I added Lou to the shop today.

Lou has several older siblings in various homes across the country. Lou herself actually traveled to Ohio for Plush Rush. Her big sister Olive went home with somebody, but Lou flew back to California and has been hanging out with me. I have plans to work on a few more monsters this weekend.

When I was adding Lou to etsy I realized that I hadn’t connected my Paypal account to my etsy account. Doh. I hope no one wanted to order something with Paypal. It’s all fixed now, luckily.

I’ve really enjoyed reading other bloggers talking about Pure Style, and living simply. I am slowly trying to simplify and pare down. One of the things I hope to do by making and selling things is to use up all the Stuff I have. I feel so weighed down. But it’s not easy to let go of things I might need someday. I live in a very small house, we don’t have a garage, but we have a little shed and a tiny guesthouse. Lately it seems like whenever we want to find something we look everywhere, moving piles, making messes and shifting junk around. I don’t like the feeling that my stuff is such a controlling part of my life. So I am letting go. And it’s hard.

I listed my piano on Craig’s list yesterday. It’s 30 years old, and my grandfather bought it for me when I was young. I took piano lessons for four years as a child, and never really had the touch. I could play, but I wasn’t anything special. So someone is coming to look at the piano on Saturday morning, and they might just take it with them. I never play it, I never will. I can only do so many things in the hours I have each day. Our living room is way too small for a piano. I know it is the right thing to sell it cheap so some other person can use and enjoy it, but it’s still going to be hard to let it go. Could somebody please reassure me that I’m doing the right thing?

No pink in sight today!

I was lucky enough to turn in my application on time and be accepted to participate in Plush Rush.


There are a lot of really great artists, I think I’m kidding myself that anyone will buy my little monsters, but I decided to be brave and send them out there into the big bad world. I’m making three little guys similar to Mort, Sally and Mimi. So bookmark the Plush Rush site, and be there when the sale starts on December 3rd!

Wow, I sound like some kind of badly written ad campaign.

I’ve been wanting to participate in the Month of Softies, so this is my last minute contribution:

I’m afraid she looks more like a mouse than a cat. But her little eyes are tiny vintage beads, and her bow and sash are vintage rayon ribbon, so at least I got the vintage part in there, even if she isn’t very cat-like. I wanted to try something tiny, so she is about 5″ tall, and my fingers are sore. I sewed her completely by hand, and I’m not the best hand sewer. She doesn’t have a name yet, I’ll have to work on that. Next month my softie will be much bigger, I think.