211b: Hippos

I've recently become enamored with hippos. It started with these:

I loved them so much that I bought Knitting Mochimochi to make them. Of course there are other wonderfully adorable patterns in the book, but that's besides the point.

Then I went to ravelry and found as many hippos as I could.

Like this hippo

And this one

And this one

This one is so fashionable!

I can even make hippo mittens!

And then I made the mistake of looking at Etsy...

wool hippo

hippo print

missing you hippo

happy hippo

hippo wallet

hippo clip art

pocket hippo

decal hippo

What is it about hippos?

211: Friday

208: Craigslist and Mittens

I'm exhausted. I've spent 90% of my waking hours on Craigslist since Sunday night looking for potential roommates or a new place to live. I'd hate to move out of the place I'm in now, one, because it's so nice, and two, because I just moved it...But I might have to. The person I was supposed to live with backed out because of a misunderstanding and now I need to figure out something quick. Like in the next four days. Lucky for me, apartment listings have been going up like crazy so I have a couple of places in mind that I can move to.

So that's all very stressful but at least I have a reliable stress reliever. Here are those Bella Mittens that I finished this past weekend.

They're so soft and pretty! I used way less than a skein of Malabrigo. They're too small for me but they'd be perfect for my cousin's daughter. Plus, she lives in a colder climate than me anyway. Although those San Francisco Summers are pretty bad...

I've also started the Feet Eaters from Knitting Mochimochi. I'm so excited to finish them! I'm almost done with the first foot; I hope it fits...

207: Mondays

Do I really need to add anything else? Hehe, actually today is not the worst Monday I've had, so that's good. And I finished my white Bella Mittens over the weekend! Which means I have pictures to post...eventually. Once I get them on my computer. Which might take a while...

203: Anti-Antidisestablishmentarianismologist

I was reading Wikipedia today, looking for the longest words (to help my friend make her research paper longer) and ran across this gem. Don't worry, I've heard this word before. So, I was reading the little section about "Word Length" and saw that you can always add suffixes to make the word longer, i.e. antidisestablishmentarianismologist. Hm, Blogger doesn't seem to think that's a word. Anyway, I told my friend that she should use this word in the paper, and make some sort of analogy or metaphor or something to work it in. And then I thought, Why stop at suffixes? Add prefixes! (Disregarding the fact that there are already two prefixes...) At first thought of post-antidisestablishmentarianismologist, but then I thought of something even more epic:


ANTI-Antidisestablishmentarianismologist


Looking back on it I thought that maybe might be the same as a disestablishmentarianismologist but then you wouldnt have to be a disestablishmentarianismologist to be against antidisestablishmentarianismologists...


I'm kind of straying away from the crafting, huh? Don't worry. I have some mittens I'm almost done with that I need to take pictures of. And my sewing machine comes tomorrow so I can take pictures of that, too!