My god it’s literally a stabby frenzy at my house. I was worried 3 weeks ago that I didn’t have enough time to make a decent table display of critters at the Lovli fair……Well I am not worried anymore, and I love what I’ve made……now I’ll just keep my fingers crossed that other people think so too.

Anyway here is SUPER MARIO

Mario with his ladder from donkey kong

Group scene with Donkey Kong

So hopefully I can put together a pretty display that attracts people over. And if not well I like them so it could be worse.

I told you I had been busy. I have listed them all for sale on the lov.li website in preparation for the fair on June 3rd. I’m getting excited about the trip now.

And yes I am.  I  have stopped stressing out a little about it…..probably because I have been very busy.  I have made a banner for my booth,  a kit for making your own stabby and 5 brand new critters.  I have also managed to give myself a sore hand from so much stabby stabby….but I will take a break when it’s over.  The new critters are great….even if I do say so myself.  I just hope I can sell some in Portland.

I’ll post pics soon I promise,  I just can’t face the thought of doing it now……….The horror…….

So my Artomat project took much longer than I expected 2 whole weeks in fact. Probably because I did it the old fashioned way, yes that’s right I handdrew every box as well as made every critter……I had a feeling I was never going to finish….ever. But phew it’s done.

The pile of boxes.

The 3 different critter boxes – I made a mouse box, a cat box and a frog box

The reverse of each box…..are you seeing why this took me so long now?

I did 50 of these  – 18 frogs 12 cats and 20 mice

fronts and backs

The critters.

So I love how the boxes and critters turned out, but thinking on it I would have made more than 50 if I hadn’t handrawn everything. Ah well next time i’m going to photocopy everything.

In other news I am going to do my first ever craft show. I’m part of the Lovli craft fair in Portland Oregon. Yes you read right I am going to Portland …..yaaaaay. It’s going to be so cool and we are staying with my friend Matt (thanks Matt) and I can’t wait. Of course I hardly have any critters so I am going to have to go into stabby frenzy between now and the 31st………waaaaaaaaaaa. I love these challenges…..well I must do I keep giving them to myself!!!

So I’ve well established my etsy addiction here. But the best thing happened a couple of nights ago. There I was typing away when I was contacted by a lovely lady named Kim (also I assume an etsy addict) who commissioned me to make a critter of her lovely pussy cat Ducky who had recently passed away.

Here is my homage to Ducky in wool..

So I made sure I kept all of the real Ducky’s markings, and I think Kim was really pleased. I like doing stuff like this it’s nice to think people have something completely unique for them and that they can cherish .

I also listed my itty bitty kittys

So pat me on the back I had a productive day……yaaaaay. Unfortunatly today is grocery shopping and cleaning day………boooooo.

Well I finally finished little Jerry. He has taken longer than any other critter, not because I couldn’t make him…..oh no, because of etsy, I really need to stop posting why is it so addictive? I mean good god it’s not helping my productivity at all.

Anyway do you like Jerry? I need to start on Tom soon.

Well aren’t I the stupid one.  And no it’s really not a question.  After nearly 7 months of cold gray abismal weather,  the weather is decidedly summery here.  This past weekend the temperature reached 83………yaaaaay finally.  However I managed to not respect the sun and have given myself the most astounding sunburn……..jeeeeesh my shoulders are so red I could hide in a berry field and you would not find me.  Anyway I’m currently working on a little critter that I’m really loving,  I can’t wait to get him finished and show him off.  On other news I’ve finished my pile of mice for the artomat and have started on the cats,  they are looking pretty cool but take me longer than the mice which is a bit of a bummer.  I can’t wait to get the boxes and send them on their way.

the Pink Panther, the rinky dink panther (what on earth is rinky dink anyway? you don’t hear so much of that anymore)

I like him and my husband (a.k.a my harshest critic) says he is my best critter yet.  High praise indeed.

On another note I had my hair cut finally.  So I am back to having it short and it is a million time better.  I look less crazy cat woman now.  So here is my donation for locks of love….

It’s nice to think it will do some good for someone.

I’ ve been really busy this week, which is a really bad thing as I only made half a critter this week. There is nothing sadder than a critter needing legs looking out at you longingly from the workspace.

But it’s also a really good thing as I submitted my project idea for the artomat – wanna see?

So I am really thrilled as they loved it……..yaaaaaaay for me I am going to be in the artomat. If you don’t know what the artomat is boy are you missing out. I am completely addicted to it and always buy 2 tokens for it from Pop delux in Madison when we go, but anyway check it out – http://www.artomat.org/ . I am so excited and can’t wait to make a few different critters for the boxes I feel like I should start now….but I guess I should wait till I get the boxes huh?

So it’s been a great, busy, productive week.

yaaaaay my pics made the cut. Check them out –

http://www.theomegahappening.com/gallery.html

mine are towards the end  they are the three signposts and credited to Lisa Schofield Rockford Illinois.  It was fun taking them and really rewarding seeing them on the site. I’m bustin’ with pride.