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32 things actually

I’m it! Thanks Jen. 4 things…

four jobs I’ve had
hollering after a toddler get back in the bathroom with that toothbrush
shredding paper at a bank
clerk at video hell
waitress at the track

four movies I can watch over and over
anchorman
dazed and confused
singing in the rain
pride and prejudice

four places I have lived
madison wisconsin
chicago illinois
austin texas
oak park illinois

four tv shows I love to watch
sopranos
the office
pingu
instant star

four places I have been on holiday
new york
duluth minnesota
south of france
memphis

four of my favorite dishes
chilaquiles
massaman curry
tim’s beef stew
pho tai

four websites I visit daily
flickr
go fug yourself
ebay
imdb

four places I’d rather be right now
sleeping under an umbrella on a hot beach
at a fancy hotel snoozing in one million count sheets
dozing off in a rocking chair at a lake house reading a novel
well you get the idea

four bloggers I’m tagging
I don’t know who has been tagged already so to not embarass myself I’m skipping it

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H is for Hillary

My new Jess Hutch bear. I made this one for myself. I love him.

What else is going on? I’ve just been trying to keep up, to catch up! My bloglines is running out of control. So many great ideas have been sparked and now I’m just scrambling for time to try them all out. Right now I’m trying to learn how to draw with a Wacom tablet in Illustrator. Not an easy task. Especially since I can’t really draw at all. I need to figure this out though. There is so much I want to do. I’m working on drawing out the patterns for the booklets. I’m also trying to make something fun for my miniswap partner. Oh and trying to “help” Tim with the new site design. I need to put my H bear over here by the computer to be my cheerleader while I try to figure this stuff out.

Speaking of catching up, check out all the great stuff from the Whip Up gals. They’re going to be keeping us very busy!

Another crafty blog development, a sad goodbye to one of my favorites, Little Birds. I’m really going to miss checking in on her beautiful site. At least we’ll soon have her etsy shop! I hope to console myself with one of her little lambs.

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brand new shiny craftroom

My craftroom overhaul was successfully completed earlier this week and I’m in seventh heaven. It’s so easy now to see all my fabric at once. And all this empty space to lay things out. My big clear work table surface to draw/cut/work on. It’s awesome! And so worth the near panic attacks I had last weekend when the room was completely dismantled into one huge pile of chaotic mess.

I took out a whole set of shelves and redistributed stuff all over the house, mostly to the basement. Here the essentials are left over. My favorite fabrics and books. And off to the side, why the shelves were banished, to make room for my new felt wall! Thanks to Amy’s great how-to post I now have a magic wall to which fabric miraculously sticks. What a great way to work on a design. I’m working on a baby quilt for a friend and it is so cool to be able to lay the whole thing out first.

I needed a new button storage system since the printers drawer they lived in was stashed under the exiled shelves. Jelly jars is what I came up with. Tim is skeptical as to how easy they’ll be to access but right now I’m just in love with how they look. We’ll see how it fares after the romance is over.

A new shelf for the dollhouse waiting to be redecorated.

All the CD’s were banned to the basement and I got a whole new set of shelves for little this’s and that’s.

ahhhhh…..

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getting cozy

Thanks so much to those of you who left comments on my last post! I’m excited but also terrified of this undertaking and it was really bolstering to read through the suggestions and encouragements. I’m feeling very ready to start tackling all the decisions that need to be made. Time to get organized and dig in! Which of course means first I need to completely overhaul my craft room and redo my site design. Right?  My craft room is a scary pit of disorganization & chaos and is in desperate need of a facelift. I want to feel happy and peaceful and creative in there instead of completed stressed and freaked out the second I step over the baby gate. (which of course the “baby” can just tear down whenever he wants. false sense of security.) To this end I snapped up one of Alicia‘s ethereal cagelets last week. Miss Lemoncello is the picture of serenity and cute and she’s going to guide me through this messy process of reorganization. Or maybe I’ll just add her to the mess and call it a day. We’ll see how my quest for new perfect shelves goes. Anyway, here she is hanging out in her temporary home, the kitchen.

 

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peekaboo

I couldn’t take it any longer. I had to put aside my must-do-now projects and take some time to make myself a stuffed. I finally got back to the big footed bunny design I’ve been wanting for over a year to redo. I’m very happy with this bunny girl. She’s huggable and floppy. And look she has poms! (thanks Patricia!) Peekaboo — Tim named her and I think his Olympic fever is showing — came together very easily but her outfit was another story. There’s a very pretty handsewn and embroidered dress that just didn’t quite fit/work sitting in the garbage. I was too worn out to start over so I took a short cut and cut a dress from my felted sweater stash. no hems, no finishing and very warm – perfect for January.

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the luckiest girl in town

I’ve been holding out on you. I’ve been waiting for just the right amount of sun (sunny but not too sunny) to take this picture. And well, that day isn’t coming so it’s just going to have to be today. I wanted to share one of the most wonderful presents I’ve ever received, a small quilt from Angry Amy Chicken.  I love it so much I can’t even say. It warms my cockles. It’s so good I want to unframe it and eat it. I may divorce Tim and marry it. Well, no I guess I’ll keep him around because to me those chickens are Daddy and little Oscar. That’s why I hung it in Oscar’s room. Plus it looks so good against the gossamer blue wall I can’t even take it.

I could wax on and on about how dear and wonderful and important Amy is to me but I’ll spare you our secret love and just say thank you. Thank You Amy !!