Saturday, January 19, 2013

Valentine's Goodies and Moon Mist Bunny


Valentine's day is right around the corner and I've been itching to make some Valentine themed items!

None of the Valentine patterns belong to me. I found the heart pattern on deviantart by hiro-chan28, the candy corn was found on Ravelry by Josephine Wu, and the bear-pops are a tutorial by berrysprite!

I made this little bun yesterday and sticking with my food themed bunnies, this on is moon mist bun! If you don't know, moon mist is a flavour of ice cream and it's delicious!
   

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Amigurumi Bunnies and Mail Treats!


   Lately I've been making amigurumi bunnies in the theme of food! I have a bunch of ideas sketched up, but I've only completed three so far. My latest one that I made today I like to call "Candy-dipped" bun!

Pretty candy-dipped bun!

Strawberry bun.

Mint-chocolate bun.


     I'm always ordering things off the internet because everything awesome is far far away from my local town. I really enjoy "kawaii" stationery, and japanese brands such as san-x, sanrio, q-lia, crux, kamio japan, and the korean brand jetoy choo choo. I was so happy when I got the mail today because guess what it was! I got my Rilakkuma tin pencil case wahoo! I also got the super cute note blocks I ordered.

Top

Bottom

Inside top

You can even take the little tray out for another compartment

You can even lift that compartment up for more storage on the bottom

The super cute note blocks I got. I'll probably never use them though because I have a tendency not to use stationery and stickers that are too cute!

   

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Knitting!

    One of my friends is in school doing a visual arts program and for a part of that program, they have to learn how to knit. I learned how to knit four and a half years ago, but quickly dropped it to learn how to crochet. I've never really looked back at my decision to stop knitting until recently, because seeing my friend doing it is making me nostalgic.
    Today I found a free pattern on Ravelry for a "tea tote" which is basically a little envelope for packets of tea so they wont get damaged in your purse. It is a knitting pattern, and though there are free patterns for crochet envelopes around the same size, I like the way the knit one looks more. That's when I took a look at the pattern and searched a few videos on how to do certain techniques because I had forgotten after all this time. I got my confidence up and dug out my knitting needles and decided to try this pattern out. As soon as I started, it all came back to me like I never forgot! I was so happy! I love how it turned out. The pattern isn't mine, it is by Julie Tarsha. I would recommend this pattern to everyone because it's really simple and sweet!

Just getting started :)
I finished it!




This project was so fun I had to whip up another!

I just love making them! This was my first time ever doing duplicate stitching too.


I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but these needles have SPARKLES in them!
I didn't use them for this project, I just wanted to show my favourite set of needles :)

So pretty!



Tuesday, January 15, 2013

More Zelda Things

My first post on this blog was about the Zelda fairies I made with my own pattern, so I figured I'd share some of my other Zelda things I have done in the past.

This master sword was done in 2008

This is one of the first things I ever crocheted. It's a red chuchu and a bomb. I didn't make the pattern for this. It's a free pattern I found on Nerdigurumi. Not only is the picture bad, but since I was learning how to crochet, I wasn't familiar with how to sew the face and eyes on. I should make another one and compare then and now hehe.

I haven't done a cross stitch in about 6 years so I decided to pick it back up with a Hylian crest! I've only ever done about 3 cross stitches anyway and they were always stamped so this was new for me!

This is an ocarina I did over a year ago. The pattern isn't mine, it is a free pattern by Stirling Peters that I found on Ravelry.

A small chest I painted the crest on.

The cover of a box I painted to be Windwaker themed.

Fishman is on the bottom of the box.

Red and blue bubbles are on the inside of the box

Zora's sapphire necklace

All of these things were made at least over a year ago and I have gotten a lot better since. I just thought it would be nice to share some old things of where I started from. One thing about the things I will post on this blog is that the quality of my pictures might be a bit lacking. I only have a cheap digital camera, and I'm no photographer but I think I get my main point across :)









Zelda Fairies

 I recently made my own pattern for fairies found in The Legend of Zelda games. I made Navi, Tatl, Tael, and a pink health fairy. I was going to put wire in their wings to keep them sturdy but they can stay up on their own. I attached clear stretchy wire to them and hung them from my ceiling and I'm so happy with the results!

This is Navi with and without flash. She's from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time. She was the first one I made.

This is Tatl and Tael. They are from The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask.

This is a pink fairy found Zelda games. After I took this picture I attached the little balls that are meant to be the sparkles the fairy leaves with some clear stretchy cord and hung her up. She looks awesome hanging from the ceiling.