New obsession

Blue = Karis

Check this out. 

I was on the internet, as I do, when I came across these super cute amazing flowers.

OMG they're so pretty! geisha would wear them in their hair, kanzashi flowers. They are super easy to make, it's pretty much origami with fabric

Here are some of our results!

 

They're in that awkward first learning stage but I just geek at how adorable they are. I love it!

Most of this made possible by glue gun international. Helping people appear like they have skill since 1954 

And that's basically what I've been doing. I assembled a few dolls Dea crocheted and have finally finished writing up my horse pattern that's been in the works for a few weeks. I'll make a post about it sometime (maybe). And now I am going to make a dinosaur pattern! Who doesn't love a good dinosaur? 

And the Etsy shop is in the works : ) 

I've signed us up for the Beaverton high school bazaar which is on November 17 and should be amazing but now I'm being paranoid about stock. It should all work out in the end because crafting is the only thing that keeps me sane. 

See you next time!

Finally

Blue = Karis

Spring term is finally done! Thank goodness. 

It was like gogogo and then stop. And our production kind of went the same way, slow down to non existent. 

But now we are gathering our wits and trying to find a groove. It seems like as soon as term ended we both got really full schedules at work. Which isn't a bad thing if my shifts didn't start at five in the morning....

But enough jibber jabber! Cuteness I love and cuteness I shall provide. 

I had to write a speech about my house for Japanese class and thus make a power point. And of course I had to do some self promotion ; )

 I love orange cats <3

 女くま　thinks you are so cute!

  And all our ami's love the internet 

Speaking of the internet I plan to open up an etsy shop sometime this summer. It will be a consignment shop so it will include our work and some from fellow artists in the Portland area. It should be super amazing! 

This up coming weekend we have a rugby alumni game, baby cousin birthday parties and our 8 year old nephew is staying with us until September. So lets see how this goes!

がんばって！

 

Robot Randall

Fuchsia - Dea

IT'S THE FINAL COUNT DOWN!!!

Week 8 out of 11 has officially ended.
As Karis and I struggle to stay afloat amidst the whirl pool of job, school and crocheting......
The end is in sight. 

Karis drew a picture of a robot, and I made a pattern for it. 
Now don't get excited, it's a tube in various sizes, my pattern making skills are very weak. 

 This is the first take, He is awful cute isn't he? 

And of course I had to make them in bulk! So here is the whole freakn' family. The green one on the end is a little special, but we don't talk about it. We love him just the same. 

Karis made me take a picture of this bunny. She thinks he is adorable, and can't wait for him to find a wonderful loving family.
Gag me.
I don't know what rubs me the wrong way about this stupid bunny! I think it's the wild eyes, it makes me want to shoot it. 
Did I say that out loud?!
Well darn....

Yoda

Oh, hey. How you been?

I've been busier that snot. Which is saying something.

It's now officially spring term and we are in the full swing of rugby season. So that leaves little time to craft let alone just come home. Dea and I mostly go from place to place and catch naps in our cars.

It is the life we lead

But in the midst of this I am able to do a couple custom orders every now and then.

This is Yoda when he was still a WIP and I know! I forgot to take a picture of him before he went home!

He came out really good : / I gave him legs and pants and little yoda toes...

Like Dea said, our new goal for inventory is 250 and we're sitting on about 140. It's totally doable.

 We popped out 8 sushi magnets sitting and watching netflix for 2 hours. We're a perfect team.

I have done art!

blue = Karis

 Say hello to Charizard! Isn't he great? Adorable? 

It was my boyfriends sisters birthday and she knows that I crochet and so she asked me for a Charizard. I didn't really give her an answer because I was so busy with school and I'd have to buy the right color yarn, felt, and make 10 billion pieces and sew them all together.

But then my boyfriend asked. And then bought me storage drawers to put my yarn in. 

So here he is! I used Shelly Hedko's amazing pattern. 

I improvised on a couple parts (toe nails) and just felted the flame on his tail, which was actually super fun. 

And my mom is just smitten with him! She usually says "Oh, that's cute" but she just geeked over Charizard :3

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Charizard mugshot

Hello Morgan and her co-workers!

Purple - Dea

Have I mentioned my wonderful cousin Morgan? She is super tall stick thin and goes a mile a minute, but it adds to her wonderful charm. <3

She has been telling her friends about her amazing baby cousins and their wonderful creations. She has passed the word on of our blog and they all said that we do not have enough pictures of our inventory, so here it is.
Pictures of our severely dwindled inventory 

Oh wow, is that it?

We need to get on that whole crocheting thing. 
Arthritis here we come!!!

Alphabets

Purple - is Dea

I still exist, amazing right? I yearn to rebel against the system yet can not break out of the box society has laid for me. I plan to graduate college than stick it to the man by letting my educated mind go to waste. (Movie Reference!!)

But seriously though. 

While crocheting holds a deep part in both Karis and I's hearts she is quickly falling in love with knitting while I am falling deep in love with my sewing machine. 

I only have a sewing machine because for christmas when I was 14 I asked for a stereo and got a sewing machine instead. Needless to say good old Betsie has laid dormant for many a moon.   

After making an adorable blanket for my god daughter, (No pictures. INTENSE sad face.) I came across the idea on the interwebs to sew alphabet letters with magnets in the middle. After a trip to the fabric store 

TADA!!

 

 Indeed they are a little jankidy but for test drive 1 they came out hella freakn cute. In the near future I'm probably going to make cardboard templates for the letters so they are uniform and don't look super super weird like my free hands do.

I bought fabric for these and even though it was cheap (thank goodness for sales and coupons) I think I'm going to go to second hand stores and up cycle whatever I can get my hands on. To be true to my hippie state and increase my profits. *thumbs up*

I want to sell them as entire sets and individually, for names and such. 

All in all they are ADORABLE, and they were super fun to make. I can't wait to find a sale for more magnets so I can get this show on the road.