The story of the Fug Foto Shoot.

Fug post here.

A confluence of events occurred to plant the idea in my head of a Halloween photo shoot for the fug.

The original plan had been to take the fug to Princeton for a proper education and shopping. Shannon and I were going to find a statue and have it model the fug.

But you know, I had Turtlegirl’s freaking hilarious post and Trillian42’s post to follow up. Unless I could find a celebrity filming in Princeton (preferably Russell Crowe {A brilliant mind 2?}) there was no way I could follow up those posts.

Then, early this past summer I was at the end of Little League pool party, sitting with the hosts and a couple other parents. The subject of “places you been that are in the Weird NJ book” came up, as sometimes happens when adult beverages are involved. One of the guests brought up the story in the book that is on a road right in our town. Another of the guests said, “I live right there”. Yeah – she the DH and kiddos totally live on a Weird NJ spot, not 2 miles from my house.

Right about the same time, construction started on all the local bridges that go over one of NJ’s major highways. At the time I really didn’t realize the scope of the construction or what that would mean come autumn.

Then I get the fug from Pam and it sat for 6 weeks, waiting till the right moment and the right inspiration.

So on a sunny Saturday morning about 8:30 am, I’m sipping my XXXXXL Dunkin Donuts coffee and watching the first of 2 nephew football games. All the football moms and me (team aunt) are chatting and cheering. It’s always a good time because we all know each other from all the kids sports and events and such. Anyway, as I’m sitting there next to the woman who lives on the WNJ spot, it hits me.

The road in front of her house is closed because of the bridge work.

Halloween is in a little over 2 weeks.

I have to take pics of the fug.

My original idea was to get the fug to float, all ghost-like, on the road in front of their house. The exact spot where “The Moans of Talamini Road” have been heard. What I didn’t take into account was that the fug is FUGGIN’ HEAVY! I had helium balloons shoved up the Muppet raper and under the cape and they wouldn’t hold the darn thing up.

So I had to move to plan B. I think it's still very effective and really pretty tacky. Like the Fug. It works.

YPF - Rhinebeck!

Here is the first of many Rhinebeck purchases. Briar Rose Fibers Fourth of July. I love these colors and could only find 2 hanks of it. There was no way I was leaving this there. I don't know what it will become but whatever it will be I'll love it.

Blogstalking 2.0 - Week 6

A Day in the Life...

Fud?

Ummmmmmmmmm

Treats!

Nummmm - ummm

What's going on out there?

I sleep you now?

Purrrrrrrrr...zzzzzzzzzz

My shiny ball gone. Eat more Mommy treats. Make more toy!

ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-Puuuurrrrrrrrr-Zzzzzzzzzz

No more camera. Tired! Bedtime treats please.

Hurry!

I loves my treats. And Momma.

Blogstalking Assignment 5

On my computer:It's the best I could do. Toys but really more like statues unless my nephews visit the office.

Rhinebeck Recap

I hope to bring a bit of a different perspective to you about Rhinebeck than all the others you've read. I think I may be able to tell you some things no one else has. I'll give you short sentences till we get to the important stuff...

Yeah - Friday we had horrible weather driving up.

Friday evening we checked into the hotel and hung with Shannon and Stephanie.

Jen and I wanted to get to The Fold as early as possible. We got to The Fold about 5 minutes before they started actually checking people out with their purchases. We had our first yarn bought before 9AM.

My second purchase of the day was at Briar Rose Fibers. I introduced myself to Chris and showed her my Cherry Leaf Shawl. Love her! Buy her yarn!

We headed back to the car to lighten our load and that's when it happened. I found the patch of uneven ground right there at the back left bumper and twisted my ankle. I twisted it so badly I even heard it pop. OOOWWWW!

Thank God we were at the car. Jen made me sit down and put up my leg and we sat there for a good 1/2 hour or more. Then I decided to test the ankle out and it felt OK to walk, so we headed over back into the fairgrounds. We had our dessert first. Jen sat me on a bench and went to get our apple pie and apple crisp a la mode. OH MY GOD! My ankle was feeling much better after that.

So we went back into Building A, because Jen wanted to look at a couple things again. It was also conveniently located close to the First Aid building, just in case. I made my third purchase at the booth where they sold lace & fingering weight yarn. I wanted to get yarn made with camel hair. They had some beautiful laceweight yarn, 50/50 silk and camel. So soft. So pretty. Some came home with me. Some Quiviet may have fell into my bag also.

My ankle was done for the day at that point. Jen and I hobbled over to the First Aid station (Jen walked. I hobbled) to get an ice pack. That's where I pretty much spent the rest of the day. I was even the first casualty of the day for the EMTs. Jen went with one of the EMTs to show her where I twisted my ankle and on the way she ran into Shannon and Stephanie and she told them of my misfortune.

When Jen got back I decided to move to the bench in the front of the First Aid building because the day was beautiful and there was good people watching from that vantage point. Shannon came by to keep me company and I shooed Jen off to finish seeing the rest of the yarn. Then I shooed Shannon off because I was happy where I was, and I had purchased all I really wanted to get (notice I didn't say NEEDED). Unfortunately I didn't have any knitting with me, but it didn't matter. The time went quickly.

Now I can say from first hand experience that NY Sheep & Wool organizers/Rhinebeck have great EMTs who provide top notch care to those injured on their property. While talking with the woman who checked my ankle and gave me the ice packs, I found out that this is one of the festivals they all love to work because of the low incidences of injuries.

So nice to know. More proof that knitters are the bestest of folks.

YPF/BlogStalking 2.0 Week 5

Well, there won't be a YPF from me because I didn't have time to pull something yummy out of the stash because I was too busy packing and unpacking and washing and selecting projects and whatnot for...

RHINEBECK!

Then I realized that I didn't post my BlogStalking Week 5 assignment, even tho I thought I uploaded the photos to Flickr. So my week 5 assignment will be late because I already packed the camera and extra batteries for...

RHINEBECK!

No, I'm not excited at all. Jen and I are heading up this afternoon so we can get a fresh start tomorrow morning. I can't wait. I have a hot weather outfit and a cool weather outfit, but either way I'm going to be sweltering in the Cherry Leaf Shawl.

I'll post my week 5 assignment when I get back along with a Rhinebeck recap. And next weeks YPF will be all NY Sheep and Wool purchases!

For those of you coming - See you tomorrow! For those of you that can't come - you'll be missed!

Spooky! Scary! Halloweenie!

Halloween Meme

1. Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes I do. I believe my maternal grandfather comes for visits every now and then.

2. Have you ever seen a ghost?
I think so. Every now and then I feel like someone is watching me, and when I look around, nothing. But it's not a usual creeped out "who's stalking me" feeling. It's like someone you know is right over there and you turn your head to say HI and... nothing. I always feel that it's my Grandfather (same as above). He died when my Mom was in High School so it's weird that I think he's around. But then I'd be his little girl's little girl so maybe that does make some sense.

3. Have you ever experienced something that is best described by the word "paranormal"?
Other than the above? I don't think so.

4. Do you watch any ghost or haunting themed shows?
I watch the American Ghost Hunters show that's on SciFi when I catch it. I love how they scientifically go about proving or disproving hauntings. Really interesting. The stuff I love is when they figure out what that weird ball of light actually is.

5. If so, do you sometimes sleep with the lights on or wake up your partner because the show scared you a whole lot and you can’t sleep and don’t want to be awake alone?
I live alone so the only person to wake up is the cat and she's useless in "I'm scared" situations. I do have to sleep with the closet door shut. I've never been able to sleep with it opened.

6. Have you ever been to a supposedly haunted place? If so, did you experience anything spooky?
I stayed in a B&B in Indianapolis once and that place had a very wierd vibe. I couldn't sleep and when I did get to sleep I had bad dreams. There were a few guests who had the same experience and oddly similar dreams. I dreamt that we were trapped in the house and "they" were coming to get us. We were all huddled somewhere in the house. My ex dreamt we were in hiding and had to be really quiet or "they" would find us. A friend of ours dreamt the same thing but she also felt someone sit on her bed and when she woke up no one was there.

7. How much do you love Halloween?
My birthday is the same week as Halloween so it's always been MY holiday. I love it so much. I only use an orange or black pen starting on October 1st and I even decorate my office/cubicle more for Halloween than Christmas.

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ETA: Not my meme... OLPP came up with it and I nicked it from her.