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Better late than never.

February 10th, 2008 by Crumpet

That’s a personal philosophy. One that I’m extremely good at following.

A couple of days ago I gave Vetti her birthday present.

And while it was her birthday a couple of days ago (happy birthday!), this was actually the present I intended to give her last year…

It’s an artist’s book made up from the proofs I made while creating my r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r etching in first year uni, based upon the poem by e.e.cummings.

This year’s present is not finished yet. I had some technical difficulties the other day. I promise it won’t take me a year to resolve them this time around…

In other, similar news, I think the philosophy of lateness is hereditary. My parents dropped by today with this (along with a bunch of stuff to help with the crappy cold I’m currently nursing). Our Christmas present from 2007 — a new DVD shelf hand made by my dad. I loves it.

(Please note: since the photographing, the DVDs [this is the shelf for TV shows] have been arranged in their correct order, and the empty shelves have been prettyified. An important step.)

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The Spirit of Giving

December 11th, 2007 by Crumpet

I read on someone’s blog not too long ago about how they gave some honey to a bee they found struggling in their yard. Well, last night I took out our recycling as the sun was setting, and on my way back inside I saw this little bee. At first I thought it was dead, but on closer inspection I saw it moving very slowly. I remembered that blog post (although not who posted it, unfortunately), and headed straight for our jar of honey. I can’t even begin to describe how happy I felt when I saw the bee start eating, and then later when I looked out and it was gone.

I must admit, I’ve been neglecting this blog of late. I haven’t even been busy at work — I’ve been getting roughly 10-15 hours per week, but I’m trying not to complain about that, because I know for about a month following Christmas, I’ll have pretty much no time off at all. What I have been doing (apart from a major clean of the house that still isn’t finished yet) is knitting Christmas gifts during a major Buffy marathon. I’ve always loved Buffy, that’s no secret, but I can’t get over how much I’m really, really enjoying it this time around. I’m seeing so many things that I never understood before — whole undercurrents (and blindingly obvious references) that reflect on the meaning of our existence that I just never noticed. It’s amazing. I’m nearing the end of season three. Only four more seasons to go until my next Angel marathon! And philosophy aside, I’ve just gotta say, David Boreanaz is a rather good looking young chap. Rowr.

It hasn’t taken me three seasons to knit that one sleeve though (even if I did have to knit it twice, because I had to change the math for gauge reasons and rewrite the pattern for myself — the first time around I used guesswork, and then eventually decided that guesswork wouldn’t be good enough). I finished this.

It’s so beautiful that I almost don’t want to give it away. It’s the Hazy Paves scarf by kerryknitski, knit from one ball of Madil Kid Seta in pale green from my stash.

Luckily I love giving presents.

On that note, I have a few things to send out to people come payday tomorrow. My Ravelry tea cosy swap package among other things. Stay tuned!

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Woohoo!

November 24th, 2007 by Crumpet

Just think of something that rhymes with mustard…

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IM IN UR POLES MAKIN U FRAIDY

November 23rd, 2007 by Crumpet

I’m getting nervous about the election tomorrow. I’ve been registered to vote since I turned 17, in preparation for when I turned 18. The coalition government was voted in the year before I could have my say. That’s a decade of horrifically depressing voting for me. Every election I get excited that this time the people of Australia will have come to their senses, and every time my heart breaks a little more… and I wonder how my fellow citizens can be so selfish and shortsighted with their reasoning and votes.

For those that don’t know, voting is compulsory in Australia. We are legally required to enrol, go to the polls and put our ballot in the box. We don’t technically have to fill out the ballot, but I really don’t recommend that. Our electoral system is not perfect — a party may receive the most votes but still lose the election because they didn’t win the majority of seats in parliament — but the fact that we have mandatory, preferential voting system is a start. The problem is that when the Liberals (that’s large ‘L’ Liberal, not small ‘l’ liberal — the Australian Liberal party is on the conservative, right wing side) win, I can’t just blame it on a lack of voter turnout…

Giles looks scared, too.

(I made those fridge magnets and the puppets from the other recent post for an art project back in semester 1 last year, based on the blatant racism of the Howard government and all those APEC costumes we see Howard and Bush dressed up in — if anyone wants to turn the photos into LOLpols, be my guest.)

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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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We All Love Captain Tightpants

November 16th, 2007 by Crumpet

On Wednesday, Mr C and I went out to celebrate payday. We started with a delicious dinner at Shakahari restaurant on Faraday St in Carlton, where I had croquettes with salad and Mr Crumpet had lasagne. Our dessert was an Oh Henry! chocolate bar from the Original Lolly Shop on Lygon St, followed by the many pies of Waitress at the Nova.

I do like a good serving of Captain Tightpants, so I decided today was as good a time as any to get over my badge making burnout and restock my Etsy shop.

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T is for Things

November 2nd, 2007 by Crumpet

I walked into the front yard this morning to check the letterbox, and noticed that the stick that’s been poking out of the ground since we moved in has finally sprouted some leaves on one of it’s three tiny branches. Excited, I went over for a closer look and found a beautiful web in between forked branches at the top. So pretty. And what better way to introduce some of the work that I handed up on Wednesday!?!

This is the book I made to house my 42 things work. 42 lithographic prints that I talked about in this post.

Silhouettes of different, somewhat random things, some obvious, some not so obvious, all of their descriptions dependent on your perspective. Why 42? Because it’s the answer, of course.

I’m really happy with the clamshell box that I made to house the prints. It was a lot of work, but was definitely worth it… and I only made one major mistake, which I managed to disguise quite well… If anyone is interested, I followed an excellent tutorial that I found online to make it, minus the fancy measuring and cutting tools…

And despite the fact that they’re packaged up so beautifully in the box, I will be selling the prints individually in my Etsy store — I’ll add them gradually over the next couple of weeks. Unless, of course, one of you wants to make me an offer I can’t refuse on the whole set… (no, really — I could very much do with an offer I can’t refuse right now…)

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