I see another rat...

My sister fell in love with Rufus rat (last post) and bought him for her daughter for Christmas. I've made another one (right). This one didn't start out as an elephant but as an actual rat. It doesn't matter if you use a pattern or not for these felted creatures because they will end up, after the felting process, looking quite different. Which is good, because I don't write down my patterns and I hate making the same thing over and over again. I made a cat (above) and put him up on Etsy yesterday. I would never be able to make that exact same cat again.

.....I love felting!

Elephant -----> Rat

Yesterday I decided to crochet an elephant because the one I had listed on Etsy sold recently. When I finished last night crocheting the item, I put it through the felting process. I took it out of the washing machine and saw that the ears had felted too small. I thought to myself "Well, this elephant will just have to have small ears." But things like that bug me. I tried stretching the ears, but they wouldn't get any bigger. I then thought I'd just cut off the trunk and make another animal out of it. Here is what I came up with....

I love him. I call him Rufus Rat..

ELECTIONS ARE TOMORROW... PLEASE VOTE!

Tomorrow I will be at the polls as an election official for my county. I will get there at 5:00am and I'm not allowed to leave the building until results are sent in and all the paper work is completed. That usually keeps us there until around 8:00pm. That makes for a long day. Especially if you live in a small town like I do and only 25 voters show up. Usually we have half the town show up on a national election. Next November it will be very busy! So what do I do all day? Our last election day was last June for the Republican Primary. I knitted and completed a whole purse. I also take a cross word puzzle along to work. But the most important thing we do, is eat! We all bring a main dish and most of us bring dessert. I'm making lazagna and probably chocolate chip cookies. ...Yum!! It makes sitting there all day bearable.

On the front page of Etsy twice today!!

I was on Etsy's front page two times today and I sold my little Ellie Elephant. What a day!! I forgot to get a screen shot the first time, but I did get a screen shot of swimswim's Treasury with my bicycle purse on it (above). I had over 200 views! girlsavage got a screen shot of her wonderful list with my Plain Sue Rabbit on it and sent that to me.