I really should post more often, shouldn't I? This Friday I went to the Distillery District in downtown Toronto. I happened to pick up some "vintage lucite" floral beads from a place called Tank. Normally I don't like plastic beads and think they're tacky, but somehow if you call them "vintage lucite" it makes it a cool plastic. :) Today I went to Michael's after church and picked up some freshwater pearls to make the blue bells and pink earrings above complete. The clear blue beads are ones a friend gave me for my birthday. In the end I wasn't satisfied with those fishhook wires and ended up swapping them out for some longer trendy wires... and didn't take a picture of the finished product before giving them away.

Tree Necklace

My Mom wanted to buy all of her daughters necklace charms this Christmas, but couldn't find a tree.

However, she gave me some money instead, and I ordered one of these that I had seen on Etsy. I got it in the mail two days ago and wore it to school today.

Owls

So, I decided that at some point this year I would knit a sweater. I figure it is the next big accomplishment that would be logical in knitting, as I've mastered scarves and touques and mitts and such. Even though sometime late last year I told a couple of my housemates that I thought people who knit their own sweaters are crazy because a) they take forever and b) you can buy something cheaper.

I found this sweater that I'd really like to make (see it here too). I've been waiting since last week to go out and buy the yarn and get the required needles, however, stupid Michael's was out of at least half of their circular needles and didn't have the right lengths nor sizes. So I'm either going to have to track down a knitting store or get the needles online. Blah.