A most wonderful break from work. A trip to Mexico. To where we honeymooned.
There was a little bit of this: Actually very little knitting. The simple lace socks for Interweave with the most gorgeous bamboo wool yarn ever on 0 needles. But a bit tough on my poor arms. And this was a vacation. Full of vacation reading. A nice mix of cotton candy and slightly heavier reading too.
And more than a little of this: Squirt and tequila rule!
And gazing out at this gorgeous view. Sigh!
But glad to be back home.
Sigh–I don’t know what happened, but it always does happen every April. All of a sudden things just get busy. Like booked every night and nearly tearing my hair out because I need a bit of a break. And I’m about to get one. A nice yummy long one.
But before I do anything, I must share with you my most recent work. Yes, embroidery. Kitty embroidery. This little cuties were picked up from Beverly’s and were simply too cute and vintagey not to do. Don’t you agree. It was so much fun creating the colors choices.
OK–here is my test run of flour towels. I stopped by my local Beverly’s to find that they had loads of embroidery goodies there too. Including these adorable vintage kittens doing chores throughout the week.
Wouldn’t these be perfect? I think so too! So I bring you almost a week of kitties.
Monday and Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday
I made them gray of course, thinking of Minnow–who really isn’t gray, but still super cute!
Is it just me, or does Minnow look like she’s going to kick that cookie’s ASS!?!
Here she is looking much sweeter.
Anyway, I came to the conclusion that I enjoy embroidery as a nice break. But I use napkins a lot more than these thinner kitchen towels. So, I think I’m going to scrap my idea of doing another round of kitchen towels, but instead do them as cloth napkins. Doesn’t that sound sweet? I think so! So, keep an eye out for them in this summer or so.
Well, I’m still here. Things sometimes just get a bit bumpy in life. I fear things might be getting a bit more bumpy as Devil-Ette Season is upon us and I just can’t say no to my Go-Go girlies, so we are in the midst of auditions, etc. and learning great new fun dances.
But I have been crafting and kicking clutter’s derriere! And where did the beatdown happen? Why my overburdened closet. Poor thing! With the help of Dana sitting on my bed, giving thumbs up and thumbs down to some of my dearest dresses. Well, it was bracing to say the least.
Here are some proccess pictures–please feel free to avert your eyes to the horrors.
People, I am not proud.
But after a couple of hours, there was some serious clothing carnage.
I got rid of more than three bags full and am in the process of selling twenty or so items on eBay. Wish me luck! So far I’ve netted more than $300. Hurrah!
And of course I can’t find the pictures I had of the nice clean closet. Bah!
Hopefully, tomorrow I’ll have a proper craft post. Crossing fingers…
