luxe

we had an okay weekend. jake left work way early in order to change his brakes, which he had done before (well, the rear ones and these were the front, which proved to be a different animal) anyway, he expected to be back in a couple of hours. i was up early having not slept, and had been doing spinning all day, so the time kind of went by. anyway, it ended up that he got home at 9p and still didn’t get the breaks fixed. i felt bad. he was so tired and annoyed and felt guilty for not spending time with me. i miss him when he is gone, but i got a lot of work done, so it really was fine. on a day that i feel okay, i am happy to do work. no biggie. i feel like i am the shite partner in this relationship, not he. he just has a lot to do. i understand. what else can you do? act like a jerk? i am not that sort. i know couples where the other is not allowed to do anything or go anywhere, whether it be to have a hobby or friends (which always disappear when you blow them off for many years) or to work on the car, i know people who are not so nice to their significant other. i have never really understood that. if jake only had 1 day off and he wanted to go play some blues with his friends, as long as he would have fun, i would want him to go. and he, me. we end up together most of the time, but i would like him to feel free to do whatever he wants to do. especially things he enjoys. he works so hard. he deserves to have some fun sometimes. anyway, as you can tell, i have been really paranoid that i am a bad, lame, boring wife/partner and just don’t do enough for him. for us. to keep things spicy and fun. i feel lazy. and selfish. when i feel well, i work on art or yarn stuff.

my studio is an explosion of all things art and fiber and desperately needs to be organized, but i don’t want to spend that little bit of time i have on cleaning up. i know that when the studio is clean, i like being in there more, but still, i can’t just pick up a bit at a time, i am easily overwhelmed and i can’t break things down. i see every detail. so. i need to. i have a sort of organising method in mind, i think it would work well. i also need to get rid of old clothes and i have some sewing to do. i need summer clothes, have lots of fabric and big tshirts to make into other things. so.

also, if anyone knows a local hairdresser that rocks, that knows how to do everything, that takes new classes all the time, that suggests new things and has a good sense of what looks good on who, let me know.

so, on friday, i got a lot of stuff done. lots of yarn. on saturday, i skeined up some yarn, some custom, and then went out and took photos of it, check out the flickr if you like. i have a couple more to do and i have a ton of fiber and yarn to list, plus my big electric carder from angela of material whirled will be coming tomorrow i hope, so that will rock. i hope to put it on a rolling cart that i use on the back deck to avoid making the house even more fiber covered. i am excited.

i have to get orders packed and one resent, etc, etc, etc. and potentially a very exciting thing to announce soon. i will keep you posted. as far as good news, i got accepted into a softie show called crammed organisms, there are several other people that got in that are excellent. i didn’t get into another one that i applied for and it bummed me out a bit. i don’t apply for shows ever, really, and that is something that i need to turn around. i have to do it. especially for my fine art pieces. i have to make myself do it. i also got invited to do what sounds like an amazing show in ireland, which i will keep you posted on. i am really excited about it. i just need to be organised to maximize the amount i get done, regardless of my energy. so.

i will be listing the mixed media collage/gouache pieces in my etsy shop soon. there is one in there now. i also will be listing some of the circle pieces, although a couple of them i have grown a deep attachment to, and will likely keep.

i also have some fantastic fiber charities that i want to tell you about, but i am not feeling so hot at the moment, so i will do that on the next post.

i have been paying for all the work and running around i did this weekend, which is okay. as long as i have something to pay for, rather than the sick sick sick with not cause.

here is some work i have had for a while. the amigurumi tree is new. i am planning to hone it a bit more and write up the easy pattern.

and the new yarns, one is organic brown cotton, gorgeously soft, veggie and fair trade, too! and the white one, is dye your own, it is uncarded bamboo and organic green cotton. so lovely.

oh, lastly, dunno if i mentioned it, but i would love to have some slipcovers made for my couch and two chairs. i don’t know anyone to ask. i would totally be happy to swap fiber or yarn for the sewing, or pay munny. anyone local interested, or know someone they can recommend?

xo
n.

that said, i listed some amigurumi birds, a bunch of knits and some yarn. i am planning to list more to-morrow.

i have actually had a productive week and it makes me feel like a real person! weeeeeeeee. i know i say it all the time, but if i had normal energy, i would be dangerous. i tend to avoid getting involved in things that require firm plans. i am paranoid that i will be sick when i need to be doing, making, etc. it bums me out. there are so many things i would love to do, but i know that you can’t ditch out on things. when i have a few days of feeling good, i get all excited, i think maybe i am okay now. maybe i just thought i was sick. and then the anvil drops on my head, and i remember. so i guess the trick is to use every moment that i have, and to be in that moment as much as i can. when i feel crummy, i try to work on projects in bed. sometimes i feel to crummy to do anything. i don’t go online. i don’t talk on the phone. i don’t do anything. thankfully, it is only a few days a month that i am too sick to even knit or crochet. making things helps me to feel like i did something of value.

i have gotten mostly caught up with work. i have more to list and i really need to find someone that can fix my website. since the zencart update, i can’t do anything on there at all. if anyone knows someone, let me know. my friend that set it up for me has a real job and a lady and is busy, so i feel bad asking him to try to open up the can of worms. i hope i don’t need to get a new site designed. i need to find someone to do it for me first, really. jeebus. i got poppy pins made, stitchmarkers made (they go in as the freebie with yarn orders), got some yarns spun up, packed up orders. now i just need to get the studio organized and cleaned up, and the bedroom, also. wanna see some of the new stuff i have made? this one is “sam i am”…

i am incredibly sleepy, i haven’t been able to sleep lately, so i best get going. i am literally 2 months behind on blogreading, so please forgive me. i feel bad about it, and the further behind i get, the worse it is. i have lots of crocheted jewelry that needs to be listing and more to come. it is fun, you can use small hooks but not take forever to amek it. and that rocks. i also ordered a few more dye colors and fiber reactive dyes for the bamboo i am dyeing for shannon’s new book. so. i hope to do some dyeing this week if i can.

i smelled the paris hilton fragrance “can-can” and it smells awesome. like candy. actually all of them are not bad. i told jake they should be nice. she has been raised on the best of everything. she should know what smells nice. i may yet get that one, it is so good. and the new escada smells like grapefruit candy. i have their one from last summer and it smells like candy, and i tend to lean towards fruity scents, never floral. most things give me a headache, foody frangrances not so much. blah blah blah.

oh, here is a photo i took of myself getting a migraine. jake thought it was an excellent representation of it. i am not exactly sure why i look like i have on lipstick. hm.tell me what you think…

leave me some comments so i know i didn’t lose ya. oh, tons of new photos on my flickr, so buzz by…okay? i’ve missed you.

MWAH.
n.

i listed some new toys and fiber and yarn on www.luxe.etsy.com and trolled for a bit to see what else was being listed under toys. so. i found lesley anne green’s fine art, masquerading as dolls. amazingly gorgeous in the total lack of realization that they are not gorgeous at all. wow. and via her site, i found scott radke’s work which is just…wow. wow. floored. did i say wow?

i had a dream about where the pieces i have been messing around with will be going. the phallic things will grow, and will be stitched and patched and puckered and have banners and junk. and they will be BIG. that is what i mean when i say grow. i also dreamed of a similar piece that is more figural, but with no limbs, no facial features, and will be striped burgundy/red and a dirty white or cream color. i plan to make one the size of a small child…i few feet tall and see what i want to do from there. the two big big ones (i already have two of the pointy ones that are a few feet tall that need to be stuffed and tormented) are crocheted. i need to figure out if that is realistic or not. i have always had an affection for obviously labor intensive work. i don’t use faux finishes. if it looks like there are 10 layers…there are probably actually 20. i have always felt in my own work that it doesn’t seem genuine otherwise. i am not sure why i feel this way. so much of art is fooling the eye. i, however, am a 3-d person. if there the work is flat, i feel like it isn’t finished, that it needs some other dimension. for my own work, i just love it to be a mixture. that makes it feel like a part of my world, rather than something i just look at.

i guess because of my spacial issues, i don’t do more than glance, even if i want to. but when the piece has more dimension to it, i feel like it is a being. a part of my world, rather than just a thing to look at. does that make sense?

so, i packed orders, spun a bit of yarn and then ran out to joann’s to get the cheapo big skeins of yarn for the striped sculpture, although, as i said, it really might end up being sewn. we will see.

also, i worked on some legs for the bird softies. i got round nose pliers, as barbe had gently suggested, rather than using random pliers from around the house, and i was stunned how much easier it was to make what i envisioned. whoa! i just need to see how it works out to attach the legs. and then…woo!

i haven’t been sleeping lately, literally just not. last night anyway, i kept trying to no avail. so i am tired. my skin is a total wreck. my hormones are crazy, i think.

as i was leaving the house to run errands yesterday, i slid my foot into my pretty beaded flip flops and they were wet. i look down to see that peeps (no one else pees all over the house, well, excpet for me, anyway.) had peed on my sandals. it got on the bottom of my vans but that was it. she is something. and if you attempt to ignore her to punish her, she goes nuts. she all but does the highland fling to get you to look at her.bad monkey.

okay, well, here are the new softies that are listed, so pop by and buy em whilst you can!

here
and here
and here, too.

mwah!
n.

so. i set my phone to wake me up early, and well…yeah. um. didn’t get up early. i am so bad in the morning. i did get up and returned some phone calls before getting to work organizing the studio a bit more and mostly trying to figure out what fiber and yarns were listed already and what was just sitting there. lots. i didn’t even list all of it, but there is a lot of stuff there and more yarns to come. lots. sock yarns as well as some worsted and artyarns. really good. i got this pop up mesh laundry basket thingy that has 3 compartments, so i was able to put lots of things in there in a moderately organized manner, as much as yarn and fiber can be. i was glad. more of that to-morrow.

i was just checking emails and comments on the newest softie i posted (several more of those to come, too) and was thinking about how i do my work. with the softies, i start with a yarn. make a shape, see where it goes. stuff it. see who it wants to be and just build it up from there. when i made the pirate zombie thingy, it was more preconceived toy than i make and my heart wasn’t in it. i felt kind of boxed in. and as i like to say, i don’t like to be told what to do…even by myself. so there, me! you shut up! in art, i feel similarly, like the work sort of forms itself. i have a hard time accepting compliments because i feel like they are their own entity and kind of just…showed up. like it someone tells me that peeps is really pretty…yeah, she is, but it is more a compliment to her than to me. i didn’t make her.

so, i just discovered the plushteam.com blog and this posting by the toy designer flying star toys which is in australia(r) anyway, she made this comment

“The soul of a toy is the most important ingredient, my art is just this. The little beings should look gently at you as if they had always existed and you have just happened upon them.

okay, mine don’t always look gently at you, they often…snarl, but still, i tend to agree with her. her things are very sweet.

the thing that is so exciting to me about making and selling things is how they speak to people. and often, it has a meaning that you never intended, but it doesn’t matter. i made life sized and bigger ceramic busts with different themes in school and i had one that had a jagged hole cut into its stomach and branches for arms. the woman who bought it had survived uterine cancer. she believed it was made for her. in another direction, i made this dwarf abominable polar bear:

and the woman who is getting him called him the “po’d polar bear” and thought he looked like her. mainly, i thought that he was trying to act mean and scary because he is only 6 inches tall and usually polar bears are…bigger. so he is doing his best. and he is super soft. and fuzzy. and..cute. i said it. even his little purple nipples and belly button. cute! i haven’t interviewed him for his story yet, though.

when i still tattooed, i found that people were stupid. they didn’t take any time to look at anything or process it. i worried that it would be the same with the artsy and craftsy stuff. it isn’t. people really absorb it, think about it, touch it, remember it. how is it that you people are able to put so much consideration into such tiny details and comprehend them (armpit hair? knees?) but others are willing to get a tattoo on their skin and don’t realize it is misspelled. among other things. odd, no? we put more effort into adding embroidery than most people do in their whole day. now the snob comes out. well. in a way. in another way, it goes in a direction that many artsy/craftsy decidedly non-snobs would (joseph beuys and frida kahlo, to name a few) who believed that art is for everybody. you can make sure to notice those little things, to make sure you have beauty in your life, whether it be a flower in your hair, or a pretty piece of china or some soft and gorgeous hand knitted socks. all of it. that is what life is about really, isn’t it?

i wish i could absorb more. i wish i could notice every detail. i wish i could see the sun come up and go down. see flowers open for the day and close for the night. i want to remember to remember. and you know what? i want all of you to, as well.

when i was younger…i was miserable. life sucked. it did. i didn’t realize until i was in my late twenties that i was in control of my own life. seriously. i know. sad. when people say “i wish i knew then what i know now…” yeah. i know what they mean. i can only do my best to enjoy it all now. i let myself miss out on lots of life, and i can’t blame anyone but myself. i am a bit of a slow learner. okay, really really slow.

so, after a bout of being too exhausted to do…anything (and i mean that. i didn’t knit, spin, read, talk on the phone, nothing) i feel a bit overexcited about feeling okay and i imagine that as is normal for these phases, i will crank out some stuff as fast as possible. stand back. you might get pelted with something. no worries, it will likely be fuzzy or paint. hopefully.

my nose has been really off lately. everything smells like something else to me. i am usually the super snoot. i can smell something and tell you all of the spices in it. it can be a bad thing. anyway, everything smells different lately. right now, i swear i can smell pasta cooking. except that it is almost midnight and no one has cooked or is cooking. it is really odd. i have had a lot of headaches, so my brain might be a bid muddled.

also, the cats are still fighting. particularly, pavel is constantly growling in a really aggressive way at the other cats even when they are either nowhere near him or sleeping, or just walking by. this causes one sister to growl, the other to come and see and a huge fight because pavel is a total sissy. he is going to have to go to the vet. if he isn’t sick, then he is going crazy. i had a cat that became dangerously aggressive and had to be put to sleep. it was one of the most terrible things i have ever had to do. pavel has been a bit stand-offish even with jake, and that is unusual.

i ate the almond-like pit of a nectarine because i love almonds and thought maybe that was where almonds came from and then barbe told me they had cyanide in them. i looked it up and they do. i then realized that mostly all fruits seeds and pits have cyanide in them and thought about the jack lalane juicer that he puts all of the whole fruits in seeds and all. you could sue him! right? um. oh, and don’t eat that almond-looking thing inside the nectarine. it does taste like an almond…a bitter gross almond. blech. it gets grosser after you swallow too. who knew poison tasted so bad.

on a really depressing note, this story is from not so far away from me. this poor 13 year old girl finally shot her passed out drunk abusive piece of shite father. the house didn’t have running water and was infested with fleas and lice. one of the arresting officers said that the had been to crack houses that were nicer. um. they think that the dad had been raping her, as if the fact that her living conditions were like that wasn’t enough. her mom didn’t have custody of her, but jesus, how bad was her mom if she let the dad keep her and her brother and knew that little about the situation? they aren’t trying her as an adult, but she is going to be in juvey which is just not right. i feel so bad for the kid. i have thought a bit about being a foster parent, dismissing the idea because i am so tired all the time. this girl needs someone, so that she doesn’t just become the same as her mother who has kids and leaves them to fend for themselves. when i was in junior high, a kid killed his stepdad in a similar kind of thing. i don’t know what ever happened to that kid. i remember his face, though. i wonder if i could send her a care package or if that isn’t allowed in the detention center. hm.

okay. i need to try to read a bit and go to sleep.
i love you guys. i really do.
n.

boy. i have been too exhausted to do anything. i haven’t checked emails. i haven’t updated the site. i haven’t taken the zillions of photos that i need to take, i haven’t done…anything whatsoever. and we all know how much i love getting nothing at all done. i have had a bunch of days that i couldn’t get out of bed, or got up, took a shower and that was all i could manage. it has been not so fun. so that is where i have been. i have severe guilt about not blogging, and i also have severe guilt about just posting my bitching and moaning and nothing fun for you all to look at. i guess i am a bit of a people pleaser that way. i feel like if i don’t have anything to show you, you won’t come over to my bloggy. i have had a few friends that let me know that my maladies got on their nerves and inconvenienced them, and as angry as it made me at the time, i guess i realize that it hurt my feelings and my brain rerouted it as anger at the time. i hate ditching out at the last minute. i hate it so much that i don’t make plans much anymore.

today, i felt a bit better. i cleaned up my studio. we got a new vacuum cleaner that actually picks stuff up! imagine that! our old one just spit stuff out and caused my asthma and allergies to go nutso, so it wasn’t cracked out so often. this new one has a scented filter! how cool is that? so, you wanna see some sick photos of how fiber and dust covered my studio was? this is not for the feint of heart.

this is the point that i had to empty it, about 2 minutes in…

i know. shameful and gross. grody. but kinda cool. like popping a super gross big zit. and…taddaaaa! clean! i even cracked out the brush attachment and dusted the electronics and everything in there. clean!


anyone want to spin up this mess? ew.

i have a bunch of new amigurumi on my flickr. not all have their info added yet, and they will all be for sale, let me know if you want dibs on one.

also, i made this strange little crocheted peak, which jake thought was a penis, and while i know it looks like one, i plan to make more of them to stand in a cluster together. dunno why. a giant one would be awesome. it really would. in the same vein, i think that a tree made similarly would be amazing.

all week i have had strange nightmares. in one, jake left me for reasons he wouldn’t say and became a monk. i couldn’t get to him to even try to talk. this is super not like him. so. in another, this hippy dude had taken all of my spinning fiber and attempted to get “hemp oil” out of it. probably 50 lbs of really nice fiber. i was pissed. why would you get hemp oil out of animal fiber? hmmm.

off to answer emails.
i missed you all and appreciated your interest and concern. it really means a lot to me. barbe and katrina are some incredibly kind broads. love ya guys!
n.

reginald is a rare breed of dwarf lion that tends to suffer from pattern baldness. he attempts to comb his soft mane over to hide it. he has incredibly soft chest and armpit hair and nipples. not only is he incredibly handsome and manly, but he is very scary, as you can well see with your own eyes. he loves to hang out on his recliner and watch football. his team is manchester united and he is somewhat of a hooligan, truth be told. he made a small fortune as a professional bowler, and swears that the movie kingpin is based on him. he has a gambling problem and will bet on just about anything. he considers his bookie to be one of his closest friends, as well as his worst enemy. he adores sammy davis junior and considers himself to be just as good of a performer as sammy. he is afraid of spiders and lives on fluffernutter sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

he will be looking for a new home soon!

well. i had the ear issue for..okay, well, i still have it. this morning, i didn’t call the dr. because it seemed way better. as the day goes on, it gets worse again. although, in fairness, my nose wasn’t running and my eyes weren’t watering all day.

so, i got up to run some errands and chatted with one of my favorite peeps, gabe and found out that they are still attempting to get a small arts festival in our town going. after talking to him for a while, i kind of realized that i have become so stressed about getting sick and having to ditch out on plans, or leave early (i stopped talking to someone because of that.) in addition to attempting to avoid the people that i dislike, i often don’t do the things that i want to do. or, i make myself so stressed about it that i feel like i don’t really want to do it at all. i don’t want to be that person. i don’t want to be uninvolved in my community. that has never been me. that isn’t me. i am going to try my best. let me go on to say that gabe has been really pushing his work out there and has kept on it and has gotten to be really well known in this area, and for an area not really so open to art…that is something. it really is.

i found an awesome bra at…TARGET! i have been spending at least 40 bucks on bras that are not terribly comfy and not terribly attractive and then saw one there that was 15 bucks and tried it on and it is fantastic! i have big boobs and it is really something to find a good bra. that said, i bought 2 more today. i was actually looking for this dress in a medium, the dress was on sale cheap at my target, but they didn’t have it in a medium, so i went to another target but they didn’t have it either and online it isn’t on sale. although, honestly, it is only 25 bucks. i know, i am cheap. i got the same dress in black with white polka dots and it is really flattering and comfy. i think i should wear this style of dress every single day. i wish i could find em in cotton. i would love that. this is why i need to learn to sew. seriously.

i went to st vincent depaul, my favorite thrift store, where the checkout girl is a retired lunch lady from my college who gives me even more stuff for even more cheap prices. i always try to argue, she never lets me. she used to let me eat meals at the cafeteria even though i didn’t live on campus. she didn’t know. you hill girls remember margaret? such a sweet lady. i got some really cool stuff there…
and there is more on my flickr, so go check er out!

also, i got photos of the two birds i finished…no backstories yet, though.

we have a mohawk on the boy, and his cute tie and then the girl has a little stray feather and a crocheted scarf. cute? i have a couple more of em stuffed but no faces or legs or anything yet, so that will be to-morrow. i also will be updating the luxe.etsy.com store in the next few days. i have a bunch of yarns and fiber. bunch!

i think that about does it. i didn’t sleep last night. literally. i finished the new chuck p. book yesterday and it was fantastic. i will have to read it again. so clever. and i started a book called mappa mundi which is about technology that is supposed to treat mental illness and help people to feel happy and content. it of course falls into the wrong hands and they are working to use it as a mass weapon. it is actually really good so far and her writing is a nice change of pace and fun to read. i am not so good with the words myself, not even to describe it. gah.

mwah!
n.

lovely swallow mobile and it is under 25 bucks! kondrads.com has tons and tons of different mobiles from teeny to huge and all prices between, although most or suprisingly affordable. look at this one…i love it.
anyway, i was looking for some ideas for the top part that it attaches to which appears to always be just functional and not attractive in any of the mobiles i looked at, art ones or just cheapo kids room ones alike. i found this tutorial that looks good. i already have put together most of those strange wire framed paper pieces. i really like how they look and i hand strung and twisted 28 gauge copper wire to connect them, i am not sure just yet how the top will work. i wired just about all of them in strands, so i just need to figure out the top connector, although it will likely be more than one mobile. they would look incredible in front of a window or light source. i will take photos tomorrow. i may be best off just wiring them onto a curtain rod or pole in front of a window, i reckon. hmmmm.

did i show you the lion so far? he has chest hair and armpit hair. he is balding, has sideburns and a bit of a comb-over in the front. he has little knees and nipples. he has no name yet and is naked so far. what do you think of him?

it is now sunday night. i was too tired to finish the post yesterday, we got up at 7:30a to go to one of the bigger outdoor flea markets this morning which was rather good. i scored a shopping bag full of vintage buttons still on the cards, a sewing box full of all sorts of things…here are some photos, but i seriously didn’t get photos of half the stuff…

that said, if you need any vintage buttons, let me know what color you are looking for because i have loads and i am happy to sell em for a couple of bucks. after getting home i washed and organised the loose buttons that were just tossed in the sewing kit. i took tons of photos and then realized that i had accidentally put it on the low light setting. gah. i was super exhausted from not sleeping last night, getting up early and spending a few hours in the sun being overexcited, and then called barbe to squeal about my score. no worries, i am sending her some nice stuff, it wasn’t just shear gloat. i wouldn’t do that. the booths at the fleamarket that have only a few items and they are just utter crap, like a plastic cup from a convenience store and a dirty george foreman grill and a hot wheels car with a half chewed cookie on it. those people baffle me the most. although, i remember when i was in san francisco for a convention and crackheads tried to sell us similar stuff. so maybe that is the issue.

and, i should have taken a photo, but there was a booth that had defibrillators and some other really really strange electronic equipment that looked new. i wish i would have asked what the price was. just to know.

we left there and went to a coffee shop that roasts their own coffee to have a bite. i also got some coffee beans from them. i hope it is good, because we all know what a snob i am. bigtime.

we then went to burlington coat factory. i got these shoes which i plan to either add beading to or embroider. i have to think about it, though. they came in khaki and camo, too! i will walk around in em for a while and i may get another pair. in the summer, i have such a hard time wearing anything other than flip-flops. it kills me. or open heels, but i try to have my feets showing as much as possible. i need to take a photo of them on. i initially imagined iridescent black seed beads on em, but a little embroidered thing would be really cool, too.

i guess that is about it. i had planned to do an update on fiber and softies, but i was too tired to do anything. i will be doing it to-morrow, though. i put photos up of a lot of the things that will be listed. lovely and soft loose kid mohair, merino, targhee, baby cotswald locks, border leicester locks (so cute and teeny little curls) and then superwash merino top and 80’s grade merino i dyed that is luscious. seriously. so so nice.

okay, enough for now.
xo
n.

first…cuteable.com seen it? cute stuff. lots and lots of cute stuff.

amigurumi you ask? well. the pirate, i made him some clothes, although he still needs a belt and a sash on his head and the hook. that too. i don’t like his vest much, i did a bad freeform embroidered skull and crossbones and…it looks terrible. i will pull it out and do something else. dunno.

and i am workon on a lion with male pattern baldness…he is only partially done, but here he is. what do you think about a moustache to go with his sideburns and long balding hair?

my noggin is feeling better. because of the series of migraines, my brains feel a bit scrambled and it has left me feeling…well…a bit high. i don’t know why it is that way. and i have trouble coming up with words. dumb words. i have always hated that. searching for the words. anyway, i did some spinning:
at the left hand top the “HOTTT”superwash merino fiber that didn’t sell. how? i would’ve snapped it up. anyway, i still have some of the fiber left if anyone is interested. this one is 100 percent coils, so not a ton of yardage, i may do a single from the other 4 oz to accomany it. or just sell this little pinky skein. it was a whole bobbin of singles and probably 25 yards of supercoils. fun, though. the lower left is one of the batts i did spun up. there is still a couple of the red based ones left, not yet listed. if you want on, ask, they won’t last. they have mainly veggie silk fibers and sparkle and the rest is red, pink, or orange superwash fiber, or targhee. soft soft soft. a TON of sparkle in em. and twice carded. lovely! on flickr they are labeled by number. i will be listing different batts all week. and i think doing some more. i need to do some dyeing, but i think i might just take some of the dyed fiber i do and card em up. the market is so flooded right now, not that most of it is nice or anything, but everyone is selling fiber or purses or toys or what have you. crazy! oh, so the right top is fiber i got from the spunky eclectic club, they weren’t my colors, so i did all supercoils and added novelty yarns in the same colors to intensify them. it isn’t super soft, so it would be better suited for a something that isn’t next to the skin. and then at the bottom right is the ANA superwash sock yarn…lovely, no? i want one. i am fighting myself on it. big time.

i added some paper to the bottom of the box and added darker clouds that go the whole way out of the box, and more small trees and things…i think it is almost done…what do you guys think? do you think it lacks a focal point?

and my desk whilst working on the box and then a kinetic mobile i started yesterday. i will show you in a couple of days…

in other news, pavel has been acting totally crazy. seriously, i am concerned that there might be something mentally wrong with him. he was pretty laid back as a kitten. he liked to play/fight and bite, but he always seemed to be playing. now, he growls if the other cats come within 5 feet of him and he starts to act aggressive until a fight usually does break out because he has the posturing to bring it on. and then if he is just doing it to one sister, the other will come running and then it is a battle. the thing is, he is now doing it all the time. the other cats will not have aggressive posture, they are just walking by or going about their business, and he will lay his ears back and start growling until it escalates into a fight. any ideas what is going on?

i am getting sleepy. i will try to blog when i get up instead of late so i can think a bit more clearly.

mwah!
n.

yesterday i had a migraine and then today i couldn’t wake up. i had to go to my in-laws’ to let the dog out and i hung out with her for a little while before i went home. i was super grumpy and exhausted and i thought i would just sit down and eat a nectarine before i packed up orders. well. i fell asleep at 1:40 pm or so and didn’t wake up until jake brought me dinner at 6 i think. i have a migraine and am medicated at the moment. i am out of my migraine med and the pharmacy was closed by the time i woke up, so i am trying to just stay off of the computer (i haven’t even checked mail yet at 9:35 p)lest i get really really sick. anyway, i just wanted to blog before i went to bed. or to sleep, rather. i missed the farmer’s market! bah!

barbe sent me some yarn she didn’t want and some other nice things (and she is getting some stuff in return because she is a sweet girl. don’t let her fool ya! she is a total softie! i should make a barbe softie. hee.) and the one yarn is sort of a mustard color with a brown yarn plied around it, it has a tigery or bee look to it. i made a lion amigurumi that is balding. i started to give him a full mane and then as i put it in, it looked like bad hair plugs on someone with pattern baldness and it clicked. i may give him facial hair, he already has sideburns. i also crocheted some soft wire along with the yarn for his arms so they are poseable. i will take photos to-morrow. i promise. i also got some awesome stuff for a swap that i will post. with the links, i am trying to really keep this short and sweet.

some photos…here is the top that i made from a huge crappy women’s old navy t-shirt. i completely took it apart and added a strap and a vintage button and added shaping to the body and a bit of shirring at the bottom on one side to make it a bit shorter, too. excuse my sweaty, lupus rashy face. it was really hot out. i was ready to swoon. that was the day that i took photos of everything with my makeshift light tent.
and here is the shadowbox i have been working on for a while. i plan to add dimensional grass made with different papers glued to cardstock at the bottom. it also has clouds all around the box. it is called jacob’s ladder, which was the stairway to heaven. after the grass not sure where it is going. i am not sure why i have been so creatively stumped with anything that is not just crafty. hmph.
these photos don’t have all of the clouds that i have added…

i will be listing some more batts to-morrow on luxe.etsy.com so pop by. oh, and i will also be listing another of the softies. woot.

okay, i am barely able to keep the eyes open.
mwah!
n.