Up One on the Snuggie

I saw these pictures posted on another blog and thought I had to share it. I think it is hilarious because they up'd the snuggie. Now you can have entire sleeves with gloves in your blanket. HA!

 

Felting

I’ve added felting to my long list of crafting hobbies. Felting is the process of making felt from wool by either hot water with pressure or poking the fibers together with needles. Why would I want to make felt? Because I’m making it into forms, figures, shapes, and beads. I think it’s interesting to see the soft fluffy puffs of wool change, as I work with it, into unique stiff forms.
I happened onto this craft when I was looking at some “how to” patterns of etsy.com. There were these two cute hugging bears made from felting. I then found a link to buy a felting kit. One thing led to another and several days later my felting kit arrived in the mail. I’ve finished my first two projects. I created a heart necklace, (see picture up top) and a purple bunny figure.
My first attempt at flat form felting ended up with my shape sticking to the foam board I used to protect my table. I learned my lesson with a misshaped heart still attached to a chunk of foam. After that incident I was able to make a perfect heart and roll up beads that I turned into a necklace.
Felting reminds me of Romans 11:11-24 -I had to look that up. It actually reminded me of the branches being grafted in. Using felting makes more sense to me because I don’t understand tree grafting. I’m not a botanist. Either way, it reminds me of God’s grace. I’ve been felted into his family.

Sleeping in an Egg

This past week I decided to make a twitter account. But instead of having a regular twitter that is used for stalking friends, I’m using it under a false name. This way, people won’t bother me as I follow design magazines, craft websites, and rock bands. With a twitter like this I come across quite a few interesting things every day. Today I found something very odd. This bed.

Although it was a brand spanking new design from Lomme almost three years ago, I have never seen this bed or known of anyone who would even consider buying one. To house this beast of a bed, you would have to have an enormous bedroom and you’d probably have to cut a giant hole in the side of your house to get it into a house. I think that’s why they photographed it on a beach. They didn’t have enough money to move it into a house. They probably didn’t have enough money to build a set around it either, since no one would buy it. And I wonder now, is the mattress shaped oval too? And do sleep number beds come in oval? If I were super rich, I would like to have this bed. Then I could go to bed in it like a little yoke inside of this giant egg. Why would some one want to sleep inside of an egg?