starting to get caught up

you know how it’s hard to get back into work mode when you’ve been away for a few days? well it’s a heck of a lot harder when you’ve got an adorable (sneaky, mischievous) kitten in your workplace! my parents came into town monday afternoon and left thursday night so while they were here a took a computer vacation, checking only my email in case of anything urgent. no google reader (still haven’t caught up on those blog posts!), no twitter, sorry if i haven’t replied to an email or comment yet… and now yesterday and today have been spent sloooowly playing catchup, mostly just doing what’s absolutely necessary and being lazy with the kitty for way too much of my time. when she’s playing i have to watch her so she doesn’t get into trouble, and when she’s sleeping she makes me sleepy! so, not much work has been getting done around here!

so i don’t have my new leethal shirts up in the shop yet, hopefully by tomorrow night or monday morning, we’ll see… but to give you a sneak peek, here are the 2 shirts i sold at iron artist last weekend:

iron artist went well! i didn’t get to see the event at all, being around the corner, facing the wrong way, but i saw tons of fun costumes. i sold a good variety of stuff and got lots of feedback on the shirts – telling me that i should definitely pursue that further! and i plan to have a custom shirt order system so you get the print you want with your size and color choice. of course, they will all be printed on recycled shirts, so there won’t be infinite size/color options. but i’ll have lots of choices eventually once i stock up, hooray for the bins!

i think i’m gonna do some future posts about fun portland touristy spots – i went to several of them with my parents and found some really cool stuff! the oregon historical society museum was super interesting and right now they have a puppet exhibit that was way fun, and we toured the submarine at omsi, and drove out along the gorge, and more…. it’s fun to play tourist for a few days in your own town, i recommend it!

we also went out for breakfast all three mornings, oh man i love portland breakfasts, and saw a movie at the kennedy school, and went thrifting for a table and chairs for our kitchen! and spent lots of time at home playing with the kitty of course!

oh, by the way, her name is garbanzo! wanna see more kitty shots? ok!

sorry for the excess, i just can’t help it!

onto other things… susan let me know the other day about this obama knit hat pattern by Lise Gervais, available for free on portland-based sewer-sewist’s obama craft project site! i don’t mean to get political on my blog, but i just have to say how i love all the craft-world stuff going on with this election. as soon as we got registered in oregon (it took us awhile to get around to it, oops) i put up the nikki mcclure vote poster in our front window, yay! and susan is hosting an obama postcard writing party next friday at tandem coffeehouse on division (across the street from the obama headquarters), with her gocco!

ok i have lots of other stuff to blog about, but it’ll all come in future posts… for now, i need to work on some job blogging. and i need to go say hi to someone who just woke up from a little catnap! stretchy kitty!