food for thought

a friend emailed me today about this catering company called food for thought and when i looked them up i saw that someone i know started this company. how cool! it is a catering company with a cause. they use their company to give job training and employment opportunities for youth in the inner city. check it out.

{aside: omg, i just realized i haven't posted anything here in 3 months! it's because i've been posting on my other two blogs. this is what happens when you have too many blogs.}

1st crochet project: booties

I finally finished these last night! These pink booties are a 2-month overdue birthday gift. I hope they still fit her.

dude

i want one of these...

owls

These are so cute.

by yumiyumi.

prints

I want to get some art for my walls. What do you think of these?

by dkim.

fig & ave 57

is the theme of the photos in this post, and the area of the neigbhorhood that I frequent most. Figueroa is the main street which runs through Highland Park. In September, the much-anticipated Antigua Bread Bakery Cafe (not to be confused with Antigua Cultural Coffee House in El Sereno) opened near the corner of Fig and Ave 57. I don't find myself going there a lot. It's nicely set up inside, and I'm glad it came in. It just lacks a little something that I'd look for in a cafe...


At the fruit stands on the NE and SW corners of that same intersection, you can get a whole bunch of fruit cut up for you and sprayed with lime juice right on the spot for just a couple 'o bucks. Yum!

Here are a few more pics, just to give you a feel. This photo was taken from west of Fig, on Ave 57.

Here is the smaller parking lot by the Metro train station.

I took all of these back in October, thus the brightness. I've been trying to take some photos as I ride the Metro, so hopefully those will be coming soon as well.

my first hat

I picked up knitting again a few weeks ago, after a 2-year hiatus. All I've ever knit are scarves of one color. So I thought I'd take it up a notch (haha, get it?) by knitting a hat, with two colors. I forgot that I'd have to first re-learn knitting basics, let alone learn to knit in a round and use two colors. It was supposed to fit an adult head but it came out so small that I don't know whose head it will fit (probably a small child). Also, the outside came out all bumpy so I had to turn the hat inside out. I want to give this hat to a kid who can use it, but I feel so bad giving this to someone as a gift. Rather than giving it as a gift, maybe I can just show it to them and say something like, "Hey, do you want this?" :)

I'm also teaching myself to crochet and working on two projects. We'll see what happens. Learning how to read patterns has been a slow process. Every time I come across something I don't know, I have to google it and try to find out what I'm supposed to do. It's a lot of trial and error, and unraveling. My mom is an awesome crochetter (is that a word?), but she doesn't know what all of these abbreviations and terms mean. She does it all intuitively. Are there any other knitters or crochetters out there? I'll take any tips on resources, websites, books or advice.