Ramona and I have finally made it official: we’re going for the Boutique.  Every year at her Thanksgiving shindig it has been getting bigger and bigger with headdress making contests, people selling wares, and this year making it an official boutique and even cooking competition.  She is way too good a hostess for anyone to miss this event!  I’m excited… I have made a bunch of special items for this event, including the nativity scene that is pictured.  RSVP for the address.

Yay, always excited about being in someone’s treasury.  Nikasha Designs included me in their latest treasury:

That print is something I made back in printmaking.  It’s a waterless litho that I scanned in the computer to make prints from.  I always liked this one because it has the earliest signs of me being interested in what was later to become known as the toner transfer phenomenon, which looks spittingly like this, but it isn’t. That combination of black and white illustration or image with something else just gets my heart pumpin.  And speaking of heart pumping . . . coffee time!

The top of last week I lost some things–three things to be exact–that have been with me for a long, long time.  My teeth!  The recovery process is slow and soups are still the meal of choice, but I have gained some things as well. Like, for example, my air conditioner cover/plant stand!  Let me introduce you two:

I am very excited about this foray into furniture design and wood craftyness. I just keep scheming up more things to make. Notice the detail below:

I’ve also been painting and stuff, and we’ll get some photos of that this weekend. But finally I was able to plant some of my latest acquisitions and the patio is shaping up.

This next document is proof of how my cat has bad manners and how her mom enables her and even thinks she’s cute and captures it in a photo all the while she really has distaste for sleeping in, on, or near cat hair:

Let’s just say I’ve had quite the busy month and I’m kinda glad that November is here.  I’m ready for the cold, I’m ready for the … um… do we even get rain in Riverside?  I’m just ready for a change. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s just recap, shall we?

First there was Knott’s Scary Farm.

Then there was the Halloween Slumber Party. Yes, that’s right. Slumber Party.

Then there was actually Halloween.

Then there was bowling birthday party the day after. I gots the jazz hands.

Then there was me. And wait until you get a hold of my latest achievement in the sculpture lab…woo hoo I am in love with getting splinters! Love the wood.

I think all Etsy sellers long for the day we are added to someone’s treasury, so I was quite excited to see I was added to cirrusskooter’s treasury list. Take a look below, and click on image to see the real deal.