Placemats

Here is the result of my crippled foot weekend. I made a set of 4 placemats and started making a quilted pillow with a iron-on embroidery transfer of a happy pot full of strawberries. This weekend was very non-mobile for me, I mostly hopped around the house and went to bed early. Sunday we went out and got a new dining room table & chairs, and then I'll be able to move the little ikea table we have now into the work room so I can set up my sewing machine and fabric mess in there. The Dark Crystal journal from my Etsy shop sold, and I used the Etsy labs method of upcycling an old envelope to mail it. Here's a cool tutorial on that: http://etsylabs.blogspot.com/2007/04/recycled-shipping-options-week-1.html

Sleepy weekend

This weekend I played with my Japanese craft book, making patchwork placemats while Elwood enjoyed a long sit in the window. He is yawning there, but looks quite ferocious in this amazing photo. Friday night, a blister on my foot took a turn for the worse, and the foot is swollen and painful and I can't walk on it very well, so I am confined to my craft table or the couch. David gets to watch me hop from room to room like a dork.

Yes! Asia

Goodness, someone stop me! I searched online for a while and finally discovered the magic of Yesasia.com - the only place I've found to order more japanese crafting books with an english language webpage. It's hard to search on there, but if you find one thing you're looking for, it will reccomend similar items, so I searched around that way til I found some I wanted. They are not that expensive, and cheaper than on Etsy. Maybe it won't be so bad when Asia takes over the world and eats the US up. At least everything will be clever and crafty and beautiful and oh so cute. I ordered these additional yummy books.

Eeep! Clever Japanese crafters!

My recent Etsy order of the book Machine Made Patchworks 02 came in the mail today and I'm ever so delighted by it! I feel like a little kid again, drooling over all the pictures of girls in patchwork altered clothes and purses and doilys and pillows etc, pictured against lovely blue flower wall paper. All the project instructions are in Japanese, but seem like I could figure them out from looking at the diagrams. I just want to eat it up it's so cute and fresh and clever. Oh you smarty smart cute and clever Japanese crafters, how you enchant me! I'm drying to get my hands on the first volume, but the only bookseller I could find was sold out.

American Doll Posse

I am excited about Tori Amos and her newest album. It's called American Doll Posse, and it's loaded with politics about our current messed up situation with GW and Iraq - of course translated by Tori and her new Greek Goddess personalities. Also really cool, is that each personality has it's own blog you can link too from her website. So far only 2 are created, but more will be posted soon.

Clyde: clydespeaks.blogspot.com
Isabel: www.tagworld.com/isabeldocuments

You can also listen to a couple tracks from the new album, I particularily like Yo George where she wonders asks "Is this just the maddness of King George? You've got the whole nation on all fours."

Back to the Garden

I've finished the outline of Kristen's flower tattoo. I have to work on the color portion now, wich seems harder somehow. If she gets it, I want to go and watch. I can't even imagine someone having something on their body that I made, forever. It's a really nice feeling.

Tagged

These are some tags from old shopping trips to the Beverly Center. Oh beautiful tags, I love you so. I am such a sucker for them now since working for Guess. I like looking for tags almost more than looking for clothes. You don't have to be dissapointed in the dressing room.