet from him into the dinner (it wasn't creepy stalker-ish, I swear, and I didn't interrupt some other fan, my mamma raised me to be polite!) I asked him to post a picture of that scarf, that I was interested for my next geek knitting project. He said his friend made it for him, that it says ‘awesome’ in binary, I told him about the Fibonacci scarf I had knit and the prime number scarf I’m working on… I don’t remember exactly what happened next but within minutes he had bought the scarf. Now if I’d just met the guy, that would be cool enough. But he bought something I made! That is just… too… awesome. Can I claim to knit for celebrities now? LOL.
both of the new items I recently listed on etsy have sold... The pedicure socks will be a Christmas gift in Ohio, but worry not if you missed out on picking those up for yourself, a new pair in a spicy color combination should be listed in a few days (I'm almost done!). The Fibonacci scarf sold tonight to
*geeksplosion*
pedicure socks
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=18194805
fibonacci scarf
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=18193885
and the fibonacci scarf pattern for you DIY folks!
This has lingered as a work in progress for well over a year. I finished the hat portion in early summer 2006 but when I tried it on I realized that I look really terrible in red. So it got stuck in a basket, hornless, while I moved on to other projects that would actually get worn. I figured I'd eventually finish it and sell it in my etsy shop, Knytz.
Then one day a few weeks ago, my daughter was wearing her devil hat (though she calls it a scary cat hat) and I took a picture with my camera phone and sent it to some friends. It occurred to me later that one of them might like the grown up version - and it turns out they do. So I finally knit up the horns and stitched them on so this devil hat can be sent on its way east tomorrow... It is so nice to finish it at last (no more unfinished project guilt!), and I would much rather give it to a friend than sell it to a stranger.
I think I'll make myself another one (not in red) and modify the horns into cat ears. purrrrrr.
Thanks to Laura, for taking the pics in her office. Doesn't she have nice curtains?
I love everything I've knit, but the lil'slugger sweater is one of my favorites. Super soft cashmere-merino yarn, it was yummy to knit. I actually knit two, but only ended up putting one on my son - so the second went up for sale on etsy. This week it is on its way to a new home in Australia! Crikey!
I've got several other great kid knits up on knytz.etsy.com, and new things coming for all ages in time for Christmas. Want a lil-slugger sweater for your baby? Let me know; I'm happy to make a custom order.
I've sold my first item on etsy. hooray!
The Brown Bear hat will be on its way to a new home in Maine tomorrow. They say you always remember your first... <sniff>
Two months ago I let all my friends and co-workers know I was looking for a Wii. Tonight Dan M.F. Kaminsky sends me an sms asking if I still want one. Hella yes! Dan the man came through, so if you see me handing him stacks of cash tomorrow it is not some freaky 0day deal, its wiipayment.
The Wii is a late birthday gift for my husband, but you know we are both going to play it. Remember:
