Showing posts with label handmade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handmade. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2008

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
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.
spare time
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!

Friday, August 8, 2008

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.

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

hairpins2
Different sizes. I need to get some more bigger ones...

hairpins3
Pretty Japanese fabric that I hadn't been able to find a use for, but mostly was just too scared to cut up.

hairpins4
Cute little tiny gingham ones

hairpins5
More puny ones. They're cute but they don't show the material so well :/

New earrings
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