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

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