CuriousJayne

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.

Here are a few photos from our Oscar party, which was quite fun despite having to watch the Oscars for 4 hours. This was our Oscar, who was actually beach Barbie Steven, stripped of his sunglasses and swim trunks.
Jesse and Katherine on the Red Carpet:

The food, prepared by Elyse and I:

The winners, Jordan and Kevin, plus Lydian, who was actually the loser, but we gave him Steven, just for kicks.

Check out the rest of the photos here.

We hosted Jen’s going away party last night, so I made a pineapple upside down cake. I got the recipe from Amy Sedaris’ lovely book about entertaining, which is highly recommended. I also made salsa, donuts and cheeseballs. I made a lot of cheeseball so that I could reshape the leftovers into a new ball for another party (as per Amy’s advice), but there wasn’t any left.

I knew the party was a success when this happened:

I’ll miss you, Jen!

 I want to congratulate Jonny Pulley, one of my best friends ever, for being accepted into the Sundance Film Festival for his short film ”Move Me“. To celebrate this wonderful news, I present you with a rare and terribly low quality clip of Mr. Sundance performing “Jumper” at Glitterfish’s International Symposium Dinner Talent Show Soiree that was held last spring (before he got famous). Enjoy.

Also, congratulations to Jason Kelley (DP) and Miguel Jimenez (producer). And thank you to Elyse for providing this wonderful video.

Last night I went to Hank and Heather’s holiday extravaganza complete with a white elephant gift exchange and fire pit. The highlights of the night were Jason stealing back his own gift (a Burt Reynolds triple feature DVD) and Hank yelling “don’t step on the hibiscus!” when the boys started roughhousing outside. I walked away with a pretty sweet basket of candy and movie passes which was pretty good considering there was a fart machine, a calendar of babies dressed up as fruit and a Burt Reynolds triple feature in the mix.

I wanted a winter dress for the party, so I chose this blue patterned dress at goodwill and cut it down to my size. I finished it minutes before we had to leave so I didn’t even have time to hem it. Here are two awkward pictures of me wearing it before and after.

I also made pumpkin cheesecake bars, which were lovely. Jason was especially fond of them. They are easy to make and are highly recommended. The recipe can be found here.

 Here’s me and Nate, ready to head over to the huge Halloween extravaganza hosted by erock. Nate was a little disappointed that only a handful of people recognized his rather obscure costume. Do you know who he is?

Jen looked fabulous as Mia Wallace and Miguel is always jesus-like, so Halloween is just another day for him:

Me with Miss Zeta Jones and Ragedy Ann:

See more halloween mayhem here.