Month: October 2011

Tiffany and Daniel invited us to party that they and their friends were throwing on the S. S. Jeremiah O’Brien on Saturday night. We got there REALLY late, because Hairy had to work at the gallery, and Manda and I still had to put together some kind of costume to wear, sewing on buttons and cutting out collars at the last minute. Everything turned out fine, and we had so much fun trying to take a million pictures during the last hour of the party! Costumes: success! Except, for some reason, my nylons were REALLY SHINY. Here are my fav photos: Tiff made her own mermaid costume! I’m sad Hairy didn’t get the bottom of her costume with the mermaid tail! That’s us trying to mimic some mannequins at F21 we saw earlier that day! Outfits: (we tried to buy pieces that would be usable even after Halloween) $5 sailor hats from some shop online that we sewed golden bows and buttons to. Dresses: H&M, and we added gold buttons from JoAnn Fabrics Coats: Converse All Star from Target Collars: pieces of fabric cut out about 5 minutes before we left the house Here’s a video of us exploring the ship! And I’ll put the rest of the photos behind a cut!

  There’s me and TiffanyStar after escaping a corn maze. I think our photographic awkwardness rivals that of me and Shrinkle. Is it me? I will come AwkwardBomb YOUR photos!   Last weekend, a bunch of us ate mac n cheese at Homeroom and then caravanned to Pleasanton to go to Pirates of Emerson and check out some haunted houses. I think we managed to go through all 4 haunted houses, plus the “Mental Maze,” and also THE CORN MAZE! It was pretty much really dark over there, so I tried to get audio snippets of us stuck in the corn maze. I didn’t get video or pics in the haunted houses because I figured the ghouls and escaped prisoners wouldn’t appreciate it. I don’t normally do the haunted house thing, but it was good times, except for all the fog machine air making my nose feel stuffy!     More Halloween fun after the weekend! Don’t get too excited. I don’t really have time to put much thought into a fancy costume! oh p.s. one of my customers is eBaying her whipped cream scarf. Get it!

Sometimes blogging can feel overwhelming, so I take a break from it, and then feel guilty about it for some reason! AH! Anyway, I have finished shipping out all your Halloween goodies, and soon, we will be on to Thanksgiving….and Christmas! Wheee!!! In the meantime, I am working on a new crochet painting for Locketship‘s anniversary party, art show, and launch party for their new collection Galactic Glitter. The theme is SPACE! Here is a sneak animated gif of what I’m crocheting up! I wish the real thing could also wiggle and blink, but….yarn can only do so much!   p.s. you can still buy MUMMY MITTS which I discounted, and peeps in the continental U.S. can still get them by Halloween, but probably only if you order today and tomorrow :).

I added a few pairs of Mummy Fingerless Mitts to my Etsy shop. Last year I wrote a tutorial for these mitts for Elsie’s blog. This year, you can purchase your own! Grab ’em quick, cuz there aren’t that many! Don’t forget, you have until Sunday, Oct 16, to pre-order an I Scream Ghost T-Shirt, and to also pre-order a Jack O Lantern Slouchy Hat, Jack O Lantern fingerless mitts, and Jack O Lantern hair clip .

I have been sporting what my friend Kera calls “crack ho nails” for a long time. It’s when you never remove your old polish and you’re left with ugly, unkempt chips of faded color. Some of my fingers were worn clean off! Earlier today I told myself I would set aside some ME TIME to re-do my nails. Since I work with my hands, I rarely feel like taking a moment to take care of my nails, so this was a very nice little treat to myself! I was inspired by TinyTangerine’s Floral Nail Tutorial for the roses. The only tools I used were the nail polish brush and some tooth picks…so…my roses went a little wonky. We’ll call it Impressionist art! I used a Starbuck’s coffee cup lid as a paint palette. The disco ball glitter is my new OPI Rainbow Connection polish from the Muppets collection. It’s AMAZING. I put it all over my toes and I feel like I walked through stars. It was getting kind of clumpy on the brush while I was putting all 3 coats on, and someone on Instagram mentioned that I probably shouldn’t have been sitting in front of a space heater blowing hot air all over it…! The pink glitter is OPI I Pink I Love You that I ordered online from the UK, because I Pink I Love You in the U.S. is an entirely different color! The mint green is MAC Mischievous Mint, and I used a combo of drug store polishes for the floral nails. For the first time, I tried using Seche Vite top coat. I’ve heard that it helps semi-wet polish dry up super quickly! IT DOES! It also makes all your polish super shiny!! I have also read that if you apply it too thick, that it will shrink and peel your nail polish off. I am not very good at painting my nails, so I won’t be surprised if this happens…but so far, I really love it as a drying agent!

Worked on a custom cupcake coffee cup cozy and also a wholesale order of cozies for ShanaLogic.com. I also made this random little video of the custom cozy! I’ll be working on getting more cupcake hats into the shop, since a bunch of you msgd me and were sad they had sold out already! Don’t forget, you have until Sunday, Oct 16, to pre-order an I Scream Ghost T-Shirt, and to also pre-order a Jack O Lantern Slouchy Hat, Jack O Lantern fingerless mitts, and Jack O Lantern hair clip . I’ll be adding another fun Halloween-themed item in the next few days ;).

PRE-ORDERING IS CLOSED NOW! Thank you all who ordered a shirt 🙂 xoxoxoxoxox ************************* Hey gang, I wasn’t sure how many I Scream Ghost tshirts to print or in what sizes, so I thought I’d try opening up a pre-order for them for a week, from today (Sunday) until next Sunday, October 17. Then I’d need another week to print the shirts and ship them out, but I’ll send them Priority within the U.S. so you should definitely get them before Halloween, but I plan to wear mine beyond Halloween, too! They are $20 each, $5 shipping worldwide. I know it’s last minute, so if there is no interest, I am totally cool with that. I just thought I’d try it out! I prefer the 50/50 cotton-poly blend shirts, available to you in Black, Br0wn, Heathered Black (like a dark, heathered gray), and Orchid (medium lavender). In sizes Small, Medium, Large, and X-Large. There is a a slight scoop in the neck, and the fabric is super stretchy and soft. I wear a size Medium in it. But I also love the colors of the regular fine jersey cotton shirt. Available to you are Fucshia, Mint, Sunshine, and Aqua. In sizes Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, and 2XL. The fit is smaller, so I wear a size Large in it.    

  I just updated the shop with some Halloween goodies! I’m doing pre-orders (sorry it’s kinda late in the game!) so the earlier you order, the sooner you’ll get your items! Remember to give me some time to make them, but I promise to ship everything by Oct. 21. There are also some other new items in there, including cupcake slouchy hats and cupcake iphone/gadget cozies. Check em all out!

  My aunt was in town for a few weeks, and we all went to eat fancy foods at Gary Danko. I wanted to get a few quick outfit snaps, but I also didn’t want us to run too late, since we were also going to visit Chrissa at her launch party/press conference for her new gig as a VJ for MNET. We were only able to say hi super quick before heading off to dinner, but it was at least nice to say hi to her and Tess and Amy for 2 minutes! Chrissa was too busy being an event hostess to be in this photo :P. The dress I’m wearing is part of Elsie’s collection for Red Velvet. She asked Twitter to help her name the dress, and she went with my suggestion: The First Date!! Then I felt like an idiot, because she had already named another dress in the collection the Library Date dress, but she said, “It’s ok. I really like dates!” She’s the cutest. The tights are from Celeste Stein. The variety of prints for tights is amazing!! But I think the fit of the tights is a little less amazing….. they get super saggy and loose super quickly. Necklace: Cicely Margo. Bunny purse: Rakuten.

  Manda and I had a lot of fun on Saturday, vending at the Noriega Street Block Party. I rarely do craft events, but now that I have enlisted a bit more crochet help, I hope to do more. I was not really prepared for vending outdoors, since I am used to large indoor venues for Renegade or Bazaar Bizarre, so having a tent/canopy never even occurred to me! At first I was afraid it was going to rain, and then for the rest of the day, it was super sunny! My shoulders got burnt a little, but luckily, my table neighbor (and the woman who invited me to participate in the event) Jenny of SF Knitting Supply happened to be selling skincare products and let us sample her SPF lotion!   Since I haven’t really made an event video lately, I decided it was my mission to capture the day on video, so I didn’t really take many photos, except for the one above with my buddy Logan! We met and chatted with lots of interesting people, and we also delighted many CHILDRENS! I love that children gravitate toward my goodies, but my big hope is to capture this kind of child-like glee inside grownups, too!   Hope you enjoy the video! I will be posting leftovers on Etsy in the next few days :). I sold out of jack-o-lantern mitts, but I think we’ll have a few more to post up, too. I am thinking if the jack-o-lantern items are popular, I’ll do some pre-orders to ship by Oct 20. We’ll see how it goes!