exciting things I've done lately
It's so exciting I have to put it behind a cut...

but here's a sneak preview!





I made a knit squirl! http://www.fibertrends.com/viewer/patterns/FT229.htm
At first I had his nose lower down but it made him look mean so I ripped it off (ouch!) and moved it up and now he looks way cuter and more totoro-like. He is self-concious about his ears so I made him a hat. And a scarf. And a messenger bag. But that's it! for now anyway.



My mom came to visit! yay!
We went to Carrboro but we didn't take the camera so it's like it never happened.
We do have proof of going to the state farmer's market, though.








There were some awesome real flowers, but alas, we have no yard. There were some awesome unreal flowers as well, but alas, we have neither yard nor budget. Mom got a few shrubs, as she does in fact have a yard.



Then we ate fish (which I do every now and then....and clearly am very excited to do so)


Tulio just loves to have silly photos taken when he is eating.



Squirl enjoyed some hushpuppies.



We looked at some more flowers and squirl picked out some nice African daisies (Osteospermum hybrid -- lovely, with a blue center!)







Then Tulio was tired so he went home to play with the cats (who were naughty and scratched his sofa and were rewarded for their bad behavior with a brand new scratching post).



Mom and I went to the Scrap Exchange to buy fabulous things like buttons and fabric and suction cups and random small plastic things.

The Squirl befriended a dangerous pinecone (it must have been dangerous, why else would it have been caged?)(his tail was sort of coming off by that point but it has been sewn on again).



He also hung out in some flowers that may or may not have been stolen off of graves



Then mom and I went to Duke Chapel to look at some art (which we were forbidden from photographing but you can look here http://www.hollisart.com/ )

This is Duke Chapel (stupid photobucket will not let me rotate the photo)



Here it is again, with Mr. Duke out front (and my mom photographing me photographing her)



Now, I don't know if these photos adequately capture it, but it is the most ostentatious piece of nouveau riche frou-frou that I have seen recently (outside of, you know, Biltmore manor).

Which makes the fact that it has a statue of Savonarola on the facade particularly humorous. Never mind that pigeons are nesting behind Mr Bonfire-of-the-Vanities head.



Then we were tired so we went to the other example of gross excess, http://www.southernseason.com/, where we saw bakubreath and a nice man gave us chocolate, and we all lived happily ever after, the end.


PS squirl has become something of a mascot of my knitting group, but we can't decide on a name for him!
Earl? Purl? Kromsky? Nutsy? Trogdor the burninator? any ideas?