The Plush Off house has been hit by the flu! Both I am Ethan are sick, with Mr. Plush to surely get it soon. Our days have bene spent curled up cuddling in blankies and watching movies (mostly Pixar ones, I tend to lose to the kidlet); while I sip tea, and Ethan drinks apple juice.

I am trying to work on a custom plush planet so I can have it done for this weekend, but sewing and head colds tend not to mix very well together. Everytime I sit down at the machine my head feels like it grows to ten times it regular size, so I only do a few inches of sewing at a time. Even at this rate it should be done by Saturday, with pictures to follow on Sunday.

Now to find where my orange pekoe went…

Oh So Cute by Not Your Typical Leo

Lucky Star Bits by Katpster

These two pictures caught my eye today and I couldn’t help but share them.

Tomorrow I am off to the fabric store to find some fun fabric for a very custom plush that I am very excited to work on!

On Sundays I am going to blog about what a covet. It gives my mind a day off, and it lets me show what awesome things I come across on a daily basis!

Today my Covetables is about joojoo on Etsy!! Joojoo is a small print shop from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (YAY for Canada!), and has super super cute prints that I want badly!

Here is Love is in the air:

And how cute is I love my coffee break:

I think joojoo prints would make for a super sweet addition to any craft room or baby room!!!

Today I am suffering from utter and complete brain drain. After working on the blog revamp last night, and do the website revamp today, my brain is a giant blob of mush right now.

I had planned on starting a new plush today, but am leaving it for tomorrow so I can give it my all; plus the fact that I had to get Mr. Plush to stop at the fabric store after work to pick up some supplies. Thank goodness for a man that is comfortable picking up fabric with pride!!

Tonight will be spent at my aunts, teaching her and her business partners the importance of social media when it comes to small business these days. We will be delving into blogs and facebooks and twitters oh my!

Instead of sewing this afternoon I spent a big chunk of it losing my way around the web and came across a bunch of awesome on CRAFT: which led me to this awesome shop that got bombarded by her shop showing up on Boing Boing today and is now sold out of everything. I cannot wait for her to restock so I can pick up the awesomeness!

I gave the blog a cute makeover today! Tomorrow I am gonna start on the rest of the website, I figure it’s time for a whole new look. I discovered COLOURlovers last week, and found a gorgeous colour palette that just shouted at me. It doesn’t really have a name, as the maker called it: (???) but I fell in love with it, and that is what colours I used to do the revamp. You can see the check out the palette too; the colours rock!

I also got one step closer to my plushy goal today and made a super cute sunshine and listed it too.

Now to tweak the blog some more and brainstorm for tomorrow!

I am aiming for at least 6 new plush out by the end of February; this will be on top of making lots of stock for crafts shows. Yesterday Miss BunBun LaRoux went up on Etsy, and today I added a Spanish Green Olive to the shop as well! That’s two down and four to go!!! Tonight and tomorrow I am going to work on some sunshine, and make some more blueberries as the only one I made already sold!

I am totally succeeding with my goal to be prepared for holidays, plush wise. I missed out on Valentines as a whole, but will be hitting Easter full force! The eggs will be ready for next week, but now at least I have Miss BunBun LaRoux! She is sweet, cute, and ohhhh so soft!

Also Mr. Plush brought me some GORGEOUS flowers this weekend, so I used the awesome sunlight this morning to play with the fancy shmancy new camera and took some super fun flowery pics!

After the easterness of plush is done I will start prep for the Kamloops Childrens Expo in March, and I am also do a fun Olympic plush for a Shmancy thing! Whoo whoo!!!

who is the plushiest of them all?

So many new things going on plushy wise, and home wise too! I have finished my Poison Apple for the book (see below), started on some new and interesting plushies, and my son has discovered how muchhe enjoys coloring…. even on the walls! Thankfully just with crayon, and not a sharpie, but still. My magic eraser and I are becoming very good friends!

Winter has apparently ended early here this year, which should be interesting seeing as the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are happening just hours away from us and we are in the colder part of the province! Thankfully they have been saving and storing snow since November just in case, because they are definitely going to need it!

This week, even though it’s only Tuesday, has already been super crazy busy! Everything for the book had to be put together and sent off. It felt very weird writing out instructions on how I sew things; I kept using my hands to pretend sew and then quickly wrote down what I did. All in all I think it worked out very well.

Now I am working on the mascot for Winters in New Hampshire, who is a super cute snowball named Moe Snow. I just finished cutting out fabric for his furry orange ear muffs, which I find hilarious, as he doesn’t have ears!

There is also 5 new things going into the shop this week, with the first thing being a super cute, super sweet blueberry. I was so excited at how well it turned out, and even more excited when E knew exactly what it was, and even knew the word for it.

Way more plush, and many more updates as the week goes on!

We have been trying to get out of the house as much as possible this winter when it isn’t crazy cold outside. I tend to be okay with -10 and up, but when it’s -25 with a way lower windchill we stay inside and keep warm. This winter has been pretty good weather wise. Only a couple of weeks of super cold and more borderline cold most days.

We attempted the wildlife park a week ago, but sadly about 50% of the animals there have winter sleeps or would stay in their sleep areas as they were cold, so we didn’t get to see much more than the owls, cougar, eagles and indoor animals. While I enjoyed the cougar the most, my son was quite enamoured with the ducks and swans. Their pond was quite beautiful, yet chilly to look at.

We plan to go back in the beginning of April, as the weather is not to cold, not to hot and all of the animals are awake.