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Yap! It’s another Lunch Kit featuring the lollipop trees that I love so well these days. I sent out my very first kit with the Utensil Wallet today! It’s headed right this moment up to British Columbia! Lori has mentioned before that her art gets to travel to more fun places than she does, and I totally feel her. That situation will be remedied soon enough, though! Dave and I are taking a second honeymoon in a few months! To London! I can’t waaaaaaaiiittt!!

Lately, I can’t stop cutting out trees that look like lollipops! You’ll probably see these little fellas popping up all over before too long. Right now, they’re on a Lunch Kit and two skirts. Maybe a collage is in order? Who knows!

In other treehugging news, Project: Dump the Shower Water on the Front Garden is going strong. I’ve never been so good about watering my plants before! The collards are getting big…it might be time transplant them to bigger pots this very weekend! I’ll post some pictures if we do that!

We’ve hinted over the last couple of weeks about a top secret project, and now we can spill! SuperCute! submitted an Atlanta Indie City Guide to Indie Fixx, and the first installment was posted today! Woo! this was so much fun to put together!

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So remember how I won that Vintage Ephemera Pack from Clever Nettle a while back? Well it came!! Inside was a fantastical scarf, tons of old photographs and tickets, postcards that Anja designed herself and this amazing book of children’s poetry. Of course, I can’t resist pulling pages from old books and gluing them to things, so that’s what I did! It also gave me a chance to play with this gel medium that had been taunting me from the cabinet for a bit. This little owl collage is over in the shop along with a new Lunch Kit! Look out for more collages from this little book along with more Lunch Kits in the next couple of weeks! Hurrah! It feels so good to be making things again, you guys, I can’t even really describe it.

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This weekend, I feel like I ran around town crazily!

Friday night was a happy hour at Manuel’s Tavern with a bunch of friends. It felt like it had been 100 years since I’d just hung out with folks to eat, drink and gab. It was delightful and much, much needed!!

Saturday, I got up a little later than intended but managed to get a bunch of things done. Dave and I rode bikes up to Outback in Little 5 to get new tubes. The ones we had on our bikes were really tready and slow, and it was time to change them up. It takes them about an hour to swap out the tires, so we hit Arden’s Garden for juice shots (yum!) and Rag O Rama where I got a gigantic pair of sunglasses(yay!)!

We realized at the bike shop that we hadn’t really thought this new tire thing through. How were we going to get the old ones home? I will tell you how: we carried them purse-style over our shoulders. It was a pretty hilarious ride home, with a pair of tubes hitting my left knee and falling off of my right shoulder. Luckily, we live only about a mile from the bike shop!

That evening, there was an ice cream social at Cosmo’s! OMG. They put together an amazing vegan sundae bar. I had 2 sorts of ice creams and tons of toppings. Never has a bellyache been more worth it! I got to see a whole bunch of awesome folks and do a little junk food shopping while I was there. Here is a picture of how jam-packed Cosmo’s was last nite:

The obvious thing to do after a huge bowl of ice cream is 9pm sushi dinner at RuSans, so I grabbed Cody and that’s what we did! And it was wonderful! I got home all pumped from sundaes and sushi, so Dave and I watched a couple of movies: V for Vendetta and King of Kong. They were both really awesome! If I ever see that Billy Mitchell fella, though, I will be giving him a piece of my mind. Maybe I’ll run into him when I’m in SoFla this coming weekend! Hollywood isn’t that far from where my mom lives….

This morning, I got up and cut out a big pile of Lunch Kits! I’ll get to sewing them later this week, I hope! They’ve been calling next week at my dayjob “Hell Week,” so nothing is certain. We’ll see, I guess. After a morning of fabric, I picked up Liz and we headed over to Youngblood to drop off ‘Stache Glasses and Votives for the shop! Hurrah! On the way, we ran by Cosmo’s. The bowls, spoons and cups they used for the ice cream social were compostable, so I volunteered our bin for the waste.

After an errandy morning, I rushed home to watch Big Baby! I’m pretty much busting I’m so proud of Dave. I made a batch of enchiladas for a late lunch and we sort of bummed around all day. I guess what I’m saying is that this weekend was totally busy and totally perfect. And now: ROCK BAND!

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So I don’t think I posted over here yet that I opened a vintage shop on Etsy! It’s called Hello, Vintage, and I’m super-stoked about it. I keep finding amazing vintage clothing and doodads when I go out hunting for fabric…more than I could ever justify keeping for myself. Now I’ve finally got an outlet for it! Right now, I’ve got a bunch of clothing listed, but I have some really cool mugs to add later this week. They just came out of the dishwasher this morning and are ready for their closeups!

The Indie Craft Experience was awesome, as always! The past couple of days have been just sort of a blur of crafting and good friends.

OK, first, obviously, let’s talk about Friday night’s preparty! Holy crap, you guys. This came off wonderfully! I don’t think I can thank Ashley, Lori and Idalys enough times for the amazing vegan eats! Folks were amazed when we told them all the snacks were vegan! These ladies were more generous than we could have ever asked for, and you really helped make the party so special. Here is where I have to admit that some of the leftover dip from the party sustained us through the day yesterday and I may have just finished up some mini cranberry-orange scones for breakfast. Maybe.

We also had awesome live music by DP3, who also played at ICE the next day! I am pretty sure we couldn’t have pulled off parts of this party without Davis from DP3. He sure did not sign up to be the MC for the night, but he did a fantastical job! Davis helped us transition between the music and showing the Handmade Nation trailer and helped wrangle folks when it was time to announce the Alternative Apparel t-shirt contest winners!

OMG AND! Faythe Levine, the woman responsible for Handmade Nation and owner of The Paper Boat Boutique wants to carry my Lunch Kits in her store!! AAAAAAH! I was completely wound up from all the good vibes when I got home, so Dave and I watched Battlestar Galactica and I tried to sit still.

On to the show!

OK, I’ll get this part out of the way first. It was hot. Like…brutally hot. Whenever I asked someone how they were doing, they would say, “Hot, but good.” There, done!

I know that after every ICE I say that this one was the best one yet, and this one was the best one yet! This was the best group of vendors I’ve seen at any show in Atlanta so far. Folks traveled to come here! My only regret about the show was that I never had the energy to make the rounds and meet as many folks as I would have liked. I didn’t even really get to visit anyone that wasn’t in the immediate vicinity. I only saw Leslie from The Green Wardrobe at the very end, when she was carrying stuff to her car!

The day is sort of a blur, but everyone was super duper nice. We had awesome neighbors, too! We were right beside some of our favorite folks and just across the way from the super-sweet Miss Alison! Our other across the way neighbors were Missy and Raoul! It was great to gab with them. We had Flickr Confession, wherein we admitted that we love looking at each others’ photostreams, especially the cat pictures. They had a brilliant idea about this picture of my kitcats that I am totally going to put into action! More to come on that once I get it together!

Oooh ooh! I did get a chance to visit Jeanette from The Vegan Dish’s booth. She wanted a Lunch Kit and was into a trade!! I got a beautiful serving dish printed with a swirl and tiny stars and a bunny butt magnet!! Best. Trade. EVER. She, of course, took the Squirrel Lunch Kit. I was happy to see it go to such a great home!

So I guess that’s it! Christy and Shannon put on another kickass event! They are the best! Hurrah!

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Oh! While I’m thinking about it….a few folks yesterday asked me questions about Atlanta Craft Mafia stuff, so I just wanted to reiterate here that Liz, Lori and I decided to leave the ACM and focus on SuperCute!. You can read my original post about it here. If you do have questions for the ACM, you can email the ladies directly at atlcraftmafia@gmail.com.

I’ve had this skirt for a bit and couldn’t really figure out how to finish it. Lori, because she is a genius, suggested last weekend that I sew a Hugbot on there! Of course! So here he is! The little Hugbot is made from Kunin recycled felt. They turn old soda bottles into some of the most amazing felt I’ve ever used. The texture is different from craft felt I’ve bought before…it’s softer and less stiff. I love it! I’m in love with the apple green in particular, which is what I used on this little skirt. More is on its way to me as we speak!

I don’t think there will be time to list this fella before Kirkwood tomorry, but I’ll put him up in the shop after the show if he’s still around.

The Saved By the Bell: College Years where they throw a rave is on. Screech wants to be cool, so he’s helping someone at the party get a tank of nitrous. Here is the exchange I just heard:

“Screech, listen: The guy with the gas gets all the girlsssss.”
“Oh, really? That’s never worked for me before!”

I think we’ve all learned a valuable lesson here.

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