large calvin and hobbes

you guyssss i've been making new things for my shop and i finished something very exciting!

a LARGE set of calvin and hobbes!!

these guys are twice the size of the original set which makes me love them even more!

check em out yo!

Cozies!

in case you haven't heard...

NEW ITEMS IN THE SHOP!!

Ewok Phone Cozy!

and Hobbes Phone Cozy!

i'm madly in love with these!

it's perfect to keep your phone from making noise against your nightstand or lighting up all bright in the middle of the night. 

my own phone sleeps in the ewok cozy and just loves it!
i'm sure your phone will too!

but then your kindle is gonna be sad that they don't have one, like mine is.

i guess i'm just gonna have to make one for little Kindy to sleep in now!

Hobbes Stuffed Animal

so i FINALLY finished that Hobbes commission i've been working for-e-ver on and i must say, i was quite pleased with him when all was said and done!

he's made with fleece and mostly sewn by machine and stuffed with fluffy poly-fil.

the stripes, eyes, nose and mouth are felt and all sewn on by hand which is what took the longest.

i want to make another one just for me because he is so cuddle-rific!

p.s. Matt got the hint and bought me the olloclip i wanted!

get ready for a lot more fisheye pics from now on!

i'm obsessed!!!

Work From Home

you know you work from home when "getting dressed" only means you put on a nicer pair of sweatpants and a shirt you didn't sleep in the night before.

more ornament making to do tonight!

pictures and such

we FINALLY started putting some pictures up on our frame wall.

Matt's new star wars picture he got for his birthday.

our favorite caricature we got in portland.

and the calvin and hobbes style cartoon Matt painted of us on a piece of wood.

i know it's not much but at least it's a start.

and it makes me so happy every time i see it!

oh and we learned an interesting tidbit last week.

when you put live plants into a fish tank you get snails even if you didn't buy snails.

strange right?

and it's not like you get one snail, no no, we have over 10 snails now and they just keep multiplying!

in a couple weeks the snails will probably take over the whole tank.

at least they're keeping it extra clean!

Hobbes

while i'm on a roll with this Christmas gift thing i've got one more.

my husband's favorite comic of all time is Calvin and Hobbes.

he was Calvin for Halloween a few years ago, i bought him the complete comic book collection a couple years back and he says we have to name our first son Calvin.

he loves it THAT much.

so this year for Christmas i wanted to give him a Hobbes stuffed animal and since they don't make them for people to buy (which is totally lame) i had to make it myself.

it took me for-e-ver since there's not really a pattern out there to make a Hobbes stuffed animal but i did it and i'm pretty happy with how he turned out.

here's the video of Matt opening his present.

when i told him i was making him something for Christmas he thought it would be something Star Warsy so he was surprised to find Hobbes waiting for him in that box.

for about two weeks straight i would wake up super early every morning and try to get all my work done by noon so i could work on Hobbes until Matt got home around 4:00.

i was ridiculously tired those two weeks but it was worth it.

he's made with fleece for extra softness and the stripes are felt.

he's super snuggly!

and Padme loves him too!

i did take pictures to make a tutorial but those pictures are on our old computer so i'll have to wait for the hubsy to put them on the new one.

but some day i'll do it.

costumes costumes costumes

i super d duper love halloween!

but not in a scary-i-want-to-go-to-haunted-houses-and-watch-horror-movies-so-i-won't-sleep-for-a-week kind of way.

more like in a little-kid-i-love-candy-and-costumes kind of way!

in 2006, our first halloween together, i begged and begged and begged Matt to go trick-or-treating with me and he said no way jose all the way up until we were at Ben's house and then he wanted to go.

so we searched through all of Ben's halloween boxes and came up with costumes to run around the neighborhood getting caaaaandy!

i'm just a boring old pirate but i bet you'll never guess what Matt is!

he called himself "the spirit of halloween."

after that year Matt started to come around to my way of thinking which is that halloween is the bomb diggity best holiday ever invented and we should dress accordingly.

so in 2007 we stepped up our game.

Matt's band played a show on halloween that year and they were having a costume contest so between Matt, me and Josue we made a pretty awesome ninja turtle costume!

Matt was an evil foot soldier so we could be enemies and battle all night long.

we walked into that place and were immediately declared the costume contest winners!

xena the warrior princess (right) was pretty ticked off she didn't win the $50 to Best Buy but she is seriously crazy if she doesn't think ninja turtles kick warrior princess bootay!

man it was hot with that turtle head on!

in 2008 we owned Create It! which meant there was very little time for costume making.

we had a party at the store that night so we had to dress up as something but we kept it simple.

Matt was his favorite character of all time.

Calvin and his little stuffed tiger Hobbes.

again, not our best work but everyone knew who he was!

unfortunately, i have zero good pictures of my costume that year.

i ended up being Dora the Explorer which was a midnight decision at Walmart the night before halloween.

did you know you could find everything you need for a Dora costume at Walmart?

remember that!

2009 was our best year yet.

we spent many hours slaving away working with fabric, foam, cardboard, hot glue guns, ice (after stepping on the hot glue gun), wrapping paper, pipe cleaner and poster board.

and i must say, i was very pleased with the results!

Max and Carol from Where the Wild Things Are.

Matt's costume obviously took the most work.

his head is made entirely of cardboard, foam and fabric.

my costume was much simpler but equally awesome!

i mean, i got to wear a onesie!

which i totally talked Matt into buying for this costume but has been worn on other occasions as well!

and my favorite part of my costume is my little wand/staff thingy which is actually made from a christmas ornament!

i think the best part about our costumes is we went to a party and ended up having our picture taken so many times i lost count!

everybody loved it and couldn't believe we made the whole thing ourselves!

which brings us to 2010.

everybody better watch out for this year's costumes because they are going to be out of this world!!

EXCITED!