friday fluff

Courtesy of the Darwin Awards, this one tickled my fancy -

February 2005, Canada | Canadian winter nights are long and usually quiet, but one exception was the night Constable Morgan responded to a drunk driver call. He caught up to the errant driver and fell in behind in order to establish the commission of the crime. In a short distance, the driver missed a curve and slid into a snow bank. Morgan switched on his lights, stopped his patrol unit, and approached the driver's door.

The driver decided to flee. His tyres, mired in the snow, spun wildly but the car went nowhere. Constable Morgan thought he would have a little fun. He began running in place alongside the driver's window. The driver was surprised to see the Constable keeping up with his car. The speedometer read 100 kph.

Constable Morgan broke the window glass with his flashlight and ordered, "Pull over!" The driver's response? He jammed the pedal to the metal!

The car's speedometer had reached 175 kph yet, astonishingly, the Constable was keeping pace and ordering the driver to stop. Finally, convinced he was never going to outrun the fleet-footed officer, the drunk man let off the gas, turned the wheel, and brought his car to a "stop." The Constable escorted the man to his patrol vehicle, which had magically followed the two on their mad dash across the snow-covered tundra.

The man was charged with DWI, speeding, and failing to yield to a policeman. Brought before the judge for arraignment, the man, who had not quite regained his wits, saluted the incredible athletic prowess of the local officers.

And the reason why my ugly mug wasn't in the photo of the last post was because the camera was perched on the ironing board with the self timer going! Whereas I took the photo of Ant. Anyway, there's a picture of my head on the side bar if you need a reference - I was having a good hair day when that one was taken. :)

We're off to Bruny again this weekend to keep them pesky oysters under control. Actually, the oysters aren't the problem - only the weather and the tides.

Have a good one peoples.

ant's pants

Isn't he just dashing? Again, excuse the photo - I hate using the flash. Anyways, we went out for a friends birthday last Friday night and the boy wore his new wool dacks for the first time along with the shirt I made a few weeks ago.

When we were in Melbourne back in July Ant found a shirt in a shop which caught his eye, lots of splashes of orange, yellow and bits of red and other colours. All very random and Jackson Pollock-y. He offered the sales assistant a cash amount for less than the tagged price but she said she couldn't do that, so when we left the store I said I'd go to Spotlight, find a similar fabric and make him the shirt. I'll have to take a photo of the fabric in daylight as this one doesn't do it justice. He's already had a few compliments on it which is pretty good as he's only worn it twice.

So here's my new dog walking jacket. It turned out a bit bigger than I'd like and I had to buy a heavier duty zip just to get the length I needed. It has a hood too and I was supposed to put a draw string in that but left it out as I didn't see the point, I don't really like using hoods anyway. The next one I do I might attach a ribbed collar instead, easy peasy.

And the lovely Cathy passed on the Kreativ Blogger award to me and some other crafty people. Thanks Cathy!!

I'm supposed to pass on the award to 5 other bloggers but again I can't decide and I don't want to leave anyone out either, there's just too many creative bloggers out there!

friday fluff - which super villian are you?

Your results:
You are Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy 44% Green Goblin 40% Mystique 40% Kingpin 39% Venom 36% Apocalypse 35% The Joker 35% Dark Phoenix 34% Riddler 30% Lex Luthor 30% Magneto 29% Mr. Freeze 26% Catwoman 26% Dr. Doom 25% Juggernaut 20% Two-Face 16%

You would go to almost any length for the protection of the environment including manipulation and elimination.

Click here to take the "Which Super Villain am I?" quiz...


(for some reason Blogger doesn't want to compact the above stuff so there's big gaps - sorry!)

Recently Shannon's Friday Fluff was Which Superhero are you?, and found this one on the same site. I don't mind the idea of Poison Ivy, much better than say The Joker or Lex Luthor.

Have a great weekend everyone. We're off to Bruny Island, now it's spring the oysters are needing attention so it will be busy weekends from now until Christmas - eek!

we sew

Ant's been working on the restoration of his Mini Moke, with one of the 'to do's' being the re-upholstering of the seats - which of course is something we can do ourselves.

The seats and backrest cushions have a back that extends around the metal seat frame and are laced at the back. Ant's done most of the assembly however he's 'let' me attach the cushion section to the back. It's actually not as hard as we thought.

We'd like to get this bit done so we can take part in the Moke Fest at Campbell Town in a few weeks. As it's only about an hours drive away we feel confident the little car can make it that far... :)

So I found some lining for Ant's dacks.

As thought, these trousers have been a real challenge - but then they are proper dress pants with loads of fiddly bits. There's not too much more to do but I've been finding that I need little diversions to keep me 'sewing sane'.

That's just a taste of what's to come. I've also been needing a new dog walking track suit type jacket, so out comes the overlocker/serger and a nice simple pattern has been purchased. I already had the knit fabric.Nice.

friday fluff

One of the cutest videos I've ever seen and a groovy song to boot -

sewing companion

Lucy always amazes me, how a big dog whose height reaches just above my knee can curl herself into such a tight little ball.

Each morning when I sew before work she comes in to the sewing room and quietly lies somewhere out of the way.

Although, I think she's a bit disgruntled that I'm not lighting a fire so much any more and just have the little fan heater going. This girlie really loves a fire, and will usually get so hot in front of the lounge room wood heater she'll start panting before she decides she'd better move away to cool off.

Thanks also for the dacks sewing encouragement. I've nearly finished cutting all those pieces out but have to buy some suitable lining fabric this arvo, so yeah, that means more pieces to sew!

dacks for me

Here's my new dacks (pants - usually applied to track pants, ie: trackie dacks), cat hair and all, that I made from the pure wool fabric I bought at the Waverley sale (as mentioned in the 'tired' post). I had to line them of course or else they'd just be way too itchy so I used some of the green toile type cotton fabric Ant bought for me a while ago and it works a treat. These pants are so warm, and I wear them a lot too.

So next is Ant's dacks. I started to cut out the pattern this morning (an old Vogue one), and it has 20 pattern pieces!!! I've never made men's pants before, it even has a piece called a 'crotch guard' - huh? Makes me think of Elizabethan times and I have to make a cod piece. Hmmmm the words "time and place" comes to mind.....