
Friday, September 28, 2007
But I don't want any lemonade!
I was super crafty yesterday and managed to pull all my notes together for tomorrow's in class presentation. My plan for today was to write it all up, clean a little and finish up a bunch of crafts. It looks like I'll be putting it all aside for today, Granny is headed to the hospital with chest pains. I hate phone calls that give me scary information. Granny is 94 years old and sometimes we joke she will out live us all but at the same time 94 is a momentus age and I worry about her all the time. Admittedly I get frustrated with the rest of the grandkids who don't offer much or anything at all. My sister is too far away and my brother is too busy I guess. As for my cousins, they don't even ask how she is doing which puts a whole different sadness into the mix. Anyway I juice these lemons it is going to be bittersweet. Send out your good thoughts and vibes for granny please. She can use all the lurve she can get.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
It's Fall!

And it almost feels like it weather-wise. Our neighbor brought over this tasty treat on Saturday. It was super yummy and went especially well with the just baked gingerbread I had made. Saturday was a weird flukey day. We had a rainstorm that flooded the wee garden but once the rain stopped it cleared up leaving big swatches of mulch all willy nilly. The mister was trying to work in the garden and the big drops came in surges. It was an odd sight. Dark, gloomy but dry and then WHAM! Super powerful, heavy rain then silence and then it starts all over again. The poor mister would take to sitting under the shade tent until it stopped. At one point I donned my raincoat and went out sit with him. I love the rain...mostly...unless of course it has been raining for days and days then, not so much.
The days this week are pretty warm but the breeze is cool so it is super nice outside. The nights are cool yet warm still and all I need is a sheet until around three in the morning when it turns chilly enough for a blanket. I love this type of weather! My paper is finally finished and now I'm working on a bookmaking presentation. At least, I'm thinking about the presentation which I believe I need to do this Saturday but today I have set aside for swap crafting ,shop crafting and crafting crafting. I've got flicks from the library, an awesome, amazing book and a huge stack of magazines full of Halloween fun. Today is going to be a good day so go away bad brain. I don't want you hanging around, you hear?
Happy Wednesday folks!
Monday, September 24, 2007

Wowza! There was whole lot of somethin' and then a whole lot of nothin' last week. Mostly methinks it is because I am so swell at procrastinating. That darn paper is driving me batty and then of course I remembered that my presentation is coming up also...yikes! which makes this week a week of schoolwork! I had better get off the computer and plan my presentation...but first let me share a little of what went down last week. You can click on the link to find out more about the pics if ya like.
Let's see, there was crafting and writing and a wee bit o' baking. There was mulch getting and a rainstorm followed movie watching and gingerbread eating. There were family visits and friendly visits and touristy stuff like museum going and t.v. show tapings. There were packages sent and packages received and oodles and bunches of monkey making. The mister and I, along with Jenny from Felt Club spent a day at the Los Angeles County Fair chatting up folks about the fine art of monkey making, the wonders of Craft magazine and the delightfulness of Felt Club. We talked monkeys, we made monkeys and we crafted up a sock critter storm with a most nifty crowd of youngsters. After the crafting we wandered the fair like silver balls in a pinball machine. We were jostled left, bounced right and shot all the way up to the barn where we saw baby goats, piglets and wee little lambs. It was so very nifty and there were all sorts of chickens! Yay for chickens! I'll upload pics at some point. Overall, last week was mighty busy and I can;t wait for a week of nothing. This week won't be it...drats!
Happy almost October folks!
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
Monkey Madness!

From 11am-Noon, we will dazzle you with our monkey making skills. The mister will even be working on some honest to goodness Spazimals, I swear! You can get more info here and here!
Hope to see you there!
Friday, September 21, 2007
Photobooth Friday: Fifteen Years of Friendship

More booth madness can be found here
and here
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Exhausted!
Ellen was a blast! We got in and proceeded to dance until the cows came home. I even won a t-shirt I rock so much. Along with all that dancing, not to mention the couple of miles we walked to go to Bob's, I have been stitching, stuffing and crafting up a storm. I am exhausted! Seriously! It's also a lovely gray day which makes me want to bake and be lazy. I want to read magazines and fluffy chick lit and watch cheesy movie after movie. I have even already taken care of three loads of laundry, some general straightening and have rewritten two pages of my paper. Phew! I think I deserve a mini break. What shall I do? Read, watch or bake? How about all three? here's a sneak-a-roo at what I have been stitch, stitch, stitching...





Tuesday, September 18, 2007
We're on Standby

Calamity & I are heading out to The Ellen Show. We aren't guaranteed seats or anything so we will geekily get there early, play uno and practice our dance moves. Me? I'll pony and Calamity will do the Robot. If we don't get into the studio, our next best guess is for the Riff Raff room and if that doesn't happen I guess we'll go get ice cream at Bob's Big Boy. No cameras allowed so unfortunately this won't be a part of my week in review. Now, what shall I wear?
Monday, September 17, 2007
Self Portrait Challenge: September 17

More folks in bathrooms over at SPC
The Week in Review: September 10-16

Last week was a week of crafting and cleaning with a little bit of friend fun squeezed in. Phew! This week will be much of the same with a lot of writing thrown in for school. I've been busy stitching up a storm and dreaming up other things to make. The casa is a disaster of precarious piles of fabric and ribbon tumbling about. There are probably oodles of pins and needles in the sofa and of course I keep misplacing the scissors. At least, the weather is changing which makes for a more difficult wake up in the morning. Why should I wake up so early when the air is just chill enough to stay burrowed in the warm covers? Not to mention the fabulously bizarre dreams I've been having with cars falling from the sky and crazy bookstore managers yelling at me whilst the car is careening towards my head of all places. This break in the heat also makes it possible to bake, bake, bake away! Yay! I love baking and can't wait to try this cake.
There was no traveling this weekend other than errands. The mister and I actually ate all three meals at the table yesterday. How nice was that? We got more mulch for the garden, ate nifty homemade meals and watched a fabulous movie and a very bad movie (I know it was suppose to be cheesy but really, it was just bad. John Waters it ain't). I read a little for school and play and have sheepishly acknowledged that the mister is right, I need a thimble, my thumb is killing me! This week we are prepping for some Felt Club fun at the L.A. County Fair, If you're coming on down on Sunday, check out our Sock Critter demo in the Tapestry Building, we've got itty bitty socks for you to play with!
Have a happy change-of-seasons-kind-of-week!
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Photobooth Friday: Hiding

Yesterday was spent gallivanting around the valley with the caffeine fiend. We had a blast and made some nifty thrift shop scores, ate amazing coconut cupcakes and babbled till our throats were sore. Today I will only halfway hide..I have to finish reading a book for class anyway and of course as always, there is crafting to do.
Happy Friday folks! Have a looksie over at the Photobooth Friday Flickr Pool why don'tcha?
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Beware of kitty

Today I am finally, finally, finally mailing off tardy FAA packages, coloriffic and other stuff. Ya know how you get behind so you think you want to make it extra special but then the trying to make it extra special makes you even more behind so that you are running around in a vicious circle? That has been my whole summer though I like to think I was polka-ing around, that at least feels more whimsical to me. Applications for Felt Club Holiday are now being accepted and I want to finish up a sample of what I'm hoping to sell so that I have new pictures for my application. Which means a quick jaunt to the fabric store because of course none of the oodles and oodles of swatches and bits I currently have teetering every-which-way will work. Wish me luck!
I wonder if it's okay to leave the Witch-Baby alone? What if I return to a kitty shaped hole in the front door and a massacre of hollyhock plants all over the courtyard?
Monday, September 10, 2007
The Week in Review: September 3-9

Phew! What a week. It was chock full o' frenzy, anxiety and fun. The mister and I took a mini road trip lookin' for those thunderstorms I wrote about last week and I visited with friends and a brand spankin' new baby. I crafted, crafted, crafted. Watched fabulously bad television on DVD and angsted myself out over my first paper for class. Hee's a mini review clockwise from the top left of the picture:
*We drove up to Tehachapi just for kicks. We left around 5am and did our best to beat the heat. This pic is from old town Tehachapi. It's a nice little town with not much more than a cafe, a handful of motels and a quilt shop oh and they have three thrift shops (closed, for the holiday, bummer!)! Hmm..houses there are almost affordable!
*We have sooo many grapes from the vine. they are super sweet and yummy. They are slip skins and fun to eat. We sit outside and spit the seeds all over the place. You may not want to visit our garden now...
*I cleaned out my closet when I should have been writing or sewing. I donated four bags o' clothes to Goodwill and feel a little less anxious over my sloppy clothes hadnling ways...
*On our mini road trip we stopped for a picnic lunch by the side of the Kern river. The water was flowing pretty fast and there were oodles of folks out and about. Unfortunately the oodles of folks left oodles of trash which led to oodles of flies and yellow jackets trying to attack us. Makes me so sad. Why oh why do people not pick up after themselves?
*this young lady is my new lurve. Lookie her eyes! She's so sweet and smells so delightfully. I need to visit with her and the mama jay soon.
*I made up a batch of new cozie cozies...don't ya love that fabric? I wish I had picked up more. I can't find it anymore.
*This is where we went...
*I pulled out this box o' green bean cakes to top off some green tea muffins. They have a savory sweet flavor that doesn't immediately please my mouth but at least they are pretty!
*The mornings have been nice and crisp. It looks like I'll be pulling out the fall bedding soon. This is our summer bedding...
*Driving home from Tehachapi we finally encounter some amazing clouds. Only a few drops plopped on us but it was enough to take a side trek to Fort Tejon.
*Both the mister and I napped a bit. Here's the mister couch napping in his new SPZML shirt, artwork courtesy of the amazing Ander.
*Both the mister and I have plushies making their way to Seattle for Plush You. These are mine.
*And that's us...goofing off as we leave for a walk and some dinner at Palermo's.
Hope y'all had a most productive and pleasant week. Happy Monday!
Friday, September 07, 2007
Photobooth Friday: the first booth

Thursday, September 06, 2007
Keeping busy and hiding from the heat

I've been frantically working on projects galore. I shouldn't be, I should be ahead of the game but this heat has thrown me off and I guess I just work better under pressure. Not exactly a good way to go about it but it all gets done in the end. My plushies have been sent of for Plush You and all my other goodies are on their way to Chicago for the FList. I had wanted to send new stuff to Chicago but other projects kept me from completing everything so I sent Halloween-esque goodies instead. Gosh I hope things sell. If you're in Chicago you should check it out. Lots of nifty artist and designers and of course my cozies and foo-foo bunnies.
I'm furiously working on my first paper for school and class doesn't even start until September 15. I need to mail in a 10 page paper by the 11th. TEN PAGES! Yikes! I'm eeking it out bit by bit but of course now is the time I want to work on stuff for the shop or maybe bake something. Today is the first day it has felt chilly in a long while. I hope it stays on the cool side today. I was stymied into turning on my air conditioner earlier this week after much struggle and deliberation in regards to being a conscious energy consumer. I worried that what if when I turned on our air unit, it overloaded the circuit thingamabob and caused the power to go out? It was so, so, so hot and one of my neighbors is in her nineties so I worried but then, after raindrops of sweat kept trickling down my back and it felt like I was in a clay oven I decided to try it and thankfully nothing adverse happened. Thank you, Southern California Edison for adding those four new power out source thingies. Phew! It had been so hot I was reduced to making jello with fizzy water and while I like fizzy water, I don't particularly like jello. We were downing popsicles as if we were never going to enjoy the frozen concoctions ever again. They were yummy. I mixed cranberry juice with grapefruit juice. Perfect for crazy hot heat.
Today will be more of the same. I've got buggie pillows to stitch up, embroidery to do, a paper to work on, some flicks to watch and I guess I should probably clean up this tiny casa. There is fabric everywhere and I have not been returning the scissors to the scissor drawer so there are scissors hiding all over the place. We have about six pair and none are in the drawer. My pinking shears I think are ready to call it quits and if I jab a needle into my finger one more time I just may fall into a hundred years sleep. Yeah, I've got things to do,stitches to stitch and witch-baby's to shoo off of my sewing machine. I wish you all a productive Thursday! Toodles!
Monday, September 03, 2007
The Week in Review: August 27-September 2

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