Folding Boxes, Part 2

Part 1 here.

Work has its times of business and idleness. So when I'm idle, I get all crazy with the paper.

Nesting boxes! The thing that they're sitting on is a paper cutter (the guillotine type, which, frankly, astounds me in this day and age- nobody's come up with a laser paper cutter by now??) which I use to cut the paper into squares (of varying sizes, for the nested boxes).

Planning trips, planning my life after this show, counting the days until I get to leave this city and its -10% humidity (I only exaggerate a little). Soon enough, I'll be baking in humid heat.

A little Green Lantern game to play online if you're bored.

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Folding Boxes

Work is, lately, in two modes: busy and bored.

When times are boring, I can't just sit still. My work husband's daughter painted this:

Pretty good for a three-year-old. So I cut six 5-inch squares out of her work and made something for her:

A triangular box with lid. My phone's crappy pictures are making the neon pink look red, and the colors look very muted, but they're very bright shades of yellow, orange, and pink.

It's pretty small, since the squares were only 5 x 5 inches, but big enough for a toddler to play with. And for the record, I do not recommend doing intricate origami with paper that has uneven splotches of paint on it. Makes it very difficult.

Still, I hope she likes it (she's the one daughter in the middle, between two brothers). I made other boxes (a hexagon and a larger triangle) for the boys, but I didn't have paintings from them, so their boxes are made out of leftover graphs and print-outs from work.

Time to go be bored ... and then to be insanely busy ... and then bored again ... and then busy again! Whee!

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Lazy Scarfy

Hmm. Been slacking on the blog lately.

My works hours have steadily climbed higher lately, and my workweeks now include Saturdays. So, because of my slowly decreasing free time, I've been trying my hardest to relax whenever possible.

And since I'm crazy, I decided, on a whim, to start up a knitting project. I did a search on my blog and noticed that I have never mentioned knitting before. This is pretty crazy to me, as I have been knitting for a very long time. Granted, I haven't made anything in a while, but still.

I bought three balls of yarn (9 p.m. trip to Wal-Mart in flannel pajamas), dug out my knitting needles, did a mass online search for a pattern that I liked, and started. Unfortunately, I don't know where I found this pattern. I jotted down four lines in a notebook with my crazy knitting shorthand, picked up the needles, and cast on 72 stitches. I didn't take a gauge (it's a scarf, after all), I didn't test, I just started.

I've been slowly making my way on this scarf. Because I picked (of all things) a ribbed cable pattern, it's pretty time-consuming and also very yarn-consuming. I don't really mind either issue. I don't have a deadline, I'm just knitting to comfort myself.

Progress so far:

I desaturated the photo (taken on my phone) because it was morning when I took it, and the sun was making the colors all wonky. The yarn's called "ocean" and is a rather nice blue. I'll take a real picture of the scarf sometime.

I'm thinking that I'll make matching fingerless mitts once I'm done with the scarf- I should have enough yarn.

Nothing interesting going on, nothing interesting to mention. Just a scarf.

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