procasti….oh i’ll do that later
What did I do yesterday?
- I organized my desk.
- I made a pot of tea.
- I watched the second series of The Catherine Tate Show.
- I decorated my desk with blue tinsel.
- I asked Ryan what he was doing 327 times.
- I posted 42 posts on ravelry.
- I clicked refresh on ravelry 2,891 times.
- I knit one row on the back of my asymmetrical jacket.
- Read some of “No Plot? No Problem?”
- I fondled some yarn in my stash and planned another cardigan.
- Organized my desk again.
- Researched the nutritional fact of Orange Juice.
- Took blue tinsel down deciding that it looks naff.
- Pondered the oddity of the word “juice”
- Watched more Catherine Tate.
- Put blue tinsel back up after realizing I *AM* naff so thus the tinsel fits in!
- I finally sat down and tried to write for NaNoWriMo.
What didn’t I do?
- Finalise my plot details or character details yet for NaNoWriMo
- Clean of the bench from the part on Friday night!
I should get up and clean the bench then finalise my plot and character details…
Bah I will do that later!
Um wow!
THIS makes me really glad that I don’t live in Australia, we don’t have huge bird eating spiders in New Zealand which i think is so very awesome…. at least I don’t think we do… I hope we don’t!
Feeling…
Lately I have been feeling rather like it’s time for a change, so I updated the look of my website. I think It’s rather swell, but then again I designed it. So I have had a website for a year and this blog now for a year. It’s interesting originally I thought I was going to make both the website and my blog strictly for my fashion design but in the past year I have noticed that I really need a website the encompasses all of me, the activist, the fashion designer, the performer, the web designer, the writer, all of me. So keep a look out in the next couple of weeks for a new format and some new content.
Speaking of web work I have too many sites to do and I just got one more!! But I hope to have one of them done soon, and thus be able to move on to the other ones.
In other news sometime in the last few weeks my brain fell out of my head and turn to a liquid that was asorbed into the carpet. I know you aksing your self “what the bloody hell is she on about?” Well in a great moment of stupidity I signed up for NaNoWriMo and if that wasn’t enough I decided that I would do al the writing in blog form. So if you want to read the nonsense that I will be writing throughout November please feek free to follow my blog over at http://brooklynnemichelle.com/grrrlshapedthing.
SO what HAVE I been doing.
I suppose there are many of you(who come for the knitting content) that are curious on what exactly I have been doing knit and maybe even craftwise!
I have been knitting! I have been working on a Katia pattern, the asymetrical scotch tweed jacket, in a lovely shade of Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed. and it totally my usual fashion I have completely rewritten the pattern! the mathe has gotten a little sticky so I’m stuck at the arm holes trying to figure out how often and how much to decrease here.
Other that really the only other knitting project I’ve been working on is the recycled shawl(yes I’m still working on that) I get maybe one or two rows done on it at a time because there are so many stitches per row easily 600+ and increasing 1 stitch each row! It may not look much bigger in the picture then the last time but really it is.
I ripped out alot of things which is how alot of my knitting is ending up lately because I just seem dissatified lately with alot of what I knit. I have tho been doing some embroidery. Infact one of those pieces is taking up all my spare time which isn’t a lot lately. It’s this really wonderful and quirky canvas work pincushion.
(note: the bunny decided she needed to be seen at this moment and in a way that you all couldn’t avoid looking at)
I have also been working on a cross stitch sampler, based of a pttern orginally printed in a 1930 burda magazine. The pattern is a tunisian tree of life pattern. This is going to be my own wedding sampler which I have always wanted to do and Ryan is okay with me starting so that seems good!
So that is really all I’m working on right now(yes I know there are some things some of you all know about that aren’t listed but i’m not actively working on those so thus they do not make it to the blog) and with that I leave you a picture of the cake I made for the cafe I work for.
Organizing!
One of the first things I noticed when we moved into our current flat is that I was going to needa good solid way of storing my stash. Originally we had found this really cool pvc pipe and nylon hanging basket storage thingy that used to be Ryan’s. I thought yes that’s perfect absolutely perfect! At first it was, then I bought more yarn, and more yarn and mooore yarn! The weight of all that yarn slowly caused the frame to torque and twist, while the bags started to rip I started to have to put less and less stuff in the baskets and instead on the floors next to it!
This is what it looked like!
I knew it was time for a new system but what? I started to have a look around and besides your generic large tupperware boxes with lids I wasn’t finding anything I thought would work well. Then I was browsing one of my favorite stores, Plastic Box, which is a lot like the container store in San Francisco, when i found something that would work! There were these stackable baskets that were partially open on one side and seemed really sturdy. The best part was they were affordable! So I started out getting four of them and was able to turn that previous picture into this!
I would still like to get two more of them so that I can put all my UFO/WIP’s in one instead of staking them on top of the whole thing and also so I have one to put needles, gauge rulers, and other assesories into instead of having to put them in random places with the yarn. they also have stable ways to conntct them next to each other! While I was in an organizational mood I made my embroidery threads go from this.
to this.
I love being organized it helps the creativity flow so much easier. When you want to do something with something everything is all right where it should be!
Ugggggh!
This is the kind of day I have been having!
That’s All!
On this night!
On this night a year ago I was on a plane over the dark night waters of the pacific ocean. When I got off that plane I was met by a wonderful man who I was madly in love with. I still love him with all my heart and soul! This last year in New Zealand has been awesome and amazing in so many wonderfule ways!
So here is to new beginings!
New lives!
New friends!
New family!
Here’s to the next year, and the one after that!
Converting the wicked.
I love converting people over to things I enjoy, from converting a friend to knitting, or a colleague to linux. There is a small joy in knowing that you raving on endlessly on why a certian thing is really the definiation of awesomeness, well I recently converted Ryan over to blogging at that just thrills me!
We Need Change.
(an apology to my Non-New Zealand readers, this is focused at New Zealanders)
Now many people may not understand that young fashionista who desires the newest parada bag or those gorgeous marc jacobs shoes(if they only were in her size) would be a big supporter of the green party. That is due to an “image” that people have of fashionista’s. That we are young, thin, and self obsessed, okay so maybe you got me on the last one, but in the fashion world I might as well be 90, and um thin I am not.
Well despite or maybe because of my self obsession I care about the enviroment, and the future of the earth itself. I have dreams and desires that goes beyond handbags, shoes, and frocks( I know I was just as shocked as you to realize it) desires to have children, and furthermore grandchildren to be able to play with them in the rivers and woods. Desires to watch the children of today grow up to be the parents of tomorrow, and not have to worry about running out of water, air, oil, the earth.
It is apparent as this election looms nearer, it has become apparent to me that only one party is clearly thinking not only of our children, our grandchildren or even out great-grandchilden, but of their great-grandchildren. Thinking of the planet as a whole and understand tax breaks and more money will mean nothing if we have no planet to live on. Understanding this is the only planet we have and there is no trade in policy on it like your new Prius. It is agreed that New Zealand needs a change I just hope you can see like I do that the change we need is Green
Two Day’s In A Row.
I have been meaning to write about this for a bit now, but it was just too early for me to talk about and write about.
There a few people who come into your life that really leave an impact on you that last forever. Del Martin was one of those people as was Phyllis Lyon. While I was still living in San Francisco I got the great honor to meet and get to know these amazing women.
They are what I consider to be the front runners for the lesbian advocacy the work they did was amazing and brave. In the mid 50’s they started The Daughters of Blitis the first lesbian advocacy group. Together these two who have been together for 50 years campaigned endlessly for Gay Rights, and especially their right to marry. In their work they also created the Lyon Martin clinic One of the first health clinics specifically for women, that was open minded and acceptining of lesbian women.
I cried as I read of their marriage on June 16th, thinking finally they got what they were fighting for. Those would not to be the last tears shed for Del, I got a call from a mutal friend August27th(tech it was the 28th here). The voice on the other end was choked up and soaked with tears “Brooklynne, Del died today.” I was stunned I couldn’t believe it I mean yes she was 87 years old but for some reason I thought she would live on forever, I mean she was Del lesbian superhero. As I hung up I was struck with grief over the loss of her and with concern for Phyl, I couldn’t imagine losing a partner after 50 years together. I realized how lucky I was to meet these wonderful women and have them in my life. I am so thankful for the times we shared together the dinners we had the stories they shared with me of being a lesbian in the 50’s and the stories I shared.
The Potawatomi believe that when a person dies they pass onto a greater place, a place where they join nature and can be heard in the rustle of the leaves and felt in the whisper of the wind.
Del I can feel your hugs in the wind and hear your laugh in the trees, thank you for enriching my life and sharing a piece of yours with me.
