Pin Cushion Wednesday

As you can see, I am now making felted pincushions...more to come.

Yellow on Tuesday

Today's Flowers

Between making jello, doing laundry, organizing the wool sausage and general tidying up. I made these:

The Sausage Exposed!

Sunday Afternoon

Today, I made jello. From top to bottom: orange, grape, lime, cherry, and peach.

Separated

There seemed to be more of these ones, so they're on their own!

Two scarves will travel

This is the other scarf going to Winnipeg this week.

My Saturday Night

I bought a bag of glass beads, I believe a pound of beads, but I couldn't stand seeing them like this. So of course I needed to organize them. I bought these little tic tak containers and spent a couple hours going through everything. The bag at the bottom were the larger ones that kept jamming the containers or just too big to fit at all.

And from J3

Other than J1, the rest of us are getting or presents early this year! Look what I got along with the wool sausage! J3 had these sent to me from Australia, these books were difficult to find here because Prudence Mapstone is from Oz.

Can you tell its getting bigger?

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missbell.co.uk

Look what I won on ebay! Can you really call it winning when you're the only one who bid on the item?

Cranberry Delite

Cranberry Delite is on its way to Winnipeg for the holidays!

Felting Needles!

This is an early Christmas present from J1, now I've really gotta explain to her how this works! I think I'll try to do a step by step blog tutorial this weekend....thats if I'm not consumed with my Walmart woes. THANKS J1 I loves 'em!

Look who's finally home?!

Thursday night felting

Walmart Customer Service

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to spend 2 hours at a Walmart, I think I divided it up into a 45 min shift at the "craft" section, 45 min in the "toy" department, 10 min trying to find a price check scanner, and 10 min in line to get a coffee at the McDonalds (I was second in line!).

Checkout wasn't so bad, third in line, wasn't quite sure what was going on with a family just standing at already paid for my items end. Got my items rang through, then realized they were waiting around because they forgot to pick up a pair of mitts and didn't want to get inline again. There was slight chaos, but that isn't uncommon with people getting in gear for winter and the holiday shopping rush. Somehow, one of my purchases was left behind.

This is how I see it going down, as I replay it...MISSING ITEM (not being mentioned because its a xmas gift that I'm going to have to repurchase) 15th item out of 33 to be scanned. LARGE, will only fit in a big bag on its own. MITTEN FAMILY(aka MF)...hovering. COUNTER a mess. MISSING ITEM in bag on its own, possible put on the ground on the Cashiers side. FIVE other bags being filled with remainder of Walmart shopping spree. A member of the MF shows up with mitts, bags are being grabbed, slight scurry by six people standing in a space for about two. DEEP breath, grab bags and leave. MISSING ITEM still on floor by the cashier.

For some reason on my TTC trek to work Wednesday morning, I realized that I hadn't seen one of my biggest(physically) purchases from Walmart around the apartment. This was something I definately couldn't have hid behind the futon or under the kitchen table (because there just isn't room anymore!)

So, okay, I know that calling Walmart on a Wednesday about a Saturday purchase was a bit of a stretch...but no harm in trying, right?

After rummaging through my purse, which is full of napkins and coffee sleeves I found my Walmart receipt, had to google the phone number because its not on there, nor is the location etc (it must all be in that barcode)....anyways...

I'm on hold for about five minutes, which I expected, only to get a crabby woman who rudely said, "I'm all by myself and have two people in line, you'll have to call back."CLICK....Okay! geez.
So I call back, before I can even tell her what the item was, but having had mentioned I was in on Saturday, her response was, "It's WEDNESDAY, are you serious, it won't be here."

Many things were going through my head, surprisingly I didn't snap...however I was able to say aloud...not in this order, "Is there a place you put the items that are left behind?" "Do you need more of a description other than the two words that don't tell you what the item actually is on the receipt?" and "Could you at least look?"....

Her name was Marie (she could have been lying), at the Walmart in Vaughn, ON. Her response was "I can see where it would be if it was here and its not here." Personally I think she was looking at the customers inline waiting for her to get off the phone.

I'm going back to that Walmart tomorrow to be one of those people inline! I wonder if I will be able to see the My Missing Item in the pile where they'd be if it were there?! I also wonder if the call was being monitored. I wonder if I should even bother, but you'd better be sure I'm going to be looking for a Marie!

flora batch

flora batch
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

Here are my latest flower brooches.

Naked Garden

The Stash...well most of it.

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From top to bottom:

Basket of large skeins of yarn

Mohair

European Yarn

Fancy European Yarn

Ribbon and Ladder Yarn

Eyelash Yarn

1/2 of my Fabric Stash

Stash-tastic

What the!

I'm not sure what's going on with Flickr right now, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with having to verify my own blogging. Wonder if I can shut that off? Anyways, I've been knitting again, and messing around with some scrap wool. Here's what's been going on. This one is actually done, but I forgot to take a picture of the scarf. Its going to Winnipeg when I get the next one done!I've wanted to get a grasp of making these loops, I think I have the hang of it now, so I'd better use more than a scrap ball of yarn for the real thing.

Felted Flora Fever

floral display
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

I saw this thing at Winners this week and knew I had to have it to display my flower pins...little did I know, it was a designer's baby bottle drier! I love it anyways!

I'm making a wrap

commissioned wrap
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

and I don't mean a sandwich rolled up in a tortilla!

Oh and these too!

Oh these were in the bin too, I did get four, but only took pics of these two. Mokuba is located at Queen Street West and Bathurst (575 Queen Street W.)

My trip to Mokuba

Mokuba is a ribbon store in Toronto, I tried to goolge it just now to see if I could link you to their website, but alas, they may not have one. They only thing they sell is ribbon, all the ribbon you could ever need. This is the beginnings ofmy ribbon stash, for sewing, not knitting! There is way too much ribbon to choose from, so I always head to the Buy 3 get 1 Free bin (located beside the check out counter). Here are my recent purchases:

pretty in pink

pretty in pink
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

This is the end of the pink flowers for a while. Thank goodness! I've gotta say, felting is more enjoyable when I can just do what I want. I had to really restrain myself from making other flowers, seeing as these are already paid for. (Yeah, okay...I did make the orange one!)

orange blossum

orange blossum
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

The only flower I've made recently that's not PINK!

Felting Flowers

needle felting
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

I had an order for two pink flowers, it was a little vague, or perhaps I like alot of "instruction"? Regardless, I made a batch of them. I think I'm going to take some step by step instructional needle felting pics, cuz J1 doesn't get what I'm doing.

Invites

Invites
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

Knitting will commence tonight. I have three scarves to knit, good thing the invites are finally done. Here they are, 60+ of each and more on standby incase the couple needs some extra.

Gotta fight the yarn stash behind the futon once again...I need to get some extra storage!

Invite making

Invite making
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

There hasn't been much knitting or as much felting as I'd like this week because I've been spending my time making more wedding invitations. These are the fifth invites I've made, but one of the first to be documented.

group of three

group of three
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

These didn't make it to the original photo shoot!

Score

Score
Originally uploaded by tsaiware.

I scored this yesterday, when you have no intention of buying yarn, suddenly there is a great deal you can't pass up.

arts and crafts

arts and crafts
Originally uploaded by architect.

LL is an official crafting prodigy. Welcome to the tsaiWare blog! Wonder if Jess's birthday baking counts too?