I made the kitty Hello  to go with Kathleen, the girl from London. Under the chair are some of the baked goods the pair have purchased - a cupcake and two Oreo cookies!

So you can see them better. I need a more brown color of yarn for the vanilla cookies which I have ordered today from Amazon. That yellow is just too sunny!

Here is a better picture of Hello, the kitty. It seems the Sanrio company in Japan is having trouble telling Kitty (Kathleen) from her cat Hello and mixes the two up all the time - for 40 years! I find it typical for Japanese to be unable to organize information such as this. It is amazing how many people world-wide are ready to accept their confusion! The important thing is that the pair are cute!

Yesterday I had so much trouble with my vision that I have decided to show my crocheted works in this blog instead of waiting for myself to get back to beads.

The only beads on this dolly are in her eyes! Yes I have taken a vacation from beading by crocheting and this week I made this dolly. I have been using the tutorials in YouTube and have found them very helpful and inspiring. I have found I can crochet with only 1/2 looking (mostly by feel) which is a lovely switch from pressing my nose against a needle and beads.
My foot is finally completely healed. My new fear of bead needles could be part of my resistance to beading. Also the dark weather helps make me grab for yarn instead of beads. The big question now is whether I make a new dolly. I am surprised that of all the things I crocheted in the last month it is the dolly I wanted to show you.

Prince Charming did get into the Shameless show at Gualala Arts Center where he caused many laughs. I even got emails from people who enjoyed him and were
glad to make his acquaintance. This is the first time an entry into  a GAC show got emails! So I am counting him as a success.

Along with Prince Charming was this "girl" saying "Oh Yes!" also. Yes, that is a condom in here mouth/purse. People did not get this joke so easily, nor did she sell. With the show  overLing-Yen has already brought both back home where they sits on our old cold wood-burning stove. 

The past two months have not been good ones for me. In the first week in November I stepped on a needle and it broke off in my foot. There was a circus getting it out ending with a trip to Fort Bragg hospital where Dr. James, a surgeon finally found it and got the 1/2 inch  piece out. Not to mention are the attempts by two other doctors that left a huge cut up area in my left foot. Today it is finally showing signs of healing shut and there are moments when I can step on the whole foot again.

Like Jennifer Cruise I have put away my normal creative outlets and turned to crocheting. Instead of beading and posting here, I have crocheted masses of potholders, baby blankets, Christmas decorations, flowers and too much other stuff. I am trying to get back to beading but my old eyes are preferring to tangle threads. I will see what 2015 brings me!

This is the beginning phase of Prince Charming. In case you cannot read the note that will sit at his side in the exhibit "Shameless" it reads.

Meet Prince Charming

1. Give him an air kiss.

2. Life him up to see if he has turned into a Prince.

When one lifts him up his erect penis is visible. I hope he gives the visitors to the show a laugh.

While doing all of that ( I shortened the dildo by a couple of inches, and sewed it securely to to his bottom and added jewels to the crown) I got out the prototype for my summer version of the Frog Purse. Now being quiet, I had the nerves and serenity to redo the mouth of this frog. It is even better than ever and all the repeats of making frog mouths is paying off as I finally know what to do in the corners where life peeks through!  I will put this frog in CHAC in Point Arena as Barbara had asked for him even before I had his mouth fixed. I have things to make for Christmas but am finding that the tiny pieces for the puff star give me cramps in my hands to hold them in place while making them. I have found all the jobs for Christmas very invasive. All I want to do is bead on my frogs and anything else makes me jittery and unhappy.

So Werner had his appointment at RCMS on Friday and remembered! (I would have forgotten) to make a trip to the B-room and picked up the last piece for Pinky. It is in her purse, her mouth. I do not know how familiar this brand is with you and how good your brand recognition is but that packet in her purse is a colorful, lubricated! condom.
Still making stars for the Christmas trade but do not know how many there will be as holding the tiny parts of one, gives me cramps in my fingers. I am doing one now in 8s and so far I have less cramping sessions with the bigger chunks. I got my shipment of 9 frogs for $10. at eBay so I am really eager to get to work on those instead of these fiddly stars.

So here is Pinky the frog with her mouth in place. Wait until you see what will go in it. We have to make a trip to town for her special item. She will go into the "Shameless" show at Gualala Arts in December, so be prepared for a surprise. If my packages ever come I can make her partner for the show.
I found out, when I sat her up with the beads done on her chest that she has boobs. How great that she has been a 'sh'e all along!
Barbara Fast, at CHAC gallery in Point Arena, invited me to be in the Christmas jewelry show and requested that I make more of the puffed stars and sun prism balls. So I gathered all the stuff for each project before sending my Fire Mountain order off to Vicki. Last night I started on the puff stars and found it very comforting to do something so familiar.  Thank goodness I had two boxed of Delicas in eggshell colors so I am off and beading. I am hoping to extend the star theme by make sea stars too.

I started beading on this the pink frog I had gotten from BB Toys. You see them on his one foot. That was the result of my whole afternoon's work.

Yesterday I had stopped working in the evening on the monkey because I could see that sewing in his upper lip needed precise work and I felt I was too tired to do a good job. However when I sat down today to work, after a good nap, I still did not feel I was up to the job and all I really wanted  to do was bead. I immediately found the red/pink beads that were perfect for this frog and never got up the nerve to return to the monkey who goes on living with a loose upper lip.

I see I need to redo the backdrop. The sun is moving northward and I need to raise the whole setup. For this shot I was using the last ray of sun and got the edge in too. I wish I had my old Photoshop program. I could have fixed that right corner in two shakes.