Picture a Love Kitty

Need more ideas for your Valentine? How about a cute little kitty picture holder to show your Valentine how much you care? This fleece kitty is snuggable, huggable, and shows off a picture of you and your sweetie in a big stuffed heart. A perfect present for someone who loves kitties!

Happy Crafting!

Cerise : )

Watch out for Vikings!

My neighbor Nicole and I decided to start getting together to do some sewing projects. She had some really great pictures of cute viking plush pillow people and we decided to make some similar guys. We set out to the fabric stores to find some viking inspiring prints and textures. This was a surprisingly difficult task. Corduroy was a definite and some checks and plaid prints were chosen. Nicole had some great red and orange toned fabrics for the cheeks and noses already in her stash. We set off to making patterns for our people. We have made some good progress the past two days but now are a bit stuck at the beards. The fur fabric just isn't cutting it so we are going to experiment with alpaca roving and wool felt to see what we can make. I think they are awesome so far! They will definitely be very viking with their horns and rugged beards!

Happy Crafting!
Cerise : )

Craft Fair

Cerise and Theresa did their first craft fair in Philomath a couple of weeks ago. It was a bust. Cerise was recovering form the flu and I had it full-blown though my fever broke before I went to sit at our booth. Most likely the swine variety. A benefit for the rodeo here in town, and well, a certain type of product must sell better. Slow traffic. Disappointing. I knew we were in trouble when they were giving out door prizes and the rodeo queen had mine. She called it a "Yogo Bag". Sigh. But, we have stock for another fair, maybe before Christmas! Anyone need a yogo or yoga mat bag, I have plenty in stock. Cerise has some really cute felt wool blend owls and alligators and her plush hippos. Oh, and we have about a billion cool magnets! Happy Crafting!

Domo Done!!!

Hey Target, eat your heart out. I finally finished my two year Domo Kun plush project and am more than squeelingly excited about the final product. Poor Domo got shrimpy little legs and was shoved into one of my many fabric buckets (along with other unfinished projects). He has been sitting out for a week now waiting his turn to be a finished creation. I cut off his stupid little legs and bottom and started anew with his lowers, not caring about the weird seams in the end. I know how I could better do him next time at least. Preplanning and measuring is really important. But here he is in all his wonderful Domoness. Now to make him Halloween costumes. I think that might be another few years.
Happy crafting,
Cerise ; )

Flickr

I finally got a flickr account and have uploaded a lot of plushie pics from my Etsy site. They have a very cool photo editing option that is a bit more user-friendly than Photo Shop but still time consuming when you have a lot of photos! Check out the cute plushies I have up on flickr. I will be posting some jewelry from my other site some other time.
Happy crafting!
cerise : )