Wynoochee

Still no dolls... We went camping this weekend at the Wynoochee river. We loaded up our little 10 foot boat with a tent and gear, motored our way out onto the river and stopped off at flat ground to set up camp right on the river. I am normally indoors at all hours, so it is neat to be getting out so much lately. The dolls are suffering, but I am picking up new inspiration. ;]

I took all the following pictures with the camera in my iphone, so they are not the highest quality, but pretty good for a phone! (The phone had no reception out there, so I am glad it was good for something ;p)
This was my favorite shot. There was a little path to the left of our tent. We went down that path to gather fallen branches for firewood. While on the path, I turned around and saw just a bit of the lake and mountains behind it--glowing like a little window. The first time I walked down the path, I about had a panic attack. There was so much buzzing and rustling and so many spiderwebs--nature was freaking me out. When I was little, I ran through the forest barefoot like a wild child, but at some point, I lost that. It was nice to get a little more comfortable with dirt again (the buzzing still makes me nervous though).

As you can see, the weather was interesting... we had a little bit of mist rain and some sprinkling, but it never quite poured, which was nice. I took this pic while we were putting around in the boat, but it is quite similar to the view we had out of the front of the tent--the mountains surrounded us on all sides and the glassy lake went out as far as I could see.

Hmm. That's a chair. I don't know why I added this picture.

There were lots of pretty little wild flowers all around. There were some white ones I wanted to photograph, but there was a honey bee hanging out in them, so I didn't want to bother him.

There was a super creepy giant rootball down the path. I didn't get very close to it--just snapped a picture and ran away.

And I lazily looked for four-leaf clovers, but found none. There were a lot of huge clovers--I think those are lucky enough. The clovers made me think of this grumpy pin doll I made in batch 6. "Three leaves are just as lucky as four."
When I was little, my dad used to hold a contest for my sister and me to see who could find a four-leaf clover faster. Once when I was about 7, I looked forever (probably 20 minutes in reality) and could not find one. I needed to win. So, I found the teeniest clover I could find (about an eighth of an inch or so) and I very carefully tore one of the leaves to make three into four. I won a dollar. I still feel bad about cheating.

Chessies and Slightly Creepy Baby

This week flew by. I got a little bit of work done on some dolls--but mostly I focused on the day job and basking in the few rays of light we get here in WA state. Hopefully this weekend I will be able to get more done...we'll see :]. I've been doing some hand sewing for doll costumes here and there--hand sewing is always relaxing (as long as you don't poke yourself with a 2.5 inch beading needle when forcing it through ultrasuede).

We are preparing to adopt a dog--a Chesapeake Bay Retreiver--the new litter was born a few weeks ago, so when they are old enough, Alex and I will go and pick out a female--there were four females born and we have first pick, so that is exciting. The above picture is the girls at 3 weeks--little dollops of chocolate :]. The one on the top right is my favorite in this pic.

I played with a website for a little bit earlier. You run through a little flash menu to create your super-hero (you end up so many odd places when you click around...I don't remember what I was doing in the first place). The names they gave mine were sort of lame, but it was still fun to play with. I suppose the one-eyed thing is fitting with my gimp eye. I also ran into a comic strip earlier that made me laugh because it hit so close to home... My super-secret super power would be the ability to change the color of anything--the artistic possibilities would be endless and enemies beware ;].

Lastly, I leave you with this awesome baby I found in allibell's etsy shop.
I love it. She should sell prints of this photo. I might be the only one to buy one...but still. hmm. I think I need to buy this baby.

Yes, I bought it.

Fishing

I did a whole lot of nothing today. We went fishing in a little boat on American Lake near Tacoma. The weather was wonderful--not too hot, not too cold, perfect breeze...we didn't get sun burnt because we remembered to use sunblock, so that is always a plus.

The clouds were doing exciting things and there was a pretty view of the mountain, so I pulled out my iphone to take some pictures. Most of the photos turned out pretty clear--the ones that didn't have my thumb covering half the lens.

We didn't get a single bite in the four or five hours we were out there. It was odd. But I enjoyed myself and catching fish is smelly business anyway ;p. I took a really long nap when I got home..about a 5 hour nap...I woke up just in time to go to bed again. Tomorrow will be more productive, but today was nice :].

A Day at the Fair

My mom is visiting this week and today we went to the county fair. The morning was spent on business. I was manning the booth put up by my day job--a retail outfitter for hunting/fishing/camping gear.

After that, we decided to explore :]. We wandered through all the booths, went upside-down on a few rides, listened to talks featuring endangered wild animals, and ate a lot!

I think I've had cotton candy on the brain ever since I completed Lun (a pin doll holding spun sugar). So, today, I finally got my cotton candy. I was surprised to find that an entire bag of cotton candy only has about 114 calories. I more than made up for that with the rest of the food I ate--Spinach Calzone with Marinara, Root Beer, Three small deep dried donuts, a Pina Colada smoothie, caramel corn and kettle corn. It has been a long time since I had a day this lazy :].