Crafting the Nation

Hi...

I have started to make some little Amigurumi and since I don't have much money this year for gifts I thought I would make Amigurumi for my nephew...
now I have looked around and I haven't found something to help me much on my project... you see I am looking for a base pattern really beauce I want to make Astro as an Amigurumi I know someone did an Etsy for Astro the original version but my nephew only know the blue jacket version.

I'm pretty sure I can figure out the pointy parts by myself... but I would need a good base body... Any free patterns I could base this off?

Thank you for your help, I personally would like the old version of Astro but kids nowdays...if it's not close it's no cigar...

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Does anyone know how long SCSU takes to send out their final admission letters to the Graduate School? At this point it's pretty much a formality (I think, I mean, they've recommended me for admission and given me an SCSU email and all), but I need to sort out my financial aid and register for classes.

Thanks :)

Can anyone tell my WHY this is such a pain??? I'm in at Southern, just waiting for my official letter, once they review my file or whatever. I have a SCSU email and everything, except I can't register for classes until I'm official. There's problems with my state req's for SMS, if you recall, and the advisor has said she'll call me to discuss it, but so far she hasn't. I know she's extremely busy at the moment, so it's all right.

I was waiting for Rutgers, figuring if nothing else and I got in there I would just go to RU instead and not mess around with the field experience problem in an out of state school.

I got into Rutgers. As an ON CAMPUS student. Meaning I have to take two particular courses, in NEW BRUNSWICK, then I can take everything else online. I live a good fifty miles from campus. I can't commute, obviously. I can't live on campus; I'm an adult with a child and a job. What the hell??? Just because I have a NJ address doesn't mean I can drop everything and take courses there. I applied online for a reason!

So I guess I'm going to Southern and I'll work the rest out later. This just sucks.

Hi! a couple years ago I found a pattern in a magazine for crocheted ornaments made on 2" styrofoam balls. I've lost the magazine (or maybe just misplaced, hopefully!) but want to make more.
they are made in one piece -- all single crochet, using maybe #10 thread?
I've searched the internet for them, but can't find that pattern.
Is there a chance someone has that pattern?
Thanks!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/fri-november-13-2009/recap---week-of-11-9-09?xrs=rss_tdsvids

Highlights from the latest Daily Show headline coverage and guest interviews from the week of November 9th.

I applied to UIUC's GSLIS Leep program last year. Unfortunately, I was denied admission. I graduated from DePaul University in Chicago, IL with a 3.39 GPA (History).

I was a research intern for a professor who is writing a book that is scheduled to be released next year. My recs came from the assistant director at a large public library (where I am employed), the department chair of the adult reference department (my manager), and a former professor.

I am now considering taking the GRE to improve my chances of admission. I am not a great test taker and I don't think I can get a really high score. I am exempt from this requirement because of my undergraduate GPA, so should I even bother?

I am only working part-time so I can devote a lot of time to GRE prep in the next two months, but if it won't make a difference... Please advise me!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-12-2009/11-12-09-in--60-seconds?xrs=rss_tdsvids

Jon wishes Lou Dobbs "buena suerte," waits for Sean Hannity's apology and receives a chimpanzee greeting from Jane Goodall.

I figured I'd grace everyone with my presence presents.

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Hey everyone! I've been lurking in this community for a while, and I figured I would make a post. XD
Recently, I finished making a baby blanket for an expecting co-worker and I just wanted to share.


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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-12-2009/lou-dobbs-goes-rogue?xrs=rss_tdsvids

Lou Dobbs quits CNN because the suffocating network wouldn't let him be as honest and straightforward as he'd like to be.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-12-2009/sean-hannity-apologizes-to-jon?xrs=rss_tdsvids

Not even an apology from Sean Hannity is worth Jon having to watch his entire show.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-12-2009/preggers-can-t-be-choosers?xrs=rss_tdsvids

The House passes the health care reform bill thanks to an amendment barring federal funds from paying for abortions.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-12-2009/jane-goodall?xrs=rss_tdsvids

Jane Goodall weighs in on animal rights extremists and discusses her new community program, Roots and Shoots.

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Carry Prejean refuses to answer Larry King's inappropriate question.

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Finished one more X-mas present! I love it so much I might make 1 for myself!

Gloves are 'Open Crochet Handwarmers' by creativeyarn on Ravelry
Scarf is 'Queen Annes Lace scarf'

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Has anyone ever made the 'Crochet Cable Neck wrap' by Giovanna B? It is beautiful, but I have never done quite a few of the stitches. Is it easy, or a complete waste of my time?

I've begun weaning my Ezlo off of seed and onto pellets. I'm following the vet's instructions to keep pellets and some veggies/fruits available all the time and then letting her have seed for an hour or two at the end of the day.

Ezlo is, of course, freaking out. She's a picky eater anyways, and she's afraid to even go near the pellets. I'm probably not helping matters by giving her seed when I see her hopping around with hunger. But I feel bad. :(

But I'm going to stick with it; obviously it's going to better for her in the long run. I put a new mirror up near her food dish full of pellets so she can copy the "other bird". Even I'm getting my face down near her food dish and chirping happily at her. Technically, I'm her flock so hopefully she'll follow my lead and start checking this new stuff out.

Has anybody here had to wean their budgie off of seed? Any tips or suggestions to make the transition easier? And how long did it take before your bird finally accepted the pellets as a part of their diet?

It's not going to come as a shock that I'm perfectly ok with the end of Dollhouse. Part of me wishes they'd not show the remaining episodes (which they plan to burn out as filler, two at a time, later in the year) because the most recent one was such an excellent indictment of the series premise.

In 'Belonging' the spotlight is handed over to the more talented, but less marketable, Dichen Lachman. Her charcter's real name, Priya, is revealed as well as the rest of her backstory. In season one we learned that Sierra (Priya) was actually placed in the Dollhouse by a spurned lover so she could both be raped at will and punished for her rejection of him. (How anyone remained in denial over the disease at the center of Dollhouse's premise after that...) Anyway, in Topher's view he saved Priya from a serious mental illness.

Encapsulating the episode, no, he did not. What happened was a woman rejected a powerful man, that man took revenge by harming her, she was unable to convince anyone she was being harmed, and another powerful man forced her into sexual slavery, aided by a powerful woman who thinks she is somehow about those around her because she 'looks after' her slaves. Truth blows the illusion of the Dollhouse to hell.

Adele is confronted about the truth of what they do by her boss, who reminds her that failing to comply can mean - well - he's vague, but Adele knows what sort of nasty things she's done and she can extrapolate. She she agrees to place Priya in permanent servitude to her rapist. Topher finally pays attention to something other than himself and realizes what he's done. He sets Priya free. Once freed, she kills her rapist. This leaves Boyd and Topher with the task of dismembering and dissolving the body, then placing Priya back in slavery because 'they will kill her' or 'she can't live with what she's done' or 'she needs to be with the wildly talented Enver Gjokaj', take your pick. All of them mean 'contract isn't up'

The bottom line, the raped (given the choice) chooses to kill rather than be raped again, and those who have supported the rapists are shown to be profiteering and empty shells of humanity unable to accept that they are very bad people, indeed. This, as a season opener, might have been a show. As a series ender, it certainly would work as a repudiation of a deeply flawed core concept that went unexamined too long. To have it as a midway point in a miracle season was well and good, but suggests that they didn't understand what they were setting up until it was too far to admit it. I think Dollhouse was redeemable, but I don't know that Joss Whedon was the man to redeem it. Perhaps if he handed the entire package over to Marti Noxon and got out of the way?

But we live in a world where our daughters and ourselves are more sexual commodities than people.