and so it has been a month

since my last post...  don't say i didn't warn you.

lots of bullshit has been going on with my job, including, but not limited to, the bistro closing for two weeks without notice, and severe cuts to my hours, so job-hunting is taking up a bunch of my time.

i've also been working on music a bunch...  with nothing to show for it...  but anyway.  my mom got me this:

for chrismukkah, and my dad got me these:

so of course planning new things to make has been driving me insane.  having no money (STILL, WTF) does not help much, but i have a gift certificate to jimmybeanswool, so maybe if i stop drooling over sweaters i'd like to knit and pick some smaller projects, i could at least have something to work on.  trying to pick the first sewing pattern to break in my new machine seems impossible as well, so far it's between four or five patterns...

a vintage vogue dress,

this simplicity x project runway dress,

a simplicity skirt pattern i've had for probably 5 years,

and a few patterns from twinkle sews, which would be too annoying to try to find images of and i am too lazy for scanning right now.  but i can't afford fabric right now anyway, so i mean, i have time to think about it.  but OMG skynet-free hello kitty sewing machine guise. 
♡o｡.(✿ฺ｡ ✿ฺ)

but the access to seemingly endless knitting patterns on the internet is making it hard to decide what to make first (on my new turbo clicks aaahhhh ♡＾▽＾♡) but the spending limit of the gift certificate will help with that.  hopefully.

also i don't have a digital camera anymore (did i already mention that?  probably...) so you may have to suffer through phone camera pix soon (i actually think my phone camera might be better than my parents' old digital camera, megapixels-wise).  but also i might be moving soon-ish, so yeah.

until next time...

OH HEY I'M BLOGGING

sup y'all.  so yeah i warned you that i'm the worst blogger ever.
BUT my excuse is my ridiculous new job, which means $$$MONEY$$$ (yay!!!!!) but way less free time (booooo), and getting way underpaid and being tired a lot.

anyway, i'm super excited about the toulouse pullover from the winter issue of knitscene:

 it's basically perfect.  and i found out (using mad calculator skillz) that for a mere $10 extra, i can use aslan trends royal alpaca (yummmmm) instead of the classic elite mountaintop vista.  i can't waiiiiit to get started.

also i actually feel like making gifts for people this year...  bradley is of course getting his obnoxious lime green socks...  and then basically everyone else is getting bunny slippers (tiny owl knits's hopsalots).  trying to pick colors for everyone is so hard!  and i don't want everyone to end up with something they hate...  this is why i'm a selfish knitter!  ugh.  at least the pattern's easy.

the teen bitch denim jacket is coming along nicely...  i've already dyed it once, but the black dye just made it a darker navy/purply blue (i used rit dye).  so i'm probably going to dye it again, maybe using a higher-quality dye?  if anyone actually reads this thing, i'd love some suggestions!  anyway, the patch design is going well, i'm just not sure how else i'd want to embellish the jacket.  i made a pin already, i'm not sure if i want to put some spikes or studs on the shoulders, or spray some bleach onto black lace and sew that on, or sequins, or what.  oh, and we're slowly starting to work on music and whatnot.

bleh bleh bleh i have to go to work soon.  hopefully i can remember to post stuff more regularly.  i guess when i actually have stuff to write about?