boxing day shop update

Why oh why does it take so long to add items to an online shop? I have much planned but managed to add a happy handful of new vintage items to the scrumdillydilly shop. Take a gander, won't you please? Happy boxing day! 

might i recommend...a wee bit o sweetness

 There's a gal I know who is a bit of a dabbler. She's one of those who dabbles a little here and a little there and does it so well that you find a wee bit of envy creeping into yer noggin. Her newest bit of dabbling, methinks, is here to stay and like everything else, she's mighty good at it. What is it you ask? Why, it's Confounding Confections, Boiled Sweets for Singers of Shanties and Perusers of Tomes, handmade vegan hard candies made in California with natural ingredients.

 

 

Each little bit of wrapped goodness is full of flavor and staying power (trust me, I sampled a few).  With sweet collections such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Seafaring collection (the scurvy sea dog is quite tasty) there are all sorts of nifty flavors to choose from. Now, for the holidays your happy order can be wrapped up in a nifty tin and they are vegan (the candies, not the tin)!  A perfect gift for oodles of folks in yer life. Don't miss out!

 

**and just so ya know, I am not affiliated with Confounding Confections. While I do know the candy mistress in charge, I was not contacted to feast these sweets upon you, it is all my own doing. Lookie how pretty they are, how could I not? I simply find their product delightful. 

shop update!

headbands and yo-yos and picture packs...oh my! please take a gander and spread the lurve...i need all the help i can get! happy weekend friends!

bunnies in the shop

i know i'm cutting it close but i have six bunnies hoping for new homes! if you wish to adopt, these will be mailed on Tuesday, March 30...i promise! as long as yer in the continenntal U.S. you should get them in time for Easter! sorry, there are no more cocoa bunnies but these are just as sweet!

a smidge of an update

I added some Halloween fun to the shop! Dandy candy-corn bean bags! Tasty!

Fun with fungus

Card sets are now available! Phew! I'm planning a big post office trip tomorrow so if you pick up a set today I'll send them tomorrow! I'm quite pleased with them and I hope others will be also! Lookie, lookie:

citrus pick-a-nik purse

citrus pick-a-nik purse, originally uploaded by jek in the box.

Years ago my sister sent me this fabulous picnic purse with plastic mushrooms all over the top. I got so many great compliments that I decided to make some myself. So I did and here ya go. I seem to like these a lot more than other folks (except for Susan!) but if you find yourself smitten you can own this very one! Head on over to jek in the box and have a looksie...I have a few more lurking around and will post those soon.

And now I must get back to my schoolwork. Bah!

Chocolate bunnies are popping up everywhere!

Who knew? I finally managed to catch an etsy treasury! It takes a lot of patience and digilence and the putting off of many chores. Now that it is done, I will share it all with you because you never know which of these bunnies will make you slap happy! Not all of these bunnies are on etsy but a good number are...have fun! To get more info on the bunnies click here!

Take a peek at some of the blogs of these crafty folk:

*Dog Bone Art
*Everyday is a Holiday
*small fox in a big world

Here comes Peter Cottontail...

Easter is coming soon! Soon! Soon! Who needs chocolate when you can get one of my espressly made for you faux coco bunnies? Don't they look dandy? Okay, fine, I'll stop with all the self promotion...have a happy weekend folks! Today I get to hang out with a dear friend and eat yummy goodness but for now I need to do a bit of speed cleaning, the goal is the kitchen table! Wish me luck!

I finally caught it!

Whoo-hoo! Every once in awhile I get an email alerting me to Etsy front page status and then, whenever I check, I'm gone...like the last pair of wide legged trousers in a size 12...lickety split! This time, many thanks to LJ pal lloli I caught and snapped a picture! Do you see? A spunky onesie made by moi! It looks so nifty and adorkable floating up there with all the other red and white goodness. If only someone would give it a home...is that too much to ask? If you are ever in the market for a spunky baby giftie, lemme know, my spunky onesies really are quite cute and the spazimals make very quirky babies happy...

Happy Sunday folks. Mr. A-go-go & I took a walk in the foothills of Griffith Park today and now my legs are a might bit tired. I'm off to work on crafty things, bake some cookies (maybe) and watch some videos. Hope y'all had a most pleasant week!

apple lurve

If you ask me what my favorite fruit is I usually will answer BOBB! BOBB, to those not in the know is watermelon. Long story as to how it got the name but not really. I have been calling the melon BOBB since 1993 or so when a friend picked one up for me on the way home from Vegas. She was quite excited to surprise me with the perfect melon. She presented it with such florish in the parking lot of Bookstar, Woodland Hills that I serendipitously christenned it BOBB. Another favorite is seedless BOB, you get the picture. As much as I love BOB and I do, I really do, we at the A-go-go household can consume 2 a week, I will have to admit that my favorite absolute favorite fruit is apples. Apples are always in season and each season brings a different apple. I am quite freakish about my apples. I get in apple moods where I must, no I need a Pink Lady or a McIntosh or a Braeburn. Even a Red Delicious gets its moment with me. I however, do NOT like mealy apples. Mealy apples make me sad. So do Honeycrisps. I'm not a fan.

The everyday apple of choice here in the casa is a Gala though recently I picked up some awesome Fujis. Funny as I'm not a big fan of the Fuji but these were faboo! I read about different apples and want to travel to sample them. There are over 7000 varieties of apple in our world! 7000! Wowza! Pictured above is a baby apple. I think it may be a Baby Gala, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure what to do with it but lookie, isn't it cuter than cute? Maybe I should hop on over to scrumdilly-do and feature it for a wee apple pie. While we don't need wee aplles for miniature pies, how cute would that be?

There you go, my lurve for apples is no longer a secret. I also adore apple related things but not the plaid apple crap* that seems to swamp teacher's desks. Apple fabric, cute apples, kawaii apples, anthropomorphic apples...What I love most about apples is that they are portable. The yare great just as is or cut up and tossed into a fruit salad or my brother's famous salad. You can bake, candy, saute and roast them. Apples are awesome. Apple juice not so awesome . Apple sauce is pretty cool too, especially homemade hot applesauce...yum!

Okee doke. If you are an apple fan, why don't ya head on over to my etsy shop and pick up an apple printed eyeglass cozie, come on they're nifty. They've even been featured in the Adorn Mag Blog. Speaking of Adorn, subscriptions are now $9.99 go for it! If yer looking for something more decorative, check out Superbuzzy for some neato cute apple magnets. If you are in need of an immediate apple fix, chop one up for breakfast...smear it with peanut butter, ooh or you can try the jekissa delight...core yer apple and stuff it with a mixture of stilton, dried cherries, red onion & sweet peppered pecans. Slice it and enjoy. I guarantee you will love it!

*A fellow educator and I went to a fantastic music seminar for kids and all around us were preschool teachers and librarians geared up in all sorts of scary plaid apple clothing and accoutrements. Super scary and not cute at all. It made us wonder if there was some sort of rule to becoming a preschool teacher ...you know like mustaches on cops.

the week in review: january 15-21

Last week was both productive and lazy. I had my phantom cold for a day and then I crafted away. There was tea drinking and sweets baking, etsy selling and package mailing, movie watching and housecleaning. Phew!

Mr.A-Go-Go & I hit the road on Saturday and did a literal road trip. We drove over 400 miles in one day and managed to even come home. We explored parts of Southern California we had never seen and drove through many a tiny town. We snacked on homemade goodies in Borrego Springs. Drove through Anza State Park and look forward to returning when the park is in bloom. We discovered that Idyllwild isn't too friendly, pretty but not a day trip kind of town, you would need to rent a cabin or something for weekend to enjoy it. We hit all kinds of climates. Icy cold, windy, snow patchy and sunny. Not one of us napped and I even managed some photos. Check out my flickr page to see the amazing tiny houses we disvcovered on the side of the road!



Each house was about a foot tall and some had small animals and vintage items arranged around them. I woudl have gotten more pictures but I wasn't prepared for the windchill! it was ICY ICY COLD! My disk ran out of space and the car was far enough away that the cold chased me to it. IT was so very bright and sunny nd the houses were on almost level ground and it was difficult to get good shots unless I lie on my belly but since it was off a highway literally on the side of the road, I wasn't willing to risk it...here's a peak at one of those houses...soooo nifty!

This week is more of the same without the crazy road trip. Dashboard dollies should be up in the shop later today and then I need to craft away and finish oodles of goodies for coloriffic swap-o-rama. i also have to finish up my goodies for the Valentine's Day 5 things and a special handmade item for my partner in the Hearts Swap. I kind of overdid it on the swap fun for this month...yikes!

Happy belated Squirrel Apppreciation Day!

how about a cuppa?

Thankfully, it is not as cold this morning as it has been and I am no longer feeling all sickish and cold-like. Whoo-hoo! Perhaps today will be more productive than yesterday. Though, I have to admit that I was decently productive. I listed new items in the shop and sold all but one of the lurve monkey sets. I baked up a batch o' gingerbread and stitched up half of my Lurve Monkey Dollies. I also watched War Games. That was fun! Today I need to open up the giant garbage can full of fiberfill and hope that I don't get swallowed by the massive snake of fluff as it is wont to creep out quite suddenly and then I am unable to cram it all back in to get the lid back on. I will then stuff the remaining dollies, take pictures and list them in the shop. I will also hit the post office and mail off goodies and I will retrun videos to the library, stich up another birthday crown and clean off at least one surface...one surface is an attainable goal. I hope.

This morning for breakfast I delighted in a cinnamon coffee and a slice of confetti-d gingerbread. What did you delight in?

lurve monkeys

I admit it. I make monkeys. There are 9 sets of Lurve Monkey postcards available in my etsy shop. There ere 10 but one has sold already, whoo-hoo! Stay tuned for dashboard dollies. They won't disappoint, I promise. The card sets inclue 8 blank postcards, no printing on the back at all so you can mail them or do whatever you like to them. They need love, they need lurve, they need monkey lurve...