hi, marie. the first word i thought of when you asked is fun. i think most people don't have enough fun in their lives, so i hope i provide that.

lol. stuffed toys called biggerCritters, breakup jewelry called biggerBaubles and these weird scarves (biggerMufflers) i just started making - they have faces like the biggerCritters.

you mean why are critters bigger?

i can answer it! a few years ago i was working at a web firm and was there pretty much all the time - 100 hours a week. as a result, i became totally boring and had no hobbies. so when i left the job i had to find out what i wanted to do in my spare time. i tried all kinds of things - knitting, hula class, collage class. but pretty much sucked at it. one day i thought "i like toys and i like candy" ... so i bought some fabric and had at it. i didn't even know how to sew, but i sort of had a vision of what i wanted to do. eventually i made so many i had to do someting with them ... and started a little website. the early ones were really bad though. i should reimburse people who bought them.

i have better ones ready for them, just in case

no, in fact they never came out as edgy as i would have liked. try as i did ... they always were kind of cute. man, that used to get my goat. now i just embrace their cuteness. i'm always happy, though, when someone says they're creepy.

oh yes. especially early on. i was always sure i would never make a better one again. truthfully, i've only kept two ... the third one i made and then a random one a couple months ago. sometimes i have to force myself to put it in a box and send it away.

well, i went through sort of a crappy patch, and i just decided i was going to emerge from it bigger and better ... so biggerkrissy! i came up with it because i needed a new AIM screenname. then i started making the toys, and came up with biggerCritters. it evolved from there. although a lot of my former coworkers would ask "oh, did you get fat?" and the inevitable "so where's smaller krissy" is driving me slowly insane over time.

oh no. i'm dreading this almost as much as the poem.

because i don't understand a word they say. and for the record, i'm only a first-base slut!

thank you for combining my two worst fears, gets it out of the way. give me a moment to measure the number of beats of my thoughts

oh yes, no question there...
frenchies are metro
italian boys are cuter
i do speak spanish

maybe it'll get me dates

my american boys are too angsty! i need to go back to the frenchies.

i'm a former journalist, so am uncomfortable with too many adjectives

i think he would be a swanky british guy with a fantastic accent. i'm not sure how awful cufflinks would fare in translation

awful cufflinks is a site i run with plain mabel's tara ... we just write about stuff we like - products, web sites, television shows and jason bateman. ok, i just write about jason bateman.

jason's been my tv boyfriend much longer than that ... eighth grade; circa silver spoons.

i'm hoping soon. maybe when the fuss over him dies down again. he's probably getting a little conceited now.

i think those around me would request quieterKrissy (although if my neighbor is reading this, i'm not the loud one. it's the bunny.)

oh no! how could you do this to me?

well done. give me a second to count again. i feel that an unprecedented second haiku isn't playing fair.

i was doing one about my bunny

you say that to all the girls!

oh little kitty
who scratches the furniture
where are your mittens?

i think i've found my calling. actually, this year i'm going to start writing stories about the critters!

i was on tv. it seemed fun at the time, but then i saw the first episode of the show ... it was horrifying. so i didn't tell anyone i was going to be on. i get recognized once in a while - mostly at craft shows and the like. why do people watch that show? oh, it's "crafting coast to coast" on hgtv, i guess that bears mention. it was fun to do though, i had a great crew. eight hours for seven minutes ... and i had the flu.

pick a better show.

i think the director had a little crush on me, so they were very very kind. i have a friend who poses with the exact same head tilt in every picture ... she must have practised that in the mirror. i find tha disturbing.

he was not!

but the cameraman was foreign. i didn't make out with him. i think that might have been inappropriate even for me. he was really hot though.

hmm ... i'm actually going to take a second and say thanks to all the crafty kittens out there who are expressing themselves, having fun and helping one another out. i love this community i'm a part of and think the women (and men) are all exceptional. ...threw you a curve there, being genuine.

good. i like a reaction!