valentine

2011-02-13T11:17:00.000-05:00

I am learning how to love myself. winking helps.

craft time

2011-02-13T11:10:00.000-05:00

I made a new purse from a japanese book. I am so worldly. I used some tweed my moms gave me with an exciting magenta lining. I think it looks pretty awesome. Here are the pics so you can decide for yourself. Praise is always appreciated.

lining! its linen look. all the look of linen, but none of the price?

its pretty big, in this pic it is hiding my moby dick sweatshirt.

another bag.

2010-12-08T20:44:00.000-05:00

This one is for me. It is another amy butler pattern. I used anna maria horner fabric and I went to town. I worked on it pretty consistently last week because I needed to finish it up before I left for a month. I wanted to have a clean craft area. So here it is:

Purse has a couple of dividers

handle detail.

BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER!!!!

2010-12-08T20:12:00.000-05:00

Viv texted me yesterday, very excited to bring me my birthday present she could not wait a month until I got home. I am turning 30 in 1 day. Very exciting. Good thing I still look 25, or else I would be upset. Anyway, she presented me with an amazing quilt. Last year I had emailed her a pattern from Anna Maria Horner, wanting to do it. But, I am too scatterbrained and forgot about it, but Viv did not. Not only did she make this awesome quilt, she went to great lengths to find the fabric. SO thoughtful. I am not a hugger, but I hugged her twice. TWICE. I slept with it on my bed last night. so warm. so wonderful. I HEART VIV.

This quilt is ridiculous. Very complex. I can't imagine cutting these pieces out. Good thing viv is such an expert.

I am just maxin' and relaxin' on the quilt.

Viv is pretty awesome. I am going to make her a purse to reciprocate.

I am also thankful for my other wonderful gifts like itunes gift cards, the promise of my very own crapples set, soft socks, etc.

Interview of ME

2010-12-02T15:54:00.002-05:00

I am doing this for Renee's sake. It is not half as interesting as hers because my parents and relatives read this. Also I am much more boring. You will get to learn about the cupcake I would make up, which sounds delicious.

renee: get ready for YOUR interview.
me: I am ready
renee: Darcy, a lot of people have noticed that you drink a lot of Coke zero, please discuss.
me: You are uncovering my secrets. I LOVE coke zero. It is my crack cocaine, my 8 ball, my tiny bag of heroine. I love it. I also have recently discovered wild cherry pepsi 0. it is delicious. Also it’s not straight coke zero
renee: Right, sorry.
me: only cherry

halloween this year. I was sushi.

renee: Okay next question. If I told you you had a nice body, would you hold it against me? Are you tired? Because you've been running through my mind all day.
me: you are dirty. You try to get close to me. I know. You have a paramour. I am alone, stop rubbing it in. ask me a real question
renee: If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only have 3 items, what would they be?
me:
1. my ipod with all of my music with unlimited battery supply and headphones
an unlimited supply of TEA.
not to get too techy, but I would also take my mom's e reader because then I can keep myself busy and entertained
renee: I cannot believe you didn't say bible
me: when i am not out hunting boar.
renee: I guess you could get the bible on e reader
me: Yes I did not say bible
renee: Do you enjoy boar?
me: well I would have to survive. I am sure it takes like piggy. i like piggies. my uncle used to be a pig farmer/breeder
renee: ReallY?! Did you name any of the piglets?

french night.

me: no. I actually never went in to see the pigs. It is pretty foul smelling around them. My grandfather was the vet for the pigs, that was pretty cool.
renee: Is that what inspired you to be a doctor?
me: Not particularly. I wanted to be a virus hunter in high school, find ebola. etc
renee: in HIGH SCHOOL? You're so bookish. Craziest thing you've ever done?
me: hmm. I am not very crazy. definitely nothing as cool as the things you do. let me think about it through out the interview. I will come up with something
renee: Okay
me: Maybe someone who knows me can comment (remember my parents read this) about it later.
renee: If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional. with whom would it be?
me: Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. I would love to live as a gentle woman in that time. I love to just chill and craft. I would fit right in
renee: You know what, Elizabeth was also a bit sassy. Jane was more gentle, but also a pushover If you were Elizabeth, you would marry Mr. Darcy, and then your name would be.... DARCY DARCY
me: WOAH. mind blowing.
renee: I think that's the real reason you want to be Elizabeth Bennet.
me: you caught me.
renee: What would I find in your refrigerator right now?

fake wayfarers

me: oh man. not much. I have some beer, some liquor, a little bit of cheese from a farm near by, some eggs, and some delicious local jam. the jam is from a lady in MA. Raspberry lime rickey. it is so good
renee: Would you consider yourself a "locavore?"
me: I try.
renee: If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?
me: Rachel bilson from the OC
renee: I have to look that person up, hold on. She looks like you!
me: but way hotter
renee: Not even.
me: haha. you are too kind
renee: Okay, tell me about how you got to Connecticut. I mean the decision process, not the mode of transportation.
me: well that is pretty easy. I applied all over the country to md phds. I got some interviews, but not very many. Uconn accepted me into the program. no one else did.
renee: That is pretty easy. If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
me: A girl with too many hobbies.
renee: ooh, good one. Would you rather be incredibly rich or incredibly smart?(meaning more incredibly smart than you already are) actually I don't like that question. Why psychiatry?
me: I love the drama. I like to wake up and wonder, what is going to happen today on the floor?
Who is going to start yelling/screaming? who is going to say some seriously inappropriate things? I like that it is socially acceptable to talk about people
and I just think it is fascinating to see people's mood change and hallucinations stop with therapy and drugs.
renee: That is very interesting.
me: why thank you for noticing. I like to say that now when someone compliments me

I was crazy when my lab coat was on.

renee: You are an interesting lady. I noticed that.
me: yes i am
renee: I spend a lot of time noticing you. ;)
me: oh emoticons
renee: You hate them.
me: I have a love hate relationship with them
renee: It's hate hate, and it's okay, I understand.
me: i do like the emojis on iphone because you can fist pound BUT
renee: you CAN?
me: when I guy texts me an emoticon or email it is a deal breaker
renee: It's over, right? I feel the same way, actually. Describe yourself in 5 words
me: oh man. Crafty, sarcastic, sassy, considerate, intelligent
renee: Glass, half empty or half full?
me: empty, but I am working on my pessimism
renee: What would you do if there was an elephant in your backyard?
me: put out some peanuts very quietly. don't want to get an elephant riled up

I love to flex my platsyma.

renee: How are you planning to celebrate the upcoming New Year?
me: I am going to be with my FAMILY. I am spending a LOT of TIME with my family this winter
renee: How positively Elizabeth Bennet of you.
me: yes hopefully will be relaxing and I will get to go to Jilly's cupcake bar in the lou
for my bday did i mention i am getting super old?
renee: That sounds amazing. If there were a DarcyM cupcake, what kind would it be?
me: I would call it the fluffernutter: it would be a banana peanut butter cupcake with marshmallow inside with nutella/chocolate frosting on top
renee: omg That sounds AMAZING
me: i ate those a lot in senior year of college
renee: What if you were a sandwich
me: i would have apricot almond chicken salad from whole foods with cheddar cheese, red onions, on 12 grain bread
renee: You love chicken salad. especially with cheddar I am giving you a month vacation with unlimited budget. Where are you going to go?
me: vacation: I would go to New Zealand. From lord of the rings, I have learned they have all types of climates
renee: I did not know that. What would you do there for a whole month?
me: hang out with hot maoris
renee: Hot.

Stay tuned for perhaps other interviews. I am not promising anything, but maybe.

Rants of a mad nerdess.

valentine

craft time

another bag.

BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER!!!!

Interview of ME