Eucalyptus & other stuff

First, finally pictures of my Noro scarf in progress! I guess I burned out about 3/4 of the way thru the first half. Haven't worked on it in a while although it's not really scarf weather anymore here in P-town.

Feathers and fan lace Noro scarf

There is a teeny tiny sprout in my eucalyptus starter! It is about half an inch tall and the leaves are nearly microscopic, and it's a sort of redish and greenish hue. For the most part I left it in my bathroom because it stays warmer in there, but on sunny days I'd try to put it in my kitchen window. I think I'm going to designate it my indoor plant, maybe try to train it to be a bonzai tree?

that teeny tiny seedling!

So I just read the back of my morning glory seed packet and the flowers don't bloom for 75 days or until late summer. Meanwhile the leaves themselves are getting prettier...But it was left outside for a while, and I noticed a dusty white spot on one of the leaves...too much sun? I took it back inside.

Mostly the one in the upper right looks questionable...

The Anise looks good, getting big, but checked the chamomile yesterday and it was limp and all floppy. I brought in the chamomile for most of the day yesterday, and watered it outside last night. Still looks sad today tho.

Anise

Chamomile :(

Sage, rosemary and thyme! Lookin good!

Most of the succulent terrariums are doing alright, except the hens and chicks in the coffee jar outside don't seen to be doing well. I don't know, maybe the colder mornings or too much sunlight or too much/not enough water. Thinking of getting a couple more jars and breaking it up into more gift terrariums.

 

My new favorite terrarium, the hens & chicks in the really tall glass.

Pics and Pokey

Couple more updates!
My camera & I have been seeing a lot of each other lately:

Slouchy Hat

New work-in-prog. Pardon the marshmallows... :D

And meet my new friend...

Pokey

Pokey is made of Fun Clay or play clay or something. I am desperate to figure out how to make the neat little octopus things I've been seeing around lately. Anyway this is my practice clay before I move on to something like polymer. I dont think I am supposed to bake it...maybe I could make a little stop-motion video someday!

Cowl

So Sunday I finished the cowl...(the work in progress from the last blog)

And it's ok, but I think I cast on too many stitches cuz it's not as tight as I want it. I loved the pattern so I cast on another yesterday morning at work (Pics later the slouchy hat in the post above this one), and decided to make it a hat, finished it today and started another! So that will be my Xmas thing this year, lacy slouchy hats. The one I finished today will be for a friend of mine who has a big head and dreaddies, cuz it is pretty wide still.
I think I'm going to need some mannequin heads if I'm going to go the hat route again this winter. I think I saw some at the House of Vintage...

a week later and...

I haven't forgotten about my new blog, I swear! It's just that now I've started it I am a little...worried that I wont know how to entertain people... Oi, how self-conscious of me.
So I'll start with some pretty pics of crafty stuff from last week to make this more interesting!

Need

 Ever since I learned how to knit about 5 years ago now it has been my main type of craft. Before that I was into sewing and de/re-constructing clothing, but alas was never very good at it. Funny, but I was never into yarn, sweaters, or scarves or any of that really. No interest in socks or shawls, but I began to see women around me knitting more and more. I started to stray from my sewing craft boards and found people who successfully knitted sweaters, hats and scarfs, and while I knew it couldn't be easy, it seemed simpler than getting my crappy sewing machines to work.
I think the real appeal of crafts for me is, one) a sense of creation, and two) a determined individualistic need to make crap myself. So even tho it takes longer to make a simple scarf than say, a skirt from a couple tee shirts, the finished object (FO, by the way) looks better, doesn't usually involve me screaming at a stubborn piece of machinery, and best of all, can be done anywhere, really everywhere! On the bus, at work (approx half my day is downtime), on the couch (it's much quieter during a movie, for instance, than any sewing machine I have ever used), road trips (most of my first FO was worked on in the car between Dela-Where? and Portland,Or).
Since I still have to look at my work I tend to put on a lot of movies I've seen a few times, (or sometimes a few hundred times) like today, working with a candy cane striped wool (think blue raspberry) cowl and watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which to be honest I can only get away with when I'm home alone...

Candy striped wool, lacy cowl, still in progress