CuriousJayne

Elyse and I spend most of our time in the kitchen when we hang out, so we thought we needed matching aprons. We used a Simplicity Retro pattern (#8720) but the design is quite simple and would be easy to do patternless. The prints remind me of Nintendo, or something Japanese. For all things aprony, look at tie one on, and be sure to check out the rick-rack gallery.

These are my felted cat hair beads made from 100% cat fur, grown by my cat, Puma. To do the felting, I used a good tutorial on Crafster to help me. I first dyed the fur with kool-aid and I found full instructions on dying, including a kool-aid color key at knitty.com. I started with a lot of fur, but it was only enough for a handful of beads, so I’m back to harvesting again. It took me all last summer to get enough hair for 13 beads, so hopefully I’ll have a finished product in like a year.
Also, it was a lovely day in Tucson today, so Andrea and I went to the zoo.

My earrings were getting all tangled so I attached a piece of netting (from the bag that apples come in) over the glass on of this cheap picture frame to organize them. It works best for the hook type earrings, but you can stick studs in there too. And, since you can put a picture in it, it doubles as an actual picture frame. For the background I made a little stencil of my sister, who is super cute.