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Funky Junky Interiors Mamie Janes Posey Gets Cozy
Jun
14
So I tried to give us a new look around here… and broke the website. We’ve been down for 14 days but thanks to the awesome people at Hostito we’re back up and running.
Thank you Hostito Tech Support! You guys rock.
The length of time we were down was totally on me. Sorry!
But we’re up now and I will try to use a different WordPress Theme (obviously not the one that broke us in the first place), and then we should see a bit life around here!
Mar
23
As I sit, still waiting for my little girl to make her grand debut into the world (we’re officially 3 days overdue today), I have found myself contemplating my ‘Personal Style’ – or severe lack thereof. This is something that’s been brewing in the back of my mind off and on for a long time now but after 6 months of living in the same 2 pairs of yoga pants, various shapeless fleece tops and shirts stolen from my indulgent hubby, I seem to be developing some real motivation to actually ‘do something’ to correct this deficiency.
I am, at heart, a jeans and T-shirt girl – always was and always will be but out in the workplace and my forays into craft shows I want to present a more ‘put together’ appearance; I want people to glance up and know immediately that it’s me (in a good way – not in the ‘oh my god, my eyes are bleeding’ way).
So what do I want from my style?
1. Girly. Maybe it’s because I’m having a little girl and I keep looking at all these adorable baby dresses… or maybe it’s a backlash against all my time in jeans and t-shirts… but I want a Girly look – which, to me, means skirts. I know what you’re thinking – Judy in a skirt? I’ve known people for years who’ve never seen me in a skirt; but that’s what I want. I’m thinking wrap skirts and A-lines, just below the knee and others brushing the ground.
McCalls M5430
2. Crafty. Well of course it has to be crafty – this is a crafty blog and I’m a crafty girl! So I’ve been combing Ravelry and have a stockpile of knitting patterns for tops to go with all these skirts I want. Obviously the skirts will have to be handmade as well (because I’m such an awesome sewer! Oh wait – I kinda suck at sewing… hmmmm… maybe I can hit up some folks for some crafty bartering…). I also need to find a good pattern for a kimono top – I love kimono tops!
Lelah Top
Kimono Styled Sweater
3. Quirky. Well one of the benefits of hand making most of your own clothes is you get to pick the fabric – and there are some absolutely beautiful fabrics out there (namely quilt fabrics) that I want to use in my skirts. Not to mention the veritable rainbow of yarn colors and patterns that you’d never find in a retail clothing shop.
Foliage Charcoal from Ty Pennington Impressions
Passion Lilly Mulberry from Soul Blossoms
Then, too, there are the accessories!
Frankie Fedora
Mini Felted Fascinator Hat
I want to make… wait for it… (and here is where the plan may come tumbling down into absurdity) – knee socks with no toes or heels! I’ve seen tons of fabulous sock patterns out on the internet and in magazines but that’s the one project I just can’t commit to – I am MEAN to my socks! And spending all that time on something that I’m going to tear up in a matter of weeks (or a day depending) just makes me kinda nauseous. But then I saw them… manicure socks (which had no toes) and then a few patterns later – Yoga socks! (no heels or toes!) I would wind up treating these like legwarmers or tights instead of just plain old socks! It’s an awful lot of mental gymnastics to get me to make socks but this is the story and I’m sticking to it (and they’re Quirky, Crafy AND Girly dang it!).
Yoga Socks
Color Block Thigh Highs
Marlaina Thigh-High Stockings
Here’s hoping I can get this thing put together!
Nov
05
So I went to South Carolina this weekend to visit that side of the family before I get too big and unwieldy to make the trip and on the way back we passed by the Pisgah Yarn & Dye Company… who make Peaches & Cream Yarn!
Now I’d seen the Made in the USA label before but I hadn’t really paid it much mind – I just recently started working with 100% cotton yarn – but I never realized it was made 5 hours from my house! It was a totally cool find… and we almost missed it.
When we pulled into the town – home of the Old Fort – we stopped at the local video store for directions and they sent us to the actual factory… not to the outlet store. Luckily the only way back onto the 40W took us past a sign for the store so we found it (and didn’t fall off the mountain – ’cause that’s important).
It was a very small store – really just a display room in the distribution building – with one ball and cone of each color/type of yarn. Once you’d decided what you wanted a gentleman from the warehouse would come up and take your order and he’d go get it for you! It was really cool. I got 2 one pound cones of worsted weight yarn for less than $8 a piece – I can’t wait to finish my current project for Mrs Susan so I can work with this stuff.
The lady who helped us I believe was name Flo C. (that’s the business card that was in my bag!) and she was super helpful. Also she put together this wonderful charity calendar for hospice and I want to encourage everyone to visit the site and order one if you can. It’s the 2011 Sticks, Hooks and Shuttles Calendar - the cost without shipping is $16 – $1 went to create the calendar and $15 is going straight to the charities. (It’s $17.73 w/1st class shipping the States).
25% goes to CarePartners in Asheville, NC – they assist victims of spinal cord injury and stroke.
75% goes to Alexandra’s House in Kansas City, MO. to replace their leaking roof – they do Perinatal Hospice.
Flo was super passionate about these 2 causes – her husband received care from CarePartners – he’s on the bonus pattern page – he carried his walker out of the CarePartners center at the end of his treatment!
Here’s the yarn I bought:
Peaches & Cream Yarn
And here’s the 2 free sample skeins Flo was kind enough to throw in for me:
Peaches & Cream Samples
Once again – check out the website for the calendar and purchase one if you can – I was so touched by Flo’s passion for these causes that I had to buy one myself and spread the word.
Oct
22
It’s been a bad couple of months for the Twisted Wabbitry.
The 2 month heat wave finally took it’s toll in July – we lost Abby (Ruby-Eyed White Doe – Pedigree) to the heat. On the same day we discovered that Little Joe (Fawn Buck – Pedigree) – had developed Fly Bite. The infestation had not gotten into his skin – just in his fur – but the stress of us trying to clean him up and heat was apparently too much and we lost him overnight.
The heat wave broke two days later.
Nathen rebuilt the Rabbitry over the next two months for me making everyone much more accessible which had been great, however, on Monday this week, Yoder (Black Buck – Amish) managed to work his cage off the rack and escape – we haven’t seen hide nor hair of him since.
The icing on the cake came this morning when I let our dogs out into their yard for walkies… only to find two huge stray dogs in the rabbit yard. I chased them off but Bucky (Broken Black Buck – Pedigree) was nowhere to be found. His wood hutch – separate from the others – was toppled over and pulled apart.
BIL is doing sweeps of the yard today keeping an eye out for Bucky and for the dogs – I hate calling Animal Control, but I did it and I hope they find those animals. We’ve never had an issue with any of the neigborhood dogs before – but I’ve never seen these two before and they are absolutely huge.
The only silver lining is that I didn’t find a carcass – hopefully Bucky (and Yoder for that matter) will turn up.
Bucky
Yoder - Black Buck - No Pedigree
Little Joe - Fawn Buck
Oct
18
Yoshi Graph
Here is the Yoshi pattern requested by Carly. I found the images on the web and then worked the graph.
It’s available in an Excel Spreadsheet – just leave a comment here requesting it.
