Here is the Trillian.  It's really hard to photograph because it's so long.  It turned out 69 x 12 so it is definitely more of a scarf than a shawl.  I worked on Charity knitting yesterday and today I'm back to the spinning but I'm not making much progress.  I still need to fix the socks and work on the cupcake.  Not that I think I will finish the spinning but if I do I have the next fiber ready.

I've been listening to a lot of Knit 1 Heart Too and I have reached the swants (spell check is not going to like that word).  Steven West is a knit wear designer (his designs are hit and miss for me) and he got it in his head to make sweater pant (swants).  Now he doesn't knit these but looks for sweaters in second hand stores then cuts and sews them to be pants.  Basically you put your legs in the sweater upside down and your legs go in the arm holes.  You cut out the neck and sew the hole closed so you now have pants, you can look them up if you are really curious.  For some reason this odd thing kind of went viral last year around Christmas (they were even on the Today show).  Wendy, from Knit 1 Heart Too was teasing another podcaster that he should make some and somehow that morphed into her making some for herself if people donated to charity.  She even made a video of herself dancing around in them with "coming attraction" movie style labels like, "Other pants fear her."  It was really funny and I think it's still out there on Youtube somewhere.  I think I only have one more episode then I'm caught up to 2014.

I don't want to "rant" but I have some not really thought out thoughts.  I've been watching a lot of make up tutorial videos because I find them fun.  I think putting on make up is fun, like a craft project for your face.  You get to play with colors and change your whole look with just a lipstick.  I don't do it often because it takes time and lets face it I'm to lazy. When I do wear it I get these odd comment like "Wow you make up looks good."  It's a compliment I know, but it's weird.  It's as if they think that because I don't wear it often I'm going to look like a clown when I do wear it, so it feels a little off.  Maybe they are just surprised that I'm wearing it and have nothing better to say.  There seems to be a lot of people I know that seem to feel that make up is a waste of time and money and that you should just be o.k. with being you.  You should be o.k. with being you but, putting on make up does not mean you are trying to be someone else or hiding your real self.  What's wrong with using a little color on your face to show the world you are in a good mood? Now I'm sure there are people who go over board, spend money they can't afford on cosmetics, refuse to go out till the look perfect, fell like they are "less than" without their face made up but, you can't paint everyone with the same brush (hehe).  There is the other side too.  Women who wear make up are thought of as more put together and tend to get more money and promotions. I think there was even a woman who got fired, a few years ago, for not wearing make up. That's not right either. There should be a middle ground where people can just be them selves without being judged by one side of the other.  O.k. that is the end of my silly lecture on the merits of make up.  

You can tell there isn't much going on if I am sitting here thinking about people's opinions on cosmetics. We went shopping today so nothing other than that got done (well besides regular chores).  I did try to do a ombre (I don't know how to make the accent mark above the "e") effect on my daughters nails.  It turned out o.k. but I went outside the lines a lot.  I want to try it again on me it looks really cool.  The "trick" is many layers of nail polish. I think that's it for today.  I'll see you next time.