On Xmas Eve, my local NBC News station aired a little segment about me and my work! It was pretty cool to watch it with my parents and my bestie! Manda took a video on her iPhone of all of us watching it for the first time. I hope she posts that so I can show you. You get to hear me shout about stuff like how crooked my teeth are on a giant flat screen HDTV!

I was really excited to be contacted by a local producer, who at first just asked if I had scarves to sell her! Next thing I knew, I was furiously hanging prints in my house and trying to make the place look okay for her and the camera man/interviewer to film me in my environment! They were here for about 2 hours, and Manda helped dog-sit!

This is pretty much the first time someone else has filmed me talking and is the first time I’ve seen myself on TV. I have avoided being on TV before because I was too scared…I coulda been on DIY Network a few years back! Yes, I’m a total girl and totally mortified and completely focusing on all my physical flaws and all the weird ways I say things when a camera is pointed at me! But it’s still pretty cool, so I’ll share it with you guys! 😛

Merry Christmas!!

I decided that as a present to my crocheting blog-readers, I would post up a free tutorial for my Crocheted Popcorn Garlands for one week (until Jan. 1), so grab it while you can before I take the pattern down!

I wanted to crochet my own garland for my own tree, using a pattern that wasn’t too complicated (so I could work on it while vending at Renegade!) but still looked a lot like popcorn. I researched around a little bit to see what patterns were out there, but I just wasn’t quite satisfied with the ones I found, so I Frankensteined my own!

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** Happy new year! I have removed the free pattern and will post it to Etsy some time soon. Thank you! 🙂 **

I know I still need to blog about Seattle, and Portland, and Renegade Craft Fair!! But I also really need to pick up the house! After a couple weeks of traveling and crafting, the house has exploded with slivers of paper, clothing, yarn bits, bubble wrap, and jewelry findings! I also need to post Renegade leftovers up on Etsy for you guys!

But anyway, here are some peeks of our Xmas tree. I don’t want to take a full-length shot, because the tree is sandwiched between two chairs, which are covered in various ugly blankets to keep dog dirt and hair off them!

I bought my tree on eBay, and my goal was to decorate it only with vintage and handmade! This is the first year I’ve really felt like getting my own tree. I’m becoming sentimental for Christmas. It’s unfortunate that Hairy is such a grump and keeps saying, “I HATE CHRISTMAS!” But I got us a big pink Christmas tree anyway!

Vintage popcorn and candy garlands, plus one popcorn garland crocheted by me (my own pattern…which I may post later!).

Ornaments by CakeSpy, Chloe (a surprise giftie!), and 12LegsCuriosities.

Sadly, due to my busy schedule, I was not able to handmake many presents this year :(. I am thinking maybe next year I won’t vent at a holiday fair, but just put stuff on Etsy and craft for my loved-ones. But we’ll see! There’s always this weird pull for me to set up my fabric food truck and sit around for 8 hours hawking my wares :P.

Today I wore my $5 shirt!

Manda called in the evening to ask if she could spend the night. Then we went to Chevy’s cuz we’re classy ladies and ate a lot of food and drank a margarita. We were smart and went to Mrs. Field’s FIRST to get dessert before the mall closed. We are totes mall rats now! We have agendas and stratagems to maximize our mall food experience!

When we got home, I started working on my stuff for Renegade Craft Fair, and she pointed out some candy I had picked up in Seattle. CANDY CANE POP ROCKS!

And then for some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to put Pop Rocks on top of our brownies. There’s no logic here, folks. The moral of this story is that Manda and I have not changed. If we had a MacBook and a webcam 20 years ago, you would have caught us doing the exact same thing: doing stupid crap and eating gross food on camera. BFFS!

p.s. I keep opening my mouth like a dying fish in order to hear the Pop Rocks poppin’ in my mouf! It’s too bad you also have to see all that mashed up brownie in there.

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Come visit my booth this weekend! I’ll have tons of goodies as well as copies of the book for sale. This is a new venue for Renegade SF, so it should be interesting! I’m all the way in the back next to the DJ booth! : /

We’ll have scarves, ice cream scoop hair pieces, brooches, mini books, stickers, brand new tshirts, lots n lots of stuff 🙂