U.K. Give Away!

Enter to win my popular gray slouchy knit hat! This hat has been on the etsy front page and was part of the voter feature on etsy in January.

All you need to do is one of the following- follow my blog, comment below, become a fan on facebook, follow me on twitter.

Participate from now until Feb 25th! The winner will be drawn at random & announced on the 26th. The hat will be made to order with gray alpaca yarn with your specific head measurements! Good luck, and spread the word!

Apparently we celebrate Valentine's day!....

I've never been big on Valentine's day, well maybe when I was kid- handing out valentines at school was always fun, and then one year my sister and I held a VERY fancy tea party for our friends for the occasion. Age 8-10 or so, dress code a must and pretty porcelain tea cups, all my mother's doing- a fun memory. But besides those childhood moments, there are also those awkward teen moments that make the holiday something else entirely. It can be very over rated for sure.

So I'm always surprised when the husband does something to commemorate this "holiday". Like how he came home from whole foods with a crap ton of roses last night! so crazy. He was so proud of himself, and it was very cute. And I'm never one to pass up flowers. And he assured me it was actually not expensive, yadda yadda, which always makes you sound like such a scrooge when you have to hound your husband about how much he spent on you... lol. Thankfully the card that came with it was not sappy or Valentine related, but a picture of tomatoes, speaking to our future goals to grow more of our own food.

I got in the habit of taking pictures of flowers I receive. During boarding school and College I used to receive flowers from my Dad on my birthday, and every year they were documented! Thus the tradition continues.

I caught little dog in the middle of her morning routine- sleeping after breakfast. She let me sleep in this AM as apposed to waking me up at 6 to go out, so I'l let her sleep on the good pillows.
And the second bouquet.

Happy Love Day to you, or just Happy president's weekend, which ever you prefer!

up late and into the morning...

One of those odd nights, when Cam got up to go to the bakery at 2:30 and I can't get back to sleep.. I snuggle with my dog, put pillows on the empty side of the bed, but I'm up my mind racing with my to do list- ie knitting commissions and my future to do list- more artwork and the coming week vacation!

So I killed time and joined the sunrise by looking around on the internet and I wanted to share this website with you- MrToledano.

An artist and photographer who recently completed a project of investigating the modern definition of beauty and its evolution along with technology- plastic surgery. His gallery is very gripping and intriguing as it speaks to Caravaggio and other period inspired imagery... In addition, I really like his America- the gift shop series, which reminded me of Thomas Hirschhorn's work, and I was very moved my his personal documentation of days with my father.

I recommend going to MrToledano main website to look at his other work as well.

Updates, Updates, read all about it!

Well I've been busy this week with many updates to all three of my ETSY shops! I spent my day immersed in Etsy! And here are all the updates!

Love birds- salt and pepper shakers. On grayday.

Rabbit Vintage fur coat. Also on grayday.

Send me away with a smile, silkscreen. On Graydaysprintshop.

Florence Scaffolding, etching. On graydaysprintshop.

Leopard girl, upcycled fingerless gloves. On Urban Knitfits.

Sailor girl in love, upcycled fingerless gloves on Urban Knitfits.

New hats on Urban Knitfits

"The Knit fit" Inspired by U.K.'s logo!
It's like a salty sailor girl beret with an embroidered seagull on it.

The Urban Boy Beanie. Made with Baby Alpaca- soft and cozy and light weight!

The Swiss Miss- pixie hood, custom colors available!

The "cuddle cap" made from a vintage pattern in white eco wool. Perfect for spring weather and to keep ears warm and hair tidy! Has its own vintage buttons. Here's my shop where you can learn more about each piece and for purchasing!

Sofa redo- project for winter!

I have this idea to do over our sofa, and I wanted to share it with my blog audience! You can see our sofa in this picture. I inherited it from my folks. Originally it was all green plaid with three seperate cushions. My mother and I redid it- when I moved to Philly. I sewed a few duvets around the three cushions- after sewing them to each other- in order to make one big cushion. Then she loving made the floral zippered cover for the cushion. This funky couch goes with everything and makes renting a colorful experience when you can't always paint! However, I've been itching lately for many changes in my life and so I am tackeling those that I can address immediately and those that are more in my control...

So here's the plan! I am going to buy grey linen fabric, sew a slip cover for the entire couch and a separate one for the cushion. (this is a big endeavor! for sure and a first) Then I will silkscreen a few areas with some fun floral/vintage/rustic images in black ink and presto! I will leave most of the pillows the same, and might upgrade them individually. I've thought about silkscreening the fabric first... but since this is foreign territory I figured I would have more accurate results once the slip cover is finished... I'll take better before pictures and do a follow up post once it's all done!

Print shop on etsy- now live!

My new etsy shop Gray Day's Print Shop is now up and running with actual listings on it! I plan to continue to add more prints from my portfolio as well as new ones hot off the press.

A winter essential

How, How in the WORLD!?- did I not own slippers!? I lived in Alaska, and some other cold places, and it took coming to Maine, an LL BEAN gift card and these super fuzzy padded guys to keep me warm! so Insane.

Anyway, bought these on sale with our fab gift card from Christmas and it really is amazing how much warmer I am bopping around the house. I have yet to go out in public in my slippers, nor do I plan on it, but I thought a little show and tell on the ol blog would suffice.