Allow me to introduce another special member of the family…
This is Torquil, the Earth Knight.
The pattern came from a book I received as a gift: Creepy Cute Crochet, by Christen Haden. This book was awesome: apart from the super cute patterns, I learned some invaluable lessons from the incredible attention to detail, the neatness and [...]
The last however many months have been filled with the humdrum activities of daily life in the suburbs, which I tolerate, the most noteworthy positive things being our holiday to Japan, I turned 30, my niece turned 1, and we moved into a bigger place.
Craft wise, the usual ebb and flow has occurred. I [...]
I easily get sucked in to spending a majority of my time doing things I don’t really want to do. This especially happens in Summer. I have spent most of this year so far in this unproductive state, with a minority of exceptions.
Crafternoons were absent from my life for a lot of this time, after [...]
Like many others before me, I am a sucker for moogles, those mind-bendingly cute characters from the Final Fantasy series. I’ve been asking Santa to get me one for years, but alas, I am yet to wake up on Christmas morn to find one bouncing around the house. So, to fill the void, I had [...]
Recent months have brought a welcome diversion. The crafternoon has always been with us, lying dormant, until we forget about the more important things we think we should be doing. The crafternoon is the coming together of friends in the post meridiem daylight hours, to participate in many kinds of art, craft or creative pursuit. [...]