Is our hamster the cutest?

You be the judge. Flower is "Photo 4" in this small pet photo contest, and I would love it if you'd vote for her! Look for this photo, and you can vote once per day, if you like! Thank you kindly.

Help The Bee's designer out!

Lovely readers, would you please do me a favor? My dear friend Matt, who designed the Stockannette Bee for me, has been chosen as a finalist in Mondo Guerra's (of Project Runway fame) Go, Mondo, Go t-shirt design contest! If you "like" Mondo's faceplace page, you can then cast a vote for Matt's design by "liking" it, too! So, two clicks is all it takes - wouldn't it be exciting if he won? Here's a screen capture, so you know what Matt's looks like (isn't it fabulous?!)...























Thanks for your help!

NAME THAT HAT!

Kiddies, if you've seen my shop today, you know I've expanded from the two-pom-pommed hats to a three-peaked, three-pom-pom hat. It's very exiting... and now I've come up with a three-peaked, one-big-pom-pom hat that I guess one might call a Hat With A Concept. See if you can figure out what I was going for before you scroll down and read the rest of this entry. Here it is:
It symbolizes green earth, blue sky, and a white (cream), fluffy cloud. Make sense? So, here's my issue... what to call the hat when I list it. Should I call it "Green Earth Blue Sky Fluffy Cloud knit baby hat," or the "Junior Environmentalist knit baby hat," or what?

Please post a comment if you like one of the names I came up with, and if you've got a better idea, I'd love to hear it, so feel free to post suggestions. If I use your idea and you have an Etsy shop, I would of course put a link to your shop in the item description, as a way of crediting you for super-genius. Also, if I use your idea as the title for this hat, Etsy shop or not, I will give you free shipping on any item in my shop.

This is not the giant bucket full of awesomeness you're looking for.

Jedi mind trick didn't work on you, did it? Sigh. I knew you'd click on that giveaway link on the left and enter the GIANT SNEAKERVERSARY GIVEAWAY to steal all those goodies away from me. The wool/alpaca neck-warmer I made is in there, too - so of course I know that's the reason you couldn't resist entering. Right? It couldn't have anything to do with the other $300-worth of beautiful handmade items in the basket with it, I'm sure. Right?

Yarn yearn.

I just entered a blog contest to win some beautiful yarn from the lady behind mama4earthyarns. You should enter, too, and if you're not a knitter* and you win it, send it to me and I'll make you something from it! Sounds like fun!






*Yeah like anyone but a knitter would care about my lil knittin' blog.

I'm a winner, Corny!

A few days ago, I entered this contest on Etsy Stalker and today I was notified that I'm one of the giveaway winners! How exciting - my prize is 10 digital collage sheets from piddix! How delightful, really. Cowboys and spacemen and hula - oh my! Just when I thought a day of coffee, a trip to Silver in the City for birthday cards, a delicious chicken pita and finishing the green hat couldn't get any better!