New Toy

Dave gave me a little digital camera for Christmas. I believe it was fairly inexpensive so not the greatest quality of pictures can be taken. But do not let that fool you into thinking I don't like the results. The finished picture looks like the cross between an old polaroid and a watercolor painting. Plus the viewfinder is kind of askew so you are never sure of what yo are going to get. Above are some of the pictures taken at Christmas.

Shhhh...

Oh thank god. My nephew has finally fallen asleep for his nap. That doesn't always happen when I babysit and I feel bad when he hasn't taken his nap. I hear he gets into everything when he hasn't taken a nap for the day. Whew.
Had a great time in St. Charles with Cams from Seattle and her friend Amy. We really dilly dallied and only had time for lunch and one store. We ate at the winery where I had an okay sandwich and a good glass of wine. Then we hit Rock, Paper, Scissors where everything was 30% off! Yay! Spent almost all of my Christmas money on pretty paper and fun paper punches. That night we went to Pho Grand for dinner. Holy cow it is so good. They have the best spring rolls I have ever had.
For New Years, Dave, Jana, Kris and I went to Cafe Rebekah's for dinner. Deserae of Flower's of Araby was performing there so we went for dinner. Kris and I had yummy beef kabobs and Jana and Dave had gyros. Yum. Needless to say, I have spent a lot of money this past weekend on eating out. At least it has all been good food.
Happy New Year everybody!

Rockstar

Dave and I were at Borders tonight. I was looking at the calendars when Dave came running up to me really excited. He had just seen a girl carrying one of my purses! How exciting! It was the Teela one that was sold at the Rock and Roll Craft Show.
Tomorrow my friend is in town and we are going to Rock, Paper, Scissors in St. Charles. www.rockpaperscissorsblog.blogspot.com I cannot wait. I have Christmas money and plan on stocking up on some cool papers. I hopr to run into Denise there, as well. http://firstbornstudio.blogspot.com/ She is always super sweet and so supportive at shows. Go check out her great blogs about the Rock and Roll Craft Show.

That camera is taking my soul

My nephew is a funny little guy. You pull a camera on him and he just looks grimly into the camera. After you snap the shot, he is smiling and having a good time. I don't think he dislikes having his picture taken he eagerly poses for the camera. But he just stares blankly into the lens. Prime example above, first picture is his pose, the second is what he looks like after the picture is taken.

Rock n roll Craft Show

The Rock n Roll Craft Show was the past weekend and, boy-o-boy, was it a good time. First off, it was at The Mad Art Gallery http://www.madart.com/, which was way cool. Crafters and artists had their work set up department store style and there was a lot of great goods to choose from. On Saturday night, I worked a two hour shift at teh jewelry booth, which was a huge mistake. I wanted to buy a little of everything! But I ended up buying for myself a really pretty collage necklace by La La Lori. It is really pretty. I don't have my digital camera so you are goign to just have to take my word for it. I also finally bought a couple of prints from Cate Anevski http://cateanevski.com/ I have been eyeballing her work for a while and now I have some for my own! Other things I bought are for presents so I can't mention them here. I ran into Denise of First Born Studios She is so nice and I am always amazed by her beautiful work. Her mixed media collages are awesome. While I was working, the band Gentlemen Auction House performed and a sock monkey walked around. I found out later the sock monkey is actually Matt Kindt, the Super Spy artist. http://mattkindt.blogspot.com/ It was exciting to realize he was there, let alone dressed like a huge sock monkey. I get star struck for local artist "celebrities." He had an awesome display set up in one the old jail cell, Mad Art Gallery is an old police station. It was tons of fun and I sold tons of stuff and I spent lots of money, so it was a good weekend. I can't wait until the next one. The next show I will (hopefully) be in is the St. Louis Craft Mafia show, Indie Valentine on Feb 2nd. See you there!

New Necklaces

I have had these fabric pendants made for a while. They have just been sitting around because I just thought they needed something else. Well, I was at the craft store today and found a super cute owl charm and thought, "Aha! That's what it needs!" So I bought a couple of charms and added them to the pendants. I think they came out pretty cute. And I am glad to finally have them finished.

My new favorite shop on Etsy

I bought the cutest cards from http://www.aspenbleu.etsy.com/. And the packaging was even cuter than the cards. I didn't want to open up the different packages of cards. They were too adorable. So I took pictures of them before I opened them. So please check out this shop, it is too cute to keep to myself.