Mellowbeing

A few weeks ago, some friends and I made the trip all the way from NYC to Philly (it took as much time as a long train ride to Brooklyn).

If you ever have the inkling, definitely go.  It’s an incredibly creative city.

Philly is known for it famous murals:

and the general artsiness…

… maybe even their sweets (Oh those cupcakes and canolis!)

.. but who knew about the bathrooms?

You may be thinking, “where are the cheesesteak photos?”.  Mm, well, I will give Pat’s one vote but to be fair to the rest, we didn’t make it to Geno’s nor Jim’s.  Next time.

I made this sans pattern for my coworker Jenny.  Let’s just say she has a small obsession with chicken.   :) It’s just like some people are quite obsessed with finding free stuff on Gumtree or a certain band. There isn’t much available for chicken fans so I thought I’d make her this so she won’t feel left out when people are walking around in band t-shirts or with the things they got from Gumtree.

The last “thing”!  I know it’s a bit of a late post.. but hey, I made it on March 1st and photographed it soon after.  I think writing the actual post is what gets me.

This necklace was originally made while on the phone with my friend.  I got some plastic string, randomly grabbed at a bunch of pearls (fake) that I’d collected over the years, made a knot and wore it.  The problem with it was 1) the string ends kept coming out of the beads (where I tried tucking them into to hide them) and were poking my neck 2) even though it was long enough to go 3 times around the neck, I couldn’t since there was no clasp and 3) I wanted to re-randomize the beads.

Hence, thing #28.  Restrung with wire metal, proper clasps and new bead order.