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this is your life

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whoever searched for my site using the phrase:

“This is your life loaf of bread!”

i only have love for you. For that was my most favorite skit on sesame street to date. And no one remebers him. I so wish i could find a picture of Loaf of Bread and Guy Smiley posing together. 

Posted by Jennifer on 03/31 at 12:45 AM ♥ Comments (4)

chicken poop

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for some insane reason poop must be on the mind as of late. i really want some chicken poop lip balm no poop included. Also CHECK OUT THE DISPLAY. I really want one of those badly.

Posted by Jennifer on 03/28 at 11:09 PM ♥ Comments (4)

stuff and things post #49857348574398573498573984

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not a very eventful weekend, but i had fun with nathaniel. We found a new pizza place. For those of you who don’t know we can only eat at ONE NAT APPROVED (TM) pizza place in all of chicago. That wouldbe Ranaldi’s in lakeview (across from the giant borders on diversey) Anyways, this one is literally across the street and one block away. They make a mean thin crust pizza. It is called Apart pizza for any of you who live near lincoln square.

we ventured to the japanese bookstore for fun on saturday and IKEA. I stopped in the giant mall and bought a new pair of VANS shoes. Nat HATES them. That is usually the litmus test for any new shoes i buy, the more he hates them the quicker i’ll say “I’ll take them!” They will be a nice summer shoe...and they should take you straight back to 1988. Except they aren’t checkered.

I bought Nat a gift last weekend and it was delivered this past week. It’s a fat kittie i bought for him thru Bright October here’s what he looks like:

i came home last nite to a large box that came in the mail. It was from Cara the counter part to My dorky best friend! In her cute little card she said it was a belated birthday gift. And because i collect snoopy this was such a cute gift! And no cara, i didn’t have one...my mom got me the charlie brown for xmas and i got zander a snoopy, but i didn’t have one til now! So thank you so very much for that little suprise! He sits next to ONEYE.

does anyone know how to make a good smoothie? Nat and i are thinking about buying a blender next weekend!

Posted by Jennifer on 03/27 at 09:41 PM ♥ Comments (8)

to tie you over a meme

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i have a real post for later on today...but to hold you over checkout the three new links on my links side bar and this meme..it’s not funny but i suppose it’s trying to out your “embrasssing” music on your ipod. i don’t think i have any embarassing music but i am playing by the rules and not omiting anything. so again i suppose you can jude me by my ipod, by the way i saw this over at good to be girl

basically put your ipod (or whatever you use) on shuffle and write down the 1st 10 songs it plays. here are mine..

1. Repeater - Fugazi
2. Working Man’s Blues - Sleepy John Estes
3. Hear My Black Dog Bark- Lightenin’ Hopkins
4. Poor Little Critter on the Road- The Knitter’s
5. My Valuable Hunting Knife- Guided By Voices
6. In HEaven- Pixies Live June 15th Boston
7. Ocean Breathes Salty- Sun Kil Moon
8. Pretty Pathetic - Smoking Popes
9. Shampoo Suicide- Broken Social Scene
10. John The Revelator- Son House

yes i have a lot of old school blues, bluegrass, and indie rock. hmmm wonder what that says about me?

Posted by Jennifer on 03/27 at 11:54 AM ♥ Comments (4)

On a lighter note

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I will KILL for a pattern to make THIS! well you have to scroll down to see the little curly poo. i’m serious people. I am not complete without some crocheted poo in my life. SOMEONE has to know how to crochet that. If you do and let me in on it i will have to give you SOMETHING. it is too amazing. especially if the poo had a mustache!

Posted by Jennifer on 03/22 at 10:56 AM ♥ Comments (9)

Can-o-worms

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i’m opening a can-o-worms here but i just can’t take this kind of stuff anymore. I want to link this article thanks to Lesa This article is so SHAMEFUL. This community should be so shamed to feel like the bunch of fools they really are. i cannot believe in the 21st century we deal with this kind of crap over and over. If you didn’t click on the article i will let you know again, this is an article about a teacher who is being suspeneded for showing a video about opera. That is only the beginning, they furtherly pick at the teacher because she herself is an opera singer. They go on to call her a devil worhipper and a NON CHRISTIAN because she wouldn’t let them sing christmas songs. Now public schools have to dance around those issues today to show tolerance to ALL religions, not JUST CHRISTIANITY. And when that’s explained the community then has to attack a mormon community next door saying well they aren’t REALLY CHRISTIAN so let’s attack MORE PEOPLE.

what the hell has happened to people? We might as well be still living in the middle ages. Why don’t i still see any burning at the stake? or torture for heresey? wait that above article is basically torture for heresey. we haven’t gotten anywhere.

Posted by Jennifer on 03/22 at 09:57 AM ♥ Comments (3)

mememememe time

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i saw this over on karin’s site and thought maybe mine could “possibly” be fun too
let’s see

So what you do is put your iPod or music player on shuffle and answer the questions below with the songs in the order that they are played.

How does the world see me?
Kicker of Elves - Guided by Voices
oh lord it’s fun already

Will I have a happy life?
Revelations- Superchunk

What do my friends really think of me?
Latest Disgrace - Fugazi
ut-oh!

Do people secretly lust after me?
Poor places- Wilco
!!!!!!!!! oh my!

How can I make myself happy?
Gouge Away - Pixies
alright now i have an excuse!

What should I do with my life?
Amputations- Death Cab For Cutie
um-ok

Will I ever have children?
All Luck Ran Out- Sondre Leche

What is some good advice for me?
Hello, my treacherous friend- OK GO

How will I be remembered?
27 Jennifers - Mike Doughty
intresting!! except do there really need to be 27 of me?

What is my signature dance song?
Puke & Cry- Dinosaur Jr.
whoa, thank god it’s not a signature dance MOVE

What do I think my current theme song is?
Savory- Jawbox
mmmm savory

What song will play at my funeral?
Welcome to the Occupation- REM
oh my!

What type of men do I like?
Nashville to Kentucky- My Morning Jacket

What is my day going to be like?
Sold out- Sleater - Kinney

well there you have it folks. now you have some idea of what is on my ipod/itunes computer library. even if you don’t have a music player i encourage you to do this in your computer’s music library it was quite funny and entertaining. perhaps yours will be as funny as karin’s and mine. hmmm.

Posted by Jennifer on 03/21 at 02:45 PM ♥ Comments (4)

Nat

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Nat was telling me about this really really crazy story in the car this weekend that is so unreal you HAVE to read it to understand it really is real. It involves FLYING COWS, POLICE CARS ON FIRE, and RUNAWAY IMMIGRANTS. Click here for the short story.

Also i want to say how proud i am of my little web genius, Nathaniel. He is an exceptional artist, creative being, and designer. Because of this he is continually and i do mean CONTINUALLY changing his website. He has been re-doing his website for the entire 3.5 years we’ve been together. Just when he finishes it he starts over and makes changes. For those of you who have never looked at his website you can see it here Now i am showing it off because at the beginning of Feb. he tells me he’s entered a contest. If he used this software to design his website he could enter it for the category and try to win 1k and some other stuff. I at first laughed at him because i reminded him he’s worked on it in a perpetual state for 3.5 years, he’s never “finished”. He did “finish” it for the contest and he won 5th place! You can see all the winners here i am so proud of him! Altho he is already working on it again and messing around with it, so it’s back to that perpetual state. and personally i think he should have been at first or second place cause that second place winner’s site is kind of boring. so go take a look see and tell me if he shouldn’t have won first place! 

Posted by Jennifer on 03/20 at 10:11 PM ♥ Comments (3)

Long time coming…

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Thanks for the get well wishes from some of you, i actually appreciated that a lot more than you’d think. I am FINALLY feeling much better and back to my old self.Altho i am not rushed and living out of a suitcase at the moment and can catch up on some things i need to show off and thank some people! As you know because my sister and i sell handmade things, i really supporthandmade myself. I want to show you some excellent people I’ve ordered from or traded with as of late. Actually over a month ago i emailed Amy about her cute little stitch markers she had made. She told me how much and i said send me some! here’s the cute little snowmen and pea pods she sent along:




Onward...a long time ago i did a cd swap and one of my partners was Marianne you simply MUST check her site out if you haven’t already. I instantly became a huge fan of her illustration and herONEYE characters. She is one of my most favorite designers for her use of color and whimsy in her characters. I one day asked her if she’d like to trade stuff for one of her little felt flower pins. She agreed and here’s what she sent me a whole little package with her little characters!






Another great little handmade shop is Stephanie over at Trudesign Please go check out her new handmade jewelry over at her little shop that opened a week or so ago. I think her stuff is very affordable and very pretty. I ordered this little necklace that screams spring in aqua and lime greens.
here’s my oneeye modeling it:




Also in our little shop please give Jen L. a warm welcome as one of our shop’s newest friends of P knit pattern designer! Click here to order her little pattern. Again 100% of the cost of the pattern goes to each of the friends ofpiddleloop designers! We are happy to have such cool friends! 

In other news....we wandered into target over the weekend for paper towels and other “fun” stuff and if you have ever read my archive for April of last year you will know my sister and i have a thing for candy. My sister likes to buy 20$ worth of Reese’s peanut butter eggs and i like to eat “crap candy” as Nat calls it. (translates to anything not chocolate) I can’t go into target without going to the candy section first. Nat had no control this time because we saw that target is now using Naughty Naughty Pets to sell it’s Easter stuff. We have always been fans. I bought this little guy Cousin Elliot because he’s my favorite color: orange.


he’s also on top of a book i have almost finished this past weekend. I recommend this book The End of Faith by Sam Harris to anyone who is angered as i have been as of late with how religion is engulfing all moral reasoning, especially within politics. He talks a lot about how morality needs to be reasoned without using religion especially within politics and government. He also notes many things within this book that i found surprising in the 20th and 21st centuries. You would think our thinking,reasoning, and basis for maorality would be far far far past where it is now, it’s quite depressing. 
Speaking of books i got these:


My shawl is still only at the first wedge and the mohair is really fuzzy but here it is


and last i’ll leave you with Lucy who likes to park herself in front of a little heater fan we use to warm up the colder rooms. she is a smart dog sometimes.

Posted by Jennifer on 03/20 at 10:58 AM ♥ Comments (4)

Zapped

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Ugh. Sorry. I had sort of “checked out” for awhile there. Someone came back and i wasn’t needed anymore at the ad agency, so i was kind of sad. I was staying in the city with nathaniel for a month and living out of a suitcase and only coming home on sundays. So it is nice to be back. But i had still had a bad chest cold and i had caught a touch of the flu this week. All i want to do is lay around or sleep. I feel like i have been zapped.

i did finish rebecca’s mary janes. i finished two pairs for her. I just can’t figure out how to get the one pair how i “want” them to look so they will all remain “plain” i just need to mail them to her. They have taken me like 2 months. Mostly because i was picked up for freelance and wasn’t expecting to get so much work. For that rebecca i apologize.

Saturday Uncle Nat came to town to help me watch Zander all day. Grandma and grandpa are in Vegas, they went to the giant NASCAR race last weekend. Thanks to the nice weather that day we met up with Erin, Nate, and Jessica and went to feed ducks. There weren’t any ducks around but that didn’t stop us from enjoying the 65 degree weather that day. We took the wee ones to a playground and let them play. Later that day we went to our local park and played, and then went to a “cat show”. We saw all kinds of cats there, hairless ones, hairey ones, siamese ones...all kinds. We came home and Uncle Nat played play-doh for awhile too. We had such a good time that day. I should have grabbed my camera, but i forgot.

i just can’t wait for Spring to really arrive. Maybe it will help me get back all my energy that has been zapped by this cold and flu.

P.S.
thanks to Nat my wonder web guru, i think the RSS feed is fixed. Let me know if it’s still not working right!

Posted by Jennifer on 03/15 at 02:37 PM ♥ Comments (3)

go figure

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You Are Animal

A complete lunatic, you’re operating on 100% animal instincts. You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you’re downright scary. But you sure can beat a good drum. “Kill! Kill!”

i am working on my pie shawl which i have nicknamed ANIMAL.  Speaking of. I have done something weird, in the patterning of my shawl. i hope erin can help me tomorrow!!

Posted by Jennifer on 03/08 at 10:40 PM ♥ Comments (6)

changes (again)

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I’ve gotten tired of the free version of movable type and the expolsion of spam n the past two months. the free version only had a blacklist and the spamming people are sneaky on getting around this and i was getting bombarded with about 200 spams a day for a month straight. On to a new software. I’ve now moved to experssionengine and i have nathaniel my little web gebius to thank for setting everything up.  He tells me tho that i should ask all of you if you see anything weird or wonky to let me know. so please do. hit refresh and check out the changes, i’ve got that swanky type in the code before you comment thing too! woo woo!
Is everyone hunkered down and waiting for the oscars? i don’t think Brokeback Mtn will sweep. It will most likey sweep director and possibly best picture. My calls are: for best actress, reese she better get it. she literally became june carter and SANG for cryin’ outloud.
best actor: phillip hoffman is going to nab it for capote. BUT i’d like to see terrance howard nab it for hustle and flow. howard doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell but if the academy would like to make us happy we’ll see.
supporting actor, i’d like to see clooney get it. supporting actress i don’t even remember the nominee’s.
usually the academy throws several bones. what movie doesn’t get best picture usually picks up best screenplay.
and well y’all know my OBSESSION with walk the line’s wardrobe. I’d like to see that win, cause june carter’s clothes alone are worth it.
ok everyone have a happy oscar sunday and please report any weird wonky bugs to me!

Posted by Jennifer on 03/05 at 01:18 PM ♥ Comments (4)

Birthdays, cupcakes, and soft dogs

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Zander tunred the big THREE this past weekend. Sunday we threw a shin-dig at the house. Here’s some highlights. Altho please note...photographing any of the 10 or so 3-5 yr olds that were there was next to impossible since they move so stikin’ fast. It seems like i have alot of blurry shots and the back of the head shots!








look who was there! Erin of my dorky best friend and her husband nate!


the winner of pin the wrench on Bob the Builder


and nathaniel wearing his Dora party hat..doesn’t he look festive?


lucy had a bath that day and she is super soft after a bath, here’s joy enjoying lucy’s softness and freshness!

Unfortunately I’ve caught the horrid chest cold my hwole family went thru in feb. I haven’t been knitting, or anything else really. I come home from work, eat and go directly to bed and sleep, hoping i will get over this thing quicker. It’s probably all in my head.

I want to take a second to say while i am delighted people are using items from the store for their SECRET PALS, I just want to pass on some helpful things for those of you thinking about using items for our store for your secret pal.
1. If you are ordering something and having it sent to your secret pal please let me know in the comments that you don’t want your identity to be known. This is important because I send every order their invoice packing slip.
2. if you are ordering a digital download for your secret pal, please email me and let me know their email address to send it to, to keep your identity from being known.
3. In general a reminder that patterns will come to you via email. so you will need to check your email, and be aware of spam filters.
4. just email me or say stuff in comments i will accomodate you in alot of ways with a special request and so forth. I just like to know things in advance. Please feel free to email me or add in the comments any questions or whatnot.

that said thanks to everyone who’s ordered. we do appreciate you supporting handmade!

Posted by Jennifer on 03/01 at 03:14 PM ♥ Comments (3)