I was going to make these for the Renegade Craft Fair for my table, but I totally ran out of time.

Instead, I made them for the joint bday bbq my brother and I had at my folks’ house on Saturday.

They look REALLY cute, but I would say that eating them was not the greatest. The ice cream cones end up kind of soggy/stale from being baked and having something liquidy in them!

In other news, Manda got all her hair chopped off and then colored! She is lucky she has the natural wave/curl which makes her bob look so cute (it’s less curly in these pictures). I have to use a curling iron every morning!

We also watched Hairy Potter on Friday night. I don’t read the books because it’s very difficult for me to suspend my disbelief while reading. Fantasy/sci-fi really doesn’t work for me in print. But I have seen all the movies. It just seems like pop cultural homework! Why is Draco aging so quickly!?!?

We picked my laptop up from the Apple store on Sunday, and it worked again for like an hour, and then all of a sudden, it demanded to be restarted, and then wouldn’t start up again. BUMMER. So we are taking it back today. What a burn!!!

No bbq video montage!

Today I continue to pack orders and ship, but this week, my goal is to finish a very cool project for someone else’s book. Fun!

Thanks to everyone who bought something!! I think this is the most packages I’ve prepped in two days!! I still have to go buy boxes to package up the tissue box cozies. I am going to need to make a few trips in and out of the post office!!! I also have a LOT of international orders, which is always exciting. This could be the first time I’m shipping to Belgium? I can’t really remember. Anyway, thanks so much for your support. It really means a lot to me.

I tried to take a pic of myself in front of the packages but I kinda failed….

In other news, Hairy and I went to Target the other night to buy toilet paper, and I came home with these:

I have a really hard time taking pills. I’m also a tiny bit on the Vitamin B anemic side, and I do have a great B12 chewable supplement, but I’ve always been looking for a multivitamin.

These don’t taste bad at all. You need to take one twice a day. It doesn’t have iron or calcium, but I take an extra calcium supplement anyway (dark chocolate Adora…it’s good!). It has decent B’s and D’s, so for now, this is my multivitamin of choice! Gummies…for adults!

Here’s me failing to take a pic with Bunny:

Aaaaand here’s me failing to take a pic with Bibi:

Here’s some gingerbread cookie brooches I worked on tonight for the winner of my giveaway at LovelyLittleDeer’s blog (she has a new cute giveaway right now!).

Friday is all about post office trips, Office Depot trips, and simultaneously tackling some outlining of my book, some really old special order commissions, and planning for new items in the shop! Also, my bestie is driving up and we’re all gonna go see Harry Potter! (oh my gosh, I just typed Hairy Potter….)

xoxo

Hey gang,

Finally, I got the craft-fair leftovers up on Etsy!! A lot of stuff has already sold even before I got the chance to announce it!

I am continuing my lowered craft-fair prices for ONE WEEK only! That means, next Wednesday, all pricing will return to normal. Most of the crocheted items are up to 45% off. Tees are regular price because they are all new designs!

Thanks for checking everything out!!!

I wish I had taken more video and more photos! Oh well!

It was kind of a whirlwind weekend. The night before the fair, I was finishing up my t-shirts, heat-sealing the ends of ribbon over a cupcake candle, printing photos for my album, and Hairy and I even dragged out all the big pieces of booth furniture into the garage to figure out how to lay everything out!

I think the booth turned out pretty well for not having been planned very well… 😛 There are things I would change and futz with. I would want to focus more on how the inside of the fridge was displayed and organized, but all in all, I think a lot of people were really delighted we even had a real fridge!

I had a difficult time figuring out how to display the ice cream cone scarf in the freezer and still have it look cute. It’s a small, deep space, so it didn’t highlight that scarf very well :(. Also, I’m so sorry I wasn’t able to put my customer pics on the fridge. I discovered that the inside of the fridge door is not magnetic!!! I could have taped all the faux-laroids to the inside of the door which was visible, but I didn’t want to ruin the pics, either. I have to think about how to deal with that later!

Here’s me and Nel/becausemaybe. I’d never met her in person before, but we are internetz buddies! There she is being goofy in her salad cowl/neckwarmer!

Okay, that’s a terrible photo of me, but I had to get a picture of these guys. They are awesome! They are Jules’ god sons. We talked about finger-weaving, and the younger one is crocheting!!! I love that!!! They were really polite and nice. I loved them!

Here’s me and the gal who wanted me to sign her layer cake tissue cozy. So sweet! She was very nice and patient as Manda tried to figure out the video/photo settings on my camera! I think this was the first time someone asked me to sign a crochet piece! It was kind of hard to write on crochet…I was so afraid I was just messing it all up and drawing an ink blob!

When these guys approached the booth, I felt like I was going to get the smack down from the Color Mafia!!! How cool do they all look together with their candy rainbow hair!? I’m always delighted to see Marissa and Josh, and I was uber-delighted to finally meet Irene and also another Stephanie who also has a bf named Matt!

My last photo is of Dorklandia’s ice cream cart!!! This was such a GENIUS idea!!! She made ice-cream plushies and kits for making the plushies, and she pushed this ice cream cart around and ringed her bell all over the fair. MY GOD!!! SO BRILLIANT!!!! I couldn’t stop going on about how I thought she was the smartest person at the fair!

I do have a short video montage, but since I’m still on Hairy’s computer, I can’t get it to save and upload properly. Will have to wait until I get my own computer back, I think!

Hairy and I ran around the other booths really quickly, in like 15 minutes!!!! There were SOOO many booths. You could have shopped for hours. I am sure I missed a lot. But I just felt bad about leaving anyone else to man my booth while I shopped. I need to get over that. I want to see everyone else’s goodies!

It was really cool to be able to see other people try my scarves on, though. I don’t get to see a lot of that. Everyone looked so cute in them!!! I really appreciate everyone who came by to say hi. I got to meet MaryBeth who I’d bought stuff from on etsy before, Debbie who makes AWESOME cakes, Star who I know to be an amazing digital artist but from glancing at her blog seems to be a mistress of many talents, my amazing helpers Rita and Catherine who visited from Las Vegas, and now my brain becomes mush so I’m sorry if I forget to name names and post URLs!!! Oh yeah, I hope Amy posts her photos before 2010. She asked me to Vanna White next to my sign/banner and promised all unflattering and unclassy photos to be posted to the infamous internet.

SOOOOOOO now!!! I will post all the leftover goodies to ETSY!!! AND!! BONUS!!!! I will keep the reduced craft-fair prices for ONE WEEK!!!! So Stay tuned!!! I have to run to the bank, but then I’ll come home, snap some photos of stuff, and start posting the goods. I will blog, twitter, and mailing list when stuff is up!

c