Last weekend, The Husband and I pulled everything out of my craft closet including the shelves and rods, spackled, painted and then…he installed elfa in my craft closet for me…on his birthday. Ladies and gents, if I didn’t love the daylights out of him before (and I did), I sure do now.

Before
 

During


After

  
I’m not saying I literally jumped up and down with glee, but I cannot say that I didn’t.

Tags: craft closet, elfa, hobby closet, organize, stash

These are not new finished objects, but as you haven’t seen them in the wild yet, I thought I’d share.

One of the things I love about living in the country is more than one car slowed down to make sure I was ok and that they didn’t need to stop and assist me. I smiled and waved and they continued on. I’m pretty sure the car that drove by while I was sitting butterfly-style, head bent over my feet in a field of flowers trying to take pictures of my feet thought I was a few bricks short of a load, but the harmless kind of crazy.


Pattern: Polypodium vulgare Socks by Hunter Hammersen (She’s got a new book coming out soon!)
Yarn: Malabrigo sock – Violeta Africana




Pattern: Hitchhiker by Martina Behm
Yarn: Handpainted 50% Falkland British Merino with 50% silk

Tip for the day: Barbed wire is helpful for these types of photos, but you need to be very careful.
Ps. Check out what others have finished at Tami’s Amis and Wisdom begins in Wonder and Natural Suburbia

Just in case you think I’m a fan of every movie I see, here are my thoughts on Olympus has Fallen.

1. Gerard Butler and his voice coach (I assume he had one) did a nice job of hiding his Scottish accent.

2. Can someone explain to me why a guy that is picking up loaded guns off of bodies in every other scene is spending the rest of the movie getting in fist and knife fights? I waited in vain for “looks like you brought a knife to a gun fight”.


3. I think this movie is a hard sell because Americans may not be fans of such an epic fail of our security that the White House is taken over in half an hour…..or maybe that’s just me.

4. I do not think a woman who has fought hard enough to be Secretary of Defense would give up that easily. I don’t care that the president told her to. She wouldn’t let history remember her that way….but I guess very little in this movie was realistic.

5. And now for my mini rant that Ashley Judd (playing the first lady) was riding in a car in a snowstorm in a dress with thin straps and NO covering of any kind (I think she had a wrap on when she exited the building?).

This would have been a nice place for a pretty cabled cape or beautiful lace shawl. Something like either one of these would have been lovely:

6. Overall, this movie started off a bit like “Bambi” and then turned into a wannabe “Air Force One”. I didn’t love it.

Tags: knitting movie review, Olympus has Fallen