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happy holidays!

regardless of what you celebrate, i hope you and your loved ones have a happy happy holiday.  me, i'm going to make latkes and hang around the house watching movies.  i'm pretty excited. 

i also want to thank you all for your support during 2005, and let you know that i have big plans for 2006.  maybe some more consignment work, so you can find my stuff in stores, lots more designs involving a certain deep-see creature i have a crush on, and more baby stuff.  my nephews are getting bigger and bigger and i'm getting a new niece this year!  you know, without them i wouldn't have gotten into this.  something about cute babies makes me want to make stuff.   i'm not taking a break at all this year either, being in a new town has made me really productive.  if you need anything, let me know. 

have a great new year!  

last day for custom orders!

if you want something custom made for you in a different color or with something else on it, you have to let me know by tomorrow so i can get to working and get it to you (or your super-special loved ones) in time for christmas or chanukah. 

and for your enjoyment, a list of my favorite christmas albums:

1. a charlie brown christmas, vince guaraldi.  by far my favorite one EVER.   i actually listen to this one year-round, it's just that good. 
2. a christmas together, john denver and the muppets.  you tell me listening to miss piggy sing christmas carols doesn't warm the recesses of your cold dark heart.  i know it does mine.
3. a jolly christmas from frank sinatra.  if i have to explain this to you, then we are not friends.
4. time-life treasury of christmas.  no, really, i'm serious.  this has judy garland's version of "have yourself a merry little christmas" which never fails to make me get weepy.  you would think that wouldn't be a good thing, but it is.   
5. white christmas.  no christmas would be complete without bing!  and rosemary clooney, and danny kaye and vera-ellen. 

okay, now go bake some cookies or put up a tree or make fun of your neighbor's giant blow-up santa.  something festive! 

no really, DO THE DISHES

i love you so much that my embroidery callous is bigger today than it was yesterday.

i made a onesie at some point, and ran into it while putting linens away.  moving is full of surprises.

this looks more red in the photo than it does in real life.  it's more of a dark coral color.

this is what my mother calls my kitchen.  if only she could see it now!  it's spotless.   having roommates has done wonders in regards to my cleanliness.

and another do the fucking dishes for your pleasure.  this is the same pretty rose color as the shit hole towel.  they would make a nice set, don't you think? 

you can buy them!  over here!

a couple of new things

look what i found!  i don't know why he's not in the gallery, i'm sure i made him before i moved. 

i also made another do the fucking dishes towel, which is all done and ready to be shipped!  details and paypal buttons in the gallery.

dirty words ahead!

i never, ever get tired of embroidering dirty words on dishtowels.  NEVER. 

this is the second of my sad stain towels, this one is a little wine stain.  so sad, yet so cute. 

i also found some old hankies i made while cleaning up my inventory.  they are not 100% cotton, which is why i stopped making them for a while.  however, i found a place where i can get cotton hankies so i'll be making more!  until then, there are a few of the poly-cotton blends that would make great stocking stuffers. 

even though they aren't all cotton, they are incredibly soft.   

this is what my mom always calls my dad's hankies.  hankies aren't just for men, though.  no way.  i carry one with me everywhere!  they're great; i use them to clean my eyeglasses, to wipe my nose, to clean myself up if i accidentally spill coffee on my shirt (which happens all the damn time to me), or to clean up any of the other messes i often find myself making.  they're environmentally sound, and people get all nostalgic when you whip one out.  "oh, my uncle used to carry one of those around," or "my grandfather always had a hankie on him," or even "my mom always said a lady carried her own hankie." 

even if you don't buy my hankies, i still think you should think about using them.  let's bring back the hankie!

ordering information and fun stuff over here, as always.