Hello Mr. Munny

Say hello to my first Munny. Munny is a DIY vinyl toy from Kidrobot where you design your own. I crocheted around his features which makes his head and arms movable but also removable in the traditional Munny sense.


This little guy's name is Chester.




You can check out what others do with their Munnys here and here.

Go Ask Alice

If you are in Santa Barbara, CA, you should head on over to the Paul Cumes Art Gallery to check out the Go Ask Alice show.


I sent along one piece, though I was hoping to do more. I have a ginormous Jabberwocky in progress and I'll share him when I am done.

Bear Giveaway from Raggy Rat

Thought I'd give a little shout out for my friend Cat who is having a bear giveaway over on her blog.
She's super talented with thread and needle so while you are over entering the giveaway please take a peek at all her other wonderful plush!

Plush Team Holiday Sales

Other Plush Team members are doing the snazzy Etsy Holiday Sale, too!

Felicia of Fluffy Flowers is having a HUGE blowout with a BOGO event including all items in her shop!
I'll post other fun sales as I hear about them. I expect more to announce them for Friday. I am excited to see what kinds of Plush goodies I can't live without!

Holiday Sale on Etsy

Hey all! Etsy is having an official Holiday Sale this weekend going from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. I decided that I would offer the savings for the whole week!

Everything has free shipping. Squids, Octorings, and Cherry Key Chains are all Buy One Get One Half Off. Patterns are all only $2. Everything else is $2-5 off the original price. I'll even offer free shipping for all custom orders placed by Monday, November 30.


To find more things in this sale on Etsy check for free shipping and holiday sales!

The Letter U, Rocks and Class

Yup. It's been a while since I last blogged. I haven't been creating as much as I'd like in the realm of crochet and sewing, but here's what I have done in that area.

I made a gigantic U shaped monster for the Plush You show at Blue Bottle Gallery in Seattle. He's 25 inches high and I used extra thick yarn. He's super huggable!

I got another order for 9 more custom rocks in costumes and here they are: a cat, an octopus, a butterfly, 2 Perquacky cubes, a pom pom, a cowboys helmet, and a couple. They all presented a fair set of challenges and it was really fun to come up with solutions as to how they would work with the rock.





In other news, I am teaching a crochet class in Saint Paul, MN with Harding Community Education. It's a two week class, this week and next. We're making fingerless glovelets, the ones that are a pattern in my Etsy shop for only $2!

Spiderwick is over!!

Yup. That's the word from the back of the last book in the Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, the Wyrm King, the front of the Wild Rumpus and straight from the authors' mouths. I made my way over to the Wild Rumpus to share in the festivities.

If you ever get a chance to check out the Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis take it. If you live in the area and have never been, you should go. It's an amazing bookstore decorated with imagination and home to an interesting cross section of domesticated animals. Here the cats have decided to take over the front window. You can see an ear over the right shoulder of the orange one and then there is a gray one immediately to the right of the view.

Here's Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. They met while she was writing an article for a gamer magazine and he was working for Dungeons and Dragons.


The new book was inspired by the mythical rat king, which is where rat tails get entwined by "stuff" and there is a mass of rats living in that interconnected state. The Wyrm King is a dragon version of this. Pretty neat, huh?

Tony draws throughout book tours. Maybe it keeps his skills sharp. He often draws when he signs, too.


Tony drew a river troll upon request and then they had a trivia question to see who one the drawing. He did the same thing with the following goblin.

Then Tony began to make fun of Holly's cats, Mr. Fizzy and Lily. Mr. Fizzy is supposedly an angry puffy gray thing while Lily is a hairless cat who Tony says looks like a lost sock.

Tony had to draw a little something for the Wild Rumpus and he drew up the signature Thimbletack Brownie/Boggart.

In addition to an all around fun evening, the Wild Rumpus celebrated its 17th birthday. They brought out the sign from their first birthday for the occasion and had a cake to boot!


In other fun news, I am having a pattern sale in my shop! All patterns including the set are only $2!

Have a great day!