hi internet,

tasha tagged me on twitter so here’s my list:

1. whatever funky nerves that connect my nose to my brain frequently think that the breath that i’m smelling smells like salami. i first noticed this back in daycare when i asked the girl whose breath i smelled if she had had salami that day, and she said no. it has happened regularly since.

2. in elementary school, every time i rode the bus (for a while, a month maybe longer) i would get sick (throw-up) and the bus driver (mr. corbo sp?) would have to stop the bus to let me out to wretch. from then on i had to sit behind him to allow myself easy outdoor access and whenever i boarded the bus kids would lift their feet (hi friends!!) so as to avoid any potential spewage that might drift backward. this was the first inkling of my intense car sickness. it was because of this sickness that i trained myself to fall asleep on the bus so as to avoid the nausea. and nowadays, living and commuting in nyc i cannot be on the subway without sitting or facing forward. if there are no seats facing forward i either stand or turn in my seat to face forward. reading, watching movies, and playing games on my phone are all out for subway entertainment as well, w00t!

3. i won the D.A.R.E. poster contest in the fifth grade. i think it involved a joint (how did i know what this was already?) a giant circle with a line through it, some other elements and it was drawn completely in crayon.

4. i tried contacts for a week a few years ago. every day it took an hour and a half to get them in; plus i couldn’t fall asleep with them on like glasses. i threw the contacts away, put my glasses on (it took scant seconds! lazy high-five!) and haven’t looked back.

5. in third grade i was jumping on my parents bed while watching cartoons (who hasn’t?) when i think i tried to jump off an do a cartwheel. needless to say it didn’t end well and the bone in my wrist ended up looking like this -_. i didn’t cry, but slid into the hallway and called my mom. she proceeded to freak out as moms are wont to do and took me to the ER. i think they thought i had been beaten because i wasn’t crying (my mother might have been questioned) and then the doctor came in inebriated (my mom told me years later) and set my wrist by squeezing it in his hands and without anesthesia.

6. i have only ever bought two dvds. they are, in no particular order: hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and practical magic.

7. i am in love with australian sheep dogs. i think their colorings are so cute, they are super smart and i would love to train them and do those agility events. but alas, they have too much energy for me to deal with at the moment, so they might have to wait for when i have more time + space.

hope you enjoyed reading this as much as i did mining them from the depths!

hello everybody! i’m writing to you from our new digs in brooklyn, yay!!! if you’re anything like me, internet, you love you some pictures. well, i am not one to disappoint. straight from my phone to your eyes (because i can’t find the computer cable for my digital camera):

jeremy's office w00t

living room with another sleeping kitty

looking through the apartment

it’s still a right mess, but i’m wrangling more things around each day. this whole situation of putting two apartments worth of furniture into one is not unlike a larger individual cramming themselves into the already too small seat of an airplane. what’s most exciting is probably the dueling offices that jeremy and i both have. his has easy backyard access and thus makes a great ham radio shack (you’ve got questions, he’s got answers, nerdy nerdy answers). mine is larger that makes accommodating the sewing machine, scanner, and fabric easier. there’ll be more photos later, but i thought i’d let everyone peek inside : )

i’m really excited about buying this holiday season not because i’ve got wads of cash to throw around, but because i’ve really started combing through etsy.com, decor8blog.com, and apartmenttherapy.com to find some really unique gifts for the people i love. starting shopping a month ahead of time, i really am thinking about what the people around me would appreciate and have the time to peruse the online craft markets.

with that in mind, i want to alert everyone (on the east coast) of a craft fair happening in rhode island called craftland (click the link to see their site). with the tagline “if it’s made by hand you’ll find it at craftland” you can make sure that you will find ME at craftland!

you can find something like this guy fluttering around craftland

craftland starts December 5th and will be located at 235 Westminster Street, Providence, RI.

sometimes i feel like there’s too many handmade goods in this world! i love them all!!

so after much tinkering and banging on the computer, my blog is finally to the point where i am happy with it. this is probably the 4th or 5th blog that i’ve created but the first that has it’s own website and hosting! it kinda feels like that scene in pinocchio when he becomes a “real boy”.

anywayy, a lot of the sites that i read change their header every month/ two months and i like this opportunity for change. i figure i’ll keep all the old ones in a folder to the side so whomever chooses can reminisce about the good times we’ve had.

also, the name for this website came about as i was using www.bustaname.com and throwing words into the salad-spinner-like domain generator! i really like to craft, and DIY never looked right. also people tell me often that i am such a pill, so that’s where craft pill came from. it also seems like whenever i sit down to craft something it almost always makes me feel better…much like what i hope this blog will do too :

ta for now.

-emily