Cheers!
Break out the streamers and champagne. Call the New York Times and CNN. Declare a Public Federal Holiday. Call the Guinness Book of World Records…..
I did not expect this to happen until the weekend, but…….
Not quite what was going on today in BlogLand, but my blog got a lot of hits today (like over 20), pushing my all time number of hits to date over 1000! 1007 at this moment in time to be precise. I thought I might celebrate by thanking you all for your curiosity, support and goofing off at work by toasting to you with a icey cold Harpoon Summer Brew, complete with a large wedge of lemon, yummy and refreshing on a hot day like today.
I watch my blog stats almost compulsively. I think it is really cool to keep track of what pages get the most hits, and especially how people find me thru the search engines. Sometimes I think I go a little crazy with the “tags”, but let me tell you people hit them by doing searches on some pretty strange things. I think the “one eyed one horned flying purple people eater” tag gets the most hits, second to that is the “chick flicks” (speaking of which I promise I will get back to my tissues reviews some time very soon).
So heres’ to you, my friends, family, fans and strangers for helping me break the first thousand hits mark and making my little blog a success (at least in my feeble little world)!
P.S. (Shameless Plug)
- If you have not figured it out yet, you can now go to my “About” page and read the ever so interesting and captivating “Some odd number of things about me”. It is a work in progress, haven’t quite hit the 100 mark yet (hence the “some odd”), but I am adding to it regularly. You should try it some day, try writing 100 or more ‘interesting’ facts about yourself (that you are willing to make public – wink-wink), it’s pretty damn hard.
Three Eyed Three Horned Flying Hot Pink Hot Tamale Eater
AKA – TETHFHPHTE
It is complete and ready to fly over to a special young lady for her June Birthday!
I started a lime green creature on my trip to Atlanta. Yes, I did manage to get my knitting needles through TSA Security. My advice to traveling knitters is to carry bamboo needles with point stoppers on them (see the TSA website). As well it is best to also have a self addressed stamped manilla envelope ready just in case they don’t let you carry them onboard the plane (also on the TSA website), I weighed all my yarn an needles at home to be sure it would make a safe return to me, this way you won’t lose your work, you can just mail your work back to yourself. I didn’t even think about attempting to get scissors on the plane, just borrowed some from the hotel when I got to Atlanta.
So, the new lime green guy’s body is nearly at the stuffing stage. I am sure having a lot of fun whipping out these creative little creatures!
It’s Alive
Three Eyed Three Horned Flying Hot Pink Hot Tamale Eater…..
Unlike my post the other day these pics do the hot pink “watermelon” color justice! Quite vivid!
This guy has a lot more butt than the OEOHFPPE, it can stand up on it’s own!
I am in the process of designing wings, and hope to have it’s three eyes, a tail and hair on it by the end of the day. I am thinking green hair and purple wings. As well I plan on making legs/feet, well, maybe, we’ll see.
I think I overstuffed it a bit, it seems to be bursting at the seams. I hope that over time and usage it will relax a little. My stitches are getting better, more uniform, but I can still see many imperfections that I’ll have to work on (I tried to hide them all in the pics).
Maybe after a few more trial runs for friends & family I can perfect my stitching. It keeps getting suggested to me that I sell my creatures/monsters. It is a good idea, but stitching them well enough to sell seems like a lot of pressure.
Stay posted for more news on the metamorphosis of the TETHFHPHTE.
A few things that have been keeping me busy…
And why I have not been blogging so much-
Tradition in the house dictates that the 7 year old young lady must design, make and decorate a cake for Mother’s Day for her Mum. This is how I spend my Saturday…..
I think she has been watching too much “Ace of Cakes” on the food network, one of her favorite shows. I had to be sure to point out to her that we do not have a means of making or acquiring fondant, so food coloring dyed frosting was going to have to do. It was fun, and a lot of work, but was a hit with Mum and tasted quite yummy (chocolate cake with vanilla frosting!
As well I have picked up my needles and started working on the One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater’s Sibling, the Three Eyed Three Horned Flying Hot Pink Hot Tamale Eater…… It is for my niece, she said her favorite color was hot pink, so I hope she will be excited to receive my latest creation for her birthday. (Obviously it is still a work in progress and inside out, I hope to have the body stuffed by the weekend so I can start working on legs and wings)
Yes, that is my skull & crossbones “Not your grandma’s knitting bag” on one side and my ibook on the other next to the incomplete TETHFHPHTE. My camera does not do justice to the color of this yarn, it is named “watermelon” and I am not sure why because it is practically an iridescent shiny neon pink. I know something on this creature is going to be lime green, not sure if it should be the hair or the wings. What do you think? I’ll keep you posted on the progress of the creature as it metamorphoses into a stuffed being.
The infamous One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater!
I would like to add a few more adornments to this fellow (maybe some talons or arms, a heart on it’s chest, a topper on the tip of the horn), however, the 7 year old girl whom it now belongs to wants it to stay exactly the way it is….. so I guess that means it is finished. What makes it so perfect? Why the eye of course! I have a mess of these antique buttons that were my Grandmother’s. I was pawing through the tins of them and found a dozen or so of these perfect shell and copper buttons, I mean really pefect. It was suggested to me that I perfect his purpleness and sell them on-line, what do you think? Is there really a market for OEOHFPPEs?
side note, because it does not have any appendages other than wings it does not sit up very well, hence the bowl, but it was not created for sitting, it was created for hugging and it gets plenty cuddle time. It is adorable if I do say so myself.
