After a month long haul on a pair of Jaywalker socks, I needed some "wam bam thankyou mam" kinda knitting .....

The Phydeaux twist cowl, I fell in love with this cool mama's version and immediately had to cast on! Done in 3 hours;)

Love it!!

This week has been busy, therefore I needed another super quick super bulky knit idea, my sista friend knit this up and gave me the inspiration. I love it, it's called Autumn and is a pattern from the talented Jane Richmond.

Warm heads rule!!!

A few recent thrifting scores and a few gifts from my thrifting vintage loving mama!

                                      ~milk glass mugs~

~plethra of vintage buttons~

~doilly coasters~

I've been meaning to make up a batch of eco playdough for some time now. Since we all have the sniffles and it's crazy hot out today we dove right in. I follow the recipe above to a tee. I took it off the heat to early the first time and had to stir till I could barely move the dough in the pan.It was quick and easy....and the smell of cooking play dough brought back many good childhood memories!!

The dough cooling and waiting to be colored.

I didn't want to use the conventional dye so this is what I came up with:

Raspberries for pink.

Turmeric for gold.

Chlorella for green.

After lots of kneading, this is what we got!!!

Cool right!!!

They loved it! And I got an hour of house cleaning done while they molded and created lots of interesting things:)

While sitting around on one of the many rainy days we had in June here in CO...I remembered a post on the Crafty Crow about re purposing egg cartons into little quirky creatures.

this is our remix...