One of the things we did this weekend was cross the Golden Gate Bridge and take the dogs on a walk in Marin at Fort Baker/Rodeo Beach. It was a rare opportunity for the pups to be on their extendo leashes. I’m usually not a fan of walking them with extender leashes at home because there are so many cars and buses. Also we can’t take them off-leash because they are (un-trained) hunting dogs and will go running for the hills to be verminators!

Anyway, they enjoyed their walkie very much. Bibi was pooped pretty soon, so we took it easy on our first day on the trail!

At first, I relished the opportunity for Bibi to go sniffing in bushes and smelling stuff and walking on natural turf, but then I got really scared that we were surrounded by poison oak. Luckily, nobody got any poison oak, but, Dear Internet: is this poison oak!?!?! By the ocean!?!

Here’s me on a bridge. We also think this is the troll bridge that Bunny would live under and then scare children. Also well-noted is my bow-legged self!

Pre-historic asparagus:

Next entry: CURRY DATE!

I have this project in mind using a vintage suitcase, so I went on Etsy last night and searched “vintage suitcase” just to see what was out there.

I bumped into some really cool stuff!!

This chair and table set is a dream!! WANT!!!

I may have posted these amazing cat bed suitcases before, but I think they merit another mention!

This artist has a lot of amazing prints:

Cute hot air balloon!

Simple train case:

This round case looks in great condition! Tempting!

Here are some foodie coffee cup sleeve/cozies I whipped up! Not all will be winners … but, come on, the hamburger. That’s a home run!

I have so much fun designing and making these. They are like my little art projects! I’ve got a ton more ideas for these, but I am focusing on the next Etsy update if possible!

Which cozy is your fave?

Soooo, this week I received first pass pages for my book! It’s the first time I’ve seen all of it all designed up and laid out and everything. It’s pretty cool! I’m also starting to conceive of some promo stuff for the book, and I wasn’t really sure what the pub date was…so I decided to see if it was on Amazon.com yet….and it is!

You can click on the image to go to the Amazon page! So yeah, November 2. That seems like a loooooong time from now! People have been really nice and saying they will pre-order it now, but….remember it IS 7 months away!

When I went to my friend Jandy’s reading/book launch, I wondered if I should have one. I feel like if I had one, nobody would come, and it would be really embarrassing! Plus, I don’t think I would be reading patterns out loud in front of everybody! Has anyone attended a craft-book launch party before?