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colors around me

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today we went to our local orchard. where i quickly saw all of these


and then these


and then if those weren’t enough colors how about these?


and then some of this


so we made zee pose


and then we saw some animals..exactly how evil is a one horned goat?


and we fed some goats too

then i came home and worked on all of this kind of stuff but still full of color
such as orange!


and green & blue


and i found more chicken poop


and i’m making these for some xmas gifts

now it is looking like fall around here!

Posted by Jennifer on 10/30 at 11:50 PM ♥ Comments (7)

Sewing and monkeys

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Yes they go together, didn’t you know? This weekend Nat and I were going to visit some new botique in Lincoln Park and on our way we passed Armitage and saw a giant Paul Frank bus with Julius and friends on it. We decided to stop and see what was going on at the store. Good thing we went in cause it was get your picture taken with Julius day at the store!

Even nat is smiling in that picture. I got Zander some xmas gifts and we made out with free pins and stickers too. WOO!
I spent the day catching up on something I needed to get done, because they are going all the way to Norway. I am doing a swap with Hanne. For one of her elaborate pouches. I hope she doesn’t peek but i can’t contain myself so here’s some photos. Yes that is Samuel in the background i was in HER space because the light was good. I need to find some special yarn or something to add to it before it goes tot he post office tomorrow!

Posted by Jennifer on 10/24 at 10:36 PM ♥ Comments (9)

and because i am bored today….a mememememe

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stolen from miss erin over at dorks are us
Not like you can’t know enough total crap about me, here’s some more totally useless stuff to know about yours truely.

1. FIRST NAME?  Jennifer also i prefer Jennifer, only good friends get to call me Jen

2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?  No. Simply my mom who has a really pretty name, Diana, always wanted to be a Jennifer. Or so i hear.

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?  Monday night/morning at 3am when i awoke and felt like my head was in a vice then promptly threw up for 20 minutes. not fun.

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?  No not ever.

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT?  I think i have to agree with erin on this, you just can’t get better than bacon.

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes. I’m so rad i’d be BFF’s with myself

7. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL?  You are looking at it, i also have sketch books with measurments and other crap in it.

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?  yes

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?  No never, i hate un-enclosed heights

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?  hmmm peanutbutter captain crunch

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? no, altho i read this as do you UNITE your shoes when you take them off and that answer would be yes.

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?  I’m pretty wimpy but i like to think i am TUFF as NAILZ

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?  vanilla....GOOD VANILLA with the bean in it

14. SHOE SIZE?  8.5

15. RED OR PINK?  red

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?  my eyes

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?  Gramma K because I feel like i was gypped out of knowing her as an adult

18. WHAT COLOR PANTS, SHIRT AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?  jeans, purple long sleeve layer shirt, blue short sleeved shirt with weiner dog on it, plaid chucks, stripey socks

19. LAST THING YOU ATE?  Costa Rican sandwich at Irazu and mmmmm oatmeal shake.

20. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?  NPR is playing and Nat is snoring and simon is chewing on some guitar strings

21. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?  ORANGE of course!

22. FAVORITE SMELL?  cookies/cake or nathaniel he smells pretty darn good too

23. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?  Zander, but he didn’t want to talk to me he only wanted to talk to UNCLE NAT and ask him if he’d pooped today!

24. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO?  eyebrows, eyebrows, EYEBROWS

25. FAVORITE DRINK?  cold cold creme soda or a cold coke in a glass bottle

26. FAVORITE SPORT?  i used to love to watch tennis and football. i still only watch football

27. EYE COLOR?  green

28. HAT SIZE?  Tiniest of tiny, i can wear child sized hats and eyeglasses, seriously

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?  yes i just recently got them again after a year of not wearing them. Accuvue for astigmatism, best 80$ i’ve spent in a long time

30. FAVORITE FOOD?  i’m with erin 100% on this one pizza also just makes me happy. but my other favorite food is a comfort food potato soup

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?  scarey movies, and the cheesier the better like MANTIS! and ALLIGATOR!

32. SUMMER OR WINTER? i can’t stress this enough summer. i like being warm so much better than cold

33. HUGS OR KISSES?  hugs, way better

34. FAVORITE DESSERT?  cake/nat’s mom’s snicker doodles/ice cream for dinner

35. WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING?  i forget because i haven’t read in about a month i’ll have to check the book on my nightstand

36. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST NIGHT ON TV?  don’t watch tv on friday nights cause i drive to chicago every fri pm and we get pizza and beer...so it would be the thursday line up ugly betty, grey’s, and er

37. FAVORITE SOUNDS?  zander talking to me or calling my name, i’m with erin on the rainstorms too

38. ROLLING STONE OR BEATLES?  rolling stones, def

39. THE FURTHEST YOU’VE BEEN FROM HOME?  probably when we were in CA

40. WHAT’S YOUR SPECIAL TALENT? i can do many party tricks. You’d have to meet me to find out!

Posted by Jennifer on 10/21 at 04:17 PM ♥ Comments (0)

cute stuff, beagles, and other things

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I’ve been sick all week and haven’t felt well so I only have some linkage for you. But i figure you could possibly enjoy some of these things, maybe not.

Anyways....
please check out Kim at knit kharma! She actually contacted me caus eshe placed an order. She is a really prolific knitter she just started a blog and could use some readership. Please check her out she is pretty new in the bloggidty blog world. And her blog is pink the color of Dunkin Dounuts mmmm donuts.

Also newish in the blog world is Si from cutable He emailed me to tell me he featured the sewing team, but he also mentioned he has a beagle. He is a fellow hound owner! I asked immediatley for beagle pictures and Sogo is very cute indeed. So if you like cute stuff and finding cute things for gifts and stuff please check out Si. And you can always ask for pictures of his hound. Also my apology to poor Si. I had no idea you were a boy. Altho Si is a pretty name and so is Sogo!

If you live in Chicago the Paper Source Wharehouse sale that happens twice a year is happening today til 2pm. I am not sure i want to go embark on that madness again , maybe in the spring.

Ok i’ve got a stack of animals i need to cut and embroider and Nat is working away at the button machine. I promise i’ll work on having more content next week. Until then make friends with these new bloggers and help them gain some readership.

P.S. Wendy tells me she should be done serging all of the small project pouches in the pile this weekend. So get ready for a shop update on monday!!!

Posted by Jennifer on 10/21 at 10:34 AM ♥ Comments (2)

In need of some color

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Nat was sick and Adam was sick, then Zander was sick...now i am sick and wendy is sick. So this house needed some color today. Zander decorated a plate for his mom and dad and i made some Key fobs for christmas gifts. I got this idea off craftster but don’t remember or have the link since i always look when i am on nat’s connection. But if you look around there’s tutorials for these everywhere. So if you get one thrown in your xmas gifts from me please look surpised!
Concentration

Deep concentration

final result

and some color on this dreary day

Posted by Jennifer on 10/18 at 03:24 PM ♥ Comments (6)

Store Update

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We just did a store update on 7 x 6 pouches there are some new plain ones and some new animals and fabrics for you to choose from, also there’s a billion monkeys for all you monkey people. We have a whole slew of small project pouches to update for next week, they are hanging on Wendy’s serger. We will also be with several friends of p at the Self School christmas craft show on November 11, 2006 in Valpo, Indiana. Please if you are in the tri-state area and want to come down to check out some handmade goods please do. This fair is STRICT and i mean REALLY STRICT on everything being handmade.

Posted by Jennifer on 10/16 at 12:28 PM ♥ Comments (1)

a little dress up fun

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Monday we had some errands to run, going to Target was one of them. We promptly played in the halloween section.
do you like my long blond hair?

how about zander and i in wigs? do you like our long blond hair?

we bought Lucy a tutu. Yes a tutu, haven’t you ever seen a basset hound in a tutu? When you scratch her belly she stickes her back leg out like a ballerina.

and samuel is going to wear her lobster head even if she will hate us for a month afterwards

Posted by Jennifer on 10/11 at 02:25 PM ♥ Comments (8)

giving (even a little) is a good thing

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Erin, my very good friend and pattern designer of the Sweet Mary Janes, is doing a Breast Cancer Walk this weekend. She is trying to raise just 250$. She isn’t at her goal yet. Can you please go here and donate? Even a small amount (like i did) will make you feel good, AND go to a great cause! If just 4 people from here could donate 5$ she’d have another 20$ to add to her goal! 

Posted by Jennifer on 10/10 at 10:17 AM ♥ Comments (0)

a little mememememem

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ok i SWEAR i had this posted then i was doing some spring cleaning in the blog here and i think in some delusional state i dleted it somehow. So i am sure they won’t be the same but i’ll repost what i saw over at Karen’s blog

You are supposed to tell everyone (the WORLD) five weird thigns about you. The list should be bigger for me. i have hundreds, altho Nat is not very good at helping me remember all of them.

1. I cannot sleep in the same room with a blinking light. EVER. Nat says you are supposed to shut your eyes and therefore you won’t SEE IT. I beg to differ, i KNOW it’s THERE and simply can’t deal with it. This is a major problem if you own a mac or powerbook. When they sleep they have a pulsing white light.

2. I will not eat stuff my fingers have touched EXCEPT french fries

3. I am a salt-aholic. I was sadly outed about this recently when Nat bought for me a one inch button that said SALT with a shaker on it and i got all excited. I was in the prescence of Stevie and her mom in her Renegade booth at the time. I had to hang my head and say yes i eat salt. plain. i am weird i know this.

4. I do not like the corwn of my head to be touched by anyone. Even a hairdresser, which results in me fliching and freaking out. If you touch the crown of my head prepare to die.

5. Nat says stuff like i bite my nails off. That’s not very weird. He also says i see very dog everywhere. That’s not weird either. I judge movies based upon their opening titles. They have to be set in a decent typeface for me to even take the movie seriously. I also judge many things based on typefaces chosen.
I refuse to hold or touch an umbrella. I’d rather get wet than hold one. Everyone thinks it’s because you don’t want it to turn inside out, but that’s not the case. Just holding it makes me sweat and nervous. I will not ever walk on those grates you see in the sidewalk on the east coast. Nat laughed at me all last week in Philly cause i hold my breath and avoid those like the plague. I KNOW i of all people will fall thru one of them. I have many many irrational fears. Such as if you stick your finger in my belly button i am CONVINCED it will open and my innards will fly out like a can of snakes. Also this action will make me feel like i have to vomit. I have to run up open staircases, thinking a hand could grab at my ankle. I sneeze about on average 15 times. Most people sneeze once or twice and i sneeze for 5 min. It’s painful and loud and hurts. Most people ask if i am ok. My family says STOP IT. like i WANT TO SNEEZE THIS WAY. you know IF I COULD STOP IT I WOULD ALREADY! I also hiccup everyday. I am like a circus freak.

Posted by Jennifer on 10/09 at 12:02 PM ♥ Comments (4)

Yet another intresting Fall picture

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MANTIS! This little guy came to rest on our west windowsill this evening. Zander and I had a good time looking at him and photographing him. He’s pretty cool.

Posted by Jennifer on 10/06 at 05:42 PM ♥ Comments (3)

I offer you something a little DIFFERENT (visually) for fall

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First I’d like to make three little announcements. There are three very talented people out there in blogland, and making very cool stuff. So they deserve some mentioning on the blog for y’all to enjoy. First up! Please check out Nina’s New Shop! It’s very small right now, and she’s working on getting her own URL and stuff. She’s even thinking about making her POO pattern available to y’all if enough of you are intrested! Nina’s livejournal is here too. Please spend some time getting to know her, she’s really cool.

I meant to join Rebecca’s blog birthday contest. I see now that i got back from philly i’m a little late. But I want to let y’all know she did an awesome shop update and her stuff is top notch. Such as this antique apple zippered pouch. Now y’all know i make zippered pouches, but this fabric is so cute it kills me. I don’t even like pink so much. So someone out there in bloggidty-blogland should see this and snatch it up right away!! Please check out her Anniversay/Shop update and shop for some xmas gifts while you’re at it!

Third, is Stephanie from Spritley Goods. Man you guys HAVE to check out her sock yarn! I look at her sock yarn about once a week longingly. She has added something new and very cool to her shop. FELTED SOAPS! She sent me two with some business cards and these things are brilliant and unique! I know y’all have some unique friends/knitter’s out there who could use some of these as gifts for xmas! Please check out her new soaps in her shop and keep supporting handmade/DIY businesses!

Now that i gave you three wonderful people who make really wonderful handmade things. I have been seeing wonderful pictures everywhere in blogland of people enjoying fall. And showing some awesome fall things like pumpkins and leaves and stuff. I took some photos this week that are a little something different.
MUSHROOMS! These babies were growing in the front yard all week. Zander and I enjoyed looking at them each day. I took a million photos and they are quite neat. The neighbor kid stomped all over the mushrooms today and it really upset Zander. So here’s a little bit of fall for you!

Posted by Jennifer on 10/06 at 11:43 AM ♥ Comments (4)

philly 2006

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So we went to philly to attend Farm Aid with Nat’s Step-dad and brother. It was Sept 30th and it was a really good time, despite the rain, freezing temps, and the smell of feet (thanks Camden). I really enjoyed Sheryl Lynn. John Mellencamp ("the coug” to us Hoosiers) put on an awesome show, dave matthews was WITHOUT his jammy jam band so he was tolerable and Neil Young put on quite the show. Arlo Gunthrie was sick and out that show and we left at 10ish because we were damp and frozen and had been there for 7 hrs and missed Willie Nelson.

Nat’s parents have a really nice porch with rocking chairs, good for knitting.

We visited Nat’s ADORABLE Grandmother. Can you believe this woman is in her 90’s? SHe doesn’t look a day over 60. ( i insist on knowing what skin cream she’s using and i just leanred she is a meat & potatos kind of gal, perhaps it is something in the water) (NOTE: nat is ACTUALLY smiling in this picture)

Philly has some nice typography:

Nat and I on South Street Oct 1, 2006

Philly has some intresting architecture

Unlike Chicago, Philly has a Garment District:


And no sales tax on yarn!




Look Nat looking not so miserable in the yarn shop




I also shot a nice picture of him with out him seeing:

I also got my fill of cheesesteak, soft pretzels, and deli sandwiches while out east. mmmmm east coast food. Also GO BEARS! Sorry for the long photo post, I think by now you know i am a visual kind of gal and i also keep them low res enough it should still be ok.

I’m trying to knit and i am crocheting two secret projects, make that three. But I will be busy on the 1960’s Singer again very soon. The Self School Craif Fair is coming up really soon. I hope you like the new banners up above, if you have any issues in your browser try REFRESH it usually works. I’ve also deleted the Perfect Pie Blog. That whole incident with the mohair and then my reduex with a cotton/tencel blend was just bad karma. The whole thing never turned out in my favor. Animal was put to rest awhile back, straight to the trash can because you cannot rip out 20 rows of mohair. I joined Socktoberfest and will spend some time STARING at some sock yarn longingly this week because i will be on the sewing machine. Maybe i’ll feel my sock needles for fun too. More tomorrow.

Posted by Jennifer on 10/04 at 11:06 PM ♥ Comments (5)