FO #6! Crochet Hat!

This is gonna be a quickie b/c I've got to run out to rehearsal and then immediately after rehearsal I'm hopping on the 151 bus to head to pick up the MegaBus to go HOME! 

Here's my first crocheted hat!  Courtesy of a free crochet lesson from Allyson at The Sweatshop of Love.

Also featured in this terrible picture is my awesome new lipstick and shimmer-y-nes!  And never mind that it's situated wonky like on my head b/c I just finished doing my hair. 

Wordless Wednesday: HOME

What Day is Today?

My roommate Mikey and I just collective realized today is Tuesday and not Wednesday or Thursday... In our world (she's a lighting designer), weekends don't really matter, that is they aren't generally work free, but certain days have certain things going on.  Especially when you work free lance like we do.  It was quite the strange realization.  I'm actually ok with it only being Tuesday, because I have a lot to get done before Friday night when I hop on the Megabus and head home!  I'm unreal excited about going home this weekend.  Even though it's only for like 36 hours.  Wedding/bridesmaid dress shopping with the besties, shopping with my mom, dinner with my family, etc! 

One of the things I need to get done before I get home is a knitted scarf for a dear, dear person.  My parents have lived in their house for 20 years now.  And our neighbors across the street moved in a few months before we did.  Our families have pretty much blended together, and I'm super close to all of them.  Especially Old Man Marr (granted he's a few years younger than my dad).  He's become a second dad.  Anyways, I'm making him a scarf as an early Christmas present (he spends a lot of time outside, so I'd like him to have it for a majority of the cold months). 

In other news, you should check out this playlist of MUSIC TO KNIT BY that I saw on Twitter this morning. 

And here's a gratuitous picture for the day: 

What I plan on eating Saturday night with my parents....Daddy Deeter's Steak!

Work In Projgress #1/HOME!

I'm dragging a bit today.  I just woke up from a nap, and I have to leave in 25 minutes to head to Rogers Park to see a show at Northwestern -- a good friend of ours is the props master there.  Yay free theatre!

I got up early this morning and went to a free crochet class at a local library.  Hopefully, I'll have more to share on this soon.  I also did some work for one of the shows I'm working on.

Most importantly, I booked my Megabus tickets home for this coming weekend (to go wedding dress/bridesmaid dress shopping with one of my BFFs) and for Thanksgiving!!!!  I'm SO unbelievably excited!  I haven't been back to Indy since I moved up here in August...I miss it so!  And Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, so I'm psyched to spend it with my family!!

Lastly, here's one of my works in progress.  Two of my BFFs from high school are engaged (Ann got engaged lat Christmas and is getting married in May, and Sarah got engaged a few weeks ago and is getting married in August).  I'm going home in a week to dress shop with Sarah.  We've done the dress shopping with Ann.  Back before I moved, I asked her how she and her hubby-to-be would like a hand knitted (by me) blanket for their wedding gift (partially because God knows I can't afford much else), and she flipped!  So I've started.  I'm working on the 7th square (of 20).  Here's what I've got so far.  The long ones count as 2 squares b/c they're twice as long as the regular ones.