Time flew by...

I can see how much I am not a fan of writing when I look at my neglected blog.  I was the one in school that used to dislike journaling.  Why did I think doing a blog was a good idea?

Anyway, it is once again the start of holiday craft fairs for me.  Halloween is just next week, and today is the start of the three day craft fair at the Neal Blaisdell.  I have a few more free passes if anyone  wants passes to avoid the $3 per person admission fee.  Wednesday's paper had some $1 discount coupons.  Every 15 minutes there are prize giveaways.

Haven't really wrote anything in a while.

Organizing things because I can not sew at the moment.  I thought I'd post a few pictures since I have neglected my blog.

I'm not sure where to start, random ones I guess.

End of the year craft fairs...  

Special horns.

One thing that I had in my sketch book for a while was a unicorn.  I finally figured out how to make a spiral horn.

The first horn I made(unfortunately I have no picture of the horn) was a big mess.  At first I though I could just cut a strip of material sew it up and *sparkle sparkle* a horn. That did not happen, I guess I did not say magical words.  I then tried to use a needle and thread to try and fix it.  Still did not work.

Broke out the seam ripper and used some other magical words since I forgot to use a temporary stitch.  Trimmed places that I marked.

My desk had several different types of horns. Long and skinny, short and fat, green, white, black, etc... I searched my trimmings bin for large sized pieces and they became horns.  I took a break from the horn pattern.  I might take it out again soon and see if I can fine tune it a bit more.

It gets added onto my list of hand stitched items.  Which has started to grow very large.

Just the other day I caught up with some hand stitch work.  Finishing of hats and sock animals.  My pointer finger needs a rest from holding the needle.  I also broke my thread trimmer the other week.  I on the hunt for a replacement.  I hope I can find one that is like the one I was using.

Wow.

Time flys.   From a few weeks in January/Feburary I spent on the Big Island(Hawaii) and now it is already the end of July and I realize I have not been keeping up with this blog.  Nor have I been processing any of my Little frog®  photos.

On break.

Little frog is on break till mid February. Contact by email or phone.

Happy New Year 2012!

Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday season. Wishing you the best 2012!

More pictures...

Here is one of my newer dino hats. I decided to give it orange spikes.

My apologies for not having my dot com updated with my new designs. I hope to get my Picasa albums updated soon. I've been only adding new designs to my San's FB albums.

What is this?

I frequently get the question "What is this?" "Is this a (fill in the blank)?"

But I must say the best one this year is from this hat. What is this...

Well I heard a few guesses. A bug. An alien. I even got someone asking me if it was one of the teletubbies. Which made me think what are the colors of teletubbies. Red and purple were the only colors I got correct before I started naming random colors. Also I for some reason thought there were 5 tubbies. So I was guessing blue, orange, yellow, pink...

If you really want to know there is a red one with a circle, the purple is the one with the triangle. I think the purple one got the most publicity. A yellow one with what looks like a miniature bayonet shaped thing. I had convinced myself there was no yellow at one point, since the sun that has the baby face is yellow, why would they have a repeat color. The last one is green with a single spike, antenna looking thing.

In the picture above is a fold style android. Which was requested in a custom order. The one I have on display at my booth was a no fold style.

There were a few people that didn't not know what an andriod was.

Wow, it is so easy...

...to forget about writing a blog. I'm not much of a person to write.

It is already September, it seems this year went by faster than the last. So many things that happened, did not happen. Now comes the crazy cramming of things to be done by the end of the year!

A new year for Little frog

Wishing everyone a happy new year.

Little frog on the Great wall

China was sooo cold. We even got to see some light snow. Walking on the wall was scary. Not only was it cold it was also windy. I was clinging to the rails in fear of being blown off the wall.

This is me at the start area the most famous part in the back ground. Even then I thought I would not walk the whole part.

Here I am debating on climbing to the tower(I think the 8th tower) in the back ground.

On the way back with less stops and more thoughts of actually taking pictures. I was very tired at the end. We had to wait for the next train to arrive so we went to a KFC! KFC is a very popular fast food place in China. Like many of the other ones I saw in China the one near the great wall had a second floor seating. I was just glad to sit down and have some hot milk tea.

At Aliiolani

Angry bear found a home and a short while after Lonely cat did also. Which makes Lonely cat the winner of who lasted the longest.

Lonely cat v.s. Angry bear

Lonely cat has been the last one standing for a while now. This is the first sock cat that I made. He has sadly sat alone as other socks found new homes. Not to worry though since Lonely cat has a companion now.

Angry Bear. I did angry bear's eyes first. They got pinned and rotated many times before I decided to place them on the way I did. A smile just didn't match so I used a short lined mouth. I like Angry bear, I hope some where out there, someone will also like Angry bear.

Brown cow.

As I was thinking if I had my portfolio updated, I realized there were pictures that I have not placed in it and things I've not blogged about it yet. I'm not a writer, so I do not know what I was thinking when I decided that I would do a blog. I should have known I would slowly find it to be more of a chore than some where I would just freely write my thoughts or stories.

Since it is late, or shall I say early morning... I will stop my rambles.

I think the reason I did not blog/ post this was because of the sign. I was debating on blurring the words.

Thanks Mark for ordering a brown cow, and for taking an interesting picture. I should wear a chicken hat and hold a sign saying eat more cow.

*grin*

I can not help but smile when I make these sock animals. The colors of these socks just screamed to me sock animals!

I used scrap pieces of fleece to make their scarves.

I wanted to give them a bit of variety so I started to make bow ties.

I didn't just want to make monkeys so I attempt a cat. I gave it pointed ears a nose and whiskers.

Second try at a cat. The faces came out a little sad looking.

I was trying to make a bunny but I think it sort of came out as a very long ear dog.

Fur

I got a request for an Alot. This link was sent to me.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

After reading the blog about the Alot, I wanted to try to include a few features. In my mind I was already seeing something with a shaggy fur, I did not find the faux fur I was looking for, but found something that I could work with. I also wanted to incorporate a snaggletooth.

snaggletooth

Horns were another thing. I was on the fence with the eyes, but felt it was necessary since I wanted to include the snaggletooth and the imaginary line I was drawing was low on the Alot head.

horns and eyes

I made it long in length. This was so it could fold up and have a mouth that frowned.

The last detail was the mouth which was in a frown. The frown was created with a seam.

Things I would change on it... making the horns wider, the eyes further apart. And maybe a different fur. I'm still not sure giving the eyes a bit of poof was the right thing or not.

Monster red, Monster blue...

I decided to do some monsters this year. Eyes were just for my frog towels, but I decided to try some other things with eyes. This is how my Monster red came out.

With Monster blue I was trying out a different style of eye. It will be left to the imagination of the user of this towel to decide what it is. I think piranha when I see it. I also started to think... hmmm maybe walrus. I got told it looks like a snake. What does your imagination think?

Additions to Little frog products.

I decided to do a little towel hood. These are smaller than my original hooded towels. They have some of my original hooded towel designs as well as some newer looks. I started with monkeys and pandas when I made them.(More to be posted soon)

One thing that has been stuck in my head this year, like one of those songs that you cannot stop humming, has been sock monkeys. The tall human sized Sock Monkey and friends that can be seen in a car commercial make me smile. I actually had not been a fan of sock monkeys but some how they have grown on me. One day I just could not help it, I took an old pair of socks and just started cutting and stitching.

My cat does not find this white sock monkey to be his friend. Of course white sock monkey does karate chops/ kicks and flying attacks on him. Which leads to a wrestling match of cat v.s. sock monkey.

I found some socks that had interesting colors and patterns. More pictures of sock animals to be posted.

I'll be at Neal Blaisdell this weekend!

Yes, yes, I know...

*sigh*

Once again the year has gone by without my realizing. My lack of web posting is just dreadful. I'll have to figure out which pictures need to be posted. As well as updating my dot com. Which is still in a remodeling phase on my computer.

I'll be the Season's Best craft fair again at the NBC. This year it is the weekend before the trick or treating.