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but he’s amazing.

I didn’t mean to make him this big…but tentacles happen. At first, months and months ago I started on the tentacles and never finished them. Trying to figure out what to put at the top of our tree this year, my roomie had a good idea to do the octopus with a star. So naturally, I got excited and decided she’s a GENIUS!!

Or so we thought.

There is no way he would be up there. He is too heavy and big. He probably weighs more than the tree itself. Once I figured out there will be no tree topping Octofriend, I made him a top hat and a bow tie, something to make him seem important since the job is going to go to something else.

See? Adorably Dapper.

See? So huge! But don’t worry, he’s house trained.

xoxo

Those that know my family know that most of us are pretty good creative peoples. I remember going to my Nannie’s house and watching her draw horses while we watched cartoons. I remember watching my parents work their advertising magic when we were little. I would be in awe when I went to my Grandma’s house. She had her own room for her crafty stuff. I always loved that.

One of the things I remember most about growing up in our doll house was the couple that accompanied our dining room.

She handmade these darlings. I had heard she won the first prize at the State Fair when she made these. They were in my mom’s house for ages, when I moved…I don’t know how they ended up in my house. I love their little faces.

She made my sister and I some dolls when we were born. We both still have ours. I have some other ones that she has made as well. mine is my very favorite.

Her hair is stretched from me carrying her all around. My mother said her little white face is stained from me kissing her all the time too.

My other favorite is this…

WARNING!! THIS POST CONTAINS A CLOWN.

I love this little guy. I always have. Some people are scared of clowns, ok, a lot of people are scared of them. I’m not. Wussies. You know who you are JG.

My Grandma’s girls. They’re lovely.

I love you Grandma.

xoxo

Every once in a while I go on an etsy binge. I can’t stop looking and searching. Recently I found a little shop that makes these awesome paper dolls. Paper awesomeness! Amoeba Butter has some great artistic styling and not to mention her lovely usage of color.

My personal favorite:

And of course, what led me to find her,

Look at them all, they’re pose-able!

EEK!!

Too cute.

This year Imogen wanted to be a Rockstar for Halloween. I’m not sure why, maybe because she’s just awesome. Too awesome to say no. Of course two days before Monday, she wants to change her costume. She wants to be a zombie princess, too late little lady, maybe next year.  It was quite easy to dress her as such, I just looked in her closet. We used all her clothes and a lot of my jewelry, then I put make up on her, which she thought was so special.

We went to my sister’s neighborhood to hunt candy. We went early to avoid all the other annoying kids. I’m not going to rant, but for freaking real…just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean you can literally let your children run amuck since no one can tell who you are anyways. How embarrassing. Imogen went to a door and rang the doorbell, all the sudden there were hoardes of kids pushing me out of the way, past Imogen and banging on the door. Poor old man, got to the door and gave out the candy, dropping some, Imogen picking them up and those little freaks running off. No thank yous, no appreciation. Imogen picked up the dropped candy and gave it back to the man, in which he gave it back and an extra piece. She quietly said thank you and I grabbed her out of there, pushing the other kids out of the way. Sorry parents, your children are a hot damn mess, and I need to get mine, I will knock yours over. I turn to see all the parents just huddling, talking and slowly walking. These ruffians ran from door to door. Some kind of competition, I feel bad for those parents. If you’re one of those, you’re probably not reading this anyway.

ANY WHOOOOO!!

I helped Lauren make a onesie into an owl for Evelynn. She was so stinking cute. Lauren got an owl beanie off of etsy, put her in brown pants and made little brown wings to tape on to her arms.

It was a fun night of candy getting. Oh! There was a lady that asked what Imogen was. Once she found out she was a rock star she asked Imogen to sing for her. So, naturally, she drops her candy and busts into song. Per Lauren’s suggestion, she sang her Scarecrow song, fully accompanied with her dance.

Yay, candy for the adults.

Owl love you all.

xoxo

Every year since I can remember we carved pumpkins. This year, being at my mom’s all weekend, we decided to go ahead and use Imogen as an excuse to continue the tradition since the youngest of us four is about to turn nineteen. We picked them out at the local grocery and went after them tonight. Imogen drew her pumpkin’s face and my mom used her expert carving sills to carve away, she even added a foil tooth since Imogen decided it should be a “gangsta”.

The only thing missing was the other seeeester.

My Creation.

When October comes around each year, I notice fall. The weather here in Austin is a lot different from Dallas, it’s still way too hot. Waiting for fall weather is frustrating. I want to bust out my warm clothes and boots. But anyhow, I see all the fall colors everywhere, the peachy season, yum, and pumpkins. Every year the pumpkins remind me of one specific thing, my sister. Her birthday is this month. Funny enough, her husband’s birthday is the day after hers. This year, being the first year I have lived in the same city as her in ten years, we get to celebrate together! EEK! Birthday dinner with the girls, still don’t know what I’ll wear, and she will open her gifts. I’m more excited about that though. Some people said I spoil her. It’s true. She’s my sister and my love. Spoiling is inevitable. But if anyone deserves to be spoiled, it’s her.

First she noticed a bracelet I had made a while back. I bought the stuff I needed to make it even better and made her the first real one. Of course, it’s mustard yellow and green.

I love going into Anthropologie, even if their clothes are over priced and always tear, leaving me to sew them again. They were having a sweet sale, bought me a top and saw this shirt for Lauren. She has a thing for beetles, she’s a scientist. Enough said.

Then I started on her blanket. I plan on selling these in custom colors very soon, but she gets one for just being born. Plus, she’s the only person I know that will wear a sweater in ninety degree weather because she’s cold…. It’s a great warm blanket with some crazy soft fleece on the back.

I made some more button flowers the other night while watching the Rangers in the World Series (believe me, not a sports kind of gal, hence the craft making to cure boredom). I had a great idea to make a canvas covered in fabric. I wanted to do the same kind of pattern of stripes on other fabric. I have a new theme going here. I sewed it all together and sewed the flowers on top, then adhered the fabric to the canvas. It’s so stinking cute if I do say so myself.

Then her card was last. I wanted to make two little paper dolls, her and me, holding hands, but the paper dolls were just not turning out right enough. So I was running out of time and just settled for writing on a Blythe postcard. Still cute, but not the coolest.

Happy Birthday my beautiful sister. I love you more than sleep. xoxo