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My name is Jennifer and I am an addict.

2012-01-24T21:10:00.003-04:00

I am addicted to colour.

Phew, I feel better now that I've finally admitted it. I've been battling this addiction as far back as I can remember. As a child, I remember hiding in my closet as I organised the clothing in my closet by colour, lightest colours of the spectrum to the darkest. Garments that had colours of multiple palettes, had their own section at the end of the closest where they hung in shame, not to disturb the colour flow of my more solid colour clothing.

Pencil crayons were arranged in order and numbered at the bottom so they wouldn't get out of order. Crayons often had the same treatment.

I thought this was normal.

I didn't know I had a problem.

How do you organise your movie collection? By genre? Alphabetical? Alphabetical within genres? No order whatsoever? Guess how mine are organised.......by colour of the DVD cases of course!

I always joke with people and say I have OCD.

"Obsessive Compulsive Order?" you ask.

"No, you silly!" I say. "Obsessive Colour Disorder!"

I can't help it, I really can't. I see colour and I love it. The wall of paint samples at a hardware store is just heaven to me. So much colour, so little space! But here's the thing, when I joke with people about having obsessive colour disorder and they laugh, but they don't have a clue how real it is. Anyone who has visited my house knows this is a serious affliction, and I, Jennifer Trevors, am a sufferer.

Example 1.

My kitchen. This room pretty much sums it up. Also, all of my favourite kitchen appliances have names. The red coffee maker to the left, her name is Lucy. See that sexy KitchenAid mixer in the corner? That's Betty. See that gay pink container? Yeah, that's Stan's, not mine. The tea kettle in the second picture goes by Alice. Although the blender is new and I haven't named her yet. Any suggestions?

Example 2.

My bedroom. My bedroom still isn't as correctly colour co-ordinated as I'd like but I'm getting there. I'm in the middle of staining my dresser an ebony black and I'd really like to buy or make some sort of fabric cover for my chair.

I even buy garbage bags that match the colours of my rooms. Purple garbage bags in my bedroom, pink ones in the bathroom. And they are scented too! I bet half of you wouldn't even know where to buy those. I do. Sometimes I even try to find red dish soap for the kitchen, pink hand soap for the bathroom.

Also, I'm preeeeeetty sure Obsessive Colour Disorder is genetic. You should see my mother's house if you don't believe me. Rooms are actually referred to by their colour. "I get the blue room!" I say. "No, your sister travelled further and she is here longer therefore she gets the blue room and you get the green one" says my mother. This conversation has been had in real life. I wouldn't lie, folks.

Roy G. Biv

What I spent the last two months of 2011 doing!

2012-01-23T00:01:00.000-04:00

I can finally post about the Christmas presents I made since the last one has been received by my sister. This year I was ambitious with my gifts. I made not one but two crocheted blankets among all of the smaller items I made for friends.

For my sister Rebecca and her boyfriend Robby, I decided to crochet a ripple blanket. They just moved in together and I thought it would be a nice item to make them for their new place. It was my first time trying a ripple pattern blanket and it was pretty easy once you got the rhythm of the pattern down. I found an easy to follow on Attic24 and it can be found here.

And as much as my sister loves the blanket, I think the cats even loved it more! Any time I was working on it, they seemed to find their way on top of it.

For my Mum's present, I made a pretty basic granny square blanket. It worked up pretty quickly and it contains about 17 different colours. I used the same yarn for both - Lionbrand Home Spun. Once you washed the blanket for the first time, it was so incredibly soft. It was hard parting with either blanket as I just wanted to snuggle up in either one.

And the cats weren't the only ones to like the blankets. Here is a picture of my Dad when he was released from the hospital, snuggled up in the blanket as well.

My Dad had a rough couple of months towards the end of the year. Along with a broken leg and ankle, he was hospitalised with bilateral pulmonary embolism followed by a bout of pneumonia. Luckily he's doing much better now and I cross my fingers that nothing else happens to him. Also, early happy birthday tohim as he turns 51 on Tuesday. Happy Birthday Dad!

Mmm...mmm...awesome!

2012-01-22T20:22:00.004-04:00

We're in the middle of a soup kick at my house. In the last three weeks I've made a tomato chicken soup, beef, quinoa & barley soup and a split pea soup but my favourite has been the Italian sausage and tortellini soup. It's rich, filling and delicious. Try it!

Italian Sausage and Tortellini Soup

3 links sweet italian sausage, casings removed
1 cup diced onion
2 cloves minced garlic
5 cups beef stock
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup red wine
1 cup diced tomatoes (canned or fresh)
1 cup chopped carrots
1/2 tsp basil
1/2 tsp oregano
1 cup tomato sauce
1 cup corn
1 green pepper, diced
8 oz cheese or beef tortellini
chopped parsley

I started by removing the sausage from casings and browned it in sauté pan for about 10 minutes. Drain most of the fat but leave a bit to sauté the onions and garlic in. Next add the beef stock, water, wine, tomatoes, carrots, basil, oregano and tomato sauce. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes, skimming any fat that may surface. Finally, add the rest of the ingredients and let cook for another 10 minutes or until the tortellini is cooked. Now eat.

We actually made double the recipe and have been eating this soup for days. Normally if I make this much soup in one go, I would freeze half of it but I figure the tortellini would soak up all the liquid and would become huge and soggy.

D'awwww

2011-07-20T00:23:00.003-03:00

My baby is growing up!

Oh man, I'm such a slacker.

2011-07-10T17:31:00.009-03:00

Ugh. Seriously, it seems every year I do this. And by this, I mean I completely neglect my site and I get a little slackerish on the crafting. Lots of things have happened since I last updated in March. I moved out of the city and moved into a house in the town of Bedford, Nova Scotia and I got a new job and am now working as a travel counsellor. No more apartment living! No more crappy job where I get no respect or am appreciate for my hard work! Hooray!

The kittens have gotten huge. They are no longer kittens in my eyes but rather small cats. The younger of the two, James, went to a new home last week. The other kitten, Magnets, is staying with me and her mother Vega. As much as I would have liked to have kept both kittens, money is tight and if they had gotten sick at the same time, I wouldn't be able to afford to take care of them. James ended up going to the home of a friend of mine where I know she (yes, she, we got the sex mixed up when she was born but the name James stuck) will be taken very good care of. Plus, when you knit and/or crochet and you have three cats, people start calling you a crazy cat lady. I'd rather avoid that if possible :)

Maggie sitting pretty in my bedroom window. She's totally not a kitten any more!

Baby James relaxing on my bed. I love the little white stripe on her nose :)

Now for some crafts! So I've done a few things. Made a couple of hats, a few pairs of slippers, half a dozen dishcloths, a couple of handbags and a few other small items. My new bedroom happens to have a glass door so I needed to make something to cover it. Today I made a curtain to cover it.

Before

After

I love this fabric! The purple has a pretty sheen to it and it matches my room perfectly!

Alright, time to sign off. I hope to start posting more often! If not, have a great summer :D

Bonus Cats!

2011-03-21T00:41:00.006-03:00

So I recently posted about how I took an abandoned cat named Vega. Well Vega came with bonus cats! She was pregnant when we took her in and she gave birth to two tiny kittens on Tuesday and Wednesday. She had the first cat at 8:30 pm on Tuesday night. She then waited a full 24 hours and gave birth to the second cat on 8:30 on Wednesday night. We think the first is a girl and the second is a boy. We named baby cat #1 Magents, and baby cat #2 is named James.

James Bond & Magnets Bond

Adorable, right?

I gotta say, watching my cat Vega give birth was a tad bit scary. I was by myself for the first one and I wasn't expecting it to happen so quickly. Her howls sounded like screams and she looked so scared. I wanted to hug her and let her know that everything was going to be okay. Besides being scary, it was kinda awesome to witness. Watching Vega know exactly what she needed to do to take care of her infant, was pretty rad. It was a watching natural instinct in it's purest form. It's going to be an interesting two months raising the cuties!

Cupcakes, birds, hats, kitties, snow and even more snow!

2011-02-12T22:13:00.012-04:00

Ahhhh....time for some updates!

Nova Scotia has not seen this much snow in years. It seems like we've been dumped on by snow at least once a week. By the time we recover from one Nor'ester, it seems like another one is just around the corner!

The upside to all of the snow? Sledding! Although I went once about two years ago, it ended in a disaster. My first run down the hill resulted in me crashing, using my face as a brake and suffering a concussion. This time was a success though - no injuries and fun was had by everyone. And we went at night, which is fantastic for two reasons -

1. No small children. I always fear I'm going to run one of them over. Plus, they always show me up by never falling off their sled and they can go further than I can. They are tiny, little jerks I tell you!
2. Halifax is really pretty at night

Next update - my family has gotten larger! Don't get too excited though - I just got a new cat. My friend Angel found a tiny, malnourished cat outside of her apartment building a few weeks ago and I took her in as my own. Her name is Vega Bond! Although she's pretty cute and likes to snuggle a whole lot, she's finding it hard to adjust to The Captain and Weeze but she's getting there. And she likes to shred toilet paper...all the time. Hopefully she'll grow out of this.

Now for a few craft updates! I've made a few things recently but am behind on what I was to complete. I've started a lot of projects, but as per usual, am having a hard time completing them. I need to buckle down and get to to work.

First up, I made a pretty simple striped hat with a flower. The pattern for the flower can be found in one of the Stitch 'N Bitch books, The Happy Hooker.

I also whipped up a cute little amigurumi bird sometime last week. I found the pattern for a set of Love Birds on the Lion Brand website and made one but never got around to making the second. Click here to find the pattern but you will need to be logged into their site.

Tomorrow I am heading to a potluck at a friend's place and I decided to make cupcakes. It's been awhile since I made them, mostly because when I do bake them, I can't eat just one - I eat like five. And oddly enough, when you're trying to lose weight, eating 5 cupcakes doesn't help! I made up a batch of cookies and cream cupcakes with and vanilla bourbon buttercream frosting. They turned out pretty friggin' awesome. Can anyone say "Nom nom nom"? Oh wait, I can! Nom NOM NOOOOM!

Geeky goodness!

2011-01-23T00:04:00.007-04:00

I've seen pens covered in polymer clay in the past but never thought to try them myself until recently. I built a few space invaders polymer clay canes last week so I thought that this would be a perfect project to showcase all of the different sprites. Take a look!

I think that they turned out adorable! I loved the results so much that I decided to try a few more with some canes that I had made in the past, including one of my favourite 8-bit designs that I've done - the pink and purple Mario Bros. mushroom.

One thing I did discover is that it matters which kind of pens you use for the project. The first one I made, I used pens made with an opaque frosty outside that didn't melt or deform while in the oven. I actually attempted a few other ones that consisted of a hard white plastic which unfortunately melted and warped in the oven, making them completely unusable. I should have tested them before baking 4 pens all at the same time but I was so excited to give it a try. Lesson learned....hopefully :)

Mmmm...baked goods.

2011-01-22T23:33:00.006-04:00

There is only one thing better than baking banana bread. Eating it. Recently I cleaned out my freezer only to discover that I had a plethora of frozen bananas that I should probably try and get some use out of it. I couldn't decide if I should make banana bread, banana chip cookies or banana nut muffins so I asked my friends via facebook what they thought I should make. Banana bread was the overwhelming winner and I was more than happy to oblige!

Here's my recipe...

Banana Nut Bread

1 cup sugar
1 cup mashed banana
1/4 cup butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
walnuts (optional)

Cream together sugar and banana. When blended add butter. Add eggs, one at a time. Sift together dry ingredients and mix together with banana mixture only until all flour is mixed in. Try not to over mix it. Pour into greased pan and place into 350º pre-heated oven. If you use a mini loaf pan such I did, cook for about 25 minutes. If you use a regular loaf pan, 45-60 minutes will be needed.

I added walnuts on top, although occasionally I will mix in chocolate chips instead.

Enjoy!

Cat vs. Mouse

2011-01-02T01:21:00.000-04:00

I decided to make the cats a toy with the catnip that I had purchased last week. I found a super cute pattern for a mouse amigurumi and figured it would suit the purpose very well! I did make a few changes to the pattern though. I did both row 9 & 11 twice. Also, rather than doing two parts to the ears, which I know the pointy eared bastards would tear apart, I just needle felted some brightly coloured roving into the centres of the ears.

Cute, right? Well the cuteness didn't last for long - that is, once the boys got a hold of him!

Look at those mother-effing claws! They didn't name him Captain Claws for nothing!

Weeze seems harmless most of the time, but few realise that a killer hides inside of him!

Out with 2010, in with 2011!

2011-01-01T00:29:00.005-04:00

I keep vowing to update more often, then I'm pretty good at it for a few days or a few weeks and then I go back to forgetting to update on a consistent basis! I make no promises that this won't happen in the future, it's just how I roll.

So 2010 is over. And with a new year, you get a new start! I really do plan on looking for a new job as I currently am in hate with the one I have. The only upside to my current job is that I'm usually home by 3:30pm at the latest which gives me lots of time to myself at home which means plenty of time to craft. I also sold the most commissioned pieces this year as well! Hopefully this trend continues into the new year.

I knit my fist hat back in December as a Christmas present for my sister's boyfriend. It was the most simplest of knit hat pattern that are knit on straight needles. Cast on 84 stitches, do a 2 x 2 rib knit until the fabric is 6 inches long and then start to decrease until crown. Easy? Yes. It felt pretty good as up until then, the only thing I had knit was a couple of scarves. So I posted a picture of the knit hat and a friend asked if I could do one similar to it but with a brim. I thought, sure, why not! So I figured it out on my own.

Rib knit hat with brim

Cast on 84 sts
Row 1: (K2, P2) across
Repeat this row until the piece measures 8.5 inches from the beginning
Next Row: (K2, P2, K2 tog, P2, K2, P2 tog) across the row
Next Row: K the K sts and P the P sts
Next Row: K the K sts and P the P sts
Next Row: (K1, P2, K2 tog, P1, K2, P2 tog) across the row
Next Row: K the K sts and P the P sts
Next Row: K the K sts and P the P sts
Next Row: K1, P2 tog (K1, P1, K2 tog, P1, K1, P2 tog) to the last stitch. P1
Next Row: K the K sts and P the P sts
Next Row: K the K sts and P the P sts
Next Row: (K1, K2 tog) across
Next Row: (K2 tog) across
Next Row: (K2 tog) across

To finish the hat, cut the yarn, leaving a long tail to use as thread to sew up the seam along the back. Put the yarn on a needle and thread through the remaining loops on the knitting needle and pull shut. With the hat inside out, sew the seam up the back.

Now cut a piece of plastic in the shape of a brim. I actually had a hat in the house that had a brim about the same size of what I wanted so I just traced it. With the hat inside out, fold the bottom brim up about 2.5 inches and place plastic brim inside of fold. Using a thread and needle, sew up the edge of the hat. To sew the brim in place, I used my sewing machine to do a tight stitch along the edge of it. Tada! Completed hat.

Merlin the dragon Vs. a Chinese dragon

2010-11-18T14:04:00.008-04:00

He's made it all the way to China!

Who would win in a fight?
Who would win in a fight?

Merlin the dragon
Chinese dragon

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Seamus the Seahorse

2010-11-17T23:15:00.003-04:00

I love me some cute amigurumis and it's been awhile since I made one! So in honour of this, I made Seamus.

You can make him yourself with the pattern found here.

Hats, hats and more hats.

2010-11-17T22:39:00.004-04:00

I love making hats, I really do. They are quick and easy and there are a million different ways that you can personalise each one.

Recently my friend Kate, whom I knew back in Calgary, was in town with her kids on their move from Vancouver to London, England. The last time I had seen her, her son Sebastian was only a few weeks old and his little sister Rigby was years from being born. While they were visiting, Sebastian and I discovered that we share a love of dinosaurs and the colour pink. Any 5 year old boy that loves both is cool in my books. Rigby spent most of the time visiting, trying to find the cats, who seemed to have hidden from sight as soon as they realised tiny humans were in the house.

I decided to make both of them hats based on our short, but enjoyable visit!

First up, Seb's pink and black dino hat...

This is only the second time I've attempted to line a hat with fleece and I gotta say, this time it turned out waaaaay better than the first. The first time, the lining was just too small and didn't shape the head properly. So this one is pretty much a success in my books!

Rigby's kitty hat....

Try and find the thread that I used to sew the purple fleece into the ears, I dare you!

One problem that I've encountered making hats for children. I have no idea how big their heads actually are. When I'm making a hat for a friend, I can just try it on for myself and if it fits, I assume it'll fit theirs. Oddly enough, children's heads aren't as big as mine though, so I'm always a little unsure of the fit!

I've also completed two other hats (including my first knit hat ever!) but unfortunately I have not gotten around to taking a photo of either yet. I'll try and post a picture of at least one them in the coming days. Until then, I bid you farewell.

Hey guys, can I help? Or help make a mess?

2010-10-15T20:32:00.003-03:00

Nom

2010-10-05T19:00:00.003-03:00

Pecan rolls. *drools*

And.......GO.

2010-09-29T22:51:00.010-03:00

Alright...so I'm sorta getting back into the swing of things. I've completed a few projects that were started months ago and I've been doing a lot of baking. A lot. My baking skills continue to grow and I'm trying new techniques and recipes that I would never have bothered with before. Recently I've made a couple batches of chocolate chip cookies, a few varieties of cupcakes and even tried my hand at homemade tortillas! Both the cookies and the cupcakes turned out awesome and the tortillas were pretty good, that is the 3 of the 6 that I rolled thin enough! At least next time I know how thin to make them.

These were a French vanilla cupcake with white chocolate buttercream frosting. Yes, I did say white chocolate buttercream frosting. And yes, it was delicious if I do say so myself. And I do.

But wait....

What is that I see? Oh yes, a surprise inside too! Field berry curd! These turned out to be a winner and I saw many being inhaled when I brought them to work.

Also...delicious cookies...

I'm really in love with this recipe that I've tweeked. I've made about 3 or 4 batches of them so far and every single one has been a complete success. This time I made them with ghirardelli chocolate chips, white chocolate chunks and pecans. If these don't give you diabetes, I don't know what will.

I've been busy with the craft side of things too! I've finished two handbags that I had started six months ago. Both of them were completely crocheted but needed liners and decorations of some sort.

I love shell stitch, I really do. It works up quickly and gives a nice texture to the fabric that it creates.

Ooooh, I even tried fancy stitching!

I also got around to finishing a bag that I had finished crocheting back in May but put aside and was forgotten about. It's another Starling Bag that I've done a million times. For this particular bag, I had to hand dye it black because for some strange reason, I have never been able to find black cotton yarn in this city. Ever. I'm positive that it doesn't exist. Don't try and prove me otherwise! And I loooove the fabric for this one. I actually bought it over a year ago but was waiting to use it until I found the previously mentioned non-existent black cotton yarn.

The embroidery on the front is kind crap but I'm still learning. I wish now that I could redo it. Oh well.

A pocket!

The inspiration for the embroidery on the front.

There is also some needle felting on the front too!

And now I must go watch last night's episode of Glee and get to bed. I wish to run in the morning!

Captain Claws says Goodnight!

It's a jungle out there....

2010-08-29T20:37:00.003-03:00

My HLM asked for a handbag with zebra print lining. The only zebra print I could find was faux fur. Tacky? Yes. Does she love it? Yes. Success in my books.

And as a surprise, I made her some découpage zebra print picture frames. Score!

Welcome to my longest WIP.

2010-08-29T20:25:00.004-03:00

I started this blanket years ago. Like literally yeeears ago. It was a project that I started just shortly after learning how to crochet a few years ago. Every few months I'd pick it up and would do a bit of work on it but it was no progressing very quickly. Finally back in the Spring, I decided to sit down and finally finish it.

Tada!

The funny thing is, just after I finally finished the blanket, I decided to change the colour of my living room from blue, grey and black to brown, cream and teal. Oh well, guess I'll have to start a new blanket! It'll be completed by 2013.

Holy eff, it's been awhile.

2010-08-29T19:50:00.006-03:00

So yeah, it's been awhile eh? I've been keeping myself busy but I have admit that I haven't really done a lot of crafts in the past few months. I've done the odd project here and there but nothing substantial or even terribly interesting. I knit a few dish clothes and crocheted a couple of amigurumi pears, which I've done in the past a few times before. Fall is just around the corner though and that's usually when I bring out of my crafting guns. We shall see.

Although I haven't been crafting, I have kept myself busy this summer. I joined a dodgeball team with a league here in Halifax. We play every Monday night and it's a lot of fun. I forgot how much I enjoyed being on a sports team....and throwing balls at strangers. In July I went camping in PEI which ended my ten year streak of not being on a boat and a whooping 12 year no swimming streak. I went to my family reunion where a ridiculous amount of good food and alcohol was consumed. Got a couple of sunburns and doubled my freckle count. Took a road trip with two of my favourite friends to Montreal just to go to Ikea. Oh yes, it's been a good summer.

One thing I have been doing this summer is bake. Oh yes, I love to bake and lately I've made things that have even impressed myself. Last week I made pecan cinnamon buns. They were seriously one of the best tasting things I have ever made myself. They were that good. I have to hold back from making them everyday though.

Drool....

And if those aren't enough, today I think I made the best chocolate chips cookies that I have ever created as well. I know it sounds like I'm full of myself and my baking skills but seriously, mad skillz, I suddenly have them.

Well hopefully this gets me posting again!

Time for a change....and new shelves...and a new scarf......

2010-03-15T23:13:00.007-03:00

I'm such a neglectful blogger but it's for a good reason, I promise! Although I've been crafting, I haven't been spending much time around the computer as of late. At the beginning of the year I decided that I needed to make a change in my life and it needed to be drastic. I eat horribly and do little to no exercise whatsoever. I was lazy and I did not care. And then one day in January something clicked in my head and I decided that I was done with that. I've stopped gorging on my favourite, yet very unhealthy foods (I miss you poutine and ice cream) and decided to get up off my lazy fat ass. I eat healthy balanced meals and make smart snack choices. I walk between 5-15 kilometres a day and try to do pilates or something similar about twice a week. It's not really as hard as I expected as I don't think of this as a diet but rather a lifestyle change and apparently I have waaaaaay more willpower than I could have ever imagined. I'm not counting calories or spending hours each day in a gym. I just eat much better than I once did and try to be more active and so far it's paid off. I've lost at least 30lbs to date and I fit into the size of jeans that I wore in high school! I don't have a goal set and I'm totally okay with that. Yay!

Now back to the crafting...

Last week my Dad came to visit and brought new shelves for my bedroom that he was going to help me put up. He picked out some pretty rad silver brackets and had the wood pre-cut for me.

Good choice, Sir, good choice.

Once the brackets were hung, the fun part began. Anyone who knows me, knows that I like to have each room of my home be perfectly colour co-ordinated so it wasn't a surprise that I was going to make these shelves black, purple and silver - just like everything else in my bedroom.

I started by covering the wood with purple and silver paint and just swirled it together.

Once this was done, I covered with with a crackling medium and followed it up with a layer of black paint.

Groovy eh? I gotta say, I like how it turned out. They match purrrfectly with my bedding.

Obviously I still need to fill the shelves with stuff, but you get the picture.

Cupcake encouraged me while I worked on these. And by encouraged I mean she slept and made purr noises every now and then.

Let's see, I know I've done a few other projects recently as well. Oh yeah, I frogged the noro scarf and started a new one. I much prefer the new one as I used the smaller needles so the stitches weren't so huge.

Unfortunately as Spring has seemed to arrive in Nova Scotia already, I don't have much more time to even wear scarves without dying of heat exhaustion. But because it turned out super colourful, I don't care, I'll wear it anyway!

Time for bed. Peace out!

This is totally me!

2010-02-27T17:12:00.001-04:00

I love Cyanide & Happiness :D

Cat vs. Seal

2010-02-15T16:03:00.003-04:00

I like to give the cat toys at watch her go nuts.

Introducing Heinrich the Seal as today's entertainment!

And as always, Cupcake the Cat.

They face off.

Heinrich decides to get cocky and see how close he can get to Cupcake before she snaps.

Pretty close indeed but based on that evil eye she's giving him, she's about to show him who's the Queen of the apartment and I'm pretty sure it's not him.

The Seal is going down.

A claw to the face has got to hurt!

This isn't looking good for Heinrich.

Oh shit.

Look at the frenzy!

Cupcake wins this round!

I stabbed a seal into existance and I only bled twice!

2010-02-15T15:46:00.005-04:00

My brother has been in town for the last two weeks before he and his girlfriend move to China to teach English. We grabbed a bite to eat downtown yesterday after and while waiting for the bus, we decided to take a peak inside to get out from the cold - and I should make a point to mention that it wasn't really cold, my brother never thought to wear a jacket when he came to pick me up. In this bookstore I came across the cutest book and I had to get it -Little Felted Animals It was too adorable not to buy. Plus, I've been wanting to learn how to properly needle felt and not just needle felt appliqués. There are so many cute little projects to make in this book but I decided to go for what appeared to be the easiest - an adorable little seal.

We named him Heinrich.

I love you, front row tickets.

2010-02-03T21:45:00.006-04:00

And this is why.....