April I Will Go Away

In April I continued to dress like a peacock.

I celebrated my 25th birthday with Chinese food and kisses.

I bought the little pendant for my dad's ashes that I wear everyday.

Bats and I found this little cutie a home.

March Laps It Up and Roars For More

In March I took an impromptu trip to California to see my mom and get some of my dad's things.

My dad lived in the Napa area, so we stayed in Petaluma and took trips into San Francisco. We drove through this ridiculous tunnel almost everyday.

I started getting back into my daily outfits after some sporadic dressing.

I also did a little crafting too, making this eyeball ring from polymer clay.

February Is My Snowman's Anniversary

February started off pretty usual and with some of my favorite outfits of the year.

Being in the proper Valentine's spirit, there were plent of pink accessories to be found, including this necklace I made.

However, in mid February I learned that my dad had suddenly passed.

I designed what would eventually be my first tattoo is his memory.

January It's So Nice

January marked the beginning of my (almost) daily outfit posts. It started with a pink scarf, a green sweater, and some thrifted boots. ($6 boots! I have to brag.)

January also saw the birth of the love of my life, my peacock dress. I'm seriously considering sewing this thing to my wedding dress. Mr. Peacock still resided on the original peacock dress, an house dress I snagged for $2.50 at the thrift store and altered to fit.

Speaking of thrifting, I also found the mushroom shaped cooking jar with mushrooms on it and also a handle made of mushrooms. If you couldn't tell, this thing tickles me to death.

I also made the Spaceman Spiffy necklace, something I will get more use out of once it's warm enough to forego scarves.

January was also when I posted the fabric belt tutorial. I have since made approximately a million of them. They're so easy, seriously, go make one right now!

Watch Out, He-Man

My first crafting day of 2011 was a fruitful one.

I am now the proud mother of six little Skeletors. They kept my up all night with their plotting against He-Man and tried to sneak out after bedtime to attack Castle Grayskull. And they have faces only a mother could love.

If you'd like to adopt one of your own, head over to the shop. Despite their evil inclinations, they're quite cuddly.

All Arts Market

I had a ton of fun at the All Arts Market, this is definitely one I want to do again. Luckily, it happens every three months!

Here's my table...

And here's me being a total doofus behind my table. (My mother can confirm I can't not make a weird face when somebody points a camera at me.)

This is the third craft fair I've gone to and only the second venue. (My previous experience was with the now defunct Craft Attack.) Although the sign up organization left some to be desired, the atmosphere and fellow crafters were really great and I met a lot of lovely, creative people. One of my resolutions is to participate in more craft fairs and All Arts Market is going on my list.

Stop! Craft Fair Time!

For those in the Charlotte area, please come see me Wednesday and Thursday night at the NoDa All Arts Market! Drop by table 313 and say hi! (Parachute pants optional.)

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Cobra!

Life is One Bix Mixer

Due to a combination of (disgusting, horrible) wintery weather and working on new combinations for my 30, I am taking a jaunt into Patternville. I need color and layers!

Day 20

I've mixed this floral skirt with this scarf before, I really love the combo. I wasn't really thinking about two busy florals going together, but they are so similar they looks really nice together. I can also tone down the rest of the outfit with some of the darker colors in the background.

Day 21

Stripes, ombre, and lace-look tights (all the trend with none of the frozen legs). I love this ombre skirt with stripes!

Day 22

More floral, this time with plaid and skulls, because nothing goes together like a lovely spring day and death. I felt like the blue in all of these was enough to pull them together. There are small blue flowers on the tights, a blue background on the skully scarf, and grey blue in the skirt, and a solid blue skirt. Or more likely I just felt like wearing all this at once and I'm now just making up a reason that I match. I guess we'll never know.

(Also, yes, I am pretty much that white. By January I might glow in the dark.)

Also, I was kind of a naughty little cheater. New glasses are medical, they don't count!

(I really did need them, I haven't had new ones for about five years and my poor little eyes were suffering for it. Please don't judge me!)

One Sketchy Character

Ok, so I was a little horrible about taking outfit pictures over the Thanskgiving holiday. Luckily, I was feeling a little sketchy...



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