I haven't been posting, but I have been keeping myself busy with all sorts of wacky projects that are being done with my usual massive amounts of enthusiasm and limited skill. I'm having a costume party next week where I will unveil Cleopatra and a surprise costume!
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| Nothing says "I doubt anyone reads this blog" like posting a photo taken with your phone while wearing an orange hoodie and no make-up and making this face. |
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| I couldn't quite get the angles on the feathers to complement each other right. Next time! |
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| Sparkle! Feathers! Tacky! |
Since I do sensitive HR stuff I have to do all my own filing and can't pawn it off on anyone else at work. Which sucks. I've been threatening my co-workers with a Friday Filing accessory of some sort for several months. I considered hats, wigs, even wore a crazy enormous necklace once to make my dutiful filing of important documents more palatable so this madness will actually be worn. I make no apologies! Filing is boring. I'll do whatever it takes to entertain myself.
Notes on the project:
Feathers are messy. And I don't know how to use them properly. I read all the directions on how to thin them, how to curl them, how to shape them, etc., but all I ended up doing is making them shorter and then randomly gluing them to felt. Oh well!
Cost: Less then 40 cents of stiff felt, a hair clip I already owned, left over rhinestones from Cleopatra, and probably $2.00 worth of feathers (more then a few of them were sacrificed as I learned how to cut them). Took me probably 40 minutes of fooling around.
Verdict: My sister was surprised that it didn't took entirely insane once it was in my hair... which I guess I'll count as a conditional success? I'm totally going to make more regardless. Feathers for everyone!
Next Up: Nanowrimo 2011 is currently barreling through November. In case you are unfamiliar, this is National Novel Writing Month where you are challenged to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I'm including it here as writing is one of my preferred crafts and probably the only one that has ever led to actual achievement... though not with Nanowrimo. I'm a repeat failure at that. I've participated with varying degrees of dedication for the past eight years. EIGHT YEARS, people! And no, I have not finished a novel yet. Currently, my Nano-novel for 2011 is at 5,000-odd words, so I'm considerably behind on my word count, but I'm not stressed about it.
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| I want this so very, very much. You can order them restored and ready to type! Not cheap though and I cannot possibly justify purchasing it. Boo. :( |
Titled "The Diplomat's Peace" the story is a sci-fi adventure (my first time taking a swing at that genre) about a boy named Oliver who discovers he's not entirely human when his mother dies of an alien-specific virus endemic to the galaxy. Forced to take refuge among those who would undermine human dominance, he is quickly put to use as a spy, but his divided loyalties put him at risk from both sides.
Cost: About a gazillion dollars at the coffee shop.
Verdict: Likely to fail. I'd have to write like 3,000 words a day for the rest of the month including Thanksgiving.
Then there is tap dancing which is probably more of a talent then a craft, not that I have any, but I always wanted to do it and so I am. Yes, I am 35 and no, I don't care how I might look.
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| When I put these away in my closet I realized that I own 5 pairs of black patent leather shoes. I think I've been trying subconsciously to get myself some tap shoes for years now. |
Notes on the project:
I am not very good. At all. But it is so much fun! I begin formal lessons in January. So far all I've mastered is the Tap-Touch-Shuffle, but it looks like real dancing. There will be no video uploads for the blog. Sorry to disappoint!
Cost: $40 for the shoes, $0 for clothes as I have endless amounts of workout clothes that can double as dancewear with a pair of fishnets, and $80 for the first set of lessons.
Verdict: more fun then exercise, I'll have to skip a Monday night spin session to go to the class and I can't decide if that makes it a life fail or a joy win.
Then I made this bracelet. My kindergartner got in the car about two weeks ago and told me I was worth lots of rubies. He'd learned the Biblical proverb at school: "Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies." Really, outrageously sweet. I then turned on the radio to hear, back to back, Alicia Keys, "A Woman's Worth" followed by Toni Braxton's "He Wasn't Man Enough For Me". It was '90s R&B awesomeness. I haven't heard those songs in forever! (Retro Lunchbox on Alice FTW!) Anyway, it stuck with me, the idea of rubies and value and not forgetting that a 5-year old boy (at least) thinks I'm amazing.
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| I need to find my real camera, it has been missing now for like three months. These photos are terrible. |
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| You can't tell in these photos, but this is asymmetrical and far cuter in person. |
crepe-back satin is a surprisingly easy material to embroider, though it does pucker a bit if you pull too hard, but the same can be said for cotton. It is prettier in person, more depth and shimmer. I enjoy embroidering and I'm going to do it more often I think. It really is too bad that I can't draw. I need someone who can draw for me!
Cost: Free. I had everything on hand.
Verdict: I also need a stamp that says "Validated!". You know, like they have for parking? I can go around stamping other women's hands with it when I seem them doing something they don't actually need to be doing. I think the stamp will accessorize nicely with the crazy feathers and tap shoes.
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