Sisterhood of the Skirts Six Step Away

I went shopping with my dear friend and roommate Esther the other day. We saw these gorgeous long skirts and just had to get it.

Oh and I just have to mention how it was the first time I successfully bargained with the vendor! The price tag read 990NT, and we got them at 800NT each. I don't know if we got a bargain or not, but I'm very proud to have negotiated for a better price at all.

Mine is the one on the left. Though we agree that we can switch whenever we like.

Esther loves the series The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, and we always joked that amongst ourselves, we lived like cavemen... so we dubbed this Sisterhood of the Skirts Six Steps Away (our beds and desks are approximately six steps apart), and came up with a few rules:

1.) Don't pick your nose when wearing the skirt (or EVER, really XD)
2.) Don't be a caveman
3.) Don't hand-wash the skirt (this is actually a must-do, or so the vendor says)
4.) Do swearing while wearing the skirt
5.) Be a girl, not a bitch
6.) Love your skirt, love your sister

I foresee instances of us stepping out of the skirt in a hurry in order to shout a swearword......

Riddle Me This- Riddle 2

     Another real-life escape game!
   
     Last year I went to RMT workshop's series of escape games. The plot is set in the future, where we're all doomed for some reason unless we have a certain drug. The drug needed something called 'element T' to work, but the element no longer exists. In the past three games we found out about a professor's work on the drug and he evil schemes of the company the professor was in to control the world with drugs. We traveled back to the pass and acquired the mysterious element T, and solved the murder of the professor.
 
    This time, we're sneaking into the RMT company building, to make an antidote for the drug the company wants to use to control the world. Instead of simply looking around, clues are often given by characters we can engage. 80 minutes until time's up! The object is to escape with the remedy!

    I went with the group of people my friend and I met during an earlier escape game. We bonded very quickly and promised to go to every game together.
 
    W're the pink team!!

   My dear roommate Esther couldn't make it this time, so with us is my fellow nerd friend Glen and the lovely, possibly future roommate Lucy (six and third from the left respectively).

I love the added element of interaction with story characters. Certain clues can only be obtained if you approach the character in the right way.

There were all these secrets we had to uncover. Every character seems shrouded in mystery. And half way through the game a character dies!! (We were called into the bathroom and found him lying there. I almost screamed my head off XD)

We got to the final step, but we ran out of time. If only we had five more minutes! Out of the five groups participating in the challenge, only one group successfully escaped.

Oh well... there's another escape game at the end of this year. I'm sure we'll get out in time then!

Crochet Violets in Flowerpot

Today is the birthday of my lovely, wonderful freshman Eng. professor Mary~ I love her classes so much! (If you happen to be reading this, Happy Birthday!!! And I can't wait to take your American Lit. classes when they finally stop clashing with my schedules!!!)   

I remember surprise parties and pranks we did in high school whenever it's a teacher's birthday, and I would love to do that again, but I found out a bit too late, plus I don't want to fail the class XD 

I thought since my dear professor is getting a new office, some plants would make a nice office-warming/birthday gift.

A quick dive into my yarn stash gave me what I needed for the present I had in mind (thank goodness, since I'm fairly certain the craft shop nearby was closed then).

Picture is courtesy of  dear Professor Mary Goodwin <3

The pattern referenced can be found at Knits ~n~ Purls ~n~ More. I have a different hook size and not as much yarn as the pattern indicated, so I pretty much winged it after getting the gist of things (no surprise there really, since I'm always so faithful to patterns XDD).

They look so nice I think I'm going to make a whole bunch and line my windowsill! 

Project Preview~

    I'm working on a project involving lots of granny squares lately, I've run out of yarn though, so another big craft store shopping spree is due~ Here's what I have so far:

    Guess my love for the color purple is evident now XD
   
   

Friendship Bracelet

     I was shopping at a nearby craft store lately and I saw an array of embroidery threads. I suddenly have a flashback to the summer before 4th grade: I was in camp, and an instructor taught us kids to make colorful friendship bracelets with embroidery threads. I was enthralled and spend a huge chunk of the holidays making bracelets for everyone I know.
    Needless to say I bought some right away and immediately started knotting away~

   
      Aren't they beautiful!? I get a kick out of just looking at the colors together (❁´◡`❁)*✲ﾟ*

     I only remember a few basic patterns, but still, I had fun making them for my roommates.

     In elementary school, we tied the threads together and used masking tape to secure to the table as we worked, but now I prefer to measure twice the length of the thread needed, then fold in half so that there's a loop on top. This way, one could pin the bracelet to, say, one's jeans, with a safety pin and work on it anywhere, anytime. The loop also makes for a great way to tie the bracelet up.

    I'm thinking of doing Hogwarts colors next. Starting with Slytherin, since I'm a proud student of the Slytherin house on Pottermore! Lovely site, by the way, for those who don't know, you get to see what wand you get and everything! =)