them peepers

My Brainworm order - aka my reward for writing and then biting the bullet and editing my horrors - arrived today! I busted out the gluesticks, put on a bunch of songs from the Glee soundtrack, and got to work. Beatrix's chips are all changed out now. It's really hard for my camera to pick up the muted colors of some of them with Beatrix's wildly bright hair overtaking all, but she has moss...

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felt love

The other day I bought a pack of pastel felt squares and also a pack of brown felt squares from ilovefelt88 on Etsy. I just cannot find a nice variety of colors in my local craft stores - only the Crayola-bright shades. My felt storage drawers are out of control already (I use felt so often in applique!) so I can tell I'm going to have to rearrange some stuff to make room for these loveli...

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many cushions, a few pins

Having a little bit of a pincushion mania... I always have loads of bottlecaps so I can make up little bottlecap pincushions when the mood takes me. And Aimee Ray posted a tutorial on how to make the cute little mushroom pincushions I love so much, so I gave it a go! I daresay blue is my least favorite color and that also this may be quite bigger than Aimee's, but I had the circles pre-cut...

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well pin a rose on your nose

Made this bottlecap pincushion this morning. I love to make these - I get so much use out of them and they're the perfect size to keep in my floss case - but it had been a while since I made my last one! That pink mushroom pincushion just got me in the mood for pink. Then again, it doesn't take much to do that! I'm making a dusty rose-pink pixie hat right now... and all of my Blythe girls are...

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Found your drilling equipment the other day.

OMG, do want this mushroom pincushion by Aimee Ray! *o*Blythe clothes keep coming to me in the mail! Maybe I acquired too much these past couple of weeks?? I'll post pictures when everything's come in!I've been feeling somewhat immoble these past couple of days, so here's a list of stuff I've been watching:True Blood Rewatched much of S1, and every episode with Alcide in it like three times. ALCIDE....

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golden slippers

The girls and I have matching gold shoes n...

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strawberry fields forever

Yaaaay Blythe mail roundup! Got this pink Moxie blouse for Aury. She's been wearing it as a dress though. Gurl can do dat. I got a white knit cardigan with daisy buttons on it and Beatrix is wearing it right now. (She also attended a concert wearing it.) It's so cute! I got this dress in the mail today and paired it with some brown capris I got a few days ago from the same person...

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Brackets Miss brackets.

I ordered some eyechips from Brainworm this morning. I've been meaning to get more for a long time. They're a reward for doing something this week I haven't done in a long time...WRITE.For some reason, I wrote my brains out last year, like at least 100,000 words total (for me, that is a lot, but for Stephen King it is probably nuthin'), and then when I geared down and stopped, I really, really stopped!...

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Saturday shoe scores

On Saturday I saw ballet flats for $7 at Wal-Mart. SO I GOT THREE PAIRS! YES YES YES YES YES YES!! Guess who also gets cute shoes: MAH GURL...

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ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb (or "changes" works too)

The seamstress previously known as Calico has left, traveling arduously across many lands and distant seas to Freya of NaughtyPixie! You and I can keep up with her here on Freya's flickr. Bless the internet :D

I'm so happy that TG found a home and that I get to see what wonderful clothes she and Freya make together. I am a little sad -- how strange it was to see her missing from her spot with the rest of my girls! -- because I actually love TG a lot, but I somehow felt like she was not to be played with and I never found a style that seemed right for her. When I put her up for sale on PP I thought, "If no one buys her, then I know she's meant to stay." But then Freya messaged me and I was thrilled. So I think it worked out for the absolute best and that she's now where she was supposed to be all along! It was fun to have her in my little family for a spell though. All my best, lovely girl.

I have a post on the phenomenon of "bonding" with Blythes that I'm still working on. I have thought about it a lot in the past few months.

But bless Freya, I love her natural-feeling dresses! I bought this one for Plummery on the same day I sent TG to her. One day I will buy one for Aury, then all three of my girls will have NaughtyPixie parties.

Right now Aury is hanging out in her stock hat and DLG's stock dress with the apron-thingie I made by hand. It still needs snaps on the back. The real part that is tickling me, though, are the little striped socks she's got on. Note to self: GET MORE CUTE STRIPED SOCKS!

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