I have been splurging! Things which are on their way:

• The Secret Life of Food by Clare Crespo - I'm so excited.
• Penn and Teller's How to Play With Your Food - after seeing the heart at britta.com's Halloween Recipes page I knew I must have this.
• God Said Ha! - This one-lady show by Julia Sweeney is funny and touching and wonderful and I got all panicked when I realized it was no longer in print (?) and needed to get one from an independent seller. And what happened to her site?
• So New Media's Words! Words! Words! #2 - has a comic by Loobylu!
• Moulin Rouge dvd - I find myself enamored of the Baz Luhrmann/Catherine Martin and Co. way of bringing something to creation.

addendum: near the end of this Onion interview Julia Sweeney reveals that she knits sweaters, but "only knit for people under the age of three, because it takes too long otherwise."

I've started a new project over at Sew Wrong - I'm making pants into a skirt, again. This time with boyfriend's old cargo pants, I adore all those pockets. But I want you to be honest with me, do I go into too much detail about the process? I mean, I try to remember back to when I didn't know what to rip a seam meant for example, and what I would have liked to know about it then. But then I think it may be a bit much, a tad boring. What do you think?

More fun with the popsicle molds - I made chocolate and vanilla pudding pops. They're yummy and almost like I remember from third grade. My new molds should be arriving soon. I waited just a little too long and Williams Sonoma was all out of the ones I wanted, so I bought some from marthabymail. I'm excited to be able to make more than four at a time.

The September In Style has a page about a new knitting book Hollywood Knits - Thirty Original Suss Designs by Suss Cousins. Suss Cousins is the knit designer I noted a while back for all her sweaters, hats and scarves in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which I of course loved because they were meant to be cartoony. A few weeks back I heard a story on public radio about how the economy is affecting smaller businesses, and they happened to be profiling Suss Design. Which is to say I've been noticing it a lot lately. And Suss Deisgn sells neat little kits, fringed halter top? striped bikini? The Sepetember Lucky has a whole page layout of striped scarves, yay. I love stripes. Do you think it is reverb from the whole Harry Potter scarf thing? I have one ball of teal Esprit and one ball of a strange greenish yellow (why do the stores never have like red and orange, or black and white when I get there?) and plan to make a, what else, striped scarf.

Yum! to the rescue! After a long stretch of boring, uninspired eating we made the Garlic Rosemary Roasted Chicken last weekend, it was fantastic and very very easy.

I have started assembling a Halloween 2002 page, so far links to places with recipes. Katwoman sent me a link to these brittle meringe bones at britta.com (thanks!) Have a look around at the halloween recipes and halloween parties. This woman is my hero, seriously. Fabulous.