Currently:

Knitting. And yarn.

I’m currently way in love with yarn! The problem is, most of the yarn I’m in love with, I have yet to see in person. I’ve only seen these yarns online in people’s etsy shops. But I love them. I want to get my hands on them because they look like they feel amazing.

I’ve been looking at a lot of crafting blogs, and that’s been a lot of fun [can you say "winter break"? It's been awesome]. One in particular that I like is Yarn Harlot’s site. She mostly talks about her adventures in knitting and spinning and dyeing yarn, and let me tell you, it sounds fun. It’s making me really look forward to the day that I finally marry rich [ha] and can spend my husband’s money on workshops, learning how to knit and dye yarn. Wow.

In the meantime, I’m knitting with Hobby Lobby yarns (which are nice, but they aren’t quite as friendly as these handspun fibres look), which are working for now, and finding patterns and other resources online and around my area.

In your meantime, you should just check out these beauties: TreasureAyland’s yarn is beautiful!

This yarn is gorgeous, and all the other yarn in her shop looks just as wonderful. You can buy this yarn here.

This red and pale green yarn is actually the yarn of a woman who works around the Conway area; her yarn is also amazing. I feel like I’m overusing all these fantastical words like “amazing” “gorgeous” and “beautiful” .. .but that’s what these are! I don’t know how else to describe them. Might need to bust out the old thesaurus.. all that aside, though, :

Check this out. This lady is awesome. Check out her shop, The Twisted Purl. Good, good stuff.

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Well, the past few weeks I’ve been knitting almost non-stop. I’m currently working on a scarf for my cousin for Secret Santa Christmas, and I hope to get it finished today..there are only a few mail days left before Christmas! :/ I need to get on that. But. When it’s done I’ll post a picture. I got the pattern from the Lion Brand yarn website, and it’s working really well. I’ve only messed up a few times, and if you’re not familiar with the knitting process, I don’t think you can tell… I think. But I used some cute (and cheap) yarn from WalMart that is self-patterning (see the Yarn Harlot’s post about self-patterning yarn…it’s a good one!), and it’s making the scarf look pretty awesome if I do say so myself.. and I do. And soon  you will too.

For now, I’m about to go knit with some little oldie knitters in a nursing home nearby. I’ll let you know how that goes.

Bizarre Bazaar

Hey, guys! I’ll be selling things at the Bizarre Bazaar craft sale tomorrow in Hot Springs! There will be lots of crafters there with a lot of great stuff to sell- a great place to wrap up your Christmas shopping (literally- I’ve got pretty tissue paper!)!! It’ll be at 118 Arbor Street in downtown Hot Springs. Here’s a link to the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/chassity.jordan#/event.php?eid=189598529764&index=1

I’ll be selling reindeer magnets, wood and clay earrings, greeting cards featuring Millie and Ingrid, and puff magnets (as well as my random assortment of other magnets!).

Here are a few photos of some stuff I’ll be selling… I just looked at some photos uploaded by other people who’ll be selling stuff, and it’s all amazing!!

Latest undertaking/creation

Glass beads –> magnets.

Oh, you want to see them? okay.

Those are for my fridge.

These are for my cousins & people:

try

this

New Venture: video.

Here’s the final cut of what I put together in old-school iMovie last night:

 

 

We have a youtube page — we’re the danceweeklys. Because the world needs to know.

this is for sunny and ali.

We started a dance habit. These are the beginnings.

 

 

 

… because the world needs to know.

Book!

Well, kids, I’ve made it to bookmaking. I used Blurb, a great site for making all kinds of books, and put together a book of photos I took of my friend Cassie and her siblings, for their parents for Christmas. I finally finished (late) and it’s up!

Here’s a link so you can check it out.

The Wallaces

New Jear.

Hey, kids. It’s been like, some months since I updated.

Oops!

Last semester was crazy.
I haven’t made much new stuff.

I did make an apron in between my attempts at baking good stuff. I’ll post a picture of it later, if I take one. Hmmm. But what happened was, I’d go try to bake some cookies, and I’d realize, Wait! I don’t have a holiday apron to bake in! So I had to halt the attempt.. and go sew. That only happened once though. Then we were supposed to go have a holiday party with some olda folks, and we ran a little late and they gave up on us. All the lights were out by the time we got there, fifteen minutes or so after the scheduled time. So what did we do? Ate the cookies we brought. We did leave the pies for them, though.

Oops.

In other news, I’ve got … like three and a half books I want to finish before class starts next week. I’ve been awful about reading. I only do stuff I want to when there’s other stuff that needs to be done first (ie, papers, reading, etc). But anyway, the books are:
Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell
Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers by Shane Claiborne and someone else, and
Jesus for President, also by Shane Claiborne and a different someone else.

Both those guys are fantastic writers and I love what they have to say. I just seem to love ti more when I have texts I’m required to read. :/

Anyway, in other news, … I think that’s about it.

Turns out that was kinda lame! I’ll have more to say later.

Oh, probably when I finish the book I’ve read the most of so far, Strange Son by Portia Iverson. It’s about some autistic kids. And I love it. It’s basically someone who’s as passionate about getting into autistic kids’ brains as I am. It’s incredibly frustrating to me that people assume such negative things about autistic kids because they fail the tests we give them regarding their intelligence, emotional capacity, etc —- tests that are designed for people who don’t have problems communicating. I believe autistics understand a LOT more than we give them credit for, they just can’t demonstrate that the way we can. I could tangential some more here, but I’ll wait til there’s more to say and hopefully better organized in my head so it will hopefully be better organized here.

Ceau

“Can you fire the wind, Jack?”

Can you fire a hurricane?

 

Tomorrow is my favorite day of the week: Thursday. Thursdays are my Fridays. Fridays I have no classes and no other reason to set my alarm for 6:30, 6:35, 6:48 or 6:59 AM (I feel like I won’t make it on time if I wake up after 7). Thursdays are NBC magic primetime lineup night. Tomorrow, the new season of 30 Rock premiers! I’m on pins and needles, really. Last season, Jack had been demoted and Kathy Geiss had been given his job, as Don Geiss had fallen into a diabetic coma before he told the board that Jack was his chosen successor. Jack was working for Homeland Security/Some other stuff/ And some more stuff with Cooter Burger (that was the president’s nickname for Cooter, not his real name. Ha), until Jack’s old assistant called and said that even though Geiss was still in a coma, he had spoken: “Jackie boy.” So Jack resigns, and we don’t know what happens after that.

We DO, however, know that Steve Martin, Oprah Winfrey, and Jennifer Anniston are guest starring in the premier. Who’s excited? PLEASE WELCOME LIZ LEMONNNN! (**Edit** :: I was kidding. All those people guest star in their own episode. Jennifer Anniston’s was last night. My favorite so far was the Oprah one. The Steve Martin one has yet to air … next Thursday won’t come fast enough***)

 

Oh, and in case you couldn’t tell, I have a fat test at 8:00 AM tomorrow. I am not tired enough to crash-study even though.. yikes, I really should be studying. I’ve typed notes but I haven’t looked over them.

 

Okay I’ll let you know tomorrow how badly I think I tanked the test. Keep me in your prayers, crew.

 

Greenzo out!

Weight Loss

No, I’m not concerned about losing weight.

I am, however, concerned about the hordes of women who might be driven to insanity over their distress in wondering, “Where the hell is MY Jim Halpert?!”  … I’ll be leading the pack.

Anyways.   .. . Wow.

Anyone else watch the Season 5 premier tonight? 

In other news, we’ve been playing with my camera… a lot. Instead of studying. It started with the shoes I bought this afternoon, on sale. But then it got later. You know what that means? Weird faces. Which means laughing until we cry.

Here are the shoes that started it all:

They are gold and awesome.

THEN, Kamie suggested we stop by Target— and they had more Office stuff in their dollar bins! Do you know how excited I was? I don’t think you do. I know my fridge was happy when I got home.

Then the faces started. Kamie’s way too good.

I might’ve cried a little.

Then, our cats keep us entertained on a regular basis. They often sleep in either identical or mirror image positions on the red couch. This was from the other day:

And today, the same. I don’t know why they do this but it’s so funny.

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways. …

 

Okay, two more pictures. Of Kamie and me and our cats, since we’re cat ladies. 

 Yaaay, Gibbard, best kittle ever!

  

 

 

 

 

And her brother Jet, who’s subjected to playing “airplane” with Kamie (he really loves it)!

 

 

 

 

Yay.

More face pictures might get put on FB later.

 

Well, I love Jim Halpert, and good night.