Been busy crafting and wishing the wind would die down! It has today, so far, anyway! The other day I went shopping in the ‘big city’, and got a load of good stuff (including these oh so yummy sounding Country Crock flavored butters - one’s honey butter, the other is cinnamon butter!)

Anyway, I’ve made my first ever pomader. Or rather, I’m in the process of making it. It was quite easy, though a bit tiring, to do - take an orange, and a whole lot of cloves, and something sharp like a big needle. Actually, I used a nail, but a yarn needle would probably be perfect too. Then puncture the orange with the needle/nail, and push a clove into the hole you just made. Repeat, about ten billion times, keeping the cloves very close together (less than 1/4″). Take breaks often. Thumb gets very sore! After that, roll the ball into some spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, and set it someplace dark and warm to dry for a few weeks, turning it over daily. (1-6 weeks, average being… 3, surprise!)

So here’s my ball, which is now currently sitting in the cupboard to dry.

After I made that, I was still feeling all crafty, but not enough to make another (maybe another day on that one), so I did a real easy peasy craft - I made “snowballs”!

These are real cute. And real easy. Styrofoam balls covered in funky white/creamy colored yarn. I used Paton’s Divine for this, since it’s a big, fairly inexpensive ball of very fuzzy stuff that covered all six of my 2.5-3″ styrofoam balls with some left over. 4″ balls would’ve been sweet, but the 4″ styrofoam balls were insanely expensive (2.99 per *ball*?! The size I got were that price for SIX!) I wish I’d gotten a few in different sizes, though. Maybe another day, eh?

Here’s another pic. If you’ve got an LCD monitor, it’ll look fine, but on regular monitors, the can’s a bit dark. I thought it’d be cute to put them in a paint can.

Got just a couple more pictures to show off. These aren’t finished-craft pictures, but they are hope-to-finish-soon craft pictures! I stopped a nice little knitting and stitchery shop, and picked up this lovely cross-stitch pattern - and all the trimmings, which, I must say, was pricey.

Remind me to use cheapass DMC thread next time instead of these beautiful but expensive overdyed thread, ok? The threads are from Weeks Dye Works, and Sampler Threads - and the ones from Sampler Threads are especially pretty, since they’re somewhat varigated. Gorgeous.

But again, for a hunk of thread, $2 is quite… excessive, compared to the 29 cents that DMC floss is. But oh well. It’s a splurge, right?

I picked up one more pattern, too, but I won’t disclose it just yet. Hell, might be ages before I get around to it anyway.

As for a knitting update… I got almost 2 repeats of the stole’s border done last night, leaving 4 left. I’ll finish it in 4 days or less… if it kills me. Well, I’ll finish the /knitting/ part. Then there’s the awfulness of weaving in ends (in lace! Gugh! The torture!) and blocking the bloody thing. Which should be fascinating, since it’s so huge. Anyway, Mom saw it last night, or night before… I can’t remember which. She really likes it, I think, but she’s wondering the same thing I am… What is she gonna wear with it?!

Ah, the hard questions in life…

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1. […] My cross-stitch project is nearly done! Just working on all the backstitching, which is going pretty fast, and then I just have to put the buttons on! Of course, then I must make it into a pillow or something. […]

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