Doggie Sweater Genesis

I have a dog sweater in my mind. Its very clear and unique and so fancy. I just don't know how to extract it in all its glory. So far, I have the collar all nice and knitted up. Its perfect. Now for the other 90% of the project. Oye!

I haven't seen anything like it so far on Ravelry which is good and bad. It will be novel but perhaps nobody wants to knit this type of sweater coat. Oh well - I want to knit it. :)

In browsing I came across these cutsiest things!!! Eeeee!

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/kittee/itty-bitty-doggie-kitten-hood
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/11/this-just-in-aw.html
I can't even handle looking at it. Its that freakin cute.

The website it was honored on (other than my one and only Ravelry) is ridiculous. Fantastic! Its one of those places you can visit for 2 seconds on a bum day and end up smiling for a week after.

I Heart Etsy . . . Nuff Said

Oh how I love these. However I do not have a spare arm or leg - yet. Haha.... you know - a little O&P joke. Eh... that was terrible...

Now that I'm on a jewelry kick, I've been shopping left and right on Ebay for loose gemstones. *Sigh* I remember the good old days when I actually used my imagination on a daily basis. It feels soooooo good to get some of that back. Right now, I am obsessed with tourmaline. Its always been one of my favorite stones. I just totally forgot about gems altogether. How did that happen anyway????

So creative. I less than 3 it.



And these.... (Click on the images for artist links)

Best Ring EVARRRRR! Arrrr....

I will never afford this thing but I sure can look at it! Over and over...and over.

http://www.jewelryexpert.com/CATALOG/Koi-Fish-Tourmaline-Engraved-Ring-J8709.htm

Oooh La la

http://siansbitsandpieces.blogspot.com/2008/06/altered-microscope-slide-alcohol-inks.html

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_jewelry/article/0,,DIY_13762_4038459,00.html

Very cool. Saving for later.....

Deadly Art

A random act of insanity caused me to recently buy a copy of Haute Doll. I was expecting a hoard of creepy little babies and barbies with equally freaky frilly doll collectors, you know, the ones with rooms dedicated to their "little friends". Instead there were sophisticated, ultra modern works of art in the shape of beautiful little people.

So now, I am reincarnating yet another one of my hobbies - sculpting with clay. I never truly perfected my abilities and am now reading online tutorials.

The below was found at random and gave me quite the raised eyebrow and chuckle.

RE: Licking tools-
Yes, bad idea. I point-up Kolinski sable brush tips by pulling them over my tongue-- until a freelancer mentioned that there are rare cases of anthrax attributed to ingesting what is essentially weasel fur on a stick...

Re: Licking tools....

In the next town, Montclaire, was a watch face manfufacturing plant at the turn of the century. Quite a few women were working from home. And they used to paint the glowing radium infested glow mix onto the watch faces. After a prolonged exposure to the radiation and litteraly gobbling that suff up of years, their faces litteraly started to fall off. One can still visited their graves where they lie in lead coffins as the radiation would be to hard for people walking by otherwise.