After every holiday, my mom usually sends us home with most of the leftovers, because we’re the only ones who will eat them!

Hairy already made a delicious turkey noodle soup a few dasy ago, and tonight he chucked the rest of the leftovers into this pie crust. And it was T-riffic!

So last Thursday, Hairy and Manda and went to our favorite divebar 80s night since Manda is on vacay from school.

The three of us were just sittin’ around, people-watching (nerds had invaded the bar that night…it was fascinating), when I suggested we take photos a la The Hangover. Nobody was pulling out their teeth on a dare or marrying strippers or stealing Mike Tyson’s pet tiger … but we tried our best.

Our ridiculous attempts at goofy self portraiture led a petroleum engineer to sit next to Manda and ask if she came here often….

…..and kinda forgot to announce it in my blog!

I announced in on FB and Twitter and my mailing list. And then I passed the eff out from shooting and editing photos and listing items until 10:30am with no sleep!

So a lot of stuff is gone already: cupcake coffee cup cozies, a lot of the ice cream scoop barrettes. But there’s still some stuff there!

CLICK FOR ETSY.

My favorite item of the update, which is already sold, is the BURGER MITTS!!!!!!! There will be more in the future. Don’t you worry.

On Xmas Eve, my local NBC News station aired a little segment about me and my work! It was pretty cool to watch it with my parents and my bestie! Manda took a video on her iPhone of all of us watching it for the first time. I hope she posts that so I can show you. You get to hear me shout about stuff like how crooked my teeth are on a giant flat screen HDTV!

I was really excited to be contacted by a local producer, who at first just asked if I had scarves to sell her! Next thing I knew, I was furiously hanging prints in my house and trying to make the place look okay for her and the camera man/interviewer to film me in my environment! They were here for about 2 hours, and Manda helped dog-sit!

This is pretty much the first time someone else has filmed me talking and is the first time I’ve seen myself on TV. I have avoided being on TV before because I was too scared…I coulda been on DIY Network a few years back! Yes, I’m a total girl and totally mortified and completely focusing on all my physical flaws and all the weird ways I say things when a camera is pointed at me! But it’s still pretty cool, so I’ll share it with you guys!

Merry Christmas!!

I decided that as a present to my crocheting blog-readers, I would post up a free tutorial for my Crocheted Popcorn Garlands for one week (until Jan. 1), so grab it while you can before I take the pattern down!

I wanted to crochet my own garland for my own tree, using a pattern that wasn’t too complicated (so I could work on it while vending at Renegade!) but still looked a lot like popcorn. I researched around a little bit to see what patterns were out there, but I just wasn’t quite satisfied with the ones I found, so I Frankensteined my own!

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** Happy new year! I have removed the free pattern and will post it to Etsy some time soon. Thank you! **