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quick update!

just a quick update before i start my day. lunching ladies picnic today! yay!

anyways some pictures of what i've been up to lately...


this is week one of my ripple afghan.


a skirt i made my sister, loosely based on one she already owned, mixed with my winging it style.


a scarf i made for my sister.

beret

i made a beret.
i crocheted it using a pink, purple and berry acrylic i found at lincraft today when i needed cheering up.



my webcam doesn't really show the colours properly. i intend to take better ones tomorrow.

i've been busy, sewing skirts for my sister, i also made a scarf, and i've started my first ripple. i love the wool (it feels wrong saying that, cos its not even wool, but yarn sounds wrong to me too, i've always said wool) i'm using right now.

it reminds me of rainbow paddle pops.
ripple photos tomorrow too.

my etsy store

Finally I've put some stuff in there.


Felix, Brice and Gerald.

Available now in my etsy store.

99 muffins because Gary ate one.

My friend Gary told all of the guys at the car dealership he works at that I make the best muffins they will ever taste and then went on to tell them I'd make 100 muffins for them for today.

So I spent yesterday baking. Its a good thing I like baking.





hmm gooey chocolate!

it only took 4 batches to get 100 muffins too. However the guys at work only got 96, due to a few hungry mouths eating some as they were done. Ah well. I'm told they went down very well and that there are only about 10 left.

I haven't been doing much sewing, I'm currently working on some skirts for my sister to wear to art school and I have made a few little stuffed critters (a cat and a furry blob thing) but overall I look at my sewing machine and go "oh yuck, I think I'll just watch some more Grey's Anatomy."

whats this?

I made another softie of my own design tonight. Its a fluff worm monster. Thats what I've decided it is anyways. I made him out of some craft fur that i found in my stash and some more of that leftover corduroy. once again, only using things I already own.

I think I might have to buy some more polyfill though.



oh look its me and my fluff worm monster.
he really needs a name.

better pictures tomorrow when i could be bothered grabbing my camera, for now its all about the webcam.

use what i have

i found this post not even five seconds ago. use what i have. i'm pretty inspired. i'm also the same as the original poster, i find i have so much fabric, so much lovely fabric and it never gets used.

recently i've been trying to use what i have. however i must admit i have actually bought some new felt. oh no. but that was in march. so its ok.

so i'm going to try and follow this challenge. for the whole month of april i'll only use what i have.

i have an idea for today, i've even picked out the fabric i want to use, but there is a towel in the bathroom that has a seahorse on it, and thats what i'm thinking, big, soft, seahorse.

if i do have to buy anything this month it will probably be hobbyfill. but i think thats ok. thats not really part of the stash.

decorating

this is my notebook that i've started to carry with me on a daily basis. i write down notes. things i need to do, things i need to remember, ideas i have. stuff like that. its quite lovely as it is, but i decided tonight after browsing many a craft blog it was time for me to do something crafty instead of just browsing.

i've been so uncreative lately. thinking about it, but not actually doing anything.
*yawn*

so i whipped out a trusty craft helper.



biscuits?



nope. even better. its part of my button stash.



so with a little bit of glue and craft buttons the decorating begins.

and thats where i stopped. originally i was going to cover the entire thing in buttons, which would look rather awesome. but i've decided against that. i think i'm going to try and do a few different things to it, i'm just not sure yet. so i've left it for now, letting the glue dry and i'll add a little more to it tomorrow.

and just for fun...



my feet! sparkly red shoes! this is what my legs looked like when i went out last friday night for the first time in ages. hot huh??