My Needles...

... Have become magnetically charged. Odd.


(yes the quality is horrible and you can barely make out the needles, my camera died so I had to use my phone)

I've been making those birdies like mad. Which is not so good, because I have an essay to start, and the draft is due next week i think. Maybe this week. Lots of fun! XD
During the making of one of them, and because of my lovely callussed fingers from playing viola, this happened:


Went right through my finger, and I didn't realise till it was this far through. Sad.

Ok that's it for today, had two exams and my vla lesson so I'm a bit buggered. Oh - I tried out my violin again for a little long-time-no-see whirl, and it's amazing how PUNY it is. And so easy to play! Gawsh, but violinists have it easy! Still, I was glad to go back to my viola - even if it is buzzing again. If I take it to be repaired again, that will make it the 4th time in the year. Ridiculous, if you ask me.

Side note: Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble is made of awesome.

Side note of the side note: (does that make it on topic again?) it's spring today! I am filled with an odd sense of constant nostalgia - is this because I actually haven't been in Australia for all of a summer for the last few years? It smells like Japan in early summer when I wake up. End of strangeness. so tired must sleep grammar deteriorating.

Busy and sick and busy some more

Ah! Ah! I've been bad and neglected this, already! Oh, woe, and woeful heavy day, when wretches have their will. Thank-you, Byrd, for commandeering my mind and sticking in bits of your madrigals at inopportune times. Everything is much better from last week (was it really only last week? Golly gosh and heavens above!), but not much less busy, and I got a bit of a scare a few days ago thinking I'd gotten the horrible horrible bug that's going around, but it turned out to be just a normal kind of faffy cold. I'm barely finding time to practise enough, let alone do crafty things :( I did, however, allow myself a bit of respite from whatever it is I'm filling up my life with - I'm not too sure myself - by making these little mabobs:



aren't they cute? I rather think so. I made the pink and blue ones first as a bit of a thank-you present for my viola teacher (well. for his two daughters, not him - I don't think they would quite suit him...) but then I found myself a little bit obsessed with the cuteness and promptly made 3 more. They're made of felt, about 4 or 5 cm across, and have a little fabric wing and have a clippy clip (technical term.) fixed to the back. I wore one to uni today and it got quite a few oohs and aahs, so I might pop a few up on the shop.

I am sorely tempted to blow two tutoring sessions worth of monies on some Threadless shirts - they have a sale there now and it's just a bit too tempting. Sadly (or happily?) I don't have a credit card so I'm going to have to beg Mum or Dad very nicely and pay them back... Hooray for parents!

Well it's late (12:18 to be exact) and I must be off, for I am to go a-questing with my Brother Dearest on the morrow in search of a new viola bow. His, not mine. Which means I'm driving, which means possible scary situations.

Ciao!

P.S. Anyone heard of a German band/artist/singer (not sure) called Subway to Sally? I should google them, but I found a song called Kleid Ause Rosen (Akustisch) on my itunes that I must have downloaded and forgotten about. It's a pretty interesting song, and now I'm going all light-headed so I really should probably go to sleep!

Quickie

Just dropping in to post what I've been doing in my spare five minutes, when I haven't been practising, studying (hahaha as if), driving and NOT crashing - hooray!, or going to particularly awesome concerts which make me hoarse like this:


The Idea of North. If you like anything to do with a capella or jazz or awesome, look them up. They tour Australia quite regularly and are going to South Korea soon to collab with The Real Group who are super. They were fantastic. Like, amazingly fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that they sang CHILI CON CARNE which is a song of epic awesomeness (The Real Group composed and first performed this). Me = Instant Fan: Just Add Water!
(actually you don't really need water)

Anyway. I've been embroidering some bits of calico so that I can make some buttonnnnns of the covered variety which I have been obsessing over lately and also being quite sad because I wore one and it fell out somewhere in the Old Museum Building. Oh well! I'll be pairing these ones with matching gingham because gingham is awesome and stuff.

I am particularly taken with the mushrooms and the doggy.
Hooray for cute!

I'll post them when I've gotten around to making them into ze buttons.

Ciao!

Well that failed

I should have known that as soon as I said, I have to stop crafting to concentrate on things I should be doing, I would immediately not do that. I like to think I have managed to stuff both into my time.

Either way, I have discovered the wonder that is covered button kits. Also another pair of earrings.


Using some of the material I got (this is from Japan).


Different sizes. I need to get some more bigger ones...


Pretty Japanese fabric that I hadn't been able to find a use for, but mostly was just too scared to cut up.


Cute little tiny gingham ones


More puny ones. They're cute but they don't show the material so well :/


Mmmm, purple! I particularly like the amethyst discs up the top.

That's me for today.

Oh oh oh. I've been asked to go into one of the quartets at uni because their violist pulled out and we're playing Dvorak's American quartet!!! It makes my ears happy (not the way we're playing it at the moment but hey, we're sightreading). Love for Dvorak who liked viola!!!! :D