lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here..

First off.. I am soooo honored.. Lolly named one of her FABULOUS patterns after me! :D

Second.. I made some awesome patchworky scarves!

Third.. in need of some creative inspiration.. I began to think about halloween.. For years and years BabyMomma [formerly known as Preggo] and I came up with an idea..

Inspiration::



CANDYLAND!!!

The best part:: I'm going to make our costumes!! I will be going as Queen Frostine. BabyMomma will be going as Princess Lolly. and baby Lucian will be going as Plumpy.

AHHH I'm so excited!!!

I'm Jack's baby birdie induced hand cramp..

today.. oh today.. this morning we got our Christmas tree! yay so exciting.. the smell of Christmas is wafting in the room.. Mumsy and I decided to participate in a Creating Keepsakes ornament exchange thing.. [http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/mb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=201981] where you put a hand-made ornament somewhere kinda random with a tag saying "congrats you found me! go here and tell everyone the tale"..

so I took one of the baby birdies I made yesterday and left it down a row of trees..


When we came home I made 9 more baby birdies to go with the five remaining baby birdies.. and now they're just waiting to go on the tree..

Crafty McCrafterson..

I spent the day today making Wendy birds [from Lollychops] and baby birds [as ornaments for our christmas tree] Here are some pics of the fun crafties I did got accomplished.. Tadah

I made a Wendy-like bird with kitty fabric which Mumsy and I thought was Ironic.. his name is Kennedy.. Lucian loved his new friend!


I made 6 ornament baby birds so far.. I plan on making a bunch more.. 3 of each color combination..

we're getting our tree tomorrow so hopefully I can crank a bunch more out in time.. :D

R.I.P. Benny the Almost Whale

This morning when I came downstairs to make some breakfast and chill with my darling black and white dogs.. there was something aloof.. All across the living room floor was stuffing [the innards of a toy not the delicious addition to Thanksgiving and Christmas].. I sighed a sigh of disdain for I assumed it was the quail-like Wendy Mumsy had given the pups to play with.. Upon further inspection of the bits and pieces strewn about the floor [it's gruesome].. was a green and pink little body known only as Benny. THEY KILLED MY WHALE!! those little doggie monsters.. so green with envy they were that I loved that whale..

Anyway, I'm taking the day off today from crafts.. in loving memory of Benny.. I dread going back to the sewing table to create another of his kind..

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Since tis the season to craft, Mumsy and I held a stamp camp a few weeks ago. Starring as a set of my favorite cards, were my red-bird babies.. I made some for the four seasons including low and behold WINTER.. it's so cute!..

My family and I have NEVER sent out Christmas cards. My step-grandparents give us cards, and ever once in awhile we'll get a picture or two from old family friends with updates, but we never send any out. When I get married, and have a family of my own, I want to try to send cards out ever year. And I'd make them myself of course.. Maybe instead of just cards I could send care packages with Christmas cookies in them like these..

Oh the Weather Outside.. [2 of 25]

It is simply FREEZING in E-burg. It's cRaZy. I'm fighting the urge to turn on the heater for fear I will never get it off. So I must cozy up with extra blankies. I'm at 3 right now. Christmas is 23 days away and it still doesn't feel like it. Yes, it's freezing. But until there is snow [which I'm hoping will hold off until the 13th].. it isn't Christmas yet..

I think I might go get some Peppermint Hot Chocolate tomorrow.. mmm PHC is my FaVoRiTe thing about winter. That.. and winter break!! yeah boy! Once my finals are over, I'm home for the holidays. Just need to get through Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.. then I have a little less than a month off.. YAY!

This weekend we're going to get our Christmas tree..! I'm excited. I'm trying to convince mom to let us make a Wendy and Abraham tree.. Lollychops [www.lollychops.com] has thoroughly inspired me to get back to my crafty nature.. I even learned how to sew! on a machine to boot!! :D such a nerd.. I'm even trying to come up with some patterns of my own.. :D

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Are we Human? [1 of 25]

Today is the first day of December.. 24 days til Christmas. It doesn't feel like it. I'm away from home for the first time in my entire life. Living on my own in a town I don't really care much for, taking classes I don't much care for. But I have met a lot of people who's company I genuinely enjoy. It feels like time is going by too fast. It feels like it's 51 days before the election.. not Obama's inauguration. [so excited for that!]

Another change is that this year, our family isn't really doing Christmas. Yeah, we're getting a tree.. and [unfortunately] hosting a monster Christmas dinner [possibly Eve as well].. but I just don't know. It doesn't feel like Christmas.

With people being trampled to death on Black Friday, I've lost my patience with the insanity built into consumerism.

and then you think about all of the people in third world countries that have to go days if not weeks without food. And we are sitting here, the richest nation in the world, clawing each other to death to get the best bargain on our Christmas lists.

I don't know where the Christmas spirit has gone.. but we sure as hell need it back.

Goodnight [1 of 25]