Total cost: about $7.50
Item: Mini Lucite chest of drawers
Cost: $0.59
So far, it's adorable. Jewelry? Stamps? Change? Hamster dresser? The possibilities are without end.
Item: Wodehouse Playhouse Volume 1 DVD
Cost: $3.98 ($1.99 per disc)
Cost: $3.98 ($1.99 per disc)
Watched a few episodes. Hoped it might be on par with Jeeves and Wooster, but so far, not that great. Thought I might see other Britcom luminaries pop up, but it appears as though the two pictured on the cover portray the principles in each story (Mulliner and Ukridge are covered) and I've yet to recognize any of the bit players. Not as funny as the books, nor as Jeeves and Wooster, but such expectations are unrealistic. By the by: Wooster himself, my displaced-by-time-and-space alternate reality soulmate Hugh Laurie, has a cute little essay on his relationship with Wodehouse's work and what it was like to turn stories that rely so heavily on wordplay into a (great) TV series.
Item: Bag o' yarn
Cost: $1.99
Eight 50-gram skeins of sport weight green-yellow (or is it yellow-green) Sabrina acrylic yarn. Too pretty to pass up. The Crabtree Cause for Paws always has great bags of enough yarn for a large project (like a sweater or afghan), but I have reason to suspect that the people who originally aspired to completing such projects are now dead--that these are the product of an estate sale or perennially raiding a nursing home closet.Item: Sirdar Relaxed Knit pattern
Cost: $0.50
I dig the detailing on the front of this sweater. Cardigans are nice and all, but pullovers are generally a touch classier. We're about to get tacky as hell in a second, though.Item: Columbia-Minerva afghan patterns, MCMLXX
Cost: $0.50
This blindingly awesome booklet contains patterns for four of the most hideous patterns I've ever beheld. Hilarity: The tableaux pictured above (front and back cover) are captioned with the Dickinsonian phrase "In the mood of yesterday, today and tomorrow-- / in colors to blend with a mood-- / to accent a quiet scene--". The "quiet scene" that would match this kaleidoscopic vomit of colors is "drug-fueled macrame bee-turned-orgy." Feel free to use that as a retro-porn premise. I'm on board for set design--I'm SO making the Granny Stars one (the green one on the pink cover).
Let me know if you'd like pdfs of either pattern. I know you're all dying to turn your sofa into a veritable time machine with one of these babies.
Hugh Laurie is so awesome it hurts. (Have you read his novel? My sister read it and enjoyed it very much.)
ReplyDeleteYour lucite chest of drawers is absolutely charming.
Are those blankies knit or crochet? I think I could teach myself to crochet pretty easily...I never feel so safe as when wrapped in an afghan. need to cozy up the new apartment.
ReplyDeleteYou need to netflix "The Civil War," all 11 hours, immediately. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord.
They're crochet, and the patterns will be at my flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalfountains/) within sooness. Get Lekha to teach you how to crochet, or just look it up online. Re Deadwood, just saw the gleet scene. My favorite line from the episode before that one:
ReplyDeleteTrixie: "Where's fuckin' Dolly?"
Dan: "Fuckin'."
Hee! Never gets old.