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I downloaded an app for my phone, CamFX or something, that does a variety of things. Rebecca and I have been having LOADS, I mean LOADS of fun with the “mirror image” effect, where it cuts you in half along a line and flips the half. It’s very very very silly. I keep having to do more laundry because Becca and I keep laughing ourselves into fits of peeing our pants. We wanted to post all the crazy, but we managed to whittle it down to these. Heh.

We dare you not to giggle.

So, so terrible to read.

* Mommybloggers tend to bore me and I avoid them like the plague. The commercialization of blogs is turning the world vanilla and I miss the days when women wrote about how they were really feeling instead of how they are supposed to be feeling.

via Tuesday – March 30, 2010.

I’m getting somewhere with all this Mommy Blogger stuff, I have thoughts ruminating about it, about privilege and blogging and how I’ve become boring because I don’t say what I’m feeling.  So instead of all these links, I might actually post what I’m thinking…

The Mommy Blogger’s voice is privileged and rare. It can be a funny, entertaining, and enlightening voice. But it mustn’t be used to drown out the voices of the vast majority of mothers on this planet.

Most mothers on the earth today are poor, uneducated, and deeply in love with their children. And they are buried in shame and silence.

via Ho Mama! A Blog for Slutty, Single, Low-income Moms – big fat trauma queen – Open Salon.

The slide show of his sketchbook is amazing.

The pattern for the bag is the Spacious Show & Tell Bag from The Second Treasury of Magical Knitting by Cat Bordhi. This is the second one I’ve made. All in all, I’m pleased with how it turned out. Parts of the “vine” aren’t as attached as I’d like and the pink flower got sort of distorted, the petals were more symmetrical when I sewed it. Or maybe they weren’t but they just looked better, they felted a little weird. Also the middle of the flower didn’t felt the way I hoped, so I added a big sparkly button to the middle. Wonky bits aside, I like the bag and I bet I’ll use it a lot.

Technical details: Single strand of Knit Picks Wool of the Andes knitted on size 11 circs, washed twice with two pairs of jeans, hot water, cold rinse. Minimal stretching and mushing to get it in shape after it was done felting. My experience with the first bag was that it really took a better shape after I’d been using it a while, the strap became nice and flat, the bag rounded nicely. So I imagine this will improve with a little use. I ended up not making a loop inside for my keys. I might try sewing something in there at some point. Maybe.

Before felting, with a book for scale.

After felting, same book.

There’s a pocket on the front! Perfect size for my phone!

Wonky flower with fancy pink jewel.

My lame attempt to take a photo of myself wearing the bag.

The socks I’m wearing today. They’re really old and I wash them frequently. They have faded over time, but they have held up beautifully and are very warm and comfy. I originally knitted these for Ed, but they were a little small, so, perfect for me.

Hehehehe, I love The Onion.

My baby girl has been at her best friend’s house all weekend. At first it was … so beautifully quiet … but now I’m sort of … unsettled by all the quiet. Plus, we’re reading Akiko in the Castle of Alia Rellapor and we’re at an exciting part and I want to know what’s going to happen but I don’t want to read ahead without Becca!

I finished the second of the Guild of Specialists book, Operation Typhoon Shore and it was just as good as the first. I’m waiting for the third book. Meanwhile I’m reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which I am enjoying very much. It’s all letters, mostly to and from a woman named Juliet. It makes you want to write letters to people. Anyone want to be my penpal? Heh.

My bag is knitted. Amazing the knitting that can be done when you’re alone all weekend (Ed works weekends, so I’ve been really alone). I can’t wait to felt it in the morning!

I need to take photos of the caterpillars. Jonny isn’t actually living with us anymore. It happened like this. One day we found a larger version of Jonny in our planter by the front porch and we brought it in and put it in with Jonny. I really wanted to name the new one Pauline, but even after I played the song for her, Rebecca insisted on calling the new one Clifford, because it was so much bigger than Jonny. But about a day after Clifford came to live with us, Jonny started looking… slow. I put him outside in hopes that he just needed fresh air or something. Well today I found another Clifford-sized caterpillar crawling around on the wall outside my apartment. I swear we’re naming it Pauline even if Jonny is gone. No way we’re naming it Emily Elizabeth, we have a CAT with that name.

Any Saving Grace fans out there? Gah, the last episodes are starting tomorrow, I hope they’re posting them on the TNT web site, maybe like ABC, the day after the episodes air? Best show ever, I’m so sad it’s going to be over.

Any knitters read my blog anymore? I’m knitting a bag for myself and am probably over-thinking this, but the bag is felted. Like this one. I want to attach a loop inside to attach my keys, but I’m sort wondering if I just sew in a loop of I-cord, will it just felt to itself? I could just keep an eye on it and pull it apart if it starts to felt together, or to the sides of the bag or something?

…I said I might be sorry for the fact that the Rebecca found out I didn’t care if she said the word “ass?” Well. I have an example. We check out this book from the library and made a few books. We made some flip books and one pop-up book. The pop-up book is titled “You and Your Ass.” Ahem. I have photos.

With regards to “daddy’s ass.” Ed … well … he’s got no butt. He and I like to joke about his lack of butt. Ed likes to joke, “all gut, no butt.”