Diana Droopy Eyes, Mouth Breathin' Betty, Slouchy McGee, Frightened Frida

an evening with Gladys Knight at the Meyerson
(Jen, Jenn, me, Mami)

Go On, Sample Me

Tefi Designs is thrilled to be a part of The Sampler for the month of May. I donated 50 fabric bobby pins to the cause, which has turned into a potentially bigger deal that I will tell you about later...It starts with an M and ends with a TV. Very exciting!!

See my listing here, 17th crafter down the list.

The Sampler is a subscription bonanza where you get a box full of handcrafted promo items each month from crafters and artists from around the world. Subscribe today or contribute your own handmade goods!

More Love for the Olives

Just check out these great photos taken by yours truly, with a little help from the hot supah-stah model Brenda B.Liscious showing off my new needlefelted olive hairsticks. Oh, you know you want a pair. available exclusively here

Love from Across the Pond (and in My Own Backyard)

Thanks to Sara of Etsy Profiles blog, Tefi Designs got some major face-time. She included my shop bio, buying info, and these pics: Mornington Crescent pendant available exclusively at The House of Dang! Zen I necklace available at http://www.tefi.etsy.com/ Sara lives and blogs in the U.K., and also has her own Etsy shop full of sweet, original felted and polymer clay goodies: Sara's Texture Crafts. Thanks for the nod, Sara! And Tefi was feeling more love right here at home. Thanks to my fellow Etsy Dallas-ite, Randi the Designing Diva, my new felted olive hairsticks got some major action in her blog. She even took some great pics that I used to list my items at http://www.fiddleheadsbytefi.etsy.com/. Oh! And of course she bought a pair at the recent Oak Cliff Earth Day fest. They look great in her hair!

The Best Thing to Do in Dallas on a Wednesday Night

Thunder, faulty microphones, and ad-libbing. Greatness. Missed it? Ah, too bad. In the changer: a mix of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, naturally

Honey White

Last night I took a break from Etsy Dallas Beer-B-Q planning and Tefi Designs stuff. Amazing. I revisited some old photographs I'd taken. Was ashamed at how boring they were! So I took them to ye olde Photoshop and here are a couple results: "Chicken Run" S. Hindall, 2007 (taken at the old Oak Cliff Cemetery) "Coit Tower Bubble Gum II" S. Hindall 2007 (taken at Coit Tower in San Francisco) Check out the rest of them here. In the changer: Morphine's Yes and Cure for Pain

Good Records, Indeed

This past Saturday J and I went to an estate sale. I bought a large, beautiful antique sideboard from my pal Santo Gay for $100. What for? Hmmm, let's just say it's for future use, and leave it at that. Afterwards, we headed over to Good Records to help them celebrate their 8th anniversary. I had a raspberry sno-cone. Also, I knew I was in store for a week of pledge drive crud on KERA-NPR (Give if you haven't already!), so I wanted some new tunes to listen to on the commute to and from work. Here's what I bought: The Pogues - Hell's Ditch Kelly Stolz - Below the Branches Broken Social Scene - self-titled Camera Obscura - Underacheivers, Please Try Harder Elliott Smith - Figure 8 Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise Forgot to buy: The Stills - Without Feathers Portastic - Be Still Please The Sea and Cake - Glass Dangit. I must be cute b/c because the boys at Good Records handed me a goody bag chock full of CD's, a magazine, and some pinbacks.......hmmm. I'm especially stoked about the Matador Records sampler. Oh, and The Kooks single I got is going straight to Nikola. He digs those young Brits. Swell!

Favorite Photographs I

Dunno what made me think of this. Sometimes things just POP! into your head. Joe Strummer, 1952-2002 I want this framed and mounted on my wall. I'd credit the photographer if I knew who s/he was.