Poppet Swap Goodies!

And the other reason for swapping.... RECEIVING!

My partner was the bestesest! She sent me The Mad Hatter!! He is so awesome! You just gotta see him:



Here is his link on Craftster...

And the swap link.

Converse All Stars for Babies

I had two friends and two baby showers in a row. I decided to crochet some booties, but regular booties just wouldn't do. My first baby shower was for a boy, and I thought regular booties were just too girly. I eventually ended up putting them on the top tier of a 3-tier diaper cake, which I forgot to take a picture of. I did the first pair in blue.


The second shower for a baby girl was the following weekend. I had the perfect pink yarn to make a second pair. I also made a matching hat because someone else was making a diaper cake.

Aloha!
~Su

PS. Thanks to Teresa for the awesome pattern/tute which you can find at her blog on crochet-mania.blogspot.com. I tell you, I'm not that good at following patterns but hers are darn good! She also has a video tute on YouTube, along with tutes for tons of other things. It's just as good as if Teresa were sitting next to you, so check it out!

Poppet #3 - Poppet In Blue

For SunflowerSmiles, my most awesome swap partner, for the Mini Poppet Swap #2.
I give you Poppet In Blue:

She is crafted from some beautiful wrinkled-looking fuzzy knit fabric that I found in my scrap fabric pile that I got for free on Craigslist. I love Craigslist. Better yet, I love FREE!!!

Her eyes are revamped: I got them from Floradec in the discount section. I sanded them (because I didn't like the original greenish-yellow color) and hand-painted them with a beautiful new color. There are actually four different colors in dots, lines and general color.

Her hair is acrylic worsted weight in blue combined with eyelash yarn. I gave her a braid, some beads and some feathers. Originally I imagined her with either a full head of feathers or a headdress, but I couldn't make it work the way I wanted it to :( so, waa.


Her outfit slowly evolved. I started with the thrift store tie for the top and the skirt was going to be made of the light blue sheer curtain material. I hand-formed some "eyes" for the back of the corset to run red ribbon thru to lace it shut in back. For the skirt, the sheer was way to sheer, so I layered it with black tulle. Many layers. For fun I added some peacock feather fringe on the top layer and stitched the top edge many times.


When I first started she was so beautiful nekkid and hairless with the giant glistening eyes, like one of those beautiful but strange hairless cats, or Sinead O'Connor. Here she is being kidnapped while I work on her outfit.


More pics:








And here is her very own post on Craftster:

Aloha!
~Su

Garden Update 2

Still a few mature leaves left on some of them, so here was the next day's bok choy dish - chicken filipino style soup, with bok choy, patis and ginger. Yum!

Now we have to wait a few weeks so the plants can mature. Also, I put in more seeds and replanted the seedlings to keep the cycle going. I need more planting containers!

Aloha,
~Su

Garden update

The bok choi survived while we were away...



so I cooked it up with some garlic, ground beef and oyster sauce... served over rice!