Month: January 2009

  • IQ Test

    Eileen posted her score to this IQ Test. I’m itching to take it, but I’m still drinking my morning coffee and waking up. The results would hardly be accurate! Will wait a bit longer.

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  • Spudds

    SpuddsEarlier this week an email went around the office announcing that the weekly gym sessions would be starting up again. Huh? It turns out that the company pays for an employee circuit training session every Wednesday afternoon at a local boxing gym around the corner. Neat! Not wanting to be the conspicuously absent new girl,…

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  • Knit Graffiti

    Knit GraffitiOh good grief. “Knitted graffiti” is in the news again. I noticed a few months ago that somebody was putting it up on poles around Newtown. Look, I thought it was an amusing idea like FIVE YEARS AGO when I first heard of it. But “growing global movement”? Sorry, SMH. FAIL. I bet there…

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  • Prompted by a Ravelry discussion this morning, I’ve set up an Australian Knitting Events Calendar. You can view it at that link or subscribe in your preferred calendar application via ICAL or XML. I’ve added the major craft shows already, and I’ve started listing stitch and bitch groups. If you have particular events you’d like…

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  • Steampunk can kill you. (Well, eating old watch parts can, anyway.)

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  • Gum Election

    Gum Election. Neat! (Found via Nora‘s shared Google Reader items.)

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  • Jacob Buffs Up

    This one‘s for all you Jacob ‘shippers…

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  • Stained Glass Darth Vader

    Any of you know how to make stained glass? Snookums and I think we need a Darth Vader window in our house.

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  • Scrapbooking. It figures.

    Coming in 2009: the Paris Hilton Creative Collection, “a multi-faceted line of fashion crafting kits from some of the most popular craft segments including scrapbooking, jewelry making and fabric embellishment.” SCRAPBOOKING. But of course.

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  • Child’s Apron

    Hey Sis, you really should download this free sewing pattern for a child’s apron and make them for Penn and Indie!

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