Recap:
Read:
1. She by Henry Rider Haggard
2. Ayesha: The Return of She by Henry Rider Haggard
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
4. Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation by Mizuki Nomura
Stitched:
1-3. Kokeshi dolls
4. Happy Holidays by LHN
Finished:
1. Kokeshi doll scissor fobs
2. Egg tart earrings
3. Sailor Moon origami stars ornament
4. Kawaii Christmas tree feltie ornament
It's been a busy month with a few crafting projects and a whole lot of the month taken up with reading Hugo's unabridged version of Les Miserables.
I've been working on the Kawaii Winterland pattern, but I'm far behind on it as all four weeks worth of patterns have been released and I've only finished the first row this week! I blame house renovations and many nights reading Hugo's tome!
Until next time ^_____^
Friday, November 30, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Happy Holidays
Fabric: 28ct Antique White linen by M.C.G. Textiles
Threads: recommended DMC
Start/Finish: 11/12-17/2012
I'm sure some of my readers were wondering where I had wandered off to. As I mentioned before, my family and I are renovating our house so I spent last week helping my mother paint our living room. Our house was built in the late 70s so we have wood paneling and a popcorn ceiling. Which means lots of work! We painted the ceiling and washed the paneling before priming it for paint. We will probably start painting next weekend.
After that.....search for carpeting!! Then on to other areas of house that need work. Definitely a work in progress, but one that is well worth the time :)
With all of that, my stitching time has been limited to after I come home from work during the week and after we are done working on the weekends.
I've got a few more designs to stitch for Christmas. I'm flipping through my back issues of JCS and other magazines to see what catches my eye.
Until next time ^____^
Fun with Felt
Please excuse the horrible photo!
While I was at Michael's this month, I saw a fun kit for making a felt cell phone case! I couldn't resist buying it as I had a great coupon, which made the kit only $3. Isn't it cute? One advantage to these felt kits is that they are perfect for kids who want to learn how to sew by hand or create something using felt. The kit comes with instructions on how to backstitch and blanket stitch.
Definitely check out Michael's selection of felt kits! Well worth the investment and it gives your child an hour or so of fun creating something!
Until next time ^___^
Kokeshi Dolls
Fabric: 32ct Cream Belfast Zweigart
Threads: DMC
Start/Finish: 11/5-9/2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Halloween packages
I received a Halloween package from sunny CA courtesy of my friend Amanda! How fun that is arrived on Halloween?!
She sent me a lot of cute items for my Halloween display next year! A lovely woven basket full of amigurgumi plushies and candy, a very soft black cat pillow and a folder full of paper crafts and a sheet of stickers!
First up, an adorable white pumpkin amigurumi charm. Don't you just love the little purple spider on top!? Cute!
Secondly, a tiny ghost amigurumi. He's ready for the cool autumn weather with a little red scarf :)
Third, a black cat amigurumi. There is a name for this type of cat, but for the life of me, I can't remember. Usually Japanese women make them for their loved ones out of fabric scraps......if I remember the name, I will let you know :)
Candy, anyone? She included a bag full of macadamia nut Hershey kisses and green tea Kit Kats! (Can't wait to try them!) Also two small bottles of bubbles! As you can see I actually opened one of the bottles. Our cat Bella was not enthused by the bubbles, she promptly left the room!
Thank you for such a wonderful package of goodies for Halloween, especially since I know how busy you are at the moment!
In other news, I've put the Horn of Plenty aside for the moment as the month of November has officially started which means Christmas stitching!
Also, I sent two packages out to my friends Amanda and Constance. Please see Amanda's blog for all the contents of that package as I didn't have time to photograph it. Constance's package finally arrived in Canada on Halloween (fun times). Luckily, the cookies that I had baked for it were still good. I wish I had taken pictures, but yet again, I was terribly busy.
In her package, I included the JBW Black Cat pinkeep, the Halloween and Christmas JSC magazines, B&BW lotions and hand sanitizers, lots of candy and goodies, and a tin full of cookies! I'm probably forgetting something, but that's ok. I'll try to be better about taking photos of my Christmas packages to them :)
Until next time ^____^
She sent me a lot of cute items for my Halloween display next year! A lovely woven basket full of amigurgumi plushies and candy, a very soft black cat pillow and a folder full of paper crafts and a sheet of stickers!
First up, an adorable white pumpkin amigurumi charm. Don't you just love the little purple spider on top!? Cute!
Secondly, a tiny ghost amigurumi. He's ready for the cool autumn weather with a little red scarf :)
Third, a black cat amigurumi. There is a name for this type of cat, but for the life of me, I can't remember. Usually Japanese women make them for their loved ones out of fabric scraps......if I remember the name, I will let you know :)
Candy, anyone? She included a bag full of macadamia nut Hershey kisses and green tea Kit Kats! (Can't wait to try them!) Also two small bottles of bubbles! As you can see I actually opened one of the bottles. Our cat Bella was not enthused by the bubbles, she promptly left the room!
Thank you for such a wonderful package of goodies for Halloween, especially since I know how busy you are at the moment!
In other news, I've put the Horn of Plenty aside for the moment as the month of November has officially started which means Christmas stitching!
Also, I sent two packages out to my friends Amanda and Constance. Please see Amanda's blog for all the contents of that package as I didn't have time to photograph it. Constance's package finally arrived in Canada on Halloween (fun times). Luckily, the cookies that I had baked for it were still good. I wish I had taken pictures, but yet again, I was terribly busy.
In her package, I included the JBW Black Cat pinkeep, the Halloween and Christmas JSC magazines, B&BW lotions and hand sanitizers, lots of candy and goodies, and a tin full of cookies! I'm probably forgetting something, but that's ok. I'll try to be better about taking photos of my Christmas packages to them :)
Until next time ^____^
Thursday, November 1, 2012
October Recap
Recap:
Read:
1. The Candy Country by Louisa May Alcott
2. How They Ran Away by Louisa May Alcott
3. The Treasure of the Lake by Henry Rider Haggard
4. Allan and the Ice-Gods by Henry Rider Haggard
5. Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
6. God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
7. Cleopatra by Henry Rider Haggard
8. Undead and Unstable by Maryjanice Davidson
Crafts:
1. Black cat amigurumi
Stitched:
1. Started Horn of Plenty design
Read:
1. The Candy Country by Louisa May Alcott
2. How They Ran Away by Louisa May Alcott
3. The Treasure of the Lake by Henry Rider Haggard
4. Allan and the Ice-Gods by Henry Rider Haggard
5. Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
6. God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
7. Cleopatra by Henry Rider Haggard
8. Undead and Unstable by Maryjanice Davidson
Crafts:
1. Black cat amigurumi
Stitched:
1. Started Horn of Plenty design
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Halloween Baking! Yum!
This morning I woke up to do some baking for my coworkers tomorrow. I realize that Halloween isn't until Wednesday, but I didn't want to stay up late on Tuesday night baking so I thought it would be nice to have some early Halloween goodies on a Monday morning :)
I baked caramel apple cupcakes and chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies. I decided to make two items as I knew that the cupcake recipe did not make a lot of cupcakes....and I have quite a handful of people in the offices to feed!
Yummy, right!?! I boxed up the cookies and put the rest in my bunny bento box while all the cupcakes are in my cupcake carrier.
Until next time ^____^
I baked caramel apple cupcakes and chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies. I decided to make two items as I knew that the cupcake recipe did not make a lot of cupcakes....and I have quite a handful of people in the offices to feed!
Yummy, right!?! I boxed up the cookies and put the rest in my bunny bento box while all the cupcakes are in my cupcake carrier.
Until next time ^____^
Fandom Con 2012
Yesterday, my friend Kristina and I drove over to Pensacola to the Univ. of West Florida for their annual Fandom Convention, which is a sci-fi/anime convention.
I've never been to the Univ. of West Florida's campus. I will say it is quite lovely and spacious!
As usual, Kristina and I always have some sort of adventure driving somewhere beyond our own city. It never fails. So we were going along great until we got to the merge on US-90.......it was only suppose to be 2.4 miles down the road we were driving on, but we never saw the sign. Luckily, we stopped at a gas station for directions and she said to take the road behind the gas station (somewhat like a service road) and we would run right into that street!
Thanks goodness for friendly directions! We got where we needed to go and both agreed that a hurricane must have blown away the sign post for US-90!
It took about 40 minutes or so to go through registration. They need to take a cue from Mechacon's registration process, very quick and effective.
We made it just in time to go to one panel that we both wanted to see, the Outer Senshi/Scouts appreciation panel. It was quite fun and a bit weird to be in a uni classroom having a panel on anime-related material!
Here's the picture I took of the panelists including two audience members who were also dressed as SM characters, Sailor Uranus and Tuxedo Mask.
After the panel, Kristina and I wandered the dealers' room and the artists' alley before leaving for some lunch and coming back for a little bit more.
When we came back after lunch I saw this cute couple dressed up as Alice and the Mad Hatter and couldn't resist asking for a picture. I love her super cute White Rabbit doll!!!! It reminds me of a larger one that I saw in a Gothic/Lolita magazine a while ago :)
I wasn't impressed with the artists' alley, I think Mechacon has spoiled me on artists' alley. There weren't a lot of vendors and they were sadly crammed into a tiny room by the dealers' room.
Here's my haul!
I've never been to the Univ. of West Florida's campus. I will say it is quite lovely and spacious!
As usual, Kristina and I always have some sort of adventure driving somewhere beyond our own city. It never fails. So we were going along great until we got to the merge on US-90.......it was only suppose to be 2.4 miles down the road we were driving on, but we never saw the sign. Luckily, we stopped at a gas station for directions and she said to take the road behind the gas station (somewhat like a service road) and we would run right into that street!
Thanks goodness for friendly directions! We got where we needed to go and both agreed that a hurricane must have blown away the sign post for US-90!
It took about 40 minutes or so to go through registration. They need to take a cue from Mechacon's registration process, very quick and effective.
We made it just in time to go to one panel that we both wanted to see, the Outer Senshi/Scouts appreciation panel. It was quite fun and a bit weird to be in a uni classroom having a panel on anime-related material!
Here's the picture I took of the panelists including two audience members who were also dressed as SM characters, Sailor Uranus and Tuxedo Mask.
After the panel, Kristina and I wandered the dealers' room and the artists' alley before leaving for some lunch and coming back for a little bit more.
When we came back after lunch I saw this cute couple dressed up as Alice and the Mad Hatter and couldn't resist asking for a picture. I love her super cute White Rabbit doll!!!! It reminds me of a larger one that I saw in a Gothic/Lolita magazine a while ago :)
I wasn't impressed with the artists' alley, I think Mechacon has spoiled me on artists' alley. There weren't a lot of vendors and they were sadly crammed into a tiny room by the dealers' room.
Here's my haul!
From dealers' room:
1) An insanely kawaii neko plushie!
2) Cherry blossom chopsticks and some Japanese candy
From artists' alley:
1) A chocolate pudding flan plushie!
2) A British heart button for my Kindle :)
Overall, we had quite a fun time. Afterwards, we drove back to Spanish Fort to check out the World Market since Kristina had never been there. She bought some nice goodies while I picked up a pair of beginners' chopsticks and a box of mincemeat pies for Christmas.
Then we drove over to Barnes and Noble to check out their selection of craft magazines..........got in an accident with a fellow car. I won't go in depth, but it was their fault not ours as I was opening my car door when they sped into the parking space beside us.
Otherwise, a good day! I think we might have to do this again next year! Hopefully with no accidents and warmer weather!!!
Until next time ^_____^
1st Modes4u Package!
Earlier this month I decided to order some items from Modes4u, a super cute website that sells all sorts of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese merchandise from stationery, fabrics, bento boxes, and DIY clay sets.
You know I was eyeing the DIY clay sets, right? LOL Here is what I ordered from them!
A fuwa fuwa clay set with two molds for cookies, cakes, and ice creams that also includes eye pins, keychains, glue, and four pastel colors of glittery clay. For the clay molds, I also ordered mold oil, charm varnish, white clay whipped cream, and an utilty box to keep my clays from drying out.
If you spent over a certain amount, you get free shipping......so I added something not clay related, a cute Hansel and Gretel keychain for my car keys. My Fruits Basket Kyo one finally fell apart after years of use; LOL it was definitely time for a new one :)
As a freebie, they sent me a roll of deco tape featuring Monokuro Boo, a cute little piggie!
I can't wait to play with these clays! But it might not be until sometime next month as we are in the midst of renovating our house. During the first week of November, I will be helping my mother and aunt paint the living room...........a huge task, but it will be nice to have a painted living room instead of wood paneling from the 70s!
Until next time ^______^
You know I was eyeing the DIY clay sets, right? LOL Here is what I ordered from them!
A fuwa fuwa clay set with two molds for cookies, cakes, and ice creams that also includes eye pins, keychains, glue, and four pastel colors of glittery clay. For the clay molds, I also ordered mold oil, charm varnish, white clay whipped cream, and an utilty box to keep my clays from drying out.
If you spent over a certain amount, you get free shipping......so I added something not clay related, a cute Hansel and Gretel keychain for my car keys. My Fruits Basket Kyo one finally fell apart after years of use; LOL it was definitely time for a new one :)
As a freebie, they sent me a roll of deco tape featuring Monokuro Boo, a cute little piggie!
I can't wait to play with these clays! But it might not be until sometime next month as we are in the midst of renovating our house. During the first week of November, I will be helping my mother and aunt paint the living room...........a huge task, but it will be nice to have a painted living room instead of wood paneling from the 70s!
Until next time ^______^
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