Yarn Bombing!

My Mom is a knitter and has been following some fun knitting blogs and happily discovered yarn bombing which is on the rise in the knitting community. In short is is the nicest form of vandalism possible. In sort you cover something (tree, bike rack, lamp post) with knitting. We did it to our own house with some knitted goods we picked up from the DI (refer to previous post). :)

 

 Our weapons of choice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The gang.

 TA-DA!

 

 Lydia dubbed the one in the front yard "our tree-hugging cozy, making tree-hugging a comfortable experience."

 

Vacation Day

I did my best and was in bed before 9 last night, but when my alarm went of at 5 I had that unmistakable feeling where you know you are at the edge of the precipice where if you push it you'll be sick the next day and if you kick back you'll squeeze by. So I took a vacation from my film volunteering (the benefit to being a volunteer). I went back to bed and got a solid 13hrs of sleep. I got some good things done like getting my car payment mailed etc, and spent some much-missed time with my Mom. We went to several DIs on a mission who's full import will be revealed later. We had uber-much success (more than idea, but it's a fun problem). We also got to hang out with Whitters which was great, and saw my aunt Liz at one of the DIs (yeah, we have a cool family). When we got home I cleaned up some of the stuff I'd got had a rest and then made some jewelry (which all worked out! It was golden, lots of times you have a great idea and it doesn't come together) and had a bath. It's been a totally lovely and needed day and now I'm staying up way too late to write this post. Here are pictures of some of the things of the day.

 I made most of this today, very pleased with it, not the best view of the long necklace at the bottom, but it's cute. The green plate/bowl are one of the days fantabulous DI finds.

 Cute grouping of cups to put pencils or flowers in.

 Cute glass dish, never seen one with this pattern before (we've become connoisseurs.)

 Fabric.

 Teal acrylic 3/4 length sweater great for work.

 K, this whole kurffle a couple years ago was not in the best of taste, and this purchase is in somewhat poor taste, but I wanted one of these shirts at the time, but didn't get one. So, for $2 I caved and fulfilled that wish...need to find the least offensive way possible to wear it once. Maybe to the gym...maybe it'll just live with me for a while and then go back to DI.

 Fantastic tee that my mom found for me. Can't wait to wear this one with a sweater.

 I am a little embarrassed about fond I am of this item, which I will style as "retro men's sweater". But I am quite fond of it and when I'm in the right mood I'm going to rock it with some jeans. :)

 Great shirt from Express (can I say I heart the men's dept?). It's a men's small, so as it's from Express it fits great, just comfortably loose. ;)  Actually their stuff isn't that abnormally tiny like some stores are.

Pushing the Poof

So I've been trying to develop a style with more volume. I definitely was sporting more volume today than I usually do. My hair was happily cooperative today so I threw it up and went out decided it was not too much poof and that I could rock it. Here are some lovely (cough) pictures I took. My mom was kind enough to take the side view. I saw it and started laughing talk about POOF. The window was open and the window blowing, though.

 

The Warehouse

As some of you know I'm volunteering/interning for the Art Department of a film it is a small budget kids/family show set in the 1930's. I took some pictures today of what our area of the warehouse looks like with all sorts of different things that have been collected for the sets. A lot of stuff was on the truck or on sets, so the area is really sparse compared to how it's been. I took the pics with my phone, so they didn't turn out that great in the low light, but they're fun anyway.

 

 

  Before and After...look how tidy I made everything.

Vintage Fashion Show

As part of the celebration of the Relief Society's Birthday my home ward had a Vintage Fashion show with clothing from the 1800's to the 90's. They are an amazing group of ladies and always do such a fantastic job with things. All the outfits came from people in the ward and there were probably around 30. Members of the Relief Society and Young Women modeled them to a cute narration about the fashion of the time and who wore the specific item of clothing where. I had way too much fun. I got to wear two fantastic dresses. As you can probably tell I had no problem strutting my stuff on the red carpet.

 

 

Late 1800's wedding dress.

 Rack with some of the dresses.

 Back detail of a 40's wedding dress.

Gem Fair

To day was the Gem Fair. It comes to SLC about every three months at the South Town Expo Center. Going in is like going into the cave of wonders. You it's excitingly overwhelming at first and by the time you leave you can't wait to get out of there. The prices are so good and the selection so wide that restraint is difficult and I always over spend my budget. It is fun when you get home though spreading out all the pretty, shinny tings that you bought (mixed in with a bit of chagrin that there are so many pretty new things, and a good dash of justification because of how good the prices were.)

 

 

 

 The Spoils (way to many of them)

New twist to desparation hairdo

In trying to do something slightly different with my hair now and then here was a dressed up desperation hair-do. Extra high (highest I've ever done, this is opening new vistas for me) messy bun with a scarf. My mom and I were talking about scarfs and saying we should start wearing them, so I have acquired a couple to experiment with. I feel I should mention that while messy buns are often a desperation hair do they usually look good and if you hair is actually not in a desperation state even better. I haven't done anything with my hair since I started volunteering on a film. I am so sick of wearing my hair in a ponytail (which coming from me is significant). It's at that point where it needs to be cut to look good down and straight and I haven't had any time to get it cut.

Canyonlands Run

I went with some girls from work to Moab this weekend for a race. They both did the half-marathon (13.1 miles) and I did the 5-mile run. I haven't been working out much at all lately, and I could tell the last 2 miles were definitely a stretch, but I did the 5 miles in 59.2 minutes, which was a lot faster than I thought I'd be, so that was nice. It was mostly down hill, which was really nice and also whenever I was tired of running all I had to do was look up and be amazed about how beautiful it was (it was a gorgeous day too). There is just something special about that red-rock country that gets me every time.