Thursday, March 03, 2011

Tiny Dragons - The 6th Batch

I've been in the mood for knitting dragons lately. The 6th batch of five tiny dragons is already ready for introductions. From the left to the right:

#26. Azure - light blue and steel blue
#27. Sandy - pale beige and beige
#28. Eliza - red and dark brown
#29. Lukas - grey and teal
#30. Viktoria - moss green & dark brown

Here's how it works: Every now and then I make a batch of 5 dragons. Each dragon has a unique set of colours and they get a signed hatching certificate with their name, number and date.

When they're ready to list, I post an introduction on this blog like the one above. During the following few days, I'll list them in numerical order in my Etsy shop. Should you happen to spot one you must have, let me know and I can reserve it for you.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Tuesday Finds: Stacking

Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners, have you played a game called Stacking by Double Fine? You should. It's awesome, adorable, wonderfully silly and features nesting dolls!



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Friday, February 25, 2011

Tiny Dragons - The 5th Batch

It's time for the first tiny dragons of 2011! The 5th batch of five tiny dragons is now ready for introductions. From the left to the right:

#21. Constance - pink and dark red
#22. Cuthbert - teal and light blue
#23. Miranda - light purple and teal
#24. Humphrey - mint and teal
#25. Manuel - bright green and two shades of dark green

Here's how it works: Every now and then I make a batch of 5 dragons. Each dragon has a unique set of colours and they get a signed hatching certificate with their name, number and date.

When they're ready to list, I post an introduction on this blog like the one above. During the following few days, I'll list them in numerical order in my Etsy shop. Should you happen to spot one you must have, let me know and I can reserve it for you.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Tuesday Finds: Birches

The cold winter weather continues here in Finland. The downside? My fingers go numb even on the short walk into town. Nose too.

The upside? Views like the one on the right, with the snow-covered branches of birches and other trees. It's been quite the winter wonderland lately, with clear blue skies and white snow.

It might even be worth a few numb fingers.







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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Llama inc. - New Songs!

Here comes an important message for friends of music!


Now that I have your attention, you may remember that my brother plays and writes songs in a band called Llama inc. They have released a few new songs which are available on Llama inc's Myspace page. If you like indie punk/rock, check them out!
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Tuesday Finds: Valentine's Day

Happy belated Valentine's Day! Did you do anything special for it?

Here in Finland it's more of a day for friends, rather than lovers. Most years I just wish a happy "ystävänpäivä" to any friends I happen to see or talk to on the day, but otherwise it passes without much attention. Mr Morrgan and I made a lovely dinner together though, it's always nice to have an excuse for that.

(We had also planned a romantic evening of shooting aliens co-op in Halo: Reach, but by the time we were done with dinner, it was pretty late and we had an early wake-up the next day. Oh well.)



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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Zucchini Slices

Yum. Yum yum, yum yum. That should be enough of a description!


Zucchini Slices

4 eggs
3 dl (~1 1/4 cups) sugar
5 dl (~2 cups) grated zucchini
200 g (7 oz) butter, melted
1/2 dl (~1/4 cup) almond flakes or crunch
4 dl (~1 1/2 cups) flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla sugar

Beat eggs and sugar until white and fluffy. Add zucchini, butter and almonds. Mix the dry ingredients together, then add to the batter. Spread the batter onto a baking tray (30x40 cm or about 12x16 inches) covered with baking paper. Bake at 200°C (392°F) for 20-25 mins, until the surface is a lovely golden brown.

Icing
150 g (~5 1/2 oz) cream cheese
5 dl (2 cups) icing sugar

Mix the cream cheese and icing sugar, then spread onto the cooled cake. Decorate with almond flakes.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tuesday Finds: Travelling

End of January. It's about that time of year when I feel like travelling. Sure, the weather is nice and cold at the moment, with pretty white snow around. But, before you know it, the snow's melting and everything is wet and grey and icky.

Seems like a good idea to me to make travel plans and prepare now, in order to be ready to flee once the unpleasant part of early spring shows up.



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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tuesday Finds: Periodic Geekery



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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Tuesday Finds: O Tannenbaum

Hello there, new year of 2011! I wonder what you will bring for us all. Have any of you made any New Year's resolutions? I haven't made any particular ones, although there is a vague determination to make things happen this year. Things Need To Be Done, my brain says. What these things are, though, that remains to be seen.

As I was away from the internet over the Christmas and New Year holidays, I thought I'd take the chance now to show off a few pretty trees I noticed before my vacation. I do like trees, for Christmas and otherwise.



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Monday, December 20, 2010

Happy Holidays


Well well, it's about that time of year again. Soon, most likely tomorrow morning Finn time, I'll close up the shops and take a break for Christmas and New Year's. I probably won't read emails and messages while the shops are closed and this is the last blog post of the year too.

So, this break includes pretty much all of the internet - I want to take time to recharge my batteries and spend time with family.

Happy holidays and see you again next year!

PS: Should you get an uncontrollable urge to knit a creature of mine during the holidays, my Ravelry pattern shop will stay open.
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Friday is my Day


Ever wonder what a day in the life of Morrgan looks like? Well, now you can find out!

Friday is my day: Morrgan

Big thanks to Heli for inviting me over to her blog for a day! Check out her Etsy shops: HeliS and helisengezer.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

How long to make a sweater, I wonder

Mr Morrgan was complaining about having an insufficient amount of warm sweaters the other day. This jogged my memory and I remembered that he'd received a big pile of yarn as a Christmas present, together with the promise that I'd make a sweater out of it. That was 2 years ago. Oops.

It's about time he got his sweater, then! It'd be funny to wrap up the finished sweater as a gift this year. "Remember this?"

I'm about to finish the back, but I still need to remake the front and knit both sleeves. And there's, oh, 8 days until Christmas eve? This'll be interesting race against time. Wish me luck!
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Tuesday Finds: Music



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Friday, December 03, 2010

Introducing Marigold the Moose

A sweet knitted moose called Marigold. Marigold the Moose

Marigold the Moose got her name because marigolds are her favourite flowers. To eat, that is. She likes to keep one behind her ear as an emergency snack!


A sweet knitted moose called Marigold. Marigold's history
Who would have guessed that making a moose could cause so many unexpected problems?

One day I started knitting a moose, and while knitting I was pondering a suitable name. "Marigold" popped into my head. Perfect! Mr Morrgan also thought the name would suit a moose and suggested that she got the name for liking marigolds so much for lunch. Even more perfect!

After that it was settled. The moose called was Marigold.

Only a little later did it occur to me that a lady moose doesn't have antlers. D'oh! Some biologist I am. By this time it was too late. The name Marigold was so perfect it had to stay. I decided she just belongs to a special species of plush moose, where every individual has antlers. So there.

The second uh-oh occured when I was trying to place the ears. I put them between the antlers. ...No, that didn't look right. I put them behind the antlers. Nope, didn't work either. I put them below. Still looked wrong.

There was only one way to solve this: searching for moose pictures online! I discovered something interesting. Plush moose often have the ears below the antlers, whereas live moose have them behind and often showing between the antlers. No wonder I had trouble placing them.

After the gender/antler trouble from before, I felt my integrity as a biologist (ahem) would suffer too much if I'd bend reality twice for the same creature. Hence Marigold's ears are behind and between the antlers, unlike most other plush moose.

Marigold the Moose is available as a pattern via Ravelry (or click here to buy now - no Ravelry account needed) and from my Etsy shop.

Marigold is an intermediate level pattern. Marigold is knitted both flat and in the round, with the stitches knit, purl, lifted increases, knit/purl 2 together and slip stitch over. I-cord knitting is used for the flower (the pattern has brief instructions on how to do that).

Want to see more creature introductions?
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Tuesday Finds: Relaxing

I have just edited my Etsy shop listings. All 103 of them. All. Day. Long. My eyes hurt, my neck hurts and my brain is fried after so long by the computer.

Sounds like right about now would be the perfect time to curl up in my favourite comfy chair with a warm blanket, a good book, a cup of cocoa and a giant giraffe. Yup.



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Thursday, November 25, 2010

My Creative Space: Progress on the Secret Project! Also, a Moose!

Work on the Secret Project continues! Last time I had the problem of figuring out how to stuff it - well, my mom came to my rescue, as moms tend to do.

She found in storage an old foam mattress I could take, wash and use. (Actually, she did the washing too. Yay!) A fine solution methinks. Always good to recycle something that isn't needed.

The mattress was 5 cm (2") thick, so I had to cut out and shape several layers to create the needed shape.

Fortunately the material was easy to work with using scissors. Such things are not my strong suit and sure, the surface could have been evened out more, but it doesn't show on the outside of the knitted piece.

So, the little dude is taking shape and I'm ridiculously pleased with how it's turning out. I've knitted 19 pieces so far, so there's still a few more to go. Maybe next week you can see him finished, in his proper place on our couch! Still a chance to guess what this is until then. :)

In other crafty news, here's is a sneak peek of a little knitted moose lady:


Her name is Marigold and I've been working on her pattern this week. The pattern should be ready soon, and once it is she will get a full introduction on this blog! Stay tuned!

Want to see the creative spaces of others? Head on over to Kootoyoo's blog for a look!

(PS: There's a SALE at my Etsy shop! Check out this post for details!)
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Black Friday and Cyber Monday SALE

Now here's something that doesn't happen every day. Or month. Or even year. It is...

*drum roll*

A SALE!

Use the coupon code BFCM2010 at the Morrgan's Creatures Etsy shop for 10% off all purchases from now until Nov 29th!

As Etsy recently unveiled its new coupon code feature and Black Friday/Cyber Monday was coming up, I couldn't resist trying it out. It's in fact only my 2nd sale ever, so this kind of opportunity doesn't come around very often!

I know, I know, it isn't Friday yet. The code won't be announced at the Etsy shop until tomorrow evening, but it's valid starting now and I wanted my dear blog readers and Twitter followers to hear it first!

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Tuesday Finds: Let It Snow

Yay for snow! It's finally snowed enough around here that I can look outside and see the ground covered with white fluffy stuff. So refreshing after the grey and slush of autumn. Inspired by this, here's a selection that reminds me of the pretty snow of winter in one way or another.



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