Little Fun Things

I'm going crazy right now waiting for Bonnaroo to announce this summer's lineup.  Not that I have the money to go, but a girl can dream right?  They're announcing the lineup one at a time over twitter.  That's about 200 artists (maybe more?) one at a time...slowly... over who knows how many hours.  Ugh torture!

Here's just some fun things before I head off to get some homework done....

Pretty Pretty Buttons

These are from Applieque Source's etsy shop.  I love the black ans white.  The print is just the right size for such a small product.  I just wish I had something to use them for.  Instead, I'll just stare at them until someone buy's them I guess.

Found this through LionBrand's Twitter yesterday...



How freakin awesome?!?!  I love amigurumi and even more when they sing to me (even if I don't understand what they're saying).  And well ukulele's are just fun.

The other day, a local blog listed what it takes to be a street vendor in the city.  Apparently, anything covered under the first amendment (free speach, political hooha, etc) can be sold without a permit.  One hat maker gets around that by sewing Obama patches/tags to the inside of her hats. Interesting.  I don't think I want to do that so luckily they also linked some info to actually apply for permits/licenses.  So yea I'm thinking about doing that too.  Thinking about that made me think about etsy, so I worked on created policies and such for the shop.  Haven't decided exactly what to work on for it yet though.  I know knits aren't going to be a big seller on there but I do want to start making stitch markers.  I'm slowly gathering the supplies necessary for making them.  Hopefully soon I'll get to that (you know, after the commissioned hats, a birthday present for The Boy's sister this week, the NLC, the Royal Copenhagen Shawl which I've barely started...)

I'm thinking about making some with pearls.  I have a pearl choker-ish necklace that an ex gave me.  I don't like pearls.  They're not my style.  But would it be too wasteful to use them in making stitch markers?  Hmm...

One last fun little thing found on the Ravelry Lost Group Forums:

How To Make a Sandwich on the Island…

Jack

1. Gather ingredients
2. Point gun at ingredients and shout “HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?”
3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients
4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly

Kate

1. Make separate sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly
2. Take a bite of the peanut butter sandwich, declaring it the best
3. Take a bite of the jelly sandwich, declaring it the best
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 ad infinitum
5. Follow peanut butter or jelly sandwich into grave danger

Sawyer

1. Throw the jar of jelly at wall, sneering “I don’t need no sandwich”
2. Call the mascot on the jar of peanut butter lots of clever nicknames
3. Huff and puff and stomp around and grumble a lot
4. When no one’s looking, make perfect, even, symmetrical peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sit in a corner, enjoying every bite

Locke

1. Sit idly by, believing that the ingredients will find a way to make a sandwich out of themselves
2. Lose faith and make the sandwich anyway
3. Realize that you were the instrument by which the ingredients chose to make a sandwich after all
4. Run around the room and grab everyone’s knives, insisting that their sandwiches will do the same in time

Hurley

1. Make sandwich
2. Eat sandwich
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 ad infinitum

Sayid

1. Procure 23 milligrams of uranium-20
2. Set hadron supercollider to eight megajoules
3. Program a sandwich-making macro using Cobol or Visual Basic
4. Act all tough-like

Desmond

1. Eat sandwich
2. Call the sandwich “brother”
3. Place peanut butter slice over jelly slice
4. Spread jelly on the other slice
5. Spread peanut butter on one slice
6. Take two slices of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly

Ben

1. Steal someone else’s sandwich
2. Claim you coerced them into making the sandwich for you all along
3. Say you’ll tell them everything if they make you another sandwich
4. Stare at them all creepy-like

Libby

1. Lay out plans for one of the most intricate, fascinating, and delicious sandwiches of all time
2. Just as you start making it, get shot

Danielle

1. Apply peanut butter
2. Disappear for eight months
3. Apply jelly
4. Disappear for eight months
5. Eat sandwich

Claire 
1. Mmmmmmm, peanut butter

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse

1. Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
2. Have someone take a bite, then tell them it’s a baloney sandwich
3. Make up a whole bunch of other shit, then say you had planned it all along
4. Buy a few yachts