An igloo for tinkerbell, button confusion, capucine and 2 new dresses

In the spirit of Christmas, I made an igloo. Since I am not religious, I made this igloo for Tinkerbell, Paris's true BFF. It was patted down with love and comes with its' own jack in the box styrofoam ball head, like a flag if you will. I was quite worried halfway because it started to look like a urinal but in the end it looked like this:

A snow teepee, if you will.

I spent the better half of the morning, oo-ing and aw-ing at Capucine. I was first introduced to her via Katie Runnels from The Constant Gatherer but did not see the other videos until today. Capucine is a delight to watch and if you have not seen any of her videos, you should be forewarned. You will:
a) spend hours going through the video
b) telling anyone near you to watch it with you
c) want a french toddler yourself
d) want Capucine's eyes and eyelashes
e) get clucky, like, really really clucky.
f) want to be as awesome of a mother as Anne at capturing her child's cuteness

It is hard to pick a few but I have only picked 2 of my favourite Capucine videos:


Disco Fever from Capucha on Vimeo.

Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.

If you love to procrastinate and watch adorable children be themselves, you should go ere.

Since we had been snowed in for the past 5 days, we decided to venture out to the closest shopping place to stretch our legs but boy, the side roads were awful! It went: BUMP BUMP BUMP! The city does not plow the side streets so it is a mess and even though the snow has stopped, it is still quite dangerous to drive. The iced tracks easily make the cars spin when they try to get out of the track ruts. There was not much at the shops that I wanted and even though I'm still presentless for Aaron, I just could not see anything I would want to give him...but I did buy two dresses. I got them from Urban Outfitters and one of them I need to exchange because I took the wrong size. I brought in a small and a medium and gave the lady back the medium! Yelps. Am waiting for a less bumpy road condition to head back and hope that the dress size is still available! The other dress I got was a Lark and Wolff shirt dress which was on sale and I love love love the idea of:

Excuse the blurriness but I love love this dress.

My cords arrived today which means I can commence crocheting again! Yay! I bought a peacock blue/green thread and am going to try it out, it looks so luxurious! I am having trouble with button selection, if you could help me out with which you think fits better with the motif, I'd appreciate it. Perhaps the right button has not come along yet. I do not know.

Merry Christmas!



Also, to read about fellow Portland designers and my prediction for 2009 fashion read this Mercury on Design article!!!!