Category: Blog

I’m trying really hard to get you guys an Etsy upate for Feb 1/Wednesday. There’s so much I want to make and so little time! I think I will get some items up by Feb 1, and keep rolling out new fun things as they are finished!

Remember when I blogged about going to Sweet Streets and meeting Tavuchi, the owner/designer of Spank? Justin emailed me the other day to let me know that Tavuchi had mentioned me on her blog. The little fangirl in me just about exploded. When I first met her in person, I told her I loved Spank and then ran away with shyness. I’m cool like that. (pic from Tavuchi’s blog)

Still gearin’ up for a Valentine’s Day store update! This year we’re not only make heart-shaped cookies, but also sets of x’s and o’s! At first I was going to sprinkle on pink, white, and red mini pom poms on everything, but then I wondered if I preferred the usual rainbow, and then I wondered if I preferred sugary bugle bead sprinkles!

I bumped into the most awesome website ever just now: THE CEREAL PROJECT. I LOVE CEREAL. I love it with milk. I love it without milk. I love it during the day. I love it at night. Cereal is the perfect food. Right now my favorites are Cap’n Crunch, Honeycomb, Honey Bunches of Oats with Peaches, Cocoa Puffs, Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Kix, ok I like a lot of them. Here is what The Cereal Project is all about: “The Cereal Project is an ongoing effort to document every breakfast cereal ever produced in the U.S. which has received a near-nationwide distribution. From Granula (not Granola), the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal ever produced in 1863, to the cereals being introduced to grocery stores as we speak, the Cereal Project aims to present pictures and descriptions of EVERY breakfast cereal including old favorites and failures that have long since been discontinued. So far, we have tracked down over 1,375 different cereals.” Even the site has an awesome design: it looks like a cereal box! They offer cereal coupons and also fun stuff like old cereal commercials and make your own cereal box print-outs! Some cereals I always wish I could have eaten: Do you have some nostalgic cereal favs? I was thinking, if I had a cereal, it would be Choco Pup, where the cereal looks like Bibi’s face and tastes like cookies n cream. OR. Yummy YarnBall Crunch, with oversized cereal balls with a yarn ball texture. OR. Very Berry Basket, where the little cereals look like strawberries with green tops. OR…

I am often in the habit of looking at stuff and thinking about how to make it look cuter and happier. Enter: candy stripe crochet hooks! They are now available in my Etsy shop, but if nobody else wants them, I am happy to keep them, as they just look really cute in a jar on my craft table! They are indeed still totally usable for chunky yarns or double/triple stranding lighter yarns for quick and easy projects. The big blue hook looks and feels like a magical candy wand! p.s. I am hoping to upload special Valentine’s Day themed crochet goodies by Feb 1. I’ll keep you posted 😉

Thanks everyone for participating in my giveaway! It’s always fun to see who is reading along here :). I will try to do more giveaways this year, and to also have multiple prizes, since I get really bummed when only one person can win!   I used Random.org to generate our winner.     Alice, I sent you an email. Please send me your mailing address so I can send you your goodies! Thanks again, everyone!

Tonight, in celebration of Manda’s bday, we made mini donuts! We used a mini-donut maker, kinda like a waffle iron, so our donuts were baked not fried. They were pretty cakey, but very small and super delicious! I had prepped a bunch of different toppings, but since there were basically only us 3 girls decorating the donuts, we only made pink vanilla frosting (hence the lack of different colors). My favorite concoction to eat was peanut butter with chocolate chips and chopped Snickers. My favorite concoction to look at was pink frosting with pastel mini marshmallows. We had so much fun making and decorating mini donuts, that we want to make and sell them at the next art show opening at Hairy’s gallery. I doubt that it’ll happen, but it would be funny! We’d decorate a bunch randomly, and people could just have at it and be surprised. This would also be a super fun activity for small kids. The grown-ups could pre-make all the mini donuts and then let the kids slather and sprinkle all over the place! p.s. My giveaway is still going on!

We’re preppin’ for a Valentine’s Day update over here! Love pastels! Love pink! Love hearts!!!!! p.s. Don’t forget to check out my giveaway if you haven’t yet!

  THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!!!!! xox   Happy Friday the 13th! Long time no giveaway! I’m starting this year off with a little goodie bag of accessories for you to share or hoard! You get an ice cream scoop hair clip, happy sammich cookie hair clip/brooch, pastel rainbow hair bow (alligator clip) with pink heart cabochon, big cherry zipper dangly, and some other fun random non-crocheted stuff I’ll stick in the bag! This giveaway is open to people all over the world. I’ll cover the shipping! Rules (I’ll try to keep it simple!): 1) Leave a comment! That’s easy! 🙂 2) For extra chances to win: mention, blog about, or link to my giveaway on Twitter, tumblr, or your own blog. You must show me the link to that specific entry, not just your general Twitter, tumblr, or blog URL. For each extra chance to win, you have to leave each extra comment in my blog, so that each separate entry counts for the random number generator. Don’t compile all your links into one comment. I used to separate comments for people, but I will no longer do that. 3) Comments will close on Friday, January 20th, and I will choose a winner with a random number generator (random.org). I think that’s it! Good luck!

I bought these shoes in Hong Kong. I think they were in this mall on the Kowloon side called “Trendy Place,” but I can’t remember for sure. They were a bit small, but the lady tried to stretch them for me while we shopped. They were on sale for like $30 USD. I can’t say that I love the outfit I wore them with…but I am still figuring out how to make them work in my wardrobe hehehehe. I feel really comfortable in platform shoes that have an angle, but I feel like platforms that are just one big sponge of equal height make me feel like I’m waddling when I walk. I can’t really explain it, but it’s one of the reasons I avoided flats for a very long time. I spent most of the early 2000’s about 3-4 inches taller than my normal self every day. Sorry for the lack of blogging! I have been living in a bit of a boring black hole lately, just trying to wrap up projects on my to-do list, plan for Valentine’s Day items, and avoid taxes and accounting (can’t do that for much longer, though). I also spent a few days working on a super cute but super TOP SECRET project for a friend. I can’t wait to show you pics of that. Oh you are gonna love it. But it can’t be revealed yet for a few weeks!

When I first begin to design a new pattern, I start with a simple sketch. The simpler, the better. The sketch helps me break my ideas down into simple shapes, and it also helps me organize and plan colors. The sketch is not really meant to be seen by anyone or show off my fancy drawing skills. It is simply the tool I use in the designing process. After the sketch, I go and buy yarn, and then start to crochet. Sometimes, there’s a lot of trial and error. Always, there’s a lot of taking apart of things and starting over. While this particular design wasn’t overly complicated, for some reason it just took me a lot longer than I’d planned! I was happy to re-visit the tea cup pattern again, though. Now that I have it written down, you will probably see some tea cup scarves available in my shop very soon! Until then, check out the finished Tea Party scarf! I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of me wearing the scarf, because I was literally still sewing it together minutes before the Express Mail deadline, and I had to get it out to a special somebody before Christmas! Plus, I hadn’t really slept in days. Nobody wants to see that! 😛

If you’ve been following my blog since last year or before, you’ll already know that I bought a pink Christmas tree. I didn’t have much opportunity this year to hunt for or make more decorations, so it pretty much looked the same! 😛 This year I added two cute stockings to my mantle, and on Christmas day, I crocheted a third! p.s. I used this pattern to make my stocking, and I just added some stripes and bobble stitches! RedHeart.com actually has a couple crochet stocking patterns!

(click for larger) I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We had way too much food! We also had a turducken for the first time, and I’ll make a separate post for all the food! I didn’t get the chance to decorate the house as much as I wanted :(, but hopefully next year I’ll have more time to make the house a Christmas wonderland. I did accomplish two small Christmas goals though: bake cookies using the cookie press, and crochet my own stocking (I’ll put a photo of that in my Christmas tree post). Here’s a quick snap of my outfit! Dress by I’m Your Present, Necklace by Onch Movement, Cardigan from Target, teddy bear slippers from Hong Kong, giant ribbon bow in hair from Target! I wore my slippers all day. It was pretty awesome. Here’s a close up of the necklace. It’s super soft! You can just pet them all day.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Tonight I had dinner with my Dad, brother, and SIL (my mom is still in Hong Kong), and then we opened family presents! Then I came home and baked cookies til 4am! I used a cookie press for the first time, and I’m ADDICTED! How excited am I to make my own CHEESE CRACKERS?!!! AHHHH!!! I linked you to the exact brand and model I used. Apparently it’s like the cheapest of the cheap, and I just picked it up at Michael’s while I was buying yarn, but I thought it was super easy to use, and the recipe that comes on the box is pretty good! I just added a little extra sugar and a little extra extract, since I’d read that some people found the recipe too bland. I made pink vanilla heart cookies and green pepermint tree cookies. I wanted to make ginger cookies and chocolate cookies, but I started baking at like 2am and didn’t feel like mixing up another batch! 😛 Later today, my fam and Hairy’s parents are coming over to our house for Christmas dinner. I just put up the tree last night hehehe. More pics after tomorrow!!!

We’re back from our trip to Hong Kong & India. I started working again right away to finish and send out everyone’s holiday goodies, plus I have a big wholesale order I’m trying to get out ASAP and am excited to tell you about!!! I’ll probably still need to work-hibernate over the weekend, but hopefully next week I can start showing you some photos from my trip! And I still haven’t put up my Xmas tree!! AHHHH!!!! xo

Hi Hi!!!! I will be out of the country on a family vacation until Dec. 13! I am bringing my laptop and may blog from overseas, but I’m not sure. We’ll see how it goes. Lots of fun stories when I get back from INDIA!!! xoxo p.s. the shop is still open while I am gone, and I will ship everything ASAP when I’m home!

    I wish I could have gotten more items in the shop for y’all before the holidays, but I tried!! I may add a few more here and there, and maybe some more when I get back from my trip on Dec. 13, but this will be the bulk of it, and this is what I can guarantee will arrive to you before the 25th within the U.S. Saturday will be my last shipping day! I will keep the shop open, so people can snag items while I am gone, and then I will ship everything on Dec. 14. Hope everyone had a yummy Thanksgiving!

Last weekend, Hairy and I drove down to L.A. to attend the opening night of the Sweet Streets group exhibition, co-curated by Spank! I am kind of going out of my mind trying to put together a fun Black Friday sale for y’all, plus I’m leaving for a 2-week vacay in less than a week! But I could not pass up a chance to shop at the Spank! x Chubby Bunny pop up shop, and make-a the gross face with Shrinkle. Some links to check out with more photos! LA Weekly Jessi Jae Joplin’s Buzznet blog Anz Falcon’s blog (There’s a photo of me in there where I think my expression exudes, “I ate too much mac n cheese and I need to go take my tights off.”) tadatime on Flickr Ok, now my photos! The cutest art ever by Bei Badgirl I dunno who the artist is, but I LOVE IT. Ok, someone emailed me and told the artist is Markiii! So, I didn’t really get photos of artz. But the sites I linked you to have lots! Checkout Shrinkle executing “pretty feet.” I tried to copy her later, but I don’t think I was doin’ it right. Ummm ok, so I have loved Spank! and have admired Tavuchi for years. I’m pumped to have met her and taken a picture with her! Me and Shannie, who was a model in the fashion show! I think I still never blogged much about my trips to Portland and Seattle last year for my book tour, but we hung out with Shannie in Portland and made donut love. Ok … I esplain. I wanted to take a photo with Steph/zilla308, and she was like, “Let’s take a photo in the photobooth,” and she was also like, “I wanna take prom photos!” But I don’t think we actually knew what that would entail. Also embarrassing is that the photobooth was in front of the line for the pop up shop, so everyone gets to watch you be stupid! Me: “Sorry my hands are sweaty.” I’m the sexiest prom date ever. Ok these photos are stolen from Miss Alphabet. Here’s me, her, and Maria from Locketship. (Remember, you can still buy the crochet painting I created for Locketship’s anniversary here in their shop!) Me and Mr. Locketship! Feels like a good photo for an outfit rundown: -Shirt: from Etsy -Skirt: from Material Girl! Yes, it’s a line for teenagers, and yes, I had to buy XL so my butt could fit in it! I need to take in the waist, tho! -Tights: Celeste Stein -Socks: Sock Dreams -Shoes: my trusty, everyday Demonia Sprites -Fannypack: Fancypack by CarrotCake! -Cookie pin: by me! -Heart necklace: Cicely Margo -Hair pieces: I took YumYums coin purses from Strapya World and glued hair clips onto them. This one lady was like, “Are those zippers in your hair clips?” and I was like, “Yeah, they are actually coin purses that I glued hair clips to,” and she was like, […]

    Some of you asked me to keep you posted on when my crochet painting for Locketship would be available for sale. That would be now! Go to Locketship’s website to check it out! I’m in L.A. right now, blogging in my hotel room with my PJ’s on. We went to Disneyland yesterday and to Sweet Streets II tonight. I have tons of pics and videos to show you guys when I get home!

Tonight after Hairy gets home from work, we are driving down to L.A. for the Sweet Streets Art Exhibition Co-curated by Spank! I have so much to do, PLUS, we are leaving for a 2 week vacation on Nov. 28, so the responsible part of my brain is telling me that going to L.A. this weekend is the dumbest idea ever, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to shop at the Spank! pop-up shop! Description ☆ Contact preview@wwagallery.com for artwork previews. WWA Gallery presents… SWEET STREETS: Art Exhibition Co-Curated by Spank! Exhibition runs: November 19 – December 23, 2011. … Opening party: November 19th, 7pm – 10pm. @ WWA Gallery 9517 Culver Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 Online: http://bit.ly/ovg3C2 ☆ Opening Party: 8pm: Fashion show by Spank! and Chubby Bunny. 7pm – 10pm: Artists reception, free and open to the public. p.s. I kind of can’t believe I’ll be Disneyland tomorrow. YAY!

I’m working on a kabillion things!! Slowly adding more things to the shop. Tomorrow some more cupcake hats are going up! I love sending cute things to cute people! 🙂

This Saturday night is Locketships’s 4 Year Anniversary & Galactic Glitter Launch Party! at Meltdown Comics in L.A. I unfortunately can’t be there, but my new crochet painting will be! Orbit the raccoon inside his rocketship is Locketship’s logo! So I crocheted him flying through a donut meteor shower for that Twinkie Chan touch! I used a bunch of different yarns, some buttons, and a bunch of pom poms. Go check it – and a ton of other fun stuff – out! It looks to be an action-packed night!

Pre-order your turkey hats and turkey tissue cozies now! The sooner your order, the sooner I crochet and ship! You have until Nov. 15 to guarantee Thanksgiving delivery in the U.S. 🙂

I played with a new business card design the other day, and the cards just came in this afternoon. I’m not crazy about them, since I think that both sides look like the back of a card. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. I think the “front” with the business name is too busy, plus the giant contact info is kinda weird. Taking the sprinkles out of the equation made the front look a lot cleaner, but I loves my sprinkles! I am planning to re-vamp the website/blog sooner rather than later, so I’ll have to change up the cards accordingly at that point anyway. It was at least fun to play with something different! When I first designed my business cards/logo, I of course really wanted to use PINK, but then for some reason, at that point, I felt like it would be too obvious for me to have a pink and girly logo, so that’s why I chose BLUE for my main background color. So it was fun to let out the pinks and cakes and strawberries and rainbows for a little bit! Now I’m going to be gearing up for Thanksgiving and the holidays. Turkey hats, turkey tissue cozies, and maybe turkey mittens coming soon! Anything else you’d like to see turkey-style? P.s. a couple people asked about my shoes in my last entry. Those are my everyday shoes. I just ordered 2 more pairs! They are by Demonia and they are called “SPRITE.” I buy them on Amazon! Just search on Amazon for “demonia sprite” and they should pop up :).