quornflour’s Neighborhood

I love this show, and even more so now because of this advert.

Sihnon

If you have Blue Sun travel posters, you might be muttering under your breath about the kwong-juh duh purplebellies who decided to make them 17x22 inches...  Because as we all know, there are no standard off the rack frames that size, they are either 16x20 or 18x24. 

Until now.

Aaron Brothers has a collage frame which holds a mat designed for nine 6x4” photos.  Take out the collage mat, and the frame is 17x22”!  The posters fit perfectly! 

To make things even better, through this Sunday they are having a buy one frame get the second for a penny deal.  The frames come in black, brown, and white, but if they don’t have the color you want they will special order them for you at the sale price. 

Product: 0001081488 (black) price: $27.99.  With the sale, I was able to frame all five posters for under $100.  I'd walked in expecting to pay $700+ for custom framing.  Shiny!

Last week while on vacation I did some shopping and wanted to ship a box home (no room in the luggage!)  The guy at the shipping place was pretty unhelpful and abrupt, not sure how much of that, if any, had to do with cultural or language issues since he had a fairly strong foreign accent.  Anyway, I had to practically force him to give me a price comparison between ground and express shipping, and he talked to me like I was an idiot.  Ground was $21 and express 3 day $66, so I started filling out the ground paperwork.  I put my name and address in the sender and receiver boxes, and he asked if I was sending a package to my mother.  Uhhh, what?  Anyway, I said no, I was sending a package to myself because I'd done some shopping while on vacation.  His whole attitude changes.  He starts talking about a woman he knows in my home state, what a nice person she is... Then tells me to fill out the express form instead. He calls someone while I do paperwork, and tells me he is giving me his discount price.  I assume for 3-day still. No, while I make random smalltalk with his friend about the town they're from and the weather here vs there (yeah, shipping guy had me talk to his friend on his phone.  Totally weird), shipping guy sends my package overnight for under $30.

Elle sent me this link, and I had to make one...  It whipped up pretty quickly.  If you try it, the original blog the pattern was on has an error on line 25 (at least it did when I copied the pattern), it should be:MB4, K3, P5, K5, P1, K2, P3, K2, P1, K5, P5, K3, MB4.

this is right after I finished knitting it, once it is washed once it should lay nicely flat and not ripple at the sides...  I think.

Tf1

Here are two photos of the laptop bag I recently purchased off of Etsy.  Love it.. need to buy a neoprene insert but whatever!!

How come people always want what I have or what I did have?  I seriously haven't ever looked at someone and said ohhhh they have this and it's probably really important to them... and I like it so I should have it now.

I have borrowed ideas because I liked them so much, but damn people, at least when I did so I had the courtesy to change it up a little. 

Stay off my heart and stay off my vibe.  Thank you!

Arsenic

El Conquistador blogged it first, and I'm busy, so go read it here.

Writing this made me realize that I need to write more, I have been a little stale.  Today I am moving my desk from my garage to my sewing room... then I can sew and create and write... no more excuses.

To: CJ
Cc: TxK
Subject: RE: Pancake Supper Club #2

Not sure if you made it and we missed you or you didn’t  make it.  As we entered through a purple haze a little after 9:20 there was a steady beat, that continued while we stood there and people got things sorted.  There was barely anyone there and they hardly looked ready, rather than offer to help we decided to get some fresh air and skip the beer and wine in favor of some of the harder stuff.  We exited back through the haze and headed around the corner to the Bit (once the workin’ mans saloon now something about it being a dive bar).  One drink we a listened to a guy express that he liked Seattle because it is where it is ok for a black man to like country and punk, enjoyed the occasional juke box sign-a-longs, even joined in a few ourselves… we realized it was 10 so we headed back.  The haze was still strong and had shifted just slightly.  The same beat droned on.  There was no cleverness.  Chatted with a few folks asked if anyone had seen you and knowing Johnny would be there all night asked him to keep an eye out for you and to let you know we had been and gone back to the bit.  Back to the bit we had a second drink and chatted with some locals.  I love the bit.  I think it was another hour past and we headed out, back around the corner, TxK almost lost her life as a car careened around the corner with no regard for human life.  I hollered “car!” and her life was spared as she darted like a ninja out of the way.  Granted it would have been WAY cooler if she had jumped and flipped and landed on her feet on the hood of the car and gone for a joy ride, but this is real life not an action film, so instead you just have to imagine that is what she did, even though she didn’t.

We contemplated walking back in before climbing into the rig, it was a little past 11 now, and the haze had moved to the sidewalk, and was wafting like the evil black cloud in Lost towards us.  We opted for the Chariot to take out leave of that place.

Hope you had an equally as exciting Friday. 

mai s0x, let me sho u dem.

I have always liked argyle, but never owned any.  I was never comfortable wearing it, I always felt like I was playing dress up and pretending to be something I'm not.  But these just make me smile.  I got them yesterday and couldn't wait to wear them.  So I wore a skirt to work today because it seems fundamentally wrong for such awesome socks to be hidden under jeans.

ARRRRgyle

People keep buying me coffee at the drive through and here's why:

http://www.katu.com/home/video/12684067.html?video=pop&t=a