April 06, 2006
five
Yesterday the girl was five!
According to Maeve, five means:
1. you get to drive
2. you get to play with stuff like Barbies
3. you get to be line leader at school
4. you get to stay up real late and drink coffee
5. you get to wear weird shoes
I'm not sure what she means about the weird shoes bit, but the rest of it sounds right on!
And yes, five means your dad takes you to the ultra cool toy store to pick out something fun that you would like and you pick out the stripper-iest Barbie that has ever been made just to torment your poor mom who doesn't even get to stay up late drinking coffee even though she's nearly 5 (times 7 plus 3).
Yesterday being the fifth, sibyl tagged me with a "five on the fifth" meme. A day late, as usual, but a bandwagoneer all the same.
1. Five minutes to yourself: how would you spend them, ideally? Sitting in the sun and knitting
2. Five bucks to spend right now: how would you spend it? a movie matinee
3. Five items in your house you could part with, right now, that you hadn't thought of already? dust buster, eyeliner, VCR, a giant box of books, some cooking paraphrenalia
4. Five items you absolutely, positively could never part with in your house? craft supplies, nice soap, DVD player, real Coke, good lotion
5. Five words you love? they're all curse words.
If you've been wondering where I've been, the huband spends enormous amounts of time out of town during the spring and the name of my own personal game is Wear The Kids Out (with the subtitle So I Can Knit After Bedtime). So we picnic and we go to the park (sometimes more than once a day) and what all of this means to my craft life is - well, that there isn't much of a craft life at all. Hell there isn't even time to sneak in a timely blog post. So what you're getting here is 10 free minutes bribed with cookies and the promise of park time right after.
If you've also been wondering where the hell that king quilt is, I can assure you that even though little is being said about it, much (except this week) has been accomplished. It has been laid out, pieced together, the back has been pieced, the binding has been pieced, cut down to size and pressed, and it is awaiting layering, basting, quilting and eventually binding. I've been listening to alex anderson's quilting podcast and recently heard a great one that included an intereview with quilter extrordinaire paula reid who explained how to quilt even giant things without using a frame. Her stuff has been so helpful that I actually look forward to quilting this. This is a big honkin' quilt. 110" x 110" and just the back and top are incredibly heavy, and I can't imagine what adding the batt will do. Wish me giant amounts of luck as I quilt this monster.
In the last of my news, I've joined Claire's crewel-a-long, a group blog that I'll join as soon as I get the afghan that I'm working on finished. I've wanted to try crewel for a while now, and this will give me a good excuse. Will the other real crewel alongers laugh at me as I try a kit that I got for Christmas? Will I fall flat on my face and they all crewelly make fun of me? Tune in to the crewel-a-long blog for the horrible suspense of it all!
xo
P.S. - Tag to my blog friends - emily, nicole, cranky!
Posted by Angela at April 6, 2006 03:30 PMWell, I just put a hold on that fancy New Crewel book at the library because I need to know what this is all about. Not that I will ever finish anything in that craft... I have the Denise Schmidt book out now and am actually reading it.
Your Maeve is awfully cute. I think it's really the Pinkest Barbie in the store, not so much the stripperiest. My mom always told me the Peaches & Cream Barbie was super ugly and I totally loved her, and I was way older than 5 at the time.
Posted by: Daphne at April 6, 2006 03:49 PMOh, I must gently but firmly disagree with Daphne; that is a totally a stripper Barbie. Once upon a Christmas, my girlie got one of those Barbie kits with the 3 tiers that you decorate with frosting so it looks like a Scarlett-O'Hara-on-acid southern belle gown. It came complete with a doll to put into the top and was a gift from my aunt-in-law. She tells me that when she was showing it to her husband, a man of less than few (read; none) words, he eyed it and asked, "And why are you getting a 5-year-old a Barbie who jumps out of a cake?
Happy five to Maeve and happy ten minutes to you.
Posted by: kt at April 6, 2006 10:18 PMyou could try to turn Maeve on to Groovy girl dolls, but then she would have to invest in a whole new wardrobe. They are not quite so...torpedo-ish.
And your kidding me that post only took ten minutes! I can't even find 4 working batteries for my camera so I can download some photos in 10 minutes. Let alone blog about gorgeous quilts, kids and crewel. Are you sure you're not staying up late drinking coffee? ;) Thanks for teh crewel along plug.
Posted by: Mim at April 6, 2006 10:45 PMAt my house, all Barbies are instantly stripper barbies because they can't seem to keep their clothes on, ever!
I haven't forgotten that I said I would send you something a while back and I have added to my collection so there's more to send now.
I am thrilled for the Crewel Along link--I'm an embroiderer at heart and I totally want to join this one!
Posted by: Heels at April 7, 2006 09:27 AMOh but the Barbie in a cake is totally different and undeniably a member of the sex industry... unless you're five. Thank goodness five-year-olds don't know the phrase "sex industry," and here's hoping "weird shoes" aren't "glass shoes like the strippers be wearin'" (per some old SNL skit).
Posted by: Daphne at April 7, 2006 01:10 PMI am so, so rude.
First, HAPPY DAY to your 5 yr old girl! I think the 5 yr olds have all the fun.
Second, your quilt is on its way to full-on fabulousness. It's just lovely.
Posted by: Heels at April 7, 2006 03:13 PMHappy 5 Maeve. The dawning of maturity, obviously.
It is incredibly crewel of you not to post pix of the pieced-up quilt top. You are The New Cruel. xoxo Kay
Posted by: Kay at April 8, 2006 11:24 PM