Happy Turkey Day!

Mostly today I’ll be running off to feed stuffing to my friends…but I wanted to wish people a fine Thanksgiving day!

…Not least because tomorrow it will be time for me to put up the Gothmas tree. This year? Extra bats and Daleks, as well as some beautiful textile-based ornaments from my friend Doreen at Goldfishlove Fibers. It’s always happy things like this that gets me through the holidays…

The post-Halloween doldrums…

Ah, Halloween…it was lovely, everything I hoped for, and now it’s just a happy memory.

But I did get a fun photo of Shamu the Bunny in a jaunty Steampunk hat…

Shamu  in a jaunty hat
Shamu is a dapper little fellow when I put hats on his tiny, rabbity head…

And now it’s the season where everybody realizes they’ve lost their mitts or something’s eaten their scarf and they come running to me. I’ve been plotting and planning new mitts and hats to make, and today I’m just playing with colors, to see what seems to click. So far I’ve got a rose and caramel mix of mohair yarns I like a lot, as well as some black and deep purple sari silk for a Gothly scarf. I have to remind myself to play sometimes; it’s good to make custom stuff to order, but it’s even better to come up with something new…