I actually posted to I Eat Yucky Stuff today!

Get a load of this Korean mugwort sandwich pastry!

He reminded me a lot of the moldy bread plush by My Paper Crane, which was admittedly a huge factor in my purchase.

Here’s me eating it and also talking a lot about mugwort, which is something that probably neither me nor you expected today.

I think this was a really good activity to pair with the fact that I had my teeth cleaned at the dentist today. Prepping a squeaky clean canvas for my mugwort adventures! Chomp chomp!

Our 4th of July was pretty mellow and food-oriented. We had a couple friends over, and Hairy got to try out his new meat thermometer.

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Of note: our friend Bella made this amazing cornbreadpuddingcasserole that of course I didn’t get a picture of, but it was soooooo delightful. I ate it for breakfast today, too!

At night, we stayed in and watched television. I didn’t think our dogs were afraid of fireworks, but Bibi was really antsy and cried a lot, so I’m glad we were home. At least our dogs aren’t as crazy as my parents’ dogs. One of those guys poops or barfs in the dining room every year!

Hopefully I will have some fun photos after this weekend. Tomorrow, we are all going canoeing (I am not an outdoors or watersports or be-outside person, so we’ll see how that goes), and then on Sunday, Manda and I have a girldate to the Package Tour, which includes Boyz II Men, 98 Degrees, and NKOTB. I was never actually into any of those groups, but I think it’s too funny to pass up! Gosh, what should I wear?!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

We’re celebrating with food, friends, and a 15% off sale at YummyYou.com from July 4 – July 7! Just use discount code: PICNIC.

Do you have a favorite 4th of July treat?

This sounds really boring, but, I REALLY LOVE CORN!

So, right now, I’m trying to be in full Renegade-Craft-Fair mode. There are of course other things I have to do, like deliver a new Michaels.com pattern in 2 weeks, and also make samples for Yummy You! and work on Yummy You! promo stuff and new products, but I’m really really TRYING to be in Renegade-Craft-Fair mode, cuz it’s less than a month away!! PANIC TIME!!!

I just finished the patterns for these Corn Dog Pen Cozies. It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to portray the one with the bite taken out of it. I’m not fully convinced that people will know exactly what is going on there, but Hairy assures me it looks like what it’s supposed to look like! And they are getting a pretty good reception on Instagram. If you don’t follow me on there, just know that I post a bunch of stuff there that I never really re-post anywhere else, except, of course, for right here and right now, with these corn dogs…. anyway.

I’m trying to debut a bunch of new designs at Renegade, so, I better get back to doing just that!

If you know me, you know I have a deep relationship with triple scoop ice creams! 😉

In this free crochet pattern for Michaels.com, I was asked to create a summery project using Red Heart Gumdrop! And then the Rainbow Sherbet Throw Pillow was born! Edit, June 4, 2014: Please find the pattern here on my blog. Michaels.com is currently re-vamping their pattern/project section, and the above Michaels.com link is disabled for now.

I already had the mint green Gumdrop (Smoothie) and was thrilled to find a project for it!

The really fun part of this pattern is the mix and match aspect. You can make one scoop, two scoops, or three scoops, (or even 50 scoops if you are really adventurous) and you can use all your favorite colors and flavors… even on the cone! I’m starting to make a vanilla scoop with a hot pink cone :). I’ll also be writing the pattern for a soft-serve top and a sugar cone bottom for the ultimate mix n match ice cream throw pillow party!

P.S. Here is the fix for Row 31 of the Sherbet Scoop!

Row 31: (RS) Ch 1, turn. 1 sc, [1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 htr, 2 tr each in next 5 sts, 1 htr, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 5 sc] 5 times. 1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 htr, 2 tr in next 5 sts, 1 htr, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc each in last 2 sts. Break off Cherry. (124)