fuzzy wuzzy

It has been really cold here lately. Yesterday we had freezing temperatures along with drizzle and sleet all day. It's during those days that all you want to do is cuddle up with a blanket and a cup of hot tea and just spend the day inside. One of my favorite ways to keep warm and cozy in cold weather is a pair of fuzzy slippers! They are the perfect way to keep those little toseys warm.

I hoping to add more fun slippers to the etsy shop soon.

I also want to give a shoutout to Michelle and her shop Pegasus Soaps; one of my favorite people and shops on Etsy. Check her out for all your bath and body needs. I love her soaps and sugar scrubs. She also has lip balm, deodorant, lotions and more for great prices. She's also really great at customizing orders to anything you desire.

If you have a fun shop you'd like featured, leave me a note with your link and I'll check it out.

it's been too long.

It has been way to long. I had to put a halt on etsy for a while because of school and work. It felt like i never had time to crochet and my nose was always stuck in a book. But now with the onset of Christmas vacation I have been able to finally pick up my crochet needle again.

And I got around to listing a few pair the other day and already I've been given a Christmas present from etsy. A pair of slippers I only listed yesterday are featured on the front page!



I'm very excited. It's the second time I've been featured on the front page. It's always exciting to wake up and see one of your own products there on the front page. Thank you to whoever selected me for their treasury.

Whew, I've been busy. A couple weeks ago I moved into my new apartment. I'm still not totally unpacked. It seems like everywhere I go I find something new I need to put away. But I'm really enjoying it. My roommate is out of town for the summer so I have the place all to myself. Work started two weeks ago, too. I'm really enjoying it. I love the place and the people there and I'm really liking what I'm doing. I'm working in a cotton pathology lab for the USDA. Right now my job consists mostly of getting DNA out of cotton leaves so we can run tests to see what genes are there (and if they are the ones we want), but I also work in germinating the cotton plants themselves. Everyone is so nice and flexible that I can work as much or as little as I want and as long as the work gets done it's alright. So I love my flexible hours. Summer school is starting tomorrow. I'm taking organic chemistry. Oh joy. Chemistry is not one of my strong points, but I'll live through it. A little hard work never killed anyone, I suppose. It'll be my first class on my new campus. I have pretty much no idea where I'm going, but that's what friends are for. Andy has volunteered to ride with me to campus early tomorrow and show me what building my class is in. So it's mostly been work around here, with a little play now and then. We went and saw Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End on Thursday and I loved it, of course. The next big thing I'm looking forward to this summer is the double Harry Potter release. The etsy shop has taken a back seat during all of this, sadly. I'm still making good sales though and I'm finally making some headway on my custom orders. I'm enjoying the excitement of life, but I'm beginning to feel ready for things to calm down again so I can get back into etsy and crocheting. I'll keep you updated .... hopefully sooner rather than later.

you say goodbye, and I say hello.

Hello again. I'm sorry I just randomly disappeared, but after Spring Break my life got really hectic with school and life and I just had to lay low online for awhile until everything settled down a bit. I didn't even really have time to do much crafting, either besides a few custom orders here and there. But finals are over in school. I've just finished out my second year of college, hopefully with straight A's and a 4.0 GPA. Also during my little "break" I found myself an apartment and roommate (my first) and a job at the USDA-ARS working with cotton and the little buggers that ail it. So I've been busy visiting apartments and doing job interviews, but now it looks like everything is in place. I move into my new apartment next Monday and I can't wait. Other than that, it's just been school and trying to have fun on the side. I'll hopefully be updating again soon with new pictures of my place and some custom order slippers I'll be working on. And hopefully some new colorful additions to my etsy shop. There's still a ton of wonderful stuff there for sale, so stop by and check it out!

easter weekend.

This past Easter weekend I had Friday off from school, so I went up to College Station to spend my (well earned) three-day weekend with Andy.

I've slowly been collecting up easy, but yummy recipes to teach myself how to cook. And since I've started cooking for the two of us I've found I really love it. Before I knew I could bake decently, but it turns out, I can also cook pretty well and it's so much fun. So this week we splurged at the grocery store and picked up some New York Strip steaks, asparagus, and other very yummy things that I cooked up for dinner for the two of us.

On Thursday, I made seasoned NY Strip Steak with roasted asparagus and pomegranate vinegarette spinach salad.

And then on Saturday I made some pizza baked spaghetti and used up the left over spinach to make another salad.



Way too much fun. I'm trying to find some super fun recipes for this weekend, so if you know of any or a site that has great recipes, let me know!

Also this weekend our little guppy died, so we went ahead and got a dwarf puffer fish from Petsmart and brought the little guy home to his new home. He's so tiny and can swim awfully fast when he wants to, so I did my best to get a picture of the little guy.





I had another green spotted puffer who wasn't a dwarf that I had named Robby-Bobby, but my roommate killed him one weekend while I was way. So in honor of Robby-Bobby we named this new little guy Baby Bobby Pops. Silly, yes, but that's us, so it fits.

It was a great weekend and I can't wait for the next one.

mother's day moving sale.

MOTHER'S DAY MOVING SALE! Broken Hallelujah is moving to a new home this spring and what better way to celebrate an exciting move than with a sale?! Plus, Mother's Day is just around the corner and BH has the perfect gift for that great mom! So, between now and May 1st, I'm two specials you can take advantage of: ENTER CODE 'BH BOGO' at checkout to BUY ONE GET ONE 40% OFF! or ENTER CODE 'BH MOM' at checkout to RECEIVE 15% OFF A SINGLE ITEM IN MY STORE! Please wait for a modified invoice before paying. OFFERS INCLUDE CUSTOM ORDERS but excludes PDF patterns and items with free shipping. Each offer can only be used once by a customer. Plus, there's new slippers available in my shop so check it out and get a great deal.

Click the pictures for more information on each pair.

spring is here.

I took a break from my busy school schedule and went to visit Andy's (my boyfriend) new puppy in Dallas with him this weekend. I don't have pictures of the adorable yellow lab puppy (deemed Lemonbutt) because Andy's mom stole the memory card I put the pictures I took on, but hopefully I'll have them soon. However, I do have pictures from all the great wild flowers that were in bloom along the way. The pictures aren't that great because I took them from the car as we sped by, but I thought I'd share them anyway.

My favorite are the bluebonnets, the Texas state flower. We don't get them up where I'm from so it's very exciting for me to see them in bloom out in the wild. Very gorgeous. Sometimes we'd drive past these huge fields of them that just took your breath away. When we weren't driving and playing with puppies, me and Andy had a Sonic Spinball marathon on his Wii. Here's Andy playing with my wiimote (it has sea life on it!) in his glasses from seeing Meet the Robinsons in 3-D, which was totally worth seeing because the 3-D was awesome even if the movie wasn't the greatest. "I have a big head, and little arms. I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through." But anyway, we found these glasses hilarous because they were like Horn Rimmed Buddy Holly glasses. Just proves that "Heroes" is an influence in designing 3-D glasses.

good things come in small packages.

Today I just got the urge to crochet, but I wanted something just super quick to whip up and super satisfying, and I came up with these little heart appliques. I'm selling them for $.50 each in different lots. There's the rainbow set and the flirty fun sweetheart set. They'd be great additions to hair barrettes, headbands, clothes, handbags, pouches, pretty much anything! Even slippers, which you can now create yourself using my hand written mary jane slipper pattern! The pattern has been selling so well that I went ahead and wrote up another pattern from my amigurumi bear with froggy hat. You can find the pattern for the little guy here.

the life of a student. pt 1

School is driving me crazy! It's so stressful right now - it just feels like I'm being pulled in every direction with day trips, projects, tests piled on tests, lab reports and practicals, and what seems like miles and miles of taxonmy to memorize. Such is the life of a junior marine biology student trying to run her own business I suppose. I spent all of last Saturday wading through freezing fresh and salt water habitats trying to net and identify fish. It was so much fun, but completely exhausting and pretty much knocked me out for the entire weekend, plus ruined my super sexy slipper modeling legs.

That's pretty much the only shot I could manage to get that didn't show a scrap or scratch. It's also the first pair of slippers I've listed for awhile because of lack of time and lack of sales (which leads to lack of inspiration). I'm very excited about this weekend, though. I get to head to Dallas and see my boyfriend's new puppy and get to forget about all the stress for just a little bit. And if anyone needs to know fish taxonomy, I'm your gal over the next couple of weeks. ;)

sharing my knowledge.

I was asked if I would ever think about selling the pattern to my beloved mary jane slippers and I thought, what the heck, why not? So now available in my etsy shop is a mary jane slippers PDF pattern. I'm selling it for only $3 (with no shipping!) and I'll email within 24 hours of recieved payment. It's the first pattern I've ever written, but I think it's definitely a good one. So we'll see how it goes.