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This weeks project was a gift for my sister’s boyfriend who just graduated with some degree about working with the earth. Geography or Geology or who knows what. He is always blabbing about rocks and stuff and gps systems. He supposedly has a picture of a saskqwatch. So here is a little topography doll to celebrate the graduation. The best thing is, is that I left him home when we visited this weekend for his grad bbq. So this guy will have to find his way back to the new graduate. Good thing he has a map on his belly!

I’ve been working on a little executioner and it is taking me longer than expected. So I am not going to post tonight but will post week 15 this weekend. Tonight I went to Cari’s art opening and caught up with some old friends. Sadly Cari wasn’t there, she must not have been happy with the labeless blank wine so she left a note saying she “ran to got some beer.” Check out her blog and all of Old Cari’s adventures. Sorry I missed you, Cari. The stuff was fo-fab. Here is my rendition of what went down… since you weren’t there…

baby me conversing with zygote me about how much we love old cari.

This past weekend Tad and I traveled to Seattle to visit my good friend (best) Jessica. Her new found love was having a bar-b-que to celebrate his up-coming open heart surgery. It should be a real blast. His name is Tim, and this will be his second time having open heart surgery… LUCKY. Anyway, you can go read all about his progress, here.

This was my first time meeting him and he seemed nice enough. But I definitely wish him the best of luck, because being horizontal and having people feed you, and then having to start from square one to recover back to normal isn’t fun at all. So this week’s project was for Tim. He is getting an aorta replacement, and he can’t miss out on the aorta fairy. I hear their payouts are huge.

So I made a little aorta pillow. To keep safe for when the aorta fairy shows up, with some cash, or hopefully an aorta that works.

By his smile, this guy knows more than he is letting on

Wipe that smirk off your face.

I think he just shhh-heart-ed.

Someone turned 41 today - NOT ME.

And that someone loves old stale bagels.

Happy Birthday, Matt.

This was a depressing week. One of the interesting things about this commitment to 52 projects is that normally moods or life happenings will make you set things aside and make excuses. But with the 52 projects there are no excuses.

This little guy is from a pattern by Theresa Levy. I picked this pattern because mostly my own creations are just two pieces of fabric sewn together, where this pattern makes more of a 3-d shape.  However, I used baby fleece which is a little bit unforgiving and doesn’t mold nicely when stuffed. I may give this pattern another try with different fabric.

This week I participated in my first plush swap. Since I opened a flickr account, I have discovered many interesting flickr groups. The needle flickr group put on a swap based on your favorite color. I sent in my color choice, and I received someone else’s color choice of sky blue.  So this little guy was packaged up on Monday and sent to his new home in Tennessee. I hope he gets to visit here.

ack I forgot something!

his kidneys!!! This poor fella will need dialysis…stat

At work this week, we lost two very valuable players to the team. Josh and Sarah. One of the banes of their existence was the outlook email feature that allows anyone to add a nice little red exclamation point to outgoing emails to signify their importance. This feature was often abused and misused by all of us! Thereby rendering its intended purpose, completely useless.

Please sign up for sensitivity training! Remember to turn off your monitors before leaving for the night! OMG did you see what Erin bought at Target! We need new toilet paper! The old toilet paper is unsatisfactory! Take my wife, please!

You get the picture ! !

The designers and some of the un-designers at work constructed survival kits for Josh and Sarah so they would be able to survive without us at their new jobs. I made these little red fellas to help them get the point across to their new co-workers.

I miss you guys already!!!!!!!!!

Remember a few weeks ago when, what I thought was a fabulous idea, was really a stupid idea - week 4? Well the inspiration for that was all the paper craft I had been seeing. While I was perusing the other crafty photos on flickr, I ended up seeing someone who I had briefly seen at a store where a craft magazine party was being held. I know I know- freaky. Well I went to her blog, a little harmless internet stalking, we all do it, right? Anyways, on her blog was this.  A call to anyone to send postcards to a bunch of kids. Email her if you want to participate too!

Well this week I thought what better way to satisfy my papercraft cravings as well as hopefully make some kids smile. Anyway, belowis a picture of the postcard I am sending, I found the template here. I won’t show you what I wrote on the back. It is also inspired by the new branding by sandstrom for the portland beavers. And beavers are kind of a cool animal - even if they have been commandeered, the fate of so many cute fuzzy animals are, as slang for U NO WOT!

You can’t really see the hairy chest I gave him, so here is a clearer gif, if you’re interested. I’ll post the assembled postcard, once I get a good picture of it.

Wow 2 months already. I can tell you that this week was one of those weeks where you finish the project and you just aren’t that happy with your creation. But I kind of knew that would happen going into this thing. At least I can now empathize with the people who wrote “Made of Honor”, and I now have a deeper understanding of Keanu Reeves’s mother.

This week’s inspiration sprung from the tornado that blew through my neighborhood back in January. Tornadoes are very rare in these here parts. The last one was in 1972. It was quite the scare watching the news from work and seeing landmarks near my house destroyed. Luckily for me, my house was spared. The tornado missed my house by about two blocks. But while I was rejoicing that my home was still intact, I found out that my good friend Steph’s house didn’t fair so well. This week’s project is a mini tribute to her fallen home… a commemoration so to speak.When I think of tornadoes, I don’t usually think of mass destruction I usually think of The Wizard of Oz, and what really kind of freaked me out about that movie, was the way the wicked witch of the east’s legs shriveled up when Glenda took her shoes. It was like burning hair with a match.