a few new things

i haven't really updated in a while, cause i'd been sick for the past few weeks. but im finally feeling better. stupid florida weather changes.one day its 80 degrees, the next its in the 40s. and its winter! i've been working on a few thigs, but most of them arent finished. i started on a crocheted doll for mika, cause she saw one that i made and said she wanted one with a yellow dress. this one is looking a lot better than the first one i made. i was very limited on the colors because i wanted tyo use up the yarn i had before i bought more. so thats why she turned out like this:
i mean , thats not why it looks crappy, but why she has green hair and body.lol.
mika still likes it though.

but this one im trying to make look like belle, mikas favorite princess(cause she has a yellow dress) yellow is mika's favroite color. everything has to be yellow. and thats cool. cause im totally ok with her not being coverd in pink. here is my progress so far:


my first time using safety eyes. i think they look ok.
her hair took me like, 2 hours. and her face only looks flat because i forgot to get poly-fill. oops. im gonna get some tomorrow.
and her yellow dress. i mostly done with it. i didn't follow a patter for anything, im just kinda making it up as i go along, but its not too hard cause crocheting in the round is easy peasy. :)

ohh and i made a new banner for my etsy shop. im not the best at photoshoping stuff, and its not super fancy, but im happy with it. i aslo added a few new things to my etsy shop. well, not really new, i made them a while ago.

it's a rabbit with a waist coat! and a watch!

oh my goodness whiskers! i'm late i'm late i'm late! i can't help being inspired to make alice in wonderland stuff. especially since mika likes to watch it mulitple times a day. these are some things i've been working on in the past few weeks. this first one was in the last couple of days. i had to take a little break from crafting because my hands have been hurting. im not sure if its cause i've been doing too much, but they feel ok now.
i really like this one. i tried to use a couple different stitches, cause i usually just do back stitch.
and these im thinking of making into ornaments. they are really little, only about an inch or so tall.

alice in wonderland

i was looking around on imdb last night. i was bored, just looking up movies, and i decided to do a search for alice in wonderland, to see if there were any versions i hadn't seen yet. and on the page of title that came up, it said that there was going to be a new alice in wonderland movie coming out in 2010! and the director is tim burton! how pimptastic is that! if you wanna read about it, look here. im excited! and danny elfman is composing the soundtrack for it too! :) i know he works with tim burton a lot. he did the music for the nightmare before christmas, and he was jacks singing voice. imdb said that the movis is going to take place when alice is 19 years old, and not interested in marrying a rich boor. instead she falls back down the rabbit hole. she intervenes on behalf of the White Queen to regain the crown, falls in love with the Mad Hatter...and decides to return home with her newfound courage. i can't wait for it to come out. :)

my first etsy sale

yay!i finally made my first sale in my etsy shop! i was gonna delete it earlier, but i guess its good that i didn't! :) i was just getting impatient . maybe i'll add a few more things to it later. just cause im in a good mood now. just to get it updated.

so we ended up not going anywhere. casey was gonna use one of his dads time shares to go to atlanta, or orlando. but they said you had to be at least 28. and casey's only 23. so. maybe in 5 years.lol. but we just hung out here.had the craft fair and sevendust saturday. i onlt sold three things at the fair, which is better than nothing i guess. but i was hoping to do more. im thinking of trying to go to another one, but i don't know yet.

we took mika to the jr museum yesterday. well, it used to be called that then i was in elementary school. but now its the tallahassee museum of history and natural science. its pretty much the closet thing to a zoo we have here. it has monkeys (sometimes),wolfs, otters, bobcats, and bears, a few farm animals, some historic buildings and some other stuff.
florida panther.
they are always sleeping when i go up there.
my picture looks better than the one on their post cards in the gift shop. haha.
old train caboose from the 1940s
the inside
i think mika liked the train the best. she didn't wanna get off of it.

i love the old pinup girls :)
you know you like those creepy old mannequins. haha. they are in the old plantation house that catherine murat owned. mika was scared of them. she wouldn't even go in the room with them. haha.

ok im done for now. today is caseys last day off. not sure what we're doing today, but we are going to visit my dad later. because of caseys work schedule and me not driving we dont get to go over there much. but it'll be good cause mika can play with my little brother joey. he is six months younger than her. its kinda weird for me to have a little brother younger than my daughter. but at least they are close in age, and tehy can grow up together.lol.

i found these really cute baby frames the other day. and i've been wanting to stitch something to go in them. and i finally got around to doing it yesterday.

just some more stuff for the craft fair saturday. im excited. i just wish i wasn't gonna be by myself for 6 hours. a friend of mine was supposed to come with me, but she had to go out of town, and wont be back till like, monday i think. oh well. at least casey and i are going to sevendust after that. :) we've seen them the past two times they've been here. casey has been on vacation since yesterday. he gets 9 days off. and he needs it. he wasnts to go out of town for a few days next week. to orlando or atlanta. atlanta has the georgia aquarium. i've been wanting to go there . cause i heard its pretty awesome. im not sure if mika is too little for disney right now, i mean if we go now, i don't think she'll be old enough to remember it. i don't know. we'll figure it out i guess.

i made some more scarfs in the past few days. i've just been in a knitting mood. and thats all i know how to knit so far. lol.
the blue and white one i made using the wavy gravy pattern from the stitch and bitch book i have. my first time following a pattern. i think it turned out ok.

i hate cleaning.. fo sho

which is what partially inspired this.

a few days ago while thrifting i came across this piece of cross stitching, and i bought it.

who gave that away, right? i'd so rather be crafting than be cleaning. my house isn't that bad, but it has been a while since i dusted. so i guess there probably are a few dust bunnies out there lurking around. i borrowed the bunnies from some of the subversive cross stitching by julie jackson. but i made them gray so they would look dusty. :)

after i made that i decided to take a little break from stitching. i learned how to knit about a year ago. and i made one scarf, but not anything since then. so i wanted to try it again. they arent anything fancy, but i made a few in the past couple of days.


i think i might make a few more. wal-mart has their bernat chunky yarn on sale ofr $1.50 a skein. :)