Slouchy Hat!

So I finally managed to make a perfect slouchy hat, for how I like slouchy hats anyway.  It might not be for everyone.  I have this awesome hat which I got from Kmart, back when Kmart still existed in Canada here, for like $0.49 when it was closing down.  That was like....when I was still in Grade School, so ages ago.  I still have it, and it's still my favourite hat.  But it's machine knit with like Lace weight yarn or something so I don't really want to just copy it because knitting stockinette knit with really fine yarns in a circle would be really boring and tedious.  Lace weights are for lace which is intricate and somewhat exciting to knit.  So I have been trying to make similar ones and usually the hats come out just like regular tuques.  But this time it was actually slouchy.  Probably because it's a bigger hat, so that's my problem I guess.  I make hats to be fitted and thus they don't slouch.

My face isn't necessary, lol.

So this one is slouchy! The yarn I used is the Loops and Threads "Charisma" yarn, which is pleasantly bulky and really soft.  I have made a cowl of the same yarn and so now I have a sorta matching set I guess.

Mushroom head.

This is how far it pulls down, I suppose I could fold up a cuff to make a it a regular tuque also.  Such versatility!  It could probably even fit my husband's big head.  Lol.  I just took this pic to show the pom pom.  I love pom poms on hats.  This one was kinda awkward because I didn't have a template so I just wrapped it around my fingers so some parts are really long and others aren't so much and I wish it were more bulky but whatever.

The hat itself is just a basic 2x2 rib, 60 sts around, knit on circulars.  I forget what size of circular, but my biggest needles with the smallest connection basically. Lol.  I am a bad knitter, I don't gauge on these things. I am more the type to frog something and try a different pattern or make one up as I go if somehting isn't working out how the pattern says it should.  I chose just simple rib because of the self striping effect of the yarn, I didn't want anything too complicated to look weird with the stripes.

I wanna make a baby-sized hat out of this yarn because I know a lot of people having kids and I like non-baby coloured items more than giving them something pale blue or pale green or pale pink.  I still have one ball left of this colourway so a baby hat with some curly-q's as a pom pom and maybe some booties if I can figure out how to make them.  I have some issues with some things because of the aforementioned lack of doing a proper gauge swatch and checking that.  Bad Knitter!

Toodles!

Well Hello There....

Holy Long Time No See, Batman....over a year....
...Now I must admit I have been cheating on Blogger and had a blog on Wordpress, but only apparently made like 4 entries in it and then it died as well.  And I have been bit by the blogging bug again and want to chronicle my life and I like Blogger better.  I like that it's connected to google mostly.  Haha.

I wanna just blog about life mostly though.  This blog was previously just makeup and beauty, and that's all fun and I'll still do it because I still do makeup and beauty things most days...but I also cook and bake and craft and work and rant and rave and whine (and wine) and whatever....and I was like "maybe I'll just start another completely different blog" but I like cake for days as a name...and I can't be bothered to do that.

So...Updates I suppose.  My life changes in the past year, this might be a bit:

Haul Haul Haul! and NOTD and TNOTD?

Haha, so I have today off, which is bad because my mom is away and my dad bikes to work so I have the car to myself and no one actually kinda knows that I had the day off....so I was being bad.  I went shopping.

Sally emailed me a coupon yesterday for a free eyeshadow if I spend $10 before tax...well, sure I'll do that.  This is just after they emailed me a notice saying if I spend $7.25 more this month I get 15% off next month...so, well, I had to do that obviously.  Next month I am going to buy myself some hair scissors and a razor so I have those when I move away.

So I bought some Duo eyelash glue and some eyelashes to practice with so I can be 100% good at applying them by the time my wedding rolls around.

Just some basic lashes...nothing special. I also still have some individual lashes somewhere but I needed glue.

And I picked the Aruba Blue colour from the eyeshadow for free!

It's pretty sheer, but I think it would be buildable really easily, and since my eyes are still giving me waterworks, I don't really care either way at the moment, it's pretty so yeah.

NOTD and New Hair

Bright blue nails, from the Wet'n'wild quick drying nail polish line...I love it.

I forget the colour, it's somewhere listed in on of my purchasing posts...haha.

And I fixed my multicoloured hair somewhat. I had some leftover medium golden brown from Sally's Ion demi-permanent line that I had used on my mother a while ago, but it came out darker than she wanted so she didn't like it.  So I supplemented that with L'oreal Healthy Color in Light Brown and I stared with just the Sally on the roots and then mixed a bit of the L'oreal in to do the upper mid length and then a bit more to slather on the most of the rest of it...left the ends until just the very last thing because they are so fried and soak up any colour to black really fast.  Turned out pretty even, dark, but still definitely brown, and I love it.  

Here's an awful pic I snapped in my bathroom haha..

Ignore my face and lack of makeup...I'm heading to bed.

I also bought a lot of gloves. Like vinyl gloves for dying hair. I had an adventure the other week when I did my mom's hair and didn't have any gloves. I used some moisturizer with silicones in it and slathered that on my hands but some of the dye still got through and stained my hands a bit.  So I thought I'd invest in some gloves for hair dying adventures.  They were on sale, buy one box at full price, get a second for 1c.  So I did.  Now I have 198 gloves left after using 2 for today's dying.  Haha.  

I'm glad though because the L'oreal gloves that came with the Healthy Colour are a load of crap. It's like someone cut out non-sticky saran wrap and then heatglued them together in a glove shape.  I'd rather just stain my fingers they're so annoying. But with my happy vinyl gloves I don't have to. :)

I want this dress...

I have gone shopping loads lately with my mum.  It seems like any time I have the morning off (ie: every Thursday) and if I get an unexpected day off (if no one is booked at work), then we go out shopping.  She has been buying loads of clothing for herself and her rationale is that my dad plans to retire soon so when he no longer has an income she can't buy as much stuff.  lol.  Anyways, we went to Reitman's and I found this dress on the back rack.

Supercute. Supercomfy. Want.

Unfortunately, I then found out why it was on the back rack....

I asked my mum, who sews, if it was a fixable rip and she said no...

:( 

So then we went to 3 other Reitman's trying to find this dress elsewhere...no luck.  I expect it was somehting like someone had bought it not noticing the rip and then returned it or something and they had just stuck it on the back rack quickly.  I wish I never found it because I want it so much but it's ripped.  

Eyeball Rant Again

So I stopped the antibiotics after 10 days and I guess I spoke too soon last time because my eyes are as watery as ever now again.  I don't think it was an infection.  They are only watery.  The eyelids are kinda red but only like after I have washed my face and scrubbed off my eye makeup etc. The tears are tears, they aren't gross or goopy or anything...just plain ol' clear tears.  I need to make another appointment because this is seriously bothering me.  I wouldn't mind as much if the tears didn't wash away my makeup like an hour after I put it on...actually, no, they bother me a lot. It wells up in my eye and I blink and it doesn't go away and it blurs my vision cuz its like looking through a glass of water or something, and it makes driving kinda a difficult experience and thus not safe.

That and I look like I hate my life all the time and am always just so emotional. Lol.

The makeup thing actually pisses me off and makes me depressed because I love my makeup and I think I am damn good at it (on myself anyway) and thus it just sucks to have that wash away right away and look like crap and smudge.

Argh. I pray this gets better soon..otherwise I am just gonna go from Dr. to Dr. and be like ``fix meeeee!!!``

Unintentionally....

What is this big garbage bag in my room?

I bet you will never guess...haha.