Logo!!

Yay!  I created a logo that I actually like!

Now is the time.

Now is the time for inspiration.  I am a knitter knitting professional!  This is my time of year!  I should be belting things out left and right ... but I'm not.  Yea sure I'm busy with school, therapy, and trying to heal this damn hip!  (The hip is a whole ordeal that maybe I will blog about one day but today is not the day.)  I need to get my crap together get Milly  off of my favorite hat needles and start clicking away.  I also want to come up with some Fall designs for the hats but I don't want them to be ultra cheesy because if anyone can do cheesy, Sara can. sigh.

I just can't stand it when I hit the 7 foot inspirational wall!  

Help me ... someone. 

Newest art.

Here is the newest art that I have done this semester.  It really came out beautiful.  I wish I could flip it over to fiber art!

Getting back on track.

Well I finally went back to Art Club today.  I really missed everyone, it was good to be back.  How quickly I had to start working again!  There is a Bake Sale tomorrow and one of my pieces was chosen for the student Art show, YEAH ME!  I went to the grocery store right afterwards and started baking my heart out.

 While I was baking I got a phone call.  The evil parental figures found out about the student art show.  God knows how!  They asked what I had in there.  I told the female one that it was an image I painted in Photoshop, she said "I don't know what that means"  SIGH.  "It was just something that I did in Photoshop." I said.  "Well, I'd like to see it." she squealed.  "Yea sure mom." I replied.  Mind you she has never ever asked to "see" one of my drawings, paintings, knitting, or any sketches for that matter.  Maybe she got a sniff of success.  That I was being recognized and she wanted EVERYONE to know that I am her daughter.  Sometimes I wonder how I can be related to her, SIGH.  Well cookies are done.  Art Club Cookie Mania was awesome.  In celebration I am going to share my secret recipe for Oatmeal (insert dried fruit) Cookies and no it's not a recipe from my female parental unit or mother (whatever you want to call the woman)  I made it myself (raises shoulder's in adoration) and it's damn good!!

Oatmeal Raisin Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies.  YUM.

Ingredients:

2 sticks of unsalted butter (unsalted makes a world of difference)

1 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla
1 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of cinnamon  (eliminate if using Cranberry's)
1/2 tsp of salt
3 cups of oats (old fashioned works the best)
1 - 8oz pkg of cranberry's
1/2 a 12 oz bag of White Chocolate chips (for added yum)

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl, set aside.  Beat butter and sugar for 5 minutes.  Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.  Then add the flour mix in only folding it a few times, the more you blend it the dryer the cookies will be, and who likes dry rock hard cookies?  Then add oats and berries and white chocolate or whatever else is a good combo with oatmeal, fold this a few times until everything is blended, don't over blend!

- Get one of those awesome cookie droppers, you know the one's that look like ice cream scooper's, it will make your live so much easier.  Place the cookies onto a cookie sheet (I like to spray mine with no stick, once again making my life easier) and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.


- Enjoy!

Early morning inspiration.

The sun is shining in Chicago today, something that's hard to get used to after months of gray sky's.  I have a feel in my bones that today is going to be a good day.  There is no other way.

One more that I found this weekend, just to ensure a good day.

Live today like it's your last and love like it's your first, most importantly, be happy.  : )

Sara, the eco knitter.

I was sad and upset last night so I opted for some creating.  The soft hum of the TV and my scissors snapping away always makes me feel better.  I found an article on Etsy the other day and I really wanted to try it.  So I pulled out all my saved plastic bags (I save all of them, weird? maybe?) laid them out, folded them, snipped them, and strung them together in to some awesome "plarn" as the article calls it. Here is what I have so far.

It's really a lot of fun!  I am making a bag right now, but as I was making the yarn I was thinking that I need to get a bunch of colors!  I know most stores have white bags but I want colored bags!  HA HA!  I know that Best Buy has blue bags and that's about it for colors.  In the article they had yellow bags, awesome!  Does anyone have any suggestions?  

I also made some T-Shirt necklaces.  I know I was quite the adventurous crafter last night!  Here is one that I made.  

So all of this soulful crafting made me feel a little better about things.  I hope today is a great day.

When it rains it pours.

I am officially out of a car.  It sucks.  I have been shopping around for a new car but no such luck.  In the mean time I have been taking walks, lots of long walks, in hopes of clearing my conscious.  Also with no such luck.  Things will look up that is what I keep telling myself, they have to, there's no other way!  Right?  Well here's to anyone else who's been down and out maybe this will cheer you up.

             OH WAIT! It looks like the grass is raining.  Let's try this one.

                     Meh. One more .. this has GOT to cheer someone up. 

                                         A tree butt!




I hope your day is better than mine.  I am going to go knit now, maybe that will cheer me up.