A PettiCoat siting

Notice anything?

This is "Aunt Amanda's" tree. Fun-ness? Oh, yes!

Happy New Year's Eve

I hope everyone has a fab evening...please be safe and I'll talk to ya tomorrow. Yep, seriously, I'll be right here. For you. Really... just for you. you. y-o-u. you.

Owls Still on sale and a new SkullShie added

The SkullShie from The Plush You! 2008 show is now in the shop , check it out, it's awesome.

Also, all Owls in the shop are still on sale, 2 for $40 a savings of $10. I am hoping to get some listed this weekend...once I get off here, go to Micheal's to use my 40% off coupon (yay me), stop by Little Ceasars for a cheap $5 pizza for the kids, maybe...maybe, stop into Hancock's (not sure I have enough self control), and then I'll try to cut out some owls :)

Have a great weekend, my friends!

Ornaments... going, going, almost gone

Three of my ornaments are on their way to Hawaii for the Holidays... I must admit, I am very envious! One more will be shipped out on Monday to Minnesota, I wouldn't mind seeing Minnesota. SkullShie's are lucky and live fabulous lives...

Etsy fun-ness

mincingmockingbird.etsy.com

Ok, this guy is FABULOUS! As you can see, his work is beautiful, but you MUST check out his shop. The titles of his works will crack you up. I just love it... go...go see...now ;)

Here is a peek of what I've been working on

There is a girl, kinda serpentine and gothie. She has been showing up in my sketchbook for a couple of months. Yesterday I spent most of the day making this first try. She isn't exactly right,yet. I'll keep ya posted on the progress.


She's really strange,huh? Any comments thus far? I'd love to hear 'em.

Oh, 2nite on VH1 at 9pm

Ya gotta watch Kid Rock Storytellers! I love me some Kid Rock! I can't wait!

Shop Update time change...

I was unable to get pics of the new SkullShie ornaments! So, they won't be in the shop until tomorrow afternoon, so sorry. Hope you can still stop by and check 'em out!

Hope you're having a fantastic Thanksgiving!

Free Holiday Music

For the next 48 hrs you can go to http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2

and download, for free, Oprah's 2008 Holiday Hits cd! It's her gift to you... how sweet is that? I've already burned my copy and I will be taking it over to play during Thanksgiving! How fun is that?

Enjoy!

Big Shop UPDATE...

Is scheduled for Black Friday at 12midnight (est) in the shop. For the first time this year I will be revealing my new SkullShie Ornaments for 2008. Plus they will be on sale for one day only!

My 2007 line was a hit, here are a few of them...

Hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving! Remember to stop by the shop on Friday.

Love,

PettiCoat

It's Oatmeal!

Here's the new teddy, her name is Oatmeal. I have a little dress designed for her, haven't sewn it up yet though. Do you love her?

Craft time with Lil

This morning Lil had a list all ready of allll the crafts we were going to make. Here's the list...

It reads...

• Apple Art
• Sand Bottles
• book
• Paint Picture
• Color Picture
• Make Poem
• Make Paper Airplane
• Make Ties

And we did it all!

It was so much fun!

VOTE

Vote! Vote! Vote!

Artwork by: Paul Moschell... my friend on myspace at www.myspace.com/paulmoschell his work is FABULOUS! Plus, he has the above image as a print and a tee!

Promise me you will vote on TUESDAY!!!!!!!

I love you, and I know you know,how important it is that you vote!

I voted on Thursday Oct.30,2008 at 2:30pm FOR Barack Obama.

A digital photomontage collage print featuring five strange girls wearing mushroom fairy-crash-helmets. Whatever you do, if you care to join them, do not partake of their food, no matter how tempting it may be to take a small bite.....

I love love love this print! Go see more fabulous artwork by Louise at www.artandghost.etsy.com !

Thanks yall,

Windy

My Saturday

Today I made the cutest teddy bear, I will be finishing her up tomorrow and taking pics. I hope to have them posted here soon. If not, check the shop to see if it's listed yet.

I have also opened a shop on a new site, shophandmade.com. Please check it out too http://petticoatpirate.shophandmade.com/ . So far I have about 6 items listed, but I'm planning on adding more soon :)

Plush You 2008

The plush show of ALL plush shows opened last weekend at Schmancy in Seattle... "Plush You 2008".

One of my SkullShie's is in the show and it thrills me to death. Here's a peek...

Please check out this fun etsy shop that features ooak (one of a kind) Obama-wear. You can even get a picture of YOU photoshop'd into a pic with Obama and then made into a tee! So cool, oh, that's not me in the pic, though I would love to have one, that's for sure...

And this bumper sticker is WAY cooler than the boring ones distributed by the party...

I honestly have so much diffficulty inserting pics... all this weird space shows up, and I have to go back and delete it, and then if I'm not careful I delete a pic ,so then I have to upload the pic again, then the chunks of white space show up again, then I start deleting again and honestly....it's exhausting. So I'm signing off. sheeeesh

Sale on Owls

All Owls are 2 for $40, plus shipping!

For a limited time, so go now and pick out your favs!

www.windyothd.etsy.com

Prince

I'm having difficulty breathing!

I looooove PRINCE! He has a book coming out with...

photos
poetry
music

seriously people, I can't breathe...


Taken from AOL.com's homepage...

Prince Offers Rare Glimpse Into '21 Nights' of His Life

Posted Sep 23rd 2008 12:30PM by Spinner StaffFiled under: Video, Exclusive, Book Club

In 2007, Prince maintained a 21-night sold-out residency at London's O2 arena. '21 Nights,' a collaborative effort between Prince and photographer Randee St. Nicholas, is a photographic essay that documents this journey with poetry and 124 never-before-seen images. The multimedia set also includes 'Indigo Nights/Live Session,' a live CD that captures Prince's after-hours sessions, along with new music. Take a look at an introductory excerpt from '21 Nights' -- penned by St. Nicholas -- as well as exclusive photos, a first look at the 'Indigo Night' tracklist and a video for the upbeat 'Planet Earth' song 'The One U Wanna C.'Those who have spent the most time with him are both frustrated and inspired. To know him is to know that you probably will never really know him and to question that is a waste of time ... wasting time is something one should never do ... and something Prince holds in high disregard.

Go Here to Pre-order!

Ooooo Peeps, check this out!

TheSock Obama Co.
www.thesockobama.com

My birthday is November 15th, I would scream and maybe even cry if I received "The Sock Obama" as a present... hint hint ;)

To see a pic of him and to read about the controversy go here.
And to read what they did next, go here.

I have said it before and I will say it again... I LOVE THESE PEOPLE!

Well, now I am off to have an exciting Hurricane filled weekend (eastern NC).

love

H.R. Pufnstuf

Lookie what I found at the Dollar General, of all places! All of you little kiddies who did not grow up with Sid & Marty Krofft need to head over to their new myspace page and get turned on to the magic!

I had such a crush on "Jimmy". Now I'm "30 something" and coloring him, in a coloring book. That seems weird...........huh?

http://www.thesockobama.com/

Remember my post back in June about the Obama Sock Monkey controversy? Please read it, and then go to their site now and see how they have handled it. It's genius.

PS Remember all of my Owls are 20% off this weekend only...www.windyothd.etsy.com

SALE on Owls

This weekend ONLY... all Owls are 20 % off!

www.windyothd.etsy.com

I'll be back...

Hiya!

It's been awhile since I posted, but I will be back this weekend to update you on all that has been going on here.

Hope all is well with you.

Toy A Day

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I'll be going to a cookout later this afternoon, can't wait... Linda is bringing her special artichoke spinach dip. I'll have to get yall the recipe, it is so so soooo good!

Here is a blog you must visit, http://toy-a-day.blogspot.com/. This talented designer is making a toy a day and offering them on etsy... for free. I downloaded the Andy Warhol and made it myself, it turned out so cool, don't ya think?

Happy Fun-ness to all!

The Obama Sock Monkey

Have yall heard about this?

I like Obama and I love Sock Monkeys. That's all I'm gonna say.

Copy of letter released by Elizabeth Lawson regarding Obama puppet
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/17/2008 11:56:50 AM MDT


Posted: 11:55 AM- Here is the update released by Elizabeth Lawson:

We Don't Want to Say Goodbye -- An Update from TheSockObama Co.

We at TheSockObama Co. have some questions to pose. What's really going on in America? In the good ol' fashion spirit of entrepreneurialism ; free enterprise has been censored, and TheSockObama politically plush toy has been discriminated against in the marketplace of the United States of America.

Double standards appear to be a common thread here. It's okay for there to be hundreds of thousands of Google sites containing references to our current president's resemblance to a chimpanzee. However, it's not okay to make that same association regarding our possible next president. Isn't this the very definition of hypocrisy? We find this to be both obvious and curious in the same breath.

After seven days as an e-commerce merchant, we had to close our doors today at http://www.thesockobama.com/. Sadly, we are currently issuing refunds to all of our wonderful new Customers around the globe. TheSockObama is no longer scheduled to go into mass production. Nor will his cast of politically plush friends be produced, including JohnnieMcSock, his fierce political competitor that we had planned to introduce next week. We are compelled to take this action, as a result of our designer/supplier conceding, seemingly due to the enormous pressure from opposers. Have the bullies won here? Our first and last foray into the blogging world began and ended on Tuesday June 10th. In an amateurish, clumsy attempt at marketing a time-sensitive, politically plush toy online; we came upon some sort of an election-themed website that looked promising; and we blogged our new business with a sassy lure of plush prose. We didn't know there were rules to blogging. We know now.

There, the blogging dens of resistance quickly began their fury of emails. An electronic battery of fiery darts flowed swiftly but silently through the veins of technology. Feverish fingers frantically clicking coast to coast, crashing and burning our tragically naive - yet sparkling website. A steady stream of repetitive verbal eloquence graced our Customer service inbox with tasty tidbits like, eff-ewe and every other colorul expletive you could possibly imagine. We thought we had heard it all. Hey thanks. This is America, right?

Having led a moderately quiet lifestyle until now; our social calendar suddenly filled up with vivid and creative death threats. And last we heard, a posse of bloggers from back east are on their way over to conduct - how did they phrase it, a good ol' fashioned KKK house burning party at David & Elizabeth's. Kinda exciting stuff, but this in America?

On Friday the Media swooped in. Love notes with call me from newspaper publications and television personalities were left at our door. We agreed to permit two local stations to share a bit of our initial reaction on the madness of it all. We were the top news story on both networks at 9:00pm and 10:00pm.. By the way, TheSockObama story preceded the shocking and untimely death of our well loved Tim Russert of NBC. What the heck does this say about the spiritual barometer of a proclaimed to be united people? Unfortunately, this is America.

The questions we still find perplexing are; is America really ready for change? With the number of Customers we've had to disappoint in our first week of business; are we saying it's okay to take something out of the marketplace that other people want to buy? Are we now censoring one another's liberty as Americans to freely purchase goods and services on our own terms? Is this the kind of America we want?

Before we close, please note that the creators of TheSockObama are not of the Mormon faith. Kindly refrain from unkind remarks about our neighbors and friends of the Mormon faith whom we love and hold dear.

We wish to thank all of our TheSockObama Co. Customers and supporters in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. We hope to meet again soon in a new venue.

Sincerely yours,

TheSockObama Co.

thesockobama@yahoo.com

Tendonitis, a side effect of Plush stuffing...stuffing Plush

I have been making so many cuties that now my tendonitis is all flared up. Oh goodie.

It's the Owls, I like using my hands to stuff 'em instead of my chopstick thingie.

I made 4 today; 2 are twins of Nat Wise, 1 is CupCake, and 1 is Dollie. Here are some pics :)

Oh, and they are in the shop.

Nat Wise,the Owl

CupCake

Dollie

Tick Bite

My husband has Lyme disease from two tick bites he got about 3-4 wks ago. He started treatment on Monday, but doesn't feel any better, he actually feels worse. So I'm being "nurse" this week.

I have been able to sew some, and I have made a couple owls. One is in the shop now and I will be listing the other later today once I get a pic taken. So please take a look.

I sold my first photograph this week in my other shop. It was thrilling for me. I have been into photography since high school. In those days we developed our own film and printed our negatives. I loved it so much. Then many years passed and I didn't do much with it, mainly because I didn't have access to a darkroom. I loved the "process" and being able to print things the way I wanted to. Now, with digital, I am able to do that again, be in charge, and it's less smelly ;)

A few months ago I made the new shop but I wasn't really "working it" so I was shocked to get a sale out of the blue. Now I am planning more things for the "Lookie" shop. Including some of my sketches and limited edition prints. I'm very energized. I'll still be making plush...I'm just seeing the Big Picture more clearly, and it in includes a lot more...of me.

William Guinea Pig/Hamster

William
Originally uploaded by the petticoat pirate

Gotta check out the two new cute-ness-s!
www.thepetticoatpirate.com

Hermit Crabs

On Sunday I put the hermit crabs out to play in the backyard cause it was sooooo hot and humid. They loved it.

Hiding on the left is Ted and on the right is Rerun.

This is Rerun on Sunday...

And this is Rerun on Monday! Doesn't he look super fancy in his new shell?

Anyone else love hermit crabs? Can I share this very important tip...never give them tap water. Use bottled water or dechlorinate tap water with drops. No one ever shared this info with me, and when I was growing up...pre-internet, there wasn't a lot of info out there about their care. Now I have happy and healthy Hermies and you can too :)

Now back to Plushie business...

On Saturday, C.Hikn Bone' and I will be set up out front of Ripple City Artworks during the Uptown Umbrella Market. I will have all of my new goodies, including the Owls! C.Hikn Bone' will be grillin' & chillin' and will have tons of sauce for sale! We hope to see yall there.

Ripple City is on Evans St. in Uptown Greenville,NC

Two more Owls

Sissy

K.C.

Are yall likin' my Owls? Any suggestions?

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

The OWLS have evolved

Yay, total cuteness has arrived! Now the wings flip and flap. I am lovin the new wings! These guys are now in the shop, get one while you can...

BeBe , Love, FloraLee,Charlie

Charlie

FloraLee

Have a great weekend!

HootHoot New Owl Plushies

I'm working on a line of owl plush. My maiden name has a little something to do with the owl, so our family has always been fond of them. My Dad even named his street "Owls Nest Ln".

I haven't gotten the pattern just right but boy do I have the perfect fabrics! I spent 2 hrs at Hancock's on Monday during a big sale they were having. It was so much fun!

Happy "LOST, season finale" Thursday!

SkullShie BeBe Onesies

How cute are these onesies? This was a special order I completed today for a friend. They are photo transfers of my "SkullShie's". I have two more blank ones that I'll be putting images on over the weekend. They will be in the etsy shop.

More Guinea Pigs/Hamsters

All the gang, so far...

The twins...Frances & Phillip.

Dippin Dot Dottie (sold,on her way to Alabama)