For my mother, because she wanted to see my happy birthday to me outfit, got the linen jacket done. Yay! Also the red riding hood felt doll for 7 yr old's B-Day. So many birthdays! The doll is based off the hansel and Gretel dolls by Gingermelon, but I designed that hood, and a hood for that huge head was not an easy task.

 I love the linen jacket and the tulle skirt. So textured. Makes me happy. Also waffles and cake for dinner. :)

Darkly Sweet and Dread Delight Preorder March 22nd

This is coming soon. So relieved to have these come together so nicely. I'm really excited about it. This wonderful couple did a photoshoot for me, and I couldn't be happier with the entire process. Such great models, and the most fun I've had for ages. Ah, playing dress up and pretend, what is better? March 22nd is when the first comes out and the second will be up for preorder. It will be available April something. Like the 21st maybe. I don't know these things. It's written down somewhere.

Sew Saturday Boy's Coat hotchpotch

This has taken me ages to finally get done. Poor kid. Now that it's 60 degrees out there, it's finished. :) I love sewing wool. It stays put. The lining was fiddly. Interlined the sleeves and hood with poly fleece, but the body is a nice quilted cotton lining. Everything from my stash. I've been collecting wool for a long time. And once more, my hoarding ways are validated.

Something kind of funny. I forgot how to invisible stitch for one sleeve cuff and then I remembered for the next one and the hem. Buttons are my friend. Zippers always break in our house. The last coat I made for this guy I replaced the zipper four times. None of that with this coat.

Why must you torture me?

Is it plaid...

Or herringbone?

Nicely lined. Not itchy at all. 

Looking pensive. Also hot.

January looks like this...

Cards and puzzles

Watercolor. We're going through this watercolor book, Everyday Watercolor, and we havent' been doing it every day, but still, lots of fun. 

Annual New Year's tea party. Sweet Pea made the coffee cake all by herself. She's awesome. 

Hats and Happiness.

We went rollerskating. That was the best fun I've had for years it feels like. Totally worth not being able to walk the next day. And the next. And the next...

6 year old handling knives. Exciting stuff. :)

Sew Saturday Christmas Dresses

This year's Christmas Dresses were seriously fun. The fabric, from the amazing Jackman's Fabrics was adorable and easy to sew, but that's quality cotton for you. My favorite thing is the yellow dress, because all that fabric came from my stash except for the Red Riding Hood panel. There's nothing more satisfying than sewing cuteness from stash. :) The pattern was from an old Burda magazine I have in my stash. I came up with the piping on my own, which was a seriously jiggly bit. Piping on square corners is a mess. I had to hand sew it all and fiddle a lot to get them to be moderately not weird. Oh well. They love them, and that's what really matters. 

Coming this weekend. Monday at the latest. Watergirl 3. Water League (of monsters)

Christmas morning. Craziness

So my Christmas started at 3 a.m. when the toddler wet his bed. So at five when the kids were loudly playing UNO in the living room, I wasn't quite excited to get up. Imagine that. Anyway, it was awesome, everyone was happy and got exactly what their heart desired. Even me because after we did presents I went back to bed. Mmmhm.

So this was the 14 year old getting into the spirit of things. He was worshipping the tree lika  pagan. Like a dancing buddhist pagan. They were supposed to be looking pensive and sweet.

One of them got the posing right. This is why she's my best model. Takes direction. Like don't worship the tree like one of those car lot dancing air men.

We are going to be doing needle felting in the very near future. :D SO exciting!

This photo is a treasure. Cheeky fellow. It's called being photobummed.


This year's Christmas season was crazy. I did Dresses, and stockings, and PJ bottoms. And painted the living room. We had a Christmas feast at 10 pm because that's how long it took the turkey to defrost and cook and also I was baking bread all day in the oven. 9 loaves. Fougasse and the ordinary kind. We were up until midnight cleaning up. I think we should make it a tradition, midnight feast! 

Merry Christmas!

More pictures later of my pretty new living room/library! Off to make fougasse!

Christmas Felt Doll

I made this doll for my mother from the book, "my felt doll" a pretty great book. I'll post more of them along with a review some time. Maybe. I'm writing the 4th book of Darkly Sweet, Rosewood Witches and Mages school of magic, or something.

I'm so sexy, it hurts!

I'm having the best time with these felt dolls. 

This is a doll I made from my own design. The eyes I got from a couple manga drawing books, I embroidered them. Sean's ice blue eyes, voila! Oh, this is Sean Fielding from my Watergirl series. I gave him ears and toes! And a nose. Super fun. I wish they had more patterns for boy dolls so I wouldn't have to finangle the jeans over and over until they fit. 

The Water Lost Rewrite

I'm rewriting Water Lost. I pulled the book because it's all wrong, and my stats crashed and I'm such a crazy person for doing this writing thing, blah, blah, blah. So I am NOT writing Watergirl 4. I'm rewriting Watergirl 3. Total rewrite. Maybe be able to use two scenes hacked to pieces in the rewrite. On the upside, I'm almost a third of the way through the rewrite, and I'm tentatively liking it.


There wasn't anything wrong with Water Lost except that it was the wrong book. Why did I put an issues book in my Watergirl, light and fluffy, world? No idea. Issues books belong in contemporary fiction. Not Watergirl. Although they're important and stuff, too heavy, serious, you know. that kind of thing.

Change the cover, title, the whole thing. Maybe Water Curses or Water Genicide (for Gen, you get it? No? Never mind)

I'm feeling very asdfahw@$%rcoiwh about it. Trying not to notice the rewrite until it's over, edited, perfected and republished. Right now I'm supposed to be focusing on BB2. But maybe it's all wrong too. Maybe it's actually a spy noire book or something random. AGH the AGONY of my ARTISTIC LIFE!!!!!

That is all for now.