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Hi there. Sorry about leaving that same post there for so long. I’ve been busy around here working on a deadline or two and getting ready for the Renegade Craft Fair this weekend. If you are in or near Chicago please come down to the Pulaski Fieldhouse and say hello or shout a GO TEAM! as you pass our table.

So it’s gotten cold here in these parts. REALLY FREAKIN’ COLD. This has made me drag out some of my very favorite things. And i will share a few of them with you.

The first is a fabric tissue holder. Yes this is one of my favorite things. why you ask? well when you take out your travel sized tissues and you put them in one of these it keeps them so nice. Usualy when you pull them out of your purse,bag, coat pocket they are all mangled and awful looking. When i use one of these i am not embarassed to offer a stranger a tissue. Well i spied a pretty one Caitlyn made awhile back and I snagged it for a friend for xmas. I can’t show it, but i can show you the gorgeous one she sent along with it! It will be put to good use in another bag of mine and it’s SO pretty i want to offer every stranger a tissue. Please note her beautifuly designed business card! Thanks Caitlyn! Her sewing is really nice and you should check out her etsy shop now.

the second is a scarf. Once a long while ago I told y’all about the “ugly sweater (TM)”. The ugly sweater was a lovley shade of baby-shit-yellow and was partly mohair. Remember that green mohair cardigan Curt Cobain wore? Yes this was just like it, except in an ooogly yellow. I bought that sweater at some AIDS charity and i wore it til it literally fell apart. My mother HATED this sweater. My friends i think did too. Anyways one day a year or so ago i receive a package from my old college friend Kelly. She made me this scarf. The yarn immediatley reminded her of the ugly sweater and she was complelled to make this for me. And of course i love it. I just dragged it out of the cold weather bin. Behold the ugly scarf!

I am a tea drinker. Correction, i drink tea like a coffee drinker drinks coffee. I drink alot. I only drink Black teas. But i really really enjoy black teas. I couldn’t take a picture of my other favorite thing the ingenutea infuser Deb gifted to me this spring in the tea swap, because it is so stained from use it didn’t look very pretty. So instead i shall show you an awesome place to GET some tea to put in your awesome ingenutea infuser. Tea Gschwendner is located on the Gold Coast in Chicago and also online. They have such great loose leaf tea. They take the big silver bin out and open it, scoop and let you sniff any tea. It’s like shopping for yarn, so fun! anyways check them out and get some too!

So there’s some of Jen’s favorite things! Now i will share with you some piles. There’s piles around here. This pile is heading to California, for a friend to give away to her customer’s in a local yarn shop!

and this pile is sitting there mocking me to cut it and sew it into varuous things for this weekend.

I will be back after the weekend to share some pictures of Renegade with you. Also please note we’ll be closing the shop from Dec 8th-11th. We ARE done with our custom orders and we’re talking requests, within reason. If there’s somethingyou’d like, feel free to email us, we love email..i swear.

Posted by Jennifer on 12/05 at 04:11 PM ♥ Comments (5)