I got burned by my hot glue gun. Fantasic.

Last week I was at Woz's house to pick up a few things before we went back to my apartment for Glee night. As we were walking out the door she turned and asked me if I needed a lamp. Why yes I do, I said! I've been meaning to pick up one for my bedroom forever. The problem was, it was green. My bedroom has no green in it whatsoever. Oh, but I could change that - and I did.

After some paint, (skull) fabric and a wee bit of ribbon (which I wish now I hadn't put on but I can't take it off without ruining the entire shade) and I have a new bedroom lamp.



I also finally got around to putting up the rest of my framed concert tickets. I only bought them (the frames) in April-ish. 5 months ain't that bad!



This weekend was beyond busy. Greg came home. Went to dinner at my Aunt's. Went shopping. Saw a movie. Went out to dinner. My mum, cousins and I also got to drive down to Peggy's Cove while the weather is still nice enough. Here's a pretty effing cute picture of my cousins. Nothing says Nova Scotia like a picture of a lighthouse!

The birds and the bees they are wise to the lies...

Two bad things I learned today; 20 hour migraines are quite unpleasant and the smell of burnt popcorn lingers. Forever. Two awesome things I learned today; Xbox Live 1 vs. 100 and that Swiss Chalet delivers in just over 20 minutes.

Finished up the necklace with the beads that I mentioned in the last post. C-h-h-h-h-h-eck it out.

Another one in the bag....

I love doing 8-bit designs when I work with polymer clay for one simple reason - it's bloody easy. You simply lay the clay out according to the colour chart and reduce. Not difficult, not even a little bit.

I actually based the skull design on a t-shirt that I saw my cousin wear last week. There were only two colours in the design so it was a snap. I custom blended the darker purple colour as I did not have enough of one any one shade of purple for the whole project. I've learned to pre-blend all the colours and cut all the pieces needed for the project before I actually put it together. When I first started making clay canes, I didn't do this step and it always caused a lot of headaches when I would be half way through a project to only then realise that I did not have enough of a certain colour - and it always tended to be a colour that was custom blended so there was no way to recreate it. I would end up having to scrap the whole project. A waste of time and an even bigger waste of clay (and money).

The project turned out well and was a good way to waste an evening. I've already made a pair of earrings and have the beads completed for a necklace but that will have to wait for another night!

PS. Click here to buy a pair of the earrings!

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.