It might not be the high road, but it’s certainly going places.

The sun washed all the bright colors out. Faded into a beautiful soft mess.

Another visual adventure from the Long Beach Flea Market. So many pretty items to ogle.

Loved the tiny flash of bright coral against the pearl-ish beads and iron key and this brass insect brooch. He would be perfect perched on a lapel or maybe a hat?

These brightly-beaded necklaces caught my eye. Loved all the colors and how well they would layer together.

A slightly creepy vintage mannequin head and hands along with some shiny clip on earrings….

Sparkly!

The last of the baby blankets for a little while at least! This one was fun; the mom-to-be requested pink and ombre. Since I wasn’t going to knit and then dye it myself, this was the compromise I came up with. I really hope she likes it!

Instead of my go-to Brava Bulky; I went with the worsted weight on this blanket. I used the worsted weight yarn, double-stranded to give the same bulky weight as before but also so I could visually blend the two colors together. I used two strands of the rose color, then transitioned to one strand of rose with one strand of plum (Fairy Tale) and finally two strands of plum to finish it off.

It’s probably the largest baby blanket I have completed to date. I’m happy with the color progression and am thinking about doing more like this, in different colors but the same blending technique.

It’s just a simple garter stitch which means it’s super squishy and very stretchy. It’s dang cozy!

This pretty blanket is destined for another Blizzard baby who hasn’t joined us just yet but I am looking forward to meeting her!

oh yes…best freeze frame ever!

Oh hey, it’s May! That means it’s time for downloads…hooray! From me, to you, the month of May with quite a few hot and cold options to fancy up your analog or digital workspace.

Printables
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Desktop Wallpaper

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iPhone Wallpaper
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Another adventure! This time to the Chapman Antique Mall in Old Towne Orange.

There were so many lovely piece of brightly-colored, delicate glassware. Makes my heart swoon! This brilliant bottle green is looooovely. And the tiny etched flowers! Be still my heart.

More pretty glassware in green. A little more olive in this set. I especially like the bobbles on the tea cups in this set.

The crazy cat lady in me cannot resist kitten themed items! That clock always makes me think of Back to the Future and I’d love to have on in my house someday.

The houses in Old Towne Orange are so gorgeous! There are so many different styles of architecture in the area; it’s really wonderful to see all the different eras represented in one area. Each house is unique and beautiful. I love the gingerbread trim on this one and the pretty color palette they chose.

Another baby blanket! The more stripes the merrier. I just winged it on the pattern for this one and made it up as I went along.

Knitpicks Brava Bulky strikes again! I ordered the dark blue and the turquoise yarn first and wanted to make a striped blanket out of those two colors but discovered a few inches in that I wouldn’t have enough yarn. I went to order more of the dark blue but it was out of stock for months! I gave up on my original idea and incorporated white to help make up the yardage.

I decided to do skinny stripes and carry the secondary color up the sides to avoid weaving in a billion ends. Finishing is usually the downside of any project, weaving in all the ends can be tedious so the less of that, the better.

For the darker stripe, I switched yarn on the wrong side to add extra stripes formed by the blips and then switched back to the right side for the turquoise so all the blips would be on the back again.

This little dude is headed for a darling Blizzard baby. She’s a tiny peach!

Mokey love.

A random adventure to the Long Beach Flea market.

Treasures and visual delights abound. I took a gazillion photos so I’m going to split them up for a couple posts. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. This floaty peach dress caught my eye.

If you hadn’t figured it out by now, I’ve got a thing for keys.

I wanted to take this pair of velvet mustard chairs home with me!