Owls In Between

This is what crafters do in their between times, crochet owls and...

Simon

 take pictures of their kittens.

William

Skittles(Winkies)

I Don't Feel Like Thinking Up A Title Today

 One was a birthday present and one was to keep.

 Present

Taken by my daughter.

Friends

I Want to be Needle Felted

William

I turned around today and found William in the middle of my needle felting.

I also had Simon up in the crow's nest, I am never alone! 

Simon

I'll show you a couple things I've been doing in between bear stuff. A wool brooch for my friend Fran, don't tell.

A pumpkin for... whatever I made a pumpkin using my yarn method.

The trick is getting the yarn into the shape you want.

Poor Simon

I don't know how I'm gonna keep him in til Saturday morning!

The Neighbors Remind Me of My Cats

The pictures are courtesy of our Uncle Steven that lives around the block. The foxes are hanging out in his back yard, thanks Steve!

A Moment With William

Excuse me.

Some Cats...

William

 Some cats like nuzzling wool.

baby artichoke

baby corn

baby yellow squash

3 sister bed of corn, squash and beans

Simon

Some cats like hanging out in the garden.

Simon

Sweet adorable Simon, (when he's sleeping).

 Even sweeter when he's wool!

 Look, he's not biting me.

 He has a soft white underbelly...

 and long stripy tail.

Oh no, he's awake!

Lip Balm Keychain Cat

This was a week long exercise in learning. 

How do you make a round open head on top of your lip balm holder?

  How do you close the head afterward so you can't see inside?

 How do you make 5 tubes all the right diameters you need?

 How do you make pointy ears that look similar?

I think the biggest challenge was starting a tube. I had to figure out the technique for doing them. That's something I wouldn't mind showing you next.

Not Enough To Stay Home

We had an extended morning of snow shoveling and late in to school. My sister tells me that 6" would paralyze Louisiana but everyone is where he or she is supposed to be by now. And the kitties are playing nicely, yeah right. I'm off to work on a scarf, but my dad just sent me a box of copper scrap and wants to see some wonderful jewelry come from it.

Like my copper Chimney Swift, but he's been giving me ideas with what else can be done with the copper.

So stay tuned.