Merry Merry~

Happy Holidays!

I wanted to post one last time before I snuggle in with my girls and family for some holiday time.

Now matter how you celebrate, have a wonderful holiday!

Here are shots of us trying to get a holiday picture of my bad girls. They amuse themselves, can you tell?

and the money shot.

Merry Christmas!

xo

I have a serious crush...

Here she is....

I am swooning in happy crushdom right now and never thought I would have my OWN awesome easel.

(insert hazy dream sequence)... Remembering back in art school, wishing some day I could afford my very-own-big-awesome easel....

and now I have one. (kee heehee)

Bought for me for Xmas by my favorite person, the tall, handsome, delicious Paul.

I got to pick her out, because, you know, it is a personal thing.

She has not told me her name yet-- once she does I will let you know. She is an "H frame" easel, so most likely her name will begin with an H.

See her big paint tray?

And she is leggy and tall... she extends to 94 inches! Which is way higher than my ceiling, but I can roll her outside... because she has casters! (sigh)

AND get this.... she lays horizontally, in case I want to make out with her. hee hee.

love love love love love

What the Huh?

What the Huh?

That sums it up.

The days are zipping past, full of running around and holiday prep.

Here are some shots of the living room. I painted it. again.

The girls were adamant about getting a shade darker than I had planned, so I gave in.

It's a spruce (blueish) green, and I love it!

You can see more of the previous wall color here.

Which was to be a light acidy green, but really looked yellow.

This new spruce green really unifies my furniture and items, plus it brings the green of our amazing evergreens inside!

Here is our tree, still needing some more paper houses, but overall complete.

Here is the ugo chandelier, which got taken apart and bathed. I added the elves yesterday.

LOVE the elves and am considering keeping them up there year-round.

Tilly came back for a visit with two of her now grown babies. We have not seen them for months.

Eve got some fantastic shots of them eating their noms.

Off to snuggle my babies and eat some noms too.

xo

Ding Dong.... DING DONG

100th Monkey Show~

The show was a blast...

Not a huge turnout but not a total bust either. It's always really good for me to do shows, even if they are not so profitable. It really motivates me to get organized and step things up a bit. Plus exposure never hurts.

Here are shots taken by my photographer, Eve.

The girls were getting squirrelly by the end of the show, so Paul modeled some hats to entertain them. I am sure he will be thrilled to have them in the blog. teehee

Aurelie Hat

Aurelie knit up pretty fast and turned out beautifully!

I used my Personality ribbed hat pattern.

After the hat was knit I took some time to tack the corners of the lace pieces to the hat, being careful to allow them room to stretch when the hat is put on.

They were cute hanging loose as they were plied into the yarn, sewing them down was an aesthetic thing for me.
Here is a shot of the yarn before knitting....

It was inspired by a shabby-chic blog that I follow. I was thinking victorian and vintage and girly.

Random Chaos Hat!

After only 3 froggings (rip outs)! argh.

The yarn finally decided to become a ribbed personality hat.

The coils demanded accentuation so I made the coiled stitches really (really) loose

and then pulled them to the front.

First few attempts were to make it a garter stitch edge, then just a stockinette stitch, similar to the Hippie Skull Hugger Hat, but the coils looked deflated and frustrated, so I kept trying.

I think the ribs help the colors changes to pop a bit more and the coils just glow, well, they glow because they are acid green, but you know what I mean.

I love it.

It is ob-nox-ious. This yarn was spun purely for the color combo.

No pics of the yarn before knitting (oops).

Well there is sort of a picture Here.

The yarn was originally called "Monster Mash" and was in a trunk show that was sent to some yarn shops around Halloween. BUT the colors are great for any time of the year and just make me so very happy.

"Random Chaos" is going with me to the Twilight Sale. (link) on Dec. 5th.

If it comes home with me I will put it in the Handmade Magic Gallery to sell.