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!

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

Relief, and retail therapy.

I apologise profusely for the crappiness of the last post. All (well. most) has been right-ed.

Here are a few of my favourite things:



My Lovely Lost Sheep (it sadly was stripped naked and robbed of its companion, the Black Beady Slightly Spastic Looking Cat. May you rest in peace)


What I ate instead of Mrs Fields Cookies. They were suitably delicious. My friends snub me, but I love Dried Peaches for who they are (delicious).


Tissues and Panadol: My Constant Companions, for I am afflicted with hayfever.


My Beloved (it is a VIOLA. Come now, don't let's be racist!)

And of course...

RETAIL THERAPY.


This is what I got today. I am bad. But, Lincraft had a 50% sale for all their material, so i just had to! You know. Covered buttons are fun :D


I'm going to make this into a skirt. The cherries are absolutely too cute.


See? They're transparent! >w< href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28964667@N08/2721661225/" title="previous splurge by littleawkwardpeople, on Flickr">
Some gorgeous Japanese material I got a few months ago. It is quite divine (which is why it's still untouched - I'm also a bit scared of it)


What I made a few weeks ago. It was the first thing I made all by myself, so I was proud of myself. It hasn't broken yet! I stole the pear from http://mollychicken.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/09/happy-pear.html. I wish it could be as cute as hers, but it has added spastic-charm factor.


It has a long handle :D


Useless buttons are fun. This was supposed to be a 10 minute project and it turned into about 40 minutes because my sewing machine kept bunging itself in. *sigh*


I took this photo intending it to look like a little bed, but now I realise it's looking slightly freakily like a coffin or something.

Oh well!

Thanks to My Lovely Wife and co. for helping cheer me up whilst I was in the Depths of Despair. It was fun :D

Extreme photo taking

It is a freezing winter day (well. as freezing as Brisbane gets) and so I decided to take some photos. Because that is what you do when it's cold.
Click the pictures if you want to know what I made them out of.

How cute are the Japanese lollies. One of my friends gave them to me for my birthday, and they were too cute to eat. The earrings are those lucky stars that you fold from a long strip of paper... I got lazy one day and wanted to make something easy, so this was the result.

The idea for the earrings is completely unoriginal, but I wanted to use the dolls.

Mmmm, clusters. I had fun experimenting with them. I rather think the bottom middle ones look quite grand.

More clusters. Because they look bad when you lie them horizontally. I am quite attached to the metal dice beads, and will be hoarding them when I can find them.

The poshest lot of them. They insisted on going solo, and begrudgingly let the paper lotus sit at the corner.

I'm pretty sure those little shoe charms are the cutest dang things I have found up till now.

Just look at them!

I'm quite proud of these, especially the dragonfly ones. The seed beads have just enough weight in them to bend the fishing line so it looks like they're suspended in space.

The whole crowd.


This is what I do instead of studying or practising... bad girl! I have finished my recording of the Bruch Romance, very happily! It sounds a bit iffy here and there but overall I think it should be ok. Now onto the Bach...