Felt Club

Felt Club is TOMORROW!

FELT CLUB: HOLIDAY 2008
Sunday, NOVEMBER 16, 11am-7pm
@ Shrine Auditorium Expo Center
700 W. 32nd St., LA CA 90007

We're back from the lush green land of Portland and are feverishly working on all we need to do for tomorrow's Felt Club event! Check out the nifty vendor list and be there or be forever square!

The Week in Review: November 12-18

You can also call this one the Felt Club edition!

There was crafting and sewing and sickiness and school. In between bouts of laundry, cleaning, gardening and visiting, I crafted up a technicolor storm! There were go-go gloves and gnomie gnomes and light bulb pillows galore! There were spazimals, spazimals, spazimals and a whopping twenty-five bags of lavender shortbread cookies!

I got to visit with old friends and new and even heard a few shout outs from longtime admirers. Thank you to everyone for all your sweet, kind and nifty words. Your smiles were the best and it was so, so, so nifty to meet so many flickr and blog reading peeps! We may have had better sales but this was the best time I ever had! Don't be a stranger, drop me a line anytime. You are all too cool for school!

We're ready!

Well now...we're heading out in just a couple of hours and I can't wait to see. buy and sell all sorts of goodness! I hope, hope, hope you can come down for a hello! We have spazimals, sachets, gnomie gnomes. cozie cozies, light district pillows, wonky scarves, pop memory games for wee ones and cards and comics and smiles galore! Happy Sunday folks!

Photobooth Friday: family time

Click on the pic to read more about the adventure. I was thinking about how Thanksgiving is coming up and how our small family is so spread out it is difficult to coordinate all the holidays, ya know? My sister lives out of state and I wish she could come for one of the holidays and the mister's other sister lives three hours away and has another wacky family to deal with so we do what we can. We're having an impromptu-not-really-kinda-sorta Thanksgiving dinner this weekend which will probably be soup and salad or something. Okay, it isn't really a holiday to-do but we do get to see the boy a-go-go and his mom which will be nice. I need to make sure I pack up whatever I need to finish for Felt Club so that I don't completely freak out and fall apart! I have school all day tomorrow so this is going to be an interesting weekend. I'm still on the mend so much tea and pond nutrients will be absorbed! All I have left to do is the fabric bags for the games, game pieces to be cut, game baskets to be altered and some scarves to be whipped up...that's all...and of course everything needs to be organized...eeps!

More booth-o-rama can be found here and here!

Gaggles of Gnomes & a Stinkified Casa

...at least it's stinky if ya don't like lavender! Wowza! Who knew such a small tub o the stuff could make the tiny casa so pungent? I thought I'd cut the flowery stuff and add some cocoa husks but the purple stuff just overwhelms. What do ya think? Do ya think you'd want a chocolate scented gnome?

I'm still sick with this weird viral ick. I found out that I'm not alone as the caffeine fiend has the ick also. Oh bother! It's been tea, tea, tea and tangerines and mashed potatoes all day. I'm gonna make a batch of chicken soup with rice and cross my fingers I'm all better by the time the weekend rolls around. I have class all day Saturday and Felt Club on Sunday. BUSY! This past weekend I whipped up more than twenty cozie cozies. Phew! Today is lavender and chocolate (not together) scented sachets and gnomes and tomorrow will probably be more gnominess along with some go-go gloving felt lurve. I still have some scarves to finish and of course there's one more bit of craftiness up my sleeves...for now, I think I'll take another nap. G'night.

The Week in Review: Novembr 5-11

The Week in Review: November 5-11

It's been a crazy crafting kind of week. My hands got so dry they cracked from using scissors, ouch! I cut, I stitched, I planned, I stuffed. I now have a flu or something so today I will huddle on the couch, eat oodles of tangerines and watch me some Gilmore Girls. No crafting while stuffy, today I nap, nap, nap the day away. Hopefully it is just a cold but I feel like one does after having the flu, you know, all tired and weak like you can't fully take a step or you will fall down. My appetite is okay. I've been hitting the carbs as I am wont to do when feeling ill. I seem to adore crusty bread and mashed potatoes when I feel ick so that is what I am enjoying, along with buckets of juice, tea and tangerines from the tree thrown in. I still have scarves to make for Felt Club and the mister needs to whip up some more spazimals but I think we're good, just dandy even and tomorrow I will pepper the neighborhood with Felt Club postcards and such. Hey, Ms. Stacey, if you read this, do you want some cards and/or maybe a poster for Ander's School?

There are so many people I need to call back but when I am in the crafting zone I can't stop or I lose my momentum, ya know? Eeeps! If you see anything you like, lemme know. I will update the shop the day after Felt Club but if you see something in my flickr or here on the blog and you NEED it, shoot me an email and I'll set it aside for ya. Must go drink more tea and ingest some airborn. Sigh. Ya gotta love November.

the week in review: september 17-23
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!

Monkey Madness!

It's monkey time folks! If yer a local folk or at least somewhere in the Southern California vicinity, why don't you hop on down to Pamona to the L.A. County Fair tomorrow, where Mister A-go-go and I will be representing...Felt Club, that is.

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!