Toby
It’s Monday
It’s Monday
Toby Is Thankful For His Heater
Tuesday Project Roundup:
I haven’t mentioned yet that I have this week off, which means this pile of materials will probably be at least half finished by this time next week: The floral in the middle is the stuff from Japan, obviously not stuck in customs. And see that yarn? I couldn’t decide which blue to order for the pullover sweater, so I changed projects completely. Now I will have a nice neutral cardigan that matches what I’ll make out of the fabric.
Toby approves of my staying home this week.
It’s Monday
Tuesday Project Roundup: Just Use Your Imagination Anyway
After rescheduling the last project roundup because I didn’t want people to use their imagination about how cute this dress looks when being worn, I give you:A closet shot.
A dark and slightly blurry closet shot that doesn’t show the cute detail of the fabric or the nice dark brown buttons. It was a busy week.
I think this might be the Last Dress of the Season. I have fabric for one more, but my sewing mojo is gone and I’m not sure the weather will continue to be dress weather until I can get it finished. On to flannel shirts and more knitting, I guess.
In other seasonal news, this is what it looks like before I make the bed in the morning, when it’s not cold enough to run the heat in the whole apartment:
Mr. Isbell and I have dubbed the quartz space heater tower “Minas Heatas,” because we’re Lord of the Rings geeks like that. Toby doesn’t call it anything but I think he loves it even more than me.
Monday Report
Tuesday Project Roundup: Morbid Curiousity Edition
So…Friday is my 10-year high school reunion. I’m going, because the curious part of me that “has hobbies and sees what happens” knows that if I don’t attend and see how bad it really is, I’m always going to wonder. (Also, I thought, “What if someone in a book I write needs to go to a high school reunion and I don’t know the exact feelings of displacement? I’d better go.”)
Of course I made a dress for it (pictures next week). But I also decided to make a clutch, which gives you something to do with your hands when you’re standing around talking at an alcohol-less event.
Obviously it still needs a lining, but it’s turning out well.
Most importantly, it’s nice and roomy, as Toby shows…
…because it needs to hold my flask. To quote the best high school reunion movie ever,
“Who needs hard alcohol?”
“I do!!”
Like Christmas Morning
I was going to put these up Friday, but then Karma the alpaca had her baby (named Liza!) and I thought that would just be too much cute. So here’s your Monday pictures of Toby, enjoying his new cat house Thursday night.
I understand now why parents can go completely overboard with buying their kids stuff–look how happy he is!