You're lying if you say you didn't like like this game....

I spent many hours as a kid (or six months ago) spending hours playing Tetris. I love that game to pieces. You can imagine how psyched I was when they put out Tetris Party on WiiWare! So when I came across this yesterday, I totally had to make it! So I did. Super easy and most of the supplies I already had in my ever growing craft stash.

I made my way over to The Loop today after work to see if they had any bag handles for my project. They did! Sadly none that were going to work though...sigh. I guess I really am back to square one. Bah.

I also must state how bummed I am that I am going to miss the Halifax Crafters spring sale. I only just realised that it is this upcoming weekend and I'll be out of town at my parent's place since my sister arrives home on Thursday. Maybe next year. Or maybe I can even be a seller next year! Here's hoping!

Anyone that knows me....

knows I love skulls. I just adore them. I have skull ornaments, skull socks, skull shirts, even a skull shower curtain. So when my friend Woz gave me the Skulls book from Skull-A-Day, I was super stoked. I loved the paint by number skull that was featured in the book and decided I wanted to give it a whirl. I printed it off at home and realised that it was going to be way too small. Then I remembered that we happen to have a 42 inch wide format printer at work. Problem solved. I had one of the boys print it off as large as they could. They used a heavyweight coated paper so that I could apply paint to it without worrying about the paper puckering. To paint it, I actually taped the whole thing down to my coffee table so that I could sit on the couch to work on it. It turned out to be all kinds of rad.

I unfortunately did not get the chance to drop by the yarn store today. I slept in until about 3:30 (I am not ashamed so there is no need to judge me) but unfortunately the province I live in, stores tend to close really early on Sundays so I knew I wouldn't be able to clean myself up and get downtown in time before the store closed. Alas, I'll have to try sometime this week.

Blue (felted) balls...oh and purple and magenta and orange and....

Finished up the felted beads project late last night. They may a nice quick project when you're looking for a little instant gratification of finishing a project.

Once the beads were felted and dry, I simply strung them on some bead thread with some seed beads and shell beads that I had from an upcycled necklace that wasn't really my style. In the end I think it turned out pretty cute. And I gotta say, I love the new roving that I got. The colours are super vibrant and it's super soft. Such better quality than the roving that I've found locally. Next I'm going to try needle felting.

Today Lamb and I went on a shopping and lunch date. We stopped by Michael's in hopes of finding a wooden bag handle for the bag that I'm making for my sister. Unfortunately the few they had, weren't going to work. They had a few wood ones but they looked like bamboo and it just wouldn't have matched the style of the bag. And there were a few plastic ones that I could have worked with but they weren't as wide as what I needed. Back to square one. I'm going to try and make a trip downtown tomorrow afternoon to check out the yarn store and see if they have anything that might work. If not I'm going to have to reconsider my design. Args.

Although the search for a handle failed, I did some across a few good books that I was interested in. I got Not Your Mamma's Felting and Beautiful Knitting. Beautiful Knitting looked helpful in improving my sub par knitting skills.Right now they only thing I can knit is scarves and scarf shaped items. Not terribly useful.

OMG! I've finally finished a blanket.

I've tried to crochet a couple of blankets in the past but I've never been able to sit down long enough to finish one. There are a few partially finished blankets in my apartment at the moment and I know that there have been others that I have had to get rid of for some reason (like moving clear across the country) or another. A couple of days ago I was going through a box with a bunch of partially completed projects and I came across a blanket that I had started about a year and a half ago. I figured rather than start something new, I'd finish something old. So two days ago I pulled the project out with the intentions of finishing it AND I DID IT!!!! Insert the sound of a cheering crowd right now. Thank you. I just bowed to the crowd. The pattern was stupid easy. Single crochet rows back and forth and then a couple times around once it was the size that I wanted. I used a huge crochet hook (I think it was a 15mm) so that the blanket would be super airy and light and not heavy. I originally made it because it matches my bedroom colour scheme but more interestingly enough, it matches this website. Not the raddest thing I've made but it works well for it's purpose. Which is to keep me covered yet still keeping me at my preferred body temperature.

I arrived home from work today to find a parcel waiting for me from The Rainbow Room. It was some merino roving that I had purchased a couple of weeks ago! I was super excited for it to arrive because there were a few things I wanted to try out with it. First thing up was making felted beads. Super cute! I am most definitely making more soon.

Tonight....you.

First off, I'd like to say that I had no part in the making of the cake you are about to see. It can all be contributed to B and B only. For Lamb's birthday this year he actually offered to make the cake. To be honest at first I was surprised. Genuinely surprised. And curious. In the four years that we've been friends, I've never seen him cook a thing. Wait, I think I once saw him stir something in a pot. Does that count? Anyway, I asked "Seriously, you know how to bake a cake?" "Yeah, I'm actually a pretty good cook" he tells me. "Then why the fuck am I always the one that cooks for everyone" I ask. His response? "I'm lazy." True enough.

This is what he came up with. Hand Banana. Seriously. If you don't know who Hand Banana is please click here. Please be warned, you may feel uncomfortable eating a banana for the next six months. Or being around dogs. Or gross hairy dudes. DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU THOUGH!

And here is her reaction to the cake. Needless to say, she was impressed. Kudos to B!

Mega Man!

No need to explain. That is all.

Heroes in a half shell, turtle power!

Yay to getting off work early! It gave me a time to stop by th fabric store to pick up some new prints. I don't actually have a use for them or a project lined up but the few things I picked up gave me some ideas of projects for later on. Most will probably end up as lining for a crocheted bag.

This weekend I was suppose to be rather busy with a few different events but as usual, most of my plans fell through. So instead of just sitting around, I decided to start a project that I knew I could finish by the time Monday morning rolled around. It didn't have to be functional, it just had to waste time and I needed to have something to show for it in the end. So I decided to make another Ninja Turtle amigurmi! I had originally made one for a guy at work and it was such a big hit that I decided I would do another one. Plus, they turned out so bloody cute! Most of the pattern I copied from Atsuko and Rheatheylia over at craftster.org although I did make a few slight adjustments. Much thanks to them! I also made Donatello's bō staff out of polymer clay and included a micro magnet inside the bō and one inside one of his arms so it looks like he's holding it. Hopefully I'll get around to make the last two turtles someday!

Lamb's Bag o' Blood

At Christmas I told Lamb that I was making her a bag. Well Christmas came and went and I still hadn't gotten around to making it. Her birthday was this week so I figured if I was going to make it, I had to have it finished in time for her birthday or was it was never going to get done. I am the Queen of Procrastination. If only I had a crown. Or a sceptre! Yes, that would be excellent. Hmm...I wonder if I could make a sceptre....

Anyway, back to the bag. I didn't really have any idea of how I was going to make it, I just decided to go to the fabric store and let the fabric give me ideas. Walking through the store, I came across a dark red cotton that reminded me of blood. Then I thought, what if I make the bag look like blood? Then you're probably asking, why the hell would you want a bag that looked like blood? Well, Melanie happens to be the biggest horror film fan that I know. Personally, I cannot watch a horror movie. I just can't. I scare easily and the sight of gore makes me nauseous. I am a wimp. She is not.

So I ended up pairing the red cotton with a black corduroy. The inside was the red and the outside with the black. I made a free hand pattern for the whole thing including what was suppose to look like blood pouring out of the top of the bag. It took my four months to complete and only one evening to actually do. Like I said, Queen of Procrastination.