siff movie #4 garbage dreams was so good. hopefully this movie gets wider distribution because i highly recommend you watch it.

thursday night craft night went to the columbia city art gallery to help artist/crafter, mandy greer crochet pieces of a blue stream that she will be putting together as a larger installation at camp long in west seattle called mater matrix mother. i can't wait to see the finished product. the coolest part about being involved in mandy's art installation is #1 she got the community involved by letting us contribute our smaller pieces to make the installation and #2 she taught us how to crochet and i must admit crocheting was so much easier than i thought.

julia and claudia learning to crochet with artist mandy greer

sooo easy! for someone that has been knitting for almost 2 years and finished a handful of projects, crocheting was frustratingly easy!

and so friday morning when brian and i hopped on a plane for the shortest trip ever to north carolina, i brought some yarn and a pattern. i wanted to prove to myself that knitting can be a weekend project and still be ultra rewarding. so one roundtrip flight to north carolina later and i made a pair of gloves. yes, the gloves may look familiar to you and that is because i have knitted them before. the first pair i lost two days after knitting them, this pair i plan to hold on to for a while longer.

knitted gloves, pattern from knitty

still flying

well our flight was delayed on saturday evening thus making us miss our connecting flight in philly. once we figured out we would not fly out that night or the next day, our minds reeled. where will we stay!? we cannot go back. so instead we crashed with our buddies bart and laurie who live in north raleigh. our gracious hosts gave us great company and provided fun television watching on their sweet big flat screen tv with digital cable. i was happy.

highlights from the better half of the trip include:


rocking chairs at the charlotte international airport

bart and laurie - rummy and football on sunday

knitted cable gloves - i still can't believe i taught myself how to cable

chik-fil-a - yummy nuggets and sweet tea

flip cup at bart and laurie's house

i can't wait to see friends and be in my apartment. it's hard to believe that new year's eve is this wednesday. yikes! i better start that to-do list for 2009.