Well, just as I was taking a poll about blogging more, my laptop decides to die!!

Sorry for the radio silence! My computer has been in the shop since Saturday. I think I have to buy it a new screen. Bummer! You never really plan to spend $400 on stuff like that, but there it is.

I am hoping I get a call soon!!!

This weekend we also went for a hike in the woods in our 90s overalls, and Hairy had his first night out with his food cart (which seemed very popular!). Lots to blog about when my computer gets back! Also we saw the Green Hornet. I love me some Michel Gondry, but I didn’t go into this movie with much of an expectation. Usually when that happens, I can avoid disappointment. It was an entertaining movie for what it was. It made me want to have a cappuccino.

I stabbed myself under the thumbnail this afternoon while assembling some biz card/buttons. You can see this purple line going all the way to the center of the nail. Pretty gnar gnar!!

I am hoping they will make it to L.A. in time to go into gift bags for Onch’s launch party. If you are in L.A., you should come out on Thursday evening and say hi! I made a bunch of delicious hair pieces for you to purchase, in collaboration with Onch!

I am running on 2 hours of sleep! I pulled an all-nighter, took a two hour nap from 11:30am – 1:30pm, and worked and worked and worked until flying to FedEx by 5pm, only to find out the deadline is actually 7:30pm for the West Coast deliveries! Doh! Anyway, I have no idea why this particular project took so long, as each piece was actually quite simple. I did make 42 pieces though so may be that’s why. You’ll see next week after we come home from L.A.!

Here’s a photo right before I ran off to FedEx. I felt very triumphant because my hair has not been long enough to put up like this until now! I almost chopped up my bangs again just then, too, but held off. I should probably make a proper hair appointment as my roots are also gross, but I can’t seem to get my hands on any Atomic Pink right now!

Little hair bon bon was a prezzie from CutieDynamite.

The rest of my night will be cleaning up my giant yarn mess, starting another secret project that will go in a prize bag for a contest, and plotting possible Valentine’s day items! I think I am also going to be part of a small trunk show at Hairy’s art gallery right before Valentine’s Day! No rest ever! 😉

Someone on Formspring recently told me to blog more. (Was that you, McKayla? :P)

I thought for a bit about why I find it harder to blog everyday these days.

1) If I’m working on secret stuff, I can’t share WIPs or fun photos along the way.

2) I start to worry too much about whether my blog entry is read-worthy or comment-worthy. I should just blog about whatever, right?

3) I Twitter a lot, so I figure if I’ve already posted links and photos on Twitter, that I don’t want to be boring and repeat it over here. Is there much cross over? Should I still post that stuff to the blog, too?

Just thinking outloud! It’s 7:30am and I haven’t slept yet. I’m still sewing a bunch of my clothing labels onto a big box of stuff I’m sending over for Onch’s party. I’m excited to see it all come together! Everything took a bit longer than I thought it would to make, but doesn’t it always?!

Here’s me and some epoxy the other night. That experiment didn’t go very well…

My hair goes in a cycle.

A few days after a cut, it freaks out a little and looks kinda bad.

Then it relaxes and is awesome for a few a month or two.

Then it starts to grow out and look hideous and I think about cutting it.

Then it somehow starts to look good again cuz I figured out another way to style it.

Then it looks bad again cuz all the layers are completely funky.

I have been able to cycle in and out of okay hair and terrible hair for quite some time now, but the last week or so has been rough!! I know it’s just hair, but bad hair can really bum you out!!

I keep thinking it’s time for getting it chopped again. I almost cut my bangs myself earlier today, but held back and ended up sticking everything up in clips.

I hope we don’t have to see anybody tonight!! HEhehhe.

In work news: I have been a busy busy little bee, and I can’t wait to show you all pictures of everything. I’ll be able to post photos of some cute stuff after Jan. 27! I need to overnight everything tomorrow so today is workworkwork!

While playing with ideas for this project, I ended up developing a cute felted belt! I will probably develop this belt idea further and post a few on Etsy. It won’t necessarily be food-related, but just a cute piece that I would want to wear myself. But felting things has become more tedious since I can no longer do it in my washing machine (we have a front-loader now!), so I probably won’t make that many. We’ll see. I’m focusing on some cute Valentine’s Day ideas this weekend. I am also working on adding to my Twinkie Chan team so I can have more fun goodies in the Etsy shop more consistently!

Sorry for all this text!

If you’ve made it this far, here are some cute pics of a baby chinchilla and its mommy I saw in a pet store the other day. I was surprised that chinchillas would still breed in a pet store environment. They always seemed so sensitive and fragile to me.

Just a little light online shopping at PurlSoho.com for personal projects later! Mom’s bday is comin’ up soon!

I ordered this after coming home from ImagiKnit, too! Yes, I definitely have a yarn problem! While at ImagiKnit, I bought this amazing sparkly, bulky, slubby, minty green giant skein by a brand called Knit Collage. I went online to check out their site, and I found their blog to be pretty interesting. Not just free patterns and pretty pictures of yarn, but a sneak peek into the life of a small yarn company and sourcing and production and stuff! Pretty neat!