Foto Friday - Runway kitty

Where did this come from?!

do you ever find things in your house and wonder WTF?

this gem was in my basement.
i have no idea how it got there. it is not at all my size and i had to keep it. i think this not so little kitty is going to end up a pillow!
too epic to donate to the second hand shop.

foto friday.... woah daddy!

Because I needed a longer to do list...

I have a big case of craft distract. 

Do I need more things to try and cram into an already packed schedule? Hell no! But of course there are times when I literally can't help myself and I HAVE to try something. 

This is one of those times. 

I get asked a LOT why I'm not selling dinosaur planters or the miscellaneous cute little cups full of succulents... Well a couple reasons. But right this moment? It's cold. I stopped selling them in the winter because every single time I did I would wrap the heck out of them and warn people to keep them out of the cold as much as possible before getting them home... Inevitably there would be angry emails/calls the next few days from people who walked their plants home in -25 weather or forgot the bag in the car for a few hours then expected me to fix their frozen dead plants. 

So they became a spring/summer thing. 

And then I just didn't have the time to take care of hundreds of extra plants. 

That aspect of it was time consuming in itself! 

There's a bit more to why but I think that's enough detail for now. 

BUT....

TaaaaaDAAAAAHHHHH!

Immortal cup-o-succulent! 

No watering no sun no green thumb required! 

More to come soon! 

january 2015 "real" reads

one of my new years goals was to start reading some "real" books... as in not silly fluff books which is pretty much all i've read since hugo was born.
soooo....

here are the two i have read so far.

this book.... Life of Pi
i had super high expectations and to be honest.... i don't get what all the hype was about.
i didn't hate it, but didn't love it.




















THIS.... i LOVED
i was sad to finish it.
i found myself not wanting to put it down.
super interesting and i enjoyed how it was written. a lot.

new year.... new goals.

i don't think i really like the idea of new years resolutions.

it doesn't seem right.

i'm making goals.

nothing so grand as to deserve the title of resolution.

i had a resolution last year.
knitting a pair of mittens.
THAT
deserved the title.

i had battled my knitting needles for years trying to make a passable pair of mittens.

FINALLY

VICTORY WAS MINE.

will i start making tons of mittens.... NO. likely not.


so back to the real reason of this post.

2015

what am i going to do?
what do i want to do?

• first goal is to read a "real" book every month.

i have been really bad for reading nonsense fluff books since hugo was born.
really bad.
i don't get the time to read that i used to and i find it difficult to read a book that makes me think when i only get a few minutes here or there to pick it up.

i started my goal off with a bang.

i ran out of library books and actually started reading Life of Pi.

and finished it.

more on that in another post.
part two of this goal is to hold myself accountable by blogging the books i read.

• second goal is to learn how to knit cables.

• third goal is to start selling online again. etsy? not sure.... made urban? want to try. 

i haven't focused on my online sales since hugo was born. i'm hoping to find a bit of balance and somehow get that back up and running.

Fingers crossed!

what are your goals for 2015?

we survived!

well, by we i mean ME

christmas season is crazy hectic for us... birthdays and christmas all rolled into a little bundle of crazy... 5 birthdays and 3 christmases all rolled into one month plus a week.
last birthday rolls out january 8th and then we get a little break. just a little one.

as hectic as it was, this is the first year in a long time i was REALLY excited for christmas. watching hugo get more and more excited the closer we got to christmas really brought the magic back to it for me. he LOVES christmas. he loves the decorations, the cookies, the magic... everything.

he was so sad that we took the tree down yesterday.
it would have been down sooner but i just didn't find the time. lucky for him. he got to enjoy it an extra week.

new years wasn't as much of a thrill for him other than he got to hang out with his little cousin and play while we pigged out on cheese fondue so that was a win win for all of us.

new years resolution from last year....
http://kabukikreations.blogspot.ca/2014/01/my-one-and-only-new-years-resolution.html

i did it!!!
hugo was the recipient of these little mittens and he LOVES them.
it took me nearly the whole year to do it but I DID IT!!!

hugo wanted out to try these bad boys out!