Bayou Poste & Craft

I often find myself frustrated at a restaurant if the backs of the chairs are rounded because there is no place to hang my purse.  Some other frustrated individual didn't just complain about it, but thought of a solution: purse hangers.  So simple, so practical!
                            Welcome to Purse Hangers!  (found via Oopsey Daisey)

And Oopsey Daisey is offering a give-away so check it out!

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I'm seriously thinking about what I want to do for AAQI.  I've been visiting with Mary (Fleur de Lis Quilts) and Michele (Heart & Hands) about this.  I've said I wanted to make a donation quilt for a long time, but the itch was in my head, not in my hands.  Now, maybe I'll get busy...as soon as I settle on an idea.  However...

I have to clean up my studio first.  My cutting table and ironing board are full of craft items, flea market junk, and dolls in process.  There is no place to begin cutting fabric at this point.

Below are pics of the little man I need to finish.  First, a head from early May out of paper clay.  Then a body--aluminum foil covered with papier mache.

 This fellow was last in line and had to wait until I finished Theo and Red, but now I've got 

something going with him. 

 I did a light paper clay coat over the papier mache, but didn't worry about the roughness of his body because he will be dressed, and it won't show.  He looks pretty uncomfortable with stakes through his shoulders and hips, poor guy.  I think I like his hand on his head, keeping his hat secure.

You can see my cutting table covered with crap stuff.  I'm not a neat craft person.  ("Gloom, despair, and agony on me")The ironing board is just as bad, and the floor, well-- as long as I have room for my yoga mat....