Hiatus over?

Took a break from spamming the internets with all things crafty for a chance to bulk up for the local farmers market. I, personally have a LOT left to do. My crafty other half is pretty caught up and working on packaging, because she is QUEEN OF PACKAGING. I put it in caps so you know.

Let's talk t-shirt yarn. Love the stuff. Really hard to find, right? Not anymore! That's right. We made some. Not just some, a lot of some! Handmade, hand dyed, hand spun-- just how we do things down the rabbit hole.
It didn't take us long once we got the method down, so hopefully we can keep turning these suckers out. Hopefully everyone loves the as much as I do! (We do)

This year, we have a ton of crochet. Which I adore because crochet is my favorite. I'm playing with a few ideas and patterns. Maybe those will take shape and make an appearance. Maybe. Patterns are finicky.

Quick and messy blog updates brought to you from the scatter brain, and since I am using a smart phone instead of a computer like the lazy individual that I am, all the photos get shunted to the bottom. So.... Enjoy.

--H

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Serious Face Are Serious.

I've thought long and hard about this and.. it's time to really buckle down.

*dramatic music*

Seriously, the local farmers market is starting in a very short month and I feel completely unprepared! This is officially the month of make and of stocking up!

I tried out a Totoro design I've had dancing around in my head and I have to say I'm a little proud. It's a mini version, and very simplistic, but it's my own design and it works up fairly quick.

Invasion of the Totoro clones? I think so.

Prepare to see these and (hopefully) many other little cuties if you're in the Southeast little corner of Missouri and you're totally into Farmers Markets! (Which you should be. It's good for you. Probably..)

--H

New Business Cards!

Just wanted to share the design that I worked up for our new business cards! I tend to get bored with them pretty fast, so we've got several designs floating around. I made these over at Mpix! Still waiting to get them in the mail, so we'll have to let you know how they turn out. 

<3<3<3, 

Stephani

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SatNERDay on Sunday

Stephani and Beard were on vacation, so no farmers market WHICH MEANS I have the time to work on all those projects I start and never finish.  And watch Doctor Who all weekend.

Seriously, so much Doctor Who action.

ANYWAY,  I've had this head floating around for a while now.  It started out as a Nick Fury amigurumi, but I forgot and gave it two eyes.  =__=

Rather than wasting a perfectly good safety eye, I decided to practice my hair skills.  Which are limited considering i've never done it before.

Thanks to google, I found this tutorial: EssHaych Amigurumi Hair Tutorial

And ended up with this fancy, hairy lady project.  PLEASE ENJOY AWKARD PARTIAL BALD HAIR POSITIONS.  I honestly had too much fun with this part.  Might have been why it took all afternoon...

I had made a little crochet beanie to go with it, but with all that hair it doesn't even come close to fitting... I thought about making a new one, but then I stopped.

I also started a little red panda!

He still needs ears and a tail, but I love him already.  I haven't decided if he's going up on the shop page or not..

Also!  (I say also a lot, it'll get worse, believe me) It was Beards birthday this week and I made him something with some sticks and string and bits and pieces.  I can't tell you what it is, can't spoil the surprise before they get home to see it!  Unless he reads this and guesses what it is...

ANYWAYS, see what we're up to by checking out our Facebook or see what we've got for sale on our Etsy

--H

You May Have Noticed, I'm Not All There Myself

The Other One (please note that this blog does not monitor its language)

*dramatic music*

Just a little introduction, stick with it.  This blog is based around my and Stephani's business, Down The Rabbit Hole, but that's not all it is.  It's about the people that made it happen and the things that happen to the people that made it happen.

Oh yeah, I went there.

If you haven't guessed, I'm the Heather kind.  Sticks and string is my medium.  I started crocheting about a half a year ago and stuck with it.  Which, for me is saying something.  I'll be the first to say I'm not the best at it, but I do think I'm pretty good and try and learn something new all the time.  I fight with my yarn quite a bit, but we usually work things out.
                                
                   Eventually.

I've also started to realize that the apocolypse has begun.  Only, it's not zombies like I expected (didn't everyone?) so all that practical training Stephani and I did will probably go to waste..

                             
                                                      Because we're awesome.
                             

It's spiders.

Yeeg.

I’m not sure there’s anything I hate more thanspiders.  Except maybe styrofoamsqueaking against styrofoam.  If I werefighting a war and the weapons were styrofoam chunks, I’d surrender. 

Anyway, back to creepy arachnids. They’ve been sneaking up on me all day! They’re stealthy little ninja shits. 

                                     

If I we’re fighting a war and the enemy was a mass ofgiant spiders, I’d have a heart attack. Ron Weasley had it right.  Spidersare terrifying. 

And to completely under-mind me, the spiders all gottogether and decided to terrorize me. Hiding in the bathroom at work, spinning a web over my half of the carand trying to snatch my keys, and the worse insult—keeping a post above myfront door.  He’s smart, too.  He makes his web against the wall and thecabinets so that if I get to close with a boot or a bottle of bleach he canduck into a crack.   

That’s right, I said bleach.  I’m the MacGyver of killing 8 leggedcreepies.  Hairspray and a largeboot.  Effective.   Well, usually.  I’ve tried everything I can think of to getrid of this one..  Sneaking up on him, throwingshoes at him, spraying bleach at him, calling him awful degrading names,threatening to charge him rent—nothing works. He just sits in his web and stares down at me or ducks for cover.  I’m sure he’s laughing his creepy little faceoff.

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I’ve got my very own Cheshirebeast who constantly has a smile on her kooky face, but then, cats dothat. 

I adore her.

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(Obviously this isn't a self portrait, but it's pretty close!)

I think that's enough "About Me" for a while, I’ve got orders to fill and spiders to kill. And when that second one doesn’t work, I may just name him Gaichu, which according to Google is how you say “pest” in Japanese. 

                        

--H

___________________________________UPDATE______________________________________

Gaichu is dead, I'm not at all sad to say.  Stephani is a lot braver than I am and... took care of it. 

I'm not sorry.

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