Loves Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, The Beatles, The Who, The Monkees, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Dean Martin, etc. Definitely born in the wrong era.
28 year old girl from the east bay area in California (read as: nowhere on the map) and also loves all things craft-wise. Is an avid cross-stitcher, knitter, crocheter, photographer, writer, loves drawing, and generally anything that involves making something pretty.
Also loves nostalgia. Both from the 60's/70's, from her own childhood in the 80's/90's, and some even older stuff. You've been warned.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Because I’m dumb (and mostly procrastinating - shhhhhh), I made these on that ipod app IMadeFace. So ummmm…yeah.
Liza afghan progress: Day 7 (I took a day off to work on my sister’s hat)
91 of 220 rows completed
It doesn’t look much different from the last pic since most of what was worked today, aside from thr hair and the ear, was just open space. There’s a bit of a stretch still rhat’s mostly uneventful, but then it’ll launch straight into those goegeous eyes, so it’ll be totally worth it :)
I think it’s time to bring this one back around again…
HOLD THE FUCKIN’ PHONE. FANDOM COLLISION BIG TIME THAT I CAN’T EVEN HANDLE….. LIZA MINNELLI INTRODUCING THE WHO’S “TOMMY” AT THE 1993 TONY AWARDS. MY BRAIN EXPLODED.
Liza afghan progress: Day 6
81 of 220 rows completed
Liza’s got her cute little nose now! :D
Liza afghan progress: Day 5
71 of 220 rows completed
By now, you definitely should be able to see things starting to take shape :)
Liza afghan progress: Day 4: 61 of 220 rows completed Check it out… It’s just starting to finally look like something! Huzzah! (It’ll be even better tomorrow…)
Liza afghan progress: Day 3 I got embarassingly little accomplished yesterday on this (you still can’t tell wtf you’re looking at - dammit!) I’ve currently got 41 out of 220 rows finished. Soon though, it will start looking like something, I promise. A skilled eye might even be able to start discerning certain shapes already. (And this time, it’s right side up because I was more awake when I took the pic LOL)
Re-imagining the Liza afghan, take 4.
I kinda forgot the last attempt at it had been living under my bed for over a year now….whoops. :p Welp. Since I haven’t mastered color changes (ala intarsia style knitting) yet, I’m taking a new approach: starting over (again) and trying this thing as a crocheted piece. I have NO idea how this is giong to go, since I’ve never done colorwork other than stripes in crochet yet, so this may be just as big, if not a bigger, epic fail than last time, but I guess we’ll see what happens. My fingers are crossed.
…but first, I’m airing out the yarn since yeah….it gets dusty smelling after living under a bed for a year. :p (I’ll give the blanket a proper bath when it’s done if it turns out this time, mostly since I don’t feel like dealing with the pain in the ass-ness of trying to wash skeins of yarn, hahaha). Also, for how dang many times I’ve had to re-imagine this piece and approach it differently, I think I’m going to officially title this project Imagining Liza. (No affiliation with the book of the same title, although I am friends with the author.)
I’m too stubborn to give up on this until I find a way to make it work. :p I guess that’s part of my Capricorn nature talking, haha.
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NYC Bergdorf Goodman April 1979
Am I the one who thought of Arthur when they saw Bergdorf Goodman?
Not just you at all!!
♪ Just I and my friend,
we’ll travel for miles in our Saturday smiles
and then we’ll move on;
but we will remember long after Saturday is gone ♪The Sterile Cuckoo (dir. Alan J. Pakula); 1969.
Okay, so this is a dumb question, but: even though I had to have the dvd the DAY it came out…..I have not yet watched it. (That’s not to say I’ve never seen the film. I’ve bought about 6 different bootleg copies of it over the years, trying for better quality each time.) (I also sat on the Lucky Lady dvd for like, almost a year before getting around to bringing myself to watch that one.) (I solemnly vow not to do the same thing a third time over when the Cabaret dvd gets here. XD) Is the color on the dvd really as vibrant as all this, or were these touched up in photoshop? If it really is as rich and vibrant as these photos….well. I know what movie I’ll be doing screencaps of next. XD
Like mother, like daughter.
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