Yoga Trees and Japanese Sleeves!

Whaddup, folks

I just spent an entire day on my living room floor surrounded by - and covered in - paper and tape. I've been manipulating sleeve patterns. Learning how to make someone's shoulder look like a pumpkin or a peacock - win.
It's college kindergarten - cutting and pasting! Only this time there are rules....so many rules! and nobody joins in and giggles when you start eating the paste (tape in our case) - they all just shift a little farther away and quietly mention to the professor that the girl over there - yeah, at the end of the table - may need professional help.

At any rate, I really want these books! I'm going to use the pattern from one to create a paneled sleeve for a tailored wool jacket. :}
Oh and ya see that little blue sticker there - that says "Now in English!" Yay! The ones we have in the studio are completely in Japanese - makes the pages look real sleek and modern, however.....I can only hypothesize what the diagrams mean. "That means it's equidistant, right?" "Uh.....yeah, totally,"

 In other news, my yoga classes are going fabulously! I've had a lot of good feedback to the Vinyasa flows that I've been teaching.
In my own practice, I've been working on my intention, bringing purpose to each of my fingertips, my shoulders, my quads, even to my chin - each and every goshdern piece; a reason for it to be exactly where it is.
I've also been focusing on my Sun Salutations and really utilizing breath throughout each movement, no matter the speed. Finding a moving meditation. OoooAaaaMmmm. :}

Ooo! Ooo! If you have a flat roof or a porch, designate one yoga mat as an outside mat and take your practice to the great outdoors! The roof outside my bedroom window is flat, so after my runs, I take my mat out there and enjoy the breeze and the sunshine! Take your tree pose to the trees! - heh. heh. I'm so clever.

Tree Pose

Have a fabulous Thursday! :}

I need your loving.

 Just watched The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.  Poignant.

Patience waits for no man.

 These last few weeks have been teaching me lessons in patience. Letting things rumble and roll at their own pace can be terribly frustrating.

~I have been moving to a new place (which is why I haven't posted in a while)- a house with two of my favorite ladies! And the new place has a utility sink....STOKED.
However, each box takes forever to pack, migrate, and unpack.. It has now been several months since I started; the back of my car is still teeming with hula hoops, a blender, towels, and massive, poorly packed boxes of random junk.

And my frankieBeast disappeared at 3o'clock in the morning as I was moving - at my old place, of coourrse {I thought that if every night I took food out to the old apartment and sat around shaking it, maybe she'd come back to me...to no avail. I do hope she's not been taken hostage by some rogue hooligan raccoons}. ........It's been a month. I think the FrankaBeez has found another home. :{{{ I hope she's safe and warm.

Ah....memory....all alone in the moonlight. CATS. sigh.

~Knitting always takes longer than I think it will and writing a pattern - as this is my first pattern, i have no idea really what I'm doing - I've gotta keep ripping stitches out and starting over.


~Also just finished a simple button up women's "boyfriend" shirt with wild and crazy (by which i mean - TOOK FOREVER and two days) embroidery - class project. It was one of the shirts chosen to be featured in my school's advisory board showcase (along with my illustration portfolio and my cotton research)!

At the advisory board

Back Panel Prior to construction

At any rate, here's some Frank Ocean. 

 

ooooo Hey Hi there SexySexy.

Also, we went to the Highland Games this summer. Killer.

The coolest man on earth says hello.

Oh! Yeah, and my half marathon is 3 weeks away. My training schedule has lost all semblance of consistency since school started. I was up to 9 miles last weekend but a lovely little sicky bug attacked me this week. I've been inundating my system with echinacea, vitamin C, and Honey Nut Cheerios (you know, for my cholesterol). Crossing my fingers that I can get back at it this weekend!

Have a fab week! :}