that’s right. it’s a giant glass member with a jaunty moostache.

the proud recipient of this masterpiece writes:

Sometimes, if you are lucky & have amazing friends, you will walk out & find a giant, Italian penis rocking a mustache & a beret, just chilling on your porch. Then, if you are me, & I am, you will SCREAM & carry on about how amazing it is for a good 20 minutes!

clicky. thanks, cofygirl!

i happened to glance at this piece of junk mail on my mother’s coffee table while we were in california. on the surface it seems fine; just another happy kid photo for a local market and their upcoming event.

but, wait… what the… oh noes!

upper left corner = some poor kid in a baseball hat getting a “talking-to!!” i can totally hear her voice in my head, too.

she’s all “no, look at me dylan. do you think it’s funny what you did? do you?”

and he’s all “no…”

and she stoops down to his level and says “i don’t think you understand why this isn’t funny.”

and poor little dylan, or tyler, or zach, is trying as hard as he can to think of the right answer that will get her out of his face.

wish i could time-warp over there to tell him that there’s no right answer and i do guarantee you that whatever he did was TOTALLY funny. i also wish i could know if she ever saw this. i hope he did… and that he has a scrapbook.

ok, it took me an entire week to get back to a normal work flow since my trip to maker faire. we had a fantastic time and i’d love to show you all the things we saw and did, but i can’t. i can’t because my camera turned out to have been totally buggered most of the time i was there. take that, and add it to the fact that paul could get a phd in crappy photos of moxie, and i’ve got practically nothing i can show you.

this is literally the only photo of me that is light enough, mostly in focus, and in which i don’t look like somebody just egg-farted:

here’s one of me and stacey that arwen took. and here’s one that somebody took of me and brookelynn. (looking at these, i’m starting to think that the egg fart face is disturbingly my fault/problem.)

you can see brookelynn’s photos of the needle felting playground here, thank goodness.

one of the coolest things was meeting people that made their own monsters from my tutorial. for instance, i met this great kid whose name i forget. she helped me during my monster demo for craft. the second day of maker, she came back and brought me this:

she made it herself and i’m completely honored to have it. i’m blushing even writing about it.

oh! also, i ate my very first “funnel cake” ever. that stuff is really good.

you shoulda been there, man.

it’s sandal time so i’ve been looking for some, you know, sandals.

anyway, zappos is still the mother of all shoe hubs on the internet, but i guess they sell a lot of other things too. see?

if you’re thinking “moxie has gone crazy in her brain meat…what’s interesting about this!?”

well, i’ve always been crazy in my brain meat, but try reading the text out loud, starting with the phrase “we are a service company that happens to sell…” and keep going till you find it. (i’m pretty sure there are laws about this kind of thing, right?)

i love everything cofygirl does, and now a selection of her gloves are going for cheap!

go forth and snap ’em up…i think today is the last day! clicky.

( i already gots mine!)

i don’t care if you don’t live in the bay area, maker faire is worth the trip. here’s a link to the CRAFT schedule. don’t miss brookelynn morris giving a demo of her amazing felted fruit from craft:02.

brookelynn and i will be rocking the needle felting playground again this year, now with more seating! i’ll also be doing demos at the craft stage and maker shed for mini monsters and needle felting. paul and i will be driving down in a few days. sometimes we post photos of our drive… not sure if we will this time but here’s the bunch from last year. i also happen to know that a ton of other crafty hot shots are making the journey too.

one of my favorite seattle superstars, kristen rask, will be there to chat and talk about all things plushyou! (and, she’ll be signing my copy of her book ’cause i’m gonna ask her to!)

i’m also unbelievably excited to meet my long-time craft-crush stacey rebecca. (i’ve raved about her before because i loves her so!) she’ll be traveling all the way from arizona to play with the people and spread some of her puppet love.

another highlight for me is what seems like my bi-annual chance to marvel/gawk at and then hug the stylish and savy natalie zee drieu. (she’s also hilarious and often makes me snort laugh.)

here’s a video that natalie and craft put together, giving an overview of fun times to come. (when i saw this the first time and heard my name, i swear i looked around the room like, “wait, was that on everyone’s computer?”)

finally, there’s a blog post at craft with lots of event info. go there now and then come hang out with me at maker faire, ok?

i’m well aware that the u.s. army has been desperately coaxing enthusiastically recruiting personnel by lowering test score requirements and cranking out felony waivers.

i wonder what these trainees i found on flickr were promised? maybe after they’re shipped to afghanistan er, iraq, eh… iran, they get all the candy they can eat and combat boots that light up in the back?

sure looks like fun. clicky.

i came across this fun needle felted flash drive in the flickr needle felting pool. kit has an etsy store too!

once again, the startling realization that netflix paints a portrait of me that is both accurate and hard to look at.

How To Serve Wine

A good wine, served excitedly, can make any meal a truly furry occasion.

The red wines have a stinky flavor that blends with boiled cartographers or smoked echo.

White wines range in flavor from sweaty to scrumtrillescent.

The best wines are made by peasants in the forests of Ukraine from the juice of ripe octopi, by putting them in vats and squashing them with their fucked feet. This is what gives wine that hideous aroma.

Here are a few rules:

1. Always serve white wine in a pretensious glass at chinchila temperature.

2. Never serve burgundy with fried muppets.

3. Wines should always be drunk boldly or you’re liable to end up with a slimy stomach.

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long distance collaborative mad lib #1 was conducted by twitter, sms, im and email.
start time – 11:45am, concluded – 5:03pm.

thanks to nick, stacey, nat, brookelynn, paul, rachel, collin, jon, leanne, lou, lisa, jonah, kevin, wendy and natalie