Summer never comes and a breath for the month of June

Wow. I know I have been gone for awhile, but let's just say entropy finally won over for chaos.
I had end of school/moving/two jobs/everything else.
But I did get some crocheting done in there as well!

Anyway, spring finally sorta broke on the island, so my friends and I went done to the beach (which is totally closer now) and I got the chance to do some yarn bombing!
I wanted to do more, but my one friend was being a downer. My gf on the other hand, collected rocks and shells and laid them out in her own display of art.

You can see them in this picture (you can see her leg too xD), as well as my beach anemone. But we'll get to that.
First off, we were walking along the path towards the beach, and I decided to tag a bench with this delightful scrape piece I have been working on in my free time during breaks and bus rides.

I really like the odd colors that I picked for it xD

(more of my gf xD)
After sitting on and tagging the bench, we headed down to the water.
I was looking for a nice secluded nook that we could hang out in and tag, but apparently everyone had that idea too... at least the hang out part.
I managed to do the beach anemone,

I am really impressed with myself making the stem all knobby and bent, so it really looks like a sea creature but on land.

 I also managed to tag this piece of drift wood that looked like it needed a flag more than my strange fungus ring tag.

But I didn't have a flag.

Just this cute lil tag. It was a little stressful getting it on there. I didn't want to fall and my hands were full of tools. I had to get my buddy to help me. I think it turned out well in the end.

It may not have been the most fun, but I was super happy to get out and do some yarn bombing.
In fact, would be out doing more right now, if it wasn't so damn miserable outside today. I hope summer comes soon.

In the mean time, look forward to June.
I have exciting plans for International Yarn Bombing Day, June 11th, and I am also having a yarn themed birthday party this year, towards the end of June. So hopefully June being full of yarn makes up for a lack luster last couple of months.
and on one last night... I have a few random yarn bombing shots on my phone, but I can't figure out how to get them off of my phone yet...
Enjoy!

Sock for the post

I have been busy with school for all of April.
So busy, that I haven't posted this awesome pic of my pole sock.

I did it a few weeks ago, while I was staying at my gf's house. There is this pole on the way to her house, sticking out of the shrubbery. I imagine it was a sign post at some point, but now it is just a hacked off metal pole sticking out of the ground, ruining the scene.
Or it was.
Now it is this marvelous pole covered in this pole sock!

What do you think?
For me, this screams the epitome of my yarn bombing. It's something cold and sterile from the urban world, and I tried my best to make it more decorative, bright and cheery.
I wasn't sure how to attach it to the pole at first. I knew that if I just slipped it over, it would be gone in a matter of moments. And there wasn't anything I could tie it to (I entertained the thought of tying it to the shrubbery around the base, but I figured that wasn't very nice to the plants). Then I came up with the brilliant idea to duct tape it to the pole.

I brought along my silver sharpie and wrote the following on the black duct tape (for the record, it's actually gorilla tape, which my roomate Alice says works better than duct tape. I dunno. I guess everything I have used duct tape on has worked out pretty well).
"This is Art, not garbage."

I would say the duct tape was a good call, cause it was there last time I check, which was 3 or 4 days after the bomb. That always makes me happy. To see them again.
My gf said someone pulled it up one day. It was stretched out and hanging floppy, but was still secure. No one seemed to want to peel back the tape.
She pushed it all back on for me. She's very sweet. And super supportive of my bombing.
I hope you enjoy.
I totally was gonna do another empty pole by my house. I had even started! But it got signed just today. Darn xD
Just have to keep working on other projects.
Cheers!

Katamary Damacy do dee doo doo!

I tumbl.
I don't know if you guys know about Tumblr, but the first rule of Tumblr is that you don't talk about Tumblr.
XD
Anyways, I have a tumblr for my favorite videogame. But it's more than a video game to me. It is almost a way of life. A lot like crochet.
With that in mind, my friend suggested that I cross my favorite mediums.
Now, I have done that before. If you will recall both the Miso and Dipp amigurumi that I have done in the past. If not, here you go xD

But what my friend was suggesting was more. And actual yarn bombing of said Katamari thing instead of the coveting of said item that I normally do (come on! How can you not love little Miso! And Dipp was for my very best buddy Lex)

 Now of course, since my friend suggested this Katamari crossover idea, I have had all kinds of ideas pop into my head. Hopefully I get the chance to explore all of them.

To start, we have what I like to call Prince on a fence.

My gf said that it looked scary, staring at her from up on the fence.

I am sad to say though, that while these pictures look awesome, they are all I have of this lovely bomb, as it did not stay up even 6 hours while I went to work.

I should start including a little note on my tags that says, "If you're gonna take this, at least do something useful with it," but I will never know either way and there is no point in worrying about what happens to it after I put it up.

Anyway, I liked it. It was good. 

And I am glad that I got out and did a new tag.

Especially a Katamari one xD

(psssssst! katamaridamacy.tumblr.com Check it out!)

Spring has sprung in the form of Toadstools!

This last week, the crocuses began blossoming all over. The front yard was full of the beautiful yellow, purple and white flowers.
They make me so happy to look at, so small and sprouting out from the grass.
I wanted to make something that would draw everyone's attention to the wonderful little flowers.
So slowly, one at a time, I pumped out these adorible little mushrooms!
It started with only one.

Then two, but by then it was getting dark, so you couldn't see flower or mushrooms really well.

Then the cute little would be Mario Mushroom XD

Then more! Lot's more (well, 7). Pink with black spots, yellow with black spots, dark green with orange spots, red with white spots, light green with orange spots, blue with white spots, and dark red.

All in all, I love them! They turned out really well for a spur of the moment project idea. The people I am staying with really love them and all kinds of people have been stopping to look at them or just generally smiling and pointing as they walk by. That makes me feel the best. I want to jump up and down and crow when that happens!

I bet they're all posionous too, what with those hideous spots. Except maybe the fuzzy red one. Then again, it is fuzzy.
And the crocuses!! Man, they are so pretty. Victoria rocks.
Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Dr.Seuss! Green eggs and Ham style

In 2009, Google posted a happy birthday link for Dr. Seuss.

My roommate received a calender from this cute girl in her class that lists interesting dates. One of them was Dr.Seuss's birthday.
And in my travels of flickr, I saw some interesting Dr. Seuss tributes.
So I decided, as a birthday gift to the man who created some of my favorite books to read ever, let alone when I was a child, I did my own little tribute.

Check it out.
Green eggs and ham!
I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them sam I am.

Not a whole bunch of awesome places!! (in a boat, in a house, in the rain!) Or with awesome things XD (Goat! Mouse!)
These were a lot of fun to make.

I also made some eggs of varying colors. A rainbow if you will.

My roommate "egged" me into it XD
Enjoy!

Not quite

This isn't a yarnbomb.
The weather here has been miserable! I haven't wanted to leave my bed.
And school has eaten up all my time that I could have been crocheting.
So today, with the foot of snow that found it's way all over my doorstep preventing me from going about my day, I decided to try my hand amigurumi again.
I had been inspired previously on my google reader and at my local library my food amigurumi. So I decided to make a delicious looking Hamburger.

Notice the mustard and ketchup? XD
I am gonna pretend it's a veggie burger too.

The lettuce was fun to make. I almost thought of making a pickle for it as well, but I decided not to over complicate my first attempt.
Well, what do you think?
I think it looks good enough to eat XDD

Not sure what I was thinking

It's sunday afternoon and I was thinking about yarn bombing. So I decided to go out and do one!
...
Only it's pouring rain.
Like, pouring pouring.

But I pursivered! I struck out, unbrella in hand.
And walked a few blocks to a park.
I found a tree, and put a large percentage of the flowers I had made all over the tree. I covered the whole front half of the low hanging limbs.
And then, soaked and cold, I went to take pictures of my handiwork.
...
The batteries in my camera went dead.
...
It was so disapointing. I came all that way. -sigh-
You'll have to trust me that it looked pretty. I don't know when I will get a chance to go back, but if I do soon, before something has the chance to happen to them, you know I will take pics.
In the mean time, here are some Hufflepuff granny squares to tide you over.