Big Blue Square, originally uploaded by jezmynne.
This was a particularly fun sampler square for the Crochet List 12″ square exchange. I love the pattern, and it was SUPER easy and worked up really fast!
I got the pattern from a crochet stitch encyclopedia, and it essentially was a sc, ch 2, sc, alternating with a dc, ch 2, dc.
Chenille Purse, originally uploaded by jezmynne.
We have a craft fair coming up in December, so I’m making a few things here and there to sell at said event. Made this clutch out of some scrap chenille. I lined it with a satin fabric, gave it a zipper and a decorative button. I am pleased with it. : )
So there’s a thing going around friend feed that instructs, “Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair – just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture.”
So I did. And I really like how this pic turned out. Yes, it’s not perfect, yes I see flaws and imperfections, but it’s who I am, right now, in that moment. I was tired, I’d taught three classes that day, I was wrung out and ready for bed, but after all that, I was still able to serve up a half decent, content smile. And that’s kinda cool. : )
Boy this is my day for Graphjam, that’s for sure. As many of you know, the most difficult thing I do every day, is try to print. My BFF thinks that maybe I was a lumberjack in a past life and this is paper’s way of thwarting my use of it. Either way, this graph is right on the money.
Wrecktastic, originally uploaded by jezmynne.
Well, this pretty much sums up my day. It went from Print Fail to Long Meeting w/ Side of Backache, to the Ultimate Teaching Room Disaster. Let me elaborate there.
Like many libraries, we have a teaching room where we provide library instruction. Our rooms are not on par with good rooms. For example, the room I was in today. The coolest part about the room is the obnoxiously pink chairs with some rotating Star Trek like tables. The coolness ends there.
I worked VERY hard to get a professor who has not ever had a library session for his students to come into the library. I booked our learning room, which should have been ready for a full teaching load for fall semester. However…. of the 16 laptops, only 11 were there. Of the 11, only 10 would work. Of the 10, 5 needed to be restarted, and 2 wouldn’t connect properly to the wireless dedicated to that room for those machines. Students, and the professor, who brought their own laptops could not connect to the wireless because, presumably, their MAC addresses were not registered with the all campus wireless. So although I’d sold this professor on our teaching rooms with active learning, after messing around with laptops for 15 minutes trying to get access and probably doing unrecoverable ‘perception of idiot’ damage with the students, I move forward with my now lecture session. Fail, Fail, Fail.
Ah, I’ll enjoy a nice lunch at my favorite campus hangout, I think. Where they absolutely FAIL at providing a cream cheese bagel with sprouts and bacon. And not having the yogurt I paid for. And not having any friggin tea.
Oh, and then more meetings, one with a consultant that I am unsure really understood exactly what I was trying to communicate about what we need to be doing, more FAIL at printing attempts, a spontaneous meeting regarding the updating of bibliographic records after the sudden removal of 1000 boxes from my library, all capped off with another instruction session that was not exactly stellar.
Have I mentioned that today was my 6 year anniversary for work? Yea. 6 years.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
Yes, I know, there’s all this important stuff going on. Some lady is banning books and doing some sort of presidential thing with some old dude, and there was some big thunderstorm down south or something, and this is total errata, but hey, it’s this kind of errata that I enjoy pondering.
To start, I have to say that I am quite loyal. I pick a place to go, I like it, and I go there all the time. Right now, that place is Vons, and has been for a number of years. It’s nice, I know where all my favorite junk is, I get a 10 cent fuel discount per 50$ bucks spent, and everyone is nice and helpful. Occasionally I’ll swing into a Stater Bros because it’s way cheaper, but not such a pleasant shopping experience.
So a few weeks ago I went to Vons to cash in all of Lila’s change and their coin star was full. So I did something I’ve never done – willingly gone to Albertsons. I used their coinstar, and immediately placed the slip in my wallet necessitating an additional trip back.
So now that I’ve been there twice, I have more of an opinion. Albertson’s store layout is really confusing with the split aisles, each with their own signs requiring you to have a telescope to read all the way down from one end to the other. Their organization is less than intuitive. However, they have a pharmacy right inside that sells stuff normal grocery stores dont sell. Albertson’s bakery is really good… you should see the chocolate chip cookies I brought home, and those lemon flower things are bad ass. Vons, however, has got the corner on the service market, though. Vons has tons of people working there and you’re forever being asked, “finding everything okay today?” as you wander around. Which is nice, I think, because not only do you have someone who can help you (as opposed to my experience at Albertsons where I had to find someone to call someone to go get me my friggin meat), and because it is instilling in our youth the concept of common curtesy.
Oh, and Albertson’s is really weird with their attempt at traffic flow management… you cant exit these doors, you cant enter these doors, you cant go down those aisles, no one is there, this is a dead end by the wood… it’s rather maze like. But they do have self check stations.
Hm. I’m torn. Oh, where shall I shop? You know, I think I’ll nom my lemon flower cookie and ponder the new Fresh n Easy store they put up down the street…
Fower Doily, originally uploaded by jezmynne.
Made this for crochet list’s doily exchange out of motifs in an attempt to create a bouquet of flowers type theme. I’m on the fence on how I feel about it. I think I need to practice blocking.
12 Inch Square, originally uploaded by jezmynne.
I love this yarn! It’s such a cool varigated color.
I made this for the Crochet List Big Square Exchange last month. I love that exchange because I can try a 12″ square of a new stitch. I liked this stitch, but my initial counting didnt quite make 12″ square so I needed to edge it with 2 rounds of dc. It looks rectangular in the picture, but it really is square. : )
Blue Granny Squares, originally uploaded by jezmynne.
I made these for Crochet List’s granny square exchange, and I must say I am really pleased with how the texture came out on them. It’s amazing what modifying a few stitches or placement can do. : )
