Happy Anniversary, Baby~ <3

Lam surprised me with dinner reservations at the one and only Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley and it was truly a most memorable and exquisite evening. This past weekend, we took a roadtrip to the lovely serene beaches and forests of Mendocino and Fort Bragg. We returned home, more in love and souls refreshed.

Mochi Studios’ newest Wonderland Mushrooms made a special appearance at the tea party too!!

Mad Hatter Shroom enticing Alice to drink the mysterious bottle~

Queen of Hearts Shroom looking disdainfully at the tipsy White Rabbit~

Alice Shroom stuck in a teap cup, no thanks to the nutty Cheshire Cat~

White Rabbit Shroom found a good place to hide from the Queen of Hearts~

You dare stare at me?! Off with your head!

White Rabbit~ I’m late for a very important date!

This spinning Mad Tea Party Tea Cup ride is making me dizzy!

I want my tea now! Hmmph!

We’re all totally bonkers!
You must stay for more tea!!

The Mad Tea Party itself was absolutely splendid too!

Some Wonderland Mushrooms keeping watch over the red velvet cupcakes~

And here’s yours truly~ The Queen of Hearts!

E-A-T M-E Red Velvet and Choco Smores Cupcakes~!

New cup! Move down! Move doooown!

And I found the Mad Hatter himself with his Alice at the Theatre!

We all need a little more madness in our lives every day!

Can’t wait for more madness!

More Wonderland Mushrooms will become available soon at my next craft fairs!

I don’t typically use black yarn but this bunny turned out really cute!

And here’s her bunny with her Ninja Bean buddy~
The Chinese character on the front is “Wind.”

The bunny has a wee tail in the back.
The Chinese character on the Ninja Bean’s back is “Good.”

I’m shipping them out today so I hope you like them, Sorhna! Thanks so much for your special custom order!

Renegade Holiday Craft Show
With  Geri Designs
Saturday, December 19th – 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday, December 20th – 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Fort Mason Center Herbst Pavilion

Geri and I will be at Booth #27!

Geri Designs will debut her super adorable painted wooden dolls at the fair along with her jewelry collection and special holiday glass ornaments! Each wooden doll is unique and one of a kind and painted with the cutest little faces and outfits! I haven’t event seen them all and I can’t wait to get a few myself!

The Fort Mason website has some directions and you can also use Google Maps. The car entrance to Fort Mason is at the intersection of Marina Blvd and Buchanan Street – there is no street address.

You can easily get there via public transportation. Located between Fisherman’s Wharf and the Golden Gate Bride on the San Francisco Bay, Fort Mason is asily accessible by MUNI and BART. MUNI lines near Fort MAson are the 10 Townsend, 22 Fillmore, 28 19th Ave., 30 Stockton, 47 Van Ness and 49 Van Ness/Mission.

Additionally, the first few special customers of Mochi Studios at Renegade on Saturday will receive a limited edition 2010 Sea Life Calendar print by Mochi Studios if you spend more than $10! It’s 8.5″ x 11″ and printed in high quality on linen card stock paper.

Especially for this show, I also made limited edition creations! — A Peach colored Pea Pod, a Bride and Groom Pea Pod, a hot pink Giant Octopus, some mini Ninja Beans, purple colored Rice Babies (you’ll have to see what animal it is at the fair!), and some crochet amigurumi creations and more!!

Can’t wait to see you there!!!

Happy Hooking~! <3

I was stalled recently because I bent my tiny crochet hook in Texas while making a present for my Grandmother (which sadly remains unfinished >_<). This has happened to be twice before so I think I need to switch to a better crochet hook product that won’t bend on me.

(Hard to take iPhone pictures in distress!)

So I’ve been sewing the mushroom caps and saving the crochet undersides for later this week when I can go buy a new 2.0 mm 1.0 mm crochet hook (yes, it must be that small!) RIP tiny crochet hook. I miss you every every day~~

My new woven labels are too big for my mushrooms so I’ll also have to figure out how to add “mochistudios.com” to these mushrooms. I’m going to try printing my own smaller labels on fabric using my ink jet printer tonight!

And he’s hit my love of mushrooms right on the nose too! Here’s “How the Mushroom Barn Fire Started”:

"How the Mushroom Barn Fire Started" by WooWork

But they’re soooo cute and joyful! I hope the mushrooms survived the fire!

"We took a stroll in the garden" from craftyturtle1

"White hung out with Mr. Gnome" from craftyturtle1

"Red decided to lounge on the chaise" from craftyturtle1

"Yellow liked the garden bench" from craftyturtle1

They were soooooo much fun to make! It was nice to play the game to “research” in between crocheting ^-^ Pikmin is a game from Nintendo and is not my original character and these guys don’t look exactly like the video game characters. I crocheted them with acrylic yarn and sewed felt details. And now my boyfriend wants a set of Pikmin too!

Which reminds me of something sweet Geri did for me… I was feeling down a couple days ago and she turned her clementine orange into this sunny delight! Thanks, Geri! You always know how to cheer me up!

Blue skies~~~~~