Yaaaaay it’s my birthday….and in it’s honour I have done absolutely nuthin,  ah it’s been great even the cats realised and let me have a lie in today,  how very honoured I am.

Actually I did do something I opened my fabby pressies.  I figuered I should share how great they are,  I had my friend  Matt (he of Portland whose apt. we crashed in June for the lov.li fair) buy me anything from my etsy fave list and he selected

these hand screen printed dish towels by Rockpaperscissorart.  I adore them and have hung them on hooks in my kitchen,  with strict instructions to not use them just admire them.

Matt also got me this gorgeous print from CreativeThursday .

Not only do I love the print but it’s called Lewis and Oscar……how perfect is that?

Anyway I really must get back to my lazy day……

So we went to see Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix last night and let me tell you it does not disappoint.  We got to the cinema at 10.30 for the midnight show……..a little unneccesary in Rockford,  we are used to opening nights in Washington DC where if you didn’t get in the line by at least 9 o’clock you were in the crap seats.  So anyway great seats were gauranteed and ours.   I was so excited for this movie (as I think I may have mentioned before) that when the house lights went down I could feel my heart rate rise.  And anyway long story short it’s brilliant……so what you still thinking about?  go see it pronto!!!

In Stabby news,  the art-o-mat loved my stabby mobile idea (yaaaaaay) so I am going to be very busy cutting wire for the next week or so.  I also am going to do another stabby critter series for them but with different animals than the first ones…..apparently the last load of the critters are all sold…..this is fantastic news as I never expected them to do so well.  How I love the Art-o-mat.

I love Flikr.

I only recently discovered the joy of Flikr,   who knew it was so cool and had groups and stuff to join?  I didn’t… but I am sure you did,  I am always a little slow with these things.

Anyway back to flikr how cool are these

They are pins made by Clothmatters and they are just brilliant.  She also makes dolls I love this guy….

he is fantastic isn’t he?  look at the details my goodness they must take ages to make.  So yes I am enjoying browsing around all the flikr groups and looking at talented artists work.

I of course am rather preoccupied with my new baby kitten to get down to the business of stabby stabby.  Apparently he doesn’t need sleep………….ever.  Because he is always on the move vrooming round the house in big loop de loops we decided to call him Lewis,  in honour of Lewis Hamilton the new hotshot British formula one driver.

The nicest thing happened and I just had to share……….a fabulous etsian named twolefthands put Fergus in a treasury and it made etsy’s front page, her store is lovely I highly recommend you check her out.

This is thrilling as it is a first for me. I’ve picked up some new hearts and maybe someone will be tempted by my lovely critters and give one a good home.

Speaking of good homes we’ve just given one to this little guy

He’s a Himalayan Seal Point and he is lovely, Not that Floyd thinks so. I think Floyd thinks he is a giant dust bunny that needs to be whacked under the carpet, not very friendly at all…….I’m keeping my fingers crossed it works out ok.

Oh and I’m thinking of the name Harry in honour of Harry Potter.

Maybe it’s because it’s summer and I’m feeling giddy and childish but I love these softy pillow plushies by Jodie Caulfield.

I had to splurge on them as soon as I saw them. I got the seagull and the donkey and I can’t wait to get them. Her work really reflects childhood memories for me, especially the donkey…….aaaah donkey  rides on Blackpool beach, oh how it takes me back……now if only she would make a giant candy floss on a stick and I would be blissed out.

Check out her etsy store for more lovely goodies.

I also indulged in some supplies today little brass daisy petals from artful market . I figured the critters needed better hangtags and I love the idea of the daisy petal being brass instead of felt as I was doing……so stay tuned I’ll let you see what I come up with as soon as I get them and figure it out.

I haven’t been very creative myself this week at all. I’ve been enjoying the weather too much and the company of my nip frenzied cats to get down to the business of stabby stabby. But I promise next week I shall crack the whip and get on with more creative critters.

Aaaah I do. I love especially to go to the market on the square that happens every Saturday in Madison……It is all local produce/cheeses and plants and numerous other stuff. I have always been a big fan of wild flowers and thanks to the market I have a balcony full of them………it’s a real dingly dell now and it makes me very happy to sit out there in the sun with my coffee and my cats.

some of my market lovelies. In the teracotta planter 2 different types of echinacea daisies. then thai basil and regular basil and the big white planter has 4 different kinds of lavendar and finally my tomato plants………..we’ve had tons of yummy toms of these tiny bushes, and everything smells wonderful.

I mentioned my cats love to sit on the balcony with me so I thought it only fair to plant a little something for them to appreciate so…..

tadah……I got two different types of catnip (my boys are the biggest nip heads in the world) and some cat grass for Floyd. It seems to be a big hit and I reckon if it grows well I can make cat nip toys for them and my etsy store.

Anyway back to my market story. There is also a street of vendors selling handmade goods and one booth’s clothing in particular I fell in love with, she’s called orangyporangy. Her tee-shirts, skirts and bags are fantastic. I got 2 tops, one for a friend and one for me…….can’t wait to wear it, it has little vintage buttons sewn to it and is very hipster friendly.

Ok ok i know you are thinking wait a minute, where is the stabby critter? why is Lulu telling us about some market in Madison? well just because it made me happy really, but you are right so with that I give you Spike…..

Yup I am ……Why?  Because every day is getting closer to the new Harry Potter movie……………waaaaaaaa I can’t breathe I am so excited about it…..  which is why I managed to buy too many tickets for it on fandango today.

It was entirely my fault,  I got the email saying the tickets were now available in my area so I booked 2 for 10pm wednesday……then I thought…. hang on I wonder if there is a midnight show on Tuesday/Wednesday morning and sure enough there was …………ooooooops.  So of course I have to see it as soon as it’s out so I guess we will see it 2 days in a row yaaaaaaaaay……. I mean dang.   And I have brilliant seats to see it at the imax theatre in Chicago on the 15th very back row score.  It has to be better than when we saw goblet of fire on the imax in DC’s air and space museum and were very front row,  good god that hurt my neck 2hours of looking up hurts.

Anyway yes I am Harry Potter obssessed so I can’t wait…….

On another creative note I made Willoughby the Walrus

Do you like him?

It seemed like I hadn’t needle felted for ages, and to be honest I think because I had made so many critters for the lovli craft fair in such a short time I was a bit hesitant to make another one for a while.

But I couldn’t keep away from the roving for long. Meet Barnaby T. Bunny……..What do you think? I am really pleased with how he turned out, I think he’s my most cartoony critter to date. I love his dopey goofy expression to bits.

He’s a big boy as well, bigger than all my other critters. I think my time off needle felting made me crazy with my wool supply.

well if they like it that is……..

I’m loving making the mobiles…….so I thought why not try and do one for the artomat. What do you think? Oh I hope they like it.

The box and the little ad for the outside of the machine

The goodies inside

All the goodies laid out. And when you put them together you get…..

taaaadaaah. Your own little tabletop mobile.

So I hope it goes over well with the Art o mat peeps. I love being an art o mat artist and there is nothing like the feeling of being unappreciated in your own time……I feel so worthy…… : )

I had the funniest week this week. I listed my Super Mario stabby on ebay last Sunday and looked what happened…..

I made Kotaku, I figured something was up as I got around 689 looks at my listing, sadly geeky gaming nerds are not into needle felting……who would have thought? so all those visits didn’t incite a bidding war……..dammit

Still the publicity was nice, and my husband was very impressed (apparently Kotaku gets used on gizmodo all the time) so in his eyes I think it’s like turning water into wine or something……….

Anywho I just thought I’d share my wacky week with y’all