Last days of summer

I hadn't had the oppurtunity to hang out with my friend Chelsea over the summer.
So when I found out that she was yet again in one of my psyc classes, we decided to hang out after. It being such a lovely wednesday afternoon, we decided to do said hanging at the beach.
Peeps, you will never believe this, but my dock ring was still there! Well over a week later! I was pleasently shocked.
Anyway, we hung out on a rock and watched the tide come in. Seiously, I need to go again when the tide is out, it's much cooler.

I decided to do up some rock bombs, and incidentally ended up teaching Chelsea to crochet.
All together it was a lot of fun.

Here's one of the camo rocks I did.

The red one.

The awesome orange one.

And last... hey wait a minute

This camo one is hiding so well I can barely see it.
Haha, just kidding.
Enjoy!

Achievement completed: Tag ship dock ring!

Today was vaguely an homage day.
First, I was inspired by the works of knit the city. They just recently did a tree where they hung a bunch of octopus from the branches.

I love the googly eyes. I really do keep meaning to go pick some up. (photo credit goes to knitthecity)
I decided to make my own octopus and hang it for passerbyers to see.

I spent today down at the beach with one of my best friends. He's visiting, and today was his last day, so BEACH!
I love it down by the beach. I have already mentioned how I totally meant to spend more time there.
Anyway, I also did this lovely rock while we were watching the tide come in around us.
That's not really an homage such as it is my fav thing to do at the beach.

The next homage was the one that I have been wanting to do all summer!
A Ship dock ring! You know, those rusted out rings that are along coastal waters where they used to tie up something or other, I have no real clue. It is just always slightly awing to see things from the past right out in the open.
Leanne from yarnbombing.com did a ship dock ring. The photos are actually in the yarnbombing book.
But here, I will show you.

I wanted so very much to do something like that as well.
So today when we were out at ogden point and I saw one right there on the rocks, I just had to do it.
My good friend was nice enough and patient enough to sit there while I created the whole tag.
I then attached it and wahla!

I love it personally. I am so glad that I did this.
It feels good to achieve goals.
Enjoy your last days of summer!

Canada day!

Since Canada day was the only day both me and my roommate had off together, we decided to go for a bike ride along the beach.
I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to do some yarn bombing as well!
So we biked along and hung out at the beach. We saw these awesome rails that were worked over by the water. I decided to tag one. I love the way the metal looks after it's all rusted.

I did these rocks when we went down to a cove and watched everyone else play in the water. I really enjoy doing rocks like these.

And then, on our way back, I saw this absolutely picturesque view, so I decided to tag it. I like that it looks like a little rainbow.

All in all it was a great little bike ride. We spent the afternoon out in the sun, went to this amazing Mexican resturaunt, and had a great time.
The summer of yarnbombing continues!

Down by the Bay

Hey peeps!
You all recovered from IYBD?
I know I am still riding the high. Last night, after dinner with family, we all went to Beacon Hill Park to see if my tree tag was still up.
You know what??? It was! I was super happy. That's two weeks that it has been up and it's my biggest tag, so you can imagine how happy that makes me. I'm just peachy-thrilled!
Also, that post fungus I did in the park was still there too. And someone attached an earring to it! They added art to my art!

Anyway, that's ketchup on IYBD. The Bolas is the only other one from that day to survive... mostly I think cause it is on a power line.

So the other day, my gf and I went down to the beach. It was technically the first day of summer and besides being crazy windy, it was a nice day.
So we found a reasonably sheltered part of the beach and I went to work.
I picked out some of the best larger sized rocks I could find, and started covering them in yarn. I hope to do this all summer, and see if any of them survive between my trips down to the beach.
I did a green one.

And a blue one,

And a pink one,

And a multicolored one,

And an orange one,

And last but not least, I did a red one.

Also, do you guys remember the last time I went down to the beach to crochet?
Well the one on the stick is still there! It's a little worse for wear. It looks a little tugged on, and also has bird crap on it, but it is still there!

I am glad that some of my tags remain when I go back to look at them. I hope that same feeling makes other people happy too.
Enjoy!

A gift for a friend

So, I have these two good friends. They helped me out when things really sucked for me, when I didn't have a place to live.

Anyways, I decided that I would do something nice for them. See, they bought a new house and now it is looking pretty fab, because they have spent the last 6 months fixing it up. One of my friends showed me her garden out front, which included a little gnome and his acompanying toadstool. I was inspired to add to her little garden.

Tada! I saw someone do rocks for a beach and got inspired to do my own rocks. Once I did them though, I wasn't sure what to do with them.          

I think they make a perfect addiction here though. I didn't tell my friend that I tagged her garden though. I am just waiting to see if she see's they and realizes it was me or not.

You can see the gnome in this one... not really the toadstool, but the gnome. And the birdbath.

My friends garden is really quite pretty.

I can't wait to make more of these rocks. Perhaps I should do a series of them where I leave knitted (ok, crocheted) rocks in random places. That sounds like fun.

Enjoy!