Craft Sabbath

January 16, 2012

I posted about Craft Sabbath in early December.
It was my first craft show.
It was fun and I met two amazing artists. (More on another post).
My mates Andrea and Jacob hung out (and knitted), Chris, Oliver and Freya explored in the library.
Later Chris brought us all lunch from Tony Caputos.
I sold enough to pay for my booth rental, library parking fees, lunch and a coffee.
It was a wash monetarily.
But I made friends and met interesting artists, making one of a kind things.
The best part of the craft show was that I traded with a bunch of people and picked up some some cool x-mas gifts.

I like working on trade.







Craft Sabbath @ the Salt Lake City Library, December 11, 2011

My friend Jacob.

It was a good day.

Green Brick

January 14, 2012

Green Brick

We took a holiday after the holidays.
We spent three days in Eureka UT, starting on the 26th.
We geocached, took long drives, and did nothing, as a family. (I knitted)!


Photo's from the long drives;

Sky.



Scenery.

I'm fascinated with the grade school in Eureka.

The brick is green and lime and tan and pinkish.

I want a home built out of this brick.

The school was built in the early 1920's.

The Art-Deco architecture adds to my fancy.

Long shadows.

The school will be torn down soon.

Nobody in Eureka knows when. I asked around.

The school is full of asbestos.

I took this photo through the window.

The chalk board, built-in -cabinets and the molding need to be salvaged.

There are also some awesome lighting fixtures but I deleted the photos. (Dumb).

I really wanted to explorer inside but that would have been 'trespassing' and Chris wouldn't let me.

He said it would be a bad example to Oliver and Freya.

Probably.

Bad Guys

January 12, 2012

I'm going to ease back into my blog.
I'm lazy with my blog, (obliviously).
I do miss documenting the things I make and the adventures my family and I take.

I've been sewing a bunch of these draw string satchels for gifts and such.
The applique pattern is called' Bad Guy' and can be found in the book Cute Stuff by Aranzi Aronzo.
They are fun and fast to make.

For Chris...

X-mas gifts.

I added an over the shoulder strap.

The Frog. A x-mas gift.

For me.

Denim and ready when I need to give a gift.

There is nothing better than having a gift ready for any occasion where you need a gift.

WIP, from an old sweater.

Oliver and Freya after Popsicles.

New (and old) tunes.

Treat yourself to M83's album Hurry Up We're Dreaming.

It's brilliant, really.

The Black Key's El Camino is easily one of the best albums of 2011.

The best of Led Zepplin remastered on Mothership is perfect.

I take long breaks from Zep and when I hear them after I long time it is like making love for the first time.

Too over the top analogy?
I think not.

Cheers!

Knit, Knit and Rabbits

Tuesday November 29, 2011

Knit, Knit and Rabbits.

I'm sure all my readers are brilliant and know what to expect from this post by its title.



I knitted myself a cowl.

I also knitted myself some amazingly long legwarmers (30").

I love them with all my heart.

I made four more rabbits on Sunday.

Anyone interested in a rabbit giveaway?

It's been a long time since I held a giveaway.

Cheers.

Four Rabbits and a Dog Joke

November 17, 2011 Thursday

Four Rabbits and a Dog Joke

I finished four rabbits for my craft show.

A three legged dog walks into a bar of armless, legless rabbits and says "I'm looking for the rabbit that shot my paw".

Cheers!

Excessive Randomness/Craft Sabbath

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Excessive Randomness/Craft Sabbath

Foremost, if I put Ricky Gervais' name in all of my blogs and blog daily telling him I'm his number one fan, will he respond?
I read his blog and know he googles himself often.

Freya is becoming an awesome reader!
I'm so, so proud of her.
We made a deal that if she read independently three times a day (20 minutes) I would post some of her photo's.
As promised, Freya's photo's.

We had an pumpkin, food, beer and knit/crochet party on the 30th of October.

My best mate Andrea and I met in July.

We are two peas in a pod.

She rocks hard.

Her awesome, funny husband Jacob is thirteen years younger than her.

That rocks too!

I wish Chris was twenty four.
But when Oliver was born Chris would have been..... never mind.

Andrea is moving back to Germany in June next year which makes me sad.

We try to spend a lot of time together and it is nice.

Europeans make for good friends.

They don't do a bunch of glittery bullshit talk.

I made Freya be a princess for Halloween.

My mom bought her an $80, yes $80 princess dress at Disneyland.

I made her wear it.

I would not buy her a different costume.

I did let her be a vampire princess for Trick or Treats with fangs and blood and black eyes.

More of Freya's photo's.

(I like the Lego man).

I cleaned out my hall closet.

I guess I buy a lot of glue.

It's much cheaper than Modge Podge, especially at the beginning of school when glue is 25 cents.

Freya reading.

Freya reading again.

Craft Sabbath

I applied for and have been accepted to participate in the Craft Sabbath art show.
These are the photo's I sent in with my application as my products to sell.

Craft Sabbath is held the first Sunday of every month at the main Salt Lake City Library.

It will be held twice in December on the 4th and the 11th.

I will be selling on the 11th.

Please come by and buy and say hi.

If you haven't been to the SLC Library it will be a real treat all around.

I'm going to tell the prices of my stuff and please tell me honestly if you would pay for what I'm asking.

Banner's: $12

Scotties: $8

Plus choice of neck bow ribbon.

Paul's: $25

Baguette Rabbits: $35

Brooches with vintage gems and jewels: $15, others $10-7.

Also sweet friends that comment on my blog, Blogspot is informing me when I try to comment on your blogs that I am not a subscriber.

I get an oliver_freya@yahoo.com is not a subscriber something or another message.

Otherwise I read and enjoy all your blogs and appreciate your comments.

If you have info on how to fix this please let me know.

P.S. I want to send a little something, something to those that commented wittily on my MJ post. If I have mailed to you before, I have your address if not please e-mail me your address to oliver_freya@yahoo.com. Every good joke deserves a around of applause or a treat in the mail.

Cheers