The pretty little candies above were waiting to be eaten at a hotel I was checking into the other day. Even though they were almost too gorgeous too eat, I found a butterscotch one soon after I took this photo. Yum.

In talking to the desk clerk, apparently the hotel manager saw the candies at another rival hotel and liked them so much that she bought them for her lobby, too.

A few days earlier, in another hotel, I finished the above cross-stitch pieces for the show “Craftivism” at the Lawton Gallery at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay curated by Faythe Levine. The show opened today and will be open until October 30th.

The pieces are #2 and #3 in my International Anti-War Graffiti Cross-stitch series. Although I still use lots of yarn in things, I do love the cross-stitch and the radical cross-stitchers who make lovely things with lots of teeny tiny x’s. The pieces above are around 30,000 stitches apiece!

And speaking of radical crafts, check out the new Holiday 2008 issue of Vogue Knitting for a lovely article by the amazing Shannon Okey called “The Politics of Knitting!” If you don’t feel like reading the paper version, you can read the article online here!