Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh the traffic to work was nearly non-existent! Yes, you heard right! Work on Thanksgiving day. I don't mind it much, as my job as a cancer researcher is not a regular cubical job so it is quite active and at times (like right now!) I get periods of 20 minutes to an hour of free time as some protocols call for long incubations. I'm thankful that I have a job, despite the horribly funded science arena.

I visited the Ornamentea online shop today to see what I could purchase and saw this great deal:

3 cute stamp set for $3!!! Could it be? Either way, for $3, I was willing to find out.

I also bought some metal case organizers for all my supplies because it is getting out of control at ground zero aka fireside by the lounge. I have reels of cords everywhere, buttons overflowing in boxes, crochet needles and findings all over the show.

I should stay at work all day today because I have that huge horrifying science department presentation next Friday but I think I will go home early. I have to re-do Dana's custom order, I hope it is the last time because I'm starting to spend too much time on it for how much I quoted her. Custom orders are tricky, are the labor hours ( I hate the word labor!) a reflection of the seller's inefficiency or customers standards? That is a tough one to juggle in my head. Don't get me wrong, I love making this piece for her but everytime I finish it, I wince in reading her replies to see if she loved it or it's just not quite there yet. However, I don't want my customers to receive something they're not entirely excited or happy with! I will re make the necklace for the third time and hopefully, third time's the charm! Some custom orders are different from others and I think it is just harder to put into action what she has in her mind.

The timer just went off which means my bacteria cells are all lysed! One last reminder, if you're free on Saturday, come by to the Victory for the Granny Panties Craft Bazaar!!

This Saturday, 29th of Nov
11am-4pm

REALLY Happy Thursday!!

Yesterday, my awesome friend Les emailed me about this oddly fascinatingly named craft bazaar called " Granny Panties" held at one of his fave watering hole in Portland: The Victory bar! Oh my goodness, I got so so excited!! A craft fair at the Victory! I mean, come on! Sipping on Flemish beer and showing Portland my creations! It doesn't get any better than this. Well, I clicked and the deadline for application was the 30th of Oct. POOOOS! I'm kinda persistent and since a quick email doesn't hurt anyone, ever, I did so. Thus, this is how I have a HAPPY HAPPY Thursday to report.


A regular vendor dropped out and now I'M IN!!!!!!!

YAY!!

So for all your Portlanders out there who wants to see Muntedkowhai creations up close and rather personal, come out and join us!

Who? ME!! Plus 14 other vendors or so

WHHHHHHAT? Lovely local hand made crafts and arts AND delicious delicious beer

WHEN?! 29th November (Sat)

How?! What do you mean how.

Why? One should not ask why when the words "craft" and "beer" are in the same sentence

Fin De Semana!

Rejoice! Two whole days of crafting!! (That is, if I don't have a huge hang over from tonight's Halloween party.) I'm even considering not drinking that much so I could have a sick free weekend! Boy, I'm getting old. I do, however have to come up with a costume and since I'm a tight wad, I'm going to do things the old fashion way: free and other man's trash.

That's right. Everyone knows that science labs are homes to treasure troves of insanely sturdy and new cardboard boxes from all those vials that we order and biotech companies package them into boxes 5000x their size. This I kid you not. Along with free great boxes, I have colourful tapes to use and discarded plastic sheets and boxes that the science world does not recycle. (At least not in our lab anyways) So before 10pm tonight, I have to come up with something scary that can be made from the above ingredients. Get that brain a churning!


This weekend, I want to, gulp, make a purchase. Not cords or buttons or anything for Muntedkowhai but for me, ME!! As you know, I must have done something horrible in my past life to not be able to find any decent jeans in this lifetime. I hate hate wearing jeans but love the idea of wearing them. It just seems so impossible. Everywhere I look online, I see jeans that is covalently bonded to the models arse or at stores I'd see jeans that are so unflattering, I might as well wear diapers. So wheres the inbetween? Can't a girl get some non tight, non inhale and button type of jeans? Can't there be a somewhat loose fitted jeans that also makes you look sexy?!

J.crew! Their pants always fit me really well but I have never tried on their jeans. This weekend, I'm going to go into a Jcrew store and try me on some denim.


Muntedkowhai:

Around 2 nights ago, Dana contacted me through Etsy. She's in Hong Kong but grew up in Scotland(what an interesting demograph!) and wanted to ask if I could custom make a piece for her using her grandmothers jade. She even sent me close up photos of the jade and I was so excited to get this challenge!
Dana wanted to use this piece in my store as a base:
Without the button and with her jade in the middle, somehow. It was hard to propose a logistic way of tackling it online and I understood how weary one would be to send an heirloom to a complete stranger! However, after a few conversation exchanges, I think we're both comfortable with the idea and the jade is now in the mail on it's way to Portland, Oregon. Dana sounds like a really neat gal! It's amazing how people can find you and I'm glad she did because I think this project will be quite interesting. Eastern jade meets Venetian lace patterns! Awesome!


Next Thursday, I'll be off to Vegas to meet up with Anna and possibly the world's greatest mormon, Adam. I have realised that the people I love alot has names starting with A: Aaron, Anna, ok well maybe not. That's it.