rosehips after the blizzard

No wonder they make gross tea. They look like they would be gross tea! They're pretty though.

and also, it's snowing

I started making this scarf in white for my sister. It is crocheted sideways, not end to end, and therefore starts with "chain 383". It makes it seem like it's taking longer because the rows are so long. I think it will be pretty cool, though.

Meanwhile, Wax was happily knitting away on the ribbed white legwarmers she is making for me (and when I say white, this is unbleached white sheep's wool so it's actually more of a rich warm cream colour) and we were discussing the Crazy's poor, naked little back and the upshot was that she put my legwarmer aside and started to knit a sweater for the Crazy instead. The theory is that the Crazy loves this particular fat wool so much that she will be delighted to have it attached to her tiny little body. We'll see.

I was reading more Highlander fanfic yesterday and then shiroi_chi posted about it too. Ahhh, Peter Wingfield! Ahhh, that one blue-lit scene that we watched 20 times in a row both backwards and forwards when he jumps out of bed and runs to the door shirtless with his sword! Too bad they can never go back and make any sequels now that he's old. Still hot, but you know... old. Which reminds me there was an episode of NCIS with a dude that looked quite a bit like him and I got all excited and OH LAST NIGHT WE WATCHED AN EP WHERE VASH, PICARD'S GF VASH, WAS A WALK-ON FOR LIKE 2 SECONDS! ♥

i'm thinking... pastels!

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Nothing edible is on this list, because I rarely consider edible things a luxury, even chocolate. If you go to the store for milk or garbage bags and buy that and chocolate, I don't really consider it an impulse buy, because it's not like you don't need chocolate, and you don't want to run out, and it's not like you can have too much, either. And I don't ever buy utterly cheap chocolate like Hershey's bars (not that they even have the equivalent here, I don't think) because I don't consider it edible. Where I do draw the line is between decent chocolate (Fazer, Lindt) and gourmet chocolates (Guylian, Ferrero Rocher, handmade truffles). Gourmet chocolate is a luxury and I actually buy it very rarely because good decent chocolate is already so good that I rarely actually crave the fantastic kind (not just Guylian but this little local shop in my hometown, Nolan's, that made handmade truffles in all kinds of liquer flavours, but ohhh, how I crave the Irish Creme ones. *_* @_@ And amaretto! And Grand Marnier!). That said, Ferrero Rochers are always an appropriate gift. My parents used to give them to me yearly in big boxes for Channukah, Valentine's Day, and Easter, but I've never been able to convince Wax that I'm a pretty princess who deserves pampering with special chocolates - she's more the kind to buy a box of filled chocolates (but not the gourmet ones) every other time she goes to the store. Which, in the long run, is probably more useful anyway.

I've been planning to get good coloured pencils and other art supplies - markers, drawing paper, crayons - for my niece for Christmas, and I noticed today that the store I was planning to buy them at doesn't have Prismacolor. They've got a whole shelf of Faber Castell products and another display taking up the whole wall where they sell them one colour at a time and then a smaller one of that other pencil brand that starts with a W and sounds British and another of Derwent, but no Prismacolor! I don't know if Prismacolor are the best pencils in the world, but I know that they're excellent and they're my brand. (It's like, okay, Chevy and Ford people - and several of my uncles and cousins feel VERY strongly about those things, but I don't care about cars.) I know that FCs are good - I think I have some, in the big bundle of spare pencils my mom sent me last summer - so it should be fine - but... I hate having my plans upset. And they don't have boxes of Crayola crayons. :O I can't give her pastels. That would just be cruel (to her parents).