Month: February 2012

I’m getting ready for a Yummy You! meeting in North Carolina. I’m leaving Monday morning and coming back Thursday evening! I’ve been prepping a bunch of different things to help facilitate the brainstorming seshes, and I thought I’d share these collages I created to start putting together color stories and to just set an overall FOOD MOOD.

I’m sponsoring an awesome giveaway right now on Michael Shirley’s blog for all you Tumblr lovers! All you need to do is follow both of us on Tumblr and then reblog the giveaway post to enter! I’ll copy/paste the info below. Remember, leaving a comment here on my blog will not enter you in the giveaway. All of this giveaway is done via Tumblr! 🙂 *** This month’s IHATEMICHAELSHIRLEY.COM Giveaway is sponsored by Twinkie Chan! This is an INTERNATIONAL CONTEST, so anyone-anywhere can win. There are also 3 prizes, so that means 3 winners! Here is what we are giving away: PEPPERONI PIZZA SCARF ($140 value) TWINKIE CHAN’S CROCHET GOODIES FOR FASHION FOODIES PATTERN BOOK ($15 value) FOODIE FRIDGE 1” PINBACK BUTTON SET ($10 value) ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝  ♡  ✝ TO ENTER TO WIN, reblog this post & follow: ihatemichaelshirley.tumblr.com & http://twinkiechan.tumblr.com You MUST BE FOLLOWING BOTH TUMBLR BLOGS. If you don’t follow both, you will be automatically disqualified!!! Reblog as many times as you like. Each reblog counts as one entry. NO LIKES. All names will be put in a random name generator to pick the winners. CONTEST ENDS ON FEBRUARY 28th, 2011 AT 11:59 PM (PST) The 3 winners will be messaged simultaneously on the 29th via the winners’ Tumblr “ask” box messaging system (your ask box MUST be enabled so we can contact you), and each winner will receive a prize, distributed on a first-claimed-first-served basis. GOOD LUCK! x x x x

So for the past few days, I have been battling a cold! This is a bummer because not only do I feel like crap, but I am also really unproductive, which makes me feel crappier!! It started off with a sore throat, which I got rid of in about 24 hours. Then I had one healthy-ish day, and then all heck broke loose and now I have the cough from Hades, the one kind of cough I always dread, this kind of cough I get where coughs are triggered by a sensation at the back of my throat kind of like a coarse hair poking me, or like, the rough side of the Velcro, or a pin prick. If it’s persistent, I get caught in a very embarrassing cycle of coughing, choking, gagging, heaving, crying, and snotting. Needless to say, I have not been leaving the house, except, tonight, I had to go out and buy cough meds, since my all day course of hot water, lemon, apple cider vinegar, honey, and cayenne pepper, weren’t really helping, even though I’ve gone pee like a million times. Anyway, I know you are like, “Just go to the doctor!” Well, the last time I went to the doctor, he told me that the hairy sensation was the little hairs on the back of my throat growing back from being coughed away. It sounded like a big bunch of hooey to me, and he sent me home with codeine cough syrup that didn’t do anything at all. So that’s why I gave the hot water, lemon, etc stuff a try today. Usually, over the counter stuff doesn’t do anything for me either, at least as far as getting some sleep. I’ve also resorted to window-shipping therapy, and maybe some actual purchases : /. Let’s look at some fun shoes! The first three pair are from ModCloth and the rest are from YesStyle.

Remember when I posted the sketch for my mom’s crochet painting? Here’s the finished piece! It came out a bit differently than I thought, but still cute, if I do say so myself! They are supposed to be little steamed buns or dumplings: bao bao! BaoBao is also my mom’s dog’s name. I hadn’t really planned on stuffing the dumplings/buns, but it just sort of happened. I had no idea how I wanted to execute the bamboo steamer when I first sketched it, and that proved to be kind of the most challenging part. In related news, I was super duper happy that my Galactic Donuts sold last week! It’s the first crochet painting I’ve ever gotten money for! I actually have a new one coming up very very very soon. It was supposed to be for Valentine’s Day, but I didn’t have time to finish it. I am still knee-deep in all my bookkeeping and tax prep for 2011. Let’s not talk about that! 😛

Last weekend, Hairy and I drove to L.A. to celebrate with our friends Cuppy and Moofs. We were very honored to be invited to their magical wedding day (even though we were late because we went to the wrong building first… typical!). What’s even more magical is that I got to meet Lindsay of KidPirate and Sick for Cute! for the first time in real life after internets-knowing her for years! What’s even MORE magical is that a big ol’ bunch of us went to Disneyland together after the wedding! Plus we got to have brunchies with the happy honey-mooning couple before we drove home. Yummy foods + wonderful people = pretty much all one needs! Technology is pretty amazing. We get to find and correspond with people we’d probably never bump into in our normal lives. Getting to take a photo with Cuppy and Linds, together, AT THE SAME TIME, was definitely one for my personal history books! They are both sweet as pie, beautimous, and delightful!

I just added a few super sweet bracelet sets to my Etsy shop. I collaborated on them with my buddy Maddy! I asked her to make me a friendship bracelet some time last year, and then I fell in love with the idea of making bracelet sets with her that people could share with their friends, too! We didn’t plan out any color schemes or anything. She just sent me a box of adorable friendship bracelets, and all the sets just came together. Magic!

Hi! I’m still in LA but trying to get an Etsy update going, too! 😀 I managed to upload some stuff while on my trip. Check out the shop now! I will be uploading a few more surprise treats hopefully on Monday :).

I’m excited to tell you about the collab I just launched with Michael Shirley of Doctor Couture in L.A.! We are offering a super cute crocheted chain-link neckwarmer that comes with a bonus 1.5 inch pin with our chain-link heart graphic on it, and we are also offering this super comfy sweatshirt in dark dark navy with our chain-link heart graphic on it. Everything is at a special introductory price right now, so act fast! And get comfy!!!!!!! SHOP SHOP! Perfect for Valentine’s Day if you are not so much into the cutesy pink explosion!!!! But if you ARE, I will be updating my Etsy with a cutesy pink explosion. I just need to hop down to L.A. for my friend Cuppy’s wedding (yay!) and I will try to update the shop as soon as possible! xoxo