Halloween

This year we had a Zombie, San from Princess Mononoke, and a wee skeleton. Squirt is still preferring comfort to creativity when it comes to costumes, boring.

Year after year I get super stressed trying to photograph them in costume as the sun is going down (I absolutely HATE overly flashed out photos). Next year I'm getting them dressed and photos taken BEFORE dinner! I think they were feeling my frustration and forgot to smile :/




And this is a couple days earlier when she was on her way out to a early Halloween party.
We had forgotten the earrings (which really add to the costume in a big way) but she's looking fierce!





She looked so awesome! Still kicking myself for not doing a full on photo shoot, Ha!

Monkeys, monkeys, and more monkeys

I'm averaging 3 a day, hoping to get them finished be the end of October so I can make some other fun stuffs for Deluxe :)



Oh! I'm gonna have to get me some of these:



Those mini monkey bits are TINY!

DIY Gerbil Habitat

I've been meaning to post this for awhile. We recently upgraded from the teeny tiny gerbil cage to a big honkin condo of a gerbil "habitat". Max needed a friend and more space to roam :)
It's made from two plastic totes, random plastic bins and wire we found at the hardware store. There is a hole connecting the top and bottom, that was fun. Lots of washers, nuts & bolts, and cursing. But it works! And it's virtually cat proof! We've wired it to his dresser just in case ;)



Max, his new bff Justin is in the hut.
I did NOT name these little rodents btw ;)


Most of my Max photos look like this:


Big brave Atticus ran for Student Council last week, and WON! We were shocked :)
His posters were hilarious, so darn cute :) I'm posting the others on Flickr

Awesome!

December 12th!
Can't wait :)

Sweet deal & Expo

Hey! I got my order yesterday from OvernightPrints and just had to share :)
I made up these button cards for promo purposes (Deluxe bags!) and they turned out so sweet:



Of course I can't center the button over the circle but I suppose that adds to the charm.
The coupon code I used got me 250 single sided cards for free, I added rounded corners and had to pay shipping but over all saved 25$. Not bad :)

We also went to the Wildlife Expo at the Lazy E Arena yesterday. It was really interesting watching Ollie with the animal skins. Me being a rigid vegetarian (for animal rights reasons) for 14 some years now I have a severe ICK reaction to the skinned and stuffed little woodland creatures. My little sweet babe is the biggest animal lover and he was a bit weirded out with the skins. He kept petting the head and looking at where the eyes were and the hands, raising his hand and asking the guy behind the booth what happened to the fox. Oh.



But what a great bunch of volunteers they have out there! Anyone willing and happy to push my 4 year old around in a kayak for 10 long minutes is somethin special :)



Going on today and tomorrow, the butterfly tent is not to be missed!

Noodle Salad!

I finally got around to setting up my second shop! Noodle Salad :) I registered it a loooong time ago!
"Good times and noodle salad", one of my very favorite lines from As Good As It Gets.

I'm going to be moving all my things with knitted bits over there. It's also where I'm placing my new somethin somethin involving my woven rectangles. Yay!

How totally sweet is my banner?! So perfect :)



Took me all frickin morning to set the shop up, I'll wait to move things till tomorrow.
I gotta get up out of this chair!

Working on custom orders, birthday presents, and inventory for Deluxe :)
Trying to not be irate over my timing belt breaking.



Love the purple-fade-to-pink :)