Currently: November 26, 2002
Kim Carney is a fabulous illustrator, (check out her stamps!) and she emailed me a link to this felt bowl. I LOVE it! I am going to see if I can find out how to make one. Should be fairly simple.
Have you seen the new issue of Martha Kids Magazine? It was sent with my December issue. Sometimes I feel the kids issues are hit and miss, but this one is great. They have a pull-put section on penguins illustrated by Jotto, and an article on how to make dogs out of socks that is too cute.
This morning I have been intrigued with the idea of making my own incense. I don't burn incense, but MAKING incense seems like fun. Every time I go into Whole Foods, I wander over to the health/beauty section and check out the selection of "natural incense". Not the sticks that are scented like "China Rain" or whatever, but things like Sandalwood Powder, Dragon's Blood resin, and Frankincense. I found this info on how to make incense, and some recipes. You can also buy kits. Interesting.
I have been thinking that I am going to buy the Martha Cookie Decorating Kit this year. I also want the complete set of gel colors, but that probably isn't practical. Last month I bought some cookie cutters from H. O. Foose. Great service and really nice people. My plan this year is to decorate the tree with the cookies, it should be fun!
Podzone has hand embroidered state pillows. Here is the Wyoming state pillow. Of course my dinky hometown, Rawlins, is not on there. Typical. It would be in between "Rock Springs" and "Ft. Laramie." It seems like a pretty cool site, too bad you can't access most of it.
Last year when I was home for a visit, my mom and I went in to a flea market and I found some great vintage soaps. They had the cutest little boxes and were shaped like the three little pigs, little chicks and sheep. They were three dimensional. I wish now, that I would have bought some of them. I was really excited when I recently came across some soaps that reminded me of the vintage ones I saw. They are made by Gianna Rose Atelier. SO CUTE. I love the Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Dress Maker's Form, and the Apothecary Jars.
The December issue of Country Living magazine has some felt pillows made by Cathy Pendelton. They look a lot like this pillow. She comes up with some great designs. I love the Snowman Marionette. Seeing her patterns makes me want to buy a bunch of wool felt. I have a whole bunch of ideas for dream pillows and the wool felt would be perfect. The holidays are going to be here so soon and I feel so unprepared!!
Malibu was GREAT! We stayed at a place called Casa Malibu. Our room was right on the beach.
Above are views from our little balcony:sunset and sunrise. With the sunrise we saw tons of dolphins that were cruising by eating fish. They were so close..it was awesome since I have never seen real dolphins in the wild before. We ate dinner at Wolfgang Puck's Granita. The food was SO good. Suzanne Summers was there, although my back was to her so I didn't get a good look. And then later, when I went to use the bathroom, there was a tall blonde already in there, and I walked by her to get to the stall, but I didn't actually look at her. When I got back to my seat, she was sitting behind us in the next booth and J whispered to me "That's Mira Sorvino." I was in the bathroom with Mira Sorvino and I didn't even know it. She was with her boyfriend, Olivier Martinez. CRAZY.
I was watching The Designer Guys last night and there was a project on there that I am TOTALLY going to make. A Concrete Bowl. They have some nifty projects...check out the Martini Candles.
I was reading NotMartha this morning, specifically, her post about the cloves in the spiced cider. I recently ruined our only saucepan by "simmering" a lovely concoction of cider, allspice, cloves, and cinnamon sticks to a sticky black death. I think I found a new form of cement. We were roasting coffee in our spiffy coffee roaster and it makes a lot of noise and a lot of smoky burning smells. Because of this, I did not notice my liquid holiday splendor dying a horrible death. We need to buy a new skillet also, and are debating whether or not to spring for a whole set, or buy the individual pieces. J did a bit of research and found that consumer reports rated this set and this set a best buy. Decisions, decisions.....oh by the way, I think it's somewhat LAME that they count the lids as a "piece" in their sets.
J and I are going to be gone the next few days. We are going to Malibu for his Birthday!! I am so glad it stopped raining.
I am having one of those boring weeks. I feel like I need to update, but nothing is happening!!
I do, however, LOVE the Fabric envelopes from Keri Smith. I would really love to make those, but I never mail anything anymore so I don't know what I would do with them. I guess it would be a perfect excuse to mail a letter to someone.
This Thanksgiving, I have decided that J and I are going to have a cocktail party. Just he and I. No turkey, no stuffing...just alcohol and appetizers. The thought of making a turkey and all of that food for just the two of us is really daunting and something I am not at all into.
I know, I know...I need a new banner. I just haven't felt like drawing anything for it and I can't think of anything. My brain is tired.
I bought some more cacti this weekend, and some fancy red rocks to put on top of the pots.
