Soooo, this week I received first pass pages for my book! It’s the first time I’ve seen all of it all designed up and laid out and everything. It’s pretty cool! I’m also starting to conceive of some promo stuff for the book, and I wasn’t really sure what the pub date was…so I decided to see if it was on Amazon.com yet….and it is!

You can click on the image to go to the Amazon page! So yeah, November 2. That seems like a loooooong time from now! People have been really nice and saying they will pre-order it now, but….remember it IS 7 months away!

When I went to my friend Jandy’s reading/book launch, I wondered if I should have one. I feel like if I had one, nobody would come, and it would be really embarrassing! Plus, I don’t think I would be reading patterns out loud in front of everybody! Has anyone attended a craft-book launch party before?

Banana Split from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.

I got one of these when we went to Daiso this weekend, where most things are $1.50.

I want to get one for everybody I know!! Although, both my BFF and my BF don’t really like bananas….so, they are not getting one. Hmph!

I’m trying to flesh out some ideas for re-designing TwinkieChan.com. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE my website!!! I love all the little dancing foods!! But I feel like it’s a bit clunky, and I want to streamline and simplify a little bit somehow. Make room for links to Yummy You and my book(s), etc. I’m not sure if I’ll be successful or not. Maybe nothing will change at all. I will play with it a bit and see!!!!

I just thought it would be funny to share this sketch with you guys, because my sketching is SO AWFUL!!! HAHA!!! I’m a girl of many talents….

In other weekend news (of which I have no pictures)….. we went to Elysse’s house for vegan Thanksgiving (YUMMIEST RAW “TACOS” EVER!!!!!!) on Saturday night, and then today we went to see the King Tut exhibit at the DeYoung. Hairy is cooking tortilla soup right now! I’m excited to eat refried beans. It’s the little things.

This weekend we got to hang out with Cuppy and Moofs visiting from Seattle!

There’s me and Cuppy at Dolores Park. We did not actually hang out in the park, but just took a picture there to be like the cool kids. This was after we ate brunch at Bar Tartine where I had a savory bread pudding for the first time!!! What sold me on getting it is when Moofs said it would probably be like a giant cube of STUFFING. After brunch, we visited Tartine the bakery, 826 Valencia (the pirate store), and Paxton Gate. At Paxton Gate, we saw some pitcher plants, and I wondered if anybody had experience owning a pitcher plant? We have a very shady patio, and the flies/gnats REALLY LOVE it, so I was wondering it hanging a pitcher plant out there would help at all! Wishful thinking?

Later that night, Hairy and went to the launch party/reading for my friend and former cor-worker Jandy Nelson’s new young adult novel, The Sky Is Everywhere.

(click the pic to go to Amazon.com)

After working with her as literary agents for 10 years, supporting the work of other writers, it’s so amazing to see her so successful with her own novel!! It has been getting great reviews, and I am SO pumped to read it! I stood in line to get my book signed like a fangirl.

On Sunday, we met up with Cuppy and Moofs again and had tea and snackies at Secret Garden Tea House. I’ve never had high tea or afternoon tea before, and I loved being surrounded by old ladies and tiny foods!!!

I had the coconut cream tea which smelled REALLY YUMMY and coconutty.

I also made a quick lil video:

Secret Garden with Cuppy, Moofs, and Hairy from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.

For some reason, I was super tired that day and ended up “napping” from like 9pm to 2am!! Then I felt super guilty and went straight to work on Yummy You business (coffee cup cozy samples!!! let me tell you , the hamburger coffee cup cozy is SO CUTE). I didn’t get to bed until after 6am and I was really nervous I was going to miss the go ahead for an 11am conference call. I kept waking up over and over, and as it turned out, I never got the heads-up for a  call, PLUS, I WOKE UP WHEN I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MEETING CUPPY AND MOOFS IN JAPANTOWN!! AHHHHHHH. I felt SooooOOOOooo bad!!!! I was excited to have purikura fun!! Blehhhhhhh.

So I had my 3:30pm conference call and then worka worka worka!

Today I just threw on the shirt I made at Spreadshirt. It used to be my tagline on and old online profile, and someone on Twitter mentioned that she always thought of me and this quote. HAHAH. I had to make it a shirt!

The best part of this photo is the look on Bibi’s face. Bibi does not approve of guns nor herpes.

Lately, I’ve been finding it hard to blog, because, I can’t blog about the stuff I’m making/designing yet, but then I spend nearly 24/7 working, so I don’t have much left to say :P.

We recently went to dinner at Salt House for my sister in law Jaci’s bday. She has been talking about wanting an “apple jacket”, “wrapple,” or apple cozy to protect her apples in transit to work. I remembered this at the very last minute and didn’t have time to order a complete apple jacket, so instead, I downloaded a pattern from pukashell on Etsy and made my own. The pattern produced the larger green cozy, and then I modified it to create the smaller red one to fit the tiny organic Pink Ladies I got at Whole Foods! I also made her an owl coffee cup cozy since owls are Jaci’s jam.

Speaking of coffee cup cozies, I do believe all my cozies at Red Velvet sold out in like 2 hours. Thanks so much, guys! I super appreciate it!!!! I do plan to sell coffee cup cozies in my Etsy shop when I get a breather!!!

In other news, I just snapped some new photos for ShanaLogic. I thought this one was funny. Pumped for cupcakes! You can get your own cupcake dress right here!

Aaaaand while I was taking this photo, I asked Hairy if I looked like a bird:

Don’t worry. I didn’t send Shana that one…. HAHHA.

Also, usually while I snap photos, Bibi likes to be all up in my business.

She kept bringing over toys to play fetch with her….. her bouncy ball, her stinky rope, AND her tuggy/ball rope. She is a cutie. When she sits down, her belly hits the floor. You gotta love her.

I want to do a line of shirts with her image with positive sayings like, “My wrinkles are rad” or “My bell-bell is bad ass” or something. I dunno. It’s a work in progress! “My farts are the bomb.”