Ted finishing up his advent calendars.

Ted and I making cookies for Santa (and Kate and Peter.)

Ted sprinkling magic reindeer food from preschool.

Stockings hung by the chimney with care.  Very exciting that Great Grammie was able to complete our set by making us a Sarah stocking in time for her first Christmas!

I ordered some buttons from Sewing Stars, a Providence-based crafter. I am going to put them onto a new bag/pocket book I want to make. I decided one section of the bag will have a bunch of pin back buttons on it. So I started searching etsy for more buttons, which I am grumbling about having to pay more for shipping than buttons are worth, but without a big craft fair to go and scoop them up at, what am I going to do?

And then I decided to design my own! Very exciting! I ordered them from Kitty Crossbones on etsy. I get 100 pins with up to 10 different designs. I figured I would make a bunch of promos for Moses and Zoe and then the rest I will come up with designs that can sell in my shop and use for my bag.

I got out my currently very small button collection to see which of my fabrics they match.

Zoe promptly came over to supervise. I found it most amusing that she first pretended not to know that she had sat on anything at all and then was suddenly fascinated by what was under her.

What am I in the way?

On to more interesting things…

Today is a big gluing day around here. I made some new Happy Spring Cards, some new Congratulations on Your Baby cards, and a bunch of new Robot cards. Exciting. I can’t wait to get them all photographed and online!

Just another day at the Robot Factory…

I put some new cards up at MosesandZoe.com. Thank you notes this time. There are three different ones up now. One with pink birds, one with green birds, and one with pink, green, and yellow birds. Pat helped out big time with these. I gave him a sketch of what I wanted the background to look like and he used his graphic design skills to make it happen. Then I glued my little birds to the branches.

I also made some owls to put onto thank you notes. I am hoping to finish them up tomorrow.

Here is the puppy quilt for the special order.

Here are both quilts all ready to go.

And silly Moses. He was watching Zoe and I out the window yesterday. So I figured why not give him a chance at it. I put the harness on him. He crawled away from the door and flopped down. I think he may have been playing dead. He didn’t move until I took the harness back off of him. I guess I don’t have to feel guilty for not taking him outside anymore.

So my car. They patched something for $40 and now it sounds fine again. Lucky for me that Pat is around to handle these things or I might have had to abandon my car on the highway like a true North Carolinian.

I have been an embroidering fool. I made a couple of my own patterns and I have been embroidering up a storm. I really don’t like the word embroider. I suppose I could call it stitching but then you might think I was sewing… Soon I will have photos. I know I always say that, but really I mean it this time.

I have been working on some embroidery. I got a pattern at Sublime Stitching. It is much more fun and addictive than I remember. Gram tried to get me into when I was little. I still have my unfinished tea towel with a half a bunny on it. That was counted cross stitch though and this isn’t.

This week has felt very 1940′s with the quilting and embroidering and all. I made some more cards too.

Zoe is hooked on going outside with her harness on. We have been going out almost every day. She now meows at her harness to signal her wishes. She is so funny when I pick it up. She gets all excited and chirps and tries to stick her head through the harness opening. I really need to record it. She is definitely part dog.

I have been working on some new card ideas, one with the little birds pictured above. They are waiting in the lid from the chocolates that Mom gave me for Valentine’s. I have eaten so much sugar in the past few days I think I am going to explode.

I made some cupcakes (I am using that term loosely) last night. It seems like cupcakes are everywhere online. I guess they are very “in” right now. My cupcakes unfortunately did not come out pretty and delicious looking. They were kind of a disaster. They still tasted good of course… But they weren’t very photogenic. Maybe I should have taken some pictures anyway. They could have been edgy. New Ugly Cupcakes, how chic!

Kate also made some sales this weekend in her shop. If you haven’t checked it out recently, there’s lots of cool stuff there.

Today I slept in a bit and spent a good portion of the day removing grout in our shower. Some of the grout around the tiles had cracked, so it was time for regrouting. Is regrouting a world? Better to take care of it now then in the future. It’s nice to have a second shower, that’s for sure. Kate and her mom went to Home Depot (amoungst other stores) to pick up supplies for this project.

We still plan on sewing, grouting, spray painting, and going to the Handmaiden’s latest show “Raleigh loves Richmond: A Valentine’s Craft Affair.”

More updates later.