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Two lumps with his tea.

April 12th, 2008 by Crumpet

Okay, he doesn’t drink tea, but young Henry does have two lumps. A new little one on his chest and a big older one on his side. Mr C took him to the vet today, and I’m skipping uni on Wednesday to take him in for surgery. I iz worried, but hopefully it’ll all go okay and there won’t be any sign of the big C.

I’m also rather worried about how we’re going to pay for said surgery, which costs somewhere in the hundreds of dollars, but it has to be done. If you’ve ever, ever wanted to buy anything from my shop, now would be a good time (or if my stuff isn’t your cup of tea, there’s a handy dandy Paypal donate button to the top left of this blog page)…

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February 21st, 2008 by Crumpet

You know what the best birthday present ever would be?

If you bought something from my Etsy store.

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G to the E to the E to the K

February 7th, 2008 by Crumpet

I discovered a new podcast — GeeksOn — a couple of weeks ago when reading the Whedonesque blog. I’d only planned on listening to the Joss episode, but I thought it was so great that I immediately hit the back catalogue and started downloading all the other episodes that looked interesting. It was so awesome when I got to tell Mr Crumpet that I’d found a cool geek podcast before he had.

Now, I’ve always known that I lean to the geeky side of things, but because I’m not really a gamer or huge Star Trek fan or big-time coder and whatnot, I assumed I was fairly “normal”. And as is the case every time I start thinking I’m normal, something sucker-punches me and I realise that I’m really, really not. I’m obsessive in so many ways that it’s almost ridiculous. I’m a yarn geek. I’m an art geek. I buy science books for fun reading. I only ever use the camera in full manual mode. I know what frell and frak and dren mean. I use internet speak and phrases in real life and assume that people will know what the hell I’m talking about, instead of taking me literally when I say “I fell down in the comic book/yarn/art store.” My very favourite kitchen knife is named Vera. My Global vegetable knife is named Saffron. My Le Creuset dutch oven is named Zhaan, because it’s big and blue and beautiful and makes plant-based foods. My little Le Creuset multi-function pan is named Aeryn, because it’s strong and adaptable and gorgeous. I’ve named the big red electric litho press at uni Willow, because it’s powerful and awesome and makes magic. Along similar lines, my spinning wheel (which is a geeky enough thing in itself…) is named Fred, after Winifred Burkle. I make Firefly badges. And it doesn’t end there.

So me. Big, huge, massive, proud geek. Which is why I went squee! at this link the Mister sent me.

Geek factions unite!

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Pants, pants, pants, pants, sing the praise of pants.

February 6th, 2008 by Crumpet

I have one month of school holidays left. That means I’ve been on holidays for three whole months. I feel like I’ve barely had a break at all, and I have so many things left to finish before I go back…

I have made some headway though.

I finished these awesome, awesome, wonderfully comfortable pants for work the other night. We have to wear all black even behind the scenes now, and even though I’m from Melbourne, I have very little black in my wardrobe. Some simple fisherman style pants seemed the way to go. These are made from the Burda pattern 8315.

I love them very, very much and have plans to make several more pairs to wear to school.

For mindless knitting (my favourite kind — I use knitting as a way of zoning out) I’ve been working on Stefanie Japel’s Cozy V-Neck Sweater, re-mathematised to be made from stash DK weight instead of the chunkier weight the pattern calls for. One of the great things about top-down raglans knit in the round is that you can try them on for size during the knitting. I’ve started the ribbing for this now, and am about 5cm into it. I’ve put it aside for the minute because the yarn comes in massive 200 metre skeins, which I have to wind by hand into balls because I have no swift or ball winder (hint hint), and I didn’t have time the other day to prepare another skein before leaving the house. So I picked up this.

Free yarn.

20 balls of free yarn.

20 balls of the most beautiful, lovely, squishy, soft, green free yarn.

It was a thank you gift for attending an ideas/information night put on by Patons. I was going for the fun. I had no idea there would be free yarn. Score! It’s turning into Stefanie’s Puff-Sleeved Feminine Cardigan.

And finally, the birthday presents have already started rolling in! And this one is the best kind of present anyone can give me. A friend needed to buy a gift for someone else, so they specifically bought something from my Etsy store as a gift to me. Totally awesome and thoughtful and kind and lovely.

I sent this off to the unsuspecting recipient today.

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I got it wrong, too.

December 5th, 2007 by Crumpet

I just listed my artwork The Gold in our Mountain of Madness on Etsy, and realised as I was typing up the description that all this time I’ve been incorrectly titling the Flaming Lips song I named it from. It should have been The Gold in the Mountain of our Madness. No wonder I could never find the lyrics online before… This is rather amusing, considering how many inaccurate ideas the print represents.

They started up the hill
With their young lives exploding still
They loved to dream and run
They had the grass and the trees and the sun

They dreamed of the gold they’d find
At the top of the hill as they climbed
No one would ever doubt
Their spirit and strength could never run out

There they go!

But the hill was steep and long
They never thought they’d be wrong
And it wasn’t a hill at all
It was a mountain ten thousand feet tall!

But with the gold still in their minds
They used their young lives to climb and climb
And by the time they got to the peak
They were old and they were weak

There was no gold that they could find
It was all just in their minds
They had dreamed and they had run
They found the grass and the trees and the sun

They said what do we do now
Spend the rest of our lives climbing back down?
Or we can treasure what we find
And make it golden in our minds…

That’s what we’ll do…

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Pencils2MediaMoguls

November 18th, 2007 by Crumpet

I finally finished putting stock of all the Firefly/Serenity inspired badges that I make in my Etsy store today, just as I was reading the latest on the writer’s strike. I immediately went and donated a box of pencils. And as a sign of thanks and support, I’ve decided to the same for every order of badges from my Etsy store from now until a fair deal is struck.

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Alas!

November 18th, 2007 by Crumpet

This doesn’t happen often, so take advantage of it while you can. Mr Crumpet and I are getting rid of a bunch of stuff at the moment. And as it’s the end of another school year, I have too much artwork in my drawers and on my walls. So…

I’ve put a couple of prints on sale at Etsy. Namely, these two: