New Cards

I got new "Mini" cards today. I love them. I stumbled onto this website and found how EASY it was to design my own cards by bringing my photos from my Flickr account. It seriously took 5 minutes! You get 100 in a cute little box, and you can pick as many photos as you want- you could have 100 different cards in 1 box if you want. They are great quality too. Seriously so awesome. I am already looking forward to getting more.....for my next online store. That's right. I have another project in the works. Coming soon to Etsy and Artfire :) In the meantime, I have a huge update to Truly Outrageous I am doing within the next few days. Sorry it's been awhile since I wrote but I had sorta a rough week.

NEW hand painted safety eyes

PLAID! you can purchase them only on my artfire shop. I don't know if I really want to part with them..oh well- I can make more!

Sick Sick Sick

I was sick last week, and so was my daughter and the little guy :( We all got some stomach virus, it was so gross! anyway it made me late on some orders since I couldn't get out of bed let alone drag my puking kids to the post office. I couldn't even go on the computer. anyway I just saw on the news last night that the health officials actually shut down a local school because over 100 students were out from school with the stomach intestinal virus thing too! So it is going around our area and they said they are trying to figure out what it is....scary isn't it? I always try to figure out where I get sick from but I went to 3 different places so I could have gotton sick from any of those...including the dentist, grocery store and post office....I am thinking it's from the grocery store because it is kinda dirty and we used the bathrooms there that were really gross...:( Thank goodness we are all better now and feeling normal. Being sick sucks. Anyway here are some things that were ordered this week from my ETSY shop which kind of display the way I felt..

FREE AMIGURUMI CROCHET PATTERNS!

Here is a pattern for my Piggy and Kitty....Have fun!

MATERIALS:
Size F/5 crochet hook
12mm safety eyes
Stuffing to fill
Needle for nose and sewing together
I used "Red Heart" super saver yarn
-Black
-Gray
-light pink
-Dark pink (for bottom of piggy's feet)

Abbreviations:
Sc-Single Crochet
tog- crochet 2 stitches together (decrease)
Ch- Chain
Hdc- Half double crochet


BODY: Same pattern for both animals
Start with Gray for Kitty, or pink for piggy)
Round 1~ Chain 2, in 2nd stitch from hook, Sc 6 into it to make a circle.
Round 2~ Sc 2 into each (12)
Round 3~ Sc 1, Sc 2 into next. Repeat around (18)
Round 4~ Sc 2, Sc 2 into next. Repeat around (24)
Round 5~ Sc 3, Sc 2 into next. Repeat around (30)
Round 6~ Sc around (30)
Round 7~ (change color to black for kitty)
Sc 4, Sc 2 into next. Repeat around (36)
(Attach eyes now and do nose detail on kitty)
Round 8 through 18~ Sc around
Round 19~ Sc 4, Sc 2 tog. Repeat around (30)
Round 20~ Sc 3, Sc 2 tog. Repeat around (24)
Round 21~ Sc 2, Sc 2 tog. Repeat around (18)
Round 22~ Sc 1, Sc 2 tog. Repeat around (12)
Continue to to Sc 2 tog until closed- making sure to stuff before its closed :)
weave in ends.

LEGS: (make 4)
Start with black for kitty, dark pink for piggy.
Round 1~ Chain 2, in 2nd stitch from hook, Sc 7 into it to make a circle.
Round 2~ Sc around
(change color to light pink for piggy)
Rounds 3 and 4~ Sc around
leave tail for sewing onto body

Kitty ears
Round 1~ Chain 2, in 2nd stitch from hook, Sc 6 into it to make a circle.
Round 2~ Sc around
Round 3~ Sc 1, Sc 2 in next. Repeat around
Round 4~ Sc around

Flower for kitty's eye
Round 1~ Chain 2, in 2nd stitch from hook, Sc 6 into it to make a circle.
Round 2~ Chain 3, Sc into next stitch, repeat around 4 more times

Kitty Tail
Round 1~ Chain 2, in 2nd stitch from hook, Sc 5 into it to make a circle.
Sc around for 7 rounds. finish off, leave tail and sew onto body. do not stuff.

Piggy Ears
Round 1~ Chain 2, in 2nd stitch from hook, Sc 6 into it to make a circle.
Round 2~ Sc 2 into each (12)
finish off, fold in half and sew to head.

Piggy nose
Round 1~ Chain 2, in 2nd stitch from hook, Sc 6 into it to make a circle.
Round 2~ Sc 2 into each (12)
*in back loops only Sc around
leave tail for sewing to head. Embroider nose detail and stuff before sewing to head.

Piggy Tail
Chain 10, turn, Hdc gooing back up the row and finish off leaving a tail to sew to body.

ETSY Treasury

yeah for my pink camo amigurumi octopus!

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who helped me out at the Shop,Rock, and Roll craft fair. And thank you to everyone who bought stuff, or traded with me :) I am very thankful for making a profit because to tell you the truth, it was pretty empty. It was fun all in all. anyway I want to take this time to share with you a picture of my plush bear I am going to "drop" in philly this weekend. I joined "the Toy Society" for christmas, for more info- look at their site...
http://thetoysociety.blogspot.com
So if you see him hanging from a fence by the playground...take him home, he's all yours :)

CONTEST ~ WIN A CUTE AMIGURUMI OWL!

HI Everybody :)
SO I am doing my first blog contest. I am trying to think of ways to increase sales and promote my site but also I want to give something away for FREE because I will soon be welcoming a baby boy into our family. My due date is only a few days away and I am getting anxious.
SO if you would like to enter the contest- all you have to do is comment on this posting, I will then pull a name out of hat. Make sure you leave your email address so I can contact you.
ALSO who ever wins will get a custom made owl. You get to pick the colors and everything.
also- I want to limit it to people living in usa and canada only..sorry.
Thank you for looking at my little blog, and I hope everyone has a great time being crafty in their lives :)
contest will be over 10-10-08 to coincide with the sale I am having on my ETSY.com store

New Safety eyes and milestones

I have added a whole bunch new plastic safety eyes for your amigurumi, or dolls, bears, knitted animals etc. I am really excited about all the eyes I have in stock now. :) anyway I know I haven't written in awhile...I don't think anyone reads this anyway, but I figured I would write since we have such a big month coming up... September. First it is my husbands birthday- which anyone who knows him, knows that its like a celebration for him for the whole month.. except no one cares but him... haha, and me of course.

Also- It is the month when we moved into together- 10 YEARS AGO! I can't believe it. I was graduating from college and my lease was up, and even though we were only dating for a few months, he let me move into his studio apartment.

This September I will be giving birth to our son ( as long as he doesn't come early).

This month is also the 1 year anniversary of my husband and his partner starting their own company!

Also in October marks 10 YEARS OF QUITTING SMOKING! thanks to my husband for telling me that I looked like a hooker when I had a cigerette hanging out of my mouth..gross, why did I ever smoke. well it did get me through alot of all nighters in college during finals.

So with so many milestones..it's hard to not to be happy :)


Thank you Thank you Thank you. I am truly grateful for everything I have.

My new Zombie bear

new amigurumi

Here some new little guys. A bunny, a kitty, and a puppy modeled after my crazy little jack russell, Vegas.
There is Vegas in the picture up top, with Mike Barone on his B-day and Regan :)

What a cute Zombie

Here is the little zombie I made. I love him! He is from a pattern I bought off of www.needlenoodles.etsy.com The pattern is from a series of patterns called "the undead" They are the cutest little things EVER. I have only been doing this for like 2 months. HA don't listen to me. I am still gonna make all the little guys anyway, they are the CUTEST!! And the patterns have great detailed pictures to follow.