WeeBitWonky

Moving Day!

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:16:00 +0000

am moving my blog over to my own domain and using WordPress to blog with. It took a few days to design the new template but VOILA! She is fini! Come on over––all are welcome!

A Real FUN Guy!

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:50:00 +0000

Me thinks me tree stump has athletes foot––well it is a fungus! Too bad yard 'shrooms are POISONOUS!! Doesn't it look so Woodlandyish? All I need are Faeries fluttering about.

Moments Like This...

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:19:00 +0000

Make me all warm and joyful! This is my Baby Girl (child #7) reading to my Oldest Baby's Baby...clear as mud?

Bad, Bad, Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:05:00 +0000

Be patient. I am on day 5 of a big migraine. ACK!

Konnichiwa

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Behold! Yup..straight from Amazon Japan––"Machine Made Patchworks". It only took 4 days to get from Tokyo to Austin!
Arigatou-gozaimasu (thank you)

Oy! With the Poodles Already!

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:34:00 +0000

Why do I say "Oy!" so much? I get asked that quite often...Oy! Well, It is always...well, most of the time...so very À Propos (wow! Yiddish and French!). But I digress...(and use too many 3dots and parenthesis!). I have found I am in good company using "Oy!" One of my favorite TV shows is
Gilmore Girls and THEY do it. Here is proof:

So again I say––Oy with the poodles already!

What I Did With My Weekend Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:28:00 +0000

Sewing! I am piecing together some fabrics to make Daughter #2 a purse

What I Did With My Weekend Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:12:00 +0000

Gardens!! A little VEGGIE garden with Tomatoes––red, orange, purple, yellow cherry, red cherry; Peppers––Poblano (Ancho), Purple Bell, Bell; Cucmbers; Squash––Yellow Straight and Zucchini; Japanese Eggplant;Sweet Potatoes.

Another lil garden with HERBS–– Basil––Purple, Regular, Orange & Cinnamon; Oregano;Chives;Italian Parsley; Curry Plant; Rosemary.
Medicinals––Feverfew; Comfrey; Lavendar;...and now I can't remember all that I planted! Flowers––Marigolds, Hollyhocks, Petunias

He Lived a Good Life

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:45:00 +0000

There has been a Wonky Tragedy! My first lil' felt fur animal. He so loved playing amongst the seedling peppers...

being held by Cute babies (see example of cuteness above)...and very content looking extremely Wonky. But alas! His life ended much too soon!

Every effort was made to revive him. The Wonky ER could not use the paddles in fear of fried fur. Cause of death???

1930's Rock

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:18:00 +0000

Score!! I happened by an estate sale as it was closing up. Wasn't even why I was out... but LOOK! I bought two 1930's tablecloths. I am SOOooooo jazzed! My mind is abuzz with ideas of what to create from them. Ideas?

Garden Variety

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:15:00 +0000

Plum coloured (Oh how I wish I were British or Canadian so I could spell color as colour) Irises that are blooming in MY garden. I LUV the golden threads that are part of the bloom. My home was built in 1938 so thank you to whomever planted the bulbs!

TWO AM Felting

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:09:00 +0000

My first official felting project after making that little ball. Said little ball became a flower pincushion. The blue felt is not wool...just the cheap dime store variety––but it served the purpose and kept me busy instead of thinking of how I was NOT sleeping.
Now that I have made it I will perfect it and get a tutorial goin for Y'all (hehehe...this Yankee is trying to be Texan!)

The Year(s) of the Puffed Sleeves

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:23:00 +0000

She loved this dress when I made it for her...about 7 or 8 years ago. A lovely pattern. Made triangular insets in the skirt of contrasting fabric. Made my own piping. Covered the buttons myself. We drug it out of a box.
Pictured are the results of squeezing my teenage daughter into her favorite dress. I still think she is gorgeous...even with that wonky look on her face!

Wanting to Be Wonky in the Irish Way

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:24:00 +0000

Long Life to You! St. Patricks Day is in a few hours. Oh how I wish I was toasting with a Pint of Guiness at O'Dowds on the Plaza in KC. It is a wonderful family Pub. A joyful place that you can take the kids and have fun and hear good Irish music. And I'm not even Irish! But Hungarians love to celebrate too!

Need to Focus...Like an Iris

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:34:00 +0000

This morning I got sooo sidetracked!I will enlighten you of my Sidetracked Path––won't you join me?;
Loving to garden I sign up for emails from seed and gardening companies

.:.TODAY.:.

receive said email

go online and view pretty catalog

see pretty picture of a peachy-pink bearded iris

knowing my sister loves Iris I look for copyright/royalty free photos of similar iris

find said photo

copy and save so I can email pretty iris pic to my sis

while working on web-design for a customer (which is what I was supposed to be doing) my eye catches the thumbnail pic of pretty iris on my desktop

hmmm... I think... I could turn that pretty iris into a photoshop brush

leave web work and open CS2

open iris pic and work on creating the pretty iris brush

while tweaking the iris THE VOICE tells me.. You are sidetracked
"Yes", I say, "I know."

Why am I this way? I should do better. Hmmm... I should write down how my trail of sidetrackededness happens...

Leave unfinished Iris creation and open Text file to journal my sidetrackededness...
Wow... look at all the misspellings... I should... Oh! The Iris
And look! I see I have new email. I should close my mail program. That is what I learned to do in my endeavors to be a good GTD groupie. This essay of mine is boring me...I have work to do...But first...that Iris must be finished.

Oh! And I forgot to email my sister the original..that means I have to open my email program...

Oy! My head! It Spins!
Don't even ask me how my fabric folding & sewing room project is going.

Whoo Hoo

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:42:00 +0000

Just me and Da Boyz! I have the house to myself! I feel like Ferris Bueller! I can sew! No I can't! DANG! I gotta finish organizing and cleaning the sewing room...maybe...who's to know...hmmm Dogs!! You are sworn to secrecy! And stop looking at me like that!

Her Wonky-ness' Perfection

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:11:00 +0000

Queen of Wonky that I am it is hard to accomplish perfection ... but I think I am on my way. Yesterday I managed to sort and fold some of my fabrics. I am using the Happy Zombie's fabric folding method. BUT! DO NOT ATTEMPT this standing over a table that is sitting height whilst trying to avoid hitting your head on an angled attic ceiling...I threw my back out...hence the small fabric pile... that still looks a bit wonky to me...but not quite skew-whiff (look it up). As far as the perfectionist thing...well I'm working on it!

BBB!

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:59:00 +0000

Big, Beautiful, Biscuits! In celebration of the new Spring Forward time change day I made a yummy breakfast. The biscuits were amazing! (I say with a humble blush). I made grits too...not the pasty watery white quick cooking kind mind you––but real stone-ground yellow ones from Carolina Plantation I also cooked Black Forest Bacon and eggs for those that like eggs––ick! Not the Mama!

Sewin' Room Blues

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:16:00 +0000

Oy! is there any hope? I moved into our home almost 6 months ago and still no organized and pretty sewing area. Oy! I say again. What's a girl to do?? I will be chaining myself to this room until it is in order. . . if I do not get sidetracked by bright shiny objects––like fabric or wool or fiber-y things!
Da da da dun..."I got dem blues..Da da da dun...dem sewin' room blues...
Have Mercy!

In Need of Orange or . . .

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:13:00 +0000

Green or something Springy! The roving I have is very nice and pretty...but it is 75º in Austin today and I have
Need-Spring-Colours-itis! I have felted 2 thrift store sweaters. They are women's larges shrunk to a size that would fit one of my granddaughters! I need ideas of what to create... and uh, yeah...I made that awesome felted ball in a moment of felting funk––ever try to explain to your kids WHY you're wetting, soaping and rolling littles balls of wool? "You're doing th-a-a-t be-cuuuz...???"

Coming to a *LYS this Spring!

noreply@blogger.com (~ Robyn) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:58:00 +0000

Art Felt by Skacel
Go check out the link. This looks like an interesting product. Available in April 2007– *LYS=LocalYarnStore