Mookie Moo

This was the culinary marvel that emerged when we combined camping, beer-drinking, expertly whittled skewers, fire, bacon, cheese, hot dogs and turning thirty. We submitted it to thisiswhyyourefat.com, but it didn’t make the cut.

 

Just finished this hat, it’s not so hot. Maybe if I had dreads or more of a cone head it would work out. But I think it will be making its way to the costume box. If anyone else feels like looking like an astronaut, you can follow this pattern here, but I recommend messing up the gauge so it’s poofy and two sizes too big.

Some college friends of my boyfriend put together this rap video summarizing their 2007. What a feckin’ brilliant idea! 2007, What’d you do? What’d YOU do?

Anyone starting to catch the theme of my titles in the last two posts? Spice girl, Salt n’ Peppa? Get it. Ha. It’s okay, don’t worry, I’m putting a stop to this theme right here, right now. No more. But want to see something equally as tacky as my pop star-themed blog posts? It appears that I have started a salt and pepper shaker collection. Not intentionally. While I am very satisfied with my current supply of salt and pepper shakers, I think the ‘collection’ is also going to stop right here and right now. Collecting is a scary thing. I’ve watched too many relatives perish under avalanches of glass birds, cocktail stirrers, and macrame plant hangers. That being said, Thank you Ingrid, I LOVE the wiener dog s+p. Especially because of this…

The contest is…the first one to guess what I was for Halloween, gets a dollar.

This past weekend I attended Crafty Wonderland at the Doug Fir Lounge in PDX. This happens every 2nd Sunday in the basement of the Doug Fir. It was cool to see so many of Portland’s talented crafters in one place. I bought a necklace made by a local jewelry maker. Highlights of the event (for me) was the shrinky dink earring girl and the needle felting artist Moxie (see felted finger puppets below):

BUT…the best craft of the day was actually found across the street from the craft fair at Bombshell Vintage: Barbie face necklaces…

I think this cow was made for me. The perfect Mookie Moo — paper mache, useless, hilarious — this could possibly be the most appropriate content for this blog that I have come across thus far. This cow moos to remind me that I have strayed from the original “useless” craft theme of this blog. Originally this was dedicated to craft that was made either for the pleasantly mind-numbing process of crafting or for crafts made with the intention of making somebody laugh.  I don’t think that very many of my posts have followed that set of criteria. Which is okay with me if it’s ok with you. But occasionally, like tonight, I would like to bring the focus back to the ridiculous, pointless, and humorous.

I drive a ‘94 Toyota Tercel. I am very familiar with the storage limitations of a compact sedan. And I have gotten creative with ropes and bungees, attempting to employ my bike rack for larger items such as couches and armoires. But this woman’s strategy to increase her car’s storage space goes beyond my creativity and understanding. If I’m doing the math right, I think she’s added about 117MB of trunk space to her Honda, assuming that each floppy disk contains about 300K of storage and there are around 400 disks. Someone should tell her that a small 2″ x .5″ 365 MB memory stick as a hood ornament would have given her 3 times as much room. Regardless, that still doesn’t resolve the problem of how to fit an armoire into 365MB.

Some people call this a Dumbo Octopus and claim it can be found flapping around in Monterrey Bay, but I’m pretty convinced it’s an alien.

Awesome song created by Main Sequence for my birthday last year. He mixed in English as a Second Languange tapes, including a lot of hilarious, classically useless sentences like, “I’m unlocking something”. I’ll give you $1 if you’ve ever said that. No wonder English is such a hard language to learn!