March Madness!

First off I finished my first arty commission! Like I said before one of the ladies who got a bunny bag wanted me to make a bunch more for her. She had me make 36 and 18 hours later (spaced over 2.5 days) BAM bunnies were done! She loved them and can't wait to hand them out! She is filling them though so they look different than mine just due to not being filled and tied up which they will be when she hands them out. They are all girl bunnies except for the stack of blue that have no eyelashes to be given to little boys.

Second we were out on Fremont street today people watching and I finally got a leg cup! The white part is a coin bank but I plan on turning it into a leg lamp :D It will be glorious!


Lastly for today we went to Cold Creek to find the wild horses that roam in that area and luckily they were all over right up next to the road. I just loaded the pictures so I have to adjust them due to how sunny it was but I did one up so have a nice oogle at this lovely skinny free horse!

Workin!

So I know this picture is already in here but I just gave one of these away to a lady who travels over holidays. Since she is leaving the end of this month and we are having two different groups of people coming to stay so she got hers a few days ago. Hers was the green one in this picture. In another picture it was sitting in a yellow basket. She was so excited and liked it so much she has now commissioned me to make a bunch more for her to give out to family, work people, and friends. I got super excited! I asked how many she wanted and she brought me 36 pieces of felt which means 36 bunnies to make! Woo!

Honestly I am one of those people who just needs stuff to keep my attention constantly, it could be a book I read for hours but I LOVE making things. It keeps me calm and lets all the jumble in my brain come out. I can't always follow a pattern, and they don't always come out right the first time around but it makes my life better to have stuff to make. Weirdly money is not even my second thought in these processes. My one aunt had sent the stuff months ago that I used to make them just for "if I thought of something". She is used to me thinking of a million things I want to make and having the total set of materials for non of them. If I don't have stuff like this to keep my attention when I try to go to sleep my brain just likes to replay all the ideas I have waiting on the back burner and I don't sleep but if I have little things like this that happens way less.

Either way I was super happy that she liked it and I am already half way done making them already, I will probably be done by tomorrow!

These are the colors she picked, No matter what I do this photo if the right way up and then it uploads this way... So sorry for that!

In other news COMPANY IS COMING! So this month we have mom moms cousin Ellen coming from the dirty Jerz! We love her to pieces but when you are from PA, Jersey is always gonna be the dirty Jerz. It doesn't mean we haven't used their beaches for vacation but doesn't mean we have to like it. We are also going to see some shows when she is here. Gonna go see some fancy acrobatics and then off to see some ELTON! Whoop!

After Ellen comes my dads best friend and his family are here for a week as well and we get to have some fun taking them around. The past few weeks I have been playing travel agent for both of them and setting up the shows and other interesting things to see.


In Super other news mom asked me to make her light fixture look like a holiday chandelier again (last time was Christmas) So I concocted a spring/ easter chandelier! woo!

I figure after Easter the eggs can come down and the spring part can stay.

This is what it looks like when you are sitting at the table.

FINALLY PROGRESS!

For those of you who know me it is no shock that I have trouble keeping things consistently tidy. For those who don't my name is Jess and I have a problem. While I typically know where stuff is that doesn't mean it is put away nicely it may just mean I can tell you the exact spot on the floor in which it resides even if it is under a mountain of clothes. So it is a small wonder that it only took this long after moving to get my room pretty much set up. Since people wanted to know what my apartment looks like and I had a day with nothing better to do I cleaned. While I like things nice and tidy (unlike when I was younger and relished mess) I tend to clean one room move to the next and by the time I have come full circle the first room is a disaster again. I am working on it but as you read this my kitchen is already a mess...what can I say, progress is slow and I was not meant to be Susie homemaker. Alas at least I can cook I guess lol!

I had posted this to show that the end door was my room. Also I guess I should say that is not some alice in wonderland illusion the ceiling is 9' tall so  some of my doors are at least 8' They make me feel even shorter than I am and are hard to decorate but it is hard to decorate most things in here without a ladder.

So my room kida has a tiny hallway because that door on the left (with the blue and white checked flag over it) has a cubby where there is a washer and dryer

that's right I live in the UN! I decided during my travels that I wanted to collect flags and believe it or not I am missing one or two but I do have an extra that someone got me thinking I just collected any flag for fun..and they are not all in this picture either.

That large door covered in curtains leads to the patio and pool.

My room was such a mess when I posted the original pictures of this wall I figured this time i would give some context. 

Believe it or not I am not actually done decorating either I just need some hooks so I can hang some heavier stuff up. Like I said before I am not a fan of blank walls but some of my pieces are heavier than others.

The Hatching!

So once again I am on a decorating spree. This time its an egg party! I already posted my kitchen table and my dead bat but now the rest is complete! After gathering every egg I could find I spent at least a full day stringing them up and coating the apartment in colorful egg glory! I also did a small day project of sewing since I am slowly trying to learn in hopes of learning to do some quilting some time soon. Anyone who knows me will tell you I am shit at containing my excitement when I have a project in mind. So when it comes to sewing I am not the greatest. I just want the project done so I can use whatever it is I am making or send it out as a gift. Slowly learning a skill is tedious in the extreme for me. But I have a love for blankets and all things cuddly so I refuse to make sub par blankets or quilts! Lastly I am working on an actual quilt, I guess I should say blanket or over-sized afghan. One of my best friends got engaged and since I don't have a lot of money I thought I could make her something and then get her something smaller from her registry when she has one. For now all I can hope is that she doesn't read my blog if so PRETEND YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS! THIS IS NOT THE BLOG YOU ARE LOOKING FORRRRR... First for the HATCHING!

EGGS EVERYWHERE! 

Owl cookie jar is all jazzed up for st. Patrick's day as well!

I also took some pictures of some more of the apartment that I don't think I have posted yet so it doesn't look like I just live in a kitchen living room combo! lol.

Plus more eggs... naturally.. The door to the left is my bathroom and the one straight ahead is the bedroom. Directly to the left of the fridge is an entry way and a door to the outside that leads to the garage as well. (I will take a picture of that when it is not filled with stuff that needs to be donated.)

That's right its laundry day! But I am human and embrace the fact that my apartment is never fully clean so you will just have to deal with some clothes... 

Egg bundles! Yup even the bathroom is hatching!

I think the egg bundles look like balloons but they are festive! I also re purposed some little Christmas tinsel trees as Easter trees!

Also the lorax hiding away in the ficus protecting the trees!

Now on to stuff I made! you can see them in this picture but I took some close up so it is easier to make out what they are. So the first bunny bag i made I was a doofus and sewed it up first and then had to put on the eyes and face with only that little opening between the ears to work with. Like I said when I get excited I want the stuff done yesterday but I figured it out and slowed down as much as i could... Which isn't much but its the best I got for now.

So this is my small sewing project they are little bunnies that you fill with some candy for easter and tie under the ears. 

Lady bunny!

This is for a little boy who likes superman.. but unfortunately I didn't have the right colors so he is getting hulk bunny instead. I also didn't have enough purple for one straight go so now it looks like he is wearing shorts.. which is accurate but not what I was aiming for. YAY for his angry eyebrows though!

So here they are filled and tied up.

the rest of them.

Here are two in some little baskets that will be filled with baked goods. One of the ladies getting these donated her unused Easter eggs to the hatching! and is always super helpful so of course she gets a nice treat!

Next I had gotten a basket for the now engaged friend years ago and never got to give it to her. Yeras later going through moving crap I found it and it still looked terrifying as the day I got it... So naturally I did some modifications to make it more her.. and less creepy...

before... seriously he was creepy...

But now he's a beautiful LADY! WOOWOO! so much better!

all put together with some goodies!

This is the blanket I am making her for her wedding present. (sorry about the phone picture but its all I have for now.)

My basket with a saucy eyeliner wearing bunny perched in its grassy bed.

Lastly last night I got to go to a Bob Seger concert and got possibly one of the best tour shirts I have ever seen. My mom was convinced it was a motorcycle but when the guy took it down and showed me I was sold... its not a motorcycle. It is so much better! The guy looked totally freaked out that this was the one I wanted but who can say no to saucy big haired ladies riding a bullet.. Not me! I don't think anyone else had gotten one and if they had it was probably a man. My favorite of my tour shirts by far now! Look at that hair!

You do you ladies... you do you! I totally feel your hair frustrations!

I hope everyone else is keeping warm in the cold since most the people I know are trapped in the snow globe that is the east coast! Warm dusty desert hugs to all of you!

Got a Cookie Jar...Still Not an Adult...

Well obviously I went out with some Christmas money and got a cookie jar so lets get that out of the way. Here he is in all of his (actually more blue than this) glory. I feel a bit bad every time I take his head off to get something out but that's his job and he takes it seriously! I think I shall call him Carl the cookie owl.

Next on the list is some strange pictures of what has become my post card wall. If you are around me in a room for more than a few minutes you will learn that empty walls bother me to no end, I also have a post card collection so naturally I fused the two. I have gotten more but I have yet to add them but if you send me a post card this is where it goes to live.

This is the actual width of the wall it is a bit weird but what can you do. Also at the bottom is my giraffe/ zebra hybrid he's just awesome. 

My weird decorating doesn't end there because of the 3 upcoming holidays, none of which I am huge on I have decided to combine them. That's right I am in the middle of decorating for valpatricster. Here is a sneak peak of my insanity seeping out into the apartment. 

The start of my tiny table

Eggs Tiny Baby Eggs!

I am pretty sure one of my Ex's moms gave me this frog because she didn't like/ know me... well suck it because i can totally make that shit work!

To answer what must be your first question about this Yes I do have penis salt and pepper shakers. Also yes one says lovely and the other says Amsterdam, because why the hell not people. Y'all need to calm down and just have some fun they go with everything including but not limited to my Valpatricster decorations. You know you like it this will be a trend soon just like my owls. 

Lastly I am sure you are all just full of curiosity and possibly even filled with dreadful worry over the after life of dead bat in a cup. Firstly he is doing fine... thriving even in his afterlife. Since Christmas he has really gotten into the idea of Valpatricster and has really done up his abode. He is currently working on a tiny beer stein but for now here is a peep into his home life. He is clearly living it up. My dad still shakes his head and laughs but I think he is just sad that he didn't keep the bat himself to have weird fun times with. He sometimes lacks the whimsical vision that me and dead bat in a cup clearly have all the time. 

Conclusion I am never gonna be a normal adult... I refuse to give in to normalcy. Me and Dead bat in a cup are just gonna live it up over here on team weird and whimsical. Hope you all have a nice and super weird day!