Sooper Belated CED Months Four & Five
By Joanne | July 19, 2008
So, whoops! I did not post my monthly CED activities for May or June.
(Bad, Joanne, bad!)
Here they are:
-made baby pants
-started brainstorming on my top secret sewing project
-designed labels for my stuff
-made a baby blankee/lovey thingie
-bought cool fabric pens and pastels (which I have not used yet but I have had tons of ideas)
-looked at old clay sculptures I made a few years ago
-looked at some doodles I made a few years ago
-thought about drawing again
-doodled some sewing ideas in my notebook
-made a big pillow for Baby D’s playroom
-made a stuffed rat softie thing
-came up with new ideas for sewing projects and doodled them
-surfed around some of my old favorite drawing sites
-thought about drawing again and doodled some doodles in my notebook
-thought about my big story idea (that I have had for years) and wondered about picking it up again
-thought about making my story a comic (for the five bazillionth time) - went back and forth while imagining it both ways (prose or comic)
-made some stuffed pig softies out of pajamas
-sang a lot in the car while driving to keep Baby D calm
-reorganized my fabric shelves (ahhhhhhhhh)
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Gifties Galore!
By Joanne | July 16, 2008
So, OMG, when I got my PiF giftie from Smiling Mama I was so happy with the cuteness of the outside of the bag, I never even thought to look inside the bag.
He-llo! There were more gifties inside!
Behold!
Actually, exactly what I needed. How did Aimee know?
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Ooooooooooooo, PiF giftie!
By Joanne | July 12, 2008
This arrived today:
I ripped it open and found this sweet little bag :
Isn’t it so cute!?!
Close-up of the sparkley:
I love it! Thank you so much Smiling Mama!
Update: There were gifties inside too! Gifties Inside! See them here.
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This is my wheel, insert spoke here . . .
By Joanne | July 11, 2008
Oh man!
Stuffed Toy Regulations and General Textile Labeling Requirements.
I mean, it’s good. There should be regulations for kids toys and the materials in kids toys. It’s just . . . more stuff to figure out for my planned Etsy shop.
Sigh.
I guess I just don’t have enough energy to try to wade through this. And if all my stuff has different fiber content than each label needs to be different. So do I get millions of different labels with every combination possible? Or limit my sewing to only a particular kind of fiber (say cotton with polyester stuffing)? And this registration thing, I bet it costs money.
SIGH.
Maybe I should revisit the pattern thing. I could just make patterns of my stuff to sell . . .
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Meme City
By Joanne | July 8, 2008
Oh the Memes! The Memes!
First up, I was tagged by Mary for this Random Questions Meme:
1. Last movie you saw in a theatre?
Hot Fuzz, while I was pregnant.
2. What book are you reading?
Mr Brown can Moo! Can you? by Dr Seuss.
3. Favourite board game?
Buffy the board game. Just kidding! Or am I? I am. Or am I? No really, I am. What’s that game where you have to make lists of things that begin with a certain letter?
4. Favourite magazine?
Teen People. No, I’m totally kidding. In Touch. No, kidding again. Sigh, I don’t really have time for magazines right now so I don’t know what is my favorite. Hmmmmmm . . . .
5. Favourite smells?
Lemon. Vanilla. Chocolate
6. Favourite sounds?
Baby laughing. Gusts of wind.
7. Worst feeling in the world?
That sinking feeling when you first wake up and realize you did/said something stupid the day before.
8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
Nooooooooooooooooooooo, more sleep! More sleep!
9. Favourite fast food place?
Kidd Valley. Mmmmm, meat. Mmmmmmm, shakes.
10. Future child’s name?
Oh, we know, we know, but we’re not telling you, you internety name stealers!
11. Finish this statement. “If I had lot of money I’d…”
Buy some stuff, give some away, make origami animals.
12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
I did for years but now I have a baby.
13. Storms- cool or scary?
Cool!
14. Favourite drink?
Water.
15. Finish this statement. “If I had the time I would…”
Write, sew, sleep.
16. Do you eat the stems on broccoli?
Of course, it’s where my magical powers come from.
17. If you could dye your hair any color, what would be your choice?
Blue.
18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?
No no no, you internety nosy people! I’ve lived on the East coast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
19. Favourite sports to watch?
What? (Stamping foot) I don’t like sports! Oh wait! Figure skating is cool. Go Michelle Kwan!
20. One nice thing about the person who sent this to you?
Mary is an excellent writer and is working on self-publishing a book. Woo!
21. What’s under your bed?
The floor.
22. Would you like to be born as yourself again?
Uh, what? Like a clone? That could be awkward.
23. Morning person or night owl?
Night owl.
24. Over easy or sunny side up?
Scrambled.
25. Favourite place to relax?
By big water.
26. Favourite pie?
Cherry.
27. Favourite ice cream flavor?
Mint Chocolate Chip.
Second is this meme, from one of the blogs I found through the Group PiF. I had to do it because it is so cool and I love finding cool photos AND making mosaics.
The rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.
The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.
Here’s what I got:
And finally, my very own meme, inspired by the above photo meme. I just like the whole finding cool photos thing sooooooooooooo, here it is:
The Favorite Book/Author Photo Meme.
Rules:
1. Type your favorite books and/or authors into Flickr search
2. Pick your favorite photo
3. Plug it into fd’s mosaic maker.
4. Post your mosaic when you are done (you can make it as big or small as you want).
5. List the books/authors that inspired your mosaic.
6. Tag people!
Here is mine (it makes me want to read, write and take photos more):
List:
1. Ursula Le Guin
2. Tad Williams
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
4. Anne McCaffrey
5. Jane Austen
6. Anne of Green Gables
7. Harry Potter series
8. The Monkey King
9. Madeline L’Engle
And I tag Mary and Kim and anyone else who thinks it might be fun.
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Pajama Pigs
By Joanne | July 5, 2008
I finished the Pajama Pigs!
I may have to make more and even put some on Etsy or something. All different shapes and sizes. And all made out of repurposed pajamas. Hee!
ANYWAY, the current pigs are wonky and I love them. Imagine that! It was refreshing not to try and make a pattern. I just started cutting and piecing together as I went. Maybe that is why I like them, they are so far from perfect I don’t even expect them to be.
Baby D loves them too, especially the pink one. He kept grabbing the blue one and throwing it farther away but he hugged the pink one and carried it around for a bit. The pink one has a better nose and ears. But the blue one has a cuter face overall, I think. The tails are very different but I think both work.
The Pair
Baby D Investigates
Blue Tail
Pink Tail (again)
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Winnerest Winner of the Win
By Joanne | July 5, 2008
OMG!
No Way!
I just ran the random number generator and the winner is:
None other than my besterest friendle Kim!
Coongrats Kim!
I also won Mommy Daisy’s Contest so I will be running ANOTHER PiF contest here shortly. Woo!!!!
Edited to add: I just won another PiF! Smiling Mama’s Contest. Sooooooooo, when I run my next PiF I will be choosing TWO winners!
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This has happened to you, right? Right?
By Joanne | July 4, 2008
Okay, this has nothing to do with crafts or babies or contests but I had to share it because what use is blogging if you cannot share gross stories.
So, I hate spiders. Oh, I hate them. I deal with them this way: ”Hone! HONE! Spider! SPIDER! Spiderspiderspiderspiderspider!”
Okay, so you know when you have lint in your pocket? And you reach in and it’s in a little ball and you roll it around in your fingers or something?
You know where this is going, don’t you? YOU KNOW!
Yesterday I reached into my pocket and found a “piece of lint” (YOU KNOW!) and I proceeded to roll it around when it squished.
Squished!
I looked at my hand and spider guts everywhere!
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
(shudder)
ew.
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Pay Pay Pay it Forward Contest
By Joanne | July 1, 2008
For months I have seen contests all over the blog world. And I have entered some and wondered about having my own but then I thought, well, my readership is very small so maybe two people would enter and that would just be sad (for me and them) and, oh my, I would have to figure out all sorts of logistical stuff and plan and organize things. What? How would I do that with a walking baby, like walking all around?
Then, Swistle (who has a very funny blog on which I often lurk) set up this AWESOME contest. It’s a Pay It Forward contest. But not just any PiF contest. It’s like the MOTHER of all PIF Contests. It could very well grow exponentially until it explodes with sparkley karma goodness. No really! You can read about it here (and see many other blogs that are running PiF contests and go enter them too!).
Okay, so this is how it works for my little PiF contest (which is part of the whole group of Pif contests):
1) You leave me a comment and automatically get entered into my PiF contest.
2) On July 4th I close comments and go in search of the magical random number generator.
3) Once the random number generator is found I get a number (randomly generated) and whoever left the comment that matches that number wins!
4) Then I will come up with a fun little giftie to send this person (I will wait to see who wins so I can sort of tailor the gift to them at least a little).
5) THEN this person will host a PiF contest on their blog and then their winner will host one on their blog and so on and so on. Woo!
So, leave me a comment!!!
AND to make it more entertaining, in your comment, tell me something quirky about you.
Oh, and in case you missed it in all the contest excitement. I have a walking baby. A. Walking. Baby.
Comments are now closed. Thanks to everyone who joined in! Winner to be chosen tomorrow (Saturday 7/5). Stay tuned . . .
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Sneak Peek
By Joanne | June 29, 2008
I am about halfway through my piggy side project. I have made much progress because I am hand sewing.
What? Hand sewing? But you have a new sewing machine that, like, sews fast and stuff! Why the sewing with the hands?
I know, I know. But see, sigh, the machine requires I be sans baby and that is a state I am not in much these days and when I am I have to do things like floss and find my pajamas and stare and stare at this stuff called “foaming face wash” because I know I must have bought it once long ago for some reason.
But hand sewing can be done in the playroom whenever baby gets all engaged in his toys. A little stitch here, a little stitch there and poof! Progress!
I must admit that my hand sewing is as wonky as my machine sewing. Maybe more so. But it looks more charmingly wonky if that makes sense.
Anyhoo, here are some sneaky peeky pics:
Hope to finish it soon!
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