I received from mljohnston on .... saturday, i think. sorry for taking so long to post! but i have been busy teaching myself to knit!! hehe. 

first up...awesome yarn (there is one missing, but you will see it later...)



i think i love the denim the most, but they are all very "me"

next, an awesome book on knitting that she learned from (which has def helped me out a lot already!)


a neckwarmer that she knit for me :-D,  it i's sooo soft


Michigan-y stuff (i think if anyone saw me with those pencils i would get shot....seriously.. .  )


AND finally...

she also sent me some knitting needles...which i have already put to good use.



you have no idea how excited i am! i know it's not the best, but it's the best knitting i've ever done! until yesterday all i could do is cast on, and now look at me :-D hehe. 

anyway...thank you so much! i love everything, obviously!

I received from katcal yesterday.  i see some awesome jewelry in my future!

first here's the soup:


and here are a few of my fav things so far:




and finally! the bestest part, the earrings!



thank you so much for everything!
hopefully i'll get to wear those earrings on a date soon, haha

i received from AbbyRose. :-D
Here are a few pics. I haven't had time to go through everything yet.  I would like a few hours uninterruped to play and haven't had that opportunity yet.

Everything together (hemp/beads/card):


My totally awesome ring.  (honestly, i was hoping for a button ring, lol. you musta read my mind)



and here are a few of my favs so far:



thank you so much! i can't wait to sort them, it's one of my fav pastimes :-D

I recieved from both my partners on Thursday and am just now getting around to posting pics, hehe.

First from smmarrt:

Some great stamps from all over the world!:


And the rest:


I think my favorite thing is the little people cutouts! they are awesome! I really have no idea what i do with them, but i'm excited to come up with something, lol.  Also, I LOVE how you put this all together so nothing moved around. GENIUS!


From pinupmommy:

Awesome stickers:


when i saw that handle with love sticker on the outside of the envelope i thought it was so nifty and was planning on asking where you got it.  when i opened up the envelope and saw you sent some along i was so excited!

ribbon/tags/notecard/do dads:


and my fav thing from this envelope:




thank you both some much! you sent some awesome stuff!

I made these cakes awhile ago, but thought I'd post them anyway.  The first i made in collaboration with my best friend.  It was for my mom's 50th bday party. 
The second was for school.  The assignment was to design a cake appropriate for a child. Snoopy and Linus are sculpted from marzipan.

So, I made myself a wallet a few weeks ago when my store bought one bit the dust.  I was mightly impressed with myself and how it turned out (minus a few mistakes that could have been avoided if i wasn't in such a rush to get it done). Anywhoo, a few people have told me i should try and sell them, so i thought "why not?!"  There is an art/craft consignment shop a few blocks down from where I live and i was thinking of checking it out.  My only concern right now is pricing.  The wallets are pretty cheap to make, probably like 3 bucks tops.  But they do take many hours expecially if i cross stitch on them.  Here's the one i made for myself as an example:
The front


The pocket in the back:


and an "Action Shot"



Basically I want to make them all pretty similiar. There will be variations obviously.  So, I really don't want to underprice myself.  I was in her shop before and there were puzzle piece earrings in there for $20 ... I thought that was a bit much, personally.  And it makes me feel that my original thought of $15 for the wallets doesn't seem like much.  I would appreciate any thoughts on pricing and also, any advice on working with consignment shops. 
Thanks everyone!

Here are the pics from my package from gamergirl that i promised like a week ago.  I finally got a few days off and did some major cleaning/organizing this morning and i feel like my life is less cluttered now.  Anyway, I took these pics before i added it all to my stash *grins*



awesome scrapbooky stuff
my friend absolutely loves the little envelopes, i had to keep an eye on her so she didn't try to steal any, haha


yarn that i can't wait to find a use for! the brown mohair is gorgeous!



ribbony goodness



plethora of stickers



nifty paper!

thanks again, i love my loot!!

so i found this really pretty pendant at michael's and had to have it!  it's been sitting aroun for a few months, and i finally decided to make something out of it, and this is what resulted:



and matching earrings:



sorry for the poor picture quality 

ok, so this is my first attempt at stenciling, and doing a t-shirt...



the top two are definitely better than the bottom two, i think i may go in and fix the bottom two with a paintbrush. I don't really understand how they all turned out so differently when i used the same stencil lol. oh well.  I think it's fairly decent for a first attempt.
i have a feeling this is going to get addicting!