Behind the Smile

To announce that I totally got a raise last week! A sweet sweet raise!

I’ve been meaning to update this thing, but I have been busy, apparently. Busy getting raises. Hah. Actually, I’m trying to think what I did last week that prevented me from updating but I am drawing a blank…

Oh, I did go to the Gem Faire at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Sacramento on Saturday. I went with my cousin Janelle and we had a great time! We also hit Bead Fetish, U Bead It, and Rumplestiltskin while we were up there.  And I, like, bought yarn. (oooh, shocker!) I REALLY wasn’t even going to go to Rumplestiltskin because, dudes, um, I have yarn. But we went to lunch at the waffle place on S and 10th (the name of which I CANNOT ever remember) and that is but a block away from Rumplestiltskin which is on R and 11th (ish). So we went over there and I caved like the weakling I am.

 But you GUYS they had new Kaffe Fassett Design Line yarn from Regia! I hate that guy! Yet he makes awesomely colored yarn! I find this annoying! I think he annoys me because my mom has some old books of his that are from the eighties, and let’s face it, the eighties have a lot to answer for, fashion-wise. So there was this guy with all these ugly color combos on eighties clothes that were just completely horrendous.

But then I saw the first wave of the sock yarn, and kind of changed my mind about the color thing (art school helped too). And in his latest book, Kaffe Knits Again (or whatever) were patterns I would actually knit! Not that I remember what they were. So, I apologize for judging you too soon, Kaffe Fassett, you rock. Especially this latest stripey color combo. Which I want to cast on right away but CAN’T because I totally have socks on all my sock needles, dangit.

Anyway, the other yarn I got was me being totally seduced by a floor sample that was already knit up.  It’s Online Supersocke in some awesome colors that did not photograph well at all at 10 p.m. (Go figure.) But let me assure that it is pretty danged awesome. They had all the colors of the Supersocke from what I could tell, along with a ton of the Noro sock yarn. I like Noro colors, but it’s not my favorite to knit with. I did make those crocheted Noro scarves last winter, though.  That was okay.

So, I bought yarn. I was bad. Bad to the bone.

I also spent approximately $200 on beads, including these awesome electroplated leaves:

On the left are maple seed pods (“helicopters”) and on the right is a cypress leaf.

I made the seed pods into earrings that I am wearing today.  They are really fun.

IN CONCLUSION I LIKE TO SPEND MONEY.

(I bought this at Target, it is AWESOME.)

Actually, I am kind of “stocking up” because I will actually be moving in October (I KNOW, right? My sweet sweet life of mooching will be over!) and will be paying crazy San Francisco Bay Area rental costs and will NEVER HAVE MONEY AGAIN. Except, I might still, since I got that raise. And I only have one more credit card payment and I own more than half of my car, so things are looking pretty excellent!

Hey, it took me 28 years, but I finally have my shit together, more or less.