I have no idea if the new issue of Inked Mag is in stores yet, but go pick one up!

Also, for a LIMITED TIME, I can offer you a discount code to subscribe to the magazine: 10 issues for $19.95. It’s a great deal for such a beautiful publication! Just go to inkedmag.com and follow the directions to subscribe. Your discount code is “twinkie.” Go go go! (My issue, the May issue, won’t be included in the subscription yet, so you’ll have to grab that one at the bookstore!)

xoxo

I just put some things up on the site, Shop!

There isn’t anything terribly new, but it’s all still pretty cute: cookie pins, berry pins, fried egg pins, the last of my t-shirts, the last of my button packs. You’ll notice two new items, though, SWEETpants and SWEETshirt hoodies! You’ll see! They are very silly.

Tried to upload a photo of Bibi in a relaxing green tea bath, but photobucket is being really weird….more Bibi updates soon! She is not feeling very well right now (butt soup) so she might go to the doc tomorrow.

This is a video demonstrating my current regimen to cure The Cough From Hell:

Also snapped some photos today of some stuffs (you’ll see I’m wearing the same thing in all of the vids/pics from today!).

Beth from Jus Shar Designs worked on a little sweater with/for me and it’s really really cute!

Here is a peek at one of the things I’m putting together for a boutique/website in Boston.

Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is not only Renee’s favorite, but Hairy’s, too!

I must now return to editing images for a good website update. Hopefully next week I will finally post up the sweetshirts/sweetpants, some pins/brooches, and some felted ipod cozies. Yay! Ok back to work.

This is the cupcake scarf I whipped up this week for my cousin in Hong Kong:

It’ll probably get cut off at twinkiechan.com. I’m trying to figure out how to link Flickr to Word Press so I can just upload these to Flickr and post them here. I think I got Flickr and Word Press to talk to each other, but all I ended up posting was a “<" symbol! Also, recently, the very cute site PillowPillowPillow contacted me. He is friends with Jenny Harada and asked me to submit a pic of Bibi to the site, which I did. People submit pics of their pets to his site, and then he makes pillows out of them. They are really cute! Check it out! I really love Scooter the Basset Hound! I would grab a pic to post but his site is in Flash and I am too lazy to screencap. Go Go!

Apparently I have contracted SARS. I noticed all the various syrups I have collected and decided to take a picture today.

Buckley’s: This is some random stuff that Hairy picked up when he went out for cough syrup. Apparently its motto is “Tastes real bad, works real good.” It is sugar-free and alcohol-free. It tastes like a burning hot mess of yuck. And it doesn’t work very well. Hairy also made me breathe it in with steam. It burned my eyes. I do not recommend. He took a picture of my face underneath my towel and steaming hot bowl. My eyes were squeezed shut and my mouth was open, taking in the steam. It looked like I was being born.

The Chinese Cough Syrup: This is some syrup that my mom used to give us when we were kids. I don’t know that it works very well, but it tastes GREAT. It has loquat or kumquat syrup in it, as well as other minty type things. Manda insisted I take some, so I did. Can’t hurt.

Robitussin: The old stand by. I’m not sure that it works very well. I got the long lasting 8 hour kind. I took it before we took Bibi to the dog park, and then we came home to eat dinner and I passed out until midnight. I would say it lasts for 4 hours.

Prescription Stuff with Codeine: I picked this up last year when I had the SARS cough. It’s been really hard for me to get a good night’s sleep and I was hoping that codeine would knock me out. No such luck!! Woke up today with 1/4 of a Ricola drying out my tongue.

Vapo Rub: I just picked this up today. My mom is also sick and has been using it. I am desperate. I will try anything. I gooed myself up with this a few hours ago. I’m a little disappointed it doesn’t last very long. I’ll goo myself up again before bed time and hope for the best.

In crafty news: I have been making stuff for my cousins in Hong Kong this week because my parents are going there next week. I’ll take a pic of my girl cousin’s scarf tomorrow. I’m not sure if I can finish my boy cousin’s scarf in time, unless he gets back to me. I made him a video with questions. God bless technology! This is yarn that he picked when we visited him in Vancouver. He asked me to pick the biggest baddest blue button I could find. I haven’t been having much luck with good blue buttons! Also, sorry about the SARS coughing.

I am a terrible knitter. I had to google how to cast on, and I remembered the rest. The neckwarmer he saw for $70 was knit, so I wanted to knit his as well. Ah well. It’s the thought that counts, right?