ruby crowned kinglette

line 'em up, ladies

initially created for julie's girls, re-created for the show... i am calling them little ellies. 

if they could can-can

they would-would.

snow days make for productive days around here...  since it is another 'stay at home and don't mess with traffic' kind of day i will be finishing these little guys.  i ran out of yarn for the noses, i am pretty certain i want to match the nose color to the eye color and, well, right now i don't have any left... so tomorrow i will be stitching on 18 noses, because i am quite optimistic that i will be able to find the same color yarn.  no matter that the stuff i have now was purchased..... 15 years ago? more?  hmmmm. maybe i bought this color recently, which would make it only 8 years old or so...  at any rate, today will be a day to add embellishments like bows, ties, flowers and other little pretties....  tomorrow is facial feature day.  and haircut day.  god, i can't wait for haircut day.

cold

 

it's beginning to look christmasee

it's snowy here in my part of the world... in a lovely sepia tone.  before i 'fixed' it, it was snowy in a very orange tone and that looked strange. 

some things i have learned this evening.... 1. it is best to take pictures of snow in the day time. 2. it is very hard with a semi-automatic digital camera to actually capture the snow falling without it looking like a driving rain storm. 3. i don't like fiddling with photoshop to correct color or contrast, or brightness, or hue, or saturation... i pretty much try to get photos as i want them when i take them... this fiddling might be better done if i actually knew what i was doing... i do not.

crafty items are making huge leaps of progress... but i am not done. i shall return later when i am done... until then, get your shovels, because this snow looks like it might keep falling through the night.

lots and lots of birds, and stress

first, i must apologize if any of you have seen a post about lots of birds within the last hour and have not found it... or, found it then lost it, then found it different, then lost it again. then found it another way, then lost it that way but found it again a different way yet... then lost it again.  if it frustrated you, or that description above did... IMAGINE HOW I FEEL!!!*

the more i fiddled, the worse it got.  so, in order to maintain my sanity, or what is left of it... i am posting one birdy right now, and calling it good.  i had visions of showing you all of them - but that just ain't gonna happen.

ok, one more...

bunnies are waiting for me to sew their ears on, and to fill them up so they look like something someone would want to hug.  right now, they don't so much....

*the fact that there is not one expletive in this entire post is incredible and it obviously means i have not had any wine, yet.

thanksgiving day

i made another one
just like the other one.
i can't wait to dig in
happy thanksgivin'.

have a spectacular holiday all you who celebrate thanksgiving. and to everyone else, have a wonderful thursday!

-s

24, 20, 49, 47, 1

24 bodies
20 heads
49 arms (?)
47 ears
1 blowout (ear)

and, quite a bit of little fuzz and thread and flax seed and more on the floor. all part of the push to get things made for the big show...

this isn't what the house looks like all the time, but it kinda did when my neighbors stopped by on saturday evening with their laptop in hand... they had irrefutable evidence that chet was not inside sleeping all day but hanging out with them while they did yard work.   he snuck out through a little gap in the fence; now repaired. he was one happy little dog, and, apparently was intending to keep his adventures a secret.  sneaky dogs should never underestimate the power of a digital camera.

another question for the ages...

you can blame alice for this one.....

how many different names exist for that rolled 'cigarette' of marijuana? i am looking for the names really, not a numerical figure.

since her post i have been thinking of rickie lee jones quite a lot.  finally, now, i am listening to her first album and am reminded of just how much i love it...  i remember when it first came out, i must have been 13 or 14.  i remember driving - ok riding in the passenger seat - down northern lights boulevard and seeing the poster of the album cover in the window of the new record store and being appalled - APPALLED - that 'they' would allow a picture of someone smoking a joint on something so visible to the general public.  it appalled me so much, in fact, that i refused to listen to the album for years....  i don't know when i finally listened to it... probably in college.  it put that captain and tennille and 'nadia's theme' i had to shame. ok, that is being a little hard on myself;  i had already decided i didn't need to hang onto those two albums by the time i began my pursuit of a degree in party economics.

what i think it did do for sure though, is endear me to artists who have long, blond(ish) and stringy hair.  like.... rickie herself and tom petty, and sting.  and here is something about me... i can happily go for months listening to the same cd.  ask my friend mary, she will tell you that from summer 1989 through the fall of 1992 {more or less} i listened to tom petty and the heartbreakers, southern accents exclusively.  and was as happy as i have ever been....  even after that, i still believe it to be one of the best records ever.  EVER, i say.  right now, i am on my second third listening of rickie lee, and it is only 8. 

and, for those six of you reading this who know me very well, and are wondering... i am on only my second glass of wine.

editor's note:  hmmmm, looks like i was driving myself and was more of a prude than i had hoped thought.  rickie lee jones' first album was released in 1979, making me 17, and driving, and although not a 'smoker', those of us in anchorage at the time were known to have had a beer or two on occasion....

and, for those six of you reading who knew me in high school, or went to school in anchorage in the late seventies, please let my mother know that i only had a beer or two... on occasion.  i think she is under the impression, perhaps, that i had had more.....

these? not quite ready...

i have work to do, and have to get to the pit studio... working on these and some draperies too, and a roman shade and.... cripes!

these are the little softies i will have available at the show on the 2nd.  i have some work still to do.  this was taken a couple weeks ago and i have made some progress... but not enough.

these, all sold now..., are what the above picture will become, with variations of course. pictures to follow, when pictures are worth taking....

done, at least these are...

these are done and ready... twenty seven birds in a box, with an acorn for company.  i will have these available at the show here in town on the 2nd and then on lopez on the 7th.  after that etsy - if there are any left - ohhhh, i hope there are none left.  however, if you want one for yourself i would be willing thrilled to make more... let me know.

ok, have a happy day.