Super International Pajama Day is yet another way in which the blogosphere has enriched my life. When you work at home, and when you work as a freelancer, you’re kind of always working. SIPJDay reminds me how awesome it is to take an entire day to be selfish and unproductive and lazy.

The fact that it coincides with the most adorable sporting event of the year is just an added bonus!

I spent most of the day working on the Lorna’s Laces “Safari” socks. I made it from the toe increases almost to the heel turn. Very satisfying progress, if not the most gripping thing to blog about.

Tags: Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock, Safari Socks

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I sent Pascal to France to buy a nectar maker. Unfortunately I didn’t send him with quite enough money to buy the nectar maker AND, you know, eat. Luckily he had his guitar with him, and was able to play for tips.

Sadly, he wasn’t able to make enough to buy souvenirs to bring home. Where is everyone? Is it just me, or are the new worlds eerily unpopulated?

Another one of Klango’s paintings. I regret having sold this one, but it was worth over §3,000!

This one looks like Sunset Valley to me. Which is funny, because the Alphabettis live in Riverside.

I was holding my breath until the new Life Fruit plant was ready to harvest. Luckily, Klango made it.

His clock says 92, but he’s really something like 110 by now. Speaking of clocks and Sim Days, I learned that if you hover your mouse over the date/time clock on the toolbar, you get a tooltip that shows you how long you’ve been playing this family.

42 weeks, 6 days, in case you were wondering. 300 Sim Days exactly!

Meanwhile, the twins were really boring.

I was glad when it was finally time for them to grow up.

That’s Nick Alphabetti, their grandfather, blowing on the birthday horn.

I had Palatino move out, and gave Pelikan (the heir) a messy ponytail.

Pelikan is Athletic, so I chose the “Martial Arts Master” Lifetime Wish for her. I’m determined to get at least one of my Sims their Lifetime Wish. I’ve never quite made it there, ever! Sad, right?

Tags: Sims Sunday

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It seems like everyone’s getting a new pet these days! (Technically I think Norma’s only long-term-dogsitting Mr. Jeffries, but we all know how that’s going to work out, don’t we?)

I have a new pet, too.

Who’s a good little symbiotic culture of lactobacillus bacteria and yeast? You are, that’s who!

I took up the offer of some random person on the internet, who mailed me dried flakes from his own sourdough starter culture. Yesterday’s gray Patons Classic Wool hat has been mailed off to him in exchange. Man, I love the barter system!

Apparently it will take almost a month before my starter is ready to make bread. Right now it bubbles, but it doesn’t rise. And it smells exactly like ranch dressing, which is a little disconcerting.

Okay, so it’s not the most charismatic pet. But it’s essentially immortal if you keep remembering to feed it. That is why I named it Makoto.

(Is it weird to name your sourdough starter? After your favorite Sims 2 character? I don’t know, maybe. Whatever. Not my problem.)

Tags: Makoto, sourdough

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Oh, and I knocked out another Easy Hat this weekend while I was at it. This one was two strands of Patons Classic Wool held together.

(Actually it was one strand of Patons Classic Wool, and one strand of Patons Classic Wool Merino. But I defy anyone to tell the difference between them.)

Tags: Easy Hat, FOs

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A little while back, I had a minor spazz attack on Twitter. I found a pattern for these great mittens, which are embroidered such that when you held them together in front of you, they formed the Ravelry logo.

Well that’s pretty awesome, obviously. But my mind instantly jumped to something even awesomer, which is John Constantine’s tattoos in the movie Constantine. (They aren’t in the Hellblazer comic book – only the movie. Sniff haughtily if you must, but as an old-time fan of the comic book, I really liked the movie.)

The obvious choice would be to make armwarmers. For that extra bit of verisimilitude when commanding the androgynous and morally-suspect angel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton) to appear.

But it turns out – I’m glad I discovered this before I started knitting – that my boobs are too big to bring my forearms together in front of me. I mean, kind of I can? But there’s a lot of squashing involved, and a certain inability to breathe.

So I backed off that plan, and went with flip-top gloves instead. I chose Urban Necessity Gloves because I’ve been itching to make a pair ever since the pattern came out.

Tags: Constantine Gloves

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