The Knife and the Scissors

I don't know why this is so funny to me. Marc Johns has some "serious" drawings and they always make me laugh inside.. in a weird way.

France

No, I did not go to France, but my awesome friend did. Notre Dame! :)

Mice!

So it's going to be my dad's birthday, but we decided to celebrate it a little early. Since his zodiac sign is a mouse, we made a bunch of little mice to hide around the house. We planned to make 52, since he's turning 52, but there wasn't enough time to for that! And he didn't really look for the mice anyway, but it was fun.

the mouse I gave my friend

the mouse my mom added eyes and whiskers to

we put him on top of the trap, where my dad catches real mice

mice in the pantry 

mice in teacups

mice chillin out with a monkey

more mice in cups

mice reading my dad's books

mice playing with the Wii 

A huge wrapping paper mouse checking out some files

another huge wrapping paper mouse playing
board games

Mini Golf at the Museum

Today I went mini golfing at the National Building Museum with my good archie friend! It features 12 courses designed by architecture firms around here, including Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and STUDIOS Architecture/ OLIN. Sounds like it'd be a fun charette type project/ design build type thing.

Check out the site and check out the museum if you have a chance!

SOM's, inspired by topography 

This one's inspired by Daedalus's Journey
Looove the concrete, plus the golf balls bounce on it

this one was practically impossible...

Pottery!

This post is long overdue. I found the pictures to the pottery we made from the Snake Kiln post. They had a DIY make your own pottery on the wheel thing, so we all tried it. AND I SOOO WANT TO DO IT AGAIN, so I've decided I will take pottery lessons when I have the chance.

The feeling of that cold, wet clay shaping and spinning through your fingers is a rather spiritual one for me.

I had too much fun

all the little bowl thingers we made! I made the two bowls on
the far left + the plate.  

The plate I made. There aren't any close ups of the bowls..

Later, they fired the clay and painted it for us! Then, they sent them to my cousins and they actually look real good. I'll see if I can get pics of them.

Lord Nibbler

For the past few weeks I have been working on this stuffed animal of Lord Nibbler, from the show, Futurama. I followed this pattern on Ravelry by Elizabeth Jarvis for anyone who's interested/has a Ravelry account. 

Basically Lord Nibbler was found on the planet, Vergon 6 by the delivery crew. He is and acts rather adorably as the crew's pet, even though he is able to speak and is quite intelligent. As Earth's ambassador from his home planet, he has saved Earth a few times, but erased people's memories so that they don't remember and still treat him as a cute creature. 

He will eat ANYTHING. Viciously.

He also excretes dark matter, which weighs a ten thousand pounds and can be used to power the space ship. 

Well that's the basic introduction to the little feller. Here is my knitting of him! 

before he was born

before the cords were cut

Lord Nibbler on his throne

eating yarn

And today I gave him to my very good friend! :)

TP

Guess what everybody? I'm feeling a lot better.

..and I also revived my love for naan. Also Malai Kofta is amazing too.

These pictures are from websites, but just so you know, my friend and I will make a store with all the good things in the world-- naan, ice cream and yarn. -- THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE FUTURE. LOOK OUT FOR "ALL THE GOOD THINGS IN THE WORLD" STORE NEAR YOU! 

and I also found out that TP stands for toilet paper!!!

This picture is also from a website, but wow..