I am super excited to attend JapanLA‘s 5th Anniversary party and art show! I’m also super excited to be part of it!

Normally, I would’ve made limited edition accessories, but I wanted to try something more along the lines of a “painting” with crochet. Whatever you would call this, I had fun with it!!! I titled it “Sweet ride, bro!” I asked Hairy if I would regret it later, and he said no ….

In case someone asks “WTF is this?!” it’s 3 ice cream scoop-kitty cats sitting in a banana boat, rowing across on an ocean of hot fudge with their pink plastic spoon oars.

So if you are in LA this weekend, June 4, come and see it — and a bunch of other cool art — in person! Part of the proceeds from the art sales will go to “Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue & Support.”

P.S.
If you want to turn your night-time wear into day-time wear, follow these tips!
Amy: PUT A BELT ON IT.
Twinkie: PUT A CARDI OVER IT.

Okay, first up, after much internet hassle, I finally updated my ETSY SHOP! I’m running a sale on most items for one week! My favs are the t-bone steak scarf, cherry zipper pulls, fridgie food pinback set, and raspberry mousse pastry hair clip. All scarves are $65-$85 right now.  A few of them are already gone!

On to Austin photos!

I had no idea where I put my point-and-shoot camera, so all my photos are from the iPhone. I also stole some photos from other peeps. If we took a photo and you’d like me to post it, comment on this entry, and I will edit! Also let me know if you want me to link your blog or your shop or something!

Here are some photos of the booth. I was freaking out over fitting everything in a suitcase. My cardboard display risers are the bomb! Sadly, my scarf rack didn’t fit in my suitcase, but LUCKILY, my trusty crochet elf Rita was already in Austin and bought us a rack from Walmart!

The other cool thing about the cardboard risers is that you can hide behind them to eat, PLUS, you can store food in there!

And also hide your money box!

Here’s me and a bunch of peeps who came to say hi!

Me and hinkle1999

Me and Kristine

Me and CraftyMinx. Check out her blog! I’m amazed by her granny-square-a-day project!

Me and Moonmist from Ravelry.

Me and Anya

Me and a gal who said her friends in San Jose, CA had some of my scarves!

I came back from the ladies room and Hairy was taking a picture of this dude. I was like, “Huh?” And Hairy said he wanted to capture a photo of a dude rocking one of my crocheted items. Awesome! Chain wallet charms!

I met a bunch of other people but of course I don’t have any more photos!

Here’s us getting doughnuts at Gourdough’s upon Rita’s recommendation. VERY YUMMY VERY INDULGENT!! We didn’t have a good camera. All the pics of the doughnuts look gross, so I’ll leave it to your imagination. Check out the menu, though!

Here’s me and my friend Margaret in front of the Gourdough’s truck. I’ve known her since highschool. She got married and lives in Houston now, so she and her hubs drove to Austin to meet up and hang out! I heart them!

So yeah, that pretty much wraps up what I got as far as photos. I had good times meeting Crab Apple Design, The Funky Skunk, grrfeisty, Katastrophic Designs (I bought this from her, it has GLOW IN THE DARK GLITTER STARS!), and Sweetie Pie Press. Also it is always lovely to see Heidi and her hubby from My Paper Crane, and we had random fun visits from Elsie and her new hubby Jeremy on their honeymoon!

Hey, dudes!

So Etsy has made some changes, and I can’t really queue up all my listings like I could before, so I’m slowly just adding and posting listings, and people are already making purchases. I probably still have a good hour of listing to do, but I thought I would give you a heads up!

SHOP SHOP SHOP

I’m still working on the Etsy update. My internet connection has been really bad the last few days, so things are sort of stop and go!

This morning when I woke up, I had to remind myself that I own clothing beyond tshirts and jeans. I just bought this cute dress from I’m Your Present and figured it was as good a time as any to wear it around the house. Bloggers like Elsie and Kaylah post such fun outfit photos that it kind of inspires me to play more with different colors and put different prints together. The tights are a bit loud for me, I think. I feel a bit too thigh-y in this get up. But it was fun to prance around in it a little bit at least for a photo! My urge is to put some freakin pants on!

Sorry I don’t have much outfit info. I can’t even remember where I got the tights! 😛 I added the bow from another dress by Marjour.