CrumpArt

DAWN: I just wanted to tell you that Buffy won’t be coming in today. She’s really sick.
PRINCIPAL WOOD: Oh, no.
DAWN: Yeah, last night she was vomiting, and then this morning she was vomiting some more, and then, just when we thought she was done, she was vomiting again.
PRINCIPAL WOOD: Yeah, we got that stomach flu going around.
DAWN: Her exact words were, “I’ve got stuff coming out of both ends.”
PRINCIPAL WOOD: Thank you. That’s very helpful.
DAWN: Sure. No problem. (to kids) Hey, guys. How’s it going?
PUNK #2: Pretty good.
PRINCIPAL WOOD: Um, tell your sister not to worry about it. We’ll soldier on without her here. Just, um, tell her to concentrate on getting better.
DAWN: Yeah, she’ll be fine. She just needs to get some stuff out of her system.

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Hat

This made me laugh out loud.

I can finally post what I’ve been making this week! Yay! Giz and Kym came around for dinner, and we gave them some Christmas presents. Giz got this t-shirt, inspired by his favourite-ist Happies song ever, Why is there so much buzz? (well, more like a hint of a song, back from the old mp3.com days).

The green background was stencilled on, the yellow is an applique, and the rest is embroidery. Mr Crumpet drew the exceedingly cute bee. We think Giz may have liked it.

Kym got a mass of magnets, which, it was eventually discovered, spelled out the Tim Bisley inspired “BABYLON 5′S A BIG PILE OF SHIT”. We believe that this gift was also somewhat appreciated.

I got on a roll when making the magnets, and used up some leftover scraps that could no longer be used for badges.

And the award for the obligatory knitted Christmas gift in this post goes to… a hat for my nephew Rohan, who has the largest head I’ve seen on a seven month old ever. I made up this pattern and knitted it bigger than most baby hats, and I still don’t know if it will be big enough. We’ll see. Every Andrew I know is having a baby next year (well, not literally, but you know what I mean), so it’s not like that hat won’t have a home if it doesn’t fit Rohan. I think I’ll knit some more of these, because I really like it, and I might even write up a pattern for the site.

Read about it here.

The spinning books that I ordered back in November just arrived!

It’ll be a nice early birthday present for me, especially considering the fact that I missed their last tour due to being in NT at the time.

Dates lifted from the Tegan and Sara website.

Feb. 11, 2006 Perth, WA, Australia
The Becks Verandah, Perth Concert Hall, The UWA Perth
Doors at 7:00pm
Presented by Triple J The UWA Perth International Arts Festival www.perthfestival.com.au. Tickets available from BOCS by Phone (08) 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au

Feb. 12, 2006 Adelaide, Australia
Governor Hindmarsh
Presented by Triple J, licensed/all ages Tickets available from Venue*Tix / Ph: 08 8225 8888 / www.venuetix.com.au or CIB Ticketing / Ph: 08 8231 0824

Feb. 15, 2006 Melbourne, Australia
Corner Hotel
Presented by Triple J Tickets available from the Corner Box Office (57 Swan St, Richmond. Open 12pm-8pm, Mon-Sat) / Ph: 03 9427 9198 / www.cornerhotel.com.

Feb. 16, 2006 Brisbane, Australia
The Zoo
Presented by Triple J Tickets available from Rocking Horse, Skinnys & online at www.thezoo.com.au.

Feb. 17, 2006 Sydney, Australia
Gaelic Theatre
Presented by Triple J, licensed/all ages Tickets available from all Moshtix outlets / Ph: 02 9209 4614 / www.moshtix.com.au .

Part of my job as the world’s greatest procrastinator is to find things on the internet, become fascinated by them and ignore all the Christmas gifts that are yet to be made. I take this role seriously, and here are today’s results.

Today I came across this photography tutorial on the internet, and thought I’d have some fun with and old photo of myself. This photo was taken at about 1am, in a mirror, in terrible lighting. I’d made the Spiderweb Capelet as a thank you gift for the person who’s apartment I’d been staying at, and needed to take a photo before I left for the airport four hours later. It was seriously the best I could manage.

Here is the original shot. I really like the layout and the fuzziness/graininess… well, I would if they were actually visible.

So I took the instructions on the website and ran with them. I arrived, puffing and panting, at this:

And, just because…

I think I’ll make one of these my new picture in the About section of the site… I like them.