Pretty Things

Last week I was incredibly lucky to score almost 50 stems of tulips. Aren't they lovely? My boyfriend's studio is next door to a commercial landscaping company. Apparently they dispose of large numbers of plants and flowers on a regular basis! I went over to his studio and dumpster dived for flowers! Okay, well sort of. The dumpster was overflowing with soil and plants and flowers, so I got up along the edge of it, and walked around it pulling tulips out. They were still in the pots. We cut most of them for placing in water, but kept one pot which was fairly intact. The blooms are all gone now, so I have about a dozen bulbs. Anyone know how I should store them?

This photo shows only about one-third of all the blooms we had! I don't think I've ever had so many flowers in my home at once. I placed some of them in little glasses and spread them throughout the house. I just love spring flowers!

Where Have I Been?

Distracted, in a self-imposed cocoon of crafting, and not able to keep up with blogging. I have been really distracted lately... but have been happily crafting away at home, so it's all good. I have been meaning to post about a little interview I did over at the Etsy Beagle Team's blog last week. You can check it out here, if you want to learn a bit more about me. (It's not a very long interview.) Thanks so much to Linda, aka Ms. Anomaly, the Beagle Team leader, for posting it!

Little Lovelies Giveaway

image by Little Lovelies

Nadine of the wonderful Little Lovelies blog is hosting a giveaway! She is giving away 3 sweet little handmade egglets to 3 lucky winners. I just love Nadine's style--please visit her blog here for a chance to win one of these adorable crocheted egglets!

Lost in Translation, part two

This is posted downstairs in my building, on the door that leads to the laundry room and recycling bin/trash can area. I think it's strange that the super doesn't get anyone to help with the translation, but hey, it's amusing!

(And I don't mean to offend anyone with this! My boyfriend is hispanic as are many of my friends and most of the people I grew up with. I hope nobody takes this the wrong way!)

Etsy Beagles Giveaway

The Etsy Beagles street team, of which I am a member, is hosting a giveaway on the team blog! To enter just hop over to the Beagle Team Blog to check it out. The prize is a vintage button charm bracelet by Ms. Anomaly, our team leader. Arooo!

Craft ADD

I have long suffered from what I consider to be craft ADD--the tendency to dabble in a wide variety of craft related activities (not all of which I am very good at), starting one project while another sits partially completed. I have kind of given in to those urges though, because to ignore them does little good I have found. So when I feel the call of the gocco machine, off to gocco I go. When the button cranking machine pulls me away, so be it. And when the sewing machine beckons my name, well, who am I to ignore it?

I embellished these little baby onesies for my friend who had a little baby girl on April Fool's Day. I consider myself to be a novice sewer, as you can see. They are still pretty cute though, I think. I used a combination of sewing and fusing some stitch-witchery.

So.... anyone else suffer from Craft ADD? I can't be the only one!

Fun with Food

I have long been a fan of bizarre product packaging, particularly of food items. I have a small collection of very interesting food wrappers, including "Commando Chips" from the Middle East, which feature some gun-toting folk on the wrapper. I have to unearth those and scan them one of these days! For now I wanted to share some fun finds that a recent shopping trip yielded. I snapped these on my camera phone--not bad I think!