These kittens are so cute, and close, and obviously they'll grow up to be the best of friends.
I hope they don't get separated. So cute.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
My Sock Suitcase
This is my suitcase full of sock yarn. Not much more to it than that, really.
Mostly it's KnitPicks stuff- Sock Memories (quite a few discontinued colors actually) and Pallete, but there's some other stuff- the stuff on the bottom right with the rainbow colors and the silverish ball band is Schoeller and Stahl self striping, there's some koigu buried in there, some Moda Dea Sassy Stripes, some Bernat Sox.. etc.
All the 100% wool in there is being used for my felted bowl projects.
Mostly it's KnitPicks stuff- Sock Memories (quite a few discontinued colors actually) and Pallete, but there's some other stuff- the stuff on the bottom right with the rainbow colors and the silverish ball band is Schoeller and Stahl self striping, there's some koigu buried in there, some Moda Dea Sassy Stripes, some Bernat Sox.. etc.
All the 100% wool in there is being used for my felted bowl projects.
Miniature Crocheted Felt Bowl
Now for sale. Made from KnitPicks sock landscapes (now discontinued) in the "Mesa" colorway. Its about 4" across, and was made from leftovers from my larger project which did not turn out quite as well as I would have liked. This little guy turned out really good though. The other one will have to be cut up into dust rags I think- I might sell them off on Etsy later, but we shall see.
For now, enjoy the bowl.
For now, enjoy the bowl.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Look at the kewt kittens.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Bobby Boner and his Face
I finished BB v2, also known as Bobby Boner, the older brother of little Billy Boner, who you saw earlier this week. I like Bobby a lot more, and not just because he's more realistic. Billy was really an experiment and I learned what I needed to do to get it going right, so now I have the pattern all set. I'm going to make another boner out of Cinnamon colored andean silk today, and then maybe another one out of the chocolate color. Get some multicultural penises going here. I have a few ideas for penis characters so I'm going to start scavenging for fabric scraps and whatnot. That should be fun. I figure hats are the first place to start. Bobby will be for sale at Heathertoes Handmade later today.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Lavender Recycled Magazine Paper Beads
Now For Sale at my etsy shop. Apparently i had some beads featured on the Etsy front page, but they sold so fast that I didn't know until someone told me! On the bright side, I made a sale, and I'm offering an extra special deal with this set (because there is a total of 58 beads), so better snag them soon.
Samples for the Sampler- Finished!
I finally finished all my samples for The Sampler. There are 200 bracelets in there, all bagged up in great little baggies and tags with my shop logo on them. Talk about a ton of work!!!! And I still need to get together all my promo stuff.. ahhhhh!
So far it has been crazy, but this isn't the end. I'm doing another sampler type thing for october (at least I have some time, eh?) and even though it's not for a sampler i have 50 bracelets for a wholesale order. Wowie.
So far it has been crazy, but this isn't the end. I'm doing another sampler type thing for october (at least I have some time, eh?) and even though it's not for a sampler i have 50 bracelets for a wholesale order. Wowie.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Billy Boner
Look at my adorable amigurumi, who is for sale here! He's a little out of proportion for a penis, but that's OK because he's Billy Boner, the amigurumi penis, so his oversized head and undersized testicles are cute and loveable.
My first skein of yarn!
I got some silk hankies off etsy, and I spun them up over the last few days. Hankies are a ton of fun and I'm really happy with how this turned out but I am going to spin some white silk I got from Castleman to ply with it, because it's my first yarn and its thin in places. Also, since it is my first yarn it is pretty thick and thin, but I love it and I can't wait to get more hankies so I can do more silk spinning. I think hankies really might be ideal for new spinners- they seem soooo much easier to spin than wool.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Destashing Yarn Sale
Destashing Sale at Heathertoes Handmade
I'm destashing, fuh realz yo. So, help me out- take my yarn and give me a little money. I'm working hardcore on bracelets for The Sampler, and I just got accepted into the Little Black Box for October's "Think Pink" breast cancer awareness box- I'm going to make breast cancer knotted bracelets for that one, and I'll be doing 100. So once I get done making bracelets for the sampler I've gotta make bracelets for the black box. Hee hee.
I'm destashing, fuh realz yo. So, help me out- take my yarn and give me a little money. I'm working hardcore on bracelets for The Sampler, and I just got accepted into the Little Black Box for October's "Think Pink" breast cancer awareness box- I'm going to make breast cancer knotted bracelets for that one, and I'll be doing 100. So once I get done making bracelets for the sampler I've gotta make bracelets for the black box. Hee hee.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Another Project: Amigurumi and Sampler Contributions
Here is a cute little amigurumi tomato I did for a custom order on etsy. adorable, no?
and the beginning of my contribution to The sampler
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Wanna see me Topless?
Well, probably not, but I can reassure you that the photo is not in the least bit disgusting so head on over and check it out ;)
Cool stuff on Etsy.com: Featured Item: Fat Girl Zine issues 1-4
Cool stuff on Etsy.com: Featured Item: Fat Girl Zine issues 1-4
Monday, June 12, 2006
Finally a new crafy something...
A knotted friendship bracelet! Specs: 100% Mercerized Cotton, adjustable from 6-10"
Selling for $10. If any of you readers are interested in a custom, feel free to convo me over at Etsy.
Cool stuff on Etsy.com
Cool stuff on Etsy.com
This is my newest project- go check it out. I've already featured someone, and I'm going to try to do 1 feature a day, plus "Theme Thursdays" which will be uberly cool. Let people know about the blog too, and if you're interested in being one of the contributors or if you have an idea for a theme or an item/seller to feature, then please please please email etsyfeatures@gmail.com
This is my newest project- go check it out. I've already featured someone, and I'm going to try to do 1 feature a day, plus "Theme Thursdays" which will be uberly cool. Let people know about the blog too, and if you're interested in being one of the contributors or if you have an idea for a theme or an item/seller to feature, then please please please email etsyfeatures@gmail.com
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Boys and stupid foodness
I'm raging mad at my fiance right now. I just made taco salad like I learned from Milan at school (basically its bagged salad, taco meat, crushed up chips, cheese, and thousand islands salad dressing). He came in when I was putting on a second squirt of Thousand Islands and flipped out. Basically, decided he didn't want any. I am so fucking angry with him right now. I made dinner. I MADE FUCKING DINNER, and he wouldn't even give it a chance. Fine. Whatever. Stupid fucker. He's like a child, honestly. If you tell him what is IN something he'll flip out and he won't eat it. Besides, it isn't like the salad is DRENCHED in the dressing. Not even close. You don't even know it's there unless you look and see it. It just adds a little tang to it- it's not like I fucking drenched it in Blue Cheese dressing. Fine, whatever, I'll eat the whole fucking thing myself.
He did this to me the other day, too. I made him some butterbeer (cream soda with a shot of butterscotch schnaaps), and offered it to him. Realizing it was alcoholic because he is smart, he immediately refused. But see, the thing is- you don't taste the alcohol in butterbeer at all. It's not that he's morally opposed to alcohol- he just doesn't, in general, like the taste. The only thing is, any time I pass him a drink that doesn't taste of alcohol, he refuses, and every time I push him a drink that does, he takes it. WTF. There is something to be said here about girly vs. manly drinks, but I don't even feel like going there. I just know that's his subconscious problem, though. I offer him a sip of a Strawberry Daquiri that you can barely taste the rum in, and he refuses, but I give him Rum and Coke and that's OK. Maybe I should make him drink a virgin daquiri sometime and prove to him that he's crazy. If I can get him to even take a sip, that is.
ANYWAY, I did eventually get him to taste the butterbeer, and, of course, he could 'taste' the alcohol. My guess? He was looking for it, the butterbeer didn't taste like plain cream soda, so he assumed that the BUTTERSCOTCH flavoring that he was tasting must be the alcohol.
*sighs*
Did I mention his asparagus/zuchinni thing? We were talking about his dislike of vegetables on the phone one day, and he mentioned that in Kindergarten they made him eat some "zuchinni" only when he described it, he wasn't describing zuchinni- he was talking about asparagus. I pointed this out, and he was a little confused, but he said "Oh whatever, I hate asparagus then!"
Only thing? I have served him asparagus several times. Sure, it was cut up in stir fry, but he ate it and he obviously didn't hate it. When I mentioned this he said "But you didn't tell me it was zuchinni!"
I'm so fucking sick of this. This is honestly a pet peeve- people who concentrate too much on the name and image they have of certain things rather than just eating it and deciding whether or not they like it. I hate how people are influenced by tv images. And it's so subjective I can never proove anything, but I bet that at least 80% of people's dislikes are based not on experience, but on how something was portrayed on tv. Take Brussels Sprouts- the famous, hated vegetable- how many people who claim to hate brussels sprouts have even eaten them? How many of them simply won't try them just because every kid on TV hates them? How many people just worked themselves up so much before trying them that they hate them? I won't deny that there are people who hate them- I am sure there are, just as I don't like spicy foods, thai food, or a number of other things- but I have tried all those things with an open mind. I truly don't like them.
*sigH*
He did this to me the other day, too. I made him some butterbeer (cream soda with a shot of butterscotch schnaaps), and offered it to him. Realizing it was alcoholic because he is smart, he immediately refused. But see, the thing is- you don't taste the alcohol in butterbeer at all. It's not that he's morally opposed to alcohol- he just doesn't, in general, like the taste. The only thing is, any time I pass him a drink that doesn't taste of alcohol, he refuses, and every time I push him a drink that does, he takes it. WTF. There is something to be said here about girly vs. manly drinks, but I don't even feel like going there. I just know that's his subconscious problem, though. I offer him a sip of a Strawberry Daquiri that you can barely taste the rum in, and he refuses, but I give him Rum and Coke and that's OK. Maybe I should make him drink a virgin daquiri sometime and prove to him that he's crazy. If I can get him to even take a sip, that is.
ANYWAY, I did eventually get him to taste the butterbeer, and, of course, he could 'taste' the alcohol. My guess? He was looking for it, the butterbeer didn't taste like plain cream soda, so he assumed that the BUTTERSCOTCH flavoring that he was tasting must be the alcohol.
*sighs*
Did I mention his asparagus/zuchinni thing? We were talking about his dislike of vegetables on the phone one day, and he mentioned that in Kindergarten they made him eat some "zuchinni" only when he described it, he wasn't describing zuchinni- he was talking about asparagus. I pointed this out, and he was a little confused, but he said "Oh whatever, I hate asparagus then!"
Only thing? I have served him asparagus several times. Sure, it was cut up in stir fry, but he ate it and he obviously didn't hate it. When I mentioned this he said "But you didn't tell me it was zuchinni!"
I'm so fucking sick of this. This is honestly a pet peeve- people who concentrate too much on the name and image they have of certain things rather than just eating it and deciding whether or not they like it. I hate how people are influenced by tv images. And it's so subjective I can never proove anything, but I bet that at least 80% of people's dislikes are based not on experience, but on how something was portrayed on tv. Take Brussels Sprouts- the famous, hated vegetable- how many people who claim to hate brussels sprouts have even eaten them? How many of them simply won't try them just because every kid on TV hates them? How many people just worked themselves up so much before trying them that they hate them? I won't deny that there are people who hate them- I am sure there are, just as I don't like spicy foods, thai food, or a number of other things- but I have tried all those things with an open mind. I truly don't like them.
*sigH*
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