Never Let Me Go To The Craft Store Alone!

I went a little nuts at the
craft store yesterday!

I needed embroidery thread bad! I was so tired of making do

with the colors I had so I made a little swatch card with all

my felt colors and then took that to the store with me to

match colors. Turned out to be one of the smartest

things I've ever done. The I wrote the DMC thread numbers

on the swatch card next to the felt color so I always

 know which one I used. Brillant eh?

I also bought a ton of thread all not shown here, a bunch
of stuff on clearance, paper punches, magnets and

needle packs because for some reason I'm down
to only one needle. How does that happen?

Oh and I found this. SCORE! I love this magazine.
It only comes out twice a year and I can never
find it, but I did this time, the very last one!

It has so much inspiration and some of my
twitter friends and people who's blogs I follow have
softies in here! Squee! So excited!

Yesterday Lita Had A Snow Day

Lita is a small dog and snow kind of scares her. Here she is

 not stepping in it. She wears a leash in the yard cause
even though it's fenced all around, there is a hole in the
back neighbors side and there are hawks around.

She's nosy as heck so that won over the fear of snow as she 

decided to check out the doings in the neighbors yard.

I packed down a big path all around the pool for her to run in,
which she loved. Here she is after a big face plant into
the snow. I laughed so hard!

Amazingly I was able to capture the snow falling
which you can see if you look carefully.

Much more snow has fallen now so it's over her head in most
places in the yard so we will probably stay in today.

Would you like to see my Hooters?

Cute aren't they?

The two biggest are softies and the little

one is a brooch. They are all headed

for my etsy shop soon.

Mermaid Doll Is Finished!

Here is her pretty little face. You can see her seashell bra
and her starfish hair clip.

Full body shot. Oh those scales took forever!

I'm holding her so you can get a better idea of her size.

The doll is based on my mermaid Illustration shown here.

I think I've lost my mind!

Started finally working on the mermaid last night. She was getting very snarky that I had put Rose and the blue Doctor ahead of her. After sewing this much by hand and cutting out hundreds of more little scales I realized I was crazy to do this! But since I always finish what I start, eventually anyway, I'll keep rolling along.

Here's a close up of my madness!