Whilst I am waiting for my Choco-Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chipsters to emerge from the oven* I thought I would lead you on an excursion deep into the savage interior of my WIP bag. Layer by layer, counting down, we have...
1. Eric, who was created by the amazing Diane Koss. He got a little too wild with the monkeys and elephants, and needs minor horn surgery.
2. One completed red capped mushroom, and two more awaiting their stems.
3. Two naked and shivering Hedgies, hoping I will remember to sew their bristles on.
4. Pattern pieces, along with brown and pink felt, for the new squirrel design I am prototyping.
5. My "toolbox", which has everything I might possibly need, including needles, scissors, pencils, blue water soluble markers, and thimbles.
6. Small bag of fiberfill. Because you never know when you might need to stuff something.
7. Reading glasses, both regular and sun (should it ever be sunny and warm enough to sew outside again).
8. Hand cream and hand sanitizer, one of which is going to eventually pop open in there and make my life misery.
9. The compost (bottom) layer: business cards, labels whose graphics I like, a fortune from a fortune cookie ("Keep it simple. The more you say the less people remember." Hah!), a cardboard coffee jacket, the aluminum spikes from Squirrel Girl's racing shoes (I wondered where those had gotten to), and several lint balls.
Okay guys, I bared my soul (or at least a very scary tote bag). So what's in your WIP bag?
*An extremely yummy cookie from Baking from the Heart, which is, sadly, out of print. I had to make cookies today because the dessert situation in our house is at an emergency level, with only vanilla ice cream and Halloween rejects left. To top it off, last night my spouse tried to tell the squirrelings and I that ice cream was not a healthy food! I had to inform him, because he obviously had not heard, that when the US government came out with the Food Pyramid several years ago there was a printing error. The base of the pyramid should, in fact, be ice cream, while the basement should be shown as chocolate, and the subbasement should be correctly identified as all other desserts. Hence my need to cook the healthy CPBOC's, which have peanut butter and oatmeal, plus the all important heart friendly cocoa powder and mood enhancing chocolate chips. You bet those babies are good for you!
Thank goodness! I knew there must have been a printing error leaving chocolate off the pyramid. Now I can honestly say, "I read it on the internet. Chocolate is great for your health." Thank you for making my day.
Posted by: Sue | December 04, 2008 at 12:51 PM