ella ella eh eh eh

For miss Tuesday, I construct a 3D Narwal 

with giant umbrella to keep out this crazy rain. 

Considering we are on Tornado watch 2010... 

Crafting is keeping me going. If you have no 

idea what a Narwal is you obviously are not completely

bombarded by kids and their animal alphabets, or 

you have not seen Elf.  nice clip. 

A narwal is a Horned whale of the Arctic, 

who can be pretty darn cute and artsy. 

This Narwhal needs spots and perhaps something else. 

Reading glasses? hmm. 

He is on his way with his goldenrod floral 

print horn. 

And his tie dye umbrella. 

Perhaps a mustache?! How sneaky and sinister!

This Narwal is smart and sarcastic. From dwelldeep. 

In zee mood

I just found a stack of my great grandmother's doilies in our

garage and I am instantly obsessed with their intricacy. 

My new plan is to do some copycat doilies/crochet

patterned embroideries. 

First attempt is the Vday heart doily. 

I am really liking the doily this year as a Vday 

expression. I will run with it.

Doily themed clothing is a little off.. but yes to the

idea of doily themed earrings. 

from taylerxc

So, a doily themed Valentines holiday is born. 

right?

beautiful

I love this palette and these prints 

are so soft and sweet. A subtle calm in the 

middle of the other crazy brights in Spring. 

Aah. Between looking at this line and sipping tea, 

(trying to quit coffee - slightly)

I am feeling less anxious. For now. 

From Calla Haynes Spring Summer 10.

[seen on Notcouture]

Perhaps puffy hair and a camera filter are the answers. 

Nutty

January is feeling a bit cold and slow..

working away at some craftiness. 

Getting caught up on my Squirrel Nutkin. 

Squirrel Nutkin is one of Beatrix Potter's lesser 

known characters and I am loving him...

loving the tude, the dancing and his owl friend. 

See.. the tude.

Surprise blue print in the light..

squirrely tail. 

Squirrels are generally too campy to be truly cute. 

But, here are some other super serious squirrels. 

Head honcho squirrel

from Berkley Illustration

In the squirrel club with a squirrel button. 

from littledromstore

Just in case you thought it was at all reasonable to hold a 

fancy squirrel clutch. 

from tsurubride

No promises

I love new year's resolutions.. they are so full of hope.

I have seen on a few craft blogs the resolution to

'make something every day.'

I think that is super sweet. Although, seeing that I

can't pull a blog post daily, making something daily might

be tricky.

My new year's resolution is to deal with the

giant pile of stuff that I have purchased from

thrift stores or stolen from my mom's attic with the

intention of fixing or taking in.

Today I started with a new item, given to me by

Sweetie for Christmas. It would appear that

Sweetie is fed up with my giant purse and it's contents.

He bought me this wee little purse from Grandma June.

I think he was going off my love for giant bows here.

Super cute, yet the handle fits my 2 year old perfectly.

A little morning sewing, using the same dimensions

of our earlier bag tutorial for the new strap

and voila! we have a new, adorable,

across body purse.

And how about this giant bow outfit?

kidding. This outfit will send me straight to

Kitty Hell.

So, no great promises of doing anything in a timely

manner, but I will try to get through that pile,

one hot item at a time!

get crabby part two..

Yay to Phoebe for doing the blog embroidery tutorials

at home. Beautiful!

Rasta urchin..

And, her super special extra credit boyfriend-inspired embroidery.

Time for you to get crabby!

This time around we are having two winter classes..

1/30 is another embroidery class.

I am feeling a bathroom towel related craft here..hmm.

I'll get back to you on this.

2/6 is a sewing class for the big Vday. We will

sew boxers and neck ties. Running wild horses boxers anyone?

Fun!

If you are a current or former UC student(or a glutton for punishment),

you can sign up here.

Otherwise, you can shoot me an email or leave a comment.

As usual, if you are very far away or unable to make it,

I will do some online tutorials to get us all in the mood.

Fresh Start!

Let's start a new year off with some extreme cuteness taken

from the 'breaking bad news with baby animals' 2010

postcard calendar given to me by my sweet sister.

This calendar is a total steal on Amazon for $6.99.

Now that I have ripped a few postcards out, I may be doing

some surprise baby animal correspondence!

P.S. You're too old to wear that tank top.

Happy New Year!