Ayayayayeee! I never thought a muppet muffin could be this easy. Green frosting + candy + line + dot! Kermit Cupcakes, via Craft.

Eeeheeeheee! My favourite thing about fall is the prospect of pom poms on new knits. Pom pom mittens! Pom poms on hats, pom poms on sweaters! Dare I say… pom poms on top of pom poms? Upon every strand of the pom pom, another pom pom. And another, and another! Muahahaha!

I just discovered the fine art of mutton bustin’. It is the most hilarious concept to ever grab onto (and then immediately fall off of) a state fair. I discovered it via the Puyallup Fair, via Penny Arcade.

And it’s sheep related, which means I’m allowed to post it here! Enjoy the wondrous hilarity of watching a bunch of kids hanging desperately from the backs of rodeo sheep.

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My brother used to get Maclean’s, and they’re all over my parents’ house now. Here are some things we could do with them:

A Recycled Mobile made from Old Magazines. Hella classy.

A Magazine Box, or possibly a rectangular one to store the rest of the Maclean’s magazines.

Alternate uses for magazines:

• pierce with 10,000 tiny holes to reuse as tea bags
• crumple up into one of those hovering balls that you use to train being a Jedi
• twist small strips into a stylish mat for your front hallway
• extract metallic components of the inks and recast them into pistons for an internal combustion engine
• fold into origami cranes

Via Go Green.

I was looking through my favourites page on Flickr and I noticed a few interesting and accidental colour patterns. The arrangement in the top left is also pretty funny.

If you’re in need of wallpaper or gift wrap, an ingenious solution is Rolling Pin Prints.

I love this colour of pink. It’s so adorable. Via Design*Sponge.

Some needle-felting and a dryer is all you need to make this…

…into this!

Via Craft.

Posie’s post about her state fair has reminded me that it’s Fall Fair season! It also reminds me that I had plans to post something about this news a few weeks ago. I’ve cut out some parts of the article for quicker reading.

Crochet pulled from fair’s fabric [Ed's note: LOL! Crochet! Fabric! Lollerskates!]

A local crochet club has its yarn in a knot after the Western Fair dumped this year’s home arts competitions — a fair mainstay for decades. And the club isn’t alone. The fair, which began as an agricultural exhibition, has cut or downgraded three other categories, including culinary arts, display contests and oversized vegetable challenges. Part of a shakeup designed to attract younger fair-goers, the changes don’t impress traditionalists like crocheters.

“The Western Fair is forgetting its roots and is becoming a costly amusement park,” said Patty Attkins of the Crochet Club of London. Attkins, president of the club, discovered home arts were cut when she couldn’t find the category for this year on the fair’s website. “I found out by chance and not by courtesy,” she said.

The home arts were cut in the spring after fair officials examined a three-year study of the number of competition entries, said Sharon Pook, expositions sales manager. The culinary arts, including jam and baking contests, and the women’s institutes display contests, were eliminated. Depending on public response, the fair could eventually bring back some of those categories.

The fair wants to attract people in their late teens to mid-30s — a group that doesn’t often go to the fair, Pook said. New video game categories, such as Wii Fit exercise competitions, might be added, along with a new “green” lifestyle section.

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This isn’t really knitting-related, but it is something I “crafted” myself. The Beau said he wanted to see a video that set cute puppies to gangsta rap, so I made one. Man, I missed making movies. This was really fun!

Warning: the video is rated C for cute, but the audio is closer to R. So NSFW if you want your speakers cranked (which you should be doing). Although “your ass will make you shit your meal” is a truthful description of the digestive process, your boss might not agree.

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