happy happy valentines!

holiday cards!

Oh dear god, it's December. It's a bit of an understatement to say there hasn't been a whole lot of knitting or wayfaring or pretty much anything other than work this year - but despite being insanely busy and not doing any of those fun things, I managed to get my act together enough to a) buy a heat embossing gun and b) make some holiday cards these last few nights. It's the first remotely craft-y thing I've done in ages, and even though they came out a little smudged and uneven, I'm still pretty pleased with them:

They're not quite as awesome as my rabbit cards of two years ago, but the Year of the Rabbit only rolls around so often, and in the meantime I like my giant tree stamp:

And also embossing! Nothing like covering your entire kitchen with glitter and messiness because you're a grown up. 

As crazy as this year has been, I *have* managed to get some knitting in, and even some designing. Whether I manage to write any of it up or photograph it in a timely fashion is another question, but for now, here's a sneak peak of the stitch pattern :) And here's hoping for a wonderful holiday season for you all and an amazing, happy and healthy 2013! I'm hoping to finish this year on a good note, hanging out in Vietnam - so more from there, hopefully! 

renegade craft fair

Another nice thing about being back in California was being able to go to San Francisco Renegade Craft Fair! I've wanted to go for years, but have never been able to go, so it was very exciting. Both my friend and I spent too much money, and wanted to spend more.

There wasn't a huge amount of yarn, but I picked up a gorgeous skein of this yellow-green yarn from the Spincycle Yarns booth. I still don't quite know what I want to do with it, but I love how pretty it is.

Other than Spincycle, there was also a basket of yarn at the awesomely named Rhinofluff booth: 

And there was a ton of other stuff that I just loved looking at ... (please excuse the moody cell phone pictures!) 

... like belt buckles ...

... three eyed stuffed animals ... 

... russian dolls ...

... and this bird. 

Yay, Renegade Craft Fair! I hope I can go again someday.