A Fremont Adventure

Yesterday My friend and I decided to go to the Fremont market, which was easier said then done.
First off neither of us drive, so we took the bus. Beforehand I did the whole online trip planner that the community transit website has. Well as it turned out the instructions it gave us didn't work. We got on the right bus, and it took us into Seattle like it was supposed to, but it didn't stop at the stop we were supposed to get off on. In fact both the street that the stop was on and our next bus appeared to be nonexistent. They weren't on any maps or bus routs, this lead to the beginning of our adventure.

Our adventure began with us somehow being in the international district. Not entirely sure how that happened, but at least we weren't lost somewhere boring.

Luckily for us there is a transit center in the international district!

(note: in the picture the skirt I made myself a few days ago)

However we still had no idea what bus to take since the bus we thought we were supposed to take was nowhere to be found.

But alas we found a bus that took us to Fremont!!!

Now why couldn't the Internet instructions have told us to take that bus in the first place?

We finally made it to the market!!
You have no idea how happy we were.

And Evidently it was Lance's birthday.

(no, we have no idea who Lance is)

We had a great time walking around the market. There was a lady selling bags there who I had just seen on Saturday at the Edmonds market, she was really nice and had the cutest messenger bags I have ever seen! Here is her website http://laarniandtita.com/ . She was very happy to discover that I had made my skirt.

When we got to the market we were hungry so food was first on the to do list. I had the best falafel I think I have ever had! Oh man it was amazing!!

I also walked away from the market with an adorable enchanted tin lunch box and an Ebony&Ivory 45. I took my friend to all my favorite vintage stores.

And we visited our good friend Lenin

Conveniently Fremont has directions, so we didn't get lost a second time.

We also visited our other friend, the Fremont Troll.

Then we walked down by the lake and on the way I couldn't resist this shot of the underside of the overpass.

After all that excitement we still managed to make it home safe and sound. (the trip back was alot easier as we didn't use the Internet instructions)

Sketchbook drawings and an Alice update

I have another round of sketchbook drawings from one of my old sketchbooks. One of my favorite things to do is go back and look at my old drawings.

Ok you can imagine how excited I was when this came out. I went screaming running through the hall of my house wailing my arms in the air. Pretty much the trailer is out!!!! YAY!

(I couldn't find a video that I could put on here but it is out there I promise!)

My Shop

I finally got my Etsy shop up and running and I am so excited!!!

Everyone should go and check it out!!

Toadstoolcottage.etsy.com

These are some of my favorite items that I have listed:

This green striped one is a laptop cord pouch.

Alice!

I started out the Summer reading the Dali autobiography (and I'm still reading it) but then I got into my Alice phase and realized that it had been a very long time since I have actually read Alice in Wonderland and I don't think I ever read Through the Looking Glass all the way through. Now I am actually sitting down and reading it cover to cover, and it is better then I remembered!! Pretty much I am such in wonderland. Now I find myself sketching the mad Hatter when I usually sketch mushroom houses, and a bag I was painting turned into a crazy Alice in wonderland bag. I have even had a few dreams about wonderland, and I am wearing out my Disney's Alice in Wonderland VHS (even thought it is quite different from the book). Oh how I love wonderland!

My little birthday adventure

I know this is a little after the fact but I didn't have Internet for a while because we moved. Anyways my 18th birthday was a while ago and this was the first year that I didn't have some sort of birthday party, instead My mom sisters and I went to Fremont and Ballard.

Our first stop in Fremont was one of my favorite shops. Its the Deluxe Junk store and it has all this awesome stuff, some of it completely random but completely awesome at the same times. They had so many cool vintage cases when we went there this time.

Also in Fremont we went to one of my favorite vintage clothing stores, Private Screening, I think was the name of it, they have all this incredible vintage clothing, its one of those places that just kills me walking into without any money. Then we went to the vintage mall, where I bought this dress.

ok so the dress itself is pretty ugly but the fabric was irresistible (and I have now made a really cute bag out of it!)

Then we headed off to Ballard; we were so hungry that the first thing we did was go to my favorite burger place.

This place has seriously good burgers and an amazing french fry sauce!

usually when we are in Ballard we stop at Cupcake Royal for desert but this time we were just too full from lunch.
Then it was off to more shops. first we stopped in one of my mom's favorites.
Then one of mine. This little gift store has a little section in the back that is full of gnome and mushroom things, I go in there and never want to leave.

Then we hunted down a rescued furniture store that my mom really wanted to go to. When we got there a Bowie song was playing inside on the radio and so I felt pretty good being in a store named after one of my favorite Bowie songs while a Bowie song was playing.

We then went to Venue where as it turned out you get a free chocolate on your birthday so I got a Thai tea chocolate and bought two gnome postcards. The lady in the shop takes her gnome places and takes pictures of him and puts them on postcards, t-shirts and sweatshirts. Now I really want to do that with Rutherford.

Along with all the shop going we also bumped into the man who did my hair when I still lived in Minneapolis, which was really weird, he now owns a few salons and moved to Seattle. its funnie how thing like that happen.
Well all in all I think that I had a pretty god 18th Birthday even though I didn't end up having a big party.