CROC CHARMS AND DOLL DWELLINGS...AND A HUGE MESS

Aren't these just too cute?! I've been wanting some croc charms ever since I found out there were such things. Monday, when Amy and I went to Corpus Christi, one of the stores we stopped in had them, so I stocked up on these Halloween ones, and got some Christmas ones for December. Each charm cost as much as the pair of shoes. Too much, but not as bad as it sounds, I guess, since these are Walmart fake crocs.
This is what came in today's mail - the pink bedding, pillows and night stand. Isn't it cute?! This was from Vee in a Swap-Bot Dollhouse Handmade Miniature swap. I don't have a bed yet, but I'll make one eventually.
This is Violette (Violette Spice Blythe, if you remember.) in her other new room box. I bought the two boxes at Hobby Lobby, to be her home. The wonderful metal furniture, I got at Codi's. The other items in the room are the ones I got from enakitty recently.
Right now, the boxes are just plain, but I do plan to put in changeable wallpaper and decorate for Halloween very soon.
I am soooo tired this evening. I managed to get the HEAVY treadmill moved from the computer/art room to the back closet this afternoon, with Amy's help. I am SORE all over. Since it is so big and cumbersome, even when folded, that involved moving other furniture and boxes and debris that was in the long path to it's final destination. Then I emptied Shabree's bookcase, and moved it into the place where the treadmill was, since it is wider than the other one that I have in this room. I am trying to organize and declutter this place - or at least parts of it. This house has very, very little storage space at all. Anyway, things are a bigger mess right now that when I started, with displaced shelves and boxes and stuff moved into the hallway and living room. *sigh* BUT - progress is being made.

SENT AND RECEIVED

I just finished putting the finishing touches on this cat I crocheted. It was gone in the mail a few minutes later to my partner in a Handmade Halloween Stuffie swap via Swap-bot. It was fun, but I think I am through with crocheting for awhile, except for a few more acorn amigurumis, maybe.
On the LEFT is the Halloween altered, filled matchbox that went off to my partner yesterday. I wish the photo would have turned out better. You can't see the details. I sent some extras too, including this skull eraser that I liked so much, I had to include in the photo. My partner likes faeries (fairies?), so I found a picture of faeries with a crow-drawn pumpkin wagon for the top.
The other matchbox is the one I received in the same swap. Cute, huh? The ghost is a foamie and with the grosgrain ribbon it is very textural. It is filled with a LOT of Halloween figural confetti, buttons, tiny collage elements, etc. Thanks, LauraM540!
In other swap news, I got a zine! and three vintage postcards from Nicole Introvert from a one-on-one swap tag today. The zine appears to be awesome and is long and crammed full of words and pictures. I am off to read it now. THANKS, Nicole!!!

CATCHING UP

It seems like forever since I blogged last. So this will be one of those short 'see the photos' posts.
My sister came to visit last weekend! YAY!!! I commemorated the occasion on a journal page. That's me on the left and her on the right. Don't you recognize us?
Here are Egglantine, Henrietta and Wynona enjoying some R&R. Their enclosure is a whole 'nother story, but I won't get into that.
This is my first amigurumi. I crocheted this 'acorn boy' about a week ago. Amigurumi are all the rage in the internet craft scene, so I did one to see how it would be....strangely alluring.
This cornucopia is for a Tussie Mussie swap. Filled and packaged, it went off to someone in Australia this morning. I enjoyed making it.