Resuscitation

Oh hai. I'm not dead. I'm just the shittiest blogger on earth, as I'm pretty sure I've stated before. I'm only even blogging right now because I'm sitting in a Tim Horton's using their wi-fi waiting for Ryan to get off work.

Funny story. Once, Josh and I were in Royal Oak having a fun adventure before we went to the Pistons game....we were walking down the street and both looked at a sandwich board outside some random business advertising free wifi. For some reason, both of us read it as "free wiffy." Sorry, wi-fi was pretty new at the time I guess. Ok, so maybe the story was a lot funnier to us.

Things I have been up to in my incredibly lengthy absence from you lambs:

*Watching more accidents than necessary outside my office window. As my grandfather would say, "Probably texting!"
*Knitting, but not nearly as much, I actually gave myself a monster break and knitted myself two hats! I will take photos of them, because I know all three of you who read this totally care.
*Sleeping. Every second I get. I'm pretty sure I'm dying and no one finds this funny when I say it. I take this as a sign that they think I might be right.
*WATCHING DUCK DYNASTY. If you're not as in love with these men as I am, you may just want to find a new blog to read. This relationship isn't going to work out.
*Being as in love with drag queens as I ever have. I thought for like 5 minutes that Ryan worked with one and I got really excited, then we decided no. :(
*We got a wood swing for the back deck and it is greeeeeeat. After work swinging like what.
*I miss my baby cat Thea like nothing in the world. She is the smartest child in the universe. Not even a year and a half old and she knows her letters!!!! That baby love is my heart. I can't wait until she's big enough to draw something so I can get it tattooed on me. Or so she can just tell me what she wants me to get tattooed for her.
*Did I mention that I'm just overall dying to get tattooed? Following all these badass artists on Instagram is not helping.
*My Instagram is xerynx
 *I got a beautiful Wacom tablet for myself as a "you've worked a shitload of overtime" present and it hates me. We do not get along. They probably shoudl have screened me before allowing me to purchase seeing as I've never even used Photoshop....but I got some books out of the library so maybe we'll learn to like each other.
*Ryan has started me on another habit, comic books. Because he never wants me to get out of debt. Feral and Witch Doctor are my jam. Thanks to Free Comic Book Day I see Bad Medicine being another good one on my list. And that is your catch up for now, because the sun is going down behind me and my screen is full of dust stars. Love love love.

Mini assistant

Cupcake likes to help when we visit Ryan's parents.

Come on out!!!

Tonight and tomorrow afternoon! Come see myself and many other excellent Toledo artists selling our goods on St Clair St in downtown Toledo! I will be at Sur St Clair along with Stephanie Elton, Michelle Albright, Danielle Herrera, and several other artists. Shop local this holiday season!

Last minutes

Aside from cleaning up my best friend's dog's pee, I've been doing a lot of last minute Crafts Gone Wild stuff. Don't worry, not at the same time.

You can ignore the messy couch, thanks.

Ooooh!

Who's the feature today over at Crafts Gone Wild? This lady! Go check me out!

Knee deep.

Worst blogger ever.

Can we just say I'm up to my ears in half finished pelts, three bags of stuffing, 14 packages of safety eyes, and a bag of chocolate cinnamon m-n-ms, frantically trying to pull my shit together before Crafts Gone Wild next Saturday?

And yes, I did say chocolate cinnamon. I got them at Target today and they're fairly amazing.

We're watching the Lions lose and it's more than likely my cat's fault. Any time he's over here visiting from my parents, they totally tank. Therefore Lions fans, I apologize.

Has anyone else checked out the kids Harajuki Mini clothes at Target?? DYING!!!!!

All hands on deck.

Gotta love how everyone helps out around here, aka Loki being adament about sleeping in my knitting needle bag at every opportunity.

Scarlet and grey

Just a little sneak preview of a verrrry awesome OSU themed monster set I'm working on. Never fear, still a U of M girl hardcore..I'm just no dummy when it comes to doing a show in the middle of Columbus, you know??

I should really do a post about all the absolutely ridiculous brain melting TV we watch. Lets just say this-Toddlers and Tiaras. Probably 8 episodes in the last three days. Little Miss, Tiny Miss, Glitzy Tiny Miss. Can't get enough.

I haven't been totally sucking the last few days. I did pull out the more Halloween-y theme toys out of the glass cabinet and make a cute little vignette on top of the TV!

So cutey. I have so many toys cluttered up in the cabinet I like to be able to get different ones out every now and again to highlight.

Somebodys got a case of the Mondays

Despite feeling like I'm getting the black lung, I'm going to try to have a good day today:

*my ipod is full of all new music!

*I have yumyum leftovers for lunch

*holidays creamers are outttt! We chipped in for a Keurig in my department, this is my saving grace a lot of days.

Why does my car smell like chocolate?

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Yarn makes the best pillows.

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Tids and Bits

Officially accepted to Crafts Gone Wild! Yaaaaay!

Ordered yarn to, going against everything I believe in, knit OSU monsters. Got it today. Much thicker than I expected. BOO. Thumbs down boo. Clearly a sign that OSU monsters are a bad idea, obvs.

The house is freezing. Still not turning on the heat.

As usual, feel behind on knitting for the show.

I made a new blog header! It still looks like I don't know what I'm doing!

We made the most yummy potato pancakes out of all things, instant mashed flakes. They were deeeelish.

Do not buy the Almond Joy creamer that there are a million commercials for that looks amazing. It is expensive and a giant letdown.

Any couponers out there? Ryan and I are so gung ho about this after watching Extreme Couponers on TLC, but he's been looking and all the coupons out there suck!! Obviously its possible if these women are doing it, we even saw a vegan couponer last night...but how are they gettting good stuff and Ryan is finding coupons for a dollar off four tubs of Crisco?!

The ugly truth.

Just in case some poor confused soul out there ever started to think I was cool...I feel the need to disclose...
Here's what Ryan and I did last month.

We went to WWE Smackdown!!!! Third row ringside. It was spectacular and worth every penny.

And yes, we made signs. Oh, did we make signs.

We were on TV like crazy. This sign looks really grainy in the photo, but it's my best friend's baby's name. Thea love!!!

Yep, I'm 34 and went to wrestling. And held out and Stub-Hubbed so we could get killer tickets. No shame!

Missoni love!

So Target can piss off, and take their totally over hyped Missoni collection and shove it. Here's what I've been working on in my non-monster knitting time. Inspired by the Missoni throw pattern on Ravelry, I'm knitting only one repeat of it to make a scarf. We'll see how it turns out. I'm using Caron Simply Soft for the first try....if I love it I'm going to modify the pattern to get a few more zigs and zags, and use a nicer yarn.

The colors: (this took forevvvvvvver to pick since I was trying to match the original pattern as closely as possible)

Here's how far I am. I was really cruising on it, but then I entered a craft show in Columbus, so it's put to the side for the time being!

I love how tidy it is!

So I saw one of those uber-popular pins on Pinterest going around with a dotty manicure and that's all I've been rocking lately. You'll forgive the raggy cuticles, tip wear, and Blackberry pics. The last shot is Tigers away uniform colors in honor of post season. CLEARLY NOT HELPING.

Always a lady

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Popsicle fingers

I can not wait until I can do all the artwork I WANT to do again. I have again knitted myself into a corner, and have a July holiday weekend commitment that I must knit knit knit for. I reeeeeally want to paint though. I have an embarassingly large stack of canvases in the hall closet. You know, as opposed to my other embarassingly large piles of art supplies. It goes a little like this. Buy it, come home, deposit in art room. See again at art store-"did I buy this? I should probably buy it in case I didn't so that way I have it." or-"Oh, this is on sale. I should probably buy it because it is such a good price and I will surely use it!" Come home, deposit in art room. Do you see where this is headed? Yes, a future episode of Hoarders.

The worst part of it is I have literally about 50 finished pieces that can be sold...I just really detest writing Etsy listings. :o

Mothers day haul

No big secret, I love nail polish....I haven't been to Ulta in a couple months, and I'm on a self imposed yarn diet...so something was bound to give.

I'm in looooove with that dusty green. And I caved on the crackle polish craze!

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Beary huge.

As usual, Costco is total overachievers and made a stuffed bear that's almost as tall as me!! Shockingly affordable at 29.99.

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Bye bye monster!

Another baby finds a home!! This went to a darling little girl who contacted me after Artomatic was over for a bday present for her boyfriend. She picked it up today and had the cutest hairstyle and adorable outfit!! I was at my parents so of course Lucy had to march her furry little butt in and be sociable. I was happy to see him go to a good home, my mom was bummed because it was her favorite and she thought she was going to steal it! Funny thing is, this yarn was such a fluke. It was HIDEOUS in the skein, but I had a feeling it might turn out alright once knitted up. It's referred to in the house as "clown puke yarn." It really has a lot going on.

I'm on a yarn diet, aside from two balls I have to buy for a project for my best friend. I was tidying up a bit today and filled up an entire big Rubbermaid with all the yarn that wouldn't fit in my actual yarn organizer. I'm not even going to count how many balls I have because that just sounds scary.

Oh, did I mention I was hand dying yarn today...and after I de-smurfed myself from the blue dye leaking out of the jar....later I was trying to rearrange the very complicated system I had going on, and spilled an ENTIRE bowl of purple dye all over the kitchen floor?!?!?! I'm not even going to get into how it happened, but it actually could have been way worse than it was. Nothing got stained, my ETID hoodie went unscathed, and there was the teeniest bit of dye left in the bowl that I can still finish the yarn...which I think might turn out ugly anyways. Still, not the way I wanted to spend a day off, mopping up purple dye water.

A smashing success.

Artomatic is all done for the year! Its always a little bittersweet, you feel like you're leaving summer camp or something because you meet all these new people and then (at least in my socially awkward case) you have no idea when you'll see them again! I did AMAZING though, so much better than I ever could have anticipated. I adopted out 31 monsters!!! I definitely would not have done as well had I not had Ryan and my mumma to help me build/watch the booth.
You think I'd be all knitted out, at least for awhile, but I've already cast on a new project for a Ravelry swap and I have one more little thing to make for my best friend before I can take a break...but I really can't ever take a break because then it's time to work on stuff for S Type Creative and Red White and Kaboom!

Oh well. There are far worst things in life than nonstop artsing and crafting :)