My least favourite time of year approaches, and I look to one of my favourite things to try and keep off the annual Xmas blues - crappy craft. Obviously, Etsy is a source of awe and inspiration (and money wasting), but it also a hotbed of crappy craft. The most prominent examples of this can [...]
Torquil
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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 Three Heads of Allen
Monday, October 12, 2009
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 [...]
unproductive times
Sunday, April 12, 2009
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 [...]
kupo!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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 [...]