Camo Baby Rattles

Okay, so I am trying to come up with new ideas for my Market Day table. And so my cutesy Camo Baby baby rattles were born. The design is an original by me and I used bdu fabrics from Air Force uniforms for the front and a super soft neutral fleece polka dots for the back. I also added a jingle ball so it makes noise to stimulate baby!

Onto the cuteness!!!

And a super sweet pink ninja bunny, just cause!

Huge Response to The Office Quilt

So, I posted my Office Quilt on craftster.org and the response was HUGE! Everyone loved it! YAY! I still have the stencils and hope they are still useable. I had made one zipper pouch with dwight on it from a leftover block from the quilt and am now thinking maybe I should do more to put in my etsy shop. I think it would be a super cool idea and it would spread the office love! Ha ha ha!!

On another note, the stinky BX still hasn't gotten Season 4 of The Offcie in yet even though it came out a week or 2 ago! Talk about making me suffer!!!! I NEED IT!!!!!! Hee hee hee

Well, off to work on more crafty stuff, I should be posting pics of some bunnies I made from a pattern someone posted on craftster.org of these super cute bunnies. Hubby & I call them chicken bunnies, cause their buns & thighs look like chickens!!

Keep checking back for more updates and hopefully after Market Day Sept 27th, I will have more things added to my etsy shop!

Baby Quilts

I haven't made a quilt in a long time, like almost 2 years in fact. I have been working on smaller projects and I don't have alot of room to set up my ironing board in this house. But I was asked by a friend to make 2 baby quilts for people she worked with. I think they turned out rather well.

Obviously the blue one took forever with all the small squares, but I love it. And the pooh quilt has some really cute subtle embroidery on the border.

Keyfob Madness

Between all my special orders, I am TRYING to make things to fill my table for the upcoming Market Day. There seemed to be some interest in my keyfobs last time, but I only had 2 made for last month. So I spent all my free time yesterday ironing and measuring and voila. Here are my 14 keyfobs.

Beaverific Birthday Present

So my sis got her package so now I can post the super cool beaver pouch I made for her. Now, let me just say I got the idea from something I saw on etsy, but it was a robot beaver and I wanted more of a kawaii beaver. So I drew this little guy out and set to work. The (stupid) vinyl was the flimsy kind and of course kept sticking to my sewing machine, aaarrrgghhh!

Anyhooo, it turned out awesome and although I think it completely looks like I made it, I just got an email from my sis asking where I bought it!! Obviously, that made me feel great! :)

So here is the glorious beaverific pouch of beaverdom!!!

An Okinawan Specialty

Okinawa has many many Mexican restaurants. I am guessing that is how one of my favorite local dishes came about. When you first hear "taco rice" you may think "Eeewww" what is that....

Let me tell you, it is simply DELICIOUS! A dish not many have heard of, but most who have LOVE it! So I will share my version of the Okinawan treat known as Taco Rice.

Most restaurants here serve it with a ground beef taco seasoned meat, but I don't care for beef all that much so I use chicken.

You will need cooked white (or brown) rice.

Lettuce shredded or chopped up.

1 packet taco seasoning

Cheddar or Mexican cheese.(I prefer the Mexican blend from Sargento)

ground beef or in this case a few chicken breasts.

I have a rice cooker, so I start that 1st. If you don't have one just make plain rice as per the directions on the package.

Then I cut up the chicken breasts and brown it in a pan with salt and pepper.

This next step is optional, but my family prefers it this way, I take either a chopper or a masher and grind up the chicken. It is then almost the consistency or ground meat. Add the taco seasoning and water as directed.

Now all you have to do is dish out rice into each bowl.

Add the taco meat.

Top with cheese.

Add lettuce.

Voila, TACO RICE!!!

Productivity

Yummy Japanese Baked Goodies!

Yummy & Cute

Statue on the drive up to Okuma

I feel like I work 3 jobs sometimes. All of you moms out there know what I mean. I am a stay at home/work at home mom.

I spend all day tending to the kids/family's needs, from roughly 7 am until 8pm. Then my"other" job begins. Starting then you can find me on the couch or at my sewing table, crocheting, sewing, planning, drawing, etc. So from about 8pm -12 midnight or later I "work" my 2nd or 3rd job whatever it is. Then off to bed , to restart another hectic day on a few hours of sleep.

Trust me, I vent so I don't lose my sanity, I wouldn't trade what I have and the blesssings of staying home with the kids for anything, sometimes I just need more time for "me" to do my thing. It is totally worth it for me to lose a couple of hours of sleep to do what I love. Art is in my blood, I was born with this NEED to create and so I do.

I will be posting pics of what I made for my sis for her b'day soon, I mailed her package out a few days ago, so as soon as I hear that she got it, you will all see the wonders that I have created for my sis! :) BTW it involves beavers, yeah the animal....what were you thinking? Sicko! Ha ha ha!!!

And few pics of some things I have made this past year...

Star Wars Ninja Bunny

Ninja Peekaboo Bunny

Snake Bunny

(he is presently for sale in my etsy shop)

Cutest Shoes Ever!!!

So, we had an "incident" the other day in which some two year old, who shall remain nameless, "soiled" her shoes and they had to be thrown away. So of course we had to go shoe shopping. Now normally back home in the US, we could go to Payless or somewhere with a decent selection of reasonably priced tennis shoes. Not so when you live on a military base in Okinawa. You have the BX/PX and that is it. And the selection of toddler girls shoes is just plain SAD! Not to mention pricey. So we went off base for the shoe shopping.

Usually I can find her a cute pair at the "bunny store" by Araha beach. This time however there were many boy styles and few girly ones in her size. Although I did score HUGE on clothes! They are clearing out all of their summer clothes, even though it is still steamy here, and I got 2 dresses, 5 shirts and 2 pants for about $30. Woohoo!!!

So off to the Birthday store. May I just say I LOVE the Birthday store. Not only did I find her 2 of the cutest embroidered pairs of jeans for 500 Yen a piece (roughly $5 each), but we found the SHOES!!!!

There is no way to express how much I love Japanese kids shoes. They are very nicely priced, in this case about $8.50, and they are adorable. These shoes that we purchased are not only adorable, but every time she takes a step they squeak! I know, you are thinking...ANNOYING!! But it really doesn't bother me, and she LOVES LOVES LOVES them. She purposely runs back and forth just to hear her shoes!! I will tell you that we did get some smiles and some strange looks when we ran errands today, most were smiles, but I could see some people cringe at the "squeak, squeak, squeak" as my little angel ran around happy as could be. Okay, here are the cutest shoes!

So much to do, so little time

So my order count has just increased by 11 items today! Which more than doubles my special order list. But no worries, no one is in a huge hurry, I was just planning on making Christmas gifts for all of the family, but that will be put on hold for a while. I swear I will start on Christmas gifts on Decemeber 26 this year! Ha ha ha!
I did manage to find time to test a pattern for djonesgirl on craftster.org.

I think this is one of the cutest ideas I have seen in a while. It is a small bear with no arms, and you crochet the bear and then you crochet numerous little outfits for it, but the arms are attached to the outfits so little girls can easily play dress up with it. And the neck of the outfit is crocheted around a ponytail holder so that it stretches to fit the bear. It is so cute and everyone I've showed it to thought it was a super cute idea!

So onto the show part of the show and tell

I believe the pattern is available on etsy.com.

Market Day

Okay, so today was Market Day at the community center and I had told my hubby I was taking the rest of the summer off from Market Day to restock and catch my breath, well....

My friend asked me to please come and just bring whatever I had so we could chat and so off to Market Day I went.

So glad I went. It appears everyone is back from summer vacation and I actually sold about half my stock and also got 6 special orders. Plus yesterday I got special orders for Christmas gifts. I am gonna be a busy busy beav!!

I am also in the process of testing a crochet pattern for someone and will display the finished product here in about a week. :)

My biggest special order was 2 baby quilts, which I am excited about because I haven't been quilting in a while.

I have to go, monkey is into my yarn cabinet! Go figure!

Newest Amigurumis

These are my three newest amis, made for my son's teacher.

Lavendar Bunny free pattern from Rhythelia.

http://www.rheatheylia.com/index.php?page=patterns&id=3

Kokeshi Doll

pattern available for purchase at

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=25747

And one of my favorites,

an amigurumi bunny girl.

Isn't she adorable!!!

How to get a new computer desk & organized craft room

Here's how to get a new desk and more storage in your craft room. Your husband decides he needs to rearrange your computer/craft room and in the process BREAKS your computer desk. So now you have no desk, he then realizes that in order to rearrange the room properly you need a cabinet to store more craft goodies!!!

So basically all you have to do is let your husband loose on your stuff and hope he breaks something! Ha ha ha

I told him I was wanting him to use some of my other things so I could get new ones!! He was slightly amused! :) Not as much as I was though!

This post is old and I forgot to post it MONTHS ago, but I thought it was kinda funny. :) True story too! LOL

* no gnomes were harmed in the posting of this post!*

The Office

So, The Office is my absolute favorite show and I found a partner to personal swap with and she loves the show too!!! So here is what I made for her....sewnikki if you are reading this ...DON'T!!! Or you will see all your goodies! Oh she also loves cats and pink & black together.

Here we go!

I hand stenciled quilt squares of Office quotes and characters. I cut all of the stencils out of contact paper and then used a sponge brush and fabric paint to transfer the images onto the quilt fabric. I used the skull/tatto fabric because that is something my partner likes and I couldn't find the fabric I wanted to use (paper clips or office related prints).

The entire quilt

Closer view of top half

Closer view of bottom half

Some of the individual squares:

And a slightly obese amigurumi of Dwight Kurt Schrute. He comes complete with short sleeved shirt, ugly tie, nerdy watch, glasses, a beet and a briefcase.

But wait, what is this in his briefcase? A sexual predator flyer, a bobblehead, a Schrute buck and his ridiculously LARGE security threat office name badge/pass!!!

Check him out!!!!

I also made her a punk pink & black kitty.

Gratuitous kitty butt!!!!AAAhhhhh!!!

And a small girly, but fierce ninja!

And that is part of what I have been working lately. I have been a busy beav!