steeping

i successfully dropped off the goods for the glitter workshop this morning, after a quick trip to joanns to return (hassle free!) that dumb circle puncher that didn't even punch a single piece of paper let alone felt... and bought a bunch of safety eyes instead...

and i realized that although i've been making plush like mad, i haven't really made any for my friends/family as gifts! so, i finally got around to making adam his very own plush, custom designed (although i'm definitely going to take the design and make some more, with slight alterations!!!):




it's a cassette tape if it isn't obvious, although i hope it is. it' a little rough around the edges, but i think that gives it character! especially as a handmade gift... i'm excited about making more, the possibilities are endless! almost. this one is made out of fleece which is actually the first fleece plush i've ever made! it was a little nicer to work with than felt, not so easily pill'ed and such. plus it's really, really soft. i also embroidered a little 1/1 on the top of it, (one of one), so i'm afraid this tape quite hard to find.

curly photoshoot

well well well welllll i spent thirty minutes darting around the park with three teddy bears in my arms in attempt to find a secluded, pretty area. i really dislike being watched when i take photos, especially ones where i have to pose teddy bears! even though they're really cute. maybe it's a phobia.... (i just wrote write-up about spider phobias for my neurosis class and how they used exposure therapy by continuously showing "spider-anxious" individuals videotapes of spiders... SO that means i just need someone to go with me when i take photos and critically stare at me, or worse, at what i'm taking photos of).

ok...........





also i spent like the WHOLE day sewing these great little guys for the glitter workshop, despite a few frustrating moments.... but really sewing is making me work so much on my patience which is good because i think i've always been really impatient and hurried. so it makes me slow down or else if i don't things won't turn out like i want them. and i'm also learning a lot from my mistakes (corn i know but i am), so each time i mess something up i make a memo to not do it again! hey! yea! i'm getting bloggier and bloggier.

or maybe it's because i've been at the union for 2 hours now in the same room as where they're projecting the badger football game and i've caught some unknown, contagious social disorder.

new friends, curly ones

so yesterday i spent the evening working on three little curly bears. i got this amazing dirty blonde curly faux fur fabric at joanns last week and i hardly used 1/4 of it to make these guys so (hoping there's a positive response) there will probably be more of them to come!

there are photos of the other two bears on my flickr site (link on the right side bar list thing). i apologize they're so blurry! i took them in a rush this morning but i plan to go on an entire photo shoot with the bears sometime this weekend!

pretty pain

there she is!

also, notice anything new? pretty and at the top of this page perhaps? yep! i made a new banner yesterday with a sample of a provencal fabric design.

still need to make some new labels sometime this weekend probably. hopefully i'll have some good news tomorrow!

night!