http://basimah.blogsome.com Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:45:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en cold hands can officially suck it!  i’ve got handspun handknit superwash merino gloves in pinkbrown, no less… AND they’re finished right in time for winter (holy spaghetti, i’m never that skilled with project timing). http://basimah.blogsome.com/2008/11/14/gwubs/ so we had an unreasonable amount of ridiculously old and broken crayons at work.  my co-worker and i spent an unreasonable amount of time sorting out the crayolas from the "others"*.  i brought the resulting crampacked gallon ziplock bag of crayolas home and spent an unreasonable amount of time peeling ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2008/10/20/watch-your-back-crayon-factories/ specifically, cake of the birthday variety! first, the one i made then, the one vickie brought to work for me it’s my little people mini-me in cake form! and she’s super tasty! http://basimah.blogsome.com/2008/07/29/cake/ so i made it to the stephenson county fiber arts fair last month, and i didn’t go too super crazy with the spending this year. i got some red sparkley leicester merino, pink/brown corriedale, multi-color sparkley wool with silk noil, and multi-color dyed locks from a sheep named julia. i haven’t ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/fiber-fair-goodies/ so, anyone close to me probably knows that i live in a constant state of chaos.  i’m kind of like that pigpen kid from charlie brown.  you know the one with the dust cloud everywhere he goes.  well, ok… i’m not THAT bad, but i do tend to surround myself with clutter ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2008/01/22/a-new-obsession/ is that how this blog thing is sposed to go?  interesting. well once again it’s holiday time which means i’ve waited way too long to start too many projects and no one will be getting anything super awesome and handmade (well, almost no one… more to follow).  it also means i’ve ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2007/12/22/so-im-supposed-to-do-this-more-than-once-every-3-months/ pattern: mystery stole 3yarn: knitpicks bare laceweightneedles: size 4 (i think) plastic circulars it’s done and blocked and i don’t think i LOVE love it, but i’m glad i made it nonetheless.  the stole itself is really pretty and i learned some new techniques and i kinda liked the mystery of ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2007/09/21/the-stole-she-is-finished/ no, not poo crap, junk crap.  in my bedroom.  tons of it.  apparently when you never throw anything away because you have an irrational belief that as soon as it’s gone you’ll need it for something, you end up with a lot of crap that you will never need ever ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2007/08/29/im-drowning-in-crap/ every once in a while my dad will do something totally random that makes me smile.  mom put him in charge of ordering a birthday cake for me this year.  usually, this means a way-too-huge cake in weird flavors with some sort of pink flowers or something on it (i’m pretty ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2007/07/28/best-cake-evah/ yes, i realize it’s pretty lame to be so excited over a lunch box, but it’s new and shiny and red and looks like a purse and it’s awesome!  vickie (co-worker) got it for me for my upcoming birthday (saturday).  she was aware that i’ve been bringing my lunch to ... http://basimah.blogsome.com/2007/07/27/new-lunch-box/