Serenity

I finished the right sleeve cuff for Celeste today, and it is being blocked now so that I can pick up and knit along one selvedge edge to work the sleeve in the round. Of course before I do that I have to graft the 21 stitches at either end of the flat work so that it will be a circle and I can knit the sleeve in the round from it. Here's a picture:

I am only lightly blocking this so I thought I would spend an hour or so blogging here :) in the meantime.

I love many things: reading, science (scientesse get it?), French stuff, movies... all things beautiful. I love music too... all sorts of music. My favorite singer is Sarah Brightman, and as of right now my favorite band is the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Tempation!

I share my love of Within Tempation as well as my love of science and science fiction (in particular the shows X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, and FIREFLY) with my amazing, awesome, crazy BFF, Anya (that's not her real name but for the sake of internetness it is now). So in honor of Anya I am blogging in particular about hers and my favorite things.

First up Within Tempation- lead singer is the amazing Sharon Den Adel, who Anya made some pretty amazing collages of which can be seen at her website (the link is also at the bottom of the page) http://www.anyaprynn.com/

Favorite songs from WT include: Jane Doe, Jillian, The Howling, Stand My Ground, What Have You Done, and The Heart of Everything :) and of course all of them! I looooove the live Black Symphony album which includes all the songs sung with all necessary special guests- Keith Caputo we love you :)

Anya also got me crazy into the amazing scifi show X-Files- yay Mulder and Scully. I am now on Season 6!!! My mother and I love them, and we watch them together in order (pretty much :)) and we recently watched the movied, Fight the Future, the link between seasons 5 and 6!!! It was soooo good! Anything X-Files is good :)!

Mulder and Scully printscreen from season 1 episode Darkness Falls:

Didn't it come out nice?! I have that episode on my ipod. Anya has a fanfiction that makes a whole buncha referances to it too she loves it.

Then of course there's the show Firefly... I don't know quite how to explain Firefly... futurstic scifi- rebels against an evil alliance that pretends to be perfect... classic plotline but still it has amazing characters and its own special take on everything. It has an awesome diverse cast too. I wrote my own fanfic in honor of Anya, and she made me my own collage of one of our favorite characters, the beautiful Inara:

This can of course also be seen on her website :)

Don't you just love the background she chose? :) She makes her collages in a program called GIMP, and she is obviously the GIMP queen see her website for proof! Anyway today has been a serene day, so I decided to title the blog Serenity because that is how I feel plus that is the name of the ship from Firefly.