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Hey!  Hey!  Did you notice?

‘Sright.  I have my own domain name.  I am the proud owner of moosephysh.com, which I actually have been for awhile.

I bought it sometime last year but then got really busy and didn’t have any time to do anything with it.  I had registered it with GoDaddy and then this whole SOPA mess occurred.  Since GoDaddy was intimately involved with the bill and I do not support the bill in its current form, I decided to switch registrars to Namecheap.  Switching took a good while.  A friend said that GoDaddy was purposely slowing down the process because so many people were leaving them due to SOPA.  I don’t know about that, but I do know it took way longer than it needed to.

So…tada!  My own domain!  Right now (again, because of being ridiculously busy) I’m only mapping the blog onto a subdomain and moosephysh.com reroutes you automatically to the blog.  But I have grand ideas and designs to implement!  Ok, not really.  I’m not entirely sure what to do with it yet.  I will eventually host my own blog, but until then it’ll be this weird hybrid thing and wordpress.com will continue to host the moosages.

Anyway, ideas anyone?  What should I do with moosephysh.com?

Needle felted guinea pigs

In preparation for another (secret) craft that I plan on making, I decided to pick up needle felting (as it is a technique that I think I may need to use).  I’ve long thought about learning needle felting, after seeing so many projects that Tally has made with felt (yes, all separate links).  It seemed so very easy and versatile.  And also possibly a good way to relieve some frustration (since needle felting involves jabbing a needle with some vehemence over and over into some wool roving).

Seeing as how I’d never done this before, I picked up a needle felting kit and made me some guinea pigs.  The kit ended up being totally unnecessary in the end.  I could have easily picked this up on my own.  It really isn’t a very hard technique at all.  Anyway, here are the results.  Or rather, just one result.  Because I am too lazy to take pictures of more than one guinea pig.

I will call him Roofus.

Here is another photo of Roofus.

Incidentally, I have been seeing things about needle felting all over the place online and so I thought it was popular technique.  Lots of people had mentioned that they were able to pick up supplies at their local craft store, like Michael’s or Joann’s.  Yeah…apparently not.  Or at least, no one else needle felts in SoCal besides me.  A trip to my local Michael’s yielded a pitiful selection of wool and needles (i.e., no separate needles, only in handles, and nearly everything was out of stock).  My trip to Tall Mouse yielded nothing.  They had no needle felting supplies.  But at least they were able to answer my query on whether or not they had supplies for such.  This is important.  Because at my local Joann’s, they had no idea what I was talking about.  None.  They had no idea there was even such a thing as needle felting.  They pointed me to felt sheets.  And then to sewing needles.  And then to the quilting section.  They were very nice and tried very hard to be helpful, but they had no clue.  At all.  I was surprised.

Oh well, online shopping it is.