I am Treasured! (on Etsy)

Lately due to my day job, TAFE (College) and being the markets co-ordinator for Under the Blue Moon Festivals Markets I have had little time for my creative side.

It's pretty suffocating and depressing, so I was really excited when I was contacted by some Etsy sellers and buyers who had made treasuries featuring my items.

If you don't know, Etsy is a website where people have little shops selling handmade and vintage items. Treasuries are collections of similar items that people make, usually to a theme. The best of these are displayed on the front page of Etsy.

My store Ordo Atra Serpentis has been featured in these Treasuries:

Horrible Terrible Evil Bad..

Featuring my Inverted Cross girls Tee

Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Featuring my Anatomiee Gauntlets

The awesomely named Men Who Stares at Goets

featuring my Wings of Samael Girls Shirt

In the Night

featuring my Morte Aqua Equine Gauntlets

Crochet Car

I was checking out the funny site You Drive What? while passing time at work and found the best car ever!


Bob & Weave

I own a stationwagon so I think it would take far too long to knit or crochet a cover for it

I Love Knitted Mittens

I live in Australia; it's seldom cold enough for gloves in the moderate city or Sydney, let alone Mittens. But how cute are mittens? Too cute! I also have the added benefit not knowing how annoying it is to have to wear them so I love them.
These musing on mittens were brought on by Morehouse Merino releasing this very cute Owl Mitten pattern as part of a knitting kit.

In celebration I thought I would share some of my other favourite mitten patterns.

These cute owls are the Owlie Owl Mittens by Betsy Farquhar
Click on the pic to check out her other designs.




Both the above Fishermans Friend and Cat Mittens are by Jorid Linvik
Click on them to see more Norwegian knitting awesomeness.

I love the above mittens and their creators are amazing but the below two are my absolute favourites, for totally opposite reasons.

These are called Glitten by Laris Designs.
They are called this because they are glove/mittens.
I love the technical cable style and the fact that they are a revolutionary clothing item!
Also they remind me of Spock!!

Deep Blue Sea Shark Mittens by Breeanna Sveum (click on sharkeys for her blog)
TOOOOOOOO CUTE.
Simple simple knit but so cute and funny.
I would wear these in summer at the beach!

Aquatic Cuties

My employer Optus is running a competition for photos taken of Australian wildlife to print in a calendar.

I thought I would submit some cool/cute aquatic creatures to combat the horrifically predictable fuzzy animals that are sure to appear in the competition.

Here are three little cuttlefish hanging out waiting to be fed at Manly Oceanworld
The must have been about 15cm long SO CUTE!

The common Moon Jelly looks totally awesome under the fluro lights at Sydney Aquarium.

This has to be my total favourite! This is an epaulette shark.

They are a cute nocturnal carpet sharky. This one is only about 20cm long.

They don't get much longer than a meter.

Chateau Bizarre - Blog Featured

One of my items got featured on a great alternative design/fashion blog.

Chateau Bizarre - check them out, lots of evil to alternative to cute weird stuff featured on there.

I got my All-seeing Eye gauntlets featured in the Etsy Highlights: A gauntlet of armwarmers.

It's great when other people take time to recognise what you do is good.

All-Seeing Eye Gauntlets

Cute Knits V1.0

Filling up a blog with just all ugly isn't that hard or interesting so I had to add some cute!

I'm not often a fan of knitted things for animals but this one is awesome.

This cute free pattern is from Drops Designs. (aww puppy!) If you check out the ravelry projects for this there are also some really cute cat coats!

The cutest thing I think I have ever seen are these baby goats in sweaters (jumpers)!

Machine knit for the kids so they don't get cold. These pics are from Fias Co Farm, A goat husbandry site.

Ugly Knitting V1.2

I don't want to seem to negative. I love that people offer patterns for free, even big yarn companies with their pdfs saturated in advertising.

I only have one issue with it; when these big companies offer a pattern for free they don't really have to stop to think 'Why would someone pay for this?' This seems to give birth to some delightfully horrendous knits.

These two patterns make me feel funny inside, both from the same designer I stare at them wondering 'Why?'

Team Norge

Don't get me wrong, I love Norway and can even speak a bit. Also they completely are gods of knitting. Even if I was a Norse knitting goddess I don't really think I would want to wear this around(esp in winter brrrr!)

Cold Much Mantle

I don't thing I would want to wear this to Antarctica even though there is no one there to see you apart from pengiuns and seals.