Chickenlips Knitting

It's part of the "surprise" project I mentioned last post. I dressed up the little clutch bag with a cute, handmade pin I picked up at BSG.

Sorry for the crappy photo. The pin is a little "ram" of pearls! A lady by the name of Nickie Williams made the jewelry. I don't think she has a website. But she had awesome pewter sheep and crystal sheep, too--I wanted to buy one of each. Hopefully she will be at Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival this September, so I can buy more stuff from her.

Anyway, then I added these:

...so now we have a darling little ensemble.

A felted clutch and matching lace-up opera mitts! I have been dreaming of offering this for sale in my Etsy shop. The box full of Patons wool is for making several more of these sets in different colors. Now that's where you guys come in--do you think I should list these items now, or wait until I have a few made and put them all up at once? I've discovered that the more you have for sale, the more you tend to sell. I won't sell the pin, though--it's way too cute.

I finished the Twizzle socks, and they're up on the blockers in the shower. I won't bore you with a photo, that would be redundant. But I am having a great day today--my family is out of town! That's right, while they're in Spokane over Fourth of July, I've got to work Monday and Tuesday, so I'm batching it. I stayed in my jammies till noon, watching pay-per-view ("Blood Diamond," pretty raw but a good film) and finishing the socks. Then I did a little light housework and went to the salon for a couple of hours, getting a pedi and haircolor. La de da. It also helps that the weather is gorgeous. J. will be home Tuesday afternoon, but Michelle is staying with Grandma until July 8th. No, I didn't really do a happy dance. For all I know, she might read this sometime--hi, sweetheart! mama misses you! (actually I do--the house is kinda creepy-quiet. Maybe I should put on some 80's "hair metal.")

This week, I've been over at Yarn-a-Go-Go reading the saga of Rachel's cat Digit who came home after having vanished for four months. Poor kitty is in rough shape, and I hope he'll be OK. A friend made a picture of Digit into a "lolcat," the like of which you may have seen going around in e-mail. Basically they are kitties in a funny pose--or not--with abbreviated, mis-spelled text (I won't get started on how text messaging is killing spelling as we know it, I've always been a good speller) or just bad grammar over the pic. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I love the lolcat, and I wanted to put one on my blog too: