making myself pay

yes i know i know i know...but between my diet work and crocheting orders and my day job, i've been really crap at keeping you all updated, but really, seriously, did you even miss me?

because i know pretty much everyone else is as busy as i am!

so...it's still bunting craziness here at the bloomsbury skyline club.

i'm finishing up my summer orders and will be moving into my next phase of production in a week or two. i've decided to go ahead, take the plunge, and create limited edition holiday themed etsy/folksy shops only. that way i can keep on top of the supply as it will be very time-based -- well that is the plan anyway!

and what am i doing with my earnings?

well i had been shoving it straight into my skin, getting inked. i've been using my hooker money to reward myself with tattoos for all my weight loss. but this last week i had the first real lapse off programme, and my weight stayed the same. exactly the same. i know part of it is because i need a really big poop, but the rest is due to the champagne. it was sooo lovely though!! and even though i feel horrid for going off plan, i know if i didn't have these new skills that it could have been alot worse and i may have gained!

but nope.

stayed the same.

so no £££ for the tattoo fund this week.

instead i loaned it out to kiva, to help finance leticia's shop!

here's more info if you are also interested in helping...

Al negocio de la señora Tomasa le está haciendo falta más variedad de mercancía.
Solicita un préstamo para invertir en compra de ropa para niños, juguetes, y accesorios de bebes como son carriolas, porta bebes, cunas y andadores. No cuenta con el dinero necesario para realizar la inversión que su negocio.
Con una parte de las ganancias del negocio pagara el crédito, ya es madre soltera y tiene un hijo bajo su responsabilidad y es la una fuente de ingreso que para darle lo necesario y una buena educación.

a handjob is better than no job!

well...wow!

been hooking my little fingers to the bone as i've had lots of orders lately - it seems that everyone that sees my bunting wants some, and now what's even more awesome is i'm trading it for tattoo work. yup, my lovely hand=poked artiste the amazing BOFF saw some today as i was dealing it in his tattoo shop (had to pay for my ink somehow) and want want wanted some...

...so i'll be assembling it soon.

but before i deliver i have to wait til my new order of crochet moo cards arrives, so if anyone wants to buy any, he can share my card. other bits and pieces i guess i should think of re-instating are: labels to sew on my goodies, a proper gallery/products page on this bloggy blog, some proper photos of my work by my daughter raven isis when she isnt rehearsing/performing - and then maybe finally get some shit onto etsy...or should i use folksy? which do you crafty vixens prefer...would like to hear what and why.

but that is just looking ahead a bit, for now i'll just sort the blog out to have an area of items that can be ordered for private sales, or very limted runs for wholesale.

anyway - back to my tattoo i was getting today - and my quite easy 5 hour session, so easy i kept falling asleep, which one really shouldn't do during a handjob as the skin needs to be kept taut, so a bit of contortion helps the work go quicker. anyway anyway - we started FREEFORM filling in my back, and it's starting to look like my all black lace crochet project with paisleys and mini-doilies! will get some photos taked when the kid is home, and not too hungover to work a camera, lol...

...and as well as it being tattoo day, it was gay pride here in london - so to keep with the yearly tradition, i spent the evening at The Ship Pub in soho, with the wonderful Gerard from IKNIT.

foolishness begins

omg... it's my birthday on thursday...yes, that is why i have the april fool tattoo...and work just got me the most amaxingly tasty vegan cake! and a really pretty card with a pinup on it, and inside the card, a drawing of the crocheted (traditional) cock and balls....every card has to have a set.

beauty baby beauty

aw...look at the big luscious beauty inky shout out my tatoo artist facialist has put on her blog!

she just touched up my tattooed eyebrows for me the other day...i so love her and can't wait to be tatttooed by her on friday night...x

hi hi hi heels = tower power!

woke up this morning and i hate to say it but it was so nice to be in a girlie fresh bed! guess this is what i hate about not fucking women these days, and having a luscious - but very manly blondeboy. i wasn't pushed out of bed all night by his 6'2" of lovely, and my bed still smelled of vanilla upon waking...yes i know i am anything but vanilla when he is around! so as i cuddle up in the navaho tunisian crochet afghan on my bed, feet cuddled upon my big stuffed white tiger, i reflect on all the threadbanging that has happened in the last 48hrs while he was gone...

...because my daughter ravenisis and i were threadbanging hard!
(while watching aLOTof celebrity big brother 7 UK)

well isis finally finished the bright granny square throw for her bed - it matches the hotwater bottle cozy that i made her and yarn very much courtesy of the lovely karina (fishwhiskers) taking me round every shop in bristol....the weekend i met my blondeboy! aw - what a lovely reminder...

and i think i've got as far as i can with my aum project!
now it just needs laying out but my knee hurts to bad to kneel on the floor to do it as i fell over at my daughter's gig at the cellar door the other night - my hi hi heels got caught up in the bar stool and the long long fringe from my all saints leather bag and i went down hard...and i'd only had one martini (but no food for days gotta shift this belly as it's now getting difficult to read the word RELENTLESS tattooed across my c-section scar)

so as i'd got as far as i could, i the decided to finish the electric boy's scarf as i think my scandos are back at the beginning of feb for the alternative fashion week shows. if not then we are all off to krakow together at the end of feb for annmarie seienstyles' 30th birthday - i've already made her a gorgeous deep red lurex snood to wear for the occasion! for xmas she gave me a swedish amigurumi book and i've created a drunken bunny from my translation of the pattern (photo)

ok- so better hit SAVE as the blondeboy is on his way from paddington station as i typed this...and i've put on my special pretty crystal chandelier nipple jewellry for the occasion!

yarnpunk weekend!

sooo...what a weekend!
friday was eventually spent in soho yarn shopping and stitching and bitching and getting tattooed. we hit up all the fun of the fair for me to replenish my supply of yellow to make more yarn bombing easter eggs. and i face to faced with the lovely gemma there that i'd been talking to on ravelry just that morning. we also met a cute girlie who is doing a digital knitwear course so dragged her along to the ship with us to drink and crochet our waiting time til the lovely stewart robson at frith street could tattoo us matching biohazard symbols.



of course we also took over a corner of the tattoo shop while we were waiting and all the staff loved the idea of me yarnbombing soho with crocheted easter eggs. well, except for the owner dante who said it was just a posh way of littering! lol...so guess who has a surprise pink and yello striped easter egg hidden away at the back of their cupboard!

next day was pretty much rinse and repeat but this time it was my lovely newest best friendliest knitroaster getting tattooed by gino at diamond jacks...then much veggie fajita fun was had by all! (photos to follow - i finally found my camera in fishwhiskers' yarn bag!!!)

sunday and the lovely fiance met up with us and we saw the fishie off back to bristol with a wave and saunter back home via the queen. and i got a buckingham palace thimble for my collection!

just barely back from milan...

newly tattooed and freezing to the bone!
it wasnt' that much warmer over there but i'm really feelin' it today - so off to have a nice lovely facial over at the beauty lounge in a bit...and as its just underneath my local shop 'all the fun of the fair' i shall definitely be popping into there - especially as i'm missin' the launch at iknit today.

so much to do but i need to rest before i head out.
hardly slept at all last night as was out with our tattoo artist til around 2am and then up at 4:30am for the car to the airport...but it was worth it to see the 'black keys' play in such a small venue and to score such lovely tattoos.

i now have butterflies and flowers added to my back to start filling it in, and rafrasilecs has a pretty pretty cherry blossom and tibetan flame shoulder piece...and i even snuck in enough stitch and bitch time while he was getting tattooed that i made another 4 skully squares for me afghan!

photos to come...xxx

...but why???

welll...

i have a healthblog.
i have a sex blog.
i have a family blog.
i have a tatoo blog.
i used to have a dreadlock blog.

now i think it is time for a dedicated craft blog.
specifically crochet.

because us hookers always seem to get left out.

but really we are the elite, lol!