Heading to NYC!

You guys! I've been invited to be a seller at the Martha Stewart Holiday Craft Sale! I'm totally going bananas. Like literally. (Read in voice of Rachel Zoe. Have I ever transcribed my treatise on the need to invent new punctuation marks to accommodate communication in the era of modern technology? For example there should be a punctuation mark that means "read in the voice of".  One time I went a whole week where I could only think in the voice of Carmela Soprano, and then one time it was a week of Paula Deen.)

Ok, FOCUS. No time for that now! I'm going to New York! I need a punctuation mark that means "read this with such fervor that spit flies out of your mouth."

I've got so much to do. And me without my assistant! I tried to text Ms. Norwood, but she doesn't have good cell reception when she's on Harry's yacht. She picked a heck of a time to go to Biarritz.

Will you be my focus group?

What do you guys think about the color of the base? I'm not sure if I'm loving it. Be honest. Also not sure about the peppermint at the end of the string.

WWJD

Have you heard of this philosophy? It helps guide me through times of uncertainty. Today, for instance, I have so much to do and only one hour until the baby wakes up. Should I mop the kitchen? Clean the bathrooms? Do the laundry? Work on the papier mache project? The woodworking project? The new sewing pattern? So I ask myself, "What would Jackie do?"

Wear the Chanel.

Thanks, Jackie. I feel much better now.

Sleep is for quitters

Announcement: It's on.

Christmas. The holiday season is for crafters what the playoffs are for, uh, whatever sports teams have playoffs. Well, no, wait. It's like the Miss America Pageant for pageant girls, and I am putting vaseline on my teeth right now. I am not going to wake up sometime in mid-December and say, "Whoops, I didn't get anything made this year, I wasted my time relaxing with loved ones." No way! Not this year! There is no time for loved ones. There is no time for relaxing. There are Christmas crafts to be made. Break out the papier mache. It's on! I'll sleep in January. Who's with me? We'll only eat espresso and power bars. There will be no bathroom breaks. We will wear astronaut diapers (available at Michael's in the scrapbooking department).

Jon named these Famine, Pestilence, and Death because they look so awful because there's so much work to be done! Cue the montage. We need a montage song like the theme from Rocky or maybe we could get Beyonce to write us one.

Where have I been?

Look! The lovely and talented Hav emailed me a pic of her adorable Halloweeny hedgehog, and I know I'm late in posting and it's actually November now, but she's orange, which is the universal Thanksgiving color, so imagine that she is sitting on a pumpkin!

Who, oh who, will bring the madeleines and tea to the hedgehog party? Because actually I'd like a  triple latte.

My totally favorite color!

Look, you guys! A pomegranate hedgehog! This is #2 from Kandyce and I love it! Eeee!

Do you know how fun it is to see things actually made from my tutorials? Half of me is like, wow, the tutorial really worked, and the other half of me is like "Hedgehog partayyy!!!"