yay snow!

my first snowman! it seems as though it took just as long to build a 3" snowman as it would have taken to build a 3 ft. snowman. and my hands were just as cold!

redo

so i've redone the lost photos.

timo.

smithy and timo.
i'm still deciding on an eye color for timo. but he's the exact shape i was aiming for. i had no pattern so i was just sculpting him more or less so there was a lot of pulling out of stitches and redoing. i'm quite pleased with myself i must say.

o! what's occurring!?

favorite quote from my favorite character, 'ness' (pictured) on bbc america britcom "gavin and stacey." it's actually more like, " what's occurrin' " and with a welsh accent.
but more importantly, it's what i was thinking when i discovered that the photos i took this afternoon (of smith and a couple of friends) were erased from my memory card. then i was thinking, "scheiße!" now i have to do it all over again tomorrow as it's dark now.

friends from the future

smith and jones. friends.

watercolors!

i couldn't decide what i wanted to do with new friends smith and jones. first, the intent was that they be a bit more anonymous. more like lumps with suggestions of limbs and little dot eyes. yet, they seem a bit more than that. especially jonesy with his shock of hair. i just realized that my grandfather had hair like that --seriously standing up and white and whatnot. my first thought was to photograph them but before that happened i whipped out a paintbrush (and a pencil and eraser and ballpoint pen and some paper) and some paint. and this happened.
"portrait of jones" only his friends call him jonesy.

thrifty!

i got some extremely useful stuff today at a thrift store i really like. i've been crocheting these characters i created and i'm always on the lookout for inexpensive yarn that fits the color scheme. the frames will probably come into use around christmas present making time. i don't currently do a whole lot of knitting but the little kit seemed like a handy thing to have.

word of the day

SLANGUAGE
totally makes sense but it strikes me as redundant. like the infamous bushism "misunderestimate."