Who Cares?
Posted by Moose on October 16th, 2008. Filed under: Daily.Scratching your head and clutching a coffee cup in panic over a who vs. whom crisis usually signals the relieved awakening from an unholy nightmare in which some masochist made you take a grammar test at 8:15 in the morning. Only this morning it wasn’t a dream and OH YEAH, THAT MASOCHIST IS ME. Willingly participating in a tragic demonstration of which classes I napped through in hopes of procuring gainful employment. It’s sort of like taking the SATs, except with a direct and unmistakable correlation to the size of your bank account.
By ten this morning, my brain had exploded and the shards lit themselves on fire.
I’m better now.
Since you’ve all been suitably horrified by the idea of a grammar test at the crack of dawn, I’d now like to enthrall you with tales about knitting! and buying things on Etsy! Therefore:
I’m learning to knit!
I bought this on Etsy!
Fine, my tales aren’t that enthralling. Hush.
Jemima taught me to knit last week, and my yarn and I are currently enjoying a particularly tender honeymoon. I rush home eagerly each night into the waiting arms of my knitting, and don’t even get peeved when I notice a dropped stitch three rows back. I’ve completed the first seven rows of a very fetching fuzzy pink hat and am counting the hours until I can return to my knitting needles.
Some people nest when they’re pregnant. I nest when I get sick of choking on dust and staring at blank walls. Since I bid adieu to college almost a decade ago, I can’t really get away with posters tacked up with used chewing gum anymore, but neither am I ready for full-fledged art. If I even knew what full-fledged art was. (I don’t. Large splatters of green and orange on a blank canvas? Porcelain baby doll limbs dipped in red paint?) Etsy is my happy middle ground. Three prints from here and a few from here, and my walls may one day claim a personality other than “blank” and “hey, look! a white wall!”
If you have an Etsy favorite, do me a huge favor and leave it in the comments. My Etsy trawling has become an addiction and addictions must be fed. Especially when one has hours before she can return to her knitting and is still recovering from grammar trauma.
(Another post is up at Lemondrop. They – the great and mysterious Lemondrop They – don’t seem to admire my long and windy titles, because they keep changing them. And, yes, there’s probably a reason why they’re the editors and I’m not sure who gets whom-ed.)
October 16th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Well, I would say my etsy favorite is me, http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5581668
but I don’t think you have that much need for baby blankets and such right now…
I am also a big fan of these prints
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5297121
and these
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5378742
Also, I had a salted caramel hot chocolate last night! And it was VERY delicious! Thanks for the rec.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Ooo. I have lots of favorites. My wedding schtuff was posted in the Etsy wedding blog and I think it sums up a few of them:
http://etsywedding.blogspot.com/2008/10/rebecca-four-things-i-did-use-in-my.html
October 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
My sis-in-law’s stuff on etsy is pretty sweet. Even though I have an inside connection, I always want to buy her stuff. She’s here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5687581 AND http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5148888.
These guys makes some cool creepy jewelry: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5695975 – I recently bought a necklace from them.
I could tell you a million other places. I love me some etsy.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I can’t remember where I came across this Etsy shop, but I adore her prints:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=100095
October 16th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
I’m so impressed. Apparently I’m the only one who HASN’T taken up knitting of ALL my friends every, although you could have some particularly intense knitting related convos with the rest of the bridesmaids group.
I don’t even know what a dropped stitch is! But I can tell my who from whom most of the time. It helps to re-read things with a British accent, btw.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I know a dog that wouldn’t notice a single dropped stitch if he had, say, a nice snuggly sweater.
Loved your Lemondrop blog and I tried to leave a comment. We’ll see if I was successful this time.
October 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Oh lord. Etsy really is a dangerous place. If I tried to list all the places I’ve thought about buying things, and have favorited on Etsy we’d be here all day. So I’ll just put places I’ve actually bought prints from:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=991
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5063179
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=4187
Also, if you want to fancy those prints up for cheap Cheap Pete’s out on Geary has cheap frames and will cut mats for stuff (also for cheap!).
October 17th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Long-time reader, but now you’ve pulled me out of the shadows with this request…this blogger/photographer has awesome prints. She’s a friend of mine with an incredible eye.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5154453
October 17th, 2008 at 11:43 am
YAY! I shall send you knitting stuff. For some reason, I was recently wondering if you knit or not. Probably because I was trying to decide just what to send you.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I love those A.T. prints. And oh my ETSY favorites, I have like five million. Again, with the link-laden email forthcoming!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I’ll delurk for etsy talk. In fact, I came over here after impulsively purchasing a pair of earrings (http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=11105338).
My friend Jennifer’s art is on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5715248
But I also adore this: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=59241
This: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5243975
This: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5665881
And approximately 20 jillion more. It’s pretty fair to say that I think about etsy all day long.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I had to quit Etsy. I was spending too much time lusting over things I didn’t really “need.” (Who defines what necessary, anyway? I think we should come up with a new idea of what it means…like, if you really, really want it, it’s needed!)
October 18th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Hooray – knitting is excellent!!!
And etsy is ace – my favourite etsy shop is ‘buttontree lane’ http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5915730 =)
October 18th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Here are my etsy favorite sellers – mostly jewelry!
http://www.etsy.com/favorite_sellers_public.php?user_id=5010623
October 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Not “art” per se, but fabulous handmade envelopes…
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5525376
October 19th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Grammar tests that early are like interviews or writing tests that early in the morning. My brain does not properly work until after lunch, thank you very much.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I still can’t believe they made you take a grammar test before you could possibly have finished digesting your morning coffee. It’s just MEAN.