Candy-O, I need you so...

Did you survive Halloween? We had a good time partying it up the weekend before, but I'm always left wanting more, especially when it falls on a weeknight. I love Halloween, but we are those, "weird parents" who don't really eat or give our 2 year old candy, so that pretty much leaves us with nothing to do but carve pumpkins on the holiday itself. While our community has a few cool events we go to, they are always the weekend before & the older littlemaneel gets, the more weary I grow of the confused, sometimes dirty looks we get from the dressed up attendants when we refuse the candy. Look folks, I'm sure there will come a day when our child will eat some candy, ok. All we are saying is, he's 2 & he's got the rest of his life to eat candy. If it makes you feel better, we do allow him to eat fair trade, organic dark chocolate chips from time to time. Long story short, as soon as littlemaneel is old enough, I think we'll start hosting Halloween parties on the night of Halloween (don't go thinking they'd be lame-I'm talking bonfires, bobbing for apples, hot cider, smores & more)! Here he is in his, "mom's original idea was way too involved, so at the last minute she cranked this one out" T-Rex costume. 

So Halloween has come & gone & now we're less than 2 weeks away from Thanksgiving! We're lucky enough to have gotten our goods into a great new local shop & our stuff has actually been selling rather well! With two weeks away & counting from Small Business Saturday (& Black Friday), we've been steadily building & restocking inventory. Check out our new Fancy Little Pillows...

Ok, so it hasn't all been profit based crafting. Here's a t-shirt I just had to make for littlemaneel. While it isn't for sale, I suppose it could be. 

I am being beckoned as there are lots of things that still must be sewn, cut & glued this weekend, so I must go. Until next time!

i'm more at home in my galaxie......

happy friday folks! halloween is fast approaching & i am rushing to finish costumes. worked on mine last night & produced these galaxy pants for my meteor costume. a friend is having a halloween party with a "vs" theme. i've known since february of this year that littlemaneel would have to be a dinosaur for halloween because of his ever-growing love of them. after being invited to this party, papaeel & i thought about what the ultimate dinosaur vs match would be & decided on a meteor. gotta get back to making, hope all your halloween crafting is done or coming along!

here's the link to the leggings that inspired mine. i tweaked it a bit, but you'll get the gist!

http://vintageedge.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/diy-galaxy-leggings/

it's halloween on the barbary coast......

happy halloween from mr. fox & the gang....

dolphin wedding.....

we love all things that hail from athens, ga and the B52's are no exception! when H was right around 6 months old we were playing on the floor and like we always do, had music going in the background. we were listening to the ipod on shuffle when "rock lobster" started to play. out of nowhere H started shaking his little body with everything that he had. we knew he enjoyed music (how couldn't he, his parents are slightly obsessed with it), but he was really rocking out! we died! by the time he was 10 months, he could hum the beat, "duh, duh, duh, da da da da da da." halloween was right around the same time and of course we decided our little elver(baby eel) needed a rock lobster costume. he was one cute lobster baby! he even won best costume at a roller derby contest where buzzed, very tan, mature ladies got the crowd chanting, "lobster baby!" but that surreal night is another story for another time.......

when H was about 14 months, we introduced him to yo gabba gabba! (thanks to the flaming lips) and he slowly started to obsess with the show and the music and was soon over his love of "rock lobster." he only wanted gabba tunes and we obliged as we too love of montreal, the shins, the roots and so on. we eventually even made him his own playlist on the ipod & even though it normally doesn't get heard these days, added "rock lobster" to it too. yesterday afternoon we were drawing in his playroom while listening to his playlist and "rock lobster" came on. he immediately stopped what he was doing, got up and proceeded to shake immensely! it was like the movements were dormant in his body for the last 6 months and only needed to hear the right notes to be re-activated. when it was over he signed, "more" and well, 27 hours later, we're still listening to it! i have to admit, while it does get redundant, i can't help but dancing right alongside my boy every time! so here it is now, for you! crank it up and get down to it with the shamelessness of a toddler. you'll find it's quite the good time.