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She’s lookiing right at me! Can she feel my craftiness?? LOL!

Yesterday I went to a taping of the Martha Stewart show! Woohooo!! Pete was kind enough to take the day off and go with me. We had to be there at 8:30 (yawn!). Once we got inside, it seems to be moving pretty smoothly, I didn’t feel like I was waiting around a lot (it could have been because I was in the wonderful company of Pete). Once we got inside the studio, we had to stay seated. It was a live taping! I didn’t know that! Her guests that day were Marcia Gay Harden, a woman from the stem cell research foundation and the owner of a sausage place on the Upper East Side. I was a little disappointed that we only got a free t-shirt (from the stem cell research foundation) but I kept telling myself I wasn’t there to score free stuff! But it sure would have been nice to get a sample of her wurst sandwich! It was making me so hungry!

Me and Pete in the waiting room filling out the release forms

Joey Cola, the warm up guy

The set!!!!

so many lights!

Oops! I forgot I had the camera on zoom!

That’s better! At our seats.

Pete pointing out the water tower on her set

This truck was giving out free White Castle sliders and hot cocoa. Of course, I had to partake!

We ended up going to midtown so I can check out Book-Off, the Japanese book store. We met Joy for lunch and ended up going to Comfort Diner. It was a nice day!

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Last night, the snow started around 6pm ish (it had to be at least after 6:30 since I walk Skippy around 6 and all was clear). They said it was going to snow all night and into the morning and the city was due to get anywhere between 6-12 inches. I don’t know how much we really got, but we got a lot! It’s the most so far this season. All previous snowstorms was just a tease. I was hoping Yves would get word that he didn’t have to go into work but he didn’t find out anything (and turns out it was a delayed start). Instead of driving in this snow, we canceled our Monday playdate and went to play in the snow in the driveway/back area. It was cold! And still snowing! And there was a lot! Regardless of all these facts, I still had a hard time telling Sienna we had to go inside after 45 minutes. She cried tears of tears each time. She LOVES the snow! I promised her that she could come out again when Daddy came home. That seemed to work.

Telling me to open the door!

The stroller wasn’t so much fun this time around.

Or the soccer ball!

She kept falling in the big piles of snow. It was uneven because of the wind.

Snowing again!

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Now, this is snow! from Lisa on Vimeo.

As promised, she came back out again when Yves came home and helped him put away the snow blower thingy.

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Just when I was moaning about disappointing swaps on my blog the other day, in comes some real gems in the mail! Woohooo!! If you haven’t figured out already, I LOVE GETTING MAIL (minus bills and junk mail of course)! Sometimes I wonder if I border on being obsessed with mail! When I was in grade school and even high school, I was always sending away for free stuff and writing for pen pals. I even had a book with offers to send away for! (This was pre-internet after all!) Some was junk ( I distinctively remember sending away for a portable little popcorn maker- it was a plastic ball that you put the kernals in and you’re supposed to shake it and I guess that was supposed to pop the popcorn! Needless to say, it didn’t work. I believe it was offered by Jiffy Pop or Orville too) and some was fun stuff like stickers. Then I got into rubber stamping and did a lot of mail art exchanges. And now there is swap-bot!

Anyway, back to my happy mail! First I received my Etsy order from Golden Supply co. They said not to expect orders to ship out until 7-10 days AFTER payment and since I just placed the order on the 20th, wasn’t expecting it so that was a nice surprise. I didn’t take a photo of the order since it’s supplies to make stuff (I’m sure you’ll see it in future posts).

Also in the same mail day, I received my partner’s eraser carving swap! Remember, this was what I sent to my partner! She packaged it so nicely and included some pretty papers and a retro fortune fish. She did a great job carving a monkey with a banana background and she also carved the heart. She read my profile!

And there’s more! In the same batch of mail I also got my swap for the High Stakes Etsy Favorites.  For this swap, you buy something from your partner’s Etsy favorites (mine is here) and my partner picked out the bunny embroidered stuff that was on mine. So cute! It’s a water bottle cozy (I guess I should have taken this off as I don’t even use water bottles anymore but it can fit on my Sigg bottle) and this super cute patch!

And then the ultimate package came on Saturday! A complete surprise and I actually thought it was a different swap than what it was. It turned out to be for the Unbirthday swap #5 from my partner thriftymermaid! Deadline to mail for that is March 17th so it was super early! What a fabulous swapper she is! (She also made me feel a lot better about sending out so many things for my partner in the Unbirthday swap #4). Look at all these goodies!

Let’s see…there are 2 kinds of fabrics, 2 balls each of 2 different cotton yarn, 2 crochet hooks, zippers, 2 different kinds of marking pens for sewing, calligraphy markers, a monkey pencil, 2 pocket size hand moisturizers, handmade earrings and all individually wrapped inside an awesome, colorful, bright quilted bag!!
Here’s a bit of a close up of the earrings but really, this photo doesn’t do it justice!

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Here are some recent carvings I did for a carve swap on swap-bot I mentioned in an earlier post. The requirements were to do 2 stamps, something from your partner’s profile and a background stamp. A heart will be earned if you carve a heart as well!

I started with this carving first, since it was the simpliest in design. I guess I used too much pressure in cleaning it between carvings as the last heart got a nick in it. I decided just to replicate the nick on the other side!

This was the second one I did and probably a bit more ambitious on my part. I’m relatively happy with it. It’s not perfect but I’m trying not to stare too hard at it!

This was the last one I did. My partner is really into Asian design so I thought she would like this chinese motif. I thought it would be the easiest of them all but it proved to be more difficult than I thought. I thought it would be easier because of the straight lines but that made it harder!

Here is another carviing I did before the above carvings for the Unbirthday swap I was in. I realized I did a DOY on this swap. You were required to send 3 items from their list of 10 items for this swap. I actually sent all ten items on my partner’s list and then some! DOY! I didn’t mind as I made most of the items and did not spend much on the other items. I’m just annoyed because the postage was more than I wanted it to be but mostly because that means I won’t be getting 10 items from my partner! GRRRR!

On the swapping note, I think I need to stop joining so many swaps. There have been a couple of swaps that have bummed me out. I’m still waiting to get rated on quite a few swaps I’ve sent in the last few weeks, 2 of my send to partners have gotten suspended on swap-bot so I won’t get ratings from them and there was one particular swap where I really put some thought into what I sent and I feel I didn’t get the same treatment from the person that sent me the same swap. Sigh…I guess my expectations have gotten too high!

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Ok, so I don’t want to be accused of being one of those parent’s who thinks their kid is all that. But honestly, I think my kid IS all that! HA! Case #1. Last weekend we went to Kohl’s to do some shopping (our mission to find some long sleeved shirts for Sienna was a failure – of course all the Spring stuff is out and the Winter clearance was a mess!). Sienna found this purple bunny, see Yves’ post here, but we did not buy it for her. This past Saturday, we went back to Kohl’s. It was cold and we didn’t have any better plans and Yves wanted to get a sports jacket (success!). Well, not 2 minutes in the place and Sienna starts calling out “Bunny, where are you?” (The ‘where are you’ game is a recent development, it’s really cute to hear her say ‘oh, there you are!’) Now, really, how could she have possibly remembered that the bunny lived there? It was a whole week between visits to Kohl’s! Is that a normal thing to remember something like that?

Case #2: Yves’ razor hangs on the wall by the sink in the bathroom. Yves bought new ones because he didn’t like the one he had and replaced it on the wall. Sienna points to it and says ‘ooh, new one daddy!’

I’m sure more signs of genius will occur. Stay tuned! HA!

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Here are some photos I took in early January that I forgot to post. There was a thankfully short lived period where Sienna wanted to brush everything. It started with her dolls like Elmo and Abby and then she graduated to Skippy and Neo (when he lets her!). Then she would brush her hair right after! Yuk! HA!

Here she is laying down next to Skippy. Skippy really needs a haircut! His eyes are in there somewhere!

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I made this Morrissey onesie for Evan, a baby boy born in November to my friend Corinne in Canada. I met Corinne in 1997 when I went to the Smiths convention in California. She went with her friend Scott, who I set up to meet initially. I lost contact with Scott but still keep up in touch with Corinne, although sporadically the last few years. So I saw it fitting to make this for her baby! Never too early to introduce Morrissey to the little one! I used my Gocco so I made a shirt for Sienna too! The image of Moz was from a rubber stamp that I had gotten made ages ago from a drawing from another Morrissey fan. I had gotten permission from them to make this stamp and also made a stamp for that person as well (I can’t remember if it was a female or male Moz fan!) I planned to also use the screen to do up some notecards and hopefully I can get the paint off the screen as I did not clean it right away (bad Gocco owner! BAD!) I tried to pick a color that would work well with both the blue onesie and the orange shirt. Not sure how successful the green is but hey! It’s done now!

I decided to wear my commercially bought Morrissey shirt in solidarity! HA!

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I got me some Zack love on Tuesday!

Oh yeah and Tammy came over too!

And gave some love to Skippy too!

Gangsta Sienna! (She put the cap on herself like that!)

And this is what we got when we tried to get them together to take a photo!

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Saturday we took Sienna to her very first show, Elmo Makes Music! at the Wamu Theater at MSG. Needless to say, Sienna had a great time! We picked to go to the 10:30 show because we figured early morning was best. I’m glad we left on the early side because we had train trouble and made it to the show just in time. We got stuck at Dekalb Avenue because of train congestion on the bridge. Then we stopped again on the bridge. Normally, it wouldn’t be as aggravating but trying to keep Sienna entertained in one spot is not an easy task! She was sitting on Yves’ lap for the first half of the train ride. Then she wanted to be with me so we switched seats. Not five minutes after she sat down with me, I felt a warm wet sensation on my leg. I was confused at first as I haven’t felt a warm wet sensation on my pants for a very long time (HA!) then I realized that Sienna’s diaper was leaking! Grrrr!! We forgot to change her diaper before leaving and with the way she was sitting on my lap (her legs spread apart over my legs), I guess her stream went right out her diaper and onto my pants. I didn’t even realize the floor was wet as well until Yves pointed it out!

Well, that incident did not mar the rest of the day as it went smoothly after that. We debated whether to bring the stroller and decided to bring it after all. We grumbled when we had to check in our stroller but that whole process went amazingly smooth! The show was fun! It started pretty much on time then there was a 15 minute intermission at 11:15 and the show ended around 12:15. We were hoping she’d nap on the way back but that didn’t work out! Of course she started getting sleepy when we were about a block away from home. She ended up not taking her nap after all but we put her to bed early when that happens. Overall it was a pretty good experience and something I wouldn’t mind doing again. (Circus anyone?)

Daddy with dry pants! Sienna has that “I’m waiting to pee for when you sit here!” look
Such excitement realizing what she was seeing!

The cast -  it’s most of Sesame Street so I don’t know why Elmo gets such top billing!

They were selling these obnoxious balloons during intermission. Sienna wanted one but we talked her out of it and got her a stuffed Elmo instead.

Oscar and Rosita!

Elmo’s World!

Bert in a Saturday Night Fever skit. Guess this was for the parents, it made me laugh!

Baby Bear and Big Bird!

After the show with her new Elmo doll

Eating her spinach pizza!

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I told you I was going crazy making these glass pendants!  I’m trying to perfect the technique plus it is fun to make these. I really, really  need to take more time to photograph them more nicely! They do look a lot better than these photos.

Sienna’s gorilla is sporting the newest Sienna pendant I made.

Here is one of Zack for Tammy

This is Chlóe, the newest addition to the Dombre/Black family, relations of Yves’.
This is Evan, born into the world in November 2008 to my friends Corinne and Thomas

Sienna’s cousins Eli and Maia for my sister in law, Liz

Pins for my mother in law to wear.

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