Felt Cactus Garden

I have fallen in love with making these felt cacti. Perhaps it is because they are completely irreverent and useless, but they sure do look cute! I started making really tiny ones to satisfy my need for all things tiny, but last weekend I made these big guys and I really liked how they turned out. I love "planting" them in real terra cotta pots! I want to make a ton of them and have them all lined up on a shelf (as if I had space for that...) Hysterical.

Octopi...

I have been obsessed with octopi lately! It somehow all started a while back when I made a tote bag to use for work with some felt octopi on it, and now it is full-blown octopi everywhere! I just finished a great Octopus and Squid swap over on http://craftster.org. It was so fun! I got the most amazing purple amigurumi octopus (from my awesome partner yelley). He is sitting on top of my doll (ranch) house. Isn't he cute? Here are a few of the octopus stuffies I have made since the obsession began...

Lil' Fatty.....my craft muse.

So, I've decided to start blogging as a way to further connect and explore my love affair with the indie-craft movement. I adore making things. Any kinds of things. Sewn things, painted things, irreverent things, any things.



I thought I'd start by talking a bit about my muse. Lil' Fatty.



Lil' Fatty is the cutest, cuddliest, grayest, softest, squishiest hamster in the world. We adopted him as our work hamster so he could be a mascot of sorts at my job. You should see the way he hordes a baby carrot. It'll bring a tear to your eye. Anyway, I picked him cause he was a little chunky, some might say fat, and now I've taken to calling him Fattycakes, which is also the title of this blog and my etsy shop http://fattycakes.etsy.com I'm pretty certain that I love him the most, since the thought of his little rotund gray body makes my heart want to melt right out of my chest. So here he is so that you can imagine squeezing his cute little face too.