Wire Butterfly Jewelry-Holding Thing

A work in progress: Wire Butterfly Jewelry-Holding Thing made entirely out of the random supplies in a crafter's room.  Plus kudos to internet inspiration.  And now for the in-progress quick pic:

 

And now for the later that night finished product pic:

 

The Majestic Totodile

Totodile!  Apparently, all of the pokémon can't talk they can only say their species name and that is how they communicate; well, all except Team Rockets Meoweth but that doesn't matter because I'm rambling and this is not a run-on sentence.  Lesson of the day is that when there are three colors required in something as small as a 3in-tall-pokémon's eyeball YOU SHOULD JUST USE FELT.  Yarn in that small of an area turns into a mess destined to be ripped out and torn from its mortal bounds.  Besides the felt doesn't look too bad and it was really easy!

The Post Christmas Crafting Commotion

In other words, since I'm no longer crafting fro Christmas I can turn my mind to other important things... such as the 80-some door tags I have to make for work.  And you know they have to be cute, clean, and crafty as well as gender neutral.  Yet with Setsucon looming, I'm still powering out pokémon and pokéballs like there's no tomorrow (well I wish I was finishing them at that rate anyway!)  Now its a careful balance of working on lavalamp doortags and crocheting.  Regardless it means that my my mobile crafting corner has taken over and turned into a crafting living room... and it will only get worse before it gets better!

Christmas Present Parade! - Part 3

Another somewhat last minute Christmas present, the silver mobius knot necklace and bracelet is made out of aluminum chainmaille.  Pics to come since I gave it away without remembering to take any!

Christmas Present Parade! - Part 2

The last present I made, finished at 2 - 4am on the Christmas Eve aka just a couple hours after its recipient arrived at my house unexpectedly 12 hours early, is a Charmander plushie.  Thankfully since I'm not selling him, I didn't have to make my own pattern and I used WolfDreamer's open-mouthed Charmander pattern.  Making my life a little easier... plus WolfDreamer is a damn good pattern maker!  I added my own little bit of flair by making him a little baseball hat (my own pattern) with a little felt Mets logo on it.  (I do not own the charmander patter, the Mets, pokémon, or any affiliate groups, blahblahblah, <insert legal jargon here>.  Anyway he loved it and went around on New Years showing off his little Charmander plushie!

Christmas Present Parade! - Part 1

After teaching a friend of mine how to crochet, he was doing admirably, I gave him a hand finishing it so that it would be done before Christmas and he moves randomly to Connecticut.  So anyway a couple of single crochets, stripes, and embroidery later we have a blue and red scarf made of red heart yarn.  Black Rabbit is my friends nickname, although the joke is that if he washes it too much it will end up saying "Black Rabbi"!

 

Summer Pottery Explosion

"Pottery Explosion"... it's funny because things tend to blow up in the kiln when they're improppery made. Anyway, it's time to showcase my accomplished (and failed) pottery from summer 2011, now that I've gifted a few pieces for Christmas!  And now that I have re-masters the glories of photomontages, it is time for a short video:

 

Disclaimer: The crappiness of the photos does not represent my photography skills, 

rather its my attempts to load this online that are at fault.