Flirty Aprons review + GIVEAWAY at Jabbering Jessi

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Jabbering jessi: Flirty Aprons Review & Giveaway

Jabbering Jessi is running a review + giveaway of a Flirty Aprons apron on her blog. Winner gets to choose their favorite! Open to US and Canada
Ends Oct 17, 2009 @ 11:59 pm est

Nobody Puts Swayze In The Corner

Patrick Wayne Swayze 1952 - 2009

Today Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer, eighteen months after his diagnosis. He is survived by his wife of over 30 years, Lisa.

Here is the infamous Swayze/Farley Chippendales tryout skit from SNL. It still makes me laugh.

A Stitch in Time

I picked up a "new" craft last week: embroidery.
I am in love!
Embroidery combines my 2 loves of drawing and sewing. I don't know why I didn't start before!
I haven't worked any commercial patterns yet. I have been hand-sketching my own patterns based on images found on Google (my printer is dead). This is fun for me, not only because I get to practice my drawing skills, but because all of my finished embroidered pieces are one-of-a-kinds.
I have finished 4 pieces so far - 2 semi-nudes and 2 portraits.
The comments I have received on Craftster and Flickr are very encouraging. The response to the Einstein piece was unexpected and crazy. Big hugs to my fellow crafty friend AlwaysInspired who has been an awesome cheerleader in my return to crafting (and for sending me some black floss since there are NO local retailers who sell it!).

Here are photos of my finished pieces.

My first piece:


My second:


The infamous Einstein. His hair is stitched in some super-soft eyelash yarn for the crazy look.


And of course, George Carlin. I have much love for the late Carlin. This piece was made for AlwaysInspired's hubby. She plans to mat and frame it with tickets from a Carlin show they were lucky enough to attend.

Gnorm and the Giant Shroom

A giant happy yellow mushroom popped up this morning.

Gnorm and I decided to go check it out before one of the chipmunks spotted it for breakfast.



You can see how excited Gnorm was at this find.


Unfortunately I was not able to be in any of the photographs. I never let Gnorm handle my camera. He is not a good photographer.

Doll Artist Feature: Mimi Kirchner

Mimi Kirchner is a fabulous doll artist. I fell in love with her unique style the first time I saw her tattooed man on Flickr. She has expanded her line to include girls with elaborate outfits, gorgeous pillow dolls, and the loveliest teacup pincushion worlds.
You can find her original dolls for sale in her Etsy shop, mck254


If you are a doll artist and would like to be featured, leave a comment or send me an email.