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You are a Rose:

You are creative, sensual, passionate, and bold.
You pour your heart into everything that you
do. Alluring and gifted with strong sex appeal,
you very easily draw people in with your animal
magnetism.

Symbolsim: The rose has always been a flower
heavily loaded with symbolism. In general it
symbolizes desire, passion, beauty, and
enchantment.


Which Flower are You?
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New camera!

Super excitement!

I'd love to show a photo of something new but

a) I haven't really crafted much lately (besides those buillote covers which I just realised I never got a photo of, unfortunately) and

b) it's too dark to photograph anything. How is it possible to keep a blog like this if you are never home during the day ?!

list for friday

1. finish shopping
2. call uncle
3. finish embroidering
4. free time.

I was just going to write about how I wished we would have a Christmas tree here. Then my roommate and I started talking and she suggested we go and get one tomorrow! How exciting. I'm glad she feels festive like me. I have a string of lights and we can get some decos from Zellers. How excellent!

I have not been doing much creative lately, as I've been working working working so much and besides that, exams. But today I finished my last essay, and I won't complain if I start working a few less hours.

Anyway, craft-wise... well, I have some embroidery to finish up. Last night I tried to knit an ear-warmer but I got too distracted thinking about all the ways I could do it that before I knew it it was time for bed. I think I'll just save the yarn, get a bit more, and make a touque. I lost mine and am borrowing one of Tanya's, but it doesn't suit me - it's the type snowboarders wear and white. I think I'll paint a little bit tonight, since I've got some time.

I didn't get around to sending cards this year. I thought December would be my free month but I guess I have been working an awful lot.

Next saturday I've earmarked as my day to go shopping. I just need a few things yet. Though I must be crazy to go out on that day! But when else do I have? Last year I made nearly all my gifts. Oh well, there's always next December!

The good news, for all you blog lovers out there (and for me, of course!) is that I am definitely getting a camera from my dad. I don't know what kind but he keeps telling me about his many adventures in camera perusal. I'm so excited! ! ! Every day I see so many things I want to photograph. I wish I would have had it in fall too, but winter is also beautiful.

Here is what I am up to lately, without photo documentation.

1. Starting to learn Swedish
2. Studying Italian
3. Writing an essay entitled "Dr Satrelove, or, How I learned to love Existentialism (But not stop worrying)"
4. Reading Chekhov, some more.
5. Embroidering some "buillote" covers with moons and stars for my mother and aunts, as demonstrated in the fall issue of Marie Claire Idées.
6. Thinking about the scarf I will knit soon. I want to make a big, goofy, homemade looking one. Thick yarn, all garter stitch, striped with the ends poking out all over.
7. I want to make a new toque too (lost mine) and some lovikka mittens!
8. Also I have recently read Brenda Ueland's book of essays, "Strength to your Swordarm". I just love her! I need my own copy of "If You Want to Write."

And more more more. There's always so much I want to do! Hopefully after my exams are over, in a few days, I'll finally get to do some painting from ideas that have been floating around in my head.
And get some sewing done!

Oh, and I want to make my blog better! But not pay for it. How to do this?

photos!

Of my little pink sweater. I hope they will not be too big or too many

The Back

The Front (sorry for the view up my nose, I'm too lazy to crop it just now)

And me looking terribly ridiculous.
As the pattern is called 'Sports Classic Pullover', touted for it's freedom of movement, I really should have posed with a golf club or tennis racket if I wanted to show it in use!

I wear it all the time!

My computer was broken. I tried to get it fixed. It was gone for six weeks. And now I have a new one! And so much internet to catch up on.

This is what I must do:
1. Write Italian exam
2. Write philosophy exam

When this is done I will be free to

3. Finish the sewing projects in my box, such as that grey skirt, striped t-shirt, charmeuse blouse and blue skirt.
4. Paint big painting of scene in Dorset
5. Paint two other big paintings from thoughts still in my head.

Tonight I must

6. Embroider with silver threads
7. Stop being lazy and call someone and go out

I think studying is written off for tonight. And it's so cold, and the internet has so much to show me. I don't think I'll do much else tonight.

I am very worried. I had a delicious salmon terrine for dinner and left the string from it beside me on the plate. My kitty came to lick the plate, to chew the meat a little bit, and I thought I'd know if she started to nibble the string and take it away from her, like when she chews my knitting. But I was too distracted by the internet and she ate the whole string! I don't think string is good for cats. And it was a long one! Oh dear.

I switched to a project on 5mm and I feel like I'm knitting with crayons.

Google says...

Dawn needs a REALITY CHECK
Dawn needs concept artists
Dawn needs to make a decision
Dawn needs a tripod
Dawn needs avatar gear

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FINISHED!

Who would have thought it could ever happen! I finished my little pink sweater!

Pictures forthcoming.

I want this real bad:

Life changing news!

I've decided that my lifetime desire for art school should be listened to. I'm leaving Concordia after this school year. First I'll do the one year Art Fundamentals programme at Sheridan college in Ontario and then decide where to go from there. I'm EXTREMELY excited to go in a different direction with school but I'll be so sad to leave Montreal. Unfortunately there's just nothing here school-wise that fits with what I want. Also, change is good. It'll be nice to be around my old dear friends and to discover a new city. I'm getting really desperate for a camera now, to record everything I love about this city before I leave. Hopefully I'll be back. Mostly, though, I'm more excited than sad. I'm very happy with the thought of taking my future in my own hands. It's almost a bit odd to imagine that I can have whatever career I want, even in the arts. I've sort of been drifting for awhile here, so it's great to have new goals and a new sense of direction.

In other exciting news, I finished the ribbing on the back of my sweater. The front shouldn't take long, I just need to get down to it.

Also, it snowed today.

I finally finished knitting the pieces for The Slowest Sweater in the World. Now I just need to add 5" of ribbing to the back and front, and do the finishing. Woot!

I'm getting tagged

TEN YEARS AGO: I was in grade five. I was in a split class, adored my teacher and had discovered the concept of politics and that it was fun to write. That was a pretty good year, come to think of it.

FIVE YEARS AGO: I was fifteen and odd and a little rebel.

ONE YEAR AGO: I was getting ready to move back to Montreal. According to my lj I had just discovered ebay. I'm in pretty much the same place, sadly.

FIVE SNACKS: Wasa with cheese and tomatoes under the broiler, egg matzah with brown sugar under the broiler, berries, ice cream, Chocolate bars.

FIVE SONGS I KNOW ALL THE WORDS TO: Make that five albums: I can sing all of Abbey Road, Let It Be, Houses of the Holy, The Boy with the Arab Strap and most of the White Album.

FIVE THINGS I WOULD DO WITH $100 MILLION: Set up my mum and dad, pay off my Visa and student loans, and stop ever worrying about money, which is the source of most of my concerns. Oh, and invest.

FIVE PLACES TO RUN AWAY TO: Scotland, the Netherlands, out West, New York, Toronto.

FIVE THINGS I WOULD NEVER WEAR: Ponchos or anything really ill-fitting.

FIVE FAVORITE TV SHOWS: That 70s Show, Seinfeld, The Daily Show, SCTV, Family Guy.

FIVE BIGGEST JOYS: Dancing, going to the cottage, a nice snack, sewing, listening to records.

FAVORITE TOYS: My ipod, sewing machine, laptop, Barbie's Dream House.

I'm on to the neck shaping of that damn sweater. It's the home stretch!

Checking in

Hello Internet,

Just a quick post to keep on top of things. I still don't have a camera, though I told my woes to my dad and he offered to buy me a new one. SO sweet of him but I don't know... it seems such an extravagance and such a selfish one, that I wouldn't feel right if he did. So we shall see.

At any rate, the sweater is ALMOST done. Just the front sleeve section and finishing (to be honest that does include 5" of ribbing on the front and back) to go. I'm aiming to have it done for the middle of next week. Next I want to start of the Astrodome hat and scarf from the new Knitty, and of course my Charlie Brown sweater. But I need a quick project first, all this small gauge is getting to me.

What else... I have a few sewing projects that need finishing, including my bathing suit & second skirt from that grey-black suiting. Working at the fabric store is torture, there's so much more I'd like to do. The only good thing is that they make actually buying any fabric for yourself into such a hassle, it acts as a restraint.


Tonight I started sketching out a big painting from this photo I took in Dorset.

Well I suppose that's it. I am obscenely tired, as I still have a cold- and would like to get well at some point in the near future- and so it's an early saturday night here at No. 7.

You see I am trying to find a new name for this place. Jo's new apt is referred to as the House of Spontenaiety (too tired to spell, for shame) and when Jen lived here we called it the House of Sloth. With Tanya that clearly no longer applies, so we must find a new one.

PS the bloody cat persists in eating my beautiful plant. And here I'd heard philodendrons were poison to them.

I took back my lovely camera today. It was just making me feel too guilty.

Yesterday I bought the most beautiful philodendron at Young Florists on Greene. It's huge and so rich and healthy. I tried to get a photo of it but the batteries in the camera were already dead. It's really delicious. I should paint it.

Self-Portrait Tuesday

I might as well get in on the bandwagon. My pocket. I was just fooling around yesterday and took it. I'm tired today and don't feel like going through the whole process of taking and uploading anything clever. I do like these pants a lot; they're new.

I'm feeling really guilty having spent so much on this camera and might take it back. Triste.

Camera!

Look! I finally got a camera!


This is the yarn for a Charlie Brown sweater. 97 cents a skein only at Lewiscraft in Ontario and it's a really soft sport weight acrylic.


Then, a little bit of my pink sweater. It doesn't look like much of anything at the moment so I thought I'd just show a corner of it.



And for good measure, a shirt I sewed to wear to work yesterday. The fabric was 2.50$ since it was a piece from the window display. It's cute but I think I'll give it to Jody. It's a bit small in the bust for me. Also, in real life the colours are better. More golden.

These photos are real bad. I'll try harder next time.

it is dull, I warned you!

Still plugging away on the "sports pullover." I'm a little way up the back but haven't worked on it much since last week. It's so pretty though, I can't wait to wear it. And tomorrow I might have a picture of the famous ohm scarf!