lavender in my garden

when i smell lavender i feel like i'm in provence. which is rather strange as i never smelled lavender while in provence... but everyone says it reminds them of provence and while i never used to think so, i think the power of suggestion has won me over.

Halloween 2007 - Mia's First

so for halloween we originally had a costume but it didn't quite fit her right so i decided it was her first halloween so we would go with a costume that i made myself! so miss mia was a Monarch Butterfly and i was her prop (the Twig She Landed On). it was so much fun to make this costume! it was basically a skin on a baby carrier we have (a beco) and it came out great! i was wearing a brown tracksuit and had green leaves to show my twig-ness. she was a hit at the boo at the zoo and a hit trick or treating last night with her cousin, emily. we had so much fun and she was pretty comfy in there (she was only wearing a onesie, some baby legwarmers, her antennae, and some black socks). and best of all she got (me) a ton of candy :) the first pic is the whole costume, the second is my little ones' antannae, and the third is us in the pumpkin patch! more pics here.

An experiment and the Green Piece baby hat

thanks to amy of amysbabies for making the cell phone on the stomach suggestion! amy suggested that for maximum entertainment, i could play various ringtones from my cell phone on my stomach and lo and behold, the baby has a favorite ringtone :) ironically, it was the ringtone that sounded like a salsa song, so at least we know the baby has taste and has inherited her mother's rhythm ;) she wiggles every time she hears that particular ringtone which is an endless source of entertainment to me, really! thanks again amy :)

i also finished this hat this week along with a teeny tiny something for my partner at the one tiny thing swap over at craftster. i don't swap that much anymore because frankly, i have no time. but it's only one tiny thing i have to send out so i'm happy about that and am willing to participate gladly. anyhow, about the hat, it's again a made-up pattern based on some cabling on a sweater that i have. the design came out ok, but i don't like the yarn i used at all. i used crystal palace cotton flamme, which looked divine on my screen but ended up being kinda ugly in person. i thought it would be good for the baby since it was cotton, but the fact that little floofy things come off of it (off of cotton???) is kind of disheartening. it's not my best knit by far, but perhaps i can get her to wear it once or twice.

finally moved. and a mushroom jelly :)

sorry it's taken forever to post again, but we've been exhausted all week with moving. but now it's official, we're all moved in to our new apartment. it was kind of sad moving out of our old place, as it was the first real place we lived together on our own (once we were married). but all the extra room of the new place has definitely helped a ton with getting over it. i just didn't know we had so much STUFF (read: crap).

taking pictures of my huge mess in my new house would seem to be the way to go, but i'm too embarrassed of my mess to post it on the internet. so instead i found a random picture of jellyfish i took at the monterey bay aquarium. in the immortal words of dory from finding nemo, i shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Squishy.

one shrimp to rule them all

i made a bendy straw shrimp! i made a bendy straw shrimp! i was totally enamoured with a bendy straw shrimp that i saw on craftster and then someone posted a link to a quicktime tutorial on how to make them. i immediately bought bendy straws and here is my shrimp-o. it is a tribute to my friend katie who does this impression of the little shrimp in shark tales.

my little pony

so i've been having sort of bad days one after the other (first i was sick, then super busy, then tired, then just having weird little bad things happening, like losing my parking ticket when i parked at the parking structure near school). so i'm posting this silly phone picture of myself and the coolest invention ever. it's a toy horse called butterscotch (when i was little i was madly in love with a my little pony named butterscotch) that's about 3 feet tall. it's robotic and responds to the sound of your voice and responds to when you brush it and everything. i swear i was [thisclose] to buying it. however, $300 and a toy horse i have no space for was probably not the best idea for us, and since marco talked me out of it, i only have this picture to dream about a pony for myself (yes, i would let the baby play with it).