Unbelievable

So I went to visit my friends that I haven't seen in a while. 

Time gets away from me. This blog is a classic example, but I still post!

Anyway, I was just walking down the street and happened to glance over at the fence I was passing.

It was then that I noticed the hearts on the fence. Worn, weathered and not at all in the red hue anymore really, but still there!

You may remember the hearts from this post.

But here they are 5 years later!

I cannot believe they are still there... 

You can see that Danika's heart (top most, right most heart) has survived the best, but the pink heart looks pretty good. And still pretty pink.

My first one, the top left most, is even still there! Wow.

So this is clearly my oldest yarnbomb to survive. It gives me an odd kind of motivation to get back into yarn bombing.

I'm still in the middle of health issues, so I dunno when I can get back to it, and I have other yarn related activities I would love to get to, but I still really love yarn bombing.

Easter Egg Hunt in the Park!

I really enjoy yarnbombing for occasion. I don't really care what occasion, it just seems like a great way to come up with a theme to yarnbomb.

This year, I started early on easter eggs and managed to make 11! (I have so much school going on right now, it's hard to get any crafting done)

I decided to leave them around a local park for the kids. The weather hasn't been that great, so I was worried about them getting wet, but it's been reasonably dry today. I'm going to go back to the park after easter weekend is over to see if any of the eggs remain.

I tagged a couple of them with my url, so that people could maybe come read about the eggs!

The first one I hid was this bright yellow one, on the tennis court.

It's like a tennis ball! But it really wouldn't work very well as a tennis ball.
The next one I hid in a tree!

Cause that's where eggs come from right? :)

                                                            Spot the egg in this one!

It's the same kind of colors as the climbing-go-round.

Cute teeter tooter and swing set eggs

I put one in this strange digging dish. You can see the hand digger in the background.

I don't know if you can put the ground dirt in the dish with the digger, but those digger's were super fun when I was a kid.

 This adorable red egg was one of my favorites.

Here it is in the wheel (tire?) swing!

I really enjoy this cute lil bench one.

Lastly, this rail egg. 

Technically, there are two eggs in this picture :)

Well, that's about it! I had fun leaving these eggs all over the park! I hope they found happy homes. They were a blast to make too. Happy Bunny Chocolate Day!

Not exactly the North Pole

First off, Let Capt. Cook wish you all a happy Festive season!

Isn't that a lovely garter belt he's wearing?
It's yarn! With bells on! I did not do this excellent piece, but I sure as heck admire it!

Meanwhile, in my mad lab, I have been working on x-mas presents and understandably have been lax in the yarnbombing department. But I have big plans for January, and I was not going to let everyone go without a wonderful x-mas present.

Tada!Present in the form of an X-mas pole.

I hope everyone has a great holiday season.

Little Flower Bombs: My Trip to Van part 1

Ok, so perhaps quarter after 12 at night is really the best time to be blogging about my yarn adventures, but heck, why not. I cannot sleep anyways.
So in the middle of the week, as kind of a reading-break-that-we-don't-actually-get-in-college, I went across the water to Vancouver. My friend Sabine was there for a show, so I got to see her too.
But I am getting ahead of myself.
First and formost, I had to get myself on a ferry. I was a little scared, as I had never done such a thing before. But my gf walked me through it, and I made it on ok.
Then I got excited and started tagging XD
I whipped out a couple flowers to put around the boat. The best idea I came up with was to put them on the railings. So I went out the starboard side (-giggle- is that left?) and put up this cute little number.

Then I went around the other side and put up this one by a lovely lifesaving device.

It doesn't seem to take me any time at all to produce the cute little flowers. It seems I can make one in around 15 minutes.

Makes leaving them everywhere highly enjoyable.
Although I kind of want to spend an afternoon in a tree just crocheting the flowers directly to it XD

Tribute: Hufflepuff style

My girlfriend is really into Harry Potter.
Can't really blame her. They are rather fantastic books, and a wonderful world that woman created.
Anyways, she is a Hufflepuff.

She even has the whole hufflepuff student outfit (including wand) and dresses in it every halloween and HP movie opening

XD

In honor of her love for Hufflepuff (and so she could have something to post on her blog http://effyeahhufflepuff.tumblr.com/) I did this tag on her bike.

Pretty snazzy bike too if I do say so. I am jealous.

Although mine does have this handy milk crate.
I want to do more bike tags. Maybe even cover a whole bike.
But not this bike. This bike is too nice to cover all up.
Enjoy

P.s. She really loves it XD

Rainbow fishies!

This was originally supposed to be for my gay friend David.
I was gonna put it at his bus stop.
But honestly? At 11:00pm I didn't want walk 3 blocks there, and then 3 block back, when I had to walk form 20 minutes home anyways.

(<--- This is me doing this tag)      

                          

Either way, I did put it between his house and my gf's house! So he'll pass it and I will as well.

I think it was a brilliant compromise.

My friend David really likes fish.

A lot of people in my life right now like fish. Roomate, guy who lives down stairs, David.
I think I did an ok job of portraying fish.

This is the last of the rainbow yarn I got from my friend at the pride lounge. There may be more rainbows in the future, but none as matching as these ones I imagine.

Enjoy!

Flowers in the summertime

So I'm finally getting around to putting up some of the pieces that I have had finished for a couple a weeks.
I know I should get out more, but I have many projects on the go XD

I really like the flowers in this!

It took me a while to get the hang of making the cute little flowers, and I'll admit that I totally improvised the leaves. In the end, the vine (which was just me crocheting it to itself over and over again) was probably the hardest part. If I do this again (which I would really like to) I will have to find a better way of making a vine.

I am so open to suggestions if anyone knows a better way to make a vine.

I wanted to place it on something metal, so that it had more life and beauty.

I think it did that XD

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Kelsey!

So... I'm a little late on this one.

Granted, I had it stiched up and ready to go on the 10th (which was Kelsey's birthday), but alas, it did not hit the urban land scape until today.

I asked her (being very poor) if there was something I could do for her for her birthday, since she is my roomate and all and it's not nice to ignore people's birthdays. She asked if I would do a tag for her.

I was eager, nay excited and this prospect.

So I got to work, whipped out this lovely baby blanket esq background and then threw Kelsey's name on it!

Tada!

I hope she really likes it. You can kind of see it from our bedrooms in the house, as it is in the park across the street. She's at work right now, so she'll see it when she comes home.

So yeah, Happy Birthday Kelsey!

Enjoy!

Super Tree

Don't mind me.
I may be slightly intoxicated while writing this. That's ok. I was mostly intoxicated while finishing up this tag today anyways.
Today, my two friends and I went and hung out in the park to celebrate the fact that I had my final today. Whoo! No more biology... for now anyways.

While we were hanging out, I finished up my tag, found a perfect tree and placed said tag.

As soon as it was up, both my friends were like "super tree".

I too thought it was fitting.
They asked me why I decided to put it on that particular tree in that particular location. I said it was the best tree around that fit. The others were either too big or too small. My one friend said that it was serendipitous. I like that it can be seen from the various paths, yet is hidden in the trees to a large extent.

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late. It has been a busy month.
This monday is my birthday, so I don't know when the next time I will tag is.
But at least I have a couple new pieces finished to put up.
... I just have to put them out in the world...

Enjoy!

Day out with friends

Hi!

This is Dave. Dave really approves of my yarn bombing. I should tell him that I'll teach him crochet and he can do it with me.


This Victoria day (yesterday) I decided to get some sunshine and hang out in some local parks with my friends. Now an oppurtunity like this for tagging cannot be passed up, so I threw some tags in my bag and away we went.




Before me and my other buddy met up with Dave, I decided to try my hand at those fence hearts some taggers have done.

For my first try, I like to think I did pretty good. More of them all over would have been cool, but of course my friends showed up right as I was doing it, so some of the mystery was lost.

Then we all went for an epic walk. We crashed on this bench and watched all the dogs go by. As we rested, I threw on this little tag that I made while waiting on my gf to get out of the book fair last week.

I like it. It's brightly colored. I was just goofing off with trying different patterns of color.
Next stop, different patterns of pattern!
Enjoy!

Gazebo Revisited

When the tag covering the metal empty power box at the Gazebo went away, a lot of my friends were sad. We all liked it's bright colors and I think Dave was really glad to help me put it up.
Well, I was determined to replace it, but perhaps with something more sturdy and something that while beautiful, would blend in like the one that is still on the lamp post down by the Gazebo.
Then I saw this helpful video posted on Where the Woolly Things Are about making flowers. I decided that it would be perfect for a tag in the garden to have flowers on it (you can't really see all the flowers and flowering plants surrounding the Gazebo, but they're there!)

Tada!
I think it looks really pretty! And blends in really well!

Here's a close up look at the flowers. I think the camera made the yarn look a lot bluer than it really was. It is really kinda bluey green, but not that blue.

Here's how I left it at the Gazebo. I hope this one stays there a good long while.
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!

Out and about: Fan ta sea isle Rainbow!

Early on after moving to victoria, I set out to see the sites. One of the first sites I saw was Rico`s Benches by the bay, or also know as Fan Ta Sea Isle.

See the Rainbow tag??

I added that to Rico`s little project.

The sad part is though that the city of Victoria wants to build a yacht marina right where this landmark of woodcarving (for the public I might add) is presently located. And they don`t care that this guys has been building this thing for years, or that people recognize it as a landmark.

Not to mention it is going to make the entire area look gross and commerical, full of boats and cars instead of lush greenery and a wonderful view of the ocean and Olympic mountain range.

Either way, I decided to add my piece to a wonderfully bright example of urban art.

Check out some of the things carved and colored in the wood.

Not to mention the graffitti writing as well. I think it adds color to the over all atmosphere. Better for Rico's whole piece than the drab stones of the walkway.

Over all, I am really really happy with this piece. It is probably the largest to date and it is certianly one of the most colorful. I am almost out of my rainbow yarn (but I got tons of other colors at the thrift store the other day so look forward to more colorful tags in the future) but I have plans for at least two more rainbow ones.Enjoy!