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Archive for December, 2007
A Year of Knitting Toys
Dec 31st
About a year ago (a bit less) I started this blog, so the beginning 2008 marks roughly a year of knitting toys and getting other people to do the same. It was such a great year!
(Mountain Man, one of the first toys I knitted)
Thank you to everyone who helped me, inspired me, or just visited Mochimochi Land over the past year. Let’s make 2008 even more toy-rific!
Reindeer Kick Line
Dec 28th
I got a little carried away with the Reindeer this year, handing them out like breath mints to friends and coworkers. Now I just have to make one or two for myself!
The pattern still comes for free with any purchase through January 1st. After that, it will be available for $5.
This is Not a Cat Blog
Dec 26th
But once a year I can post photos of my parents’ cat Sasha, who will put up with a lot and still keep purring.
She was Santa Cat and Reindeer Cat for about 30 seconds each.
Another Sad Holiday Display
Dec 24th
This one is a little more creepy than sad.
It’s a life-size Santa mannequin, propped up at a toll booth on the Cimarron Turnpike in Oklahoma, where I’m spending Christmas with my family. You can’t make it out in the photo, but his face is all ruddy and weird, as if he were made out of paper mache and drug out year after year to greet the eastbound traffic in all sorts of weather.
The creepiest thing to me is the safety vest, which must freak out the night drivers to some extent. Also, the sad table of fake presents is a bit of a downer, though the poinsettias suggest that someone was really trying.
Last-Minute Gifts at gallery hanahou
Dec 21st
Last-minute gifts to myself, that is!
Yesterday I finally made my purchases at the “Luv-able and Hug-able” plush show at gallery hanahou.
Aren’t they adoooorable? The stripey monster is Bartholomew by Sewn by Blythe, little squid is by Lizette Greco +Grecolaborativo, and the curious pink and white creature is Cecilio’s Family Daughter by Eloole.
Today is the last day of the show, so if you’re in NY, see if you can’t fit a visit into your day. (It’s open noon – 7 tonight.) Some of the plushes will also be available online past the holidays, but the supply is really starting to dwindle!
Oh, and I was quoted about the show in this week’s Village Voice!
