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@deelancaster

Obsessive reader, writer of first drafts not ready to edit yet, car enthusiast, mom of 3 awesome boys, baking fanatic, climber, baseball, nature, no autocorrect = typos my own

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deelancaster@deelancaster· 15d

Postmaster Sid now has his own official post card.

Postcard of a ginger cat stamping a latter while wearing an old postie hat. It has an old timey look. It says "Greetings from Whonnock, BC Small Office.Big Community. Serving Whonnock and Beyond with Care simce day one"
Postmaster Sid is a real, live ginger cat who loves at the post office and he has a little postie hat. I am not sure how many postie duties he actually performs but judging by his tummy he does not serve in the position of actually walking to any mail boxes. He is, however, a hard working embassador for the post office. I framed the postcard because duh, cuteness.

deelancaster@deelancaster· 17d

My kids agree with you. They want me to take the stuffing out and make it into a hat.

Chocolate lab with a crocheted jellyfish on her head. Stuffed spider looks on, awaiting his turn with the hat.

deelancaster@deelancaster· 18d

I have no idea what I am going to do with a jellyfish this size but I was determined to make it. I found the pattern on Etsy and any mistakes are mine.

Blue and green crocheted jellyfish about the size of a volleyball. It has long curly tentacles or legs or tendrils or whatever they are called on a jellyfish and a smiley face. It is sitting on a stack of books in front of a window. Any ideas what I am supposed to do with a jellyfish?

deelancaster@deelancaster· 20d

If you can't plant a tree, plant a lavender plant. They thrive in pots or in the ground, are drought tolerant, the polinators love them and you can make tea out of them.

Large lavender plant with many purple blossoms, green leaves and a bee. I get so many bees and butterflies around my lavender plants and my son uses them to make tea - the plants not the bees and butterflies, that would just be wrong. And gross. This particular plant is in tje ground and nearly 1m across. I have smaller, tamed ones in planters on my deck.

deelancaster@deelancaster· 27d

Made a little kitty. As always, any flaws in the pattern are my own inexperience, not a problem with the DIY Fluffies patter www.mariskavos.nl/free-cat-cro...

Green crocheted kitty cat. Apparently his name is Kevin he is a soft green with emerald green stripes, black eyes and a pink nose. He sits atop a Union Jack trunk in which I keep all my crochet gear and yarn that I have collected in the 5 months. He now lives with my son's gf and probably not on top of a Union Jack trunk.

deelancaster@deelancaster· 29d

The rare baseball spider (Someone tossed a crocheted baseball pillow on the couch and it landed a spider stuffy but now I want to make an actual crocheted baseball spider. Stay tuned. Or don't because you probably have better things to do)

A black stuffy spider (it was a great deal at an after Chrostmas sale and my son amd I grabbed for my other son but we had no bags so he carried it around the mall like a football for an hour) on a grey couch with a crocheted baseball throw cushion sittin on top of it giving it the illusion that the spider's abdoman is a baseball. The spider has big eyes with a googley look but they are embroidered. He is friendly and very soft. If you look close you can see a Jack Skellington pillow tucked in behind. Rest assured our other couch in our other room has proper throw pillows.

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jul 3

Made my son another turtle. Keeping up with the theme, this one is named Boost to go along with Turbo and Nos. Pattern from themaryjay.com

Crocheted turtle with a mixed green shell and green head, feet and tail. Black, shiny eyes. He's sitting, or I guess standing (do turtles sit? They're always on their feet son I guess they're standing desk sort of folks) on a grey couch. He's contemplating his existence

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jul 2

Our octopus has a pal. No, I don't need more crocheted octopi. Yes, I will be making more. Why? No idea

Purple hand sized crocheted octopus sitting on a Union Jack trunk.It has a very serious look on its face. Like "Why am I sitting on this Union Jack box? Was a Saltire not available? Or at least a lilac where my colour makes more sense? Who's in charge here anyway? This is preposterous."

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jul 1

Because doesn't everyone have a Monster Hunter action figure joining them for dinner and pulling up a 118 year old copy of a Washington Irving novel to get comfy?

Spikey looking mainly blue armoured humanoid figure sitting politely with his hands on his knees as though he is about to join the conversation. He sits atop a burgundy book with gold lettering that is on top of another book. West Coast Seeds catalogue under those. This chap has been chillin' there for about a week now. Middle son cleaned the kitchen and set him up all dignified like. Youngest son will eventually take him to the shelf where he belongs (the action figure, not his brother) but probably not until we have company over, but fancy company, not my aunt who is visiting tomorrow, she'd be offended if he was put away for her visit.

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 27

I crocheted this little guy from Gloden Maple Designs.

Hand sized crocheted octopus fin a sea green/aqua/blue yarn. He has black shiny eyes and curly legs. I will probably make a gang of them because who doesn't need a gang of hand sized octopi? They can hang out with my troop of little jellyfish. Apparently I have a penchant for crocheting mini sea creatures.

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 24

I made a Sackboy from Little Big Planet. He wants to know if you want to play some games

Crocheted Playstation Sackboy. He is brown with black shiny eyes. I haven't found a good zipper for him yet. He is about to play some games and is sitting behind a PS3 controller on a grey couch. There is a colourful quilt my aunt made me in 1993 behind him on the couch. He has enormous hands and a big smile. Don't under estimate him, he can do grand things and his game is narrated by Stephen Fry so he is extra happy because if Stephen was narrating your adventures, you'd be smiling too

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 20

And people wonder why I enjoy hanging my laundry on the line so much. I don't hear these guys in my laundry room.

Screen shot of the Merlin app telling me I hear American Robins, Cedar Waxwings and Swainson's Thrush. Don't know who Swainson was but he's got his own thrush which is cool. Ooh, and as I type I just heard a flicker so suck it laundry room.

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 14

My son chose the pattern & yarn for my biggest project yet. It was fun. Any flaws are my lack of experience not the instructions. The instructions were great & the patterns in the book are lovely. The book is from @craftyintentions.bsky.social & I purchased it from my local indie bookstore

Crocheted kraken about 40com tall with fins. It is made out of granny square yard in red, purple very pale pink, hot oink and dark burgundy yarn. 17 chose the pattern and the yarn.

Mighty kraken overseeing his undersea domain (undersea domain is a fish pond made out of a barrel with a couple of ornamental frogs, some lilyoads and water lettuce) One must not scoff at another's undersea domain

Otherside of the same multicoloured kraken. He is giving you a look. He has 10 legs and is squishy to hug. Currently sitting on a cedar fence post because he can do what he wants.

Crochet pattern book called Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend by Megan Lapp. Highly recommend.

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 11

It's gone crazy now

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 8

I have one too! High five 👊

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 6

Toy Traders again. 100 photos wouldn't do it justice

Human sized robots from a movie I can't recall right now. Along with parphanelia from several other intellectual properites.

That's a life sized Alien coming out of the wall about 5' above my head. And the ghostbusters sign glowing. Who ya gonna call?

Yes, that is a Death Star comint out of the wall. It has to be 3 or 4 metres in diametre. And if you look closely you can see it is fully populated with baddies. But don't worry, the good guys are attacking

See? Told you the good guys had it under control. Wall of Xwings and various support ships attacking the bad guys from the other photo. You can also see Ewoks on the ground in their village engaged in battle. Also the earth based restroom where you can relieve yourself because you've been in this massive store for hours forgetting you have other stops on your errands today.

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 6

If you are any kind of nerd and you're ever in the Metro Vancouver area, you should hit up Toy Traders. That Groot is floor to warehouse roof. And those Muppets are life sized. And zoom in on the Masters of the Universe scene. And they have them for Star Wars, GI Joe, Marvel and others

The grumpy theatre critics fro. The Muppets mounted in their viewing box about 2 stories up. Sproting from their theatee box is ET in the forest. The wall is painted like sky. I made sure to snap this photo for Hemicane and Horizons who are the biggest Muppet fans I know

Masters of the Universe battle sece set up with the actual toys oldies like me remember from childhood. The whole scene is mounted on the wall above the shelving and is 10 or more feet tall. It is worth a zoom in for the details. I coulf either take detailed photos to show you the attention to detail or wider ones to show you the extant. You can see which I chose.

Groot. All of him. Those shelves are taller than me and I'm a little over 5'10" There's also some Ewoks doing battle around his head. And Bugs with hs 3D glasses. The whole store is like this. If you can think of an IP, there is some tribute to it, nevermind the vast quantities of treasure you can purchase.

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 1

Take care

deelancaster@deelancaster· Jun 1

Happy Sunday to you

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 31

Last day of Minnie's month. I made this pin display board in Minnie's style to match a similar one I made using Mickey as the model

Cork board cut in the shape of Minni's ear icon shape. You know it's Minnie because of the bow I cut out of wood and painted red with white polka dots. It is covered in mamy Disney pins, some of them are Minnie insoired but not all. I may have too many pins. We don't talk about that.

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 30

Yes, Ozzie needs 3 pillows

Chocolate lab resting her head on a stuffed spider, a Jack Skellington head and an Oogie Boogie pillow. Yes. She is taking up 3 throw pillows and 2 cushions of couch. Because of course she is.

Sam dog. Same scenario. This time her eyes are open giving you a "go ahead and try and take these pillows" look. She'll let you take the pillows because she is a cuddly marshmallow but she'll make you know they are her pillows (they actually aren't) and you're a bad person for wanting them.

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 30

Minnie in her Christmas finery. She was a gift fir my birthday this year which came after Christmas so she stays out all year until the Christmas stuff gets put away next year.

Minnie figure fron the Jim Shore collection (thank you @thehemicane for knowing the name of the artist). Red bow. Purple checked ears. Red skirt. Red and green Christmas sweater with a snowman on it. Red bows on her shoes. Base is square with pine cones and holly and Christmas themed flotsam and jetsom.

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 29

Minnie attractions pin set from 2020

3 pins. One like a yellow teacup from the teacups ride. One of Minnie in a dress that's pink and purple and swirly in the teacup theme colours. A white top hat with a wild pink bow. She is holding a teacup. Minnie ears with matching top hat and bow in themed colours. I love this ride and the absolute Disney parks vibe it has. So many memories of this ride with me family and my oldest has one of his grad photos in his giant teacup hat

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 28

Old school Minnie

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 27

3 Minnie themed park pins from the sets released the 3rd Saturday if the month in 2020. I don't have all of them because that's the year the world shut down so I stopped going to the Disney Store.

3 pins themed like Minnie and the pirate ride, you know it but I eill spell it wrong and am in too much of a hurry to look it up and, if you've read more than 2 of my posts, you know I don't use autocorrect. Minnie in a pirate dress. A skull with a Minnie bow. Very stylish for a skull, I heard she got many invites to the skeleton prom. Minnie ears with a ship and a ship's wheel on the left ear and a pirate skull with a bow on the right ear. All themed in black and gold. Because pirates like gold. Arrrrgh

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 27

I am likin' this lichen

Round of tree like firewood before you split it, standing flat end up. Mandalorian helmet planter on it with a dwarf evergreen shrub in it. Greyish lichen groeing next to the helmet. Remnat of the pole from a patio citronella torch in the centre. Small planter bed with green plants growing in it behind. I will alwayshave many evergreen things on my patio and my planters will be largely mismatched. This is the way.

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 26

Haunting Minnie today.

Minnie in a purple
costume with an orange bow on her hat because is she Minnie if she doesn't have a bow? Green ghost growing out of her cauldron. Sinister looking shelf with definately haunted candle and skull on it. The ghosts glow in the dark. The pin is still on its original cardboard backing that has a shield shape on it and says Medieval Magic Limited Edition with some fancy looking foliage decor that makes sure you know it is olde and royale

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 25

Minnie's month is nearing the end but she will never surrender

Disney pin of Minnie looking very much like Red that can be seen in the Pirates ride and occassionally roaming New Orelan's Square at Disneyland. Maybe real New Orlean's as well, I've never been there. The background is grey with an anchor, a 3 masted ship and a skull and cross bones in the background. Minnie is brandishing a cutlass with her foot on a barrel. The font says "I never surrender"

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 24

@thehemicane.bsky.social these were my birds ehile I sipped tea on my patio today. The app didn't pick up my neighbour's rooster though but he is out there.

Photos and list of birds allegedly chirping while I drank my tea. spotted towhee which is orange and, not surprisingly, spotted black; American robin, we all know what they look like, he's allowed in because he says he votes Democrat and is no way interested in a 51st state; Yellow rumped warbler which is what we used to call my father in law, kidding! We just called him butthead. It's got yellow but not on what I'd call its rump; orange crowned warbler which looks like someone's pet canary escaped; black headed grosbeak

List including 3 of the other 5 birds plus a common raven. If one has ever spotted a raven chasing crows from its territory one would not call it common. Although we have a lot of them around my yard which I suppose makes them common but you get my meaning. It's big, black and works part time for Malificent.

deelancaster@deelancaster· May 24

Minnie in her pink stuffy glory