Tonal Tuesday: Road to Adventure

It might not be the high road, but it’s certainly going places.

Tonal Tuesday: Sunbleached Tropicana

The sun washed all the bright colors out. Faded into a beautiful soft mess.

Long Beach Flea Market: coral, key & insect

Loved the tiny flash of bright coral against the pearl-ish beads and iron key and this brass insect brooch. He would be perfect perched on a lapel or maybe a hat?

Long Beach Flea Market: bright colored extra long necklaces.

These brightly-beaded necklaces caught my eye. Loved all the colors and how well they would layer together.

Long Beach Flea Market: mannequin vogue and shiny rhinestones

A slightly creepy vintage mannequin head and hands along with some shiny clip on earrings….

Long Beach Flea Market: sparkly rhinestone brooches

Sparkly!

Faux Ombre Stripe Baby Blanket

The last of the baby blankets for a little while at least! This one was fun; the mom-to-be requested pink and ombre. Since I wasn’t going to knit and then dye it myself, this was the compromise I came up with. I really hope she likes it!

Glamour shot!

Instead of my go-to Brava Bulky; I went with the worsted weight on this blanket. I used the worsted weight yarn, double-stranded to give the same bulky weight as before but also so I could visually blend the two colors together. I used two strands of the rose color, then transitioned to one strand of rose with one strand of plum (Fairy Tale) and finally two strands of plum to finish it off.

Far and near

It’s probably the largest baby blanket I have completed to date. I’m happy with the color progression and am thinking about doing more like this, in different colors but the same blending technique.

Blending.

It’s just a simple garter stitch which means it’s super squishy and very stretchy. It’s dang cozy!

Faux Ombre Stripe Baby Blanket – Zoomin’ in on that blending.

Tonal Tuesday: pocket full of sunshine

oh yes…best freeze frame ever!

Printables
To get the printable May 2013 calendar, click on the picture below. Save as to your computer.

Printer-Friendly Hot May Calendar

Printer-Friendly Cold May Calendar

Desktop Wallpaper

To get the full size May 2013 desktop version, click on the images below. You have a choice of the normal wallpaper with the calendar or the purely typographic one. Pick your poison!
Click to zoom in and then right click & save as to your computer.

May Desktop Wallpaper – Hot Calendar

May Desktop Wallpaper – Hot Typography

May Desktop Wallpaper – Cold Calendar

May Desktop Wallpaper – Cold Typography

iPhone Wallpaper
To get the iPhone version, right click on the image below.
Click to zoom in and then right click & save as to your computer.

Hot May iPhone Wallpaper

Cold May iPhone Wallpaper

Pretty green glass tea cups and sauces at the Chapman Antique Mall.

There were so many lovely piece of brightly-colored, delicate glassware. Makes my heart swoon! This brilliant bottle green is looooovely. And the tiny etched flowers! Be still my heart.

More pretty green glass at the Chapman Antique Mall.

More pretty glassware in green. A little more olive in this set. I especially like the bobbles on the tea cups in this set.

Cats! Cats! Cats!

The crazy cat lady in me cannot resist kitten themed items! That clock always makes me think of Back to the Future and I’d love to have on in my house someday.

Pretty gingerbread house in Orange

The houses in Old Towne Orange are so gorgeous! There are so many different styles of architecture in the area; it’s really wonderful to see all the different eras represented in one area. Each house is unique and beautiful. I love the gingerbread trim on this one and the pretty color palette they chose.

Multi Stripe Baby Blanket in blues

Knitpicks Brava Bulky strikes again! I ordered the dark blue and the turquoise yarn first and wanted to make a striped blanket out of those two colors but discovered a few inches in that I wouldn’t have enough yarn. I went to order more of the dark blue but it was out of stock for months! I gave up on my original idea and incorporated white to help make up the yardage.

Glamour shot!

I decided to do skinny stripes and carry the secondary color up the sides to avoid weaving in a billion ends. Finishing is usually the downside of any project, weaving in all the ends can be tedious so the less of that, the better.

Multi Stripe Baby Blanket Far and Near

For the darker stripe, I switched yarn on the wrong side to add extra stripes formed by the blips and then switched back to the right side for the turquoise so all the blips would be on the back again.

So So Sooooo many stripes

This little dude is headed for a darling Blizzard baby. She’s a tiny peach!

Tonal Tuesday: mokey vision

Mokey love.

Long Beach Flea Market: a peachy dress

Treasures and visual delights abound. I took a gazillion photos so I’m going to split them up for a couple posts. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. This floaty peach dress caught my eye.

Long Beach Flea Market: keys

If you hadn’t figured it out by now, I’ve got a thing for keys.

Long Beach Flea Market: pair of velvet mustard chairs

I wanted to take this pair of velvet mustard chairs home with me!