FO Friday - 12/31/2010

I have one FO to show you today.  I can't show you the whole thing because it hasn't yet been gifted, but I made this cute little item this week:



I finished it early this morning and am about to mail it off to its recipient.

MK out.

WIP Wednesday - 12/29/2010

In the past week, I worked on the one ball shawl and the bag I will felt.  Both are getting closer to being completed, but pictures of them wouldn't look too much different than last week.

I also started another project.  I am making a gift for a cute little girl out of this yarn:

MK out.

Movie Monday - 12/27/10

Disney’s A Christmas Carol is kind of a creepy, animated adaptation of the Charles Dicken’s classic. Jim Carrey plays several parts, including Scrooge and the ghosts. Gary Olham, Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Penn also have multiple roles. It was alright, but I don’t know if little kids would enjoy this movie.



Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary directed by street artist Banksy. Thierry Guetta is an LA thrift shop owner who starts videotaping every moment of his life. He then moves on to filming various street artists, and eventually becomes a street artist himself. It was different.


A Prophet, in French and Portuguese with English subtitles, is about a nineteen year old small time criminal who goes to jail for six years, and rises through the ranks of the prison gangs. It was violent, but interesting.


The Other Man, with Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas and Laura Linney is about a woman trying to come clean with her husband about an affair, and then she’s gone. The husband then tracks down the lover in an effort to find her. It was pretty good.


I Love You Phillip Morris is based on a true story.  It's about a man, played by Jim Carrey, who starts out his life as a police officer with a wife and kids.  He evolves into a con man who meets the love of his life, Phillip Morris, played by Ewan McGregor, in jail.  Jim Carrey has such an elastic face and it really comes in handy for some of the characters he plays.  It really enhances his performance in this film.  There were some really crude parts in this film, but overall, it was entertaining.

And that's it for this edition of Movie Monday...

MK out.

Merry, Merry Christmas...

I have long wanted to try this recipe that I cut out of a magazine many years ago.  This year was the year.  It's called Peppermint Candy Shortbread Cookies. You can find it on the Argo Cornstarch website.



Y'all have a good one.

MK out.

FO Friday - 12/24/2010

Not much finishing going on around here...I think it's that Christmas thing getting in the way...but do have one FO to report since last Friday.  It's another one ball wonder cowl.  The yarn is Tokyo by Filatura di Crosa:



And here's one from June.  I saw this cute scarf on Ravelry, and modified the pattern Buttons and Stripes by J. L. Fleckenstein.  I used Comfort by Berroco - one ball in each color.



MK out.

WIP Wednesday - 12/22/2010

Remember that shawl I started last week?  I've worked on it some since then:



I also started a bag out of some yarn I found while I was stash diving that was leftover from a project. I felt like doing something with it right then and there. There is no real pattern...I'm just making it up as I go along.  I am planning on felting it.  It will be a surprise to see what I get:




MK out.

Movie Monday - 12/20/2010

I had never seen The Princess Bride, starring a young Robin Wright Penn in the title role. It is a story within a story. A grandfather reads this story to his sick grandson. It is about a girl who agrees to marry a prince five years after hearing that her true love was dead. However, he is not, and he comes back to claim her. It also stars Mandy Patinkin, Andre the Giant, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Carole Kane, Billy Crystal and several others. It was very good.



The Brothers Bloom is about two brothers, Stephen and Bloom, who seem to have been con artists since their early years in the foster system. Adrien Brody plays the younger one, Bloom, who gets tired of chasing the next con, and wants to get out of the business. However, big bro (my man, Mark Ruffalo) needs him for just one more. Rachel Weisz also stars in this movie full of cons and double-crosses and by the end of the movie…you don’t care to figure it all out. Interestingly, we never find out why they are called The Brothers Bloom, when only one of them is named Bloom, and it is his first name.  It was alright.


Intimate Strangers, in French with English subtitles, is an interesting movie revolving around an abused woman and a tax attorney.  While looking for the office of a psychiatrist, this woman instead goes to the tax attorney's office and launches into the intimate details of what brought her there in the first place.  She leaves there that day still thinking she visited the psychiatrist.  Even when the tax attorney finally corrects her, she continues to meet with him to discuss her situation.  The movie was very character driven, a little quirky and not for everyone.


The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush, Guy Pearce and Timothy Spall, is about the relationship between Bertie (Firth), the soon-to-be King George VI, his speech therapist, Lionel (Rush). It is a good story, well acted and factually based. I really liked it.

MK out.