Gotta Catch 'Em All!

Look how cute... my 5 year old cousin gave me a pokemon cell-phone charm/screen cleaner! It has a fuzzy backing and a stretchy cord so you can rub the dirt off your screen. I think I can make some of these. :)

Oh, I think I am going to go to the fabric store soon! Yay!

On thursday, I went on a field trip to watch the Giants game. i'm not a big baseball fan, but I enjoyed myself! I think I wouldn't have been nearly as happy if I hadn't ordered some garlic fries to share with my friend C (though they were extremely expensive--$7.25!).

A classmate, L, told us she sawBuster Posy at the Coke bottle slide, and about 5 of us went down. Then we realized that all the players had to be in the dugout. We just decided to tell L we saw him, because we assumed she was lying. Then one of our classmates called and we told her we saw him at the Coke slide. When we got back to our seats, our whole class was gone.

Turns out they were all at the Coke slide. Even L, who supposedly saw Buster Posy already...

Anyways, I had a great time. There was a cool asian guy who was dancing really oddly when the Giants scored. Like, he looked like he was driving a very large car with a giant steering wheel. Then he made his arms into a Y and jerked each hand down separately in a short, stiff motion. People were asking for his autograph and stuff (he's not even famous or anything). Then he looked at me and my friend (or at least that's what we liked to think), pointed at us, and said, "Never give up!" I wish I got a video of him... Dang it.

Here's a few stalkerish shots I got of him... he's in the orange shirt. In the 1st pic, that's him starting to lean over and say, "Never give up!"

Look!

Curls! I'm so proud! Well, to be more precise, three curls, and 3 pics of one particularly gorgeous curl that I'm so proud of. It's the best I've ever done. I just wish there's a product that makes your hair not so dry/burnt feeling (i know there is one; i just don't have any brands). I want to curl my hair on some special occasion; maybe 8th grade graduation?

What I've Been Working On

Here's my bag for my mom for mother's day. It's kind of lumpy and odd shaped since I tried to get it to model by sticking all of our apples inside and hanging it on a chair. Yeah, it didn't really work.

I'm also crocheting! I'm a decent crocheter, but I have to use a large bulky hook I carved out of a chopstick because I can't find my other hooks. Yep, that's just me. (the flower is from attic 24)

Mother's Day Present

For mother's day, I'm giving my mommy a t-shirt bag, made with //between the lines// quick fix grocery bag tutorial. Happy mother's day!

Summer's Coming

Blech. Summer. I was born in the summer, but that doesn't mean that I like it. Too hot. Too stuffy. And it makes me grouchy, grouchy, grouchy. It's getting hotter, and the shorts are coming out. At least at my school. Though it's kinda gross when they're wearing super-short shorts that don't fit, and they squeeze their skin like spandex. Even though it's part of the dress code to not wear them shorter than finger-tip length, nobody seems to care (which is unfair to me, because I feel like I have long arms--and a shorter body-- and my fingertips reach right above my knee. So the only shorts I could wear are basketball shorts). The vice principal just walked by some girls, and then she smiled and just said, "Good morning." Curiouser and curiouser.

What I do like about summer is fruit. Some of my favorite fruits (not in any particular order):

1. peaches. hard peaches, like an apple. I don't like it when it dribbles down my chin in a sticky little stream.

2. apples. crunchy, cold apples. Actually, I like all my fruit cold, except when there's something extra on top (i.e., apples with butter and brown sugar, bananas with choco chips and marshmallows [i've never tried it but it sounds good], etc.)

3. nectarines. yummy... shiny, gleaming nectarines...

4. plums. purple plums, slightly tart but more sweet. I love asian plums. they have a brownish, speckled appearance with a yellow-orange inside. I don't know if they're called asian plums; i just call them that because I got them from Chinatown. There's another type of asian plum; they're small and yellow, but those aren't as good. We have some in our backyard, but it was sour--but maybe because they weren't ripe, i don't know...

eh, probably not.

just kidding; they're pretty good when they're ripe.

Anyways, I don't like summer, and I want to sew more. Hope I can get some more tutorials up and take a trip to the fabric store in SF soon. Have a nice day. :)

5 Minute T-shirt Shrug Tutorial

Tutorial

Easiest shrug ever. Took about 5 minutes. Hence the name. Obviously. Duh.

Materials: L-XL t-shirt. Mine was a soft, thin, stretchy shirt. sewing machine, scissors.

Turn inside out. Follow the diagram and sew a scoop from shoulder to shoulder, about 1/2" away from the neckband. Now trim the fabric 1/2" away from the stitching. Turn right side out. Ta-da! You're done. To put it on, stick your arms through the sleeves as if you're putting on a jacket. Leave the rest of the material on your back. So, your arms should be through the sleeves, the neckline should be a seam on the middle of the back of your shrug, the front hem should be resting on your neck, and the back hem should be the bottom of your shrug.

For your convenience...

I've made a tutorial tab. It was exhausting... I almost screamed when my computer ran out of batteries and shut down on me. I thought that everything, even with autosave, would be erased. My suspicions were confirmed, until I realized that I wasn't on the 'Edit Posts' page. Phew. That was a close one...