Inspiration.

Just found a great magazine and blog called SMALL and SMALLER.
Very cute and inspiring for all who have children in their lives.

Pink and white memories sprinkled with tears.

Today I came across this cute pattern, and because I love felt food, and mostly because it contained those cute little pink and white circus animal cookies, I bought it.



This led me to do some looking around for news of whether there might be hope for our favorite cookies. I found a forum with comments from several former employees from another state, and the prognosis didn't sound too good.

If you want something to help you remember those delicious little critters, I found this T-shirt.


It says "Lights down, little cookies". If they are not all sold out, you can find it here.

I really don't want to be eating cookies, pink and white, or any other color, but it is still very sad to see them go.

Think, thank, thunk.

Oops! Just dropped over-easy egg yolk on my keyboard. Hope the keys don't stick together. Over Easy Slipcovers was the original name of my slipcover business. It makes sense right? The cover goes over your furniture and makes it so easy to change the look and is easy to take care of. Oh well. It probably just made people think of eggs. Now I just use my name. That way I don't have to renew a fictitious business name every five years.

I want to thank Vallen for naming me as a thinking blog the other day. I do enjoy a good ponder. She said some nice things about me. (she has tendencies towards extreme niceness)

I am choosing to pass on naming 5 thinking blogs in return, because I am up to my eyeballs in holiday fabrics and pillow forms for holiday parties, studio open-houses, and the like and need to get busy. I would like to mention one blog though, that I discovered through a blog I visited, that I will figure out who it belongs to later when it is too late. It is a great and clever book review site by Yann Martel who wrote LIFE OF PI. Visiting the site led me to get a copy of LIFE OF PI and I am enjoying it. It seems, according to the author's note at the beginning of the book, that it is a true story.



Lots of silk and velvet.



Taking a little break.


I wanted to report that Colleen came over, as mentioned in my last post, and brought her talented friend (and mine), Kate and they made my living room look great. I love it. I never would have thought to arrange the furniture the way they did, and they gave me some great tips. Now I just need to make some slipcovers, etc.

early morning inspiration

The fishman got up early to go surf fishing and I woke up too. I tried to go back to sleep, but you know how that is.

I enjoyed watching Jennifer Murphy show Martha Stewart how to make this pom-pom bunny on yesterday's rerun.



I went exploring this morning and found this awesome site. It features items made by Jennifer and her mother Pat Murphy and several other amazing artists. If you like folk art, altered art, vintage jewelry, etc. you will love it too.

This is your brain..........

It was late at night when I came across this site. So I had to go back in broad daylight to make sure It wasn't a dream. I am glad that we are cautioned not to use this artwork as a guide for neurosurgery.



It IS an encouragement to explore new realms of creativity using fabric, yarn, beads and zippers, and that is a good thing.