friday!

Behold = my new couch. Currently, there are two couches 

and two giant arm chairs in my tiny TV room. What to do. 

Here is my new etsy Alchemy request, people = 

Can someone paint a giant sized portrait of me, my couch

and my pet mr crabs? ha. Wouldn't that be dreamy. 

I do feel slightly warm about being able to pluck a piece of 

furniture off the street and make it sexy!

gratuitous kissing pic.

Happy Friday!

Snippits

How I love cheesily personalizing the world around me. 

Sorry about the excessive embroidery this week. 

But, I must. 

Personalized 'Mr Sun' 2 year old art on 

Mom's day kitchen towels. Precious!

and, I finally finished this guy...

Just in time for the next holiday!! Seamless. 

I am a simple woman. 

My Mother's Day

gift obsessions?

A magic message bean and a rotary phone. hmm.

message bean via .

rotary phone via.

Mommy love (super mondo tutorial)

Finally the anthro inspired appliqued kitchen towel

(inspired by mom's day) tutorial. 

voila!

I must admit that I made the second prototype last night

in the wee hours and there are some funky craftsmanship 

moments. Don't worry : I will call your attention to them

even if you don't see them. 

the rest is after the jump...

like candy

A trip to Shanghai Tang is like a trip to 

Willy Wonka's chocolate factory(watch this clip, 

it will make you happy).

Shiny florescent pink and green enamel, 

Chinese symbols and letters in 

solid gold. 

The best! And this catalogue... like candy.  

For you, some of my fave shots from front cover 

to back. 

all images from Shanghai Tang.
Happy Chinese New Year!

Felt!

The only thing I like more than felt is a shop composed of 

only felt items! Dreamy!

And, as usual, I am thrilled to see yet another brilliant

garland idea. 

All from Moufelt. 

All images from Moufelt. Find them here!

orb amazing-ness contd.

More pictures of these delectable terrariums. 

the ever loving eggloo...

and the queen beast of them all.. the Manatee. 

A giant Manatee on the kitchen table would be divine. 

Please message me if you want to order one personally 

and I will give you all the info you need!!

Hotness!!

step into my mini forest

Miss Susie brought me my very own terrarium yesterday!!

I am so excited. Such a delicate little forrest. I need to hide some 

treasures in there!

Her coworker hand makes them herself!

Each terrarium is hand blown especially for the cause!

And, this baby is named the Armadillo!!

I will update this later to include exactly where to order your

very own terrarium. 

sweet

After such an outreach of love and support for the last 

Holly Hobbie item(I kid), I decided that 

I must make more Holly Hobbies. 

Well, at least people appreciate themselves

some Troop Beverly Hills. Clearly, 

you have your priorities in order. 

In honor of Niece Noa's bday, I felt that I would 

make her a sweet little swiss dot skirt with 

some hand dyed crochet and of course, a little

Holly Hobbie love. 

Sweet. 

I know my sister will appreciate this. 

She did have a giant yellow Holly Hobbie

canopy bed, after all, and always had 

her hair parted in the middle with long 

flowing ribbon clips.

And, in unrelated news,  I am finding this

'make one thing each day' new years resolution

to be totally do-able. 

Remember these sweeties?

Ok, I know, we are all sick of them. ha

But, the good news is that they finally are

not a loose table scrap in danger of being 

thrown out at any minute.

They are the centerpiece of an amazing pillow.

 

And the melamine blue is a homage

our wonderful cake.. mmm.

beautiful(chilean)things.

Kipu fine handcraft store in Valparaiso, Chile is full

of woven perfection. The sweetest store.

amazing.

This poncho was perfection and completely got me in the mood.

The chilean mood.

I quickly became obsessed with these delicate little notions

woven from horsehair. I love them.

Here, a butterfly.

The figurines and animals were so sweet, yet way too pricey for

this girl. He is so intricate and dainty!

Don't you just want to squeeze him?

Click here to read more about the 'Crin' horsehair craft and the

cultural background of the craft

which has been practiced for 200 years by the women

of Rari, Chile.

Pretty cool stuff. I'm glad I was obsessed!

To buy some amazing Crin craft online, look here.

Or, here.

home grown holiday

Let's jog our memories back to April,

when I made clear my obsession for the

miniature Fungi farms from

Far West Fungi.

My fascination with the mini fungi garden is a long running

one that started about 8 years ago with trips to

the Ferry building in S.F.

How pretty are these mushrooms?

See their mushroom forest in the forefront?

Gorgeous! Effortless! Like a terrarium, but better.

So much better.

Thanks to Melvin, I received my very own Fungi farm over the summer.

In hindsight, perhaps I should have named him. Would that have

made him feel more nurtured?

At any rate, I ran out and purchased a large glass cloche,

the only one I could find was from Pottery Barn,

and gave him a nice, comfy and trés chic home.

And of course, I haven't mentioned him since.

Shattered dreams.

Halloween came and still nothing.

He did appear to be some groovy science experiment,

which helped the spooky decor some.

Our main problem here, so we think, was that it was still

80 degrees in October in Southern California.

Like the lagomorphs, shroomy likes a nice crisp 60

degrees. Lucky for him, the month of November has created

a buns-chilling atmosphere in our guest bathroom.

And that is where we moved him. The rabbits are so jealous.

And, wouldn't you know it, he responded.

Growth and more growth.

Shroomy checking himself out in the mirror..

(he's so vain)

New larger growth..

Original mini growth from the great hot spell of 2009.

New large growth next to old whimpy growth.. see the difference?

Even a few shroomy heads.

Well, I have been butt dragging on this post and this was a shot

of the shroomy heads on Friday..

This was shroomy head MADNESS on Sunday..

Finger high!

Shroomy reaching for the sky on Monday..

And mondo Alice in Wonderland shroomy status this morning.

I am totally a mushroom farmer. So my three shroom heads don't

really resemble the beauty of the Far West Fungi sample.

That's ok.

I have a strong desire to incorporate them into my

Thanksgiving cooking. Yet, somehow, I am not sure I have the

confidence to serve guest a fungus that I have grown in my

guest bathroom, that has been witness to lord knows what.

But, maybe I do.