seventysix: sometimes i fix my mistakes

my sweater is finished. it looks good. can you tell where the hole was?

seventyfive: sometimes i do stupid things

while trying to take pills off of my cardigan with a disposable razor i accidentally cut a hole on the side of my sweater. i love my cardigan, so i have been trying to figure out what to do to fix my stupidity. i have started beading over the hole and on the side in order to cover my repair. i will post pictures once i have finished with it.

seventy four: cork + hot glue = happiness

i keep corks left over from my parents' wild wine nights, i have now saved up several hundred wine corks (over the past couple of years). i am always trying to figure out how i can use the corks as well as the other stuff i have in my crafts room. last week, i decided to cover the inside of a wine box with corks, to make a pseudo cork board for jewelry. it took me a while to cut all the corks and then to glue them, but i think the final product looks pretty good. i didn't like any of the push pins i had available, so i decided to make my own. i grabbed some mismatched beads and some old sewing needles and voila! i can't wait to start using this to keep all my earrings.
i made push pins using needles and leftover beads. i think they look really good. especially in the cork box.

seventythree: time wasters

so, i don't have much new news to report, i have not taken any new pictures, and i have not read/seen anything interesting. since i have very little to share, here are some of the new places i have found to waste my time on the computer:
***mtv's the real world is currently filming in dc. much of the city is against these newcomers, but i am fascinated by them. i think i have a not-so-secret desire to become a member of a future real world house. of course, i might be too old to be one of them. anyway, one of the neighbors of dc's real world house has started a blog: the anti-real world dc.
***spotted: dc summer interns is another great blog. different people contribute stories (most of them hilarious) about the escapades of young interns around town. i don't find the influx of interns in the summer quite as annoying as many of the posters, but i do appreciate their antics.
***for good celebrity gossip and other girly things i love going to the frisky.
***i heart the office and i super heart mindy kaling. she is really funny and has a really clever sense of humor. i wish she updated her blog things i bought that i love more often, but she doesn't.

seventytwo: new pics

seventyone: you shall above all things be glad and young

i love e.e. cummings. here is one of my favorite poems by him:

you shall above all things be glad and young
for if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.
girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
i can entirely her only love

whose any mystery makes any man's
flesh put space on;and his mind take off time

that you should ever think,may god forbid
and (in this mercy) your true lover spare:
for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave
called progress,and negation's dead undoom.

i'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

-e.e. cummings

seventy: i have too many beads

i have not posted in a while, essentially because i have been busy watching 90210 reruns (that is what i am doing right now). i was never allowed to watch it when i was younger, so now i watch it whenever i get the chance. it is a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine.
earlier today i cleaned up my craft room and assessed my collection of beads. i love my beads and i love getting new ones, but i am beginning to think that i should stay away from purchasing any new beads in the near future. it took me quite a while to get everything properly organized (by color and/or size), but now that they are arranged i like to look at my great organizational accomplishment.