Earthy Eye at Space Monkey

Earthy Eye hats are now available at Space Monkey Coffee
which is a rad coffee shop in south east Portland.
5511 SE 72nd Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97206
(503) 772-3028
Experience includes:
-Yummy organic coffee
-bagels, yogurt & snacks
-WIFI
-Mt. Scott Park/Rec Center across the street
-Comfy hangout
-Earthy Eye Hats
-other local artists

Shoot Cupid weekend

Well Shoot Cupid was a bummer regarding sales and the new grease smell that smoothers my hats. Everything else was fun though, I enjoyed the other venders who I got to set up next to.

Since I don't have much exciting news regarding Shoot Cupid I thought I'd share other things that are going on in my life. Last Sunday I planted starts in my basement including broccoli, cabbage, onion, tomato and leeks. Today, one week later, I have four 2" broccoli sprouts, two 2" cabbage sprouts, and the onion, tomato and leeks are peaking out of the soil as well. This summer is going to be a very awesome and plentiful summer. The girls are already out getting the soil ready. Oh, and outside we've planted the asparagus, it's so tiny and cute :)

Tapesty Crocheting

I've been learning to tapestry crochet from the directions in my Happy Hooker book. I first started with the heart design from the book. It turned out pretty good I think!


Then I decided to make a hat and started simply with every other stitch. I counted many, many times and it still did not turn out to meet correctly on the back (not shown). Also, this hat wasn't meant to turn out so small, it would probably fit a new born, if lucky.


Getting closer with the next hat, still small in size but it can actually fit onto my head. I wasn't too excited about how this one turned out because of the red yarn that you can see all of the way around the hat where the hearts are. But all and all, I am very excited to have learned to tapestry crochet. I been improving and now have a few tapestry hats up on my Etsy.

Purple hat with orange "XOXO" tapestry crocheted into it. I used a double crochet for the first time with the tapestry which is usually done in single crochet. I prefer double crochet, even though the stitches are longer.

I will be coming up with more hat tapestry designs soon, it's too much fun not too :)

Happy Winter Solstice

I was a craft vendor at the PDX Etsy holiday sale at PSU. My mom came to this event with me and we had a good time. It cost me $24 for my table and luckily I sold one hat, a $24 dollar hat. I am thankful for that. Also, for the other vendors that I got to meet who are all really awesome and inspiring people! At the end I got to trade with other vendors. I traded a hat for some earrings and a hat for a ceramic tea cup. Awesome!
It did weird me out a bit that I was able to sell hats better in September than December. But I know some reasons why including the two other vendors who were selling beautiful knit/crochet hats and the farmer's market vendor who was selling crocheted hats and homemade yarn.
It was a great day either way, and I've found that I LOVE trading! So, let me know what you've got ;)