Friday, May 4, 2012

Being Silly and Dressing Up

My friends and I decided to go to the midnight showing of The Avengers together, and man, I loved it.

It was a superb action flick,  with plenty of great fight sequences, witty one liners, and cool heroes that we all had an interest in.  More amazingly, it was really funny and there was character development on part of several of the heroes.

I highly recommend seeing it in theaters if you can

Since we were  going as a large group we decided to up the ante a little bit and dress the part.

We're all poor college students so we focused on a few key elements to bring across our characters with out having to spend too much.



Josh on the left simply cashed in for the little kid's helmet and hammer* from the Avenger's toy series at Walmart.  We pinned a red towel to his shoulders to really pull the look together.

I simply borrowed a bow from Taylor's younger siblings and wore all black to pull off the movie version of night hawk. I actually wore makeup and high-heeled leather boots too, you can't see any of that, so I thought I should inform you that I put that much effort into being a girl.

Gladys also had an easy costume in Black Widow, as all she had to do was curl her hair, wear all black, and borrow some toy gun holster's from a contest commercial Josh and his roommate's shot a while ago.

Ryan** bought a helmet from the surplus army supply store up in Orem and Gladys constructed the shield from scavenged cardboard and a dollar-store hula-hoop.  The mask came from a Renaissance fair Taylor attending back in Middle School.

I'll have to load a better picture as soon as possible, but Taylor actually has a severely awesome home-made arc reactor underneath his shirt.  He also happens to have mascara on his face.

Mariah pulls of a nice Pepper pots in unseen stylish heels and an unworn red jacket. 

As a bonus here's Gladys posing with a set of severely creepy Godzilla sized chipmunks in the Birthday room of the theater. 

Look at their eyes.

LOOK AT THEM!

it looked focused on my phone, promise.

* It was way too fun to hit things with a giant foam hammer, you should try it.

** Glady's boyfriend, he's cool.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

New Growth

It's not much to see yet,  but this is the latest thing that I'm overly excited about.


I got a wine glass from the local thrift store the other day and decided to stick some green onion bulbs into it.

It's been two days and already they're growing back.  I have so many ideas of how to expand upon this theme that I'm not sure what would be the best to follow through on.

My only real problem is that the closest plant nursery isn't quite  within walking distance.

New Things

I've been crocheting ever since I was a little girl, so it was something of a shock and a delight when I downloaded a pattern from Raverly and discovered that I had no idea how to pull it off.

I had never even heard of the Tunisian stitch before.

It even require a completely separate hook.


Despite my instantaneous excitement I only just got around to trying this new genre of awesome.  I  started off with a simple scarf, with an edge to add some interest.

I was planning on adding there  some unorthodox pizazz as well but the idea got away from me and turned into something stupid.

The stitch itself is really easy, and I simply adore the variation of line on the opposing sides. The fabric works up a little stiff, but it doesn't make the scarf uncomfortable.

I'm already excited to try fancier things.

For instance,  did you know that some afghan hooks come with double ends?