fantastical whimsies

well, unlike last weekend when we spent saturday morning on the river and i took a bike ride to a co-workers open house and enjoyed all the nice weather, we hibernated inside most of this snowy, blowy, rainy weekend.
last weekend i also got some supplies for my hat and worked on some of the embelishments.

hat supplies

hat embelishments

so to avoid the cold we stayed in most of saturday and rented a movie saturday night. since most of the day was spent snuggling with penny we pretty much didn't get anything done on saturday. today we got up and went to a yoga class at the gym. it was overall a good class except for the instructor turned the heat up to about 90 degrees and all the weird yoga-spiritual flabber-jabber is kinda out there. it's a good workout though; i can really feel it in my back tonight. we went to the grocery store after the gym so that we wouldn't have to make another trip out into the snow.

i ate an early lunch of perogies and then worked on laundry and these cute little fantastical whimsies (at least that's what the book calls them) all day. i didn't really feel like sewing so these paper doll, puppet like creatures created from a book my mom gave me seemed like a good activity. i liked the idea of using found objects around the house for the bodies and it seemed to work out well. not only did i get to use some keepsakes that i just had sitting in drawers but i was fairly irritated that the book came with more head-arm-leg combos than main body images.

some of the things i used were brett's tri-athalon number from his collegiate nationals in arizona, a loewenbrau coaster that my sister and brother-in-law stole for us from a german pub, part of an akc hunt test ribbon that penny won (and chewed apart), and a cute comic my mom had cut from the newspaper for me a couple years ago.

fantastical whimsies

loewenbrau pirate

after i finished up all my crafting i took a trip to the store to look for some frames. i found some memory frames (shadow box type) and even lucked out they were 50% off. for the backing i used some left over fabrics i had; brown flannel, red vinyl, and gray fleece.

i took penny on a walk because she's being a little snot today (and still is). i think it's because she is hungry and is refusing to eat her food that no longer contains puppy chow, wet food, and anything else we could put in to get her to eat when we were expecting puppies.

framed whimsies

so i think they look pretty neat in the frames and i will probably hang them in the loft to enjoy. i will need to move the calendar and the clock around a little so i won't be able to get to it until next weekend. now it's bed time and i have a busy work week ahead of me... and laundry still needing to be finished....