Eggs!

This years eggs.  We dyed a few.



And I made a musical egg, cause its a musical year at our house.  Bob LOVED it!






And we've started beading eggs.  We know Michael Chemsak, he made the 2006 White House Egg representing Alabama.  He got K interested and we've been working on these for a while.  K made the red one and is working on the one with the black.  I made the green one.  You glue one seed bead on at a time.  Yes, we've gone bodmin.



And then we had a bit of fun.  The Doctor and River look a bit concerned.



And just because I love this egg : Long ago, I was very bored, and this happened.  Memories.

Fan Girl + Sock Hop = Awesome!

     We have started swing dancing.  Let me rephrase that.  K has started swing dancing, and Mr. Man and I go along to chaperone.  We dance a few, but we just aren't in shape, yet.  K on the other hand, dances the all night.  Well, till about 9:30.  She's a beginner, but she's getting the hang of it.  And all her friends are beginners too, so they have a great time.

     So, the weekend before school started, the local swing dance society held a back to school Sock Hop.  With a costume contest(!!!!!) K wanted a retro 50's dress(!!!!!), we looked at patterns, and even though we started a week ahead, we just didn't have the time.  So, she settled on a poodle skirt.

     Now, K is a fan girl and not a girly girl at all, so though she wanted to wear a poodle skirt, she was not interested in some fluffy pink poodle on a pearl leash.  Oh no.  It had to be something fan related.  Her first thought was a dalek skirt, with big yarn pom poms in lines all round and felt strips for the bars.  Fabulous idea, too funny, but she decided that would be too obvious.  She wanted it to be subtle.

    She just wasn't sure what she wanted, so we picked a burgundy felt for the skirt, a wide black elastic for the waist, some shear black to make a scarf, and she picked out a bunch of felt rectangles, in a variety of colors for the decoration.  My job was to make the skirt, which was the easy peasy part.  Her job was the decoration.

     Her first thought was...

Exterminate!  It looked great on the burgundy.  Done!  That was easy!

     But, the next morning she got up and said, "Mom, it has to be K-9 poodle skirt!!!!"  Yup, has to be.  So she set to work.

   Cute!  And the leash is ball chain!!!!  I love that part!

   She loved it, it was a big hit, and she had a wonderful time.  One of the older dancers told her at first, he just thought it was another poodle skirt, but then he looked close, and it was the coolest poodle skirt EVER!  We left before the costume contest, but we didn't care.

Good times had.

Thank you!!!!

I received my two Custom-made Felt Matryoshka Doll Ornaments, made by the ever so talented clumsy_chord, the day before Christmas.  AND THEY ARE BRILLIANT!!!!  #11 and River!  I asked for her to make them traditional, but if you look close, you can see the fandom, and they couldn't be more perfect.  She even added a fez!!!!






The squeeeing was deafening when I opened them Christmas Morning and they are hanging on the tree, to the right of the Plushie Tardis, just above the fez and bow tie, to the left of the Helter Skelter (Not really, what is a Helter Skelter anyway??)





Thank you clumsy_chord!  We love them!!!

Tardis Pillows have been gifted!!

A tardis pillow fight broke out the moment after I took this picture.  The fez, bow tie and suspenders came out this morning.

Mission Accomplished!!!!

Tardis Pillows!!!!!  

The original Tardis plushie is on the right.  K made the very first for a friend and then made one for herself, I can't remember how long ago.  She's slept with it ever since.  Today, I helped her make 2 more for her New Whovian friends.  Machine stitched, not hand sewn, but we only had a few hours.

The girls are in the living room as I type, emitting high pitched noises.  I guess they're a hit.

Guess WHat We're making!!!

Tardis Pumpkin!

What to give the fan WHO has everything.

A Tardis Snuggie of course.

Mr. Man and Mr. D have been friends since high school.  Both are huge Doctor Who fans, and Mr. D was mostly responsible for K becoming a fanatical Who fangirl.

We wanted to make something special for Mr. D and it had to be something Doctor Who realted and unique.    We had a friend make him a ceramic dalek a few years ago and we made him fez and bow tie ornaments for his Christmas tree.  He, of course, put them on his ceramic dalek.

After Christmas last year, we were in Kroger and saw Tardis blue snuggies on sale and it just hit us.  It took almost 6 months to figure out all the bits, but last July, K and I put it together.

I did the machine work and K did all the hand sewing

Yes, it is Miss Kitty approved.

And Teenager approved as well.

For the signage, I typed up the words and found the St. John Ambulance symbol online.  Irons and fleece do not mix, so I ironed T-shirt transfers onto cotton panels.  Turned out rather well.

Mr. D was,... surprised.

The white hat was a last minute addition. We thought it added the perfect finishing touch.

Thanks Mr. D, for everything.  And you won't mind if I submit this picture to Doctor Who Insider, do you?  Nah, you won't mind.

Duct Tape Easter Eggs,... Yup!

We had an idea.  Well, actually Mr. Man had the idea.

Mr. Man posed the question "Could we decorate Eggs with Duct Tape?"  And of course our answer was,... YES!.

K was all about stars and moons...

And the sun shining through...

And then triangles.  This isn't a great picture, but it looks like a bird wrapped around te egg.  Very cool.

I like the way K's  thin strips of duct tape turned out.  We might try dying egs using the tape as a resist.  Seen it on the interwebs, looks like fun.  I first went with covering the egg with trapazoids, duct tape decoupage.  They need to be small to keep from wrinkling.  Though I kinda like the wrinkled effect.

Then I wanted to do something Doctor Who and I was thinking about Sarah Jane Smith, and plain ole duct tape seemed just the thing.

I call it K-9 in Duct Tape on Easter Egg.  I may try to put a little Tardis on the other side, and then dye it all swirly blue and red.

We dyed regular eggs too,

And we made our Easter Egg Rolls, delicious.

K decorates them. We gave one batch to our neighbor D.  All in all it was a lovely day.

AAAAAAHHHH!!!!! Run!!! They've attacked again!

Snowleks!!!!! And they are bigger, badder and bluer than before!!!!!!

And green too.

Amelia found a beach bucket and 1 1\2 TBSP measure were perfect for the colorful new guys. She sprayed the body with colored water, took quite a bit of color. She sculpted the heads with a Corelle cereal bowl and used a Children's Tylenol measuring cap for the head bumps. Vicious yet adorable.

And they are everywhere!! I was visiting some of my followers pages, and Lynda Bunting is besieged!!!! The Doctors have it all well in hand. Love it!

The Great Snow: Day 5. The Daleks attack!

We are besieged!

There are hundreds of them!

OK, well, a dozen. But they're evil! Pure evil! And they're huge!

Well, maybe not huge, but evil! Amelia has a plan.

Want to make an army of your own? Course you do. Here's what you need:

Packing snow, one Solo cup, twelve sweet gum twigs, twelve long needle pine bunches, one measuring cup, 1/3 cup worked perfectly, measuring spoon, 1/2 teaspoon, pair of scissors and a cat. Actually, the cat isn't really necessary, but we can't take a picture around here without one showing up.

Make your body and head, then add the bumps using the 1/2 teaspoon. Cut the sweet gum twigs in half and use the wide end for the eyestalk and the thin end for the plunger. Cut the pin needles bunches in half and add for the gun thingy. Use the teaspoon to add the blooby end to the plunger. And there you have it, you're own cute little destroyer of worlds.

Yep, we're stir crazy. :D

And I think I'm getting a season 18 for Valentines! *SQUEEEEE*

K made Mr. Man an Everyday Tom Baker scarf for Christmas.

She made it on our Bond Fashion Knitter, a smaller version of the Ultimate Sweater Machine. She used all Red Heart Super Saver and a bit of "I Love This Yarn." It took her about 3 days, working a few hours a day. She did all the knitting, I was not allowed to help, and put on the fringe by herself. All I did was seam the long edges together.

Mr. Man has wanted a Doctor Who scarf that he could wear everyday for years. Something only true fans would recognize, and the muggles would think was just bit of nice knit wear. This scarf is just what he wanted. It's 1/4 size, about 4.5 feet long and the perfect size to wear everyday, and Mr. Man has done just that. And his office manager thought it was just beautiful. Perfect.

It made a high schooler we know drool and beg. He was on the edge of breaking his cool a few weeks ago when K showed him her sonic screwdriver. Needless to say he has abandoned he calm exterior and resorted to all out whining. Funny.

I understand I might be getting something similar, in shades of burgundy and purple, for Valentines. Yes!

Ms. Pond and her latest creation.

Think really high squeaky voice.

Twelve Jammie Dodgers and a Fez. Now you're talkin'!

We made Jammie Dodgers!

K did most of the work, I mainly supervised. Heavens my counters are a mess. Martha Stewart, I am not.

We used strawberry jam. Yum!

I would point you to the recipe we used, but it was a complete and total fail. The recipe called for about half the flour required to make it even semi rollable. But we managed and they are goooood!


Aaaahhhhhhh! No! Bad Kitty. Susan literally launched herself at the table. Silly Fur baby.

I saved them!